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.
IRH Senior Fellow Lynn Nyhart‘s book Biological Individuality: Integrating Scientific, Philosophical, and Historical Perspectives (University of Chicago Press, 2017) has been listed among Choice‘s 2017 list of Outstanding Academic Titles. See Choice review and other selected titles here.
IRH Kingdon Fellow Daniel Hummel recently published an article on American Pentecostals adopting Jewish practices in Jerusalem Post Magazine. Read the full article here.
Former IRH Senior Fellow Henry Drewal has helped coordinate the exhibition Whirling Return of the Ancestors: Egúngún Arts of the Yorùbá in Africa and Beyond, now open at the Ruth Davis Design Gallery. The exhibition is free and accessible.
Former IRH Senior Fellow Leslie Bow‘s research on the implications of high-tech robots embodying female Asian features was featured in a recent L&S article. Read about it here.
Former IRH Honorary Fellow Devaleena Das has published the co-edited volume Unveiling Desire: Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East. For more info, see here.
