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Postdoctoral Fellows Seminar

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Spring 2026: Seminar on Environmental Humanities This seminar series gives the Mahindra Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellows the opportunity to present their work to their cohort as well as faculty, graduate students, and community members from Harvard...

Tanner Seminar | Ruha Benjamin in conversation with Gabeba Baderoon

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Speaker: Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University Respondent: Gabeba Baderoon, Harvard Radcliffe Institute The Tanner Lectures with Ruha Benjamin: Imagining Beyond the Artificial Intelligentsia This seminar is open to Harvard ID-holders only and registration...

Environmental Humanities Seminar with Kessie Alexandre

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"Slow Transparency: Lead, Water Crises, and the Formation of Publics" REGISTER FOR KESSIE ALEXANDRE'S SEMINAR Speaker: Kessie Alexandre, 2022-23 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Steven Caton Kessie Alexandre is an Assistant Professor of Geography at...

Environmental Humanities Seminar with Katerina Korola

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"Photosensitive Skin: Lebensreform Photography and the Open-Air Nude" REGISTER FOR KATERINA KOROLA'S SEMINAR Speaker: Katerina Korola, 2022-23 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Laura Frahm Katerina Korola is an art historian and media scholar whose work...

Environmental Humanities Seminar with Julio Aguilar

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"Drinking Water in the Silver City of Potosí: Hydraulic Infrastructures and Practices in the Colonial Andes" Speaker: Julio Aguilar, 2022-23 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Gabriela Soto Laveaga RSVP FOR JULIO'S SEMINAR Julio Aguilar received a PhD in...

Environmental Humanities Seminar with Joseph Whitson

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"Wildernessing: Settler Colonialism and the Outdoor Industry's Campaign to 'Never Stop Exploring'" Speaker: Joseph Whitson, 2022-23 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Pamela Klassen RSVP FOR JOSEPH WHITSON'S SEMINAR Joseph Whitson received his PhD in...

Dialectical Thinking in the Humanities

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Chairs: Jess Keiser, Robert Lehman, Samantha Matherne

Every academic year, the Dialectical Thinking in the Humanities seminar hosts a weekly reading group on a work relevant to our theme....

Environmental Humanities Seminar with Pooja Sen

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The Conjunctural Affinity: Writing the History of Art after Climate Change Speaker: Pooja Sen, 2024-25 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Robin Kelsey REGISTER HERE Pooja Sen is a scholar of contemporary art, media, and postcolonial and Marxist theory...

Environmental Humanities Seminar with Rebecca Hogue

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"Anneal this Breath: Reading Glass, Poetics, and Nuclear Genealogies with Yhonnie Scarce" REGISTER FOR PRE-CIRCULATED PAPER Speaker: Rebecca H. Hogue, 2023-24 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Katie Holmes Rebecca H. Hogue (she/they) grew up on the...

Environmental Humanities Seminar with Oliver Aas

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Chronotopes of Melting Speaker: Oliver Aas, 2025-26 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Bruno Carvalho Born and raised in Estonia, Oliver Aas is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of environmental humanities, visual studies, and...

Conversation on Covid-19 | Critical Health Humanities Seminar

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RECORDED ON 3/26/2020 A conversation on Covid-19 with the chairs of the Critical Health Humanities Seminar at the Mahindra Humanities Center Sari Altschuler, Associate Professor of English, Associate Director of the Humanities Center, Founding Director of...

Environmental Humanities Seminar with Julia Mead

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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...