Calendar of Events

In a Man’s Voice: The Documents of the Nun Jukei and the Imagawa Warlords in the Sixteenth-Century

David Spafford, University of Pennsylvania

Program in East Asian Studies

How to be a Journalist in an Age of Autocracy

Jelani Cobb, Columbia Journalism School; Steve Coll, The Economist

Humanities Council's Program in Journalism

Immediate Time

Amit Yahav, University of Minnesota

Department of French and Italian

The Practice of Signs: Semiotics as a research subject, a methodological toolbox, and a creative endeavor

Fabio Rambelli, University of California, Santa Barbara

Humanities Council; Department of East Asian Studies

There is a crack in everything. Introduction to the Frankfurt School, Critical Theory and Negative Dialectics.

German Department

Magic (Post) Realism: Little Otik (Czech Republic – 2000)

Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies; Humanities Council; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

The Return: Q&A with director Uberto Pasolini

Uberto Pasolini, Red Wave Films

Department of Classics; Humanities Council

Meshell Ndegeocello – No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin

McCarter Theatre; Humanities Council

On (Mis)Translation and the Vein of Resistance

Khairani Barokka, poet, writer and translator

Program in Translation & Intercultural Communication

From “Global Warming” To Local Heating: Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet

Om Barak, Tel Aviv University

The Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia