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Conversation with Jennifer Lunden, author of American Breakdown
Virtual EventJoin us on Friday, May 3 at 12:00PM for a virtual webinar with Jennifer Lunden, author of AMERICAN BREAKDOWN: Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life. A Silent Spring for the human body, this wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves the author’s quest to understand the […]
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Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Fourteen – Global Perspectives, Part 1: Paradiso in World Literature & Culture
Virtual EventDante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary, theological, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire […]
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Santa Cruz Pickwick Club
Virtual EventPlease join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our monthly Pickwick Club meeting. New this year, we will be devoting an entire year to one novel instead of two, and will dive deeply into Great Expectations. Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members for a series of discussions about […]
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Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Thirteen – Early Receptions
Virtual EventDante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary, theological, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire […]
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PhD+ Workshop – Creative Academic Publishing With Robin James
Virtual EventThis is an Arts Research Institute (ARI) workshop on creative academic publishing with Robin James. Robin James is an author and former academic, currently working as Editor of Philosophy, Literary Theory, and Music & Sound Studies at Palgrave Macmillan. She will conduct a workshop for junior scholars interested in turning their ideas into a successful […]
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Victorian Gaslighting with Professor Nora Gilbert
Virtual EventPlease join the Friends of the Dickens Project for our spring Friends Faculty Fellowship talk series by Associate Professor Nora Gilbert (University of North Texas) who will be discussing “Victorian Gaslighting” As someone who co-specializes in Victorian literature and early Hollywood film, I’ve long been a fan of the darkly disturbing 1944 film Gaslight starring […]
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Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Twelve – Flower of Humanity: The Vergin Mary in Paradiso
Virtual EventDante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary, theological, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire […]
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Santa Cruz Pickwick Club
Virtual EventPlease join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our monthly Pickwick Club meeting. New this year, we will be devoting an entire year to one novel instead of two, and will dive deeply into Great Expectations. Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members for a series of discussions about […]
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Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode 11 – The End of Imagination (Paradiso 33)
Virtual EventDante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary, theological, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire […]
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Slugs and Steins with Pranav Anand
Virtual EventPranav Anand joins Slugs and Steins to deliver his talk titled "Language Models: A Selective History and Notes on the Future." Drawing on the Humanities Division's Humanizing Technology curriculum, will highlight some of the history of language models now ascendant in systems like ChatGPT. We will wend our way from early cryptography through the beginnings […]