"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...
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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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
This event was originally scheduled for April 18 and has been rescheduled for April 23.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...
After the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, Ottoman elites at the imperial court turned to poetry to craft distinctive modes of expression to articulate their own place within the Ottoman sultanate.In this talk, Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano will discuss his new book...