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Pheng Cheah Ph.D. ’98 to deliver Culler Theory Lecture

3/7/2024 by : Julie McLean , A&S Communications

This year’s Culler Theory Lecture at the Society for the Humanities will examine philosophical accounts of the ways in which we organize the concept of reality. Entitled “Beyond the World as Picture: Worlding and Becoming the Whole World [devenir tout le monde],” the Culler Lecture will be delivered by Pheng Cheah Ph.D. ’98, professor of rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley…

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Conference highlights humanities projects on the theme of “Crossing”

10/20/2023 by : Julie McLean , Society for the Humanities

… Crossing conference is planned for April 25-26, 2024, at the A.D. White House. Julie McLean is program …

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Poet and scholar of digital media to deliver annual Digital Humanities Lecture

10/6/2023 by : Julie McLean , A&S Communications

Network engineer-turned-professor of English Tung-Hui Hu will offer insight into the rapidly expanding field of the digital humanities as this year’s Digital Humanities Lecturer. His talk, “The Grid vs. the Set: Early Attempts at Classifying Data,” will be on Wednesday, October 18, at 5 p.m. in the A.D. White House’s Guerlac Room. The lecture is free and open to the public and will be followed by…

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Conference explores the theme of “Repair” from multiple humanities disciplines

10/10/2022 by : Julie McLean , A&S Communications

When ruptures, fissures and breaks can no longer be ignored, it’s time for repair, this year's Society for the Humanities annual theme.  The Society's annual fall conference will address the theme of Repair over the course of two days, Oct. 20-21, in 10 brief talks and two longer keynote lectures. The conference serves as the second event in the 2022-23 Society for the Humanities year of…