Arts and Ideas

On Distraction

Thursday, November 29, 2018 - 6:00pm

Jacqueline Rose, Professor of Humanities and Co-Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities

The Legacy: Political Protest and the Denial of History

Thursday, November 15, 2018 - 6:00pm

Sari Nusseibeh in Conversation with Homi Bhabha on Jerusalem: What Sharing a City Means

Tuesday, October 30, 2018 - 6:00pm

The Afterlives of Frankenstein: Extinction, Emergence, and the Haunted Screen

Friday, October 26, 2018 - 10:00am

Native American Studies at Harvard: New Research in Indigenous History, Law, Art, Culture, and Language

Wednesday, March 28, 2018 - 6:00pm

The Words To Say It: Teaching, Writing, and Incarceration

Wednesday, October 25, 2017 - 6:00pm

Jeffrey Hamburger

Mindmapping: Diagrams in the Middle Ages – and Beyond

Thursday, September 28, 2017 - 6:00pm

Rebecca M. Henderson, Harvard University

Reimagining Capitalism: Business, Purpose, and the Big Problems

Thursday, April 13, 2017 - 5:00pm

Culture Beyond Borders: The Roma Contribution

Sunday, April 9, 2017 - 6:30pm

Monday, April 10, 2017 - 9:00am

David Herskovits

Against Mastery: On Knowing and Not-Knowing in the Theater

Tuesday, March 7, 2017 - 6:00pm

Dark and Stormy: Reflections on the Election

Wednesday, November 9, 2016 - 6:00pm

Ann Blair, Harvard University

The Place of the Mechanical in Liberal Studies

Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - 6:00pm

What is Islam? A Symposium in Memory of Shahab Ahmed

Friday, April 29, 2016 - 1:00pm

Criticism and Theory in an Age of Populism: The 40th Anniversary Conference of the School of Criticism and Theory

Friday, April 29, 2016 - 8:45am

Making the Nation Habitable: An Argument with Illustrations from South Asia

Monday, April 25, 2016 - 6:00pm

Celebrating Another Harmony: South Asian Folklore in the 21st Century

Friday, April 8, 2016 - 6:00pm

Saturday, April 9, 2016 - 9:00am

Responses to State Sponsored Collective Injustice

Friday, April 8, 2016 - 9:30am

Global Humanities: A Critical Dialogue

Friday, November 6, 2015 - 2:00pm

Lived Histories and the After-Life of Images

Friday, September 18, 2015 - 6:30pm

Timely Concordances, Untimely Calendars

Tuesday, April 7, 2015 - 6:00pm

Medieval Africa Conference

Thursday, February 5, 2015 - 5:00pm

Friday, February 6, 2015 - 9:00am

Jo Guldi and David Armitage discuss The History Manifesto

Friday, November 21, 2014 - 3:00pm

Dynamic Duos: How Creative Teams Drive the Arts, Science, and Technology

Monday, November 17, 2014 - 7:30pm

The Stirring of Culture: A Conversation about the Arts, Citizenship, and the State

Monday, October 20, 2014 - 6:00pm

Beneath The Killing Fields: In Pursuit of the Truth

Thursday, April 17, 2014 - 6:00pm

Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago

Beyond Capital: The Climate Crisis as a Challenge to Social Thought

Friday, February 7, 2014 - 1:00pm

TRANS ARTS: A Panel and Performance About Trans and Genderqueer Life and Writing Today

Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 4:30pm

"The Unknown Known": A Film on Donald Rumsfeld by Errol Morris

Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 7:00pm

Tagore's Nobel: A Centennial Celebration

Saturday, November 23, 2013 - 4:00pm

Heavenly Imperfection: Galileo's Discovery of Sunspots

Friday, October 4, 2013 - 8:30am

Richard Holmes on "Knocking on Heaven’s Door: Visionary Nineteenth-Century Balloon Flights"

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 6:00pm

The Humanities and the Future of the University

Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 4:00pm

Proust and the Arts

Saturday, April 20, 2013 - 9:00am

Confronting Evil: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Friday, April 19, 2013 - 4:00pm

Saturday, April 20, 2013 - 9:00am

Mathematics, Philosophy, and Literature

Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 4:00pm

Friday, April 12, 2013 - 9:00am

"Realizing Roma Rights: Addressing Violence, Discrimination, and Segregation in Europe"

Monday, April 8, 2013 - 1:30pm

Symposium on Cultural Citizenship

Saturday, March 9, 2013 - 2:00pm

Michael Walzer on Asymmetric War

Monday, December 3, 2012 - 6:00pm

Arab Spring In the Fall

Thursday, November 29, 2012 - 6:00pm

Screening of Jai Bhim Comrade and discussion with Anand Patwardhan

Friday, October 5, 2012 - 4:00pm

Screening and discussion of Death and the Civil War

Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 7:00pm

Anton Shammas on “An Order of Things in Perspective: Optics, Don Quixote, Las Meninas”

Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 5:00pm

Stephen Greenblatt on "Aesthetic Toleration: Lucretius and the Survival of Unacceptable Ideas"

Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 6:00pm

Intangibles: Immaterial Vectors, Agents, and Effects

Friday, April 1, 2011 - 4:30pm

In the LIfe of Cities...Parallel Narratives of the Urban

Friday, March 4, 2011 - 3:00pm

Geoffrey Harpham on "How America Invented the Humanities"

Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 6:00pm

Deconstructing the Dumpling

Monday, May 10, 2010 - 6:00pm

Mary Jacobus on "Achilles' Horses, Twombly's War: Monuments, Mourning, and Mars"

Monday, April 19, 2010 - 6:00pm

The Environmental Turn in Literary and Cultural Studies

Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 6:15pm

Can We Leave the Bauxite in the Mountain? Field Notes on Democracy

Thursday, April 1, 2010 - 5:00pm

Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm and the Enlightenment

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 6:00pm

With the Museum in Mind

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 6:00pm

Multiculturalism or Cosmopolitanism?

Monday, October 5, 2009 - 6:00pm

Sylvia Malloy on "Unfinished Homecomings: Dislocated Memory and the Urge to Return"

Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 6:00pm

Trauma, the Sacred, and the Sublime: Looking Awry at Žižek

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 - 6:00pm

Elaine Scarry on "Imagining Color in Proust and Murasaki"

Thursday, March 5, 2009 - 6:00pm

Simone de Beauvoir: A Centennial Symposium

Friday, February 20, 2009 - 2:00pm

Philosophy and the Black World

Monday, December 8, 2008 - 5:00pm

Feeling after the Way across Borders: Poineering Indian Women Writing in English

Friday, November 21, 2008 - 4:00pm

The Language Murderer

Monday, November 3, 2008 - 6:00pm

A Delicious Revolution

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 6:15pm

Infanticide as patriotism? The Prokne Statue on the Athenian Acropolis

Monday, October 6, 2008 - 6:00pm

Reconstructing (Neo)Confucianism in a 'Glocal' Postmodern and Postcolonial Context

Wednesday, October 1, 2008 - 5:00pm

Cardenio in Motion: A Conversation with Stephen Greenblatt and Charles L. Mee

Monday, May 5, 2008 - 6:00pm

Panel Discussion on Sartre and Camus

Tuesday, December 11, 2007 - 6:00pm

Provostial Lecture by Steven Hyman on "Compulsion and the Brain: Subverting the Concept of Self-Control"

Wednesday, May 9, 2007 - 6:00pm

Conference: Freud--Found in Translation

Saturday, March 3, 2007 - 8:30am

Barry Gewen on The New York Times Book Review as Cultural Gatekeeper

Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 4:00pm

Theda Skocpol on her book What a Mighy Power We Can Be

Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - 6:00pm

A Conversation with Glenn D. Lowry of MOMA

Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 6:00pm

Salman Rushdie in conversation with Homi Bhaha

Monday, November 7, 2005 - 6:00pm