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Environmental Humanities Seminar with Jordan B. Kinder

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"Spectres of Settler Infrastructuralisms: Van Ginkel Associates Go North" Speaker: Jordan B. Kinder, 2022-23 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Abby Spinak Jordan B. Kinder is a Métis and settler-British media studies and environmental humanities scholar...

Matthew H. Baxter

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Matthew H. Baxter received a PhD (2013) in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley with a dissertation titled, "For SubContinental Political Theory: On the Non-Brahmin Self-Respect Critique of Gandhian Self-Rule." This work focuses...

Christina Wald

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Christina Wald is Professor of English Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Konstanz, Germany. During the 2009-10 academic year, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University where she also taught in...

Chloe Chapin

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Chloe Chapin is a PhD candidate in the American Studies program, with an AM in History and secondary concentrations in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Classical Archaeology. In her dissertation, “Tailoring America: Masculinity in the Early...

Out of Place and Time: Thinking Migration through the Humanities

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SPEAKERS: NATALIE G. DIAZ, YANNIS HAMILAKIS, MAAZA MENGISTE Migration seems to be a historical category of analysis with no clear beginning, middle, and end. It has allowed humanistic inquiry to re-animate questions of displacements across time and space...

Environmental Humanities Seminar with Lama Elsharif

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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...

Environmental Humanities Seminar with Adewale Owoseni

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Spiriticide: Conceptualizing the Disruption of Intersubjective Human and Environmental Relations in Indigenous African Thought Speaker: Adewale Owoseni, 2024-25 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Agustin Lao-Montes, UMass Amherst REGISTER HERE Adewale O...

Beyond the Headlines: Rethinking Language, Gender, and Inclusivity in Israeli Journalism

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JEWISH CULTURES AND SOCIETIES SPEAKER: Romy Neumark, Gerard Weinstock Visiting Lecturer and Fellow at Harvard's Center for Jewish Studies

Sex, Alcohol, and Music: Policing Vice in Nineteenth-Century Shiraz

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Speaker: Farzin Vejdani, Ryerson University; Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School Co-sponsored by the Aga Khan Fund for Iranian Studies

Environmental Humanities Seminar with Lindsay Ofrias

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Blood of the Earth: On Oil Extraction, Toxic Exposure, and Community-Led Healing in Amazonian Ecuador Speaker: Lindsay Ofrias, 2024-25 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Marcia Castro Lindsay Ofrias is a cultural anthropologist whose research broadly...

Tense Futures: Shakespeare's Macbeth and Gwinne's Tres Sibyllae

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HISTORY OF THE BOOK SPEAKER: DANIEL BLANK, HARVARD SOCIETY OF FELLOWS When King James I visited Oxford in 1605, he was greeted with a short play entitled Tres Sibyllae by Matthew Gwinne, a Fellow of St. John's College. This paper explores the connection...

Out of Place and Time: Thinking Migration through the Humanities

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Migration and the Humanities Speakers: Natalie G. Diaz, Yannis Hamilakis, Maaza Mengiste REGISTER FOR ZOOM LINK Migration seems to be a historical category of analysis with no clear beginning, middle, and end. It has allowed humanistic inquiry to re...