Spring/Summer 2021 Events Spotlight

Humanities Labs

• Spring 2021 – LATS 37 Mural Project with visiting artists (Douglas Moody)
• Summer 2021 – Tango Argentino: Music, Dance, Poetry, Community (Noelia Cirnigliaro)

Events

• Spring 2021 – 2021 White River Indie Film Festival
• April 1 – The Will Eisner Spring Lecture: An Hour with Harry Bliss (The Center for Cartoon Studies and the Hopkins Center for the Arts)
• April 5 -11 – The Police Violence: Global & Local Perspectives Symposium (collaborative project coordinated by Mary Coffey)
• April 8 – The Nahdda & the Haskala: A Comparative Reading of "Revival" & "Reform" with Lital Levy, Princeton University (Susannah Heschel and Tarek El-Ariss)
• April 12 – Their Names are Mine with poet Rajnii Eddins (Medical Humanities Working Group)
• April 15 – The Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame & the Making of the Modern Arab World with Ussama Makdisi, Rice University (Susannah Heschel and Tarek El-Ariss) 
• April 15 – Humanities Institute Public Lecture: Imperial Accounting with Hazel Carby, 2021 Humanities Institute Visiting Fellow (2021 Humanities Institute)
• April 16 – Works and Days: The Diary of Katharine Harris Bradley & Edith Emma Cooper with Carolyn Dever, Dartmouth College (19th Century Working Group)
• April 20 – Anti-Racism Pedagogies & Faculty of Color Retention with Dr. Alaí Reyes-Santos (Xavier Navarro Aquino, ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth College)
• April 29 – The Colonized Semites & the Infectious Disease: Anti-Semitism in the Levant, 1870–1914 with Orit Bashkin, University of Chicago (Susannah Heschel and Tarek El-Ariss)
• April 29 – A Discussion with Ann Goldstein, translator of works by Elena Ferrante, Primo Levi, Elsa Morante, and others (Italian Studies Working Group)
• May 3 – Academic Publishing with the University of Virginia Press (The Leslie Center for the Humanities and Grant GPS)
• May 3 – Diversity and Decolonization in Italian Studies Roundtable Discussion (Graziella Parati)
• May 5 – Psychoanalysis Working Group Meeting with Todd McGowan, on Lacan's essay "The Subversion of the Subject"
• May 13 – The Literary Qur'an: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb with Hoda Al-Shakry, University of Chicago (Susannah Heschel and Tarek El-Ariss)
• May 14 – Countering the Far Right in Translation Symposium (Yuliya Komska)
• May 14 – Funny Dostoevsky: A Bicentennial Celebration Conference (Lynn Patyk)
• May 17 –  Mafias in the Time of Covid-19 with Antonio Nicaso, Queen's University (Italian Studies Working Group)
• May 18 – Decolonizing Environmental Politics: A Discussion with Arturo Escobar (Environmental Humanities)
• May 18 – Reparative Translation with Emily Apter (Tarek El-Ariss)
• May 19 – Psychoanalysis Working Group Meeting with Sally Ackerman, discussing Freud's notion of "the unconscious sense of guilt"
• May 19 – Propaganda and Personality Cults from Mussolini to Trump with Ruth Ben-Ghiat, New York University (Italian Studies Working Group)
• May 20 – Work: An Asia/America Studies Symposium Public Lecture with Neferti Tadiar, Barnard College (Mingwei Huang)
• May 20 – After Jews & Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture with Ammiel Alcalay, CUNY– Graduate Center (Susannah Heschel and Tarek El-Ariss)
• May 27 – Cleopatra Mathis Poetry & Prose Series: Kiran Desai (Peter Orner)
• June 1 – Futures Institute of American Studies (Donald Pease, Jr.)
• June 3 – Humanities Institute Open Round Table Discussion
• Summer 2021, From Troy Reading Communities and Public Humanities Pre-conference (Robert Stewart)
• June 17 – Poetry Reading by Rachel Hadas followed by a discussion with faculty and students (Medical Humanities Working Group)