Humanities Center 2020 Spring Calendar

MARCH

CANCELED MONDAY, MARCH 16 > 12–1:30 P.M.
>4130 POSVAR HALL
Lecture: Ricardo Klein (University of Valencia, Sociology)

“Development of Street Art as Community”

POSTPONED Tuesday, March 17, 2020 > 6:00 P.M.
>Center for Creativitiy 
 "Creating into Archival Gaps: An Interactive Art and Poetry Workshop"
Lauren Russell (CAAP) and Sarah Stefana Smith (American University, Department of Art)

POSTPONED Visiting Fellow: Emily Greenwood (Yale University, Classics)
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18 > 4 P.M.

Lecture: “The Grammar of Being Human: Greek Grammar and American Slavery”

POSTPONED THURSDAY, MARCH 19 > 12:30–2 P.M.
Colloquium: “Verso Poetics and the Recyclopedia: Reimagining the Classics with Dionne Brand and Harryette Mullen”
Respondents: Harryette Mullen, author of Sleeping with the Dictionary (UCLA, English) and Dionne Brand, author of The Blue Clerk (University of Guelph, English)

POSTPONED THURSDAY, MARCH 26 > 12:30–2 P.M.
Colloquium: Emily Wanderer (Anthropology)

“There Will Be Blood Boys: Regenerative Medicine, Model Organisms and New Human
Biologies”
Respondents: Brenda Diergaarde (Graduate School of Public Health) and Mari Webel (History)

APRIL

CANCELED WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 > 4:30 P.M.
Environmental Humanities Colloquium: Una Chaudhuri (New York University, English, Drama, and Environmental Studies)

“Enduring Performance: AnthropoScenes”
Respondent: Emily Wanderer (Anthropology)

CANCELED THURSDAY, APRIL 2 > 12:30–2 P.M.
Colloquium: Una Chaudhuri (New York University, English, Drama, and Environmental Studies)

“Climate Lens: Human Stories in a ‘More-than-Human’ Frame”
Respondents: Shelby Brewster (Theatre Arts) and Wendy Arons (CMU, School of Drama)

POSTPONED THURSDAY, APRIL 9 > 12:30–2P.M.
Colloquium: Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra (Penn State University, Comparative Literature)

“The Dictator Novel: Writers and Politics in the Global South”
Respondents: Susan Andrade (English) and Felix Germain (Africana Studies)

POSTPONED THURSDAY, APRIL 16 > 12:30–2 P.M.
Colloquium: Christina Hoenig (Classics)

“St. Augustine on Nature and the Environment”
Respondents: Allen MacDuffie (UT-Austin, English) and Paula Kane (Religious Studies)

POSTPONED APRIL 27-MAY 1 > 11 A.M.–1 P.M.
Humanities Center Summer Seminar: Sharon Marcus
(Columbia University, English and Comparative Literature)

“Critical Methods in the Humanities: Description, Explanation, Evaluation, and Interpretation”