Helen C. White Hall (College Library), Room 6191 600 N. Park Street @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
In this in-person Humanities Without Boundaries talk, Julia Stern reflects on the significance of love and work, Freud’s indices of a life well lived, and on her teaching and scholarship over 30 years. Stern explores how …
Elvehjem Building, Room L160, 800 University Avenue @ 5:00 pm
“In March 2020 I found myself living in the epicenter of a global pandemic with a son whose disabilities put him at high risk of complications. The possibility of medical rationing meant that he might …
Virtual (Zoom) @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
UPDATE: We regret to inform you that we need to cancel tonight’s lecture with Professor Goldsby due to illness. We will reschedule the talk and will provide an update soon. Our apologies for the inconvenience. Jacqueline …
Virtual (Zoom) @ 12:00 pm
In her recent book Complaint!, Sara Ahmed draws on testimonies shared by academics and students who have made complaints about abuses of power such as harassment or bullying or unequal working conditions in universities. In this virtual …
Virtual (Zoom) @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Histories of HIV/AIDS activism have typically focused on public protest. In this virtual Humanities Without Boundaries talk, Stephen Vider will draw on work from his new book, The Queerness of Home, to explore how activists and artists simultaneously …
@ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Since the mid-1990s’, the U.S. federal government has relied on a border enforcement strategy known as “Prevention Through Deterrence.” Using various security infrastructure and techniques of surveillance, this strategy funnels undocumented migrants towards remote and …
Virtual (Zoom) @ 5:00 pm
In this Humanities Without Boundaries talk, Robert Levine will bring to dramatic life Frederick Douglass’s conflicts and interactions with Andrew Johnson during the 1865-1868 period—the years immediately following the Civil War and the years of Johnson’s …
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L160 800 University Avenue @ 5:00 pm
In this Humanities Without Boundaries talk, Dr. Jennifer Ho will share her personal and professional journey as a critical race scholar, anti-Asian racism public intellectual, and anti-racism advocate. Using the current rise in anti-Asian violence as …
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L160, 800 University Avenue @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
How can long-form novels represent the truncated time horizon of imminent death? What can literature teach us about how to inhabit the time between learning we are likely to die and dying? Through a reading …
