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.
Current & Upcoming Events
Endurance Protocols: 36.5/A Durational Performance with the Sea (5.5-9.29)
Exhibition on view from May 5 to September 29
Boundaries of Belonging: Sectarianism and Statecraft in the Ottoman Empire
Book launch and conversation featuring Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer, with Subah Dayal, Rudi Matthee, and Alan Mikhail
A Celebration of Beginnings and Endings
Fall Celebration + Closing Reception for Endurance Protocols: 36.5/A Durational Performance with the Sea, ft. Sarah Cameron Sunde and guests
Co(reo)imagining/Choreographing the Impossible
A conversation featuring André Lepecki and Diane Lima
Strange Light: An Existential Reckoning in South Asia
Book talk featuring Toral Jatin Gajarawala, with Leela Gandhi, and Robert Young
The Forms of Utopia
Book launch featuring Jenny Mann, Wendy Anne Lee, Corey McEleney and Debapriya Sarkar
Past Events
Transpacific Experiments – Imagining Music, Practice, and Writing
Book launch and conversation, featuring Miki Kaneda, Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan, and Angie Pittman. Moderated by Cristina Vatulescu.
Unsound Supplies: Noisy Matter and the Making of Modern Soundscapes
Book launch, featuring Fanny Gribenski, Viktoria Tkaczyk, Gavin Steingo, and Matthew Hockenberry
Endurance Protocols: Tidal Writing with Sarah Cameron Sunde & Una Chaudhuri
An event in two parts. Join Sarah Cameron Sunde for a 12-hour silent writing cycle, then join us for a talk on climate performance.
Colloquy #21: Experimental Translation
with Robert Fitterman, M.L. Martin, and Mónica de la Torre. Moderated by Eugene Ostashevsky and World Poetry Books.
Pedagogies of Unlearning: Media, Assembly, Translocal Fictions
Featuring Jerónimo Duarte-Riascos, Ksenia Nouril, Osman Osman, and Anh Nguyen; moderated by the Center for the Humanities