Past Events

2012-13 Academic Year

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Debo Band
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 - 8:00pm
Tanner Lectures
Representative Democracy: The Constitutional Theory of Campaign Finance Reform
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 4:00pm
Thursday, May 2, 2013 - 4:00pm
Friday, May 3, 2013 - 10:00am
Arts and Ideas
The Humanities and the Future of the University
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 4:00pm
Volkswagen Fellowship Symposia
Right and Subjectivity: Reflections on a Precarious Relationship
Saturday, April 20, 2013 - 10:00am
Arts and Ideas
Proust and the Arts
Saturday, April 20, 2013 - 9:00am
Arts and Ideas
Confronting Evil: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Saturday, April 20, 2013 - 9:00am
Arts and Ideas
Proust and the Arts
Friday, April 19, 2013 - 9:00pm
Arts and Ideas
Confronting Evil: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Friday, April 19, 2013 - 4:00pm
Volkswagen Fellowship Symposia
Right and Subjectivity: Reflections on a Precarious Relationship
Friday, April 19, 2013 - 2:30pm
Arts and Ideas
Workshop on Mathematics, Philosophy, and Literature
Friday, April 12, 2013 - 9:00am
Arts and Ideas
Mathematics, Philosophy, and Literature
Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 4:00pm
The Rita E. Hauser Forum for the Arts
Film Screening of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Mira Nair in conversation with Homi K. Bhabha
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 4:00pm
Volkswagen Fellowship Symposia
Mining Imagination: Ethnographic Approaches Beyond Knowledge Production
Saturday, April 6, 2013 - 9:00am
Volkswagen Fellowship Symposia
Mining Imagination: Ethnographic Approaches Beyond Knowledge Production
Friday, April 5, 2013 - 4:00pm
Grad Student Conferences
Imaging the Ineffable: Representation and Reality in Religion and Film
Sunday, March 31, 2013 - 9:00am
Grad Student Conferences
Imaging the Ineffable: Representation and Reality in Religion and Film
Saturday, March 30, 2013 - 9:00am
Grad Student Conferences
Imaging the Ineffable: Representation and Reality in Religion and Film
Friday, March 29, 2013 - 5:30pm
Arts and Ideas
Symposium on Cultural Citizenship
Saturday, March 9, 2013 - 2:00pm
Book Events
D.T. Max on David Foster Wallace
Monday, December 10, 2012 - 6:00pm
Arts and Ideas
Michael Walzer on Asymmetric War
Monday, December 3, 2012 - 6:00pm
Arts and Ideas
Arab Spring In the Fall
Thursday, November 29, 2012 - 6:00pm
Medical Humanities
Celebration in Honor of Charles Rosenberg
Monday, November 26, 2012 - 6:00pm
Book Events
Democratic Origins: India and the United States
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 6:00pm
"20" Questions
Roger Chartier on When and Why Do Literary Manuscripts Survive?
Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 5:15pm
Arts and Ideas
Classical Music in Crisis: A Panel Discussion
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 - 5:15pm
Arts and Ideas
Screening of Jai Bhim Comrade and discussion with Anand Patwardhan
Friday, October 5, 2012 - 4:00pm
Arts and Ideas
Screening and discussion of Death and the Civil War
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 7:00pm

2011-12 Academic Year

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Tanner Lectures
Esther Duflo on "Human Values and the Design of the Fight against Poverty"
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 4:00pm
Volkswagen Fellowship Symposia
Demonic Technologies: Walter Benjamin and the Return of Religion in the Study of Technology
Saturday, April 28, 2012 - 9:15am
Volkswagen Fellowship Symposia
Demonic Technologies: Walter Benjamin and the Return of Religion in the Study of Technology
Friday, April 27, 2012 - 4:30pm
Norton Lectures
William Kentridge on "Drawing Lesson Six: Anti-Entropy"
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 4:00pm
Norton Lectures
Q&A with William Kentridge
Monday, April 23, 2012 - 7:30pm
Volkswagen Fellowship Symposia
Exchange along the Silk Roads between Rome and China in Antiquity: The Silk Trade
Saturday, April 21, 2012 - 9:00am
Volkswagen Fellowship Symposia
Exchange along the Silk Roads between Rome and China in Antiquity: The Silk Trade
Friday, April 20, 2012 - 4:00pm
The Rita E. Hauser Forum for the Arts
Ian McEwan on "The Lever: Where Novelists Stand to Move the World"
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 3:30pm
Norton Lectures
William Kentridge on "Drawing Lesson Five: In Praise of Mistranslation"
Monday, April 16, 2012 - 4:00pm
Grad Student Conferences
How to End a Revolution: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Saturday, April 14, 2012 - 8:30am
Grad Student Conferences
How to End a Revolution: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Friday, April 13, 2012 - 9:00am
Undergrad Events
A conversation with Chad Harbach '97
Monday, April 9, 2012 - 6:00pm
Volkswagen Fellowship Symposia
Palace and Temple In the Late Bronze Age of the Ancient Near East
Saturday, April 7, 2012 - 9:00am
Volkswagen Fellowship Symposia
Palace and Temple In the Late Bronze Age of the Ancient Near East
Friday, April 6, 2012 - 4:30pm
Lecture by Claude Lanzmann
Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 6:00pm
Norton Lectures
William Kentridge on "Drawing Lesson One: In Praise of Shadows"
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - 4:00pm
Undergrad Events
Interview with Linda Greenhouse
Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 6:00pm
Master Classes
Ingrid Monson on John Coltrane
Monday, February 27, 2012 - 6:00pm
"20" Questions
Steven Pinker on Violence
Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 6:00pm
Master Classes
Sugata Bose on the Late Phase of Tagore
Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 6:00pm
"20" Questions
Chris Hedges on Death of the Liberal Class
Monday, November 28, 2011 - 6:00pm
"20" Questions
Christie McDonald and Susan Suleiman on French Global
Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 6:00pm
Tenth Anniversary Observance of 9.11
"...And Who Is My Neighbor...?"
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 6:00pm
Tenth Anniversary Observance of 9.11
The Art of Survival: A Tenth Anniversary Observance of 9/11 in Words, Music, and Dance
Sunday, September 11, 2011 - 4:00pm

2010-11 Academic Year

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Volkswagen Fellowship Symposia
"Theorizing the Commonwealth"
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 - 9:00am
Tanner Lectures
James Scott on “Four Domestications: Fire, Plants, Animals and…Us”
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 - 4:00pm
Thursday, May 5, 2011 - 4:00pm
Friday, May 6, 2011 - 10:00am
Volkswagen Fellowship Symposia
"The Making of Religion? Re-Describing Religious Change in Pre-modern Europe"
Friday, April 29, 2011 - 4:00pm
Saturday, April 30, 2011 - 9:30am
Master Classes
Hugh Haughton on Auden's "In Memory of W.B Yeats"
Monday, April 18, 2011 - 6:00pm
Volkswagen Fellowship Symposia
Politeia: Greek Citizenship in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
Saturday, April 16, 2011 - 10:00am
Volkswagen Fellowship Symposia
Politeia: Greek Citizenship in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
Friday, April 15, 2011 - 3:15pm
Master Classes
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth on Francois Boucher's "Breakfast"
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 12:19pm
Arts and Ideas
Intangibles: Immaterial Vectors, Agents, and Effects
Friday, April 1, 2011 - 4:30pm
Book Events
Svetlana Boym on Another Freedom: The Alternative History of an Idea
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - 5:00pm
"20" Questions
James Kloppenberg on Obama
Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 6:00pm
Arts and Ideas
In the LIfe of Cities...Parallel Narratives of the Urban
Friday, March 4, 2011 - 3:00pm
Collaborations with the A.R.T.
Panel Discussion on Prometheus Bound
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 - 5:00pm
Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities 2.0
Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 6:00pm
Collaborations with the A.R.T.
Post-Performance Discussion of The Blue Flower
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 9:45pm
Medical Humanities
Caregiving: A Medical Humanities Symposium
Monday, December 6, 2010 - 4:00pm
Legal Humanities
After Brown, What Next?
Saturday, December 4, 2010 - 1:30pm
Legal Humanities
Ronald Dworkin on "Truth in Interpretation"
Friday, December 3, 2010 - 4:00pm
"20" Questions
Charles Fried and Gregory Fried on Because it is Wrong
Monday, November 8, 2010 - 6:00pm
The Regional and the Global
Serge Gruzinski on "What Time is it There?"
Tuesday, November 2, 2010 - 6:00pm
Book Events
Alan Riding on And the Show Went on
Monday, October 25, 2010 - 6:00pm
Book Events
"Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies: Consequences of Skeptcism"
Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 6:30pm
Master Classes
Richard Tuck on Jeremy Bentham
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 - 6:00pm
Arts and Ideas
Geoffrey Harpham on "How America Invented the Humanities"
Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 6:00pm
Undergrad Events
Linda Schlossberg on Teenage Wastelands
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 5:00pm
Collaborations with the A.R.T.
Panel Discussion on Cabaret
Monday, September 20, 2010 - 6:30pm

2009-10 Academic Year

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Arts and Ideas
Deconstructing the Dumpling
Monday, May 10, 2010 - 6:00pm
Volkswagen Fellowship Symposia
Cultural Transfer in the Mediterranean, 5th-9th Centuries
Saturday, May 8, 2010 - 9:00am
Age of Terror
Guantanamo on Trial
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - 6:00pm
The Church of What's Happening Now: New Art, New Artists
Allan Sekula in conversation with Homi Bhabha and Benjamin Buchloh
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - 6:00pm
Legal Humanities
Jeannie Suk on "The Trajectory of Trauma: Bodies and Minds in Abortion Discourse"
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 6:00pm
Undergrad Events
"The Next Movement"
Monday, April 12, 2010 - 6:30pm
Arts and Ideas
The Environmental Turn in Literary and Cultural Studies
Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 6:15pm
"20" Questions
Michael Sandel on Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - 1:25pm
Arts and Ideas
Can We Leave the Bauxite in the Mountain? Field Notes on Democracy
Thursday, April 1, 2010 - 5:00pm
Volkswagen Fellowship Symposia
Early Modern Reformations: Religion, Literature, Aesthetics
Saturday, March 27, 2010 - 9:30am
The Church of What's Happening Now: New Art, New Artists
Andrea Fraser in conversation with Marjorie Garber and Helen Molseworth
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 6:00pm
Volkswagen Fellowship Symposia
Ideas and Practices of Commonwealths
Friday, February 26, 2010 - 9:00am
The Church of What's Happening Now: New Art, New Artists
Lorna Simpson in conversation with Robin Kelsey and Helen Molesworth
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 6:00pm
Arts and Ideas
Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm and the Enlightenment
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 6:00pm
Book Events

Symposium: Amartya Sen on The Idea of Justice

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 3:30pm
Book Events
Counter-Composition: Conversations on Ethics
Monday, November 30, 2009 - 6:00pm
Tanner Lectures
Jonathan Lear on "Irony and Identity"
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 4:12pm