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Entangled Crises: Famine, Disease, and Governance in Late Eighteenth-Century Tunis Speaker: Lama Elsharif, 2025-26 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Jessica Marglin Lama Elsharif is a historian of the early modern and modern Middle East and North Africa...

Registers of ‘Emptiness’ in the Paraguay River: From Guido Boggiani to Paz Encina Speaker: Manuela Luengas Solano, 2025-26 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Mayra Rivera Manuela Luengas Solano is a Latin American cultural studies scholar whose areas of...

A Right to Light: The Moral Economy of Electricity in Prague’s 1967 Strahov Demonstration Speaker: Julia Mead, 2025-26 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Alison Frank Johnson Julia Mead is an environmental historian of modern Eastern Europe, with a...

Photo: James Stopforth, Courtesy of Thomas Dane Gallery and Marian Goodman Gallery THE NORTON LECTURES 2025-26 Norton Professor of Poetry: Steve McQueen Discussant: Noam M. Elcott, Columbia University Featured Performer: Dom Flemons, Grammy Award-winning...

Photo: James Stopforth, Courtesy of Thomas Dane Gallery and Marian Goodman Gallery THE NORTON LECTURES 2025-26 Norton Professor of Poetry: Steve McQueen Discussants: Edward Daffarn, former Grenfell Tower resident and activist; Patricia Kingori, Oxford...

Photo: James Stopforth, Courtesy of Thomas Dane Gallery and Marian Goodman Gallery THE NORTON LECTURES 2025-26 Norton Professor of Poetry: Steve McQueen Discussant: Bianca Stigter, Writer, Producer, and Director Moderator: Dennis Lim, Writer and Film...

Speaker: Catherine Lacey In Conversation with Laura van den Berg About the Speakers Catherine Lacey is author most recently of The Möbius Book , as well as the novels Biography of X , Pew , Nobody Is Ever Missing , and The Answers , as well as the story...

Speaker: Anuk Arudpragasam In Conversation with Tara K. Menon Please note that this event location has changed: it will take place in Emerson Hall, Room 105. About the Speakers Anuk Arudpragasam is a Tamil novelist and translator from Colombo, Sri Lanka...

Urban Conversations Speaker: Jared Thorne In conversation with Daniel Agbiboa The state of Ohio prides itself as the gateway to the Midwest. When Jared Thorne began this project in 2015, he witnessed that Planned Parenthoods facilities draw a complicated...

THE ENVIRONMENT FORUM Speaker: Michael Lobel, Hunter College Moderator: Robin Kelsey, Harvard University About the Event Vincent van Gogh has become indelibly identified with depictions of the natural world, from the variegated colorations of flowers...