All Topics (February 15 through February 29)
Thursday, February 15
- 5:00 PM Nancy J. Smith-Hefner on "Terms of Endearment: Love and Angst among Indonesian Youth"
- 7:00 PM Global Read Webinar with author Rimma Onoseta
Friday, February 16
- 12:00 PM Along the Faultlines of Religion, Politics, and Gender: Early Muslim Responses to the Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929
- 2:30 PM Dennis Wuerthner - Translating Poems and Stories from Medieval Korea
Tuesday, February 20
- 5:00 PM Dr. Tal Brewer on “Word by Word: Writing, Humanity, & AI”
- Sarah Rahnama on Women and Social Change in Algeria
Wednesday, February 21
- 12:20 PM Archaeology Seminar Series Talk: A bioarchaeological approach to house kinship at ancient Megiddo
- 6:00 PM Screening of "Welcoming The Embrace": a documentary for Boston
Thursday, February 22
- 5:00 PM Lectures in Criticism: Sunil Sharma on "The Episodic Reception of Medieval Persian Women Poets"
Friday, February 23
- 12:00 PM Boston Poetics Workshop
- Laurence Breiner on "Semantic Space and Decolonization in Anglophone West Indian Poetry"
- 2:00 PM The Power of Narrative
- 2:30 PM Jee Leong Koh - Living the Li(f)e of Translation in English
Monday, February 26
Tuesday, February 27
- 5:00 PM Ian Johnson on "Counter-History in China: Challenging the Headline Narratives"
- 6:00 PM Charisse Burden-Stelly on "Resisting the Black Scare/Red Scare: Radical Black Women against Triple Oppression, 1917-1957"
- 7:30 PM Creative Writing Program Annual Faculty Reading
Wednesday, February 28
- 12:20 PM Oil in Stereo: Ancestry Through Infrastructure
- 2:00 PM American Studies for the Future: Takeo Rivera on "Another Joke is Possible: Kristina Wong and Mutual Aid Carnivalesque"
- 4:00 PM A Book Talk on Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia: Democracy and the Quest for an inclusive Public Ethics
- 5:00 PM American Studies for the Future: Diana Taylor
- 5:30 PM Christopher Rea on "Chinese Cinema Meets Digital Humanities"
- 7:00 PM An Evening with David Grann