Events
Humanities 1, Room 202
Events at this venue
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Jacqueline Gallant – Law For a More-Than-Human World
Humanities 1, Room 202Jackie Gallant will join the More-Than-Human(ities) Lab to discuss her work with the More-Than-Human Life (MOTH) Program, an interdisciplinary initiative dedicated to the advancement of rights and well-being for humans, nonhumans, and the web of life that sustains us all. The Program has two primary goals. First, using the tools of the law, MOTH offers answers […]
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Bridging Divides in Oral and Written Language Research: Development and Disorders in Bilingual Learners
Humanities 1, Room 202Please join the LAAL (Languages & Applied Linguistics) Department for a presentation titled, "Bridging Divides in Oral and Written Language Research: Development and Disorders in Bilingual Learners" by Jiali Wang (Texas A&M University) on Thursday, May 14, at 2:00, in Hum 1, 202. Although oral and written language tap into many overlapping underlying skills, the […]
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Slow Seminar: More-than-Human Water Engineers
Humanities 1, Room 202The Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) at University of California, Santa Cruz and Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA) invite you to join us for our Spring Slow Seminar "More-than-Human Water Engineers" Professor Anna Tsing (Anthropology, UCSC) will facilitate our conversation drawing on a selection of scholarship on more-than-human water engineering in […]
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Bibliography as Biography – Recovering Early-Nineteenth-Century Latinx Figures
Humanities 1, Room 202The lecture will focus on the history of Spanish-language writing and publishing in the United States with particular attention to a New York publisher in the early nineteenth century. Carmen E. Lamas is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature, […]
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Documentación Lingüística en México
Humanities 1, Room 202Please join us for a presentation on "Children's role in Language Documentation Efforts in Mexico". Cuando realizamos proyectos de documentación lingüística, nos encontramos con niñas y niños que quieren participar en alguna actividad del proceso de documentación, sean o no hablantes o sean hablantes de herencia. Su colaboración es valiosa en los proyectos porque aportan […]
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Latinos, Language, and Change in New Destination Communities of the U.S. South
Humanities 1, Room 202The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to invite you to a talk with Dr. Stephen Fafulas (University of Mississippi). The U.S. South has emerged as a major new destination for Latino populations, reshaping local communities in ways that are still not fully understood. In this talk, I draw on over a decade […]
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Elemental Encounters with Cymene Howe
Humanities 1, Room 202 +1 moreCymene Howe, the final guest of the Winter 2026 HistCon Research Colloquium will be joining us next week to give her talk “Elemental Encounters: how water, ice and fire + earth, spin and chemicals become us”. From chemical relations to the sweep of stormfronts, the elements render a series of sensory, scientific and semiotic coordinates […]
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More-Than-Humanities Lab Reading Group: Against Purity
Humanities 1, Room 202Please join the More-Than-Human(ities) Lab for our winter book club meeting. We will be discussing Alexis Shotwell’s book Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, which offers a framework for conceiving of our own complicity in the presence of toxicity, climate change, and other ongoing crises. Event attendees will be expected to have read the book. […]
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Timescape of Rings with Stephen David Engel
Humanities 1, Room 202 +1 moreStephen David Engel will read from an experimental history called “Timescape of Rings.” In it, he meditates on a 2,200-year-old redwood round with markers for historical events affixed to its rings—the birth of Jesus, the invention of gunpowder, the drafting of the Magna Carta, and on. By running his fingers over the rings, he recalls […]
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Restitution Beyond Return – Who names the Objects in Museums?
Humanities 1, Room 202The Department of History invites you to join their talk about African Arts, Western Museums, and the debate over restitution. This lecture examines restitution as an ethical and epistemic process that goes beyond the physical return of objects from Western museums to African institutions. While repatriation often functions as a diplomatic practice, restitution is framed […]