2022-2023

“Ox hunger”. Food, psyche and society in ancient eating disturbances

Birth, Breastfeeding, and Ballots: Expanding the History and Concept of Reproductive Rights

Faculty Work-in-Progress: The Neural Orchestra: Music, Metaphor, and the Brain

Celebrity, Politics, Power: The Fan Future of the Electorate 

In her talk, Kathryn Lofton, Professor of Religious Studies, American Studies, and History and Dean of the Humanities at Yale University, uses celebrity to think about political power. It explains how any analysts of American politics need to understand, among many other politically consequential facts, what Kanye West is saying and why Madison Cawthorn’s divorce mattered. Thinking about celebrity allows us to consider how individuals may deploy their stories to purposes bigger than mere ratings, how popularity is a resource to be molded as much as it is chased.

Graduate Work-in-Progress: Battle of the Bands: Instruments, Mechanical Cultures, and Sonic Metaphors of Nineteenth-Century French Empire

2022 Rose Wohlgemuth Weisman Women’s Voices Lecture - The Power of Intimate Voices: A Talk on Memoir, Journalism, and Queer Latinidad

How do authors find the courage to write about their lives? How do they write stories about the lives of strangers in an ethical way? Author Daisy Hernández has been writing across literary genres about the intersections of race, immigration, class and sexuality for almost two decades. In this lecture, she discusses how writers create intimacy on the page with themselves and with readers and how this intimacy ultimately speaks to urgent collective experiences of political life.  

The 2022 Walter A. Strauss Lecture Series - The City as Stage: Theatricality and Illusion in the Postclassical Greek Polis

Angelos Chaniotis, Professor, Ancient History and Classics, Institute for Advanced Study

The 2022 Walter A. Strauss Lecture Series - The City as Stage: Theatricality and Illusion in the Postclassical Greek Polis

Angelos Chaniotis, Professor, Ancient History and Classics, Institute for Advanced Study

The 2022 Walter A. Strauss Lecture Series - The City as Stage: Theatricality and Illusion in the Postclassical Greek Polis

Angelos Chaniotis, Professor, Ancient History and Classics, Institute for Advanced Study

Graduate Work-in-Progress - Idol Viewing & Idle Viewing: Exploring Erasures in the Munich Rashi