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

Events

Book cover of Arabic Disclosures: The Postcolonial Autobiographical Atlas by Muhsin J. al-Musaw set in a square
February 6, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Muhsin Al-Musawi

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
February 7, 2023

New Books in Medical Humanities: Culture and Medicine: Critical Readings in the Health and Medical Humanities

Public Humanities, Explorations in the Medical Humanities
Close up of magician Jeanette Andrews as she appears to bend a glass
February 8, 2023

On Wonder: an Evening of Magic with Jeanette Andrews

General Programming
February 8, 2023

Utopia 8/13: A Conversation on the Role of Law in Progressive Politics

13/13 Seminar Series
February 9, 2023

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

General Programming
February 13, 2023

Naturally Universal: How Aristotle Explains the Success of Medieval French Song

General Programming
February 15, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Andreas Huyssen

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
Middle East Cityscape
February 16–17, 2023

Middle East Urbanism Beyond Conflict: Current Research, Ongoing Debates, and Next Directions

General Programming
February 17, 2023

Covid Three Years Later: Together, Not Alone

General Programming
February 17, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Rhiannon Stephens

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
February 21, 2023

Utopia 7/13: "Concrete Utopianism” with Nadia Abu El-Haj, Kaiama Glover, and Gary Wilder

13/13 Seminar Series
February 23, 2023

Black Against the Rainbow: An Azanian Afropessimist Critique of Frank Wilderson's South Africa

Thursday Lecture Series, Failure
February 23, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Bruce Robbins

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
February 27, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Sarah Zukerman Daly

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
Close up of carbon removal valves
February 28, 2023

MRV as a Tool for Achieving Just Outcomes in the Carbon Removal Sector

Climate Series, Climate Futures/Climate Justice
Large pieces of torn paper in orange, yellow green and blue
March 1, 2023

Education as the Practice of Freedom: Two Writers, Teachers, and Friends in Conversation

Public Humanities, Justice Forum
March 2, 2023

The Republic Betrayed

Thursday Lecture Series, Failure
Shepard looking out on flock in b&w
March 9, 2023

The "Failures" of Liberal Capitalism and the Racial Regime of Religion in Late Colonial Algeria

Thursday Lecture Series, Failure
March 22, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Annie Pfeifer

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
March 23, 2023

Make Your Own Job: Success and Failure in the Depression-Era United States

Thursday Lecture Series, Failure
March 24, 2023

An Afternoon with Judith Butler: On the Pandemic and Our Shared World

General Programming
square image with Celtic cross in green with text reading "New Irish Fiction"
March 25, 2023

New Irish Fiction: a Symposium

General Programming
Square cover of Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater superimposed over a faded cover
March 27, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Lauren Robertson

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
two images combined: horizon with climate plant juxtaposed with bookstore with hanging lightbulbs
March 28, 2023

Climate Tech: Why It Needs the Humanities and Social Sciences

Climate Series, Climate Futures/Climate Justice
March 30, 2023

The Manufacture of Failure: How 'Africa' (De)Constructs The 'West

Thursday Lecture Series, Failure
April 5, 2023

The Black Bibliography Project

Public Humanities, Justice Forum
April 6, 2023

Failed Kinship and the Brown Commons

Thursday Lecture Series, Failure
Cover of 'Scarcity" juxtaposed over empty store shelves
April 6, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Carl Wennerlind and Deborah Valenze

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
April 6, 2023

Explorations in the Medical Humanities: Chronic Pain and Personhood

Public Humanities, Explorations in the Medical Humanities
collage titled “Roadblock” produced by Leniqueca Welcome
April 13, 2023

On and In Their Bodies: Masculinist Violence, Criminalization, and Black Womanhood in Trinidad

Thursday Lecture Series, Failure
April 14, 2023

Unsettling the Union: An Interdisciplinary Symposium

General Programming
April 17, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Marie Myung-Ok Lee

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
April 20, 2023

Abandoned or Washed Away?: Make (Big) Opera Listen to You

Thursday Lecture Series, Failure
Book cover of Literary Conclusions in a square
April 20, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Oliver Simons

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
Three flags promoting climate justice in a climate protest parade
April 25, 2023

Just Transition or Just a Transition? The Importance of Power, Organizing, and Framing in Decarbonization

Climate Series, Climate Futures/Climate Justice
May 8–9, 2023

Conception and Its Discontents

Public Humanities, Explorations in the Medical Humanities

Highlights

News
Podcast: SOF Fellow Renzo Aroni on attacks of Peruvian's rural and Indigenous people
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Announcing the SOF Spring 2023 Thursday Lecture Series Theme: Failure
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New anthology from SOF Alum Arden Hegele and former Board Member Rishi Goyal
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Announcing the release of NO PLACE | لا مكان Radio Play Series
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Board member Katharina Pistor leads new Laws of Capitalism online lecture series
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Public Books publishes new article from current SOF Fellow Emma Shaw Crane