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A poetry reading by Octavio González, assistant professor of Enlgish. Limerence is the psychological term for passionate love. The book is based on a doomed love affair.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cornille Professor Ken Botnick explores the material authorship of the artist book, achieved through the combination of concept, design, material, and production.
Newhouse Fellow Kellie Carter Jackson traces the story of Joseph Laroche to allow us to better understand the possibilities and limitations of black travel in the Titanic moment.
Newhouse Center faculty fellow Carol Dougherty discusses her ongoing research project on the Sophocles play Antigone and the challenges of democracy.
Yalitza Aparicio, the Academy Award-nominated star of the Mexican film Roma (2018), discusses her experience with professors Irene Mata and Codruta Morari.
Newhouse Center faculty fellow Rebecca Summerhays discusses her ongoing research project: the Novel on the Defensive: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, William Paley’s Natural Theology, and the Human Machine.
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.