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POSTPONED: Environmental Humanities Research Workshop: Lecture | Yanoula Athanassakis, “Environmental Humanities and Animal Studies”

306 Clemens Hall

Yanoula Athanassakis (NYU), “Environmental Humanities and Animal Studies” Yanoula Athanassakis is Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Co-founder of the NYU Environmental Humanities Series at New York University, and Instructor in English and Environmental Studies. Her research and teaching interests include American literature, the environmental humanities, animal studies, food studies, race and ethnic studies, gender […]

CANCELLED: Just Theory Lecture Series: Eugenio Donato Seminar | Jayne Svenungsson, “Theology after Religion: Retrieving the Sense of Wonder”

640 Clemens Hall

Jayne Svenungsson, Lund University, Sweden Tuesday, March 31 | 3:30 pm “Romanticism: Rethinking Religion as an Aesthetic Category” Wednesday, April 1 | 3:30 pm “Phenomenology: Rethinking Metaphysics through Experience” Thursday, April 2 | 3:30 pm “Return of Religion or End of Religion? Beyond the Religious-Secular Divide”

POSTPONED: Dept of Jewish Thought: Lecture | Robert Bernasconi, “Two Responses to National Socialism: Hannah Arendt and the Failure of Ethics, Emmanuel Levinas and the Failure of Politics”

708 Clemens Hall

Professor Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies, Penn State University, is one of the world’s most distinguished scholars of the thought of Jacques Derrida and of Emmanuel Levinas, and a leading scholar in African-American Studies.   Besides editing three academic journals (Eco-ethica, Levinas Studies, and Critical Philosophy of Race), and […]

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POSTPONED: 2019-20 HI Conference: Global Gender and Sexuality Studies presents, “Democracy Wide Open: Critiquing the Present, Imagining a Feminist Future”

403 Hayes Hall - South Campus

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER TO ATTEND Globally, there is rising concern over the future of liberal democracies. Far-right politicians and political parties are gaining power, often threatening the institutions, norms and practices of democratic governments. Building a politics of resentment that targets racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ communities, women and feminists, religious minorities, immigrants and […]

Environmental Humanities Research Workshop: Reading Group | Teresa Shewry, Hope at Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature

538 Clemens

In anticipation of Teresa Shewry's April 16th lecture, the reading group will meet to discuss Hope at Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). Teresa Shewry is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received a PhD in Literature from Duke University and a BA in English and Japanese […]

Dept of Music: Lecture | Kyra Gaunt, “Twerking at the Intersection of Music, Sexual Violence, and Patriarchy on YouTube”

Baldy Conference Center (509 O'Brian Hall)

Twerking is the art of bouncing your booty to the beats and rhymes of rap or pop songs but it also lives at the intersection of music, monetization, and patriarchal violence. Twerking began to trend in Google Search results in 2011 and peaked when Miley Cyrus and other mega and micro-celebs went viral with their […]

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