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This archive contains events that occurred prior to February 2018. For more recent events, please see our new Events Calendar.
Past Events
- Gary Shteyngart: I alone can fix it: Tales from the new dystopia with Gary Shteyngart - May 9, 2018
- Gary Shteyngart: Failure is an option: Immigration, memory, and the Russian Jewish experience with Gary Shteyngart - May 7, 2018
- Roger Chartier (Penn): Material Texts Colloquium:on memory and forgetting in Don Quixote - March 29, 2018
- Andrew Leong, Northwestern University: Japanese American Literature 1896-1971 - February 23, 2018
- Matthew Kirschnbaum (Maryland): Material Texts Colloquium:on bookmaking after Adobe - February 22, 2018
- Benedict Stork, Seattle University: Images of Police and the Inscription of Fear - February 16, 2018
- Jane K. Brown, Joff Hanauer Distinguished Professor for Western Civilization Emerita: The Biedermeier Goethe: Altersstil and Zeitalterstil - February 9, 2018
- Christophe Schuwey (Fribourg): Material Texts Colloquium: on book markets in 17th-century France - January 22, 2018
- Sarah Ross, University of Washington: 'The Treachery of Images' and Videographic Criticism - November 17, 2017
- Belinda Qian He, University of Washington: Curating Counter-revolution: Pidouhui, Image and the Politics of Exposure in Maoist China - November 16, 2017
- Yael Rice (Amherst): Material Texts Colloquium: on imitability and the Mughal album - November 6, 2017
- Professor Gordana P. Crnkovic: Lecture at the Frye Museum "On Love and Books" - November 2, 2017
- Linda K. Hughes (Texas Christian U): Material Texts Colloquium:on transnational print and fixed verse form - October 30, 2017
- Yuri Cowan (NTNU, Norway): Material Texts Colloquium: on the library and the Kelmscott Press - October 16, 2017
- Eric Hayot, Comparative Literature and Asian Studies, Penn State University: Why Humanists Should Care About Information as a Concept - October 13, 2017
- Scott Trudell (University of Maryland): You can never bring in a wall': A Midsummer Night's Dream as Media Theory - May 23, 2017
- Stephen Groening: Electric Communities: Television from 1879 to 1935 - May 19, 2017
- Professor Rachel Sagner Buurma, Swarthmore College: "The Preparation of the Victorian Novel and the Preparation of the Topic Model." - April 27, 2017
- Professor Freancesca Orsini (SOAS University of London): Awadh as World Literature - April 20, 2017
- Lauren Berliner: Festival Curating in (In)Appropriate Times - March 9, 2017
- Robert L. Caserio: Cryonic Modernism, Cryonic History: Troubling the Periodization of a Literary Era - February 28, 2017
- Maureen Gosling: Bamako Chic: A Quest for Alternative Visions of Africa - February 17, 2017
- Maureen Gosling: Dreams and Fires - Experiences in Documentary Filmmaking in Latin America - February 16, 2017
- MaNishtana: Truth, Justice, and the American (Oy) Vey: The Significance of the Jewish Influence on Comic Books. - January 25, 2017
- John Lear, Professor in History, University of Puget Sound: Picturing the Proletariat: Artists and Labor in Revolutionary Mexico, 1908-1940 - January 25, 2017
- Eric Gidal: "Eco-Philology: Literary Studies in a Collapsing World." - January 11, 2017
- James Tweedie: Design Thinking and Classical Hollywood Cinema - November 18, 2016
- Donald Gilbert-Santamaría: Reprising the Romantic Approach to Don Quixote - November 18, 2016
- Shapereader: Comics for the Blind. A presentation by Ilan Manouach - November 3, 2016
- David Damrosch: Distant Close Reading: Problems of Language, Context, and Politics - October 21, 2016
- Yomi Braester: The Last Refuge: Chinese and Jewish Refugees in Wartime Shanghai - April 7, 2016
- Esther Allen (Baruch College, CUNY): The Perils of Polyglossia - February 22, 2016
- Dr. Russell Berman, Stanford University: Zionism, the Novel, and Contemporary Debates - November 17, 2015
- Ricardo de Mambro Santos: Clouds in the Mirror. Remarks on the Early Biographies of Leonardo Da Vinci - November 17, 2015
- Cinema Dissection: Aguirre, the Wrath of God - November 14, 2015
- Gabriella Safran (Stanford University): Authenticity, Complaint, and the 'Russianness' of American Jewish Literature - November 2, 2015
- Cinema Dissection: Night of the Living Dead - October 31, 2015
- Valerie Henitiuk, MacEwan University: Memory Is So Different Now: Thoughts on the Translation of Inuit Literature - October 26, 2015
- Christopher Pinney, University College of London: Destroying the Negatives: M.N. Srinivas, India's Villages, and Photography - October 1, 2015
- Stroum Lecture by Dr. Ruth Behar - People: Longing and Reinvention - May 20, 2015
- Stroum Lecture by Dr. Ruth Behar - Places: Loss and Memory - May 18, 2015
- Modern Language Quarterly Conference: Histories & Futures of Reading: On digital approaches to literary history - May 15, 2015 to May 16, 2015
- Janice Radway (Northwestern): Histories and Futures of Reading: On girl zine networks - May 14, 2015
- Scott Bukatman: On Hellboy, Color, and the Materiality of Reading - May 8, 2015
- Nicholas Paige (Berkeley): Histories & Futures of Reading: On small data and the novel - April 20, 2015
- Priya Joshi (Temple): Histories & Futures of Reading: On reading culture in the making - February 26, 2015
- Stanley Corngold, Professor of German, Princeton University: "Feeling": a Keyword in 18th-Century German Aesthetics, with Special Attention to Goethe’s Werther and More. - February 11, 2015
- Jerome McGann (Virginia): Histories & Futures of Reading: On the new republic of letters - January 29, 2015
- Christina Lupton (Warwick): Histories & Futures of Reading: On immersing networks in time - January 14, 2015
- Andrew Stauffer (Virginia): Histories & Futures of Reading: On book traces in the stacks - November 21, 2014
- Prof. Dirk Uffelmann: Sorokin’s Cuisine - September 29, 2014
- Megan Sweeney (English and Afroamerican & African Studies, Michigan): Histories and Futures of the Book: "Life Sentences: Women Prisoners Reflect on Reading" - May 20, 2014
- Ann Blair (History, Harvard University): Histories and Futures of the Book: "In the Workshop of the Mind: Collaborative Relationships in Early Modern Europe" - May 14, 2014
- Agnieszka Taborska (Rhode island School of Design): Femmes Fatales Figures in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Western Art - May 1, 2014
- Lawrence Kritzman (Dartmouth): Malraux's Death Sentences - April 25, 2014
- Lawrence Kritzman (Dartmouth): The Future of French and the Future of the Humanities - April 24, 2014
- Melek Ortabasi: Traditionally Modern: Folklore Studies, Nation, Japan - April 15, 2014
- George Bornstein (English, University of Michigan), Matt Cohen (English, University of Texas), Geroge Hutchinson (English, Cornell University) : Histories and Futures of the Book Lecture Series: "Racial and Textual Publics" - March 21, 2014
- Sheldon Pollock (South Asian Studies, Columbia University): Histories and Futures of the Book Lecture Series: "The History of Philology and the Practice of Philology" - March 21, 2014
- Johanna Drucker (Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles): Histories and Futures of the Book Lecture Series: "Rule-bound and Unruly: Ephemeral Documents and Conditional Texts" - March 20, 2014
- Elaine Treharne (English, Stanford University): Histories and Futures of the Book Lecture Series: "Latent Adjacencies in Manuscript and Digital Technologies" - March 13, 2014
- Andrew Piper (German and European Literature, McGill University): Histories and Futures of the Book Lecture Series: "Reading's Refrain: From Bibliographic to Topological Reading" - March 11, 2014
- James Tweedie, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature & Cinema Studies: The Age of New Waves: Art Cinema and the Staging of Globalization (Oxford UP, 2013) - January 28, 2014
- Meredith McGill (English, Rutgers University): Histories and Futures of the Book Lecture Series:"Literary History, Book History, and Media Studies" - January 16, 2014
- Leah Price (Harvard): Histories and Futures of the Book: On reading after paper - December 2, 2013
- Ulrike Stark (Chicago): Histories and Futures of the Book: On print modernity in colonial India - November 15, 2013
- Tung-Hui Hu (Michigan): Histories and Futures of the Book: On "leaks" and the ideology of the cloud - October 3, 2013
- Maurice Fitzpatrick (Lecturer in English, University of Cologne): "Nationahood and Statehood in Brian Friel's Translations" - September 30, 2013
- Sudhir Mahadevan to host Cine Club on June 24 - June 24, 2013
- Sameh Zoabi: “Palestinian Cinema: Politics, Production & Distribution” - June 7, 2013
- Persepctives on Disability in Comics: From Silver Age to the Digital Age - June 7, 2013
- Andre Piper (McGill): Histories and Futures of the Book: On network analysis and literary history - March 11, 2013
- Noah Isenberg, Director of Screen Studies, The New School, NYC: Traces of a Viennese Childhood: Uncovering the Early Life and Career of Edgar G. Ulme - February 15, 2013
- Kathy Lavezzo (University of Iowa): "Shifting Geographies of Antisemitism: Thomas of Monmouth's 'Life and Miracles of St. William of Norwich'" - October 26, 2012
- Jonathan Culler (Cornell University): "Theory of the Lyric" - October 18, 2012
- Herbert Blau (University of Washington): "Virtually Yours: Presence, Liveness, Lessness" - October 16, 2012
- Timothy Snyder (Yale University): "Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin" - May 23, 2012
- Brian Boyd (University of Auckland): "Why Lyrics Last: Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeare's Sonnets" - April 23, 2012
- Lorraine K. Stock (University of Houston): "The Transformation of Robin Hood and the Medieval Wild Man on the 1598 London Stage: Primitivism and Masculinity in Anthony Munday’s Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington and Shakespeare’s (?) Mucedorus" - March 13, 2012
- Marta L. Werner (D'Youville College): “‘Suddenly Everything Went Blue’: Late Style in Hannah Weiner’s The Book of Revelations” - March 1, 2012
- Sima Daad (University of Washington): "Medieval Texts, Modern Contexts: Ketāb-e Chahār Maqāla , Mohammad Qazvini, and Persian Textual Criticism" - February 24, 2012
- Michelangelo Zaccarello (University of Verona): "Defining Text in the Italian Renaissance: Authorial Intention, Editorial Revision, Reading Demand" - February 9, 2012
- Russell Berman (Stanford University): "The Integrity of Fiction: Imaginative Literature in a Culture of Realism" - February 7, 2012
- Robert Faggen (Claremont McKenna College): "Milosz and the American Poets He Loved. . . and Hated" - January 11, 2012
- Wendy Brown (University of California, Berkeley): "The Weakness of One: Devolution, Responsibilisation, and Citizenship in Neoliberal Rationality" - November 17, 2011
- Roy Chan (College of William and Mary): "Homeless in the World: War, Narrative, and Historical Consciousness in Eileen Chang, Gyorgy Lukacs and Lev Tolstoy" - November 4, 2011
- Fernando Fabio Sanchez (Portland State University): "In War and Peace, from Documentary to Artistic Cinema: The Mexican Revolution on Film (1911-1935)" - November 19, 2010
- Adam Potkay (College of William and Mary): Hanauer Lecture: The Moral Sublime - November 4, 2010
- "Return to Democracy or Constant Crisis? Polish Cinema after 1989" - April 14, 2010
- Sergio de la Mora (UC Davis): "Sexuality and Violence in Contemporary Mexican Film" - November 19, 2009
- Francisco Goldman: Walker-Ames Lecture: "The Art of Political Murder" - October 27, 2009