Humanities Events Archive 2017-2018

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PREVIOUS EVENTS

Sep 7

A Lecture by Dan Cameron

Sep 8

Havighurst Center Student Open House

Sep 8

Humanities Grants Round 1 (2017)

Sep 11

Why I Love the Electoral College (and You Should Too)

Sep 11

Rethinking Porkopolis

Sep 11

A Hundred Years Later: Some Reflections on the Russian Revolution of 1917

Sep 12

Mass Migration in the Age of Environmental Devastation

Sep 13

Understanding Threshold Concepts about Writing

Sep 13

The Path to Research in the Humanities (2017)

Sep 14

Where Have All the Voters Gone?

Sep 18

Russian Movie Night: The Guardians (2017)

Sep 19

Who Owns the City?

Sep 21

Tuning Your Historical Voice: Listening to the Past in a Tone-Deaf Era

Sep 21

A Lecture by Raul Gonzalez

Sep 22

Chinese Festival

Sep 22

Their Footprints Are Still Visible: Landscape, Stories, and Myaamia Language and Culture Revitalization

Sep 25

The Other Bloodlands: Central Asia in War and Revolution

Sep 25

David B. Maxfield Memorial Lecture in Architecture

Sep 25

Very Young Girls (2007) Film Screening

Sep 25

The View from Outside

Sep 26

American & Muslim Women's Collaborative

Sep 26

Completion: The Last 20%

Sep 26

Discussion: Queer People of Color

Sep 27

U.S. Policy at the Intersection of ISIS, Europe, and Russia

Sep 27

Tourism Collaborative Governance and Rural Community Development in Turpan

Sep 27

Streaming Death: The Politics of Dying on YouTube

Sep 27

The History, Culture, and Art of Paper

Sep 27

Rhetoric and Imperialism

Sep 27

Opening Night: “The Flick”

Sep 28

A Brief History of the Video Essay

Sep 29

China’s Silk Road Economic Belt Initiative and Sino-Kazakhstan Cross-border Tourism

Sep 29

Creating Community at Copan: Kinship & Migration at the Ancient Maya Frontier

Sep 29

Liquid Identities and Bedrocks of Desire: Queer Rituals Under Late Capitalism

Oct 2

Confession in a Time of Revolution: The Sacrament and the Secular

Oct 2

Is the Future Urban?

Oct 2

Pests before Pets: The Etymology of “Hamster” and Nationalizing Tendencies in Slavic Linguistics

Oct 2

Human Sex Trafficking in the U.S and in Ohio

Oct 3

Rap, Racial Alliances, and Activism: Asian American Studies in the Contemporary Political Moment

Oct 3

The Mask You Live In (2015) Film Screening

Oct 4

Digital Humanities Brown Bag

Oct 4

Lit Unplugged: Archive Fever

Oct 4

Europe’s New Peripheries: Local Economic Development in Ukraine

Oct 5

A Multicultural Symposium

Oct 5

Surface Sing

Oct 6

Havighurst Center Book Reading Group: The Red Web

Oct 9

Is American Nationalism Unique?

Oct 9

Open City

Oct 10

The “Rosewood Massacre” of 1923 and the Strange History of American Reporting on Race and Violence

Oct 10

Sculpture: From the Representational to the Experimental

Oct 16

Sobornost as Practice: The Local and National Church Councils of 1917

Oct 18

Russia’s Hybrid Warfare in Ukraine

Oct 18

The Real, the Rational, and the Reading Critic: on Pierre Macherey’s “A Theory of Literary Production”

Oct 18

Rattlesnake Tales

Oct 18

Political Economy Workshop

Oct 18

Indo-Sri Lanka Fishery Conflict: Issues of the Margins and New Directions

Oct 18

The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters.

Oct 19

Fright Night

Oct 19

A Hard Walk Through Solitude: Volcanic Landscapes of Alaska

Oct 19

How Late Night TV Makes Fun of Washington

Oct 20

Mahatma Gandhi: Vegetarianism and Social Critique

Oct 24

From Penguins to Plankton: The Dramatic Impacts of Climate Change on the Antarctic Peninsula

Oct 25

The Value of Local Government Archives

Oct 25

DACA Teach-In

Oct 25

Blanchot, Levinas, and the Question of the Ecological Other

Oct 25

Designs on the City: Gender and Urban Renewal in San Francisco

Oct 25

Is the National Debt the New Road to Serfdom?

Oct 26

Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs

Oct 26

Democratic Judgement in the Age of Alernative Facts

Oct 30

An Archaeology of Food Security in West Africa

Oct 30

Bodies Visible and Invisible: The Necro-politics of the Jewish Cemetery in the Life of Modern Thessaloniki

Oct 31

A Secret Society’s Raffia Costume: Understanding the Art of West African Masquerade

Nov 1

Political Economy Workshop

Nov 1

Litworks: Student panel on New Queer Media

Nov 2

The Reformations of the Sixteenth Century: Martin Luther and His World, 500 Years Later (Day One)

Nov 2

Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies & Threatens Our Freedoms

Nov 2

Resurface Again

Nov 3

The Reformations of the Sixteenth Century: Martin Luther and His World, 500 Years Later (Day Two)

Nov 3

War, Revolution, and Jewish Life in Russia: Symposium

Nov 6

Mobilizing for War, Demobilizing for Revolution: Russia, 1914-1918

Nov 6

The Path to Research in the Humanities (2017)

Nov 6

Neanderthals, Too Stupid to Live?

Nov 6

Translating Language, Translating Culture: The Zen of Footnotes in La breve y maravillosa vida de Oscar Wao

Nov 7

Conspiracy Theories and Revolution in Post-Soviet Russia

Nov 8

Plan for the Best or Anticipate the Worst? From Sustainability to Resilience

Nov 9

Climate Change and the Collapse of Societies

Nov 9

Objects in the Middle

Nov 9

“America’s Diplomats” film screening and discussion

Nov 13

The Fractiousness of Jewish Responses to the Russian Revolution

Nov 14

Living in Limbo, with Fear, and in the Shadows: Understanding and supporting undocumented immigrants

Nov 15

Handwriting, Design, and Concetto in Michelangelo’s Poetry and Biomedical Design

Nov 15

Opening Night: “Gathering Blue”

Nov 16

Deep Roots: Fascist and Antifascist Conflict in the United States, from the 1920s to the Age of Trump

Nov 16

Participation and Organization in Contemporary Art

Nov 16

Salsa Picante with Rice and Beans: Cuban Music in a New Global Context

Nov 17

Grand Night: Love Letters to Ella

Nov 18

Grand Night: Love Letters to Ella

Nov 27

Promoting Western Integration: 1950s Governmental PR in West Germany in the Context of NATO

Nov 27

This is London: CNN’s Role in News from Abroad with CNN London Bureau Chief

Nov 29

The Hexagram of the Heavens, The Strings of My Guitar: Joni Mitchell’s Crip Virtuosity

Nov 29

American Cultures Seminar

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