events

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.

Newhouse Center fellow Mary Kate McGowan (Margaret Clapp '30 Distinguished Alumna Professor of Philosophy) offers accounts of different types of silencing and how they undermine the complex art of communication. 

Environmental Studies professor and Knapp Faculty Fellow Jay Turner will examine the current debates and future prospects for a clean energy future. 

In the inaugural event of 2020-2021's Newhouse at Home lecture series, Professor Larry Rosenwald (English, Peace and Justice Studies) will provide an account of pacifist criticism.

Emma Teng (MIT) examines the conflicted position of Chinese students – disempowered by race yet empowered by class status – under Chinese Exclusion (1882-1943), and the means through which Chinese fought for their rights.