Calendar of Events

“Cüirtopia” is a Caribbean mapping project of LGBTQ buildings and territories, by Dr. Regner Ramos at the University of Puerto Rico. By playing with fact and fiction; history and storytelling; legitimacy and conspiracy; documentation and blunders, “Cüirtopia” reimagines how Caribbean territories, spaces, and buildings can be represented, through a postcolonial, queer lens. The project exists […]

In its institutional genesis, classical scholarship in America looked to Europe as a point of reference, creating a complex triangulation between modern America, contemporary Europe, and the ancient world. Aristophanic Old Comedy – its tropes and its study – is an excellent paradigm with which to think through the dialectic and symbiotic relationships that marked […]

Mehammed Mack "Revolving Closets, Open Undergrounds: Clandestine Homosexualities in the French banlieues" Tuesday, April 04, 2023 @5pm ET N107 (School of Architecture) When writing the recent history of gay liberation in the “Western” world, we have tended to hold interiors in inferior esteem, as compared with exteriors. Gay self-expression that occurred privately in clandestine clubs, […]

Labyrinth Books will welcome Kamila Shamsie and Michael Wood to discuss Shamsie’s latest novel. Zahra and Maryam have been best friends since childhood in Karachi, even though—or maybe because—they are unlike in nearly every way. Yet they never speak of the differences in their backgrounds or their values, not even after the fateful night when […]

Lecture Recital by Dr. Heidi J. Tsai A Transgenre Celebration is a journey that will seek out compositions that were transcribed in their original era to the solo harpsichord. It aims to highlight the differences and similarities in sonority and style from the derived genre (orchestral, chamber, or from another instrument) to the harpsichord. Registration […]