FRANCE AND THE WORLD SPEAKER: Lucas Hollister, Dartmouth University This paper discusses the oft-overlooked history of French crime fiction engaging with ecological thematics and set in and around extractive industries. In dialogue with emergent...
ART, POLITICAL CULTURE, CIVIC LIFE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION How To Join Please add your name and email to this registration page. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. If you have not...
GERMAN STUDIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES SPEAKER: Andreas Kilcher, ETH-Zürich Franz Kafka's texts are among the most enigmatic in world literature. Andreas Kilcher proposes a new approach to understanding them: less through interpretation and more through an...
MUSICS ABROAD SPEAKER: Maria Sonevytsky, Bard College Across the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union, Palaces of Pioneers provided after-school programs for children aged 9–14, aiming to cultivate ideal future Soviet citizens who would reproduce the...
HISTORY OF THE BOOK SPEAKER: Michael Legaspi, St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary With comment by Gabriel Parlin (Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard). Co-sponsored by the Early Modern Workshop .
CRITICAL HEALTH HUMANITIES SPEAKER: Rijul Kochhar, Harvard University Rijul Kochhar is a historian of science and an anthropologist. His research interests focus on transnational histories of the life sciences and infectious diseases; the rationality of...
FRANCE AND THE WORLD SPEAKER: Sara Kippur, Wellesley College This talk explores the surprising ways in which American institutions and cultural figures shaped 20th-century French literature. Drawing on literary archives and other sources from her recent...