Robert Proctor

Professor of History of Science, Stanford University

Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition

Workshop on Grant-Writing for Dissertation Completion Fellowships and Postdoctoral Fellowships

Cosponsored by
the Department of English
and the Department of
Art & Art History

Brian Maidment

Professor of English, Liverpool John Moores University

The Comic Image in British Print Culture 1820-1850

Digital Humanities

Alan Liu

Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara

Key Trends in Digital Humanities (and How the Digital Humanities Register Changes in the Humanities)

Against the Cultural Singularity: Drafts for a Critical Digital Humanities

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William Walker

Professor, Otto G. Richter Library; Former Dean and University Librarian

Introduction to the World's Great Research Libraries and Their Cultures: Unlocking Their Collections and Resources

Sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, the Joseph Carter Fund, the Center for Latin American Studies, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Center for the Humanities

Global Imaginaries, Media and Aesthetics
A Symposium on the Work of Néstor García, Canclini

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2013-2014 Center for the Humanities Fellows Symposium

KATHAKALI

Live Traditional Dance of India

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Cosponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and Otto G. Richter Library

Digital Humanities

John Unsworth

Vice Provost for Libraries/IT, Brandeis University

History of Computational Methods in the Humanities and Other Domains

Digital Humanities for Deans and Department Heads

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Cosponsored with the Graduate School and the Toppel Career Center

Expanding Career Opportunities for Humanities Ph.D.s

Workshop on Turning Your CV Into a Resumé

Petra Doan

Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida State University

The Demise of Queer Space? The Role of Planning in Atlanta’s LGBT Spaces

Anastasia Bakogianni

Lecturer in Classical Studies, The Open University, UK

Antigone on Stage and Screen: A Modern Greek Female Rebel

Carol Berkin

Presidential Professor Emerita, CUNY Graduate Center

Daughters of Liberty: Women in the American Revolution

Thursday 10-30-14

7:00 PM

Public Lecture: Daughters of Liberty CAS Gallery ‌ Click here to listen to the podcast

Anne J. Cruz

Professor of Spanish, University of Miami

The Life and Writings of Luisa de Caravajal y Mendoza

Pamela Hammons

Professor of English, University of Miami

Katherine Austen's Book M:
A London Widow’s Life Writings

William Walker

Professor, Otto G. Richter Library; Former Dean and University Librarian

The British Library

The Bodleian (Oxford) and Cambridge University Library

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Cosponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and Otto G. Richter Library

Digital Humanities

Raymond Siemens

Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing, University of Victoria

Curriculum, Community, and the Methodological Commons in the Context of the Digital Humanities

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Cosponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and Otto G. Richter Library

Digital Humanities

Lynne Siemens

Associate Professor in the School of Public Administration, University of Victoria

Building and Supporting DH Community, Local and Beyond

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Emily Greenwood

Professor of Classics, Yale University

Mobilizing Classics and the Mobility of Classics in African and Black Diasporic Literatures

Writing a Great War: Thucydides and Literary Memoirs of the First World War

Viviana Díaz Balsera

Professor of Spanish
University of Miami

Rachel A. May

Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
University of South Florida

Digital Humanities

Dan Cohen

Founding Executive Director, Digital Public Library of America

Exploration and Discovery in the Digital Public Library of America

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Cosponsored with the Graduate School and the College of Arts & Sciences

Expanding Career Opportunities for Ph.D.s

Secrets of a Ph.D. Headhunter – 5 Key Tips for Landing a Job Outside Academia

Rita Felski

William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English, University of Virginia

Critical and Postcritical Reading

Animal Studies and Environmental Humanities Lecture

Cosponsored by the Department of History

Joan B. Landes

Walter L. and Helen Ferree Professor of History
Pennsylvania State University

Elephants without Borders: Exhibition, Art, and Science

William Walker

Professor, Otto G. Richter Library; Former Dean and University Librarian

The New York Public Library

The Library of Congress, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Huntington Library, the Newberry Library, and the Harry Ransom Center (U Texas - Austin)

Peter Kivy

Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University

Facts from Fictions

Rita Dove

Commonwealth Professor of English, University of Virginia

History’s Crevices: Sonata Mulattica's Forgotten Policy

Cosponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and Otto G. Richter Library

Digital Humanities

Tara McPherson

Associate Professor of Critical Studies, University of Southern California

Scholarship by Design: The Humanities + the Digital

The Digital Humanities for the Rest of Us

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Tracy Sharpley-Whiting

Distinguished Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and French
Vanderbilt Unviersity

The Paris Transfer: African American Women in the City of Light Between the Two Great Wars

Presented by the Department of
Modern Languages and Literatures

Cosponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Center for the Humanities

William Walker

Professor, Otto G. Richter Library; Former Dean and University Librarian

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and Biblioteca Nacional de España

Duncan Faherty

Associate Professor of English, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

"To exclude the use of foreign sugars:" Haiti, Narrative Temporality, and the Early American Novel

Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Chancellor Professor of History, University of California - Irvine
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar

Making Sense of Contemporary China

Presented by
the Department of Classics

Cosponsored by
the Center for the Humanities

American Conference for Irish Studies

National Chapter Meeting

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Wilmot James

Member of Parliament, South Africa

Nelson Mandela and the Making of Modern South Africa

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Cosponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and Otto G. Richter Library

Digital Humanities

Julia Flanders

Head of Digital Scholarship Group; Professor of the Practice of English, Northeastern University

Skills, Tools, and Knowledge Work in the Digital Academy

Big Data, Small Data, Well-Shaped Data

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William Wallace

Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History

Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel: 500 Years

Edward Muir

Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts & Sciences, Northwestern University

Ruggiero's Renaissance

Cosponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and Otto G. Richter Library

Digital Humanities

Edward Ayers

President, University of Richmond

The University in the Digital World