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Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

Clark Hall Room 206
11130 Bellflower Road

Faculty Work-in-Progress - Of Interest

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In his talk, Chris Haufe, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, examines the role that “interestingness” plays in research in the sciences and humanities. He argues that there are special conditions under which inquiry benefits when it is driven by a researcher’s sense of what is interesting, and that these conditions are sometimes realized in the natural sciences. In the second half of his talk, he looks at prospects for realizing these conditions in the humanities.
 

Ink Rubbings and the Early American Understanding of Chinese Art

Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art
11150 East Boulevard

Graduate Work-in-Progress - Closing the Wound: Memory and Clinical Nostalgia in the Nineteenth-Century French “Romance”

Clark Hall Room 206
11130 Bellflower Road

Troubling Intimacies: Sacajawea & York as National Subjects 

Clark Hall Room 206
11130 Bellflower Road

Faculty Work-in-Progress - The Power of Silence in the Roman Empire: A Novel Approach

Clark Hall Room 206
11130 Bellflower Road

2021 Walter A. Strauss Lecture Series - From the Fetish to the Cyborg: Technology as a Humanistic Problem

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The 2021 Strauss lectures are presented by Sylvester A. Johnson, founding director of the Virginia Tech Center for Humanities and a nationally recognized humanities scholar specializing in the study of technology, race, religion, and national security. He is assistant vice provost for the humanities at Virginia Tech and executive director of the university’s Tech for Humanity initiative. This lecture series, in memory of Walter A.

2021 Walter A. Strauss Lecture Series - Can Robots Feel Pain? The “Science of the Soul” and the Personhood of Things

2021 Walter A. Strauss Lecture Series - "The Racial History of Capital and the Digital Future of Humanity": Lessons for the Ethical Governance of Technology

Tinkham Veale University Center Ballroom A
11038 Bellflower Road

2021 Richard N. Campen Lecture in Architecture and Sculpture - I Was Asked to Stand 

Tinkham Veale University Center, Ballroom A
11038 Bellflower Road (Please note change of venue.)

Architect-activist Pascale Sablan champions women and diverse design professionals by documenting, curating, and elevating their work. Her objective is to create a just profession, bring social awareness to the built environment, and empower communities through design.