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Events

October 19, 2021

The State of the World Economy in the Age of COVID and Beyond

General Programming
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 21, 2021

Bambi by Sébastien Lifshitz (2021)

Mauvais Genres Film Festival
October 25, 2021

Little Girl by Sébastien Lifshitz (2020)

Mauvais Genres Film Festival
October 26, 2021

The Lives of Thérèse by Sébastien Lifshitz (2016)

Mauvais Genres Film Festival
October 27, 2021

3/13 Gramsci, Sartre, and the "Engaged" Philosopher

13/13 Seminar Series, Revolution
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
October 29, 2021

Indigenous Women on Building a Plurinational State in Latin America

General Programming
October 31, 2021

The ZIP Code Memory Project: Practices of Justice and Repair: Samuel Hargress and the Music of Paris Blues: A Community…

Public Humanities
November 4, 2021

“Natural Pollutants” and Environmental Agnotology

Thursday Lecture Series
November 4, 2021

Adam by Maryam Touzani (2019)

Mauvais Genres Film Festival
November 9, 2021

Ladies of the Wood by Claus Drexel (2021)

Mauvais Genres Film Festival
November 11, 2021

Felt Antagonisms: On Affect and Affirmation

Thursday Lecture Series
November 11, 2021

Hyenas by Djibril Diop Mambéty (1992)

Mauvais Genres Film Festival
November 16, 2021

Celebrating Recent Work by Mae M. Ngai

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
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
December 14–15, 2021

Thinking Through Settler Colonialism and Racial Capitalism in the Context of the Nordics

General Programming

Highlights

News
Announcing the “Mauvais Genres: French Cinema Takes on Gender” Film Festival
Podcast
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News
NEH Grant Awarded to Karl Jacoby
Video
Somos.—Politics, Memory, and the Work of Fiction
Podcast
Frank Andre Guridy's The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics
Video
Apocalypse Pending Panel 4