Events
Week of Events
Unintelligible: Noise Against Capture
Graduate student conference exploring the potentials of a critical sound studies. This conference seeks to cultivate an interdisciplinary understanding of the field of Sound Studies by taking up the ubiquitous sonic trope of noise, considering its counter-productive character and how it can be a tactic for critique against the capture of individuals and communities of […]
Sunday, April 15, 2018
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Monday, April 16, 2018
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Tuesday, April 17, 2018
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Wednesday, April 18, 2018
- April 18, 2018 -Mayanthi Fernando: “SuperNatureCulture: Human/Nonhuman Entanglements Beyond the Secular”
Mayanthi Fernando: “SuperNatureCulture: Human/Nonhuman Entanglements Beyond the Secular”
Mayanthi Fernando works on Islam, secularism, and the politics of difference in the North Atlantic. Her current project tracks the secular genealogies of the recent posthumanist turn. Reading this scholarship alongside other traditions of nonhuman ontologies, including Islamic sciences of the unseen, she asks whether we might rethink “natureculture” as “supernatureculture.” Mayanthi Fernando is an associate […]
Thursday, April 19, 2018
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Friday, April 20, 2018
- April 20, 2018 -PhD+ Stephanie Montgomery and Melissa Brzycki: “Podcasting Pop Culture – Engaging Public Audiences in East Asian History”
PhD+ Stephanie Montgomery and Melissa Brzycki: “Podcasting Pop Culture – Engaging Public Audiences in East Asian History”
“Podcasting Pop Culture – Engaging Public Audiences in East Asian History” Stephanie Montgomery and Melissa Brzycki A Special PhD+ Event at the VizWall (DSC, McHenry Library) Consumable anywhere, podcasts have emerged as an important medium for cultural discussions. Join us for a conversation about East Asia for All, a public history podcast that provides nuanced […]
Saturday, April 21, 2018
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