A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Elizabeth Lhost is organizing a workshop November 15–16, 2018 on the theme of “Little Technologies / Big Histories” and is seeking participants. The deadline for submissions is August 15. See here …
Year: 2018
IRH Announces Fellows for the 2018-2019 Academic Year
The Institute for Research in the Humanities is pleased to announce the incoming and returning fellows for the 2018-2019 academic year. Click here for the full list.
Daniel Kapust’s Work Featured in Political Theory Podcast
The Political Thoery Review podcast recently featured a conversation with IRH Fellow Daniel Kapust about his new book, Flattery and the History of Political Thought: That Glib and Oily Art. Listen to the conversation here.
Solmsen Fellow Costica Bradatan Delivers Lectures in Kazakhstan
This April, Professor Costica Bradatan gave a series of lectures on his IRH project In Praise of Failure to graduate students in the Department of Religious and Cultural Studies of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University …
Former Solmsen Fellow Matthew B. Roller Publishes New Book
Former IRH Solmsen Fellow Matthew B. Roller of Johns Hopkins University has published a new volume, Models from the Past in Roman Culture: A World of Exempla, now available from Cambridge University Press.
FLWG Petition Closed
The Faculty Libraries Working Group petition regarding the planned destruction of a portion of the open-stack collections in the Memorial and Kohler Art Libraries is now closed after receiving 1040 signatures. Read the latest FLWG …
Dan Hummel to Present at the Inaugural Meeting of the Interdisciplinary Religion Group
Please join Kingdon Fellow Daniel Hummel for his talk “Bridging the Gap: The Secular and Sacred in Evangelical Christian Zionism” at 6pm on April 4th. See here for more information (note that correct room number is …
Leslie Bow Receives Hilldale Award
Former Senior Fellow Leslie Bow has been awarded the 2017-2018 Hilldale Award for distinguished contributions to teaching, research, and service in the faculty division of Arts and Humanities. To read more about the award this year’s …
Louise Meintjes to give two talks on campus
Former Senior Fellow Ron Radano and the Global Music and Sound Studies Borghesi-Mellon Workshop Group have arranged for a two-day visit by Louise Meintjes (Associate Professor of Music and Cultural Anthropology, Duke University) to discuss …
Costica Bradatan’s “Dying for Ideas” now available in Turkish and Romanian
Solmsen Fellow Costica Bradatan‘s book Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of Philosophers (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015) has been translated into Turkish and Romanian.