Associate Professor of French Hannah Freed-Thall (New York University) presents "Modernism at the Beach," a lecture that touches on queer sexuality and the balneary cultures of France as viewed by Marcel Proust. Gilman Hall Rm. 208.
Gabriel Paquette of University of Oregon speaks about the importance of Brazil's bicentennial as part of the Portuguese Program's fall 2022 speaker series. This lecture is in english, and will also be held online.
Andre Pagliarini Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia Panelist Gladys Mitchell-Walthour North Carolina Central University Panelist Luis Rodriguez Stanton Nuclear Fellow at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation Moderator This panel features You can also join this session virtually: https://zoom.us/j/92628938660 - Meeting ID: 926 2893 8660
Professor Rentzou's (Princeton) talk, "The World is a Theater: Apollinaire, War, and Nation," will be held in Gilman 479. Rentzou is the author of the newly published Concepts of the World: The French Avant-Garde and the Idea of the International (Northwestern UP, 2022) and of Littérature malgré elle: le surréalisme et la transformation du littéraire (2010). At […]
Lecture by Hannah Vandergrift-Eldridge (U of Wisconsin-Madison) on 10/11 at 5pm in Shaffer 3. Since the turn of the millennium, the Anglo-American academy and culture at large has embarked on a much-needed analysis of race and lyric poetry. Driven by the work of BIPOC poets and poet-scholars including Claudia Rankine, Dorothy Wang, and Timothy Yu, […]
The Jewish Studies Program presents a lecture by Dr. Nan Goodman in Gilman 17 on 10/21 at 12:30. This talk argues that we cannot fully understand the radical nature of Louis Brandeis’s privacy argument--in particular his focus on the “intense emotional life” and “man’s spiritual nature,” in his celebrated law review article, “The Right to […]
¿Cómo narrar la Guerra de Malvinas (en la ficción o fuera de ella)? ¿En qué condición incorporarla a la memoria nacional? Las respuestas a estas preguntas han sido numerosas y extremas: de una derrotada épica nacional-popular antimperialista derrotada, a un último y casi póstumo esfuerzo de relegitimación de una dictadura moribunda, que prolonga durante la […]