Humanities Institute

"Settler Colonialism in the City: From Theory to Global History" Organized by the City and Society Research Workshop  

"Understanding the Aequiculi: Recent Archaeological Work in the Cicolano Region of Italy" Professor Colantoni will present a paper about her recent archaeological work in a talk sponsored by the Classics Graduate Student Association.

Leslie Lohman Queer Art Lecture Series in partnership with Hallwalls and the Queer Studies Research Workshop presents Amelia Jones: 9 March at 7pm at Hallwalls (341 Delaware at Tupper) and it's free and open to all. "Intimate Relations: What Makes Performance Queer? What Makes Queer Performative?" Jones traces the interrelated history of the terms “queer" […]

It will feature an eclectic cast of artists and researchers to discuss the meaning of noise in a series of entertaining and intellectually provocative talks and performances. There will be a cash bar. “In ‘Signal:Noise,’ we bring together scientists, musicians and composers to look at noise in all of its manifestations in an original and entertaining […]

Organized by the Ecocritical Studies Research Workshop  

“This Is Not a Threat: Performing Reality in Conspiracy For Good” In the 2010 alternate reality game Conspiracy For Good, players aligned against a fictional corporate villain bent on surveilling British citizens. The game scenario identified consumer surveillance technology as troublesome in the hands of the game’s overtly malevolent villain, but simultaneously as a powerful […]

PLASMA - Performances, Lectures, and Screenings in Media Art, Spring 2016 presents micha cárdenas on March 21, 2016  at 6:30 pm in CFA 112. Dr. micha cárdenas is an artist/theorist who creates and studies trans of color movement in digital media, where movement includes migration, performance and mobility. She is a member of the artist collective Electronic Disturbance […]

"Love Canal: A Toxic History" Sponsored by the History Department and co-sponsored by HI. Reception begins at 7pm and the talk at 7:30pm. In the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting about the massive toxic waste dump that anchored their neighborhood. Initially seeking evacuation, area […]

"The Planet at the End of the Mind: Natural History in the Anthropocene" The era now known as the Anthropocene is often said to have been ushered in circa 1784, with the invention of the steam engine--the same moment in which natural historians were first advancing a comprehensive, planetary view of nature as profoundly historical. […]

Queer Studies Research Workshop Works in Progress talk