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Sonia Gomez

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Sonia Gomez is a historian of the modern United States whose research and teaching focus on the intersection of race, gender, and immigration. Her book project, Good Wives, Wise Mothers: Race, Gender, and Belonging in the Making of Japanese America...

A Bob Dylan Conversation

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CLASSICAL TRADITIONS AND RECEPTIONS SPEAKERS: Marco Zoppas, Independent Scholar, Author; Richard Thomas, Harvard University About the Speakers Marco Zoppas: December 2019: Author of the book “Twinology – Letteratura e rock nei misteri di Twin Peaks” May...

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...

Robin Wall Kimmerer and Richard Powers with Terry Tempest Williams

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Tales of Sweetgrass & Trees Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is author of the prize-winning Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants and...

Tales of Sweetgrass and Trees

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Speakers: Robin Wall Kimmerer, Richard Powers, and Terry Tempest Williams Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is author of the prize-winning Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom...

After Harlem Hospital: Modern Medicine and African American Art

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CRITICAL HEALTH HUMANITIES SPEAKER: Tanya Sheehan, Colby College Tanya Sheehan is Ellerton M. and Edith K. Jetté Professor of Art; Director of Academic and Scholarly Engagement at the Colby Museum’s Lunder Institute for American Art (2025-); Chair of the...

Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Latin Epic

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Speaker: Timothy Joseph, College of the Holy Cross Tim Joseph graduated from Holy Cross with a B.A. in Classics in 1998 and then taught Latin at Cresskill Junior-Senior High School in New Jersey from 1998 to 2001. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in Classical...

True Histories and Literary Celebrity: Charlotte Brontë and Josiah Henson

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VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE SPEAKER: Sarah Allison, Loyola University Sarah Allison is the Hutchinson Distinguished Professor and Director of Composition at Loyola University New Orleans and the author of Reductive Reading: A Syntax of Victorian...

Navigating the Aegean Sea: Prospects and avenues for a solution

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MODERN GREEK STUDIES SPEAKER: Photini Pazartzis, Tufts & National Kapodistrian University Tensions over the delimitation of maritime zones in the Aegean Sea have persisted between Greece and Turkey for decades, recently spilling out into the Eastern...

Urban Conversations | The Foot, The Pen, The Naive Question

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Urban Conversations Speaker: Garnette Cadogan In conversation with Teju Cole How might walking and writing as an intertwined practice—of attunement, recognition, acknowledgement—make possible an “intimate urbanism”? We’ll explore the promise and...

Between Revelation and Learning: Ghazali’s Map of Religious and Worldly Knowledge

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PERSIAN AND PERSIANATE STUDIES SPEAKER: Ali Mirsepassi, New York University Ali Mirsepassi is Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University. He is Director, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern...

Min Jin Lee in Conversation with Claire Messud

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Min Jin Lee is the author of two novels, Free Food for Millionaires (2007) and Pachinko (2017). Both books have been New York Times bestsellers. Pachinko was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, as well as one of the New York Times' 10 Best...