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:qcq6qp47c7ki68idth0276ndk0 SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20260916T074538 DTSTART:20260926T090000 DTEND:20260926T140000 SUMMARY:Japanese Garden 50th Anniversary Symposium and Celebration TRANSP:TRANSPARENT LOCATION:Symposium in Weitz Cinema | Reception at Japanese Garden DESCRIPTION:Carleton College is celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Carlet on’s Jōryō-en\, “The Garden of Quiet Listening.” This hal f-day event features a morning symposium examining the educational potenti al and artistic history of Japanese gardens\, at Carleton and beyond. A ce lebratory tented reception with food and refreshments will follow in the y ard adjacent to the garden.  The event is free and open to the public. We hope you will join us to commemorate this special occasion!\n\nProgram Sc hedule:\n\n9:00-9:15 AM – Welcome Remarks\n\n9:15-9:45 AM - Keynote spea ker: Professor Kendall Brown\, Professor of Art History\, California State University\, Long Beach\, and author of Quiet Beauty : The Japanese Gardens of North America\, “Higher Education: The Po tential of Japanese Gardens for American Colleges”\n\n9:45-10:15 AM - John Powell\, Zōen\, LLC\, Japanese Garden Designer and co nsultant to Jōryō-en\, “Tending the Vision:  The Gardener's Role in the High Quality Japanese Garden"\n\n10:15 – 10:30 AM – Q and A with the speakers\n\n10:30-10:45 AM – Coffee break\n\n10:45 – 11:15 AM - Anne Godfrey ’97\, Assistant Professor of Landscap e Architecture\, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry\, “A uthenticity Lessons”\n\n11:15 -11:30 AM - Joanne Paul\, Northfield volunteer at Jōryō-en\, “Living\, Loving\, Workin g: The Garden from a Volunteer’s Perspective”\n\n11:30-11:45 AM – Q and A with the speakers\n\n11:45 AM – 12:15 PM - Kathleen Ryor\, Tanaka Memorial Professor of International Understanding and Art History\, Carleton College\, “Jōryō-en and Carleton: Recent Activities\, Future Directions”\n\n12:30 – 2:00 PM – Recepti on at Jōryō-en.  There will be staff to guide attende es to the garden area and assist with parking directions.\n\nLocat ion &\; Parking:\n\nRead more on Carleton's Japanese Garden here.\n\nEvent Details:\nhttps://www.carleton.edu/japanese-gar den/\n\nView this event on the Carleton College website:\nhttps://www.carl eton.edu/_c/uufn ORGANIZER;CN="Asian Studies":mailto:qf2ecjm6il0qtd5cvsvp849qd0@group.calen dar.google.com STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260413T202004 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:mmjfcib57h614djfa84uvfbl10 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260916T074538 DTSTART:20260929T120000 DTEND:20260929T130000 SUMMARY:Can You Dig It? Summer Fieldwork and Research TRANSP:TRANSPARENT LOCATION:AND 121 DESCRIPTION:Join Carleton Archaeology Students and Faculty to kick off the new academic year over pizza and talk about recent summer fieldwork exper iences.\n\nView this event on the Carleton College website:\nhttps://www.c arleton.edu/_c/uueX ORGANIZER;CN="Archaeology":mailto:61oqgi8pra98n1gv0lbsnk5urg@group.calenda r.google.com STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260903T191354 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5opkc0l9j9m67a3r9dlkvkv9jk SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260916T074538 DTSTART:20261001T210000 DTEND:20261001T230000 SUMMARY:Night Owls with Alison Byerly TRANSP:TRANSPARENT LOCATION:The Athenaeum DESCRIPTION: \;\n\nYour homework is done\, but it's too early to sleep . What should you do? Come to the INAUGURAL Night Owls at Carleton! Prof. Daniel Groll and a scintillating guest for late night\, slightly irreverent conversation on topics from the serious to the absurd.\n\nOur guest for the first Night Owls is President Alison Byerly.  Did you know that President Byerly sometimes reads books!? And\, shockingly\, not all of them are highbrow! Does that matter? Is there even a distinction between high art and low art?  And can art make us better people? Worse people? Join us as we plumb the artistic depths (and shallow s) with President Byerly. Come share your thoughts\, your favorite literar y passages\, and some pizza (on us).\n\nView this event on the Carleton Co llege website:\nhttps://www.carleton.edu/_c/uub7 ORGANIZER;CN="Humanities Center":mailto:k73j67gu67k2rvuvvoi4kh8ctc@group.c alendar.google.com STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260909T201833 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:k2eqj3copmei2g2rj9l7mhju1c SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260916T074538 DTSTART:20261013T171500 DTEND:20261013T184500 SUMMARY:Fall 2026 Lefler Lecture: Dr. Rashauna Johnson Bittersweet Homes: Placemaking in a Parish Haunted by History TRANSP:TRANSPARENT LOCATION:Leighton Hall 305 DESCRIPTION:Bittersweet Homes: Placemaking in a Parish Haunted by History\n\nThis talk uses archival research and family memories t o illuminate the lives and times of select figures who died and\, critical ly\, also lived in the long arc of King Cotton. Drawing on select moments in the history of the author's maternal grandmother's birthplace\, Louisia na's Feliciana Parishes\, it meditates on the deeply contingent experience s of 19th-Century "development" and "progress" and the ways those divergen t experiences - and the memories to which they gave rise - haunt us all.\n \nRashauna Johnson is a historian of the 19th-century African diaspora\, w ith an emphasis on slavery and emancipation in the US South and Atlantic W orld. She is especially interested in the limits and possibilities of arch ival histories of enslaved and freed people and the worlds in which they l abored and lived. Johnson teaches courses on race\, slavery\, and nation\; methodologies of slavery studies\; and the 19th-century US.\n\nJohnson is the author of < em>Slavery’s Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of R evolutions (Cambridge UP\, 2016\; paperback 2018)\, which was aw arded the 2016 Williams Prize for the best book in Louisiana history and t he 2018 H. L. Mitchell Award by the Southern Historical Association for th e best book on the southern working class. Slavery's Metropolis was also named a finalist for the 2016 Berkshire Conference of Women's Hi storians Book Prize\, honorable mention for the Urban History Association' s Kenneth Jackson Award\, and a finalist for the 2017 Frederick Douglass B ook Prize. Her second book\, Sweet Home Feliciana: Family\, Slavery\, and the Hauntings of History (Cambridge University Press\, 2026)\, uses her grandmother’s birt hplace in rural Louisiana as a prism to illuminate foundational\, if fraug ht\, aspects of US history including colonialism\, slavery\, war\, citizen ship and unfinished freedom. That project has been supported by the Hutch ins Center for African &\; African American Research at Harvard Univers ity\, the Mellon Scholars Post-Doctoral Fellowship in African American Hi story at the Library Company of Philadelphia\, and The Gilder Lehrman Inst itute of American History. She is a co-editor of the Cambridge Histo ry of the African Diaspora\, Volume Two: Slave Trades\, Dispersals\, and P rocesses of Commodification (forthcoming 2027).\n\nView this event o n the Carleton College website:\nhttps://www.carleton.edu/_c/uufg ORGANIZER;CN="History":mailto:13j4s2le5qmt8ia3lrh1m7345o@group.calendar.go ogle.com STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260511T212444 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a4vjaavvbk00qqj9v78tgjvf1g SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260916T074538 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:u3p21agv6c5anhjjaraijbebfk SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260916T074538 DTSTART:20261029T210000 DTEND:20261029T230000 SUMMARY:Night Owls with Agnes Callard (Chicago) TRANSP:TRANSPARENT LOCATION:The Athenaeum DESCRIPTION:Join us for the second Night Owls at Carleton. We are thrilled to have Prof. Agnes Callard  -- the originator of Night Owls at the University of Chicago -- join us. Prof. Callard is an extraordinary philosopher who has written two books (including the N ew York Times Book Review Editors' Choic e Open Socrates) and regularly publishes in venues such as the New York Times and The Atlantic.\n\nTonight's topic: B eing yourself. Most people\, most of the time\, keep parts of themselves h idden 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 alwa ys be fully 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 should we be with (all) others? Come share your thoughts\, yoursel f (all in or in part) and some pizza (on us). This time\, there might be s wag for anyone that takes part in the conversation!\n\nView this event on the Carleton College website:\nhttps://www.carleton.edu/_c/uub0 ORGANIZER;CN="Humanities Center":mailto:k73j67gu67k2rvuvvoi4kh8ctc@group.c alendar.google.com STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260909T202445 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:u38e88i3lb3l5tldgcnvgodjks SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20260916T074538 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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:8j96cpimv3os7ictkpkibmgvkk SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260916T074538 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