Humanities Events Archive 2019-2020

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PREVIOUS EVENTS

Jul 27

Reading: Hugh Sheehy and Kelcey Ervick

Jul 28

Reading: Lawrence Coates and Laura Van Prooyen

Jul 29

Final Projects Reading - MFA in Creative Writing

Jul 30

Reading: Lee Ann Brown and Hoa Nguyen

Aug 1

Reading/Performance: Wang Ping

Aug 2

Reading: Jacquelyn Mitchard and Lee Martin

Sep 6

(Black) Literature as (Black) Philosophical Method

Sep 10

A Conversation about Russia’s Empires

Sep 10

Welcome to the World: An Art Exhibition

Sep 11

Spring Street Reading

Sep 12

Societies, Politics, and Economies Meet and Greet Luncheon

Sep 12

Resetting the Clocks in a 24/7 World

Sep 13

Spanish Culture of Food & Gastronomy: The Quest for Identity in a Globalized World

Sep 13

Humanities Grants Round 1 (2019)

Sep 13

"What Should the Mission be for 21st Century Environmental Professionals?"

Sep 16

The Public Sphere in Catherine the Great’s Russia: Where to Look for It

Sep 16

Translation Symposium Day 1

Sep 16

Refugee Advocacy: Translating Passion into Action

Sep 17

Statistics: Confused, Misused, and Abused, or How to Avoid Being Swept Away in the Data Deluge

Sep 17

Research Apprenticeship Program 2019

Sep 17

Translation Symposium Day 2

Sep 18

CANCELLED: Rhythm and the Life of Forms: On Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante

Sep 19

The Path to Research in the Humanities 2019

Sep 21

Ohio Writing Project Fall Teacher Conference

Sep 23

Democracy in Foresight? The Thorny Path of Civil Society and Nonprofit Sector Development in Eastern Europe, Russia & Central Asia

Sep 24

Screening and Filmmaker Q&A with Oren Rudavsky

Sep 24

Medicine and the Media and its Role in Business

Sep 24

Jen Sammons Chapbook "Trisagion"

Sep 26

A Sacred Space is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism

Sep 26

The Spectacle of Lynching Redeployed: On the Performance of Democratic Regard

Sep 26

Misreading History

Oct 1

Imagining Russian Regions

Oct 1

Racial Consciousness 101

Oct 2

Film Screening and Q&A with filmmaker Alain Gomis

Oct 3

Lillian Schwales: Gutsche Life and Career Event

Oct 3

How to Win Fellowships in the Humanities: Panel Discussion

Oct 3

Faculty Research Mixer

Oct 7

Who is the Man from Underground?

Oct 9

Lamps and Leadpipes: Identifying Makers and Locating Roman Lamp Factories

Oct 9

A Discussion with Roza Otunbayeva

Oct 10

Coffee and Conversation, with Jack Halberstam

Oct 10

After All: On Dereliction and Destitution Copy

Oct 10

After All: On Dereliction and Destitution

Oct 15

A Conversation with the Author: Ruta Sepetys

Oct 15

Cinema as Counter Word

Oct 16

The Trump Presidency: Successes and Failures

Oct 16

The Complex Ecological Interactions Behind Your Cup of Coffee

Oct 17

Working the Genres: How Writing Meets the World

Oct 17

Research on a Dialect in India

Oct 17

International Archaeology Day Lecture with Dr. Morag Kersel

Oct 18

Gandhi’s 150th Birthday Celebration: Gandhi’s True Civilization and the Aesthetics of Silence

Oct 19

Illuminating the Past: Symposium

Oct 22

Buddhists, Shamans and Soviets: Making History through Rituals in Siberia

Oct 22

China's "War on Uyghurs": Cultural Genocide in the Name of Counterterrorism

Oct 23

William Niven’s Mexico (1890-1910): Photograph as Document and Memorial

Oct 24

Coffee and Conversation, with Marcia Bjornerud

Oct 24

Scaling Up: Planetary Imagination and Extinction in Mexican Culture

Oct 24

Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World

Oct 25

Contested Spaces: Visual Vocabularies of Public Protest.

Oct 28

“The Writer’s Duty”: Shalamov and the Fate of the Intelligentsia in the Gulag

Oct 28

Protect the Vote: Voter Suppression and Rights in 2020

Oct 29

When Books Become Art

Oct 29

The T on Georgia

Oct 29

Theory and Practice in Visual Psychological Anthropology

Oct 30

1619 and Slavery's Legacy

Oct 30

Ecological and Cultural Landscapes: Ermanno Olmi’s Documentaries Through the Lenses of Ecocinema

Oct 30

Poetry Reading: Trisha Low & Stephanie Young

Oct 31

Nature Change: The Rhetoric of Environmental Videography

Nov 1

Freedom 55 Mini-Conference: Freedom Summer, Then, Now, and the Future - Day 1

Nov 2

Freedom 55 Mini-Conference: Freedom Summer, Then, Now, and the Future - Day 2

Nov 4

Brown Bag Lunch with Matthew Burtner

Nov 4

Can the Rich and Powerful Actually Work for the Common Good?: Thoughts from Central Asia

Nov 4

Auksalaq: A Climate Change Opera, with Composer’s Talk on 'Musical Temporalities of Climate Change'

Nov 7

Archetype: Cindy Sherman; FotoFocus: Auto/Update

Nov 7

Hefner Lecture: "A Hyena's Tale"

Nov 8

Reclaiming Terrorism: Lynching as Racial Terrorism

Nov 11

Putin’s Publics: Conspiracy, Conformity and the Conservative Turn

Nov 13

The Path to Research in the Humanities 2019

Nov 13

What the L Talk: Anxiety, Lexicon and Morphosyntax in Instructed L2 Spanish

Nov 14

New Books at Miami

Nov 14

Meet a Top French Diplomat

Nov 18

The Moldovan Truth Commission: A New Approach for the Study and Remembrance of Soviet History

Nov 20

Writers' Harvest Benefit Reading

Nov 21

Coffee and Conversation with Jenann Ismael

Nov 21

Time and the Visual Imagination: From Physics to Philosophy

Nov 21

Film Screening: The Seventh Seal, (1958)

Nov 25

The Two Faces of Freedom

Dec 1

Writing for the Public Faculty Deadline 2019

Dec 1

Humanities Lab Faculty Submission Deadline 2019

Dec 2

We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching

Dec 4

Work in Progress Talk: Muhammad ibn al-Zain's Basin

Jan 23

The Mandalorian and the Public Humanities

Feb 3

The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities

Feb 12

Art and Activism: Looking Closer at Historical Documentary Photographs and Contemporary Imagery

Feb 12

What Does "Research" Mean For an Art Historian, and What Does the Shroud of Turin Have To Do With It?

Feb 12

What does research mean for an art history? What does the Shroud of Turin have to do with it?

Feb 12

American Cultures Seminar

Feb 12

We Shall Overcome: A Celebration of Martin Luther King

Feb 17

Russia and the West: Lecture by Yoshiko Herrera

Feb 24

Russia and Central Asia: Lecture by Eugene Huskey

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