‘Hidden Figures’
Margot Lee Shetterly brings into view the crucial role played by four African-American women...
‘Writing to Save a Life’
John Edgar Wideman searches in searing prose for Louis Till, father of Emmett Till,...
‘House of Lords and Commons’
Ishion Hutchinson returns to the difficult beauty of the Jamaican landscape with lyric precision,...
Cal Health DataFest
A conference for Bay Area and Northern California specialists and advocates of data science...
Gunn’s ‘Ideas to Live For’
Giles Gunn asks how our sense of the human might be reconstructed, not around...
‘Intimacies of Continents’
Lisa Lowe reads across archives and literatures in Europe, Africa, Asia, Americas to connect...
BEINGS Summit at Emory
Emory University hosts “Biotechnology and the Ethical Imagination: A Global Summit 2015” (BEINGS 2015),...
‘Prose of the World’
Saikat Majumdar examines how the affective experience of colonialism shaped the aesthetics we now...
Race, Health, Inequalities
University of California San Francisco hosts an interdisciplinary conversation on approaches in science to...
Hoyos’ ‘Beyond Bolaño’
Hector Hoyos challenges world literature as a homogenizing literary endeavor, focusing on how globalizing...
Spivak’s ‘Readings’
Gayatri Spivak elaborates a mode of attention to and analysis of literature, writing, society...
‘Habeas Viscus’
Alexander Weheliye examines the centrality of race to notions of the human, showing us...
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