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        Fri, 5/1 · 3:30 pm—5:00 pm         · 010 East Pyne    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Singing Matters: Song Ecologies from the Troubadours to the Global South        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        Thu, 4/9 · 5:00 pm—6:30 pm         · A71 Louis A. Simpson Building    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Reclaiming Transcultural Histories        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        Thu, 2/19 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · Betts Auditorium    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            ECS Faber Lecture – Provincializing Europe, 25 Years On        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        December 2, 2025 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 010 East Pyne    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Distributed Authorship in the Sulpicia Corpus        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        September 15, 2025 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 010 East Pyne    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            ‘Not Paradise But Plain Reality’: George Stanley and the Concept of Poetry        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        February 11, 2025 · 5:00 pm—7:00 pm         · A71 Louis A. Simpson Building    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            IHUM Faber Lecture – The Sonics of Self Determination        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        December 3, 2024 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 010 East Pyne    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Philhellenism, Germanophilia, and Max Meyerhof’s (1874–1945) Greco-Arabic ‘Tradition’ of Science        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        November 20, 2024 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 002 Robertson Hall    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Historical Crisis and Paranoid Emplotment: The Discursive Structure of Racial Panics in Interwar Year Europe        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        September 26, 2024 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · Robertson Hall, Room 002    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Duke John’s Skull: A Historical Whodunit        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        May 2, 2024 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 010 East Pyne    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            IHUM Faber Lecture – Made Instrument: Art, Black Spirituality and Social Life        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        April 25, 2024 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            “Flentem Dicere Verum:” On non-satirical Latin Satires        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        January 31, 2024 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 245 East Pyne    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Eberhard L. Faber IV Memorial Lecture: Writing About Eastern Europe in Troubled Times        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        November 13, 2023 · 4:30 pm—5:30 pm         · 010 East Pyne    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            From the Cloud to the Resistance        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        November 8, 2023 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 101 Friend Center    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            LLM Forum: A Conversation with Wai Chee Dimock        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        September 27, 2023 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 010 East Pyne    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            From “The Mind has No Sex?” to “Gendered Innovations”: A Historian’s Contribution to Enhancing Excellence in Science & Technology        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        September 12, 2023 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 010 East Pyne    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Confusion, Nonsense, and Consciousness: Poetry as a Source for a Novel Theory of Subjectivity        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        April 27, 2023 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 219 Aaron Burr Hall    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Leaping Clear of the Many and the One        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        February 23, 2023 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · East Pyne 010 and Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            “Securitas: Embodied Concept”        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                            
    

                    
    
            
    
        
    
    
    

    


    
    
    
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