events

Author Mira Jacob joins us for a discussion of her latest book, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations.

Eve’s role in the fall of Eden might suggest that women are intrinsically morally corrupt. Newhouse Fellow Julie Walsh contends that what happened in the garden is much more complicated than some believe.

Author and environmental media scholar Hunter Vaughan examines the environmental effects of filmmaking, from Hollywood classics to the digital era, considering how popular screen media shape and reflect our understanding of the natural world.

Newhouse Center faculty fellow Nikki A. Greene discusses her ongoing research project, “Sugar makes me cry”: María Magdalena Campos-Pons and the Performance of Bittersweet Histories.

Join us for a reading from Black Leopard, Red Wolf, followed by a discussion with its award-winning author Marlon James.

Four artists discuss their approaches to indigo—the plant, the dye, the medium, and the historical phenomenon—in their artistic practices.

Newhouse Center faculty fellow Koichi Hagimoto examines the little-known history of the Japanese diaspora in Argentina.

Syrian artist and architect Mohamad Hafez shares a personal view of forced migration through mixed and multi-media sculptures representing Middle Eastern streetscapes and buildings ravaged by civil war. 

Novelist Elizabeth Graver will read from and discuss her novel in progress, a genre-crossing text based on the migration story of her Sephardic grandmother, whose life path took her from Turkey, to Spain, to Cuba, and finally to New York.

Join us for a reading and dialogue with author Valeria Luiselli, author of Tell Me How It Ends, which chronicles the struggle of Central American minors seeking asylum in the United States.