How are new media ecologies changing literary production and literary culture, criticism, and scholarship? What is the relationship between the work done at institutions of higher education and the discussion on social media platforms? Between academic scholarship and its alternatives?
Join us for a talk by Quinn Slobodian, who will help us make sense of the phenomenon he calls “Muskism.”
Using the ancient Roman public advocate, statesman, and thinker Marcus Tullius Cicero as his guide, Massimo Pigliucci reveals the way to a meaningful, happy life.
What is the future of the Global Far Right in the light of the defeat of Viktor Orbán in Hungary’s elections last spring? Join us for a panel discussion about these questions.
In this session, humanities scholars step back from these external defenses and discuss the core of what humanists do and what they think are the best practices for doing it.
Historian Ada Ferrer will talk about the intersection between family, memoir and history, and her forthcoming book, Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter (Scribner 2026).
Harold Aram Veeser, English Professor and 2025-2026 Rifkind Fellow will read from and discuss his book in progress, a memoir of male anorexia confessions. While current hospital records show that more males than ever are presenting with eating disorders, few male anorexic memoirs have appeared.
Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction (forthcoming in April from Princeton University Press) takes readers behind the scenes to show how agents influence what we read.
Across the globe, survivors, activists and nations search for productive ways of moving forward in the aftermaths of mass atrocities. Louis Bickford and Eduardo González have worked in many such areas. In conversation with Prof. Mikhal Dekel, they will talk about their lived experiences: challenges, successes, and the ideas and ideals that animate them.
Across the globe, survivors, activists and nations search for productive ways of moving forward in the aftermaths of mass atrocities. Louis Bickford and Eduardo González have worked in many such areas. In conversation with Prof. Mikhal Dekel, they will talk about their lived experiences: challenges, successes, and the ideas and ideals that animate them.