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 for more details.
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.
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.
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 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. For more information, see here.
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.
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 statement here.
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 212).
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 winners, see here.
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 ululation and Zulu ngoma performance. See details here.
Solmsen Fellow Costica Bradatan‘s book Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of Philosophers (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015) has been translated into Turkish and Romanian.
