Fall 2024
October 30 | 5 pm | Dwinelle 6331
Roundtable with Jonas Roelens (University of Ghent) and Thomas W. Laqueur (UC Berkeley), around Jonas Roelens, Citizens and Sodomites: Persecution and Perception of Sodomy in the Southern Low Countries (1400-1700)
November 7 | 5 pm | Wheeler 300
"The Principal Ruffian," a talk by Professor Rachel Eisendrath (Barnard). "The Principal Ruffian" is a story about a con man in New York City who is made to confront his own underlying nihilism. The story is also about a country cut adrift from awareness of its own historical content--and about my experiments, as a scholar of ancient and early modern literature, to depict the subjective experience of this national psychic self-ignorance. Homer and Shakespeare figure prominently.
Sponsored by the Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair in English.
November 13 | 5 pm | Dwinelle 6331
Arielle Saiber (Jonhs Hopkins), A Psychedelic Renaissance: Contemporary Psychopharmacology Meets Premodernity
November 15-16 | Berkeley-Stanford Symposium
Braudel’s La Méditerranée (1949): Paradigms and Possibilities after 75 Years. See Full Program here.
(2 day conference: Friday 15 at Stanford CMEMS and Saturday 16 the Townsend Center)
November 20 | 5:00 - 6:30 pm | Institute of South Asian Studies (10 Stephens Hall)
Tamara Sears (Rutgers University), Wilderness Urbanisms: On Politics, Nature, and Travel in the Peripheries of Premodern India