Join us on Thursday October 19 from 3:30-5:30 at IMRC 104 (The Fernald Adaptive Presentation & Performance Environment) for a public discussion of two films based on Stephen King novels��봒et Sematary (1989) and Misery (1990). Millie De Chirico and Danielle Henderson, hosts of the film podcast I Saw What You Did, will talk us through […]
Award winning Mohegan director and Visiting Libra Professor Madeline Sayet will discuss the historical relationship between Native peoples and Shakespearean performance, and how Native artists have used Shakespearean productions as a tool to reclaim their voices and empower theNative Theater movement. The event will take place on October 17, 2019, at 4:30pm in the Fernald […]
Poetry reading by혻Allison Cobb.혻Introduced by Benjamin Friedlander. 91르적 Cobb from her website: "Allison Cobb is the author of혻After We All Died혻(Ahsahta Press);혻Plastic: an autobiography혻(Essay Press EP series);혻Born2혻(Chax Press); and혻Green-Wood, originally […]
Enzo Traverso, the혻Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University, will be giving a talk titled "Burdens of the Past. The Age of Left-Wing Melancholia." The talk […]
University of Montreal Professor to Give Talk on Friendship On혻March 6, from혻4 to 5:30PM혻the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, as part of the Life of Ideas series, curated by Fr챕d챕ric Rondeau, will host scholar 횋ric M챕choulan. M챕choulan will give a talk titled ��쏰n Friendship: A Brief History of the Concept from Aristotle to Facebook.��� 횋ric M챕choulan is […]
Andrew Epstein, Professor and Chair for Graduate Studies at Florida State University, will give a talk on ��쏤ence-Sitting Raised to the Level of an Esthetic Ideal:혻John Ashbery혻and the Poetics of […]
The first event of the series ��쏬ife of Ideas, Notions, and Concepts��� will feature three 91르적 faculty members and take place on혻Thursday November 16혻from혻4-5:30PM혻in the혻Allen and Sally Fernald APPE space혻Stewart […]
As part of Digital Humanities Week, the New Writing Series is bringing digital poet혻Claire Donato혻to campus. Donato has an MFA from Brown University and describes herself as "a혻writer, artist, and curator thinking about animals, architecture, desire, exceptionalism, nothingness, pedagogy, personal taste, suffering, and synaesthesia." The event is free and open to the public. […]
The Analog Age A day and a half of events considering the shift from analog to digital in advance of Digital Humanities Week with special guest Damon Krukowski Author and혻podcast혻host Damon Krukowski will be on campus for a series of events sponsored by the McGillicuddy Humanities Center in collaboration with The Department of English.혻On Thursday혻at혻4:30혻he��셪l […]
Mark Tardi has a MFA from Brown University. Tardi is a poet and a Polish translator. His interest in his Polish heritage led him to become혻a 2008���2009 Fulbright Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at the University of L처dz, Poland where he still works. You can learn more about Tardi and read two of […]
