Katerina Clark, a native of Australia, is a Professor of Comparative Literature and of Slavic Languages and Literature at Yale University, and has taught at SUNY Buffalo, Wesleyan University, the University of Texas at Austin, Indiana University and Berkeley.  Her present book project, tentatively titled Eurasia without Borders?: Leftist Internationalists and Their Cultural Interactions, 1917–1943, looks at attempts in those decades to found a “socialist global ecumene,” which was to be closely allied with the anticolonial cause.

Join Elaine Tyler May (Fortress America) and Linda Gordon (The Second Coming of the KKK) as they discuss their new books with moderator Sara Evans. 

This event is presented by the History Department and cosponsored by the Institute for Advanced Study.

This lecture will discuss how our understanding of the category "land" shifts as and when we try bring into conversation the concerns of postcolonial histories and those generated by discussions of climate change and the Anthropocene.

This talk presented as a part of the 2018 Sawyer Seminar. It is additionally cosponsored by the departments of History, Political Science, and American Indian Studies.

José Antonio Aponte was a free black man in nineteenth-century Havana. He was also a visual artist and a revolutionary. In fact, he used his art as a way to think about and plot revolution. In 1812, authorities hanged him for his leadership of a failed antislavery rebellion, and sometime after that his major work of art—a “book of paintings” with 63 images disappeared.

Join us for a discussion of Joanna Scott's new novel, Careers for Women, which foregrounds the story of Pauline Moreau, whose life is determined in large measure by two business executives. What makes this novel so profoundly haunting are Scott’s subtle references to the business practices and mentalities that underlie the construction and destruction of the Twin Towers. In an eerie manner, this is a powerful novel about 9/11.

The IAS is pleased to cosponsor this talk, presented by the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, by Professor Konrad Schmid of the University of Zurich.

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Learn from an arts and culture innovator about cultivation methods, engagement strategies, and cultural advocacy practices to enrich your socially responsive practice. Liberated space is right below your feet as you discover your role in championing change; find inspiration in heritage and community histories; and seek justice in museums, society, and beyond.

In the song “Immigrants (We Get the Job Done)” from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton Mixtape, the settlement of the Americas is framed through liberal understandings of arrival that transform chattel slavery and forced labor into the exceptional narratives of pulling oneself up from hard labor to freedom. It reflects current political mobilizations against xenophobia and immigration bans that insist that we are all immigrants to the Americas.

As we think through new technologies, and those currently in development, questions of "smart" devices, and what we mean through the term artificial intelligence come to mind. This discussion looks at issues of intelligence and consciousness as these technologies integrate themselves more and more into our everyday lives.   A panel discussion with Volkan Isler (Computer Science), Tom Wolfe (History) and Michael Maratsos (Child Psychology) This discussion is co-sponsored by the departments of Computer Science, History, Child Psychology, Neuroscience, and Research Computing.