Public Events
14
April2022
Trans Studies and Why It Matters: A Conversation with Alexa Alice JoubinChaired by Lynn Westwater
12
April2022
Truth, Lies and DemocracyPresentation by Sophia Rosenfeld, author of Democracy and Truth: A Short History
3
February2022
Personality Cults and the Authoritarian PlaybookPresentation by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
7
May2021
Politics & Performance of Cultural RebirthPanel Discussion
16
April2021
Rabid Ecologies in the Early Modern WorldPanel Discussion
5
February2021
Cultures and Methodologies of Social and Political ChangePanel Discussion
4
February2021
“‘The Hill We Climb’: Power and Pageantry of Presidential Inauguration”Panel Discussion
14
January2021
Self-Reckoning in the Year II: A Chapter in the Cultural Anthropology of Criminal Justice in the French RevolutionCarla Hesse
13
January2021
Democracy Under Siege: Explaining the MAGA Uprising
Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion
Member Events
22
April 2022
Costs of ReproductionSara Matthiesen
1
April2022
Testimonio, Precarity, and Migrancy in Contemporary Mexican LiteratureManuel R. Cuellar
4
March2022
What was the World Trade Center?Dara Orensteiin
4
February2022
Archives, Lies and VideotapesWilliam Lafi Youmans
14
January2022
Before Rights: Mazzini’s Globalized Democratic NationalismTheo Christov
5
November2021
Screening Transgender ShakespeareAlexa Alice Joubin
1
October2021
The Columbian College Riot of 1847: Slavery and Student Activism at Early GWPhillip Troutman
3
September2021
Truth and Lies: Opening Meeting
30
April2021
Slavery and Quarantine Practices in Fifteenth-Century ValenciaAbigail Agresta
26
March2021
Revolution, Catastrophe, and Elephants: The Chrono-economics of Capitalist ExtinctionTrevor Jackson
5
March2021
Overdosing on Radical Self-Care in the Black Feminist Tradition and Womanist Praxis: A Holistic AutoethnographyJameta Barlow
19
February2021
The Things They Made: The Arts & Crafts of Boer Prisoners of WarJennifer Wells
29
January2021
The COVID-19 Crisis and American Astrologers William Burns
18
December2020
Pages of the Uyghur Past: A User-Friendly Archive for a Community in CrisisEric Schluessel
4
December2020
Creative Contagion and the Diffusion of Innovation: Social Network Analysis and the Plague of Ancient AthensDiane Harris Cline
30
October2020
Reading and Meaning in Early Modern and Modern HumanismsHeather Bamford
2
October2020
“Not Just Churches”: American Jews, Joint Church Aid, and the Nigeria-Biafra War Melani McAlister
25
September2020
Climate Change—and COVID-19—in American Popular CultureMichael Svoboda
4
September2020
Cautionary Tales of Abundance: Gaster (Waste) in Rabelais’s Gargantua and PantagruelPauline Goul