March 13th, 2022

Prisons and Politics in America

An Exhibit of Art, Poetry, Letters and Prison Resistance from 1890 to Today

This exhibit examines the political reasons for why people are imprisoned: for speaking out, for writing, for violating repressive laws,...

March 14th, 2022

Dissertation Defense: Joy Peltier

“Little Words” in Contact and in Context: Pragmatic Markers in Kwéyòl Donmnik, English, and French

Linguistics PhD candidate Joy Peltier will defend her dissertation on Monday, March 14, at 9 a.m. Title: “Little Words” in Contact and...

Prisons and Politics in America

An Exhibit of Art, Poetry, Letters and Prison Resistance from 1890 to Today

This exhibit examines the political reasons for why people are imprisoned: for speaking out, for writing, for violating repressive laws,...

2022 David Noel Freedman Lecture

Dr. Rhiannon Graybill: "A Grittier Daughter Zion: Reading Lamentations with a Queer Survivor Archive"

The biblical book of Lamentations is a brief but powerful work of ancient poetry that responds to the destruction of Jerusalem by...

March 15th, 2022

Prisons and Politics in America

An Exhibit of Art, Poetry, Letters and Prison Resistance from 1890 to Today

This exhibit examines the political reasons for why people are imprisoned: for speaking out, for writing, for violating repressive laws,...

March 16th, 2022

Prisons and Politics in America

An Exhibit of Art, Poetry, Letters and Prison Resistance from 1890 to Today

This exhibit examines the political reasons for why people are imprisoned: for speaking out, for writing, for violating repressive laws,...

2022 Sociology Winter Colloquium

Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street with Megan Tobias Neely (Copenhagen Business School)

Talk Title: Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street Megan Tobias Neely (Copenhagen Business School)

March 17th, 2022

Prisons and Politics in America

An Exhibit of Art, Poetry, Letters and Prison Resistance from 1890 to Today

This exhibit examines the political reasons for why people are imprisoned: for speaking out, for writing, for violating repressive laws,...

Modern Opera

This lecture will be online

Composer Meredith Monk’s opera “Atlas” is an anomaly. Though operatic in some ways—it prizes the beauty of the human voice—it...

Communication & Media Speaker Series

"The Medium is the Message, Revisited: Media and Black Epistemologies" by Professor Armond Towns, Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa.

Who is the human in media philosophy? Although media philosophers have argued since the twentieth century that media are fundamental to...

March 18th, 2022

Prisons and Politics in America

An Exhibit of Art, Poetry, Letters and Prison Resistance from 1890 to Today

This exhibit examines the political reasons for why people are imprisoned: for speaking out, for writing, for violating repressive laws,...

Smith Lecture - Brian Arbic, University of Michigan

Long-term Earth-Moon Evolution with High-level Orbit and Ocean Tide Models, with Potential Implications for Earth’s Oxygenation

Tidal dissipation in Earth's oceans and solid body cause the distance to the Moon and the length of day to increase over time. Tides...

Webster Reading Series

Showcasing the work of second-year MFA poets and fiction writers

The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. MFA second-year students in fiction and poetry,...

March 19th, 2022

Prisons and Politics in America

An Exhibit of Art, Poetry, Letters and Prison Resistance from 1890 to Today

This exhibit examines the political reasons for why people are imprisoned: for speaking out, for writing, for violating repressive laws,...