Humanities Events – Humanities Center – Carleton College

Thursday, Apr 20, 2023 - Friday, Apr 19, 2024

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April 2023

Thu 20

4:30pm Annual Veblen-Clark Lecture - 1h In-Person • Weitz 236 • from Economics
5:00pm REFLECTIONS: African Art, Civic Projects and the State of the Field - 1h 30m In-Person • Boliou 104 • from Art & Art History

Fri 21

Foro Latinoamericano (begins) In-Person • Alumni Guest House Meeting Room • from Latin American Studies

Sat 22

Foro Latinoamericano (ends) In-Person • Alumni Guest House Meeting Room • from Latin American Studies

Mon 24

5:15pm The Free Speech Recession and how to Reverse it - 1h 30m In-Person • Great Hall • from History
6:00pm An Evening of Poetry and Conversation with Douglas Kearney - 1h 30m In-Person • Boliou 104 • from English

Tue 25

12:00pm Kant’s Cosmopolitanism and the Idea of Race: Public Talk by Jameliah Shorter-Bourhanou - 1h In-Person • Leighton 305 • from Philosophy

May 2023

Mon 1

7:00pm Screening of More Than A Word - 1h 30m In-Person • Weitz Cinema • from American Studies

Wed 3

4:30pm Good News for Common Goods - Book Talk by Wes Markofski - 1h Weitz 236
5:00pm Uncovering and Recentering the Maritime Underground Railroad: A Lecture by Dr. Timothy Walker - 1h 30m Virtual • from History
5:30pm Poetry Without Borders - 1h Weitz Commons
7:00pm Musics from Morocco's Jewish & Muslim Communities - 1h 30m In-Person • Applebaum Recital Hall, Weitz Center • from Middle Eastern Languages

Thu 4

"Democracy will win!" Exhibition (begins) In-Person • Hamlin Space (Weitz) • from German
12:00pm Dancing with the Devil: literature and devotion in Oruro's Carnival. - 1h In-Person • Alumni Guest House Meeting Room • from Latin American Studies
4:00pm Ghost Work: The Labor that Powers AI - 1h Weitz Cinema
4:30pm Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides under China’s Global Rise - 1h In-Person • Library Athenaeum • from Asian Languages & Literatures

Tue 16

11:45am LTC Lunch - Academic Civic Engagement in the Humanities - 1h 15m In-Person • Weitz 236 • from Learning and Teaching Center

Thu 18

12:00pm Performance in the round: Studying drum-dance events in Mali - 1h In-Person • Applebaum Recital Hall • from Music
4:30pm Mellon Mays Presentation by Keynote Speaker Ainsley LeSure '05 - 1h In-Person • Weitz 161 Cinema • from Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

Wed 31

"Democracy will win!" Exhibition (ends) In-Person • Hamlin Space (Weitz) • from German

June 2023

Fri 2

9:45am Day of DH 2023 - 4h 15m In-Person • Weitz Center - various rooms • from Digital Humanities

Thu 8

Day of Public Scholarship In-Person • Weitz Center for Creativity 236, Carleton College • from Center for Community and Civic Engagement

September 2023

Tue 12

NORTH: An Installation by Mary Ellen Childs (begins) In-Person • Hamlin Creative Space • from Arts at Carleton

Thu 21

5:00pm Brooks Turner: Pedagogy and Propaganda Opening Reception - 2h In-Person • Perlman Teaching Museum • from Perlman Teaching Museum

Tue 26

4:30pm A Kaleidoscope of Jewish Worlds in historic Passover Haggadahs - 1h In-Person • Gould Library Athenaeum • from Middle Eastern Languages
4:30pm The Four Seasons in Modern Japanese Literature and Cultures: In Search of "Literature" - 1h 30m In-Person • LDC 104 • from Asian Languages & Literatures

Thu 28

4:00pm The Philosopher and the Poet: Hobbes's Homer - 1h In-Person • Laird 205 • from English
5:15pm Herbert P. Lefler Fall Lecture - Cassandra Good - Seeing Women in Politics: Visual and Material Representations of Women's Political Participation in America, 1776-1876 - 1h 30m In-Person • Leighton Hall 305 • from History

October 2023

Thu 5

5:00pm Public Talk by Dr. Margot Fassler, Musical Confrontations and a Cosmic Closing in Hildegard's Ordo Virtutum - 1h In-Person • Applebaum Recital Hall • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Fri 6

7:30pm Mystical Voices of Medieval Germany: Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) – A Concert by Sequentia - 1h 30m Kracum Performance Hall • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Tue 10

12:00pm Talk by Prof. Gabbrielle Johnson (Claremont-McKenna): Varieties of Bias - 1h In-Person • Leighton 236 PIZZA PROVIDED • from Philosophy

Wed 11

5:00pm Wild Things: An Evening with Lynette Reini-Grandell '82 - 1h In-Person • Gould Library Athenaeum • from English

Tue 17

5:00pm Clay Journey from Shigaraki to North Carolina - 1h 30m In-Person • Boliou 104 • from Art & Art History

Wed 18

5:00pm Middle East Studies Program Teach in: Behind the Violence in Israel and Palestine - 1h 30m In-Person • Olin 149 • from Middle East Studies

Thu 19

7:30pm Fall Term Theater Production: Orlando - 2h In-Person • Weitz Theater • from Theater + Dance

Fri 20

7:00pm GUEST: Joe Rainey - 2h In-Person • Kracum Performance Hall • from Music
7:30pm Fall Term Theater Production: Orlando - 2h In-Person • Weitz Theater • from Theater + Dance

Sat 21

2:00pm Fall Term Theater Production: Orlando - 2h In-Person • Weitz Theater • from Theater + Dance
7:30pm Fall Term Theater Production: Orlando - 2h In-Person • Weitz Theater • from Theater + Dance

Sun 22

2:00pm Fall Term Theater Production: Orlando - 2h In-Person • Weitz Theater • from Theater + Dance

Tue 24

12:00pm Apocalypse Manuscript Viewing Party - 1h In-Person • Leighton 426 • from Religion
12:00pm Talk with Prof. Richard Kim (Loyola Chicago): Disability, Flourishing, and Mencian Perfectionism - 1h In-Person • Leighton 236 PIZZA PROVIDED • from Philosophy
4:30pm Antisemitism and White Nationalism 101: A lecture by Brandon Schorsch, Combating Hate Program Manager at Jewish Community Action - 1h In-Person • Weitz 236 • from Perlman Teaching Museum
8:00pm The Forkosh Family Lecture in Judaic Studies: Language, Longing, and Belonging: Growing up Middle Eastern Jewish in Israel - 1h In-Person • Leighton 304 • from Judaic Studies

Wed 25

5:30pm The Future of Affirmative Action in College Admissions - 1h In-Person • Weitz 236

Thu 26

12:00pm "Images of Motherhood in the Ashburnham Pentateuch" by Dr. Jennifer A. Freeman, Visiting Professor of Art History (Winter/Spring) - 1h 10m In-Person • Boliou 161 • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies
4:00pm Veblen-Clark Lecture - "Sources of Artificial Intelligence" - 1h 15m In-Person • Boliou 104 • from Economics

November 2023

Fri 3

7:30pm Semaphore Repertory Dance Company Fall Concert - 40m In-Person • Weitz Theater • from Theater + Dance

Sat 4

7:30pm Semaphore Repertory Dance Company Fall Concert - 40m In-Person • Weitz Theater • from Theater + Dance

Thu 9

12:00pm The Objects That Remain - Criminal Evidence, Holocaust Artifacts, & the Work of Doing Justice - 1h In-Person • Leighton 305 • from Religion

Tue 14

2:00pm Carleton's Community Archaeology Day - 3h In-Person • Anderson 121/122 • from Archaeology

Wed 15

NORTH: An Installation by Mary Ellen Childs (ends) In-Person • Hamlin Creative Space • from Arts at Carleton

January 2024

Thu 11

Towards a Warm Embrace (begins) In-Person • Perlman Teaching Museum • from Perlman Teaching Museum
5:00pm Towards a Warm Embrace Opening Reception - 2h In-Person • Perlman Teaching Museum • from Perlman Teaching Museum

Wed 17

4:00pm Vijay Iyer in conversation with Professor Tony Chemero - 1h In-Person • Weitz Center Cinema • from Arts at Carleton
4:30pm Black Power, Black Lives Matter, and Historical Roots and Ruptures in the Black Freedom Struggle - 1h 30m In-Person • Leighton 305 • from Africana Studies

Thu 18

5:15pm Ira T. Wender Lecture in Middle East Studies: From Syriac to Arabic: The Rise of Arabic as a Christian Language in the Middle East by Professor Jack Tannous, Princeton University - 1h Leighton 305 • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies
7:30pm Vijay Iyer Trio Concert - 1h 30m In-Person • Kracum Performance Hall • from Arts at Carleton

Tue 23

5:00pm A Conversation with Damion Searls - 1h In-Person • Boliou 104 • from Russian

Wed 24

4:30pm Talk by Dr. Joshua Mugler, “Preserving the World’s Cultural Heritage in Minnesota: The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library.” - 1h In-Person • Gould Library Athenaeum • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

February 2024

Fri 2

3:00pm History through Game Development — The Migrants' Chronicles: 1892 - 1h In-Person • Weitz 133 • from Digital Humanities

Tue 13

12:00pm Talk by Prof. Alexis Shotwell: "Life as fanfiction: Building a self and a world beyond what has shaped us" - 1h In-Person • Alumni Guesthouse Meeting Room • from Philosophy

Mon 19

4:30pm The Morphology of Ceramic Form According to Mark - 1h In-Person • Boliou 104 • from Art & Art History

Wed 21

4:30pm Herbert P. Lefler Winter Lecture - Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico - Yanna Yannakakis - 1h 30m In-Person • Leighton Hall 305 • from History

Thu 22

12:00pm Public Talk: Dr. Christopher Saladin, "Visualizing Roman Carthage: Digital Mapping in an Ancient North African City" - 1h In-Person • LDC 104 • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Mon 26

7:30pm An Evening with Bill Irwin - 1h 30m In-Person • Weitz Theater • from Theater + Dance

Thu 29

5:00pm Public Talk: Benjamin Hansen (U of MN): Christians and Others in Umayyad Palestine: Religious Interaction, Competition, and Cooperation - 1h In-Person • Laird 205 • from Medieval and Renaissance Studies

March 2024

Wed 27

5:00pm Deep Care: The Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open - 1h In-Person • Leighton 305 • from Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies

Thu 28

5:15pm Dr. Walter H. Judd Lectureship in Asian Studies: Artificial Intelligence, Affective Labor, and Death in Life - 1h In-Person • LDC 104 • from Asian Studies

April 2024

Tue 2

12:00pm The Female Experience of War from Euripides' Trojan Women to Christine Evans' Trojan Barbie - 1h In-Person • LDC 104 • from Classics

Thu 4

5:15pm 2024 Mullin Fellowship Talks: Margaret De Fer and Daniel Myer - 1h 30m In-Person • Leighton Hall 236 • from History

Wed 10

4:00pm Embodiment and Racial Bias in "Brendan's Voyage" - 1h In-Person • Leighton 305 • from Digital Arts and Humanities

Sun 14

Towards a Warm Embrace (ends) In-Person • Perlman Teaching Museum • from Perlman Teaching Museum
6:00pm Screening of 'Black Panther' and Q & A with Dr. John Kani - 3h 30m In-Person • Weitz Cinema • from Arts at Carleton

Mon 15

4:00pm Race, Privilege and Inequality Visiting Speaker Series Lecture by Dr. Monica Garcia Perez - 1h 15m In-Person • Weitz Cinema • from Economics
7:00pm Reading of 'The Island' and Discussion with Dr. John Kani - 2h In-Person • Weitz Theater • from Arts at Carleton

Tue 16

12:00pm Choices: A Post-Roe Abortion Rights Manifesto - 1h In-Person • Leighton 305 • from Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies

Wed 17

5:00pm Talk by Dr. Amna Khalid and Dr. Jeff Snyder: "Free Expression and Academic Freedom Under Fire: Campus Censorship from the War on “Woke Indoctrination” to the War in Gaza" - 1h 30m In-Person • Olin 141 • from History

Fri 19

Foro Latinoamericano (begins) In-Person • Alumni Guest House • from Latin American Studies
7:00pm Conversation with Dr. John Kani - 2h In-Person • Kracum Performance Hall • from Arts at Carleton

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