Please join us for a brown bag lunch colloquium with Jeffrey Riegel, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Sydney, Australia. On Propriety, Ambition, and Courage: The “Unmoved Heart” of Mengzi 孟子 2A2 Revisited Tuesday, April 15, 202512:00-1:30...
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Forugh Farrokhzad (1934-1967) redefined Persian poetry by writing about sex and desire from a woman’s perspective. Though censored in her lifetime, her work gained posthumous global recognition, especially with Let’s Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season (1974). In...
Latinx Colombians are simultaneously hyper-visible and unseen. Latinx Colombianidades, an interdisciplinary edited volume in process, moves beyond dominant assumptions about Colombians in the US: that they are privileged middle- and upper-class white, are new migrants, and are “other” within the...
"The Past Continuous: Recurrence and Renewal in Modern Palestinian Poetry"Presented by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha In January of 2024, in the third month of the genocide in Gaza, I began a project in collaboration with Open Books: A Poem Emporium, the...
"Inspired by and in dialogue with Olga Levaniouk’s groundbreaking paper Penelope in the Aśoka Grove, I will suggest that marriage is as much at the heart of archaic Sanskrit and Greek epics as warfare and that, considered together, the poems...
Lanie Millar will present her co-translation (with Fabienne Moore) of Angolan intellectual Mário Pinto de Andrade’s essays and speeches. Andrade, one of twentieth-century Africa’s foremost intellectuals, wrote extensively in Portuguese and French about the urgent necessity for Africans to turn...
Dr. George Shulman teaches and writes in the fields of political thought and American studies at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. His research foregrounds the role of narrative in culture and politics: focusing on political thought in...
Register | Campus map | Visitor parking info“The Mystic Kitchens of Nepal” is a comprehensive cookbook based on over 15 years of research, travel, and trekking through Nepal. Author Bikram Vaidya not only traveled the country, but also lived with local communities...
While recent research has begun comparing machine-writing to human-writing, the rhetorical styles of Large Language Models (LLMs) still remain largely undescribed. Identifying which linguistic and rhetorical features LLMs struggle to produce is especially important for the teaching of writing skills...