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Events

September 27, 2022

Chronic Life: Can We Go the Distance with the Virus?

September 28, 2022

Emanuele Coccia: "Loving the Planet: How to Turn Ecology into Planetary Erotics."

General Programming, Climate Series
September 28, 2022

The Long March of Incarceration: from Ancient Prisons to Incarcerated Slavery

Public Humanities, Justice Forum
September 28, 2022

Utopia 1/13: Critical Theoretic Foundations for Concrete Utopias with Étienne Balibar

13/13 Seminar Series
September 29, 2022

From Steppe to Stage: Racialization and the Making of the First Kazakh National Opera

Thursday Lecture Series
September 29, 2022

The Noomechanics of Theater: Brecht and Tret’iakov

General Programming
September 30, 2022

Being in the World: Narcisse and three short films by Julie Gautier

Being in the World Film Festival, Climate Series
October 3, 2022

The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance

General Programming
October 4, 2022

Qualitative Interview Methods

Public Humanities, Humanities in Practice Workshops
October 6, 2022

How Initial Peasant Support for Shining Path Shifted to Violent Resistance in Peru

Thursday Lecture Series
October 6, 2022

Being in the World: Animal

Being in the World Film Festival, Climate Series
October 6, 2022

Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture: Marina Warner

The Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture
October 6, 2022

Being in the World: Pierre Rabhi: In the Name of the Earth (Pierre Rabhi: au nom de la terre)

Being in the World Film Festival, Climate Series
October 10, 2022

Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: A Conversation between Deborah Cohen and Adam Tooze

General Programming
October 11, 2022

Mormons, Magic and Tarot

General Programming
October 12, 2022

Being in the World: A Bigger World (Un Monde plus grand)

Being in the World Film Festival, Climate Series
October 13–16, 2022

Being in the World: Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Being in the World Film Festival, Climate Series
October 13, 2022

A Rose from Canefield

Thursday Lecture Series
October 13, 2022

Being in the World: Antarctica: Ice and Sky (La glace et le ciel)

Being in the World Film Festival, Climate Series
October 18, 2022

Book Talks in Medical Humanities: Britt Wray's Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Change

Public Humanities, Explorations in the Medical Humanities, Climate Series
October 18, 2022

Being in the World: The Red Turtle (La tortue rouge)

Being in the World Film Festival, Climate Series
October 19, 2022

Mapping Injustice: Experiments in Critical Cartographies and Digital Mapping Practices

Public Humanities, Humanities in Practice Workshops
October 19, 2022

Black Music and the Elision of Black Composers

Public Humanities, Justice Forum
October 20, 2022

The Middle Passage Viewed from Africa: Scenes from the Francosphere

Thursday Lecture Series
October 20, 2022

The Lionel Trilling Seminar: Amanda Anderson

The Lionel Trilling Seminar
October 20, 2022

Being in the World: The Great Green Wall

Being in the World Film Festival, Climate Series
October 24, 2022

Celebrating Recent Work by Rob Goodman and Dan-el Padilla Peralta

New Books in the Society of Fellows
October 25, 2022

Celebrating Recent Work by Jessica Merrill

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
October 26, 2022

Celebrating Recent Work by Michele M Moody-Adams

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
October 27, 2022

I saw Othello’s visage in his mind': Visualizing Othello in Nineteenth-Century British Theatre

Thursday Lecture Series
October 27, 2022

Being in the World: Bigger Than Us

Being in the World Film Festival, Climate Series
November 2, 2022

The Art of the Social Practice Arts Incubator

Public Humanities, Humanities in Practice Workshops
November 10, 2022

Contestations of Salience and the Theory of Everyday Political Conflict

Thursday Lecture Series
November 15, 2022

Book Talks in Medical Humanities: Heather Davis's Plastic Matter

Public Humanities, Explorations in the Medical Humanities, Climate Series
November 16, 2022

Website as Archive for the Public Humanities

Public Humanities, Humanities in Practice Workshops
November 16, 2022

The Many Afterlives of Incarceration with John Gargano

Public Humanities, Justice Forum
November 16, 2022

Celebrating Recent Work by Alessandra Ciucci

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
November 17, 2022

A History of Decarbonization

Thursday Lecture Series
November 17, 2022

Celebrating Recent Work by Nadia Abu El-Haj

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
November 30, 2022

Celebrating Recent Work by Hilary Hallett

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
December 1, 2022

Lush Aftermath: Race, Labor, Scorched Earth

Thursday Lecture Series
December 7, 2022

Moses Hadas and Historical Black Colleges and Universities - Classics, Racism, Segregation

Public Humanities, Justice Forum

Highlights

News
Announcing our Fall 2022 Public Humanities Skills Workshops
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Public Books publishes new article from current SOF Fellow Emma Shaw Crane
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SOF Alum Hidetaka Hirota publishes Washington Post op-ed
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SOF Fellow Atesede Makonnen reviews Deanna P. Koretsky in Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies journal
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Former Board Member Michele Moody-Adams pens new article on censorship
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SOF Alum Jordanna Bailkin awarded Guggenheim Fellowship