Emily Drabinski, interim chief librarian at The Graduate Center, City University of New York and the 2023-2024 president of the American Library Association (ALA) will give a talk on the importance of libraries and librarians and how we can protect them in the face of ongoing censorship attempts.

Stefanie-Lahya Aukongo is a German-Namibian author, poet, and activist who grew up in foster care in East Germany. She became a German citizen in 1995. She will introduce the audience to her work and her experiences as a stateless refugee, being partially paralyzed, and coping with racially motivated abuse. Aukongo found strength in writing to […]

This event is part of the Furman Lectures Series in Linguistics (FLSL) In this talk, Dr. Casillas will present research on open science and transparency practices in the field of linguistics. He will show that, by and large, linguistics does not engage in open science and transparency practices, though there is reason to believe this is changing […]

Novey will read from her newest novel and discuss writing.

This year’s lecture will feature Duke University professor, Chris Bail Ph.D. He will share his research on the polarization of social media and we’ll have a meaningful discussion about how we might yet defeat political tribalism in the digital space.

A CLP on the documentary film, "The Journey of Tiak Hikiya Ohoyo" about a women's Choctaw stickball team. This is presented by Choctaw Nation filmmaker, Mark Williams.

This lecture surveys works of parafiction by contemporary artists who parody the authority of the academy, the museum, science and history. Many disciplines are represented through a variety of media (painting, sculpture, prints, ceramics, photography, and design) and has broad appeal for artists, academics, and the general public.

James Tauber, Principal Investigator of the Digital Tolkien project, will be giving a CLP on Monday, February 26 at 5 PM, titled “From the Hobbit to Homer and Back Again: an Unexpected Adventure in Digital Philology” (location Furman Hall 214).

Part of the Furman Lecture Series in Linguistics, join us for CLP featuring Dr. Mark Louden

The lecture will be in Spanish with translation in English by Dr. Maria Rippon.

In this CLP event, journalist and podcaster Kaiser Kuo will give a 45-minute lecture on how technology has been so central to the way the US and China have shifted perceptions of one another and impacted their interactions in the last few decades. Kaiser will draw on his experience making the new PBS NOVA documentary Inside China’s Tech […]