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Events

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October 4, 2023

From DMZ Colony to Phantom Pain Wings: An Evening with Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi

General Programming
headshot of Hortense J. Spillers
October 5, 2023

Aesthetics and Politics: Perspectives

General Programming
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October 5, 2023

The Political Imaginary of User Democracy

Thursday Lecture Series
October 5, 2023

Crooked Plow: Translating Social Justice in Brazil

General Programming
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October 5, 2023

Across Generations: Colette and Justin

Across Generations: Unveiling the Past, Embracing the Present
Cover of Famine and Feast in Ancient Egypt by Ellen Morris
October 10, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Ellen Morris

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
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October 12, 2023

Whatever Happened to Ottoman Autonomy? Imperial Confrontation, Archival Dissonance, Epistemic Erasure

Thursday Lecture Series
October 12, 2023

Aspirations: China and the Global South

General Programming
Annie Ernaux looking over her shoulder on a boat with young sons
October 12, 2023

Across Generations: The Super 8 Years

Across Generations: Unveiling the Past, Embracing the Present
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October 17, 2023

Across Generations: The Missing Picture

Across Generations: Unveiling the Past, Embracing the Present
Cover of Mathematics and Metaphilosophy by Justin Clarke-Doane
October 19, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Justin Clarke-Doane

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
Cover of The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884-1947): The Paladins of France in America by Jo Ann Cavallo
October 25, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Jo Ann Cavallo

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
Cover for a school notebook by Georges Dascher
October 26, 2023

A Nonevent of Note: On Reading the Indemnification of the Formerly Enslaved in Colonial Senegal

Thursday Lecture Series
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November 8, 2023

Beyond Polarization: Epistemic Distortion and Criticism

General Programming
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November 9, 2023

True Science: Leo Tolstoy and Popular Science in Late Imperial Russia

Thursday Lecture Series
Math
November 16, 2023

On The 1976 World of Islam Festival and the Question of Time

Thursday Lecture Series
Li Jinxi, "Diagram Showing the Evolution of Chinese for the Last Four Millenniums" (1926)
November 28, 2023

Contact Philology

The Program in World Philology
Cover of The Chapter by Nicholas Dames
November 29, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Nicholas Dames

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
Agit-Prop Stand, 1922
November 30, 2023

Ideological Questions

Thursday Lecture Series
Cover of Waste and the Wasters: Poetry and Ecosystemic Thought in Medieval England by Eleanor Johnson
December 5, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Eleanor Johnson

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
December 7, 2023

The Spiritual Life of Social Movements

Thursday Lecture Series

Highlights

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News
Current SOF Fellow Irina Kalinka Publishes New Article
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News
SOF/Heyman Bookshelf highlighted in Columbia News
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News
Film Festival: Across Generations: Unveiling the Past, Embracing the Present
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News
Amy Starecheski receives National Endowment for the Humanities Grant
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News
SOF Fellow Ege Yumusak reviews Rules to Win By
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News
Opportunity: 2023 MLA Public Humanities Incubator