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Past Virtual Events

February 22, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

Martín Chambi and Baldomero Alejos: Two Photographers, Two Archives, Two Cities

Silvia Spitta, Dartmouth College


February 22, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

Why Do We Do This?: A Conversation with Soraya Nadia McDonald and Dexter Thomas

Soraya Nadia McDonald, cultural critic and Belknap Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Lewis Center for the Arts; Dexter Thomas, ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow in the Humanities Council


February 22, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

Novel Machine Learning Methods for Computing Cultural Heritage: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Benjamin Lee, University of Washington


February 19, 2022 · 10:00 am6:00 pm · Zoom

Antiquity in Early Modern France – Forms, Ideas, and Media


February 17, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom and Livestream

Reporting on Repressive Governments: How journalists overcome barriers to safeguard free speech and inform democracy

Barbara Demick, Journalism; Razia Iqbal, Journalism; Maria Ressa '86, Rappler; Carolyn Rouse, Anthropology


February 17, 2022 · 12:00 pm1:30 pm · Zoom

Bodies of Knowledge Working Group: Plague and the Transformation of Rats

Christos Lynteris, University of St. Andrews


February 16, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

An Experiment in Cinematic Transmission: Dziga Vertov and the Avant-Garde Reception of Television

Doron Galili, Stockholm University; with Devin Fore, German


February 16, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

Form and Meaning in a Sign Language Lexicon

Naomi Caselli, Boston University


February 11, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

“Open Secrets: Ulysses at 100,” presented by the Fund for Irish Studies at Princeton University

Fintan O'Toole, Princeton University


February 10, 2022 · 5:30 pm6:30 pm · Zoom

Panel Discussion: Reconsidering Ivory


February 10, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

“Dorothy and the Hot Metal Empire: Mergenthaler Linotype and the Rise of Brooklyn as a Global Epicenter of Type Design”

Thomas Mullaney, Stanford University


February 9, 2022 · 6:00 pm7:00 pm · Livestream

Personal Limits #4: A Series on Personal Writing

Monica Huerta, English, American Studies; Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Writer; Tala Khanmalek, California State University, Fullerton


February 8, 2022 · 5:00 pm6:30 pm · Zoom

Art and Empires: New World Views

Brook Andrew, Artist; Stephen Gilchrist, Curator


February 3, 2022 · 5:30 pm6:30 pm · Zoom

Virtual Curator Talk: Wendy Red Star

Wendy Red Star, Artist, Curator


February 2, 2022 · 12:00 pm1:00 pm · Zoom

Humanities Data Workshop Series: Cleaning Humanities Data


February 2, 2022 · 12:00 pm1:20 pm · Zoom

Tutissimum Refugium

Sophie Lewis, Visiting Scholar, The Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality and Women at the U of Penn


February 1, 2022 · 6:00 pm8:00 pm · Zoom

This Evening They Tell Stories: A Munsee Delaware Story Evening

Karen Mosko and Ian McCallum, Munsee Delaware Nation community members


January 31, 2022 · 12:00 pm1:30 pm · Zoom

The Value of Marx’s Capital Today

Paul North, Yale University; Paul Reitter, Ohio State University; William Clare Roberts, McGill University


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