Calendar of Events

2024 Anthony B. Evnin Lecture with Janna Levin: Black Hole Blues

Janna Levin, Columbia University

Council on Science and Technology

EHL Seminar: “Saint Olav’s Axe: Driftwood, Power, and Artistic Invention on Medieval Iceland”

Robyn Barrow, University of Pennsylvania

Environmental History Lab; Humanities Council; Program in Medieval Studies

Disputes with Vehemence: Historical Transition and Violent Disagreements in Tragedy from the Greeks to Chinua Achebe and Toni Morrison

Ato Quayson, Stanford University

Program in African Studies, PIIRS

“Can It Happen Here? Did It Happen Here? A Debate about Facism

University Center for Human Values; Department of History

Reasons to Believe: Enlightenment and the Sacred

Department of French and Italian

The Politics of Testimony. On Violence, Literature and Mourning

Enrique Díaz Álvarez, UNAM

Department of Comparative Literature; Humanities Council

Environmentalism from Below: How People’s Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet

Ashley Dawson, City University of New York and the College of Staten Island; Rob Nixon, High Meadows Institute

Labyrinth Books

Ecstatic Devotions: A Conversation on Indian Ocean World Ritual and Performance

Center for Collaborative History

Troubadours and Sonneteers: A Conference on Global Culture, Performance, and the Matter of Display

Department of English; Humanities Council; Department of Music; Committee for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

Modernism and its Environments

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures