@ Jocelyn Benoist, Professor of the Philosophy of Knowledge and Contemporary Philosophy, University Paris 1 Sorbonne “How Fiction Can Be Made True” Philosophy has always been suspicious of fiction. In the philosophical tradition, fiction has often been equated with a lie, or at least a form of false speech. This is a consequence of philosophers’ […]
@ This interdisciplinary workshop takes description as a route to explore the ways in which our norms are embedded within and throughout language rather than reflecting external rules. While hard oppositions have been made between description and narration, pictorial and verbal, sound and sense, this workshop is attempting to create a vocabulary of description at […]
This interdisciplinary workshop takes description as a route to explore the ways in which our norms are embedded within and throughout language rather than reflecting external rules. While hard oppositions have been made between description and narration, pictorial and verbal, sound and sense, this workshop is attempting to create a vocabulary of description at different […]
at The Problem of Morphological Comparison: Goethe, Wittgenstein, Lévi-Strauss A lecture by Daniel Carranza (Harvard) Google Calendar iCalendar
This interdisciplinary workshop takes description as a route to explore the ways in which our norms are embedded within and throughout language rather than reflecting external rules. While hard oppositions have been made between description and narration, pictorial and verbal, sound and sense, this workshop is attempting to create a vocabulary of description at different […]
@ Keynote speaker: Chloe Ahmann (Cornell U.) 2024 JHU Anthropology Graduate Student Conference Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ Undergraduate East Asian Studies major’s Calista Huang, Jill Ji, and Amrita Makunda will present their senior theses. The EAS Seminar is primarily an interdisciplinary workshop for graduate students and faculty to present a pre-circulated work-in-progress. Organized by graduate students, the seminar also hosts methodology workshops, career-building workshops, and undergraduate senior theses presentations. The EAS […]
Arielle Saiber, Modern Languages & Literatures Waterways to the Divine: The Liquid Language of Altered-States of Consciousness Naveeda Khan, Anthropology Quantities of Households, Qualities of Householding: River Life in Bangladesh Caroline Lillian Schopp, History of Art Avant-Garde and Kitsch in the Great Acceleration Moderated by Bill Egginton, Modern Languages & Literatures, AGHI Organized & Introduced […]
Please join us for an online panel discussion on Thursday, April 25th, noon to 1pm, about famine, war, and international humanitarian law, details below. Please also help publicize the event by sending this message to others (including posting the attached flier). Advanced Zoom registration required. When war and famine come together, how should international legal bodies and […]
The DMV region is home to refugee and migrant communities from across the globe. It is also home to the centerpieces of the national security state, including CIA headquarters, the Pentagon, numerous military bases, as well as outposts of all the major firms that comprise the military-industrial complex, plus three of the military’s university-affiliated research centers. This symposium of original student research inquires into the connections between these two aspects of regional development, as well as how migrants and their families grapple with continuing forms of slow violence such as racialized displacement.
@ Hodson Hall 210 and Hodson Hall Lobby The Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity (URSCA) is pleased to present the annual Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Research Symposium, featuring the culminating work of our graduating Woodrow Wilson Fellows, as well as our one-year grant awardees. This year, for the first time, we will […]
@ Elizabeth Quinlan, Ph.D.Professor and Chair, Department of NeuroscienceHerman and Rubinstein Chair of NeuroscienceUniversity of Wisconsin – Madison TBD Faculty Host: Hey-Kyoung Lee Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
