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Humanities Events 2019-2020
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August 2019
1
Reading/Performance: Wang Ping
2
Reading: Jacquelyn Mitchard and Lee Martin
September 2019
6
(Black) Literature as (Black) Philosophical Method
10
Welcome to the World: An Art Exhibition
10
A Conversation about Russia’s Empires
11
Spring Street Reading
12
Resetting the Clocks in a 24/7 World
12
Societies, Politics, and Economies Meet and Greet Luncheon
13
Humanities Grants Round 1 (2019)
13
"What Should the Mission be for 21st Century Environmental Professionals?"
13
Spanish Culture of Food & Gastronomy: The Quest for Identity in a Globalized World
16
The Public Sphere in Catherine the Great’s Russia: Where to Look for It
16
Translation Symposium Day 1
16
Refugee Advocacy: Translating Passion into Action
17
Research Apprenticeship Program 2019
17
Translation Symposium Day 2
17
Statistics: Confused, Misused, and Abused, or How to Avoid Being Swept Away in the Data Deluge
17
Research Apprenticeship Program 2020
18
CANCELLED: Rhythm and the Life of Forms: On Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante
19
The Path to Research in the Humanities 2019
21
Ohio Writing Project Fall Teacher Conference
23
Democracy in Foresight? The Thorny Path of Civil Society and Nonprofit Sector Development in Eastern Europe, Russia & Central Asia
24
Jen Sammons Chapbook "Trisagion"
24
Screening and Filmmaker Q&A with Oren Rudavsky
24
Medicine and the Media and its Role in Business
26
Misreading History
26
A Sacred Space is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism
26
The Spectacle of Lynching Redeployed: On the Performance of Democratic Regard
October 2019
1
Imagining Russian Regions
1
Racial Consciousness 101
2
Film Screening and Q&A with filmmaker Alain Gomis
3
Faculty Research Mixer
3
How to Win Fellowships in the Humanities: Panel Discussion
3
Lillian Schwales: Gutsche Life and Career Event
7
Who is the Man from Underground?
9
A Discussion with Roza Otunbayeva
9
Lamps and Leadpipes: Identifying Makers and Locating Roman Lamp Factories
10
Coffee and Conversation, with Jack Halberstam
10
After All: On Dereliction and Destitution Copy
15
Cinema as Counter Word
15
A Conversation with the Author: Ruta Sepetys
16
The Trump Presidency: Successes and Failures
16
The Complex Ecological Interactions Behind Your Cup of Coffee
17
Research on a Dialect in India
17
International Archaeology Day Lecture with Dr. Morag Kersel
17
Working the Genres: How Writing Meets the World
18
Gandhi’s 150th Birthday Celebration: Gandhi’s True Civilization and the Aesthetics of Silence
19
Illuminating the Past: Symposium
22
Buddhists, Shamans and Soviets: Making History through Rituals in Siberia
22
China's "War on Uyghurs": Cultural Genocide in the Name of Counterterrorism
23
William Niven’s Mexico (1890-1910): Photograph as Document and Memorial
24
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
24
Scaling Up: Planetary Imagination and Extinction in Mexican Culture
24
Coffee and Conversation, with Marcia Bjornerud
25
Contested Spaces: Visual Vocabularies of Public Protest.
28
“The Writer’s Duty”: Shalamov and the Fate of the Intelligentsia in the Gulag
28
Protect the Vote: Voter Suppression and Rights in 2020
29
Theory and Practice in Visual Psychological Anthropology
29
The T on Georgia
29
When Books Become Art
30
Poetry Reading: Trisha Low & Stephanie Young
30
1619 and Slavery's Legacy
30
Ecological and Cultural Landscapes: Ermanno Olmi’s Documentaries Through the Lenses of Ecocinema
31
Nature Change: The Rhetoric of Environmental Videography
November 2019
1
Freedom 55 Mini-Conference: Freedom Summer, Then, Now, and the Future - Day 1
2
Freedom 55 Mini-Conference: Freedom Summer, Then, Now, and the Future - Day 2
4
Auksalaq: A Climate Change Opera, with Composer’s Talk on 'Musical Temporalities of Climate Change'
4
Can the Rich and Powerful Actually Work for the Common Good?: Thoughts from Central Asia
4
Brown Bag Lunch with Matthew Burtner
7
Hefner Lecture: "A Hyena's Tale"
7
Archetype: Cindy Sherman; FotoFocus: Auto/Update
8
Reclaiming Terrorism: Lynching as Racial Terrorism
11
Putin’s Publics: Conspiracy, Conformity and the Conservative Turn
13
The Path to Research in the Humanities 2019
13
What the L Talk: Anxiety, Lexicon and Morphosyntax in Instructed L2 Spanish
14
New Books at Miami
14
Meet a Top French Diplomat
18
The Moldovan Truth Commission: A New Approach for the Study and Remembrance of Soviet History
20
Writers' Harvest Benefit Reading
21
Time and the Visual Imagination: From Physics to Philosophy
21
Film Screening: The Seventh Seal, (1958)
21
Coffee and Conversation with Jenann Ismael
25
The Two Faces of Freedom
December 2019
1
Humanities Lab Faculty Submission Deadline 2019
1
Writing for the Public Faculty Deadline 2019
2
We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching
4
Work in Progress Talk: Muhammad ibn al-Zain's Basin
January 2020
23
The Mandalorian and the Public Humanities
February 2020
3
The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities
12
What Does "Research" Mean For an Art Historian, and What Does the Shroud of Turin Have To Do With It?
12
Art and Activism: Looking Closer at Historical Documentary Photographs and Contemporary Imagery
12
American Cultures Seminar
12
We Shall Overcome: A Celebration of Martin Luther King
12
What does research mean for an art history? What does the Shroud of Turin have to do with it?
17
Russia and the West: Lecture by Yoshiko Herrera
24
Russia and Central Asia: Lecture by Eugene Huskey
25
The American Presidency and Thurgood Marshall: Lecture by Wil Haygood
26
And God Knows the Martyrs: Theodicy, Violence, and Asceticism in Jihadi-Salafism
26
"Training for Freedom: How Ordinary People in Unusual Time & Unlikely Place Made Extraordinary History" Documentary Premier
27
Diasporic Worldliness in Postcolonial Globalization
27
Anthropology Day Lecture: Why Anthropology Matters Now
28
Lessons in Drag: An Evening with LaWhore Vagistan
28
Racialized Animacy: Thinking Affective Injustice through Bergson
March 2020
1
Geoffrion Family Undergraduate Fellowship Application Deadline 2020
2
Russia and Ukraine: Lecture by Tim Model
2
Puff Lecture: Solving America's Hunger Crisis
3
The Inhumanities: Lecture by Kathryn Yusoff
3
Book Talk with Jason Rezaian
3
Discourses of Ukranian Nationhood Before and After 2014
3
Approaching Extinction, A Symposium: Day 1
4
“Approaching Extinction, Contesting Extinction” Symposium Day 2
4
Approaching Extinction, A Symposium: Day 2
4
Contesting Extinction: Toward a Praxis of Language Reclamation
4
MakeHERspace
5
We Can End Homelessness (But Not if We Keep Acting Like This)
5
Willeke Lecture: Climate Justice
6
Stunt-double Spanish: Using Puppets for Language Learning and Community Outreach
9
Russia and the Baltics: Lecture by Neringa Klumbyte
9
Dr. Michio Kaku: The Future of the Mind
9
Through the Agency of Words: 19th Century Women, Lunacy, and Literacy
10
Digital Storytelling Three Day Facilitator Training
10
What the L: Language Research at Miami
11
CANCELLED: Voices: Gentrification and Oral History
11
CANCELLED: Everyday Corruption in Russia: Lessons from the Soviet Past
12
POSTPONED: Race and Temporality: From Newtonian Blackness to Quantum Diasporic Spacetimes
12
POSTPONED: Coffee and Conversation with Michelle Wright
12
Digital Storytelling and Social Change
12
Women's Journeys, Women's Voices
12
CANCELLED: Abortion and Abandonment of Children in Soviet Lithuania, 1945-1989
12
The Power of Our Story
12
Starting a FYRE (Course): Introducing First-Year Students to Undergraduate Research (FYRE seminar series part 2 of 3)
13
CANCELLED: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality Symposium: Day 1
13
CANCELLED: Book Reading and Discussion: Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter’s Reckoning
14
Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality Symposium: Day 2
16
CANCELLED: 30 Years of Independence: A Discussion with Dalia Grybauskaitė, former President of Lithuania
17
CANCELLED: Robin James: The Sonic Episteme
18
CANCELLED: Leveraging the Research on Mindset to Improve Students' Learning
19
POSTPONED: Linda Singer Memorial Lecture: The Conspiracy Against Men
April 2020
1
CANCELLED: The Trans* Archive in Brazil: An Archeology of Activism, Creativity, and Transgression
2
POSTPONED: Enduring Time: On Waiting, Care, and Crisis
2
POSTPONED: Coffee and Conversation with Lisa Baraitser
6
POSTPONED: Digital Humanities Symposium
6
CANCELLED: Russia and Outer Space: Lecture by Andrew Jenks
6
CANCELLED: I Can Carry You: Destigmatizing Mental Health
6
CANCELLED: Women and Islam: Unity and Diversity in a Global Tradition
7
CANCELLED: Documentary Film and Q&A: Warsaw: A City Divided
9
CANCELLED: When Women Won the Right to Vote: A History Unfinished
10
CANCELLED: Kant on Friendship: A Colloquium Series Lecture
14
CANCELLED: Making Schools Safe for Students Who Wear Visible Religious Dress
15
CANCELLED: Lost and Found in the Archives
15
CANCELLED: Wickenden Lecture
16
CANCELLED: Stalking Time
17
CANCELLED: The Marianne D. McComb Conference in Creative Writing
20
CANCELLED: Russia and China: Lecture by Hilary Appel
27
CANCELLED: Russia and the Arctic: Lecture by Robert Orttung
29
CANCELLED: The Mystery of Voluntary Obligations
29
CANCELLED: American Cultures Seminar
30
CANCELLED: Short Term
may 2020
1
CANCELLED: Melting Time, Volatile Pasts, and Vaporous History
1
COVID Temporality: The 2019-2020 Geoffrion Family Fellows Symposium
7
CANCELLED: Rachel Levitsky Reading
Humanities Events 2018-2019
To see events place your cursor over the relevant month.
August 2018
1
Reading/Performance: Wang Ping
2
Reading: Jacquelyn Mitchard and Lee Martin
September 2018
6
(Black) Literature as (Black) Philosophical Method
10
Welcome to the World: An Art Exhibition
10
A Conversation about Russia’s Empires
11
Spring Street Reading
12
Resetting the Clocks in a 24/7 World
12
Societies, Politics, and Economies Meet and Greet Luncheon
13
Humanities Grants Round 1 (2019)
13
"What Should the Mission be for 21st Century Environmental Professionals?"
13
Spanish Culture of Food & Gastronomy: The Quest for Identity in a Globalized World
16
The Public Sphere in Catherine the Great’s Russia: Where to Look for It
16
Translation Symposium Day 1
16
Refugee Advocacy: Translating Passion into Action
17
Research Apprenticeship Program 2019
17
Translation Symposium Day 2
17
Statistics: Confused, Misused, and Abused, or How to Avoid Being Swept Away in the Data Deluge
17
Research Apprenticeship Program 2020
18
CANCELLED: Rhythm and the Life of Forms: On Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante
19
The Path to Research in the Humanities 2019
21
Ohio Writing Project Fall Teacher Conference
23
Democracy in Foresight? The Thorny Path of Civil Society and Nonprofit Sector Development in Eastern Europe, Russia & Central Asia
24
Jen Sammons Chapbook "Trisagion"
24
Screening and Filmmaker Q&A with Oren Rudavsky
24
Medicine and the Media and its Role in Business
26
Misreading History
26
A Sacred Space is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism
26
The Spectacle of Lynching Redeployed: On the Performance of Democratic Regard
October 2018
1
Imagining Russian Regions
1
Racial Consciousness 101
2
Film Screening and Q&A with filmmaker Alain Gomis
3
Faculty Research Mixer
3
How to Win Fellowships in the Humanities: Panel Discussion
3
Lillian Schwales: Gutsche Life and Career Event
7
Who is the Man from Underground?
9
A Discussion with Roza Otunbayeva
9
Lamps and Leadpipes: Identifying Makers and Locating Roman Lamp Factories
10
Coffee and Conversation, with Jack Halberstam
10
After All: On Dereliction and Destitution Copy
15
Cinema as Counter Word
15
A Conversation with the Author: Ruta Sepetys
16
The Trump Presidency: Successes and Failures
16
The Complex Ecological Interactions Behind Your Cup of Coffee
17
Research on a Dialect in India
17
International Archaeology Day Lecture with Dr. Morag Kersel
17
Working the Genres: How Writing Meets the World
18
Gandhi’s 150th Birthday Celebration: Gandhi’s True Civilization and the Aesthetics of Silence
19
Illuminating the Past: Symposium
22
Buddhists, Shamans and Soviets: Making History through Rituals in Siberia
22
China's "War on Uyghurs": Cultural Genocide in the Name of Counterterrorism
23
William Niven’s Mexico (1890-1910): Photograph as Document and Memorial
24
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
24
Scaling Up: Planetary Imagination and Extinction in Mexican Culture
24
Coffee and Conversation, with Marcia Bjornerud
25
Contested Spaces: Visual Vocabularies of Public Protest.
28
“The Writer’s Duty”: Shalamov and the Fate of the Intelligentsia in the Gulag
28
Protect the Vote: Voter Suppression and Rights in 2020
29
Theory and Practice in Visual Psychological Anthropology
29
The T on Georgia
29
When Books Become Art
30
Poetry Reading: Trisha Low & Stephanie Young
30
1619 and Slavery's Legacy
30
Ecological and Cultural Landscapes: Ermanno Olmi’s Documentaries Through the Lenses of Ecocinema
31
Nature Change: The Rhetoric of Environmental Videography
November 2018
1
Freedom 55 Mini-Conference: Freedom Summer, Then, Now, and the Future - Day 1
2
Freedom 55 Mini-Conference: Freedom Summer, Then, Now, and the Future - Day 2
4
Auksalaq: A Climate Change Opera, with Composer’s Talk on 'Musical Temporalities of Climate Change'
4
Can the Rich and Powerful Actually Work for the Common Good?: Thoughts from Central Asia
4
Brown Bag Lunch with Matthew Burtner
7
Hefner Lecture: "A Hyena's Tale"
7
Archetype: Cindy Sherman; FotoFocus: Auto/Update
8
Reclaiming Terrorism: Lynching as Racial Terrorism
11
Putin’s Publics: Conspiracy, Conformity and the Conservative Turn
13
The Path to Research in the Humanities 2019
13
What the L Talk: Anxiety, Lexicon and Morphosyntax in Instructed L2 Spanish
14
New Books at Miami
14
Meet a Top French Diplomat
18
The Moldovan Truth Commission: A New Approach for the Study and Remembrance of Soviet History
20
Writers' Harvest Benefit Reading
21
Time and the Visual Imagination: From Physics to Philosophy
21
Film Screening: The Seventh Seal, (1958)
21
Coffee and Conversation with Jenann Ismael
25
The Two Faces of Freedom
December 2018
1
Humanities Lab Faculty Submission Deadline 2019
1
Writing for the Public Faculty Deadline 2019
2
We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching
4
Work in Progress Talk: Muhammad ibn al-Zain's Basin
January 2019
23
The Mandalorian and the Public Humanities
February 2019
3
The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities
12
What Does "Research" Mean For an Art Historian, and What Does the Shroud of Turin Have To Do With It?
12
Art and Activism: Looking Closer at Historical Documentary Photographs and Contemporary Imagery
12
American Cultures Seminar
12
We Shall Overcome: A Celebration of Martin Luther King
12
What does research mean for an art history? What does the Shroud of Turin have to do with it?
17
Russia and the West: Lecture by Yoshiko Herrera
24
Russia and Central Asia: Lecture by Eugene Huskey
25
The American Presidency and Thurgood Marshall: Lecture by Wil Haygood
26
And God Knows the Martyrs: Theodicy, Violence, and Asceticism in Jihadi-Salafism
26
"Training for Freedom: How Ordinary People in Unusual Time & Unlikely Place Made Extraordinary History" Documentary Premier
27
Diasporic Worldliness in Postcolonial Globalization
27
Anthropology Day Lecture: Why Anthropology Matters Now
28
Lessons in Drag: An Evening with LaWhore Vagistan
28
Racialized Animacy: Thinking Affective Injustice through Bergson
March 2019
1
Geoffrion Family Undergraduate Fellowship Application Deadline 2020
2
Russia and Ukraine: Lecture by Tim Model
2
Puff Lecture: Solving America's Hunger Crisis
3
The Inhumanities: Lecture by Kathryn Yusoff
3
Book Talk with Jason Rezaian
3
Discourses of Ukranian Nationhood Before and After 2014
3
Approaching Extinction, A Symposium: Day 1
4
“Approaching Extinction, Contesting Extinction” Symposium Day 2
4
Approaching Extinction, A Symposium: Day 2
4
Contesting Extinction: Toward a Praxis of Language Reclamation
4
MakeHERspace
5
We Can End Homelessness (But Not if We Keep Acting Like This)
5
Willeke Lecture: Climate Justice
6
Stunt-double Spanish: Using Puppets for Language Learning and Community Outreach
9
Russia and the Baltics: Lecture by Neringa Klumbyte
9
Dr. Michio Kaku: The Future of the Mind
9
Through the Agency of Words: 19th Century Women, Lunacy, and Literacy
10
Digital Storytelling Three Day Facilitator Training
10
What the L: Language Research at Miami
11
CANCELLED: Voices: Gentrification and Oral History
11
CANCELLED: Everyday Corruption in Russia: Lessons from the Soviet Past
12
POSTPONED: Race and Temporality: From Newtonian Blackness to Quantum Diasporic Spacetimes
12
POSTPONED: Coffee and Conversation with Michelle Wright
12
Digital Storytelling and Social Change
12
Women's Journeys, Women's Voices
12
CANCELLED: Abortion and Abandonment of Children in Soviet Lithuania, 1945-1989
12
The Power of Our Story
12
Starting a FYRE (Course): Introducing First-Year Students to Undergraduate Research (FYRE seminar series part 2 of 3)
13
CANCELLED: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality Symposium: Day 1
13
CANCELLED: Book Reading and Discussion: Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter’s Reckoning
14
Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality Symposium: Day 2
16
CANCELLED: 30 Years of Independence: A Discussion with Dalia Grybauskaitė, former President of Lithuania
17
CANCELLED: Robin James: The Sonic Episteme
18
CANCELLED: Leveraging the Research on Mindset to Improve Students' Learning
19
POSTPONED: Linda Singer Memorial Lecture: The Conspiracy Against Men
April 2019
1
Tensions in Cultural Heritage: The Transformation of the Bulgarian Wine Industry
1
Film: A Proactive Student Response to Genocide
2
Racism, Anti-Truth, and Other Forms of Bad Faith
2
2018-2019 Altman Symposium - Truth and Lies Day 1
3
2018-2019 Altman Symposium - Truth and Lies Day 2
3
Deliberative Democracy in the Age of Post-Truth Politics
6
Creating a Multimedia Concert
6
"Aren't you a Little Short to Play Ball?": Japanese American Youth, Racial Microaggressions, and Counterspaces in Basketball Leagues
6
Rule of Law Backsliding in Eastern Europe: Is it all bad news?
9
Feminizing the French Canon: Department of French & Italian Graduate Student Thesis Presentations
18
How Autocrats Manipulate Economic News
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