BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Carleton College//Calendar Events//EN NAME:Carleton College: Humanities Center Events X-WR-CALNAME:Carleton College: Humanities Center Events TIMEZONE-ID:America/Chicago X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT6H X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT6H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:es52furasd9j43k0errnik7o2g SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261016T000715 DTSTART:20261020T163000 DTEND:20261020T180000 SUMMARY:The Frank G. and Jean M. Chesley Lectureship in Environmental Stud ies by Dr. Jessica Hernandez: Fresh Roots\, Rising Waters: Indigenous Scie nce as the Blueprint for Climate Justice TRANSP:TRANSPARENT LOCATION:Olin 149 DESCRIPTION:

For generations\, Indigenous science has be en dismissed as folklore rather than recognized as rigorous\, land-based k nowledge accumulated through direct relationship with ecosystems. Dr. Jess ica Hernandez (Maya Ch'orti' &\; Binnizá) draws on her work as founder of Earth Daughters and author of Fresh Banana Leaves and Growing Papaya Trees to reframe the climate conversation: colonialism didn't just displace Indigenous peoples from their lands\, it displaced t heir knowledge systems from the institutions now scrambling to solve the c risis those systems could have prevented. This keynote traces the throughl ine from ecological healing to climate displacement\, and makes the case t hat climate justice is inseparable from Indigenous sovereignty\; over land \, over research\, and over the frameworks we use to define what counts as science.

\n\nView this event on the Carleton College website:\nhttps://www.carleton.edu/_c/ut2U ORGANIZER;CN="Environmental Studies":mailto:6f79fpli726ta90o93g2pcmhfo@gro up.calendar.google.com STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260616T161719 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:7jl1ch9hf89g4mk5i6odnbarrk SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20261016T000715 DTSTART:20261021T140000 DTEND:20261021T153000 SUMMARY:Medieval Instruments--A Meet and Greet with Kate McWilliams of Unp rofitable Instruments TRANSP:TRANSPARENT LOCATION:Music Resources Center DESCRIPTION:Kate McWilliams\, musicologist and maker of medieval musical i nstruments\, will introduce a range of wind and stringed instruments with opportunities for the audience to try some out.\n\nView this event on the Carleton College website:\nhttps://www.carleton.edu/_c/uul6 ORGANIZER;CN="Medieval And Renaissance Studies":mailto:r746d34l1ahs4bu8kkp nmhoj4c@group.calendar.google.com STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260908T213536 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:j8ln7p4j3maons646lcma6adts SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261016T000715 DTSTART:20261022T120000 DTEND:20261022T130000 SUMMARY:Lunch Talk: Jake Henke\, U of MN\, "Islands of Crabs and Seas of P earls: Merchants and Monks in the Late Antique Persian Gulf" TRANSP:TRANSPARENT LOCATION:LDC 104 DESCRIPTION:Jake Henke will present on his current research into the natur e of trade in the Persian Gulf in Late Antiquity and its intersections wit h monastic communities in the area.\n\nPizza and refreshments will be serv ed.\n\nView this event on the Carleton College website:\nhttps://www.carle ton.edu/_c/utWz ORGANIZER;CN="Medieval And Renaissance Studies":mailto:r746d34l1ahs4bu8kkp nmhoj4c@group.calendar.google.com STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260602T170232 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:lqmt6bvpuo1rmhusmvo1sc7vek SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261016T000715 DTSTART:20261023T190000 DTEND:20261023T220000 SUMMARY:Fall Term Theater Production: Passion Play by Sarah Ruhl TRANSP:TRANSPARENT LOCATION:Weitz Center Theater DESCRIPTION:Passion Play dramatizes a community of players rehear sing their annual staging of the Easter Passion in three different eras: 1 575 Northern England\, just before Queen Elizabeth outlaws the ritual\; 19 34 Oberammergau\, Bavaria\, as Hitler is rising to power\; and Spearfish\, South Dakota\, from the time of Vietnam through Reagan's presidency. In e ach period\, the players grapple with the transformative nature of art\, a nd politics are never far in the background.\n\nContent Warning: This prod uction contains depictions of suicide\, sexual assault\, Nazi symbols\, pr op guns\, and sounds of gunfire.\n\nReserve Tickets \n\nView this event on the Carleton College website:\nhttps://www.carl eton.edu/_c/uupY ORGANIZER;CN="Theater & Dance":mailto:91kn70ukmr11dc6mpfv5ddb68c@group.cal endar.google.com STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260828T194637 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:veulbnlmgl9fbk15a28lu70rus SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261016T000715 DTSTART:20261024T190000 DTEND:20261024T220000 SUMMARY:Fall Term Theater Production: Passion Play by Sarah Ruhl TRANSP:TRANSPARENT LOCATION:Weitz Center Theater DESCRIPTION:Passion Play dramatizes a community of players rehear sing their annual staging of the Easter Passion in three different eras: 1 575 Northern England\, just before Queen Elizabeth outlaws the ritual\; 19 34 Oberammergau\, Bavaria\, as Hitler is rising to power\; and Spearfish\, South Dakota\, from the time of Vietnam through Reagan's presidency. In e ach period\, the players grapple with the transformative nature of art\, a nd politics are never far in the background.\n\nContent Warning: This prod uction contains depictions of suicide\, sexual assault\, Nazi symbols\, pr op guns\, and sounds of gunfire.\n\nReserve Tickets \n\nView this event on the Carleton College website:\nhttps://www.carl eton.edu/_c/uupZ ORGANIZER;CN="Theater & Dance":mailto:91kn70ukmr11dc6mpfv5ddb68c@group.cal endar.google.com STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260828T194929 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:75pbv0c9rlm99hcrcp1abkdj14 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261016T000715 DTSTART:20261025T140000 DTEND:20261025T170000 SUMMARY:Fall Term Theater Production: Passion Play by Sarah Ruhl TRANSP:TRANSPARENT LOCATION:Weitz Center Theater DESCRIPTION:Passion Play dramatizes a community of players rehear sing their annual staging of the Easter Passion in three different eras: 1 575 Northern England\, just before Queen Elizabeth outlaws the ritual\; 19 34 Oberammergau\, Bavaria\, as Hitler is rising to power\; and Spearfish\, South Dakota\, from the time of Vietnam through Reagan's presidency. In e ach period\, the players grapple with the transformative nature of art\, a nd politics are never far in the background.\n\nContent Warning: This prod uction contains depictions of suicide\, sexual assault\, Nazi symbols\, pr op guns\, and sounds of gunfire.\n\nReserve Tickets \n\nView this event on the Carleton College website:\nhttps://www.carl eton.edu/_c/uup0 ORGANIZER;CN="Theater & Dance":mailto:91kn70ukmr11dc6mpfv5ddb68c@group.cal endar.google.com STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260828T195031 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a4vjaavvbk00qqj9v78tgjvf1g SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261016T000715 DTSTART:20261029T170000 DTEND:20261029T180000 SUMMARY:Paying for the Public Life: Charles W. Moore and the Public Realm TRANSP:TRANSPARENT LOCATION:Boliou 104 DESCRIPTION:This talk is part of the Edwin L. Weisl Jr. Lecture Series sponsored by the Robert Lehman Foundation\n\nArchitectural historian and activist\, Patricia Morton will give a talk that focuses on writings and buildings by Charles W. Moore\, a prominent Postmodern architect\, who asserted that “you have to pay for the public life” in a famous 1965 essay. Looking at several of Moore’s projects from the 1960s and 1970s\, the talk will investigate what Moore meant by “paying” for the public realm\, his advocacy for Disneyland as a public space\, and the ways he u nderstood “the public” in various contexts\, including a public housin g project and student housing at a public university\n\n

\n\nPatricia A. Morton is Associate Professor in the Media and Cultural Studies Depart ment at the University of California\, Riverside.\n\nShe is author of Hybrid Modernities: Architecture and Representation at the 1931 Internati onal Colonial Exposition in Paris (MIT Press). Her current project\, Paying for the Public Life\, focuses on work by architect Charl es W. Moore and changes to the public realm in the 1960s.\n\nView this eve nt on the Carleton College website:\nhttps://www.carleton.edu/_c/uueA ORGANIZER;CN="Art & Art History":mailto:8ckv8vtit6m6sj5p1qnvn5qq14@group.c alendar.google.com STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260824T170146 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:erioke1sbctoasojp4drj1o83c SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261016T000715 DTSTART:20261029T170000 DTEND:20261029T181500 SUMMARY:The Migration to Abyssinia and the Ethiopic Quran\, A Talk by Dr. Hamza Zafer\, Senior Lecturer in African Studies\, Princeton University TRANSP:TRANSPARENT LOCATION:Leighton 305 DESCRIPTION:View this event on the Carleton College website:\nhttps://www. carleton.edu/_c/uubk ORGANIZER;CN="Medieval And Renaissance Studies":mailto:r746d34l1ahs4bu8kkp nmhoj4c@group.calendar.google.com STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260806T025425 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:u3p21agv6c5anhjjaraijbebfk SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20261016T000715 DTSTART:20261029T203000 DTEND:20261029T223000 SUMMARY:Night Owls with Agnes Callard (Chicago) TRANSP:TRANSPARENT LOCATION:The Athenaeum DESCRIPTION:NEW EARLIER START SO OUR NOT FULLY NOCTURNAL OWLS CAN SLEEP!\n \nJoin us for the second Night Owls at Carleton. We are thrilled to have P rof. Agnes Cal lard -- the originator of Night Owls at the University of Chicago -- join us. Prof. Callard is an extraordinary philosopher who has written tw o books (including the New York Ti mes Book Review Editors' Choice < em>Open Socrates) and regularly publishes in venues su ch as the New York Times and The Atlantic.\n\nTonight's topic: Being yours elf. Most people\, most of the time\, keep parts of themselves hidden from others (you should see how Prof. Groll behaves around his dog. Actually\, you probably shouldn't.). Is that a shame? Is the ideal to always be full y oneself -- never hiding any aspects of oneself -- all the time? Or does it make sense -- even under ideal circumstances -- to have parts of one's identity that are for some people\, but not others? How open and honest sh ould we be with (all) others? Come share your thoughts\, yourself (all in or in part) and some pizza (on us). This time\, there might be swag for an yone that takes part in the conversation!\n\nView this event on the Carlet on College website:\nhttps://www.carleton.edu/_c/uuqu ORGANIZER;CN="Humanities Center":mailto:k73j67gu67k2rvuvvoi4kh8ctc@group.c alendar.google.com STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260909T202445 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6g2isd33qitek52mqv8e67rk88 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261016T000715 DTSTART:20261030T153000 DTEND:20261030T153000 SUMMARY:Humanities Coffee Klatsch TRANSP:TRANSPARENT LOCATION:LTC library (Weitz 146) DESCRIPTION:

Humanities Coffee Klatsch is a chance for faculty and s taff to end the week* engaged in casual discussion with peers about some t opic of humanistic interest.

\n\nThis Coffee Klatsch will be de voted to the spectacula r and existential-angst-inducing math accomplishments ("accomplishm ents"?) of OpenAI's frontier model.\n\nJoin us for discussion with som e of our Math colleagues to learn how they're thinking about this news and what the development of AI means for *all* disciplines: What is the conne ction between looking for answers and getting them? Between knowing result s and understanding them? We'll consider these questions and more in an in formal setting while enjoying coffee and snacks (if you can stomach them!) .\n\n

\n\n*The HC hopes to run these a couple times a term\, a lthough we're starting with only one this term.\n\n

\n \; \n\nView this event on the Carleton College website:\nhttps://www.carleton .edu/_c/uuqU ORGANIZER;CN="Humanities Center":mailto:k73j67gu67k2rvuvvoi4kh8ctc@group.c alendar.google.com STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20261014T155601 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ove3pmbgfed6crbn0cmbm7b5o4 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261016T000715 DTSTART:20261104T170000 DTEND:20261104T180000 SUMMARY:A Conversation with Hernán Díaz\, Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Pr ize for Fiction: His Work and His Place in American Literature TRANSP:TRANSPARENT LOCATION:Olin 149 DESCRIPTION:Hernán Díaz\, winner of the 2 023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Trust and a Pulitzer finalist for In the Distance\, will visit Carleton this November for two r elated events.\n\nOn Wednesday\, Nov ember 4\, from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. in Olin 149\, Díaz will participate in a Light Lectureship public conversation\, open to the Carleton community\, about his work and his place in—and perspective on—American literature . On Thursday\, November 5\, he will join a smaller reading group devoted to Trust.\n\nBorn in Argent ina\, raised partly in Sweden\, and educated in Argentina\, London\, and t he United States\, Díaz writes in English from a perspective shaped by se veral languages and cultures. His three novels revisit central American na rratives from strikingly different angles.\n\nIn the Distance tur ns the Western inside out. Its protagonist\, Håkan\, a young Swedish immi grant stranded in California\, travels eastward against the great westward movement of nineteenth-century expansion. Through the experience of the i mmigrant and outsider\, Díaz reimagines the myths of the frontier\, migra tion\, and American self-invention.\n\nTrust moves from the front ier to Wall Street. Through four competing accounts of a financier and his wife\, the novel explores not only how wealth and financial power are cre ated\, but also who has the authority to tell their story—and how money can shape memory\, representation\, and truth.\n\nDíaz’s new novel\, Ply\, turns toward the future . Set centuries from now in a world where the state has disappeared\, it c ombines speculative fiction\, science\, music\, and adventure to explore t echnology\, freedom\, and new possibilities for social life.\n\nTogether\, Díaz’s novels move from the nine teenth-century frontier\, through the world of modern finance\, toward an imagined technological future—reconsidering the stories through which Am erica has understood its past\, organized its present\, and imagined what might come next.\n\nView this event on the Carleton College website :\nhttps://www.carleton.edu/_c/uupL ORGANIZER;CN="Spanish":mailto:h918ecruebjd3u5pdqud3gf3sk@group.calendar.go ogle.com STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260909T140926 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:u38e88i3lb3l5tldgcnvgodjks SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20261016T000715 DTSTART:20261105T160000 DTEND:20261105T170000 SUMMARY:Reading *Trust* with Hernán Díaz TRANSP:TRANSPARENT LOCATION:TBD DESCRIPTION:

Hernán Díaz\, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary American fiction\, will visit Carleton on November 4–5 as the special g uest of the Light Lectureship.

In anticip ation of his visit\, we invite faculty and staff to join a reading group d evoted to his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Trust\, culminating in a conversation with Diaz himself.

Díaz’s first novel\, In the Distance\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize\; his secon d\, Trust\, won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Across these two remarkably different novels\, Díaz returns to some of the foundational myths of American culture — the fro ntier\, the self-made individual\, money\, power\, and the creation of eno rmous wealth — while radically reinventing the literary forms through wh ich those myths have traditionally been told. In the Distance re imagines the western from the perspective of a lost immigrant moving again st the great westward migration\; Trust takes apart the novel o f wealth and finance by telling the same story through four competing narr atives. In both\, Diaz inhabits recognizable American genres only to estra nge them from within\, asking who gets to tell the stories through which A merica imagines itself.

The reading group will meet once to discuss Trust (date/time TBD). On November 4\ , Díaz will give a talk about his fiction and how he situates his work wi thin American literature. On November 5\, members of the group will have t he opportunity to discuss Trust with Díaz himself — a rare ch ance to continue our reading in conversation with the author.

The reading group is sponsored by the Department of S panish in collaboration with the Humanities Center. Copies of Trust will be available for all participants interested in joining the group . If you would like to participate and receive a copy of the novel\, pleas e contact Jorge Brioso (jbrioso@carl eton.edu) and Dan Groll (dgroll@c arleton.edu) by September 30.

\n\nView this event on the Carleton College website:\nhttps://www.carleton.edu/_c/uub8 ORGANIZER;CN="Humanities Center":mailto:k73j67gu67k2rvuvvoi4kh8ctc@group.c alendar.google.com STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260906T154519 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:dq6ubr8n3butv01lfq6hlurjtg SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261016T000715 DTSTART:20261105T190000 DTEND:20261105T203000 SUMMARY:Jazz Area Concert TRANSP:TRANSPARENT LOCATION:Kracum Performance Hall DESCRIPTION:The Carleton Jazz Ensemble presents their fall concert!\n\nView this event on the Carleton College web site:\nhttps://www.carleton.edu/_c/uua0 ORGANIZER;CN="Music Department":mailto:4hvg0t6h02sui82j4vqmmqbeag@group.ca lendar.google.com STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260908T171704 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8j96cpimv3os7ictkpkibmgvkk SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20261016T000715 DTSTART:20270120T170000 DTEND:20270120T180000 SUMMARY:Book Celebration: Jessica Keating\, Impossible Nature – The Worl ds of Giuseppe Arcimboldo TRANSP:TRANSPARENT LOCATION:TBD DESCRIPTION:A gathering to celebrate the publication of Professor Jessica Keating's new book: Impossible Nature. The World of Giuseppe Arcimbol do (University of Chicago Press\, 2026).\n\nMore information coming s oon.\n\nView this event on the Carleton College website:\nhttps://www.carl eton.edu/_c/uubh ORGANIZER;CN="Medieval And Renaissance Studies":mailto:r746d34l1ahs4bu8kkp nmhoj4c@group.calendar.google.com STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260806T173039 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR