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Events

Cover of Experimental Histories
October 21, 2024

Celebrating Recent Work by Hannah Weaver

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
Cover of Tarrafal
October 23, 2024

Celebrating Recent Work by João Pina

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
Swastika on windows in 1920s Germany
October 24, 2024

Liminal Lives: Trans Before and After Nazism

Thursday Lecture Series
October 24, 2024

Celebrating Recent Work by E. Mara Green

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
October 24, 2024

What is the Plural Form of Djinns? Reading and Discussion with Fatma Ademir and Jon Cho-Polizzi

General Programming
October 24, 2024

"Disrupted City" by Manan Ahmed Asif

General Programming
out of frame woman touching another woman's shoulder
October 29, 2024

Cinema/Care: Madame Hofmann

CINEMA/CARE
October 30, 2024

Justice Forum: Colonial Incarceration and its Legacies in the Southern Philippines

Public Humanities, Justice Forum
Soldiers in the "Campagne de 1914-1915"
November 7, 2024

On Postemancipation Coloniality: Narratives and Poetics from the Francosphere

Thursday Lecture Series
Esfir Shub holding up a strip of film
November 14, 2024

The Mother of Soviet Documentary: Esfir Shub Between Theory and Practice

Thursday Lecture Series
November 14, 2024

Rethinking the Circuits of Cold War Culture

Critical Chinese Humanities Colloquium
November 14, 2024

Celebrating Recent Work by Julie Stone Peters

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
November 19, 2024

New Humanities Faculty Salon

General Programming
Painting: Egyptisk kvinna by Ivan Aguéli
November 21, 2024

Is this an Orientalist Painting?

Thursday Lecture Series
woman holds a newborn baby
November 21, 2024

Cinema/Care: Our Body (Notre Corps)

CINEMA/CARE
Cover of Polis
December 3, 2024

Celebrating Recent Work by John Ma

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
Cover of On the Sovereignty of Mothers
December 4, 2024

Celebrating Recent Work by Gil Anidjar

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
B&W illustration of a library book cart
December 4, 2024

Justice Forum: The Librarian of Rikers: Cartoons, Books, and Narratives in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Public Humanities, Justice Forum
December 5, 2024

Debt or Subsidy? Social Relations of Literary Labor in Philippine Postwar Novels

Thursday Lecture Series

Highlights

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Society of Fellows application now open for 2025—2026
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Film Festival: CINEMA/CARE
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Opportunity: Humanities New York seeks Development and Communications Intern
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SOF Fellow Daniela Moraes Traldi published in latest Gender & History journal
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Photos from Black Studies x French Studies, co-organized by SOF Fellow A. Véronique Charles.
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Opportunity: 2024 MLA Public Humanities Incubator for Graduate Students