Events
Week of Events
Sunday, May 17, 2026
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Monday, May 18, 2026
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Tuesday, May 19, 2026
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May 19, 2026 -Privacy’s Defender: Fight Against Digital Surveillance with Cindy Cohn
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May 19, 2026The Deep Read: Faculty Salon on Entangled Life
Privacy’s Defender: Fight Against Digital Surveillance with Cindy Cohn
Cindy Cohn has devoted her life to the fight for digital rights. She’s tangled with federal officials to keep our online conversations secure from the government’s prying eyes, fought to ensure that you are told when your information has been turned over to the government, and argued before judges to protect our right to speak […]
The Deep Read: Faculty Salon on Entangled Life
Join us for a salon-style event at the Hay Barn on campus where our participating Deep Read faculty, Professors Benjamin Breen (History), Gregory Gilbert (Environmental Studies), and Donna Haraway (History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies) will give brief presentations and discuss Entangled Life with the Deep Read community in a Q&A moderated by Deep Read […]
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
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May 20, 2026 -Alyssa Battistoni – Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
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May 20, 20262026 Helene Moglen Lecture in Feminism and Humanities with Donna Haraway – Staying with the Trouble for Still Possible Times
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May 20, 2026 -Film Screening with Raed Rafei – Tripoli: A Tale of Three Cities
Alyssa Battistoni – Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
Co-sponsored by the Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies Although capitalism is typically treated as a force for relentless commodification, it consistently fails to place value on vital aspects of the nonhuman world, whether carbon emissions or entire ecosystems. Free Gifts argues that to understand contemporary ecological problems from biodiversity collapse to climate change, […]
2026 Helene Moglen Lecture in Feminism and Humanities with Donna Haraway – Staying with the Trouble for Still Possible Times
The sky has not fallen - yet. In troubled times, this lecture joins human and more-than-human companion species to ask how to think, really think, without either the apocalyptic violence or salvific comfort of human exceptionalism. Revisiting themes, images, arguments, and collaborations from a lifetime of feminist work and play in science studies, biology, cultural […]
Film Screening with Raed Rafei – Tripoli: A Tale of Three Cities
Pre-Screening Reception: 5:30-7pm, Communications 139 Film Screening: 7-8:30, Communications, Studio C While living abroad, a filmmaker returns to Tripoli, Lebanon, to confront a hometown that once rejected him as a queer child. With a microphone in hand, he walks around coffee shops, public squares, and a park to ask the city's inhabitants about their cultural […]
Thursday, May 21, 2026
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May 21, 2026 -Laura Van Broekhoven – Indigenous-Led Regenerative Partnerships: Reframing Museum Ethics for Reconciliation and Societal Healing
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May 21, 2026 -Living Writers with Terri Witek
Laura Van Broekhoven – Indigenous-Led Regenerative Partnerships: Reframing Museum Ethics for Reconciliation and Societal Healing
For over a decade, the Pitt Rivers Museum has engaged in sustained, collaborative work with Indigenous peoples whose cultural belongings, acquired through histories of dispossession and colonial violence, are now held in Oxford. Part of the work has helped reposition the museum as a site of cultural care rather than a repository of extracted, well-preserved […]
Living Writers with Terri Witek
In Nourishment, Us. Terri Witek (Stetson University Emeritus). Poet/Visual Artist Living Writers Spring 2026: Our Nourishment, US features poets, writers, critics, visual and performance artists, who demonstrate how writing and art enacts around the idea of freedom and the imaginary in the face of the constant threat of terror and erasure. In the presence of […]
Friday, May 22, 2026
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May 22, 2026 -Crowdsourcing Research on Language Variation and Change in Hong Kong
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May 22, 2026 -Vivien Sansour – To Eat Alone is to Die Alone
Crowdsourcing Research on Language Variation and Change in Hong Kong
In this talk, Dr. Yu will present a collaborative research project examining large-scale variation and change in Cantonese in Hong Kong. Using crowdsourcing methodologies, the project collects speech data and survey responses from a broad participant base, alongside systematically designed metalinguistic judgment tasks. By integrating these data sources, the project aims to provide a comprehensive […]
Vivien Sansour – To Eat Alone is to Die Alone
The Seeds of Resurgence cluster presents an artist talk with Vivien Sansour, founder of the Palestinian Heirloom Seed Library. Oftentimes when Palestinian farmers put seeds in the ground, they mutter a quiet prayer, “may we eat and may we feed others”. This and many other linguistically profound sayings provide a lens into a cultural design based […]
Saturday, May 23, 2026
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