The first 2018-19 reading group meeting for the Environmental Humanities Research Workshop. Kellie Robertson, Nature Speaks: Medieval Literature and Aristotelian Philosophy (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017). .
Ivorian Koffi Kwahulé has authored some 25 plays that are among the most performed francophone works in Europe. Writing often with jazz music in the background, he seeks to build the kind of “monument to absence” that he believes jazz is: recognizing both its origins and its haunting presence. His play Jaz (1998), reveals a […]
Howard Marchitello, Rutgers University Invited speaker for the Department of Comparative Literature's Just Theory lecture series. All events are free and open to the public.
Please join us THIS THURSDAY, September 27, at 7:00 pm at Taste of India restaurant on Sheridan Dr., for the annual Fall Welcome Dinner of the Queer Studies Research Workshop. This is an opportunity to meet other faculty and graduate students interested in sexuality studies across all the disciplines, and to hear about the exciting […]
Torment and Apotheosis of Cuauhtémoc by David Alfaro Siqueiros, Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Organized by the Early Modern Research Workshop Henry Berlin (RLL) and Erik Seeman (HIS), Coordinators This symposium examines what was distinct about early modern violence. The growth of state power, dramatic religious changes, and the […]
A symposium organized by 2018-19 Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow Erkin Özay. This symposium brings together scholars and practitioners of urban design and planning to take stock of emerging alternative spatial practices. Conventional urban activist organizations (community development corporations, community land trusts, and local design centers, etc.) are gaining more visibility, while the practices rendered by […]
Sge:no Everyone!! The first general meeting of the Haudenosaunee-Native American Research Group will be held on Thursday, Oct 4, in room 1004 Clemens Hall from 11:30 am -12:50pm. The meeting will begin promptly at 11:30 am! Light lunch from Rachel’s Mediterranean will be provided - salad, hummus, assorted wraps (chicken,gyro,falafel) Hope you can join us […]
Dr. Chloe Johnston is Associate Professor of Theatre at Lake Forest College, and a long-time member of the Chicago Neo-Futurists, an award-winning performance ensemble. Dr. Johnston is also a prolific solo performer, writer, teacher, and scholar whose work has been seen on stages in Chicago and Los Angeles and in the journals TDR, Liminalities, Theatre […]
Jeffrey Masten, Professor of English and Gender & Sexuality Studies, Northwestern University “Christopher Marlowe’s Queer Futures: Edward and Richard, the Second” Reception to follow the talk.
Sara Brill, Fairfield University. Free and open to the public.
