Calendar of Events

When Pages Breathe: Bringing Literature to Life — An Oral Interpretation of The Great Gatsby

Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Theater & Music Theater

Reading by Kwame Dawes and Creative Writing Seniors

Kwame Dawes, critic and poet

Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing

“Prickly Moses: Poems” & “Aurora Americana: Poems”

Susan Stewart, English, emeritus; Simon West, poet; Myronn Hardy, poet

Labyrinth Books; Princeton University Press; Humanities Council

“Beyond Reparations: Post-Colonial Loudreaders, Colonial Footprints, and the case for white studies”

WAI Think Tank, Iowa State University

Program in Media and Modernity; Department of African American Studies

Plato on the Spirit of the Law

Nina Valiquette Moreau, University of Chicago

University Center for Human Values

Ticha: archival texts, linguistic analysis, and language activism

Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, Haverford College

Program in Linguistics

Sinews of the Soul: Comparing Christian Baptism and Indigenous Adoption

Emma Anderson, Pathy Visiting Professor in Canadian Studies

Fund for Canadian Studies; Humanities Council

HOS Colloquia: Listening to Albert the Great on the Art of Becoming a Natural Scientist

Katja Krause, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Program in the History of Science; Program in Medieval Studies

“‘The Syriac Dots:’ Oral Reading Traditions Recorded in Ink”

Johan Lundberg, University of Oxford

Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity; Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies

Xiaoshuo as China’s Fourth Religion: Pitfalls and Potentials of Vernacular Literature in the late Qing (1644-1911 CE)

Katherine Alexander, University of Colorado Boulder

East Asian Studies Program