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Shaping Degas’s Dancers, on Stage, in Wax, in the Press
Andrea Christmas and Liliane Erhart, in conversation with Cary Hollinshead-Strick– ‘Shaping Degas’s Dancers, on Stage, in Wax, in the Press’. The nineteenth century saw a progressive feminization of the ballet dancer and masculinization of the imagined a ...
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Poisoned bread, the CIA, and the psychedelic humanities
Russell Williams, in conversation with Elizabeth Kinne, ‘Poisoned bread, the CIA, and the psychedelic humanities’. History is weird. Did the CIA lace bread with LSD, and what happens when contemporary novelist Sophie Macintosh writes about it? Does psych ...
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Between Becomings: Narration and International Law
Rashmi Dharia, in conversation with Sneharika Roy – ‘Between Becomings: Narration and International Law’. What is at stake in telling stories in the work of international law? How can thinking like a literature scholar help? This talk explores those quest ...
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Refusing to Be Silent: Engaged Conversations with Leading Intellectuals, book promotion
How can we approach the world and guide our thinking in the face of profound, myriad challenges? The book seeks to formulate these challenges and develop ways to tackle them through a set of wide-ranging interviews with leading intellectuals of our times, ...
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Discourse on the Plague (1347-1600):
Related links Center for Media, Communication and Global Change Université Côte d’Azur Prof Brenton Hobart Download more information Discourse on the Plague Program (French) Speaking and Writing About the Plague (English) Speaking and Writing About the Pl ...
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Director of the Center for Media, Communication, and Global Change Jayson Harsin Associate Professor, Communication, Media, and Culture Affiliated Researcher, Northwestern University Center for Global Culture and Communication Research focus; Political t ...
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About the Words that Kill Conference
Words that Kill Conference Please note, registration for participants will open in February, registration for visitors opens in March. There is a continuum linking symbolic violence (in images, signs, stories) and physical violence. Social violence is bre ...
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Words That Kill Conference Abstracts and Program
Downloads Words That Kill Conference Program Download the Conference Abstracts For more information on the panels and participants of the Words That Kill Conference please download the Conference Abstracts (pdf) and the full Conference Program (pdf) in th ...
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Queering the Quai: Paris’ Magic City
Patrick Preston, in conversation with Robert Payne, ‘Queering the Quai: Paris’s Magic City.' There were drag balls at the Magic City, a pleasure space on the Quai d’Orsay and the Rue de l’Université (right near where AUP is now), from 1900-1934. How ...
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Cabaret and Collaboration: A Symposium Honoring the Rich Life of Josephine Baker
A roaring brass section, limbs gliding effortlessly across the stage to the beat, shining costumes, or sometimes lack thereof, capturing the audience’s regard-- this was cabaret in the 20’s and the backdrop for the performances of one of the most memorabl ...