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Experiments in Documentary: Two Films by Chick Strand
September 16, 2026
6:30 pm
Bachelor Great Room, Bachelor Hall 1042
D. Graham Burnett
The Attention Revolution: Deliberation, Sanctuary, and the Liberal Arts
September 22, 2026
5:00 pm
Bachelor Great Room, Bachelor Hall 1042
R. Jay Wallace
The Politics of Grievance: A Nietzschean Analysis
September 24, 2026
5:00 pm
Humanities Commons Room, Bachelor 1031
Denise McCoskey
Faculty Lunch Forum: How Scholars Engage with Popular Culture
September 30, 2026
12:00 pm
Humanities Commons Room, Bachelor all
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2026-2027
august 2026
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september 2026
16
Experiments in Documentary: Two Films by Chick Strand
22
The Attention Revolution: Deliberation, Sanctuary, and the Liberal Arts
24
The Politics of Grievance: A Nietzschean Analysis
30
Faculty Lunch Forum: How Scholars Engage with Popular Culture
30
Ukraine and Karazin University in Wartime: A View from Within
october 2026
6
Pop-Propaganda: How the Kremlin Markets Its War Like Disney and Coca-Cola
15
Attention Sanctuary
15
Attention Lab
16
Attention Lab 2
16
Attention Sanctuaries: Facilitator Training
16
Love, Politics, and Peoples: A Critique of 'Love Talk' in Politics
29
How to Be Human in an Age of Digital Distraction
november 2026
11
Diplomacy During the Russo-Ukrainian War: A Conversation
12
A Political Economy of Attention in Three Registers
december 2026
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January 2027
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february 2027
10
The Listening Body: A Sonic Journey through Medicine
11
Reclaiming Attention: An Immersive Audio Experience
11
The World According to Sound: Ways of Knowing “Age of Distraction”
march 2027
4
Technologies of Attention
11
Le Plaisir du Texting
April 2027
8
Metrics, Algorithms, and the Technologies of Attention
22
2026-2027 Altman Symposium: Attention in the Age of Distraction
22
Attention and Surveillance
23
2026-2027 Altman Symposium: Attention in the Age of Distraction
23
Who Gets to be 'Screen Free'? Exploring the Disconnection Divide in Education
may 2027
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