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Events

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 6, 2021

The Black Studies Project: 50 Years and Counting

The Lionel Trilling Seminar
October 7, 2021

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

Thursday Lecture Series
October 7, 2021

Cléo from 5 to 7 by Agnès Varda (1962)

Mauvais Genres Film Festival
October 12, 2021

Out by Denis Parrot (2018)

Mauvais Genres Film Festival
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-Century France and the Ottoman Empire

Thursday Lecture Series
October 14, 2021

Delphine and Carole by Callisto McNulty (2018)

Mauvais Genres Film Festival
October 18, 2021

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publishing from the Perspectives of Editors and Authors

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

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 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

Highlights

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Society of Fellows Application Now Open for 2022-2023