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From Page to Stage: Exploring Ethical Issues in Contemporary Theater

Ethics in the Disciplines Third in a Series

From Page to Stage: Exploring Ethical Issues in Contemporary Theater

Kashi Johnson

Chairperson and Professor, Department of Theatre

College of Arts and Sciences, Lehigh University

From concerns related to casting, production, and audience engagement, to the stories told and the messages conveyed, theater can be a powerful influence in our society. This talk will provide an in-depth look at the various dilemmas and ethical questions that arise in 21st century theatre making.

Reception following discussion.

The Dark Sides of Empathy

Cognitive Science Program

Co-sponsors: Departments of Modern Languages and Literatures, Psychology, Philosophy, and the Humanities Center

The Dark Sides of Empathy

Fritz Breithaupt

Provost Professor, Indiana University

Fritz Breithaupt is Provost Professor at Indiana University in Cognitive Science and Germanic Studies, and he is director of graduate studies in cognitive science. His research focusses on empathy and narrative thinking. His recent books are The Dark Sides of Empathy (Cornell University Press, 2019) and Das narrative Gehirn/The narrative Brain (Suhrkamp, 2022; English version forthcoming), the non-fiction book of the month in Germany for August 2022 and is on the shortlist for the Book of the Year in Austria. He is the director of the Experimental Humanities Lab (www.experimentalhumanities.com).

Office of Undergraduate Studies and Interdisciplinary Programs - incasip@lehigh.edu

The Ancient Past and the Future of the Humanities

Philip and Muriel Berman Center for Jewish Studies and the Humanities Center at Lehigh University

The Ancient Past and the Future of the Humanities

The philosopher of history George Santayana famously said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” In the 21st-century university, the humanities, especially the study of the ancient past, increasingly have to argue for their educational relevance. What can we remember of the past and why should we remember? What does the study of antiquity contribute to the humanities and their relevance for a 21st-century education?

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, scholar of rabbinic literature and Associate Professor at Ben Gurion University (currently visiting at Yale), and Dr. Benjamin Wright, scholar of early Jewish and Christian texts and University Distinguished Professor at Lehigh University, as they discuss these timely questions.

Humanities Center, 224 W. Packer Ave.

Ethics in the Disciplines: Unknowingly Amoral Algorithms

Unknowingly Amoral Algorithms

Thomas McAndrew

Assistant Professor

College of Health, Lehigh University

Join us for the second in a series on Ethics in the Disciplines as Professor McAndrew will explore how past algorithms may have generated potentially inequitable solutions to queries that have shaped our lives. We will explore past work studying gender stereotypes portrayed on Google images, how targeted advertising algorithms may have lead to discrimination, and the potential use of health-care algorithms that are racially biased.

Reception following discussion.

Series: Ethics in the Disciplines

What Do We Owe, and to Whom? Obligations, Stakeholders, and Ethics in Anthropology

Professor Bruce Whitehouse

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Lehigh University

Join us for the first in a series on Ethics in the Disciplines as Professor Whitehouse leads a discussion of case studies, based on his fieldwork in West Africa, illuminating ethical questions in anthropological research.

Reception following discussion.

The Humanities Center
224 W. Packer Avenue

LU Faculty Senate and the Humanities Center: "Did My Professor Just Say That?!"

LU Faculty Senate and the Humanities Center
A Faculty Forum on Controversial Topics

"Did My Professor Just Say That?!"

What is Academic Freedom and Why it Matters

The Lehigh Faculty Senate and the Humanities Center present the first in a series of forums designed to allow members of the Lehigh community to discuss and debate controversial topics in an intellectually rigorous, broadly instructive, and patently civil manner. All sessions will be recorded and made widely available to the Lehigh Community.

Moderator: Amardeep Singh
Faculty Panelists: Gordon Bearn, Nandini Deo, Frank Gunter, and Amber Rice

Wednesday, February 16, 2022
7:00 to 8:30pm

Linderman Library, Room 200 or Virtual (Scan QR code in image)

Mellon Humanities Lab Dialogue Series

Literatures of the Crisis and Women in Contemporary Spain: A conversation

Mellon Humanities Lab Dialogue Series

Literatures of the Crisis and Women in Contemporary Spain: A conversation

Lindsey Reuben Muñoz, Lehigh University

Marta Pérez-Carbonell, Colgate University

In the aftermath of the economic collapse of 2008, Spanish literature began to reckon with the multi-layered experience of women in globalized Spain. In recent years, waves of new political feminism have only deepened this examination, exerting pressure from below to the emergent political parties, while underscoring notions of care, domestic violence, domestic and informal work, ecological policies, and urban livelihood within a broad democratic horizon. Please join scholars Lindsey Reuben Muñoz (Lehigh University) and Marta

Pérez-Carbonell (Colgate University) in an informal dialogue whose aim is to understand the implications and political limits of this new literary turn, broadly in the context of Spain as a “new” globalized country but also, more specifically, in the wake of the global pandemic.

Please Join Us for a Special Luncheon A Conversation with Professor Frances Tanzer

Philip and Muriel Berman Center for Jewish Studies with the Humanities Center

Please Join Us for a Special Luncheon: A Conversation with Professor Frances Tanzer

Assistant Professor of History, Rose Professor of Holocaust Studies and Modern Jewish History and Culture - Clark University

For this discussion, participants will receive a short paper on her upcoming book, Vanishing Vienna: Jewish Absence in Postwar Central Europe prior to the luncheon.

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

12:00—1:30 p.m.

Humanities Center

224 W. Packer Avenue

R.S.V.P. by Friday, October 8, 2021

Mandy Fraley, amf518@lehigh.edu

Please note any dietary restrictions

Image: Frances Tanzer (Spring 2021) Visiting Fellow, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

A Balinese "Call to Prayer": Sounding Religious Nationalism and Local Identity in the Puja Tri Sandhya

Meghan Hynson, colloquium: "A Balinese "Call to Prayer": Sounding Religious Nationalism and Local Identity in the Puja Tri Sandhya"

Reception available on the Humanities Center's outdoor porch after the presentation.
REGISTRATION REQUIRED, click here...
ZOOM link to attend the colloquium, click here...

In this presentation, Prof. Hynson examines the Puja Tri Sandhya, a Balinese Hindu prayer that has been broadcast into the soundscape of Bali since 2001. By charting the development of the prayer, she explores the religious politics of post-independence Indonesia, which called for the Balinese to adopt the Puja Tri Sandhya as a condition for religious legitimacy in the new nation. The Puja Tri Sandhya is likened to a Balinese “call to prayer” and compared to Muslim and Christian soundings of religion in the archipelago to assert how these broadcasts sonically reify the national motto, Bhinneka Tunggal Ika (“Unity in Diversity”), and participate in a sounding of religious nationalism. The sonic components of the Puja Tri Sandhya (when it is sounded, the vocal style, and the gender wayangand genta bell accompaniment) are also discussed and argued to infuse the invented display of religiosity with authority and facilitate a mediation between technology, space, and local identity. Meghan Hynson is a visiting assistant professor of music at the University of San Diego. She received a BM in Music Education from Boston University, and her MA and PhD in Ethnomusicology from UCLA. She was most recently an assistant professor of ethnomusicology at Monmouth University and has also served as a faculty member at Duquesne University and the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Hynson has spent over a decade living and studying in Southeast Asia, where she has conducted extensive research on religious and gender politics in the performing arts of Bali and West Java, Indonesia. She has offered globally-oriented courses such as World Music, Global Popular Music, Music and Gender, and Music and Religion. From 2016-2019, she was the director of the University of Pittsburgh Gamelan Ensemble and, in 2019, toured internationally as a vocalist for the Indonesian pop band, the Dangdut Cowboys, under the invitation of the US State Department. Throughout her career, she has developed world music curricula and outreach programs for K-12 schools, worked with major museums and international world music festivals, and been the voice for global diversity through music via various campus and community activities.

Meghan Hynson, PhD, is Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at the University of San Diego.

A Music Department, Asian Studies and Humanities Center Collaboration

Event will be held in the Humanities Center.

Humanities Center Lunchtime Salon: Race, Caste and the State

Humanities Center Lunchtime Salon: Race, Caste and the State

The Humanities Center invites interested parties to participate in a lunchtime discussion of sections of Isabel Wilkerson’s new book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020). The salon will be held Friday, November 20, from 12:00-1:30PM.

This will be the first of a two-part series of events around the theme of systemic racism and the state. Our second event will be held during the Spring 2021 semester.

Facilitated by Emily Pope-Obeda (History) and John Vilanova (Journalism & Communication/Africana Studies), the sessions will engage with structures such as policy, labor, and citizenship in the active making and codification of race, specifically discussing the ways racial others have been constructed. Participants will be invited to read selections from the book and come prepared to discuss them. We hope to create a discussion-centric space where faculty from a wide range of disciplines can bring their insights to the conversation.

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is a major new work of cultural studies produced by Wilkerson, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 and published The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010) to similar acclaim. Caste, which has garnered wide attention, offers incisive and important new ways of theorizing race (and anti-Black racism specifically) in America.

Please register here for the Nov 20th discussion. Once you register, we will send you the pdf of the readings. This event is open to all university community members who are interested.

VIRTUAL: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Origins of Public Humanities

VIRTUAL EVENT: https://lehigh.zoom.us/j/7957428965#success

W.E.B. Du Bois and the Origins of Public Humanities

Roopika Risam, Associate Professor at Salem State University

Author of "New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy"

Sponsored by:

Humanities Center, Lehigh University

*Center for Ethics, Lehigh University

BETHLEHEM AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY Leaniing Starts Here

* The Center for Ethics is funded in part by the ENDOWMENT FUND for the TEACHING of ETHICAL DECISION-MAKING.

Trans*Archives

Humanities Center Trans*Studies Symposium

Trans*Archives

Jack Halberstam

Professor of English and Gender Studies

Columbia University

In his brilliant, humorous and whimsical parody of a Smithsonian book titled American History in 101 Objects, artist Chris E. Vargas, in 2015, invited visitors into his imaginary Museum of Transgender Hirstory to see a show titled Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects. Riffing on the self-importance of the Smithsonian title, the precision of its 101 objects and its investment in the notion of authentic history in the first place, Vargas called attention to the way that a history of gender variance will necessarily fall by the wayside in any canonical account of American history and will require its own object lessons. The objects that collectively tell the story of gender variance are counter-intuitive and suggestive, risqué and emblematic. For Vargas’s show, the objects ranged from queer banners by Tuesday Smilie to sculptures of hybrid creatures and photographic records of transgender lives gone by. What Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects made clear, however, was that trans* histories, which have been narrated as a record of pathology, dysphoria and trouble need their own archive in order to remove themselves from the medical history of disorder. This talk offers its own version of trans* history through a series of objects and archives ranging from photo albums to films, paintings and performances.

Held at the Linderman Library, Scheler Humanities Forum, Room 200

Narrow Fairways: Getting by and Falling Behind in the New india

India remains a country mired in poverty, with two-thirds of its 1.3 billion people living on little more than a few dollars day. Just as telling, the country’s informal working population numbers nearly 500 million, or approximately eighty percent of the entire labor force. Despite these figures and the related structural disadvantages that imperil the lives of so many, the Indian elite maintain that the poor need only work harder and they, too, can become rich. The results of this ambitious ten-year ethnography at exclusive golf clubs in Bangalore shatter such self-serving illusions. In Narrow Fairways, Patrick Inglis combines participant observation, interviews, and archival research to show how social mobility among the poor lower-caste golf caddies who carry the golf sets of wealthy upper-caste members at these clubs is ultimately constrained and narrowed. The book highlights how elites secure and extend class and caste privileges, while also delivering a necessary rebuke to India’s present development strategy, which pays far too little attention to promoting quality health care, education, and other basic social services that would deliver real opportunities to the poor.

Patrick Inglis is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College. He teaches and writes on labor, inequality, and global development. His first book centers on the lives of poor and lowercaste caddies who carry the golf sets of members at exclusive clubs in Bangalore, India. In addition to ongoing research on poverty alleviation at an English-language boarding school outside Bangalore, he is also developing a new project on the attitudes and dispositions of elites in Mexico City.

Sponsored by the Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Asian Studies, Humanities Center and Global Studies.

LGBT Community Reading Group Series #2

LGBT COMMUNITY READING GROUP SERIES

Sponsored by: Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center, Lehigh University’s Humanities Center, and South Side Initiative

Facilitated by Professor Mary C. Foltz, Associate Professor, English Department, Lehigh University

This group will meet from 6:30-8:00 p.m. at the Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center, 522 West Maple Street, Allentown, PA 18101.

Winter Break Book Club for Undergraduates & their Families!

The Humanities Center will host a book club in January 2021 on Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven, a novel about how the arts and humanities sustain community in the aftermath of a devastating pandemic. It's a fantastic book, particularly

relevant to our present moment. We invite any interested Lehigh undergraduates to join, either on their own or with a family member. Students and their families will need to purchase their own copies of the book, but the book club itself will be free.

Book club will meet 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Choose one of these sections:

Tues. January 12, 19, 26 OR Wed. January 13, 20, 27

Sessions of 10-12 participants will be facilitated by Lehigh humanities faculty and graduate students. In addition, the Humanities Lab will host a panel--open to the community--on arts and humanities perspectives on pandemics.

Please use this link to register: https://go.lehigh.edu/bookclub

Once registered, you will be emailed a ZOOM Link .

LGBT Community Reading Group Series #1

LGBT COMMUNITY READING GROUP SERIES

Sponsored by: Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center, Lehigh University’s Humanities Center, and South Side Initiative

Facilitated by Professor Mary C. Foltz, Associate Professor, English Department, Lehigh University

This group will meet from 6:30-8:00 p.m. at the Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center, 522 West Maple Street, Allentown, PA 18101.

Wong Kar Wai's Soundtracks: Music, Bricolage, Representation

Interdisciplinary Colloquium

Music Department, Asian Studies, Film Studies, Humanities Center, and LUAG

LUAG Lower Gallery, Zoellner Arts Center

Wong Kar Wai's Soundtracks: Music, Bricolage, Representation

Giorgio Biancorosso

University of Hong Kong

The Anthropocene in/of the Cell: Antibiotic Resistance and the History of Industrialization

The Humanities Center - Antibiotic Resistance Seminar
with
The Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies

The Anthropocene in/of the Cell: Antibiotic Resistance and the History of Industrialization
Hannah Landecker
Department of Sociology
Director, Institute for Society and Genetics
UCLA

Lorenzo Servitje
Moderator
Department of English

Lehigh University

The Anthropocene, being a concept that comes to us from geology and climate science, is generally seen in relation to material evidence gathered from the rock strata, marine sediments, and glacier ice. It is a concept of macro scales, carbon economies, epochs and world systems. This talk goes small instead, and reads biological and biochemical narratives to examine the idea of an Anthropocene in, or of, the cell. Drawing on specific examples of the industrial production of pharmaceuticals and pesticides, I show how microbial cells have changed to adapt to the biochemical environments generated during and after World War II by a growing chemical industry, shifts in medical protocols, and changing hygiene practices. Rather than the organism in sediment during historical time, I consider the organism as sedimentation of historical time: a repository of metabolic strategies for navigating novel chemical milieu after industrialization. From this perspective, the insides of cells can be seen as microscopic landscapes in their own right, in which the products of industrialization alter the biophysical and architectural character of molecular life, affecting the flow of mobile genetic elements, the dynamics of microbial community life, and the very nature of human-microbe relationships.

STEPS 280

Free Public Lecture

Call for Participants

2019-20 HUMANITIES CENTER FACULTY SEMINARS

The Humanities Center is excited to announce four seminars for the 2019-20 academic year: (1) The Gloria Naylor Archive, (2) Trans* Studies, (3) Democracy and Truth, and (4) Interdisciplinary Approaches to Antibiotic Resistance. This year, we have consciously built collaborative relationships across campus to develop diverse seminars designed to build intellectual community, facilitate cutting-edge scholarship, jumpstart long-term projects, and bring in prestigious visiting scholars who will contribute to conversations already underway among Lehigh graduate students and faculty. The seminars meet eight times over the course of the year, and participants receive a $1000 research or travel grant. We invite anyone with an interest in learning more about the topics to apply, but special consideration will be given to applicants who have work in progress that they would be interested in workshopping with this small intellectual community. The seminars are open to faculty (tenure-track, adjunct, visiting), staff, and graduate students who have passed their exams. Detailed descriptions, application instructions, and fine print are below as PDF.

Sara Ahmed

GENDER, JUSTICE AND POWER LECTURE - Complaint as Diversity Work

Sara Ahmed will present a lecture "Complaint as Diversity Work" on Thursday, February 21 at 4:10pm in the Scheler Humanities Forum, 200 Linderman Library.

James Casey

DIGITAL HUMANITIES LECTURE - The Six Degrees of Frederick Douglass & the "Ladies of Harrisburg"

James Casey will present a lecture on Friday, February 1, 2019 at 12noon in the Scheler Humanities Forum, 200 Linderman Library.

Lunch will be provideded with RSVP to sus3@lehigh.edu by January 28.

Lisa Rhody

DIGITAL HUMANITIES LECTURE - Reading Against Models: Approaches to Algorithmic Criticism with Poetry

Lisa Rhody will present a lecture "Reading Against Models: Approaches to Algorithmic Criticism with Poetry" on Friday, November 2nd at 12noon in UC 306.

RSVP required for lunch to inhum@lehigh.edu by Monday, October 29th.

Carissa Harris

Resisting Rape in the Middle Ages and Now

Carissa Harris will present a lecture "Resisting Rape in the Middle Ages and Now" on Wednesday, October 31 at 4:10pm in the Scheler Humanities Forum, 200 Linderman Library.

This talk explores how medieval women dealt with the threat of rape in literary texts and legal cases, drawing important connections to contemporary strategies for combating sexual harassment and resisting sexual violence.

Carissa Harris, Ph.D, is an Assistant Professor of English at Temple University. She is the author of Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain, which will be available from Cornell University Press this December. Her work on obscenity, rape, pleasure, and desire in medieval England and Scotland has appeared in scholarly publications, including the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies and the Open Access Canterbury Tales, and mass media venues like Vox and Slate.

Matthew Bush

Unlearning Inequity: Melodrama, Affects, and the Art of Latin America

Roemmele Global Commons, Williams Hall

Matthew Bush, Associate Professor of Spanish and Hispanic Studies and Director, Latin American and Latino Studies Program will give a talk "Unlearning Inequity: Melodrama, Affects, and the Art of Latin America" on Wednesday, April 25th at 4:10pm.

See PDF linked below for additional information.

North Eastern Public Humanities Consortium Conference

Fourth Annual North Eastern Public Humanities Consortium
April 19-20, 2018

Contact Information
Lehigh University - Humanities Center, 224 West Packer Avenue, Bethlehem, PA 18015
Phone: 610-758-4649 | Email: inhum@lehigh.edu

Program
Thursday, April 19th
5:30pm-7pm - Opening Reception, Zoellner Arts Center, Butz Lobby
7:30pm - Act Like You Know 10-Year Anniversary Show, Zoellner Arts Center, Diamond Theater

Friday, April 20th
8:00am-4:30pm - Conference and break-out sessions, Williams Hall, Roemmel Global Commons
5-7pm - Opening Reception for "Our (Digital) Humanity (please note separate registration is required to attend this event - http://wordpress.lehigh.edu/odh2018/register/)
7-9pm - Dinner, University Center, Asa Packer Dining Room

Registration is required and is closed: go.lehigh.edu/neph2018

Conference Information

GENERAL INFORMATION - LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
About Lehigh University

GENERAL INFORMATION - BETHLEHEM, PA
About Bethlehem, PA

CAMPUS PARKING
THURSDAY - Park at Zoellner Arts Center, East Packer Ave and Hillside Ave (an attendant will allow extrance to 2ND LEVEL for NEPH guests)
FRIDAY - Park at Alumni Parking Pavilion, Brodhead Ave and Summit St (15 SPACES RESERVED ON 4TH LEVEL with placard or in any faculty/staff space with visitor scratch off hang tag - placards and tags will be provided at registration on Thursday night)

CAMPUS MAP
Asa Packer Campus Map

AIRPORT
Lehigh Valley International Airport

BUS TRANSPORTATION
Trans-Bridge Lines - stops in South Bethlehem within walking distance of campus
Bieber Transportation - stops in Hellertown (about 5 miles from campus) and would require Uber, Lyft or taxi.

DRIVING DIRECTIONS TO ASA PACKER CAMPUS
Driving Directions

CONFERENCE VENUES
Zoellner Arts Cente- Butz Lobby
Williams Hall – Roemmelle Global Commons
University Center – Asa Packer Dining Room

HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS – nights of April 19 and 20
Guests should contact the hotel before deadlines to receive group rates.

Hotel Bethlehem – (610) 625-5000
$164/night (parking $7 additional/night)
Group: Lehigh NEPH Conference before March 15
Hyatt Place, Bethlehem – (610) 625-0500
$115/night
Group: NE Public Humanities Conference before March 19
The Comfort Suites – (610) 882-9700
$90/night
Group: NE Public Humanities GB 2018 held before March 22

Robert Fillman

Research Grant Presentation

Please join us on Tuesday, March 20th at 12:10pm in the Humanities Center as Robert Fillman, PhD Candidate and Senior Teaching Fellow in English, shares the outcome of his Summer Research Grant "'I see the blade': The Radical Nature of Jean Toomer's Pastoral".

Bring your lunch...cookies and drinks provided.

Haideh Moghissi

Revisiting Populism, Democracy and Gender: Challenges of the 21st Century

Roemmele Global Commons, Williams Hall

Haideh Moghissi, Emerita Professor and Senior Scholar, York University, Toronto will present a lecture "Revisiting Populism, Democracy and Gender: Challenges of the 21st Century on Thursday, November 9 at 4:10pm.

María Bárbara Zepeda-Cortés

California Dreamin’: Enlightened Utopias and Politics in Eighteenth-Century New Spain

Roemmele Global Commons, Williams Hall

María Bárbara Zepeda-Cortés, Assistant Professor, Department of History will give a talk "California Dreamin': Enlightened Utopias and Politics in Eighteenth-Century New Spain" on Wednesday, November 8 at 4:10pm.

Sharif Youssef

Why Can't a Muslim Be a Refugee?: Refugees and the Rise of the Novel.

Scheler Humanities Forum, Linderman 200

The refugee is a literary invention. How is it that Anglo-American literature conceptualized the refugee first and with greater complexity than law did? Sharif Youssef turns to seventeenth and eighteenth-century texts such as Hobbes’ Leviathan, Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year, and Kant’s The Metaphysics of Morals to trace how the concept of the refugee emerges and proves incompatible with the Muslim concept of dutiful exile as understood by the Orientalist William Marsden. Why is it that the liberal conception of the refugee is at odds with the Muslim doctrine of hijrah (هِجْرَة)?

Sharif Youssef is a JD Candidate in his final year of study at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and a post-doctoral MsL (Master of Studies of Law) from the University of Toronto where he has returned to complete his JD after two years of leave spent as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College and a Lecturer in English at Clemson University. His book project, The Actuarial Form: Moral Hazard in the Early Novel, is about the emergence of the categories of risk and information in the use of mass casualty statistics in eighteenth-century works of literature and political economy. He has edited “Inevitability,” a special issue of Modern Language Quarterly on the subject of inevitability in legal and literary theory, and an anthology entitled, The Hostile Takeover: Human Rights after Corporate Personhood. His writing has appeared in Law and Literature, Modern Language Quarterly, Criticism, and Humanity.

Hilda Doolittle Literary Landmark Dedication

Bethlehem Area Public Library

The Bethlehem Area Public Library is being added to a national list of Literary Landmarks. A new plaque honoring the birthplace of the great 20th century poet Hilda Doolittle (1886 –1961) will be unveiled Friday, September 8th at a 4pm ceremony that will include readings of Doolittle’s work. The effort to get the location designated as a Literary Landmark is a result of a partnership between the library and Lehigh University’s English department and Humanities Center

Doolittle’s childhood home was located just across the plaza from the Library, where City Hall now stands. Her innovative and experimental poetry and prose established her as a leading Modernist artist in the 1910s and 1920s. She remains the Lehigh Valley’s most important literary figure.

The Literary Landmarks Association includes homes of famous writers (Tennessee Williams, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, William Faulkner), libraries and museum collections, literary scenes, and even “Grip” the Raven, formerly the pet of Charles Dickens and inspiration to Edgar Allan Poe and now presiding (stuffed) at the Rare Books Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia.

The event on September 8 is to be held at the Main Library, 11 W. Church Street.

For more information email jberk@bapl.org or call the Main Library at 610-867-3761 x215.

Matthew Jacobson

The Historian's Eye: Meditations on Photography, History, and the American Present

Matthew Jacobson, Professor of American Studies, History & African American Studies at Yale University will present a lecture "The Historian's Eye: Meditations on Photography, History, and the American Present" in Fairchild Martindale Library, 5th floor.

Alexander Weheliye

Black Life--Schwarz-Sein

Alexander G. Weheliye, Professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University will present a lecture "Black Life--Schwarz-Sein" in the Scheler Humanities Forum, Linderman Library, Room 200.

Doris Sommer

Cultural Agents: Why Art?

Doris Sommer is the Ira and Jewell Williams Jr. Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, where she is Founder and Director of Cultural Agents: Arts and Humanities in Civic Engagement. She is the author of Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education and editor of Cultural Agency in the Americas, both published by Duke University Press. The public lecture will be held in Sinclair Auditorium.

Call for applications

Humanities Center Faculty Research Grants

The College of Arts and Sciences and the Office of the Vice President and Associate Provost for Research and Graduate Studies have provided additional funding to the Humanities Center for research grants in the Humanities.

See pdf link below for additional information.

Walking Towards Autonomy

Lecture and discussion with filmmakers

Lecture and discussion with filmmakers in the Roemmele Global Commons, Williams Hall.

See pdf below for additional information.

Sponsored by the Mellon Digital Humanities Initiative

Elizabeth Brake

RELATIVES Lecture

Elizabeth Brake, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University will present a lecture "Love and the Law: Legal Support for Diverse Family Forms" in the Scheler Humanities Forum, Linderman Library, Room 200.

DREAM WARRIORS

Creating Pathways Through Poetry and Music

Frank Waln and Tanaya Winder will present a lecture and performance Dream Warriors: Creating Pathways Through Poetry and Music in the Lamberton Hall Great Room.

Co-sponsored with the Associate Dean's Office for Interdisciplinary Programs, the Dialogue Center, Africana Studies, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Women's Center

Christopher Reed

Relatives Lecture

Christopher Reed, Professor of English and Visual Culture at the Pennsylvania State University will present a lecture "'The Society of Buggers': The Bloomsbury Group as Queer Family" in the Scheler Humanities Forum, Linderman Library, Room 200.

CANCELED Ann Little

Relatives Lecture

***CANCELED***

Ann Little, Associate Professor of History at Colorado State University will present a lecture on "The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeastern Borderlands" in the Roemmele Global Commons, Williams Hall.

Co-sponsored with the Gibson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Naomi Cahn

RELATIVES Lecture

Naomi Cahn, the Harold H. Greene Professor of Law at George Washington Law School, will present a lecture "The Multiple Meanings of Marriage Equality" on Thursday, February 4 at 4:10pm in the Scheler Humanities Forum, Linderman Library, Room 200.

Co-sponsored with Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Health, Medicine and Society

Nayan Shah

Relatives Lecture

Nayan Shah will present a lecture entitled "Intimacy, Estrangement and Transnational Ties" on Thursday, November 19 at 4:10pm in the Roemmele Global Commons, Williams Hall.

Nayan Shah is Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.

Co-sponsored with American Studies and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Khurram Hussain

Summer Research Grant Presentation

Please join us on Thursday, November 12 at 12 noon in the Humanities Center as Khurram Hussain, Assistant Professor of Religion shares the outcome of his Summer Faculty Research Grant "Can the Muslim Speak?".

C. Riley Snorton

Relatives Lecture

C. Riley Snorton will present a lecture "Jorgensen's Shadows" on Thursday, October 22 at 4:10pm in the Scheler Humanities Forum, Linderman Library, Room 200.

C. Riley Snorton is an assistant professor in Africana studies and feminist, gender and sexuality studies at Cornell University.

Joint event with Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and co-sponsored with Africana Studies.

Gil Anidjar

Relatives Lecture

Gil Anidjar will present a lecture "Whodunit?" on Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 4:10pm in the Global Commons Room, Williams Hall.

Gil Anidjar is Professor in the Department of Religion & the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University

Co-sponsored with the Berman Center for Jewish Studies

Loretta Ross Lecture

Women, Gender & Sexuality, the Women's Center and the Humanities Center

Loretta Ross, Co-founder and the National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective will present a lecture entitled "Understanding Reproductive Justice in the 21st Century" on Tuesday, September 22 at 7:30pm in Williams Hall, Global Commons.

See flyer linked below for additional information.

Inter(Play) Hip Hop Symposium

Inter(Play) Hip Hop Symposium – May 1 to May 3, 2015

Investigating Hip Hop's intersections with social justice, entertainment and identity, the Inter(Play) Hip Hop Symposium will feature talks and performance workshops by nationally and internationally recognized Hip Hop artists, scholars and Lehigh University students.

ASHERU, Hip Hop artist, educator, and youth activist, widely known for performing the opening and closing themes for the popular TV series, The Boondocks, as well as his pioneering and innovative efforts to forward the Hip Hop Education movement, will give a keynote address on Saturday, May 2nd at 12:00pm. Symposium attendees will also have the opportunity to participate in interactive workshops on beat-making, music technology; and health, wellness and healing.

The 5th Element Open Mic Show will be held at the Born into the Arts Dance Studio, minutes away from the Lehigh University campus. This show will feature a live DJ, guest artist performances, local MCs, B-Boy & B-Girl dance battles, spoken word poetry, graffiti art and more.

The symposium concludes on Day 3, with a Hip Hop theater play featuring Lehigh University students in Act Like You Know 7.0 Final Show, at the Diamond Theater in the Zoellner Arts Center.

For more details, check out the Inter(Play) Hip Hop Symposium website!

www.interplayhiphop.com

Lehigh Review Publication Party

The Lehigh Review is an undergraduate-run academic journal showcasing the best written and visual research that Lehigh students have to offer.

Join us for the unveiling of the 23rd edition of the Lehigh Review! Pick up a copy of the journal and enjoy light refreshments from Sotto Santi, Deja Brew, and Lehigh Catering!

--Lehigh Review Staff--
Editor in Chief: Ali Correll
Design Editor: Justine Gaetano
Marketing Editor: Tori Yu
Staff Editors: Abby Johnson, Betsy Powers, Catherine Preysner, Erin Hanlon, and Monica Shell
Facilitator: Laura Kremmel

--Lehigh Review Contributors--
Barbara Tsaousis, Christopher Herrera, Danielle Campbell, Elizabeth Phillips, Erin Lidl, Grace Johnjulio, Hannah Han, Jaclyn Sands, Jade Van Streepen, Jonelle Jerwick, Katie Hooven, Kerstin Schkrioba, Luchen Wang, Min Jun Kim, Monika Martin, Natalie Tacka, Nina Miotto, Prarthna Johri, Rachel Mayer, Robert Mason, Sathya Ram, Savannah Boylan, Yiyi Chen, Yuqing Ye, and Zhenyu Li

Jasbir K. Puar

postHUMANities Lecture

Jasbir K. Puar, Associate Professor, Women's & Gender Studies at Rutgers University will give a lecture entitled "Debility/Capacity: From Narrative Prosthesis to Disaster Capitalism".

Jasbir K. Puar is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University and the author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Duke University Press), which won the 2007 Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. Professor Puar's forthcoming monograph, Affective Politics: States of Debility and Capacity (Duke University Press, 2014) takes up questions of disability in the context of theories of bodily assemblages that trouble intersectional identity frames.

For additional information: http://www.jasbirpuar.com/

Sponsored with the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program

J. Andrew Brown

postHUMANities Lecture

J. Andrew Brown will present a lecture "Evolving Posthumanities in Latin American Literature: The Case of Edmundo Paz Soldán's Iris" on Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 4:10pm in the Scheler Humanities Forum, Linderman Library Room 200.

J. Andrew Brown is Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis.

Kate Crassons

Summer Faculty Research Grant Presentation

Please join us on Friday, March 6 at 12 noon in the Humanities Center as Kate Crassons, Associate Professor of English and Director, Lehigh University Press, shares the outcome of her Summer Research Grant "Chaucer's Saint Cecilia and the Insecurities of Faith".Bring your lunch...cookies and drinks provided.

Amanda Brown

Summer Research Grant Presentation

Please join us on Friday, February 27 at 12 noon in the Humanities Center as Amanda Brown, PhD Candidate in History, shares the outcome of her Summer Research Grant "Pragmatic Christianity: Howard Thurman, The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples, and the Twentieth Century American Intellectual Tradition".
Bring your lunch...cookies and drinks provided.

Kalpana Seshadri

postHUMANities Lecture

Kalpana Seshadri will present a lecture "What is Post-Human Economics?" on Thursday, February 19 at 4:10pm in the Scheler Humanities Forum, Linderman Library, Room 200.

Kalpana Seshadri is Professor in the Department of English, Boston College.

Susan Pearson

postHUMANities Lecture

Susan Pearson will present a lecture "Sentiment and Savagery: Collapsing the Boundary Between Animals and Children in U.S. History" on Thursday, January 29 at 4:10pm in the Scheler Humanities Forum, Linderman Library, Room 200.

Susan Pearson is Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University.

This lecture is co-sponsored with the American Studies Program.

Anna Chupa

Faculty Grant Presentation

Please join us on Friday, December 5 at 12 noon in the Humanities Center as Anna Chupa, Associate Professor of Design, shares the outcome of her Faculty Research Grant "The Royal Path of the Mystical Serpent: An Autobiography of Priestess Miriam Williams as Told to Anna Chupa" with an introduction by Susan Kart.

Nitzan Lebovic

Faculty Grant Presentation

Please join us on Wednesday, November 12 at 12 noon in the Humanities Center as Nitzan Lebovic, Assitant Professor of History, shares the outcome of his Faculty Research Grant "Zionist Melancholia."

Join The Lehigh Review Staff

Join The Lehigh Review Staff!

For the past twenty-two years, Lehigh University has published The Lehigh Review, an entirely student-produced journal of academic work. Each issue contains some of the best scholarly writing and artwork by Lehigh undergraduates. The staff is made up of Lehigh undergraduate students who take this course for either 1 credit (staff) or 4 credits (editor). The available positions are as follows: one marketing editor (4-credits), one graphic design editor (4-credits), one editor-in-chief (4-credits), and several copy editors (1-credit). Copy editors can be from any major or field of study who would be interested in working on the journal!

For more information and to apply to be on the staff, email Laura Kremmel at lrk207@lehigh.edu.

Kellie Robertson

postHUMANities Lecture

Kellie Robertson will present a lecture "Nature's Voices: On Hearing Beyond the Human" on Thursday, November 6 at 4:10pm in the Scheler Humanities Forum, Linderman Library, Room 200.

Kellie Robertson is Associate Professor of English at the Univeristy of Maryland.

David Bates

postHUMANities Lecture

David Bates will present a lecture "An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence" on Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 4:10pm in SINCLAIR AUDITORIUM.

David Bates is Professor in the Department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley.

Cary Wolfe

postHUMANities Lecture

Cary Wolfe will present a lecture entitled "Wallace Steven's Birds" on Thursday, September 18 at 4:10pm in the Scheler Humanities Forum, Linderman Library, Room 200.

Cary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English; Founding Director, 3CT: Center for Critical and Cultural Theory, Rice University

Co-sponsored with the English Department and American Studies Program

Eva Morales Soler

HOME Lecture

Eva Morales Soler, Architect and Activist, will give a public lecture entitled "Mas que una casa/More than a House: New Communities against Home Evictions". The Lecture will take place on Thursday, November 14 at 4:10pm in Sinclair Auditorium.

Sponsored by the Humanities Center with support from Modern Languages and Literatures and Art, Architecture and Design

http://www.lehigh.edu/~inhum/ - 610-758-4649 - humanities@lehigh.edu

Gayatri Spivak

HOME Lecture

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor, Columbia University will give a lecture entitled "Home?" on Thursday, October 31, 2013 at 4:10pm in the Scheler Humanities Forum, Linderman 200.

Sponsored by the Humanities Center with support from Modern Languages and Literatures, English, Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology, Religion Studies, Global Studies, and Latin American Studies.

http://www.lehigh.edu/~inhum/ - 610-758-4649 - humanities@lehigh.edu

David Fine

SPYNNYNGE

David J. Fine, Graduate Student, English and Interim Assistant Director, Global Citizenship Program will give a talk entitled "Why Augustine? Hannah Arendt and Rebecca West, 1929-1933" on October 24, 2013 at 4:10pm in the Humanities Center, 224 W. Packer Ave.

Scholars have recently become interested in the affinity between the post-war reportage of Rebecca West and Hannah Arendt. Rebecca West covered the Nuremberg Trials for The New Yorker only a few years before the magazine would send Hannah Arendt to report, quite memorably, on the trial of Adolf Eichmann. In this talk, I am interested in exploring another commonality between the two women: Saint Augustine. Hannah Arendt finished her doctoral dissertation--Love and Saint Augustine (1929)--only a few years before Rebecca West completed her psychobiography, Saint Augustine (1933). What draws this pair, emerging from two very different traditions, to Saint Augustine at this historical moment? What light does their engagement with Augustine shed on the political work they publish after World War II?

Spynnynge is the Humanities Center working-in-progress series, a space to talk about projects that are incomplete. In these informal workshops, both students and faculty will meditate on and act within these moments in the midst of creation where it becomes critical, either from despair or excitement to speak with others concerning where to go next, where to go back, and where to begin again for the first time.

http://www.lehigh.edu/~inhum/ - 610-758-4649 - humanities@lehigh.edu

Ethan Kleinberg

MOVEMENT Lecture

Ethan Kleinberg will present a lecture entitled Back to Where We've Never Been: Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida on Inhabiting "Tradition" on Thursday, November 29 at 4:10pm in the Scheler Humanities Forum, Linderman Library, Room 200.

  Ethan Kleinberg is Professor of History and Letters at Wesleyan University Wesleyan University, Executive Editor of History and Theory and Director of Wesleyan University's Center for the Humanities. He is the author of Generation Existential: Martin Heidegger's Philosophy in France, 1927-61, which was awarded the 2006 Morris D. Forkosch prize for the best book in intellectual history, by the Journal of the History of Ideas.

Co-sponsored with History and the Berman Center for Jewish Studies

Erin Manning

MOVEMENT Lecture

Erin Manning will present a lecture "Choreography as Mobile Architecture" on Thursday, November 15 at 4:10pm in the Scheler Family Humanities forum, Linderman Library, Room 200.

Erin Manning holds a University Research Chair in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). She is also the director of the Sense Lab (www.senselab.ca), a laboratory that explores the intersections between art practice and philosophy through the matrix of the sensing body in movement. In her art practice she works between painting, dance, fabric and sculpture (http://www.erinmovement.com). Her writing addresses the senses, philosophy and politics, articulating the relation between experience, thought and politics in a transdisciplinary framework moving between dance and new technology, the political and micropolitics of sensation, performance art, and the current convergence of cinema, animation and new media. Her publications include Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009), Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, Sovereignty (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2007) and Ephemeral Territories: Representing Nation, Home and Identity in Canada (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2003). Her presentation will explore how choreographic fields generate their own forms and forces of movement.

Co-sponsored with Art, Architecture and Design, Philosophy, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Women's Center