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Monday, May 19th, 2025
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Can Storytelling Save The World?
Attica Locke,
Author, Screenwriter, and Producer,
- Public Event
Friday, May 2nd, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History Seminar
Ecosystem Transformation, Climate Change, and Economic Development in Medieval Northern Tuscany (500-1500)
Ned Schoolman,
Department Vice Chair; Professor, Department of History, University of Nevada, Reno,
Thursday, May 1st, 2025
4:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
OXO, Art Spiegelman: Comics, Tic-Tac-Toe, and the Art of Losing
Emmy Waldman,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Department of English,
Virginia Tech,
Monday, April 21st, 2025
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Poetry Reading and Discussion
Jenny Factor,
Lecturer in Poetry,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, April 17th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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History Seminar
American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism
Keidrick Roy,
Junior Fellow,
Harvard Society of Fellows,
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
"The Birth of Poetry From the Spirit of the Machine": Automatic Writing in the 1960s
Tobias Wilke,
Assistant Professor of German,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Monday, February 24th, 2025
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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History Seminar
Legal Traditions in Central and Eastern European Cities in the 14th–16th Centuries: Ius Teutonicum, Local Legislation, and Ius Commune
Maciej Mikuła,
Professor,
Department of Church Law and the Law of Religious Denominations,
Jagiellonian University, Kraków,
Wednesday, January 15th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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► CANCELED: Literary Dimensions Seminar
This seminar has been canceled.
Nicole A. Sütterlin,
Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures,
Harvard University,
Thursday, October 31st, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
What is a machine in the European Middle Ages? Cognition, mechanics, and cosmology in medieval philosophy
Jonathan Morton,
Associate Professor,
Tulane University,
Thursday, May 30th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Serial Blackness: Curating Black Life in William Still's Underground Railroad (1872)
Derrick R. Spires,
Moore Distinguished Scholar, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech; Associate Professor of English and John and Patricia Cochran Scholar of Inclusive Excellence, University of Delware,
Thursday, May 9th, 2024
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
A reading from Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe
Dr. Aomawa Shields,
Clare Boothe Luce Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
UC Irvine,
- Public Event
Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Poetry's Forgotten Information Concepts
Lea Pao,
Assistant Professor of German Studies and Chair of Undergraduate Studies, German Studies, at Stanford University,
Tuesday, January 16th, 2024
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Edan Lepucki reads from and discusses Time's Mouth: A Novel
Edan Lepucki,
Lecturer in Creative Writing,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Tuesday, November 21st, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
When the Greeks Ceased to be Greek: John Milton and Early Modern Greece
Tomos Evans,
Hellenic Research Fellow at California State University, Sacramento, and an Associate Fellow of the Warburg Institute,
Monday, October 9th, 2023
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
The Possibilities: On Weaving Science into Fiction
Yael Goldstein-Love,
Novelist,
- Public Event
Wednesday, May 24th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Humanistic Knowledge and the Science of Learning
Elaine Auyoung, Associate Professor of English and Affiliate Faculty of the Center for Cognitive Sciences, University of Minnesota,
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Poetry Reading
Robin Coste Lewis,
American Poet,
- Public Event
Tuesday, April 4th, 2023
4:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Amerasia
Elizabeth Horodowich,
Department Head,
Department of History,
New Mexico State University,
Alexander Nagel,
Professor of Art History,
New York University,
- Public Event
Tuesday, February 28th, 2023
4:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Image Machines/Computation's Womb
Sarah Pourciau,
Assistant Professor of German,
Duke University,
Thursday, January 12th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
What Plato Can Teach Us About Livestreaming the Police; or, Five Theses on Legal Performance and Spectatorship
Julie Stone Peters,
H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature,
Columbia University,
Monday, November 14th, 2022
4:00pm
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History Seminar Series
The Edge of Understanding: Science in a Bordered World
Yangyang Cheng,
Research Scholar in Law and Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center,
Yale Law School,
Tuesday, November 1st, 2022
4:00pm
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History Seminar
The Great Depression as a global crisis, 1927-37: What do we know?
Stefan Link,
Associate Professor of History,
Dartmouth College,
Wednesday, May 25th, 2022
4:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
The Discovery of Character: Reimagining "Literature and Science" circa 1800
James Chandler,
William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English and the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago,
Friday, May 20th, 2022
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
The University in Space
Lisa Messeri,
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Yale University,
Eun-Joo Ahn,
Graduate Student, Department of History, UC Santa Barbara,
Thursday, May 5th, 2022
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
UnRavelled: Understanding Dementia through Art and Science
Jake Broder,
Playwright, Actor, Composer,
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2022
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
"UnRavelled"
Jake Broder,
Playwright, Actor, Composer,
Friday, April 29th, 2022
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
Organisms in the University
Bradley Bolman,
Historian of Science,
University of Chicago,
Victoria Lee,
History Assistant Professor,
Ohio University,
Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
4:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
The Sentimental Science of Modern Selfhood
Lisa Mendelman,
Assistant Professor of English and Digital Humanities,
Menlo College,
Monday, April 4th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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History Seminar
The Origins of Legal Literature in Europe: From the Big Bang to the Formation of Multiple Galaxies
Emanuele Conte,
Professor of Legal History and Department Director of Legal History and Theory,
at Università degli Studi di Roma Tre,
Friday, February 18th, 2022
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
The Sciences and Humanities in Crisis
Elizabeth Popp Berman,
Associate Professor of Organizational Studies and Sociology,
University of Michigan,
Chad Wellmon,
Professor of German Studies, History, and Media Studies,
University of Virginia,
Friday, November 5th, 2021
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
Situating the University in Time and Space
Sharon Stein,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Educational Studies,
University of British Columbia,
Stephanie Kim,
Assistant Professor of the Practice and Faculty Director of Higher Education Administration,
Georgetown University,
Friday, October 22nd, 2021
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
Genealogies of the University
Mordechai Feingold,
Kate Van Nuys Page Professor of the History of Science and the Humanities,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 18th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Online Event
Poetry Reading
Adrienne Su,
Professor of Creative Writing and Poet-in-Residence,
Dickinson College,
- Public Event
Tuesday, May 4th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Online Event
Poetry Reading
Alberto Ríos,
Writer and Poet,
- Public Event
Wednesday, April 21st, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Online Event
Poetry Reading
Kazim Ali,
Professor of Literature, Creative Writing,
UC San Diego,
- Public Event
Friday, April 16th, 2021
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
Speculative Worlds: Imagining Past and Future Science
Aimee Bahng,
Pomona College,
Kouslaa Kessler-Mata,
University of San Francisco,
Silvia Moreno-Garcia,
Novelist,
Enid Baxter Ryce,
Cal State Monterey Bay,
Banu Subramaniam,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
Lisa Weasel,
Portland State University,
Friday, April 9th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Online Event
Decolonizing Deep History
Pratik Chakrabarti,
Chair in History of Science and Medicine, University of Manchester; Director, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM),
- Public Event
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