A Review of Winter 2021 Events Sponsored and Co-Sponsored by the Leslie Center

Winter Term Lifelines Poetry Shares, hosted by The Leslie Center (alternate Tuesdays throughout the term)

Winter Term: "New Narratives of Africa and the African Diaspora" Lecture Series, Organized by Ayo Coly, African and African American Studies Program

Winter Term: Lecture Series on Puerto Rican Art and Visual Culture, organized by Israel Reyes, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese

Winter/Spring Terms: Social Justice Movie Series, Organzed by Shamell Bell, Lecturer, African and African American Studies Program

January 13: "Clinical Issues Regarding Self Disclosure and Non-Disclosure on the Analyst's Part" with Dr. Aisha Abbasi, hosted by the Psychoanalysis Studies Working Group

January 24: "Why Believe? Hope and Action through Art and Spirituality" with Dr. Tricia Rose, Brown University, organized by Rabbi Daveen Litwin, Tucker Center

January 25: "Write to Be Read: Publishing with University of California Press" with Kim Robinson, Editorial Director and Raina Polivka, Acquisitions Editor, University of California Press, organized and hosted by The Leslie Center and Grant GPS

January 27: "Eloquence as Magic: Arabic Poetics and the Aesthetics of Wonder" with Lara Harb, Princeton University, organized by Daniel Behar, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Middle Eastern Studies

February 5: "La Mirada Boricua/ The Boricua Gaze" with Helen Ceballos, organized and hosted by Israel Reyes, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese

February 10: Dr. Jonathan Lear (University of Chicago) on one of Sigmund Freud's last texts, "An Outline of Psychoanalysis" (1940), organized and hosted by the Psychoanalysis Studies Working Group

February 12: "Atmospherics of Risk" artist presentation with Jenny Offill and Kathleen Stewart, organized and hosted by Environmental Humanities as part of Hopkins Center's Convergence Symposium

February 17: "A Poem in Arabic, Not an Arabic Poem" with Huda J. Fakhreddine, University of Pennsylvania, organized by Daniel Behar, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Middle Eastern Studies

February 18: Axelle Karera, Emory University, on her book "Blackness and the Pitfalls of Anthropocene Ethics," hosted by the Anthropocene Working Group

February 19: "#FilmIsAlive: Ferrania, or the afterlives of analog in the digital age" with Dr. Elena Past, Wayne State University, hosted by the Italian Studies Working Group

February 26: "Cages and Mirrors: A Reading of Italo Calvino's Albino Gorilla" with Dr. Serenella Iovino, UNC Chapel Hill, hosted by the Italian Studies Working Group

March 3: A Discussion with Christine Levecq: "Black Cosmopolitans," organized by Scott Sanders, Assistant Professor, Department of French and Italian

March 5-6: "Inter-Asian Literature and Arts: A Research Workshop" organized, hosted, and keynote address by Miya Xie, Assistant Professor in the Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages Program

March 8: Lecture "A Thousand and One 1001 Nights" with David Damrosch, Harvard University, hosted by Tarek El-Ariss, Professor and Chair of Middle Eastern Studies

March 11: "US Latino Digital Humanities: Best Practices Building an Anti-Racist Praxis in the Archive" with Dr. Lorena Gauthereau and Dr. Linda Garcia Merchant, University of Houson, organized and hosted by Xavier Navarro Aquino, ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow