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CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now

Meredith Oyen (History) and Jason Loviglio (MCS)

Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 216

Date & Time

November 29, 2017, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Description

Fall 2017 Works-in-Progress Talks Shanghai Survivors: World war Two's Displaced Persons in Asia and the International Politics of Refugee Resettlement Meredith Oyen, Associate Professor,...

New Faculty Micro-Talks

Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 132

Date & Time

October 26, 2017, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Description

The Dresher Center for the Humanities, in partnership with The College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, invites you to attend an afternoon of short talks by new faculty in the College....

CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now

Mary Laurents (LLC) and Nicole King (American Studies)

Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 216

Date & Time

October 23, 2017, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Description

Fall 2017 Works-in-Progress Talks The Marginalization of Privilege: The Fracture of Upper Class Identity in WWI Britain Mary Laurents, PhD Student, Language, Literary, and Culture; Dresher...

CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now

Chris Varlack (ENGL) and Brian Norman (Loyola University MD)

Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 216

Date & Time

October 16, 2017, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Description

Fall 2017 Works-in-Progress Talks Reclaiming the Black Group Soul: Blueprints for Black Infrastructure in Claude McKay's Amiable with Big Teeth Chris Varlack, Lecturer, English In...

CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now

Erin Berry (LLC) and Kevin Omland (Biological Sciences)

Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 216

Date & Time

October 2, 2017, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Description

Fall 2017 Works-in-Progress Talks "They Ask, Why Do You Talk Like That; I Ask, Why Don't You Want to Talk Like That?": Analyzing the Online Speech and Identity Practices of Black Female...

2017 Sound Studies Symposium on Friday, May 5th, 3-4:30 P.M.

Presentations by Sound Studies Faculty Working Group

Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : Music Box

Date & Time

May 5, 2017, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Description

Members of the interdisciplinary Sound Studies Faculty Working Group, supported by the Dresher Center for the Humanities, will present recent work and research in the arts and humanities on...

CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now

Jessica Pfeifer & Lisa Vetter

Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 216

Date & Time

December 5, 2016, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Description

Fall 2016 Works-in-Progress Talks All events begin at noon with lunch served at 11:30 Dresher Center Conference Room, PAHB 216 The Dresher Center’s CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now lunchtime...

City of Dreams

The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York

Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 216

Date & Time

November 14, 2016, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Description

City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York Tyler Anbinder, Professor of History George Washington University Monday, November 14  5:30 P.M. Dresher Center Conference...