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

Events

September 22, 2021

1/13 The Congress of Black Writers and Artists

13/13 Seminar Series, Revolution
September 23, 2021

To Know or to Criminalize: Relationships and Non-Passages between Public, Academic, and Governmental Knowledge about…

Thursday Lecture Series
September 28, 2021

Celebrating Recent Work by Kevin Fellezs

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
September 29, 2021

Celebrating Recent Work by Muhsin al-Musawi

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
October 4, 2021

Celebrating Recent Work by Camille Robcis

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
October 7, 2021

Shorn Women: Gender and Punishment in Peru’s Shining Path

Thursday Lecture Series
October 13, 2021

2/13 Kwame Nkrumah and C.L.R. James

13/13 Seminar Series, Revolution
October 14, 2021

What Makes a State Sovereign? Competing Conceptions of Sovereignty in 19th c. France and the Ottoman Empire

Thursday Lecture Series
October 21, 2021

Medieval Architectural Authenticity (and Doubt)

Thursday Lecture Series
October 21, 2021

Celebrating Recent Work by Susan Bernofsky

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
October 27, 2021

Celebrating Recent Work by Julia Doe

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
October 28, 2021

Capture and Counter-documentary: Art and Photographic Realism in the 1970s

Thursday Lecture Series
November 4, 2021

“Natural Pollutants” and Environmental Agnotology

Thursday Lecture Series
November 11, 2021

Felt Antagonisms: On Affect and Affirmation

Thursday Lecture Series
November 18, 2021

Detention, Poison, and Care at City’s Edge

Thursday Lecture Series
November 19, 2021

Celebrating Recent Work by Kate Zambreno

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
December 2, 2021

A Recipe for Belonging in Technical Learning Environments

Thursday Lecture Series
December 2, 2021

Celebrating Recent Work by Katharina Volk

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
December 9, 2021

Amazing Grief: African American Mourning and Contemporary Black Activism

Thursday Lecture Series

Highlights

News
SOF Fellow Renzo Aroni featured on NPR's All Things Considered
Podcast
Frank Andre Guridy's The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics
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Join SOF Fellow Fernando Montero in Celebrating the Launch of the Center for Mexican and Central American Studies
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NEH Grant Awarded to Karl Jacoby
Video
Somos.—Politics, Memory, and the Work of Fiction
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Society of Fellows Application Now Open for 2022-2023