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October 2019
‘The Universe Belongs to Life’: Interplanetary Contamination, Astrobioethics, and the Universe of Moral Consideration
Monday Seminar: Jennell Johnson
Find out more »The Lost Art of Literary Criticism
2019 Germaine Brée Lecture: Alice Kaplan
Find out more »Making “They Were Expendable” at MGM during World War II
Monday Seminar: Lea Jacobs
Find out more »November 2019
“No longer does the body stand there so dumb and inadequate”: Dance Therapy and the Performative Body, from Weimar Body Culture to the New York Cultural Front
Monday Seminar: Andrea Harris
Find out more »Building Paradise in a Tropical Swamp: Retirement Housing and Communities in South Florida after World War II
Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Anna Andrzejewski
Find out more »The American Ways of Wisdom
Monday Seminar: Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
Find out more »The Invention of Runaway Slaves: Escaping Enslavement in Seventeenth-Century London
Monday Seminar: Simon P. Newman
Find out more »December 2019
The Labor of Images: Work and Its Discontents in Brazilian Cinema, 1975 to the Present
Monday Seminar: Sarah Ann Wells
Find out more »Knightly Culture on Crusades and in the Latin States
Monday Seminar: Elizabeth Lapina
Find out more »January 2020
Interlapping Blackness: An Intimate Cartography
Monday Seminar: Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Find out more »February 2020
Textual Authority and the History of Dante’s ‘Vita Nova:’ Revisiting Editorial Objectivity in the Era of ‘Fake News’
Monday Seminar: Jelena Todorović
Find out more »Seeds of Sedition: Libels, Plays, and the Early Modern Public Sphere
Monday Seminar: Joseph Mansky
Find out more »Community under Duress: Moral Luck and Caribbean Culture
Monday Seminar: Guillermina De Ferrari
Find out more »Guest Seminar
Monday Seminar: Sofia Torallas-Tovar
Find out more »Currency: Race and the Circulation of the American Ideal
Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Jonathan Holloway
Find out more »March 2020
What Price Souls: Capuchin Mission in Congo, Mercantilism, and Antislavery
Monday Seminar: Justine Walden
Find out more »The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History
Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
Find out more »Birthing Paradox: Race, Colonization, and Radicalism in U.S. Midwifery
Monday Seminar: Annie Menzel
Find out more »Everyone is a Materialist Now: New Materialism and Cultural Hermeneutic
Monday Seminar: Kimberly DeFazio
Find out more »Vihuelists and Courtly Performance of Poetry in Early Modern Spain
Monday Seminar: Ignacio López Alemany
Find out more »April 2020
Sabbatai Sevi Comes to America
Monday Seminar: Nan Goodman
Find out more »Re-imaging the Chorus: H.D. and Greek Tragedy
Monday Seminar: Laura McClure
Find out more »A is for Asylum: A Historical Glossary of the Words We Use for People on the Move
Monday Seminar: Rachel Ida Buff
Find out more »Nineteenth-Century Scottish Idealism
Monday Seminar: Jennifer Keefe
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