Upcoming Events

Oct 4

12 PM

IMPORTANT

Language, Literacy, and Culture presents Diva Moreira

Black in the Americas Series

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 216 · For their Black in the Americas Series, the Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program presents Diva Moreira Meet Diva Moreira, one of the griots of the Black radical tradition in...

Oct 16

12 PM

IMPORTANT

Spotlight! Symposium: Hoodoo is Black Culture

Ancestor Veneration in the Everyday

Online · Priestess and conjurewoman Toya Smith will trace the everyday cultural aspects of African Americans, exploring how those aspects are influenced by traditional African cultures brought over by...

Oct 16

4:30 PM

IMPORTANT

Language, Literacy, and Culture: Roberto Zurbano Torres

Black in the Americas Series

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 441 · For their Black in the Americas Series, the Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program presents Roberto Zurbano Torres Meet Roberto Zurbano Torres, Cuban-Haitian essayist,...

Oct 19

4 PM

IMPORTANT

Ancient Studies Week with Joseph Howley

Part of our Fall 2023 Humanities Forum

Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn : Gallery · The Department of Ancient Studies presents: Thinking Tools, Artificial Intelligence, and the Enslaved Readers of Ancient Rome Joseph Howley, Associate Professor, Classics, Columbia...

Oct 25

12 PM

IMPORTANT

Temporality, Time Jumping, and the Space Time Continuum

Spotlight! Symposium

Online · Black concepts of time have never been linear and this shows even more in our use and engagement of public history and oral history. In this talk, public historian and curator Orilonise...

Oct 25

4 PM

IMPORTANT

Freedom and a Friend with Aparna Nair

Part of our Fall 2023 Humanities Forum

Online · Freedom and a Friend: Cultural Histories of the Guide Dog in the 20th Century Aparna Nair, Assistant Professor, Health and Society; and the Centre for Global Disability Studies Live...

Nov 1

4:30 PM

IMPORTANT

CAHSS New Faculty Microtalks

Get to know new faculty in our College!

The Commons : Skylight · The Center for Social Science Scholarship, the Dresher Center for the Humanities, and the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences invite you to attend short talks by new faculty in the...

Nov 8

12 PM

IMPORTANT

Spotlight! Symposium: We've Always Banked on Survival

The History of Hoodoo and Climate

Online · This presentation by Hess Love starts with the origins of Hoodoo during the era of chattel slavery, highlighting its significance as a means of protection, empowerment, and survival for...

Nov 8

6 PM

IMPORTANT

45th Annual W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture with Moses E. Ochonu

Part of our Fall 2023 Humanities Forum

University Center : Ballroom · The Department of Africana Studies presents their 45th annual W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Eight Phases of African American (Re)Invention of Africa Moses E. Ochonu, Cornelius Vanderbilt...

Nov 9

4 PM

IMPORTANT

Robert K. Webb Lecture with Julie Gottlieb

Part of our Fall 2023 Humanities Forum

Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn : Gallery · The Department of History presents their annual Robert K. Webb Lecture: ‘The Crisis seems to have filled the world with nervous break-downs’: Narrating Britain’s War of Nerves, 1938-1940...