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CHRONOLOGICAL LISTING
(Cover image: The Pot Calls the Kettle Black #4, 2021 by Sreshta Rit Premanth)
Tues Feb 11: Poetics of Repair: Artistic Afterlives of Colonial-Era Mass Housing in the Maghreb
Kashia Pieprzak (Williams College) with Denise Buell
Wed Feb 19: Kafka at 100: Of Monsters, Media and Metamorphoses
Mark Anderson (Columbia University) with Christophe Koné
Wed Feb 26: Literary Training in Medieval China: Evidence from Dunhuang Manuscripts
Christopher Nugent (Williams College) with Man He
Thurs Feb 27: Lunchtime Book Club
Edouard Louis Change: A Novel (2024)
Tues March 4: Exhibitionism: Fashion History Museums
Valerie Steele (FIT NYC) with Pamela Franks
Wed March 5: ENGAGE: Indigenous, Black, and Afro-Indigenous Futures
Panel discussion led by Joy James and Christine DeLucia with
- Dian Million, University of Washington
- Stephanie Lumsden, UCLA
- Margaux Kristjansson, Syracuse University
Tues March 11: The Politics of Civil Rights Memory from the Civil Rights Movement to Gen Z Activism Today
Hajar Yazdiha (University of Southern California) with Christina Simko
Fri April 4 & Sat April 5: Poiema: Poetry and Pottery in Ancient Greece
A workshop with
- Seth Estrin, Harvard University
- Melissa Mueller, UMass-Amherst
- Sarah Nooter, University of Chicago
- Sarah Olsen, Williams College
- Najee Olya, College of William and Mary
- Jennifer Stager, Johns Hopkins University
- Naomi Weiss, Harvard University
Tues April 8: The Long Echo: Writing Civil War, Memory and Resilience
Aminatta Forna (Georgetown University) with Karen Shepard
Thurs April 10: Womb Aesthetics and the Political
Rizvana Bradley (UC Berkeley) with Joy James
Wed April 16: Afterlives of South Vietnam: Reflections on 50 Years of Transformations in Gender Relations, Labor, and Migration
Panel discussion led by Associate Professor of History Jessica Chapman with
- Christina Hughes, Macalester College
- Jennifer Huynh, Notre Dame
- Andrew Le, Arizona State University
- Khoi Nguyen, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- Phung Su, UC Santa Barbara
Wed April 23: Writing Palestine: On Translation, Exile, and the Language of Memory
Antón Shammás (University of Michigan) with Amal Eqeiq
Thurs May 1: Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restriction, Racial Segregation, and Urban Inequality
Colin Gordon (University of Iowa) with Lara Shore-Sheppard
Wed May 7: Screening of “Joyless Street” (Germany, 1925) directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Thurs May 8: A Discussion with Daniel Kehlmann, author of “The Director” (2025)
Daniel Kehlmann with Christophe Koné and Dukes Love
May 14-16 : LACSU Annual Meeting
Thurs May 29: End of the Year Party