Rethinking Global Cultures
The Center for the Humanities would like to extend a warm welcome to the new academic year.
We have an exciting and still developing roster of public events on tap for this year’s theme, “Rethinking Global Cultures.”
Our visitors will give us new perspectives on the global dimensions of geographic roaming, transfer and exchange of knowledge, relationships of power, and the less known lives of communities, societies, and marginal groups.
Students, interested in global cultures?
Why not earn a credit per semester and get the most out of the series? Register for the center’s year-long seminar, Rethinking Global Cultures (HUM-SOC 295-03/SST 295-04). You’ll read and discuss a selection of each visitor’s work and contribute writing for a public-facing digital humanities project.
Faculty and staff, see something you'd like to be a part of?
We encourage you to participate in the seminar as well! Do some speakers pique your interest? Please get in touch with Elizabeth Prevost or Caleb Elfenbein if you would like to join for a session or more.
As always, the center will also be supplementing this programming with other kinds of events geared toward nurturing intellectual life in our community.
Thank you — and we look forward to seeing you at humanities center events this year!
2016-’17 Center for the Humanities Events
Chen Yi, September 13
Professor Chen will discuss how she blends Chinese and Western musical traditions in her musical compositions.
Natalie Rothman, September 26
Professor Rothman will explore cultural mediation in the early modern Mediterranean, tracing movements and developments across cultures and empires.
Webb Keane, November 1
Professor Keen will discuss his work on social and cultural theory around questions of ethics, morality, and media across cultural and disciplinary boundaries.
Sahar Amer, November 16
Professor Amer will speak on cultural borders/relations between Arab and Muslim and Western societies, especially around gender and sexuality.
Humanities Film Festival, February 19 -21
Come join us for an exciting lineup of films and discussions exploring our theme for the year, Rethinking Global Cultures!
Kathleen Newman, February 22
Professor Newman will explore film and transnational social movements, focusing especially on the relation between fiction and politics.
Mimi Sheller, March 1
Professor Sheller will speak on cultures of mobility in the modern era, particularly as they relate to questions of sustainability and Justice.
Khurram Hussein, April 11
Professor Hussein will discuss the intellectual dynamism of modern philosophy in a global setting, highlighting Islamic traditions of thought.