Illuminating the past, engaging the present, and imagining new ways to produce knowledge that promotes the public good.

Events

March 30, 2023

Democracy and Public Health: Experiences in New York City

General Programming
March 31, 2023

A Tribute to Richard Howard

General Programming
April 5, 2023

The Black Bibliography Project

Public Humanities, Justice Forum
April 6, 2023

Failed Kinship and the Brown Commons

Thursday Lecture Series, Failure
Cover of 'Scarcity" juxtaposed over empty store shelves
April 6, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Carl Wennerlind and Deborah Valenze

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
April 6, 2023

Explorations in the Medical Humanities: Chronic Pain and Personhood

Public Humanities, Explorations in the Medical Humanities
blue white and green streaks of paint
April 7, 2023

Worlds at Waste: The Crisis of Water in the Subcontinent

General Programming, Climate Series
April 7, 2023

Film Screening: Saint Omer

General Programming
View of Utsa Hazarika's Pilgrims/This Is Not That Dawn (2022) and Amit Amin and Naroop Jhooti's Sikh Project series (2016). Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York, photograph by Brad Farwell
April 11, 2023

Curating the “City of Faith” - New Directions in Representing Religion in Contemporary Life

General Programming
two people inside a vinyl bubble with writing on the outside of it
April 12, 2023

What We COULD Do: The Zip Code Memory Project in Conversation

Public Humanities
collage titled “Roadblock” produced by Leniqueca Welcome
April 13, 2023

On and In Their Bodies: Masculinist Violence, Criminalization, and Black Womanhood in Trinidad

Thursday Lecture Series, Failure
April 13, 2023

The Report, or, Whatever Happened to Third World Feminist Theory?

General Programming
Color headshot of Sherene Seikaly
April 13, 2023

Race and Catastrophe: Lessons from Palestine

General Programming
April 14, 2023

Unsettling the Union: An Interdisciplinary Symposium

General Programming
April 17, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Marie Myung-Ok Lee

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
Zodiac astronomical Clock Tower in blue against white
April 18, 2023

Astrology: Ancient Symbols in Modern Times

General Programming
April 19, 2023

Utopia 13/13: Architecture and Utopia

13/13 Seminar Series
April 20, 2023

Abandoned or Washed Away?: Make (Big) Opera Listen to You

Thursday Lecture Series, Failure
Book cover of Literary Conclusions in a square
April 20, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Oliver Simons

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
Three flags promoting climate justice in a climate protest parade
April 25, 2023

Just Transition or Just a Transition? The Importance of Power, Organizing, and Framing in Decarbonization

Climate Series, Climate Futures/Climate Justice
1990s-like computer graphic of multiple purple files on top of each other with the words Reproduction of Possibility
April 27–29, 2023

Reproduction of Possibility

General Programming
April 27, 2023

Putting Race to Work: Neoliberal Development in the US Virgin Islands

Thursday Lecture Series, Failure
April 27, 2023

Inaugural Mosse Lecture: George Mosse—The Legacy, The Work, The Human Being

General Programming
May 1, 2023

Days of 2023: A Poetic Symposium on C.P. Cavafy

General Programming
1990s-like computer graphic of multiple purple files on top of each other with the words Reproduction of Possibility
May 4–6, 2023

Reproduction of Possibility

General Programming
May 6, 2023

Abolitionism and the Arts in the Long Eighteenth Century

General Programming
May 8–9, 2023

Conception and Its Discontents

Public Humanities, Explorations in the Medical Humanities

Highlights

Red white and green tiles in random pattern
News
Fellowship Opportunity: Public Humanities Graduate Fellowship 2023-2024
News
Call for Applications: Pandemic Program at History Lab
News
New publication from GHI Partnership on Crises of Democracies (video)
News
Podcast: SOF Fellow Renzo Aroni on attacks of Peruvian's rural and Indigenous people
News
Announcing the SOF Spring 2023 Thursday Lecture Series Theme: Failure
News
New anthology from SOF Alum Arden Hegele and former Board Member Rishi Goyal