Book Talk: How to Be a (Happy) Skeptic
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.
Orbáns Defeat and the Future of the Global Far Right
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.
The Work of the Humanist: A Conversation
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.
Book Talk: Keeper of My Kin
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).
Manorexia: How anorexia and bodybuilding helped me navigate locker-rooms, gyms, jails and other male spaces
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.
Book Talk: Middlemen
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.
Irvin Weathersby Jr. longlisted for PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith award for Nonfiction
In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Spaces has been longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, for “a distinguished book of general nonfiction possessing notable literary merit and critical perspective that illuminates important contemporary issues.”
Stripmining History: How the ‘AI’ Industry Extracts the Past & What Scholars in the Humanities Can Do to Stop It
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.
Surrealism: A Scattershot of Anticolonial thought
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.
Truth, Memory and Accountability for Mass Atrocity: Comparative Perspectives
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.