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HUMANITIES EVENTS

Humanities Center Book Club

September 1, 2022
4:30 pm
212 MacMillan Hall (The Great Room)
Michael Sandel

The Tyranny of Merit

September 7, 2022
5:00 pm
Armstrong Student Center Pavilion
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this year's events

august 2021

18
What Makes a Strong Application?
27
Body Count
27
Gilt and Gold: A Baroque Evening
31
Thinking Creatively About Culminating Capstone Projects

september 2021

2
Humanities Center Book Club
7
Down Home, Downtown: Vernon McIntyre’s Appalachian Grass
8
Collapse
8
Honoring Myaamia Community through Letterpress Printing
9
A Conversation about Race and Caste
10
Fulbright Campus Deadline: U.S. Student Program
13
Are Women Full Citizens? What the Long History of #MeToo Reveals
14
Russian Conspiracies: Blood Libel and Race in the Russian Empire
14
The Value of Your Humanities Degree: A National Panel Sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies
14
Coal Town Photograph
14
Courts, Law, and the Right to Marriage Equality: The Story and Legacy of Obergefell v. Hodges
15
Climate Change's Impacts to the Urban Forest
17
Son Del Caribe
21
The Anti-Racist Workshop: A Reading and Curated Conversation
22
History, Leadership, and the Good Life
23
The Becoming Black of the World
23
Gabby Rivera: Keynote Speech to the National Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration
27
The Importance of Unbelief in The Brothers Karamazov
29
Mocking the Canon: Travestied Aeneids in Russia and Ukraine
29
Creating an Exquisite Corpse Comic
30
The Path to Research in the Humanities

october 2021

4
Dostoevsky's Incarnational Realism: A Reading of The Brothers Karamazov
4
Anti-Asian Racism in America
5
An Evening with Peter Beinart
7
Slave Rebellions in Revolutionary America
12
Gandhi, Race, and the Problem of Prejudice
13
New Books at Miami
14
From Partisan Warfare to Memory Battlefields: Two Women’s Stories about World War II and Its Aftermath in Lithuania
15
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
18
Dostoevsky Write Small
19
Nonfiction Reading by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
19
Documentary Screening: Storm Lake
20
Remembering 1991: Personal Recollections of the Soviet Collapse
21
Dying of Whiteness: The Politics of Racial Resentment and the 2022 Election Cycle
21
Discovering Edgar: The Life and Legacy of Edgar A. Poe
21
Coffee and Conversation with Jonathan Metzl
21
Suspended Animation
27
The Path to Research in the Humanities
27
Nonfiction and Poetry Reading by Kendra Allen
28
Miami 1970: The Struggle Against Necrobeing
28
The Rowan Hall Takeover at 50
28
The Caricature of the People: Arendt, the Mob, and Democracy
29
Impacts of Regional Conflicts on LCLUC Webinar Series 2021

november 2021

1
Lessons of Defeat: The U.S. & Afghanistan Today and Tomorrow
3
Dostoevsky Between Theory and Practice, Fantasy and Terror
4
A Black Feminist Consideration of Animal Life
5
Julian of Norwich's Ontology of Love
8
Voices from Underground: Spiritual Resistance and the Theology of the Person in Dostoevsky
8
Freedom Film Festival
10
The Local and Global Environmental Impact of Italian Food Cultures: Slow Food and Terra Madre
11
Restorative Justice at the University
12
Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away
15
Dostoevsky and Darwin: Religion, Morality, and the Natural Sciences
15
Spring Street Reading Series
22
Writer's Harvest
22
Smorgasbord: A Wind Ensemble Performance
29
String Studio Recital
30
Repatriation, Reclaiming, and Indigenous Wellbeing: Braiding New Research Worlds

december 2021

january 2022

17
2022 MLK Day of Reflection and Action
26
Virtual Exhibition Opening - From the Ground Up: Visual Constructions of Race
31
Modern Russian Literary Figures Q & A

february 2022

3
Trends in Academic Publishing
3
Postponed: On Juneteenth
7
The New Race Science
7
Spring Street Reading Series
7
Repenting the Revolution: Russian-Speaking Radicals and U.S. Deportation Policy, 1917-1924
7
Coffee and Conversation with Angela Saini
9
Eternity and Immanence in the Thought of Emanuele Severino
10
Critical Race Theory and the Search for Truth
11
"Spin me Round": The Aesthetics of Vinyl and Digital Formats
12
Yamaha Artists: Boston Brass
15
National Parks Talk
15
Y.A. Novelist Q & A
16
Guest Recital: Alex Wasserman, Piano
16
Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood
17
How Anthropology Explains Business and Life
21
Archbishop Tikhon (Bellavin) and the Russian Orthodox Church in North America, 1898-1907
21
Department of Architecture and Interior Design Spring 2022 Lecture Series: V. Mitch McEwan
23
This is My Story, This is My Song: Black Music, Black Sound, and the Unmasking of Post-Racial America
24
An Activist's Lens: Donna Ferrato on Domestic Violence
24
Michael Snow's Wavelength
25
Humanities Lab: Presentation on Work with the Over-the-Rhine People’s Movement
28
The Unbearable Whiteness of Post-Soviet Migration
28
Toward Architectural Companionship
28
Rapid Response Panel: Ukraine Under Attack

march 2022

1
born phrie: a journey of embodied memory.
1
Black and Gay in Ohio: A Memoir
2
Why It Is Vital to Tell Women's Stories During Women's History Month and All Year Long
7
English Department Alumni Panel
8
Winning Reparations: John Tateishi and The Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations
8
Film screening: Pier Pasolini's Medea
9
The Thanksgiving Play
9
Learning to Swim: October 17 and the Seine's Exceptional Bodies
9
Reflections - Highlights of the Undergraduate Experience at the Art Museum
10
What We Miss When We Talk About Race
10
Annual Havighurst Center Lecture: Dalia Grybauskaitė, former President of Lithuania
10
Coffee and Conversation with Natalia Molina
14
Teaching Team Writing
16
Joan of Arc, Queer King of France?
16
The Cold War, the Russians and the Fears of Plots: Conspiracy Theories and Identity Politics in the U.S. (1950-2020)
16
From the Ground Up: Insights into Ancient Societies from Material Culture
18
A Conversation on Ukraine and the Church with Prof. Scott Kenworthy
28
The Crisis in American Democracy
28
Russian Poet Rewrites Displacement: Various Takes on the Difficult Landscape
28
Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space
30
Tikhon Bellavin, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church
30
Lizzie Hutton Reads From Her New Book "She'd Waited Millenia"
31
International Young Researchers’ Conference
31
César Chávez Day Celebration
31
Screening of Zeinabu Davis's Compensation with Q&A

april 2022

1
The Spirit of Our Work: Black Women Teachers (Re)Member
4
A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps
4
Award-Winning Poet Michael Torres
4
Cancelled--The Black Civil War Soldier: Conflict and Citizenship
4
Writing New York in Russian: Reflections on an Anthology
4
Amsalu Tefera presents Arganone Mariam — A Praise for the Threefold Virgin: an illuminated 16th-century Ethiopic manuscript housed at Miami University
5
The Resistance of Orthodox Christians in France to Fascism during World War II
5
Exploring Russian Music Through the Songs of Mikhail Glinka
5
From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century
5
Online Watch Party and Panel Discussion of Euripides' Medea
5
Archives-Based Language Revitalization at the Myaamia Center
6
Nam June Paik, Father of Video Art
6
Painting and Prejudice: Racism in the Making of American Art History
6
Coffee and Conversation with Gwendolyn Shaw
7
Miami University Digital Humanities Forum
11
Uprooting Medea
11
The Cold War, the Russians and the Fears of Plots: Conspiracy Theories and Identity Politics in the US (1950-2020)
11
A Q&A featuring Ukrainian Artists
11
The Road to Unfreedom?
12
From Victimhood to Aggression: Russia's Path to War in Ukraine
13
Stealing My Religion: The Ethics of Religious Appropriation
13
Virginia Woolf, Pathbreaking Modernist
14
Symposium on Interpreters in Western History - Day 1
14
What is Divine Humanity? Vladimir Soloviev and Russian Religious Philosophy
14
Is Religion Good for Human Rights?
14
Keynote: Interpreters in Western History
15
Symposium on Interpreters in Western History - Day 2
18
Cruising Diaspora: The Work of Yevgeniy Fiks
19
Fortitude – Stories from Two South Africas
20
Head Over Heels
20
Hannah Arendt, Humanist, Philosopher, Survivor
20
Opening Night: Head Over Heels
20
The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
21
2022 Annual Publishing Symposium: Publishing Panel
21
Climate Justice and Community Revitalization: Progress, Challenges, Moving Forward
22
2022 Annual Publishing Symposium: Alumni Panel
26
Art, Religion, and the End of the Renaissance
26
Finale for Marianne D. McComb Reading Series: Nonfiction Writer Elissa Washuta
26
Contesting Extinctions: Decolonial and Regenerative Futures
27
Jimi Hendrix, Legendary Guitarist
28
Altman Symposium: Race & Racism - Day 1
28
Translating Blackness
29
Altman Symposium: Race & Racism - Day 2
29
Phonological Violence: Toward a Philosophy of the Karen Call

may 2022

4
Adelita, Soldaderas, and the Mexican Revolution
5
Myaamia Special Collections Exhibit Preview
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