events

In this open class session of PHIL 221, Professor Dwight K. Lewis, Jr. (University of Central Florida) examines the life and times of Anton Wilhelm Amo (1703-1758), the first African person to receive a PhD in philosophy.

What should we do, think, and feel when artists we love do terrible things? Should work be available for consumption, or should it be “canceled?” Wellesley’s Erich Matthes offers an argument based on his ongoing research.

How does the evolution of humor shift over time? When does controversial humor become socially acceptable, and when does it cease to be acceptable? Newhouse Center fellow Veronika Fuechtner (Dartmouth College) offers an explanation.

A poetry reading by Octavio González, assistant professor of English. Limerence is the psychological term for passionate love. The book is based on a doomed love affair.

In this open class session, Professor Natali Valdez (Women's and Gender Studies) will discuss her current book project, in which she examines the social and political implications of clinical trials on pregnant populations. 

In this open class session, Professor Antonio Arraiza Rivera (Spanish Dept.) will discuss contents of his current book project on early modern poetry and depictions of writing in the Iberian Peninsula.

In collaboration with the January Project, Pulitzer Prize nominee and National Book Award finalist Laila Lalami joins us for a virtual reading and a conversation with Newhouse Center Director Eve Zimmerman. 

Newhouse Center fellow Sara Kippur (Associate Professor of French, Trinity College) will host a presentation on her ongoing research project, a transatlantic literary history of postwar French literature.

In this open class session, Knapp Faculty Fellow Petra Rivera-Rideau (American Studies) presents on her ongoing research.

Newhouse Center fellow and WGST professor Elena Creef presents a visual record of a sacred, weeklong Native American Prayer Ride in commemoration of General Custer's defeat at Greasy Grass, aka Little Bighorn, in 1876.