Past Events
"Hyenas" is the story of a return to one's homeland that quickly becomes tragic. After years away, an older woman returns home to Colobane, near Dakar.
Speaker(s): Wai Chee Dimock (Yale), Colin Milburn (Davis), John Plotz (Brandeis)
This is a new graduate student reading group for the discussion of recent scholarship which applies digital humanities methodologies to literary texts.
Speaker(s): Christian Moser, David Murillo, Elixabete Ansa, Elsie Michie, Germán Labrador, Jan Söffner, Simona Škrabec, Till Förster
Speaker(s): Katharina Piechocki (Harvard)
Contemporary art has been the name not just for any art coming chronologically after modern art, but for art responding to its time.
Speaker(s): Paolo Galluzzi (Museo Galileo, Florence and History Department Kratter Visiting Professor)
Speaker(s): Hannah LeBlanc (PhD candidate in History)