Past Events

A patchwork quilt bordered by patches reading 'The Art of Fiction.'

Professor Patricia Zakreski, Associate Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter, specializes in women’s work, art, and authorship in the nineteenth century. She has published widely on these topics, including several co-edited volumes, and is currently completing a monograph on authorship and the decorative arts.

This event is open to the public.

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A talk by Rhiana Gunn-Wright, a Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and chief policy architect of the Green New Deal—a policy framework that puts justice at the center of climate action.

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Apr. 26, 2024, 5:00 p.m.

Author Catherine Tan, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Vassar College, will be sharing her book, Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge. Reception to follow.

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Mar. 27, 2024, 5:00 p.m.

Vassar alum Ross Benjamin ’03 will discuss his Guggenheim scholarship-funded work: An essential new translation of Kafka’s complete, uncensored diaries.

A black and white drawing depicting a scene from Shakespear's Othello, in which Othello, holding a pillow, tries to smother his wife, Desdemona, who cowers in bed.

Professor Miles P. Grier (Queens College, CUNY and CUNY Graduate Center) offers a lecture based on his research on the transatlantic performance history of Shakespeare’s Othello, Shakespeare and early modern science, and Black Atlantic responses from Wheatley to Toni Morrison.

Campus community only, please.