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Past Faber Events

April 3, 2019 · 7:30 pm8:50 pm · A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz

Faber Lecture: Only in Naples

Katherine Wilson, Author, Actress, and Television Commentator


March 5, 2019 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 245 East Pyne

Starry Skies, Awful Hieroglyphs, and Eternal Silence: Philosophical Lyricism in Anna Karenina

Liza Knapp, Columbia University


February 12, 2019 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 010 East Pyne

ECS Faber Lecture: Francesca Trivellato

Francesca Trivellato, Institute for Advanced Study


February 7, 2019 · 4:30 pm · 010 East Pyne

Faber Lecture: Saidiya Hartman

Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University


October 25, 2018 · 5:00 pm7:00 pm · Betts Auditorium

Contact Warhol: Photography without End

Peggy Phelan, Stanford University


September 24, 2018 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 101 McCormick

Being in Life without Wanting the World: On Biopolitics and the Attachment to Life

Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago


May 1, 2018 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 106 McCormick

The Intelligence of Algorithms — before Electronic Computers

Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute


April 12, 2018 · 6:00 pm7:30 pm ·

Tact: David Russell and Barry McCrea in Conversation

David Russell, Oxford; Barry McCrea, Notre Dame


April 11, 2018 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 219 Aaron Burr

News from the Afterlife: Civil War Mass Grave Exhumations in Contemporary Spain

Francisco Ferrandiz, Spanish National Research Council


April 9, 2018 · 5:00 pm6:00 pm · 101 McCormick

Velazquez, Aesop, and War

T. J. Clark, University of California, Berkeley


April 9, 2018 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 103 Scheide Caldwell

Law Before Islam

Caroline Humfress, University of St. Andrews


March 26, 2018 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 106 McCormick

Dress Rehearsal for Dreyfus

Maurice Samuels, Yale University


March 15, 2018 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · East Pyne 010

Rhythms in the Middle Ages

Jean-Claude Schmitt, EHESS, Paris


March 8, 2018 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 100 Jones

Transparency and Enigma in the Gimmick as Capitalist Form

Sianne Ngai, University of Chicago


February 20, 2018 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 010 East Pyne

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay: Growing Up, Moving Out, and Narrative Form

Barry McCrea, University of Notre Dame, Visiting Professor in the Humanities Council and Faber Fellow in Comparative Literature


February 20, 2018 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 106 McCormick

Orlando Furioso as Paradoxical Source of Early Italian Epic Theory

Daniel Javitch, New York University


September 21, 2017 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm ·

Blackface and Drag in Early Roman Comedy

Amy Richlin, UCLA


April 18, 2017 · 7:30 pm9:00 pm · 010 East Pyne

Film Screening and Discussion: “Behind the White Glasses”

Valerio Ruiz, director and screenwriter


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