Humanities Events Archive 2018-2019

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PREVIOUS EVENTS

Aug 29

Russian Propaganda Then and Now

Aug 30

Graphic Witness: Evidence and Testimony in the #MeToo Movement

Sep 5

Between East and West: Petr Chaadaev and Russia’s Place in the World

Sep 12

The Path to Research in the Humanities 2018

Sep 14

Secrecy, (In)security, and Current Politics

Sep 14

Karen Dawisha: Scholar, Mentor, Teacher

Sep 14

Parmenides and Difference

Sep 14

Humanities Grants Round 1 (2018)

Sep 14

Deceptive Cadence: Stories from Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, and Shchedrin.

Sep 17

Beyond Exile: Nabokov in Berlin and Practices of Not Belonging

Sep 18

Emperors, Gods, and Gladiators: Emperor Worship in the Colosseum

Sep 18

Archive Fever

Sep 18

Research Apprenticeship Program

Sep 20

Reporting on Russia

Sep 20

Reporting on Russia

Sep 24

Pedagogy and Profit? Efforts to Develop and Sell Digital Learning Products for Higher Education

Sep 25

Pictorial Prosthetics: Martial Masculinity and Veteran Amputees in Early 1920s European Visual Culture

Sep 27

A Journey with Hans Gindlesberger, Photographer

Sep 27

Propaganda and Anti-Intellectualism

Oct 1

The Two Solitudes of Russia Abroad: Russian & Russian-Jewish Writers in France’s Long Second World War

Oct 1

Untangling the Web: Indigenous Linguistic and Cultural Knowledge and Americanist Anthropology

Oct 2

Plan B: Making a Living as a Writer

Oct 3

For the Freedom of Captive European Nations: Eastern European Exiles in Postwar America

Oct 4

Barbouillage/Blackface à la française

Oct 4

Poetry Reading: Andrea Brady & Jonah Mixon-Webster

Oct 8

Tamizdat, the Cold War, and Contraband Russian Literature: the Case of Varlam Shalamov

Oct 9

Exhibition Lecture: Pepper Stetler ~ Rockwell Kent: The Art of Storytelling

Oct 10

Community Coffee Hour

Oct 10

Federico García Lorca y el mito de Andalucía: Spanish Language Lecture, and Bilingual Poetry Reading

Oct 10

The Right to Grow Old: Stories from the Honduran Migrant Crisis

Oct 16

Contingent Faculty Research Table

Oct 17

American Cultures Seminar

Oct 18

Land of Open Graves: Understanding American Politics and the US/Mexico Border Enforcement through the Lives and Deaths of Migrants

Oct 18

Echoes of Miami

Oct 22

The Theme of a City in the Poetry of Russian Emigration

Oct 22

Gender, Microfinance and Microcredit in West Africa: Empowerment for Whom?

Oct 23

invisible images

Oct 23

Putin v. The People? The Precarious Politics of A Divided Russia

Oct 23

Fiction Reading with Josh Russell

Oct 24

“A Word to the Wise”: Spinoza and the Claims of Meaning

Oct 26

Truth and Power in Putin's Russia: A Conversation with Mikhail Zygar

Oct 29

Slava Mogutin as a Diasporic Russian Queer Voice: Countercultural Globalization and Transcendental Homelessness

Nov 1

Baudelaire's Shadow: Toward a Theory of Poetic Determination

Nov 5

The Path to Research in the Humanities 2018

Nov 6

Journalism in Kharkiv

Nov 6

Student Coffee Hour with Masha Gessen

Nov 6

An Evening with Masha Gessen

Nov 12

Exploring Immigrant Mentality in Post-Soviet Cinema

Nov 14

Emmett Till: Why His Story Matters

Nov 14

Community Coffee Hour

Nov 14

Understanding the Urban-Rural Divide

Nov 14

Good Kids

Nov 15

Documentary, Contemporary Art, and the Descriptive Power of Lens-Based Capture

Nov 15

How to Argue (And Not Just Quarrel)

Nov 15

How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution

Nov 16

2019-20 Altman Faculty Fellowship Proposal Deadline

Nov 16

Miami Writes 2018

Nov 26

Katy Bohnic, MU Press Book Release

Nov 28

American Cultures Seminar

Nov 29

Slavery in Global Historical Perspective: Rome, Baghdad, and New Orleans

Nov 29

A Documentary Film: Rockwell Kent

Nov 30

Humanities Teaching Lab

Nov 30

Book Proposal Workshop Application Deadline 2018

Dec 3

Film screening, "As Goes Janesville" (2012)

Dec 4

Anti-Jewish Violence in the Former Lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the 19th Century

Dec 12

Community Coffee Hour

Jan 14

Research Methods Workshop 2019

Jan 18

Humanities Grants Round 2 Deadline (2019)

Jan 28

Call for 2019-2020 Altman Scholars

Feb 1

Research Collaborative Proposal Deadline 2019

Feb 4

"In Her Feelings"? (Mis)Understandings of the Experiences of Black Female Athletes

Feb 7

Student Coffee Hour with Eula Biss

Feb 7

Truth, Lies, and True Lies

Feb 11

Social Media and the News: The Russians Might be the Least of Our Problems

Feb 11

The Personal is Political: Examining Black Sportswomen's contemporary Activist's Efforts

Feb 13

Sharing Silence: History and the Ends of Trauma in Balzac’s "Adieu"

Feb 14

Publishing in the Humanities

Feb 19

Violent Animals: Frederick Douglass and Racial Science at the Limits of the Human

Feb 19

American Cultires Seminar with Cristin Ellis

Feb 19

Research and Graduate School for Humanities Students

Feb 20

Fiction Reading: Paul Skenazy

Feb 21

Exhibition Talk: Robert Indiana and the Selfie: Image, Text, Place

Feb 21

Is History a Myth? The Meaning of 'The Family of Man'

Feb 22

Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality Symposium

Feb 25

For Whom the Bot Tolls: Theorizing, Finding, and Analyzing Russian Political Twitter Bots

Feb 25

Making America Great Again: Inhibiting the Conversion of Athletic Capital into Political Capital

Feb 27

Russian Politics and the Strategy of the Russian Opposition

Feb 27

More Than An Object: Capstone Reception and Student Gallery Talks

Feb 27

The World of Contemporary Israeli Music for Piano

Mar 3

Altman Graduate Fellow Deadline 2019

Mar 3

Geoffrion Family Undergraduate Fellowship Application Deadline 2019

Mar 4

Russian Media Abroad: RT News Online and Russia’s Foreign Policy

Mar 4

The Tigers Who Taught Us Something About Justice

Mar 6

Reflections on Tigerland: An Evening with Wil Haygood ‘76 and Special Guests

Mar 6

The Revolutionists

Mar 7

Belarus and the Black Market: Illicit Smuggling into the EU and Russia

Mar 7

Exhibition Talk: Ellen Price on Thom Shaw

Mar 8

Riot-ization and Social Control in the Trump Era - Work in Progress Talk

Mar 8

Travels without Charlie: John Steinbeck in the U.S.S.R.

Mar 11

My Life as a Spy

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