African Studies Global Virtual Forum: Decoloniality and Southern...
Rebecca Y. Bayeck Abstract Title: “Making sense of classic African board games in the algorithmic era” Games and gameplay have long been perceived as spaces of fun, where learning anything important to...
View Article“Balancing Research, Collaboration, and the Self: A Scholar-Activist Working...
Bri Romanello will be joining us on campus on Friday, November 1 to discuss her research, activism, and public service. As a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Bri has been assisting the National Park Service...
View ArticleSanctions as a Geopolitical Tool
Presentations: Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Professor of Economics, Virginia Tech: “Iran Sanctions: What Worked and What Didn't” Mattie Webb, Kissinger Visiting Scholar, Yale University: “Sanctions and...
View Article“Don’t Play Ball with South Africa: The Ethics, History and Politics of the...
Abstract: As nations across the world grapple with the implications of the invasion of Ukraine by choosing to sever sporting and other cultural, political, and economic ties with Russia, my project...
View Article“Justice for Climate Researchers”
Abstract: Climate researchers, especially modellers and scenario builders, are increasingly demanding justice, or at least an adequate understanding of what “justice” means. This presentation lays out...
View ArticleThe 2024 Emily Dickinson Lectureship in American Poetry presents Ilya Kaminsky
Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union, in 1977, and arrived to the United States in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the government. He is the author of Deaf Republic...
View ArticleWGSS Speaker Series: Sam C. Tenorio
Sam C. Tenorio's new book Jump: Black Anarchism and Antiblack Carcerality emerges through the leaps of the enslaved from the overwhelming geographic violence of the slave ships that carried them....
View ArticleAfrican Studies Global Virtual Forum: Decoloniality and Southern...
“From Capturing Grammars to Understanding Speaker’s language practices ” Although sociolinguistic research is dedicated to exploring the sociocultural embeddedness of language, research has...
View ArticleMoral Psychology Research Group / Consortium on Moral Decision-Making...
This conference is a crossover event, hosted by the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making and with the Moral Psychology Research Group. Taya Cohen (Professor of Organizational Behavior and Business...
View Article“Prophets, intrigue and redemption at the Achaemenid court: 4Q550 as...
A newly restored small Aramaic scroll from Qumran called 4Q550 reveals an unexpected text: it contains an Achaemenid Persian court-tale set in the court of king Xerxes I. The narrative’s main heroes...
View ArticleDrag Makeup Social
Join us for an exciting Makeup Social where you’ll have the chance to learn the art of drag and drag makeup directly from the talented queens of Opulence. During this social, our fabulous drag queens...
View ArticleUnprecedented: Isolation/Communication
The Center for American Literary Studies “Unprecedented” webinar series grew out of the online-only days of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to “Unprecedented,” Americans during that period heard a...
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