events

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.

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.