Calendar of Events

There are no upcoming events at this time. Please check back for future events.

Past Virtual Events

January 28, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

James Longenbach on W.B. Yeats’ poem “Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen”

James Longenbach, University of Rochester

Lewis Center for the Arts; the Fund for Irish Studies

January 27, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Virtual

Imagining the Oriental South: The Enslaved Mixed-Race Beauty in British Art and Visual Culture, c. 1865-1880

Mia Bagneris, Tulane University

Department of Art and Archaeology

January 26, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures in Ethics: “Fairly Criticized, or Politicized? Conflicts in the Neuroscience of Sex Differences in the Human Brain”

Cordelia Fine, University of Melbourne

University Center for Human Values

December 2, 2021 · 6:00 pm7:30 pm · Media Central Live

Writing In On About Architecture

Cynthia Davidson, Editor, Log; Editor, Writing Architecture Series, MIT Press

School of Architecture

November 22, 2021 · 4:30 pm5:30 pm · Zoom

Humanities Council Funding Information Session

Humanities Council


November 17, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

The Cornucopian Stage: Dramas of Surplus in Early Modern China

Ariel Fox, University of Chicago

East Asian Studies Program

November 17, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

Marvelous Extinctions: Melville on Animal Suffering

Branka Arsić, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University

Department of English; Humanities Council

November 17, 2021 · 4:30 pm5:45 pm · Zoom

From the Caribbean/A partir des Antilles

Patrick Chamoiseau, Author

Department of French and Italian; Humanities Council

November 16, 2021 · 5:00 pm6:30 pm · Zoom

‘I Put Food on Everyone’s Table’: Food Provisioning and Domestic Work across Three Generations of Black Women in Santiago de Cuba

Hanna Garth, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Princeton University

Program in Latin American Studies

November 16, 2021 · 12:00 pm1:30 pm · Zoom

The Laboratory of Literary Architecture: Translating the Structure of a Story Into a Physical Architectural Model

Matteo Pericoli, Architect, Author, and Illustrator

Department of French and Italian; Humanities Council

November 12, 2021 · 12:00 pm2:00 pm · Zoom

The Haitians: A Decolonial History (Book Discussion, Part IV)

Professor Marlene Daut & Professor Mame-Fatou Niang, University of Virginia & Carnegie Mellon University

Department of African American Studies

November 11, 2021November 12, 2021 · Zoom

Dante’s Lasting Presence in Popular Culture

Department of French and Italian

November 10, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · via Zoom

3rd Person Singular and Default Case in Child African American English

Lisa Green, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Program in Linguistics

November 10, 2021 · 12:00 pm1:20 pm · Zoom

A House with a Date Palm will Never Starve

Michael Rakowitz, Artist

IHUM

November 9, 2021 · 5:00 pm6:30 pm · Zoom

The Surrendered

José Carlos Agüero, Author & Charles Walker, University of California, Davis; Visiting Research Scholar, History, Princeton University

Program in Latin American Studies

November 9, 2021 · 12:00 pm1:30 pm · Zoom

Between Vision and Viewpoint: Drawing as a Narrative Tool

Matteo Pericoli, Architect, Author, and Illustrator

Department of French and Italian

November 8, 2021 · 12:30 pm1:30 pm · Zoom

Translating from Vietnamese

John Balaban, Professor Emeritus, North Carolina State University

Program in Translation & Intercultural Communication and East Asian Studies

Humanities Council Logo
Italian Studies Logo
American Studies Logo
Humanistic Studies Logo
Ancient World Logo
Canadian Studies Logo
ESC Logo
Journalism Logo
Linguistics Logo
Medieval Studies Logo
Renaissance Logo
Film Studies Logo