events

Professor Leah Price (Rutgers University) discusses her recent work, What We Talk About When We Talk About Books (2019), in which she demonstrates that the death of reading has been greatly exaggerated.

Newhouse Fellow Hélène Bilis explores competing plays on the same subject by different playwrights and the lessons on authorship, influence, and literary prestige these literary contests reveal.

Film screenings and discussions of the importance of representation in film and the opportunities independent films offer marginalized communities as they seek to tell their own stories.

This event will explore and highlight contributions to the education of women in Spain early in the 20th century.

Poets Martín Espada and Yara Liceaga-Rojas join us for readings from their latest works. This event will feature poetry and conversation in both English and Spanish.

Have you ever wondered what a mind actually is? Join us for a cross-disciplinary conversation about historical and contemporary attempts to answer this question.

Author, professor, and 2019 MacArthur Foundation fellow Saidiya Hartman joins us for a discussion of her latest work.

Newhouse Fellow Hiromu Nagahara discusses how Japan’s political elites fell in love with English culture even as they sought to displace British hegemony in Asia.

In this unique lecture-demonstration, featuring performers from Japan's most renowned chindon-ya troupe, ethnomusicologist Marié Abe shows how this seemingly innocuous and obsolete form of musical labor has gained traction in modern Japan.

Are immigrants as welcome in Ireland as citizens claim? Newhouse Fellow Sarah Townsend unearths the secret history of Irish-American assimilation that haunts race relations in Ireland today.