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CHAT Spring 2010 Events
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February
Wednesday, February 17, 4:30-6:30pm
Center for the Humanities
48 Professors Row
Socialism in a Top Hat
Professor Elisa New, Department of English, Harvard University will discuss her
new book Jacob's Cane: A Jewish Family's Journey from the Four Lands of
Lithuania to the ports of London and
Baltimore. Q&A and reception to follow.
Tuesday, February 23, 12pm
Center for the Humanities, 48 Professors Row
Reforming the Humanities
Lunchtime talk with Peter Levine, Director of Research, Tisch College of
Citizenship and
Public Service.
March
Thursday, March 11, 12pm
Center for the Humanities, 48 Professors Row
THE HUMANITIES AND THE BODY IV: Over My Dead Body: The Surprising History of
Dead Bodies Under American Law.
Lunchtime talk with Professor Ray Madoff, Boston College Law School.
April
Thursday, April 8, 5:30 - 7:30pm
Remis Sculpture Court
Aidekman Arts Center
40R Talbot Avenue
Spinoza and the Good Life
Lecture with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, novelist and philosopher. Author of
The Mind-Body Problem, Betraying Spinoza, and 36 Arguments for the Existence of
God: A Work of Fiction. Q&A and reception to follow.
Tuesday, April 13, 12:00pm
Center for the Humanities, 48 Professors Row
The Good Life Roundtable Discussion
Critical Perspectives from the Humanities on Active
Citizenship. Roundtable discussion with Neil Van Leeuwen,
Charles Inouye, and Jennifer London.
Thursday, April 15, 5:30 - 7:30pm
Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall
Co-Sponsored with Tufts Environmental Institute and the Africana Center.
My Garden
Lecture with Jamaica Kincaid award winning author and Professor of Literature at
Claremont McKenna College. Kincaid’s acclaimed literary works include The
Autobiography of My Mother, Annie John, My Garden, and Among the Flowers. Q&A
and reception to follow.
Thursday, April 29, 5:30 - 7:30pm
Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall
Co-Sponsored with The Fares Center
Naif Al-Mutawa
An evening with Tufts alumnus Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa, creator of THE 99, the world’s
first superhero comic books based on Islamic culture and society.
Transnational Studies Working Group
Transnational Studies responds to a new consensus among a
growing number of academics that the categories used to study
social practices, identity construction (racial, queer, or
otherwise) and historical causation need to be reconsidered and
revised. In particular, the nation-state, while of enduring
importance in our contemporary period as it has been through the
modern age, does not exhaust or fully determine the reach and
complexity of human interactions and movements.
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