Events
Events
Okinawa Memories Initiative Graduate Student Roundtable
Virtual EventMark your calendars for the Okinawa Memories Initiative’s “Graduate Student Talk” featuring a round-table discussion with graduate student team members. Join us at 4:30PM on April 2nd, for a conversation centering around their work with OMI, graduate research in History, and working in the humanities. The panel will feature OMI team members: Alexyss “Lex” Mclellan, […]
How to Live Like Shakespeare
Virtual EventThis series of noontime conversations will feature key passages by Shakespeare, selected for what they reveal about life and living. What are the virtues or capacities that Shakespeare took to […]
Abolition Beyond the State w/ Sadie Barnette, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Zoé Samudzi, and Eric Stanley
Virtual EventWhat role can the arts take in the movement to abolish prisons in addition to abolishing the society that upholds them? How can art and culture elevate other ways of […]
Ben Kafka — The Effort to Drive the Other Person Crazy
Virtual EventWhat does it mean to be driven crazy? By a parent, a professor, a president, perhaps even the internet itself? In 1959 the psychoanalyst Harold Searles published a paper in […]
Dwaipan Banerjee – The Aesthetics of Postcolonial Science: Art and Physics in 1950s Bombay
Virtual EventDwaipayan Banerjee is Associate Professor in the department of Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. He is the author of two books, Hematologies - The Political Life of Blood in […]
Living Writers: Andrea Abi-Karam with Literature Graduate Student Madison McCartha
Virtual EventAndrea Abi-Karam is an arab-american genderqueer punk poet-performer cyborg, writing on the art of killing bros, the intricacies of cyborg bodies, trauma & delayed healing. Their chapbook, THE AFTERMATH (Commune Editions, 2016), attempts to queer Fanon’s vision of how poetry fails to inspire revolution. Under the full Community Engagement Scholarship, Andrea received their MFA in […]
PhD+ Workshop – Memory Work: Oral History as Toolkit for Creating a Living & Making an Impact
Virtual EventMemory Work: Oral History as Toolkit for Creating a Living & Making an Impact Join oral historian Cameron Vanderscoff to discuss the practice of oral history in times of crisis. “Memory Work” will explore the potential of the oral history toolkit for your own career and for social impact. This talk will share the practical […]
Kathryn Davidson Linguistics Colloquium
Virtual EventFor more information, please see the Linguistics Department Colloquia page.
How to Live Like Shakespeare
Virtual EventThis series of noontime conversations will feature key passages by Shakespeare, selected for what they reveal about life and living. What are the virtues or capacities that Shakespeare took to […]
Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist
Virtual EventNPR science reporter Lulu Miller will discuss her fantastic nonfiction debut Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss. Love, and the Hidden Order of Life (available in paperback on […]