Category: Events

Serena Zabin (History), Nancy Cho (English), and Kelly Connole (Studio Art)

“We explainED why thinking about the relationship of the humanities and the public mattered to our work, what we learned from an interdisciplinary faculty seminar, and how participating in this seminar reshaped and revitalized our creative and scholarly projects.”

Gould Library Athenaeum, Friday, April 11, 3:45-5:00 pm

Refreshments event.

The Telling Project is a powerful performance about veterans’ experiences. Part of the MHC’s Veterans’ Voices Initiative. Guided discussion will follow the performance. This performance is free and open to the public, but please reserve your free ticket(s) here. Contact Susannah Ottaway or Steve Richardson with any questions.

Common Time, 12-1 p.m., Thurs., Feb 6, Weitz Center 236 (Larson Meeting Room).

Michael McNally (Religion), Andy Flory (Music), Adrienne Falcon (Academic Civic Engagement/Sociology), Eva Posfay (French and Francophone Studies).  Sponsors: Humanities Center, LTC. Contact Susannah Ottaway. Sponsored by the Humanities Center and LTC, includes Common Time lunch.

Everyone welcome – open to the public!

See the event listing for full details.

Remembering Nokutela [uKukhumbula uNokutela in Zulu] is the 4-year long journey of Mali-born film director, Professor Chérif Keita of Carleton College, to rescue Nokutela Dube (1873-1917), a forgotten woman pioneer of the liberation movement in South Africa, from the purgatory of history, almost a century after her death at the age of 44. Woven into this deeply emotional and eerily serendipitous journey are the little-known connections between the director’s hometown of Northfield and the birth of the African National Congress in the early 20^th century. 

IFF Film Premiere: “Remembering Nokutela, Chérif Keita’s new film

Deborah Shuger is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Political Theologies in Shakespeare’s England. Professor Shuger will continue the campus wide conversation about censorship by speaking on material related to her book, Censorship & Cultural Sensibility: The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England.

Schuster Lecture by Deborah Shuger

Laura McGrane, Associate Professor of English and the Koshland Director of the John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities at Haverford College recently visited Carleton. She presented two public talks.

Her first talk, ‘a pumkin and a pine-apple’: The Transatlantic Incarnate in William Dunlap’s Comedy,” was hosted by the Carleton English Department, and took place on Wednesday, April 24th in Leighton 304.

Her second talk, “The User Paradox in the Classroom,” was hosted by the Humanities Center on Thursday, April 25th, in the Gould Library Athenaeum. Professor McGrane, a leader in the Tri-College Digital Humanities collaborative initiative, explored changes to ways of reading and absorbing text (among other things) in the digital age in her talk.

James C. Scott, the Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology at Yale and Director of the Program in Agrarian Studies, led a special Humanities Center Faculty Seminar on Tuesday, April 16th at 4:30 pm in Leighton 304. 

He also presented a public talk, Two Cheers for Anarchism, in Sayles-Hill 251, on Monday, April 15, 2013 at 4:30 p.m. See also: Political Science. Professor Scott’s visit was arranged by Tun Myint and Tricia Peterson of the Political Science Department and is co-sponsored by Asian Studies, Environmental Studies, Political Science Department, Sociology Department, the History Lefler Fund, and the Humanities Center.

Our new video about the Boston Massacre research project is now highlighted on the newly launched Carleton Academics site (scroll down to the Academic News section) – or you can go directly to the story/video page!

Date: Tuesday, February 5th, 2013

Time: 5:00 pm

Duration: 1 hour

Location: Library Athenaeum

Sponsored by: Humanities Center

Contact: Nikki Lamberty, x4217

Thursday, January 17, 2013, 4:00-5:00 p.m., CMC 206 – Computer Science-Digital Humanities “Speed Dating” event: Computer Science faculty and majors will be available to consult on Digital Humanities Projects. Even if you just have a vague idea regarding a curricular or research based project in the humanities, arts and social sciences that would benefit from an early conversation or consultation with a CS expert, this is your chance to make that connection! Please e-mail David Liben-Nowell to let him know you plan to attend.