Review of programming and budget from the 2015-17 academic years Appointment of new Co-Directors, 2017-2019 academic years 25 Years of the Folger Institute: A Review of Programming and Benefits, and looking ahead Other business
Donna V. Jones, University of California at Berkeley, presents, “Race, Time and Difference” This is a part of the Just Theory Lecture Series. Co-sponsored by the Modernisms Research Workshop.
In Part Two of our Forum on Publishing in an Age of Upheaval, esteemed editor Elisabeth Schmitz will introduce one of her newest authors, Emily Fridlund, whose novel History of Wolves has just been released to great acclaim. Joining them in conversation will be literary agent Nicole Aragi, who represents Ms Fridlund and many other authors in […]
Laura Chiesa (Romance Languages & Literatures), with Omar Khan (Chair, Architecture) as respondent: "Beyond Space as Storyteller: Spatial Jumps in Architecture, Critical Theory, and Literature."
On Obstruction The Humanities Institute’s Performance Research Workshop invites you to join us for a talk and discussion from performance and media scholar Nick Salvato (Cornell) on Tuesday, 3/7, at 2:00 p.m. in (ROOM CHANGE) Knox 110: "Television Scales; or, How to Watch Strathern (in) TV." The event will conclude with a brief reception. Update: […]
Relative Values: On Ethics, Economics, and Politics New to the Department of English, Chad Lavin will explore philosophical liberalism as an ideological system comprising three distinct modes of valuation—ethics, economics, and politics. Lavin argues that much as the tools of industrial manufacture led to the specialization of human labor, the tools of liberal philosophy led […]
Play can be the glue that brings together aesthetic and social values making vibrant community spaces but also poignant social critiques. The symposium brings together speakers from different professional backgrounds to examine the role that play can have in the transformation of place, from the scale of the game, to the playground to that of […]
Hent de Vries, John Hopkins University, presents, “Savage Mysticism: The Archive and the Present of Spiritual Exercise” This is a part of the Just Theory Lecture Series.
The Case of the Vanishing Maharaja: Urdu Travel Literature and Princely Politics in South Asia Daniel Majchrowicz, Assistant Professor of South Asian Literature and Culture at Northwestern University In 1851, the young Tukoji Holkar, Maharaja of Indore, went missing under suspicious circumstances. Some said his regent wanted him out of the picture. Others speculated that […]
Public discussion on new books and current events For Women's History Month All the Singles Ladies, Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister (2016) Guest Host: Karen King, Executive Director, Erie County Commission on the Status of Women Featuring Panelists: Farhana Hasan, Project Manager, UB Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Partnership […]
