Events

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We are thrilled to announce that the Spring Athenaeum is back! Please mark your calendars for Tuesday, June 6 at 5PM in Kaplan 193. Erica Weaver will present a paper entitled "The Limits of Attention" and Kersti Francis will present "A Queer Science? Masturbatory Alchemy in Early Modern England," with Sarah Kareem as respondent. Each...

Celebrate the end of spring quarter with a party and reading featuring Author in Residence, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum. Drinks and light refreshments will be served. Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is the author of two novels, Ms. Hempel Chronicles, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and Madeleine Is Sleeping, a finalist for the National Book Award and...

On View Oct 7, 2023- Dec 31, 2024

As part of the CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar graduate course for Fall 2023, Money Matters: Between Antiquity and the Enlightenment (ca. 600-1600), guest lecturer, Wolfgang Mueller (Fordham University) will share about his research that focuses on written norms and laws of the European West between 500 and 1500 CE.  He is author of several scholarly monographs,...

Join us for a poetry reading featuring Dr. Craig Santos Perez. He is the author of two spoken word poetry albums, Undercurrent (2011) and Crosscurrent (2017), and five books of poetry: from unincorporated territory (2008), from unincorporated territory  (2010), from unincorporated territory (2014), from unincorporated territory (2017), and Habitat Threshold (2020). His work has been translated into Chinese, Japanese,...