Seminar

NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS SPEAKERS: Alan Niles (Harvard University), Wanda Hopkins (Narragansett), & Mack Scott III (Narragansett) New information from the documentary record confirms Narragansett oral tradition concerning the beginnings of English...

PSYCHOANALYTIC PRACTICES SPEAKER: Katherine Everitt, European Graduate School The atom represents one of the oldest paradoxes in the history of thought. Can the material world be broken down into discreet, indivisible units, or can we divide the world...

NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS SPEAKER: Brian DeLay, UC Berkeley Generations of Indigenous people resisted settler states with guns in their hands, even though they manufactured no arms or ammunition. Under the right conditions, access to imported...

CELESTIAL SPHERES Speakers: Anna Von Mertens, Artist; João Alves, University of Vienna For this meeting of the Celestial Spheres seminar, artist Anna Von Mertens and astrophysicist João Alves will discuss their shared commitment to observation. Alves and...

PERSIAN AND PERSIANATE STUDIES SPEAKER: Fatima Fayyaz, Harvard University The pivotal redirection of royal patronage from courtly panegyrics to devotional poetry under the Safavid ruler Shāh Ṭahmāsp—most notably exemplified by Muḥtasham Kāshānī’s Davāzdah...

MODERN GREEK STUDIES SPEAKER: Aristides N. Hatzis, Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Director of the Laboratory for Political and Institutional Theory and the History of Ideas In the early 1820s, Missolonghi was a minor and...

MODERN GREEK STUDIES SPEAKER: Nena Venetsanou, Singer and Composer Drawing on her long and international career, the renowned singer and composer Nena Venetsanou speaks about music and feminism. This event will be in Greek.

CELTIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE SPEAKER: Pádraic Moran, University of Galway

WOMEN, GENDER, AND CULTURE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD SPEAKER: Sophia Richardson, MIT Early modern invocations of paint are fraught with ambiguity, ambivalence, and liminality. Paint enlivens and likens at the same time that it lies, leeches, and leads...

FRANCE AND THE WORLD SPEAKER: Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University This talk will examine the dialectic of universal emancipation and the radical enlightenment, to argue that while these processes were arguably initiated in the Malian Mande Charter of 1222...