Events

Collaborating with faculty, departments and centers from across the university, as well as colleagues at other institutions, the Center for the Humanities sponsors a lively events program on a wide range of topics. Please see the calendar below for information on forthcoming events. 

Dancing with Georges Perec: Embodying Oulipo

Dancing with Georges Perec: Embodying Oulipo

Book Launch and Discussion with author Leslie Satin, Julie Malnig, and Gregory Erickson
Creating Ethnodrama: A Theatrical Approach to Research

Creating Ethnodrama: A Theatrical Approach to Research

See research become art! This event features a new book on ethnodrama and a live excerpt from NYU Steinhardt’s Verbatim Performance Lab
A Culture of Experimentation: Collaboration and Creation in European Dance

A Culture of Experimentation: Collaboration and Creation in European Dance

Exploring the question, what does contemporary dance have to do with geopolitics? Featuring Tara Zahra & Meredith Dincolo.
Jump Start Your Summer Writing

Jump Start Your Summer Writing

Cristina Vatulescu, Eric Schwartz, Theresa MacPhail and Uli Baer share strategies for reaching summer season writing goals
A Novel in Translation: Translation as a Novel

A Novel in Translation: Translation as a Novel

A conversation with author Cécile Wajsbrot and translator Tess Lewis
Opening Doors

Opening Doors

The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America, a conversation with Hasia Diner
The Painting of Modernity

The Painting of Modernity

Book Launch for Eyal Peretz’s Messengers of Infinity: On the Pictorial Logic of Leonardo Da Vinci
Berlin Before and After

Berlin Before and After

Featuring Wendy Lesser, Juliane Camfield, and Ulrich Baer