Spring 2014

February
 

Tuesday, February 4, 2014 | 4:30pm
Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT)
Fung House – 48 Professors Row
*Q&A and Reception to follow
 

A Reading and Discussion
Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner’s novel, The Flamethrowers, a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award was named one of the top five novels of the year by The New York Times and Best Book of The Year by New York Magazine. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Believer, Artforum, Bookforum, Fence, Bomb, and Grand Street. She is the recipient of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship.

March
 

Wednesday, March 12, 2014 | 4:30pm
Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT)
Fung House – 48 Professors Row
*Q&A and Reception to follow
 

A Reading and Discussion
Mary O’Donoghue, Novelist, Poet and Translator

Mary O’Donoghue was born and grew up in Co. Clare. Ireland. She is the author of the novel Before the House Burns and a forthcoming collection of stories The Sweet Forbearance in the Streets. She has received awards for fiction from the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune, New Irish Writer and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her poetry collections include Tulle (Salmon Poetry, 2001) and Among These Winters (Dedalus Press, 2007). Her translations of Irish language poet Seán Ó Ríordáin are forthcoming in a Yale UP volume. She teaches in the Arts and Humanities division at Babson College, Massachusetts, and lives in Boston MA and Tuscaloosa AL.

April
 

Tuesday, April 8, 2014 | 4:30pm
Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT)
Fung House – 48 Professors Row
*Q&A and Reception to follow
 

Nonlocality: A Lecture and Discussion
David Albert, Philosopher and Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University

Professor Albert is the author of “Quantum Mechanics and Experience” and “Time and Chance”, both from Harvard University Press. A third book – “After Physics” – will come out this fall, also from Harvard. He has taught physics or philosophy or both at Princeton, Harvard, Rutgers, Tel Aviv University, the Weizmann Institute, and the University of South Carolina. 

2014 marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most astonishing discoveries in the entire history of natural science: John Bell’s proof that certain of the predictions of quantum mechanics – predictions which have since been verified by experiment – cannot be reproduced by any “local” description of the world. What’s interesting about all this – aside (of course) from the discovery itself – is the persistent difficulty that much of the scientific community has had, even to this day, in fully taking it in. Professor Albert will discuss both.

Thursday, April 10, 2014 | 4:30pm
Pearson Hall, Room 104
 

The Promise(s) of Digital Humanities
Neil Fraistat, Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)

Professor Fraistat chairs the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) and is Co-Founder and Co-Chair of centerNet, an international network of digital humanities centers. He currently serves on the boards of the Society for Textual Scholarship; Project MUSE; INKE; NITLE Digital Humanities Council; Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth Century Electronic Scholarship (NINES); Brown’s Women Writer’s Project; Studies in Romanticism; Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN); and the Keats-Shelley Association. He has been awarded both the Society for Textual Scholarship’s biennial Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize and the biennial Richard J. Finneran Prize, the Keats Shelley Association Distinguished Scholar Award, and honorable mention for the Modern Language Association’s biennial Distinguished Scholarly Edition Prize.

Friday-Saturday, April 11-12, 2014
Cabot Intercultural Center, 7th Floor
 

Self-Knowledge and the Philosophy of Mind: Kantian Questions and Approaches
A Two-Day Conference
Organized by Yoon Choi, Mellon Postdoctoral Scholar
yoon.choi@tufts.edu

Information and registration at http://kant2014tufts.weebly.com/

Friday, April 11, 2014
Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT)
Fung House – 48 Professors Row
 

Animations: Image, Movement, Affect
An Interdisciplinary Workshop
Organized by:
Margareta Ingrid Christian (Mellon Postdoctoral Scholar)and Jeremy Melius (Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History)
Information and Full Conference Program >

Thursday, April 17, 2014
Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT)
Fung House – 48 Professors Row
 

CHAT Open House: Music, Fiction, Poetry, and Refreshments
The Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT) celebrates Spring with an afternoon of music, fiction, poetry, and refreshments. Our Open House will allow you to meet our accomplished faculty and staff, and explore how our Center promotes innovative, collaborative study in the humanities and arts.

Schedule of Events

 

A Reading and Discussion
Adam Wilson

Adam Wilson is the author of What’s Important is Feeling: Stories (Harper Perennial, 2014) and Flatscreen: A novel (Harper Perennial, 2012), which was a National Jewish Book Award Finalist and an Amazon Book of the Month. In 2012, he received the Paris Review’s Terry Southern Prize.

His short stories, essays, journalism and criticism have appeared in many publications including Best American Short Stories 2012, The Paris Review, Tin House, The Literary Review, Washington Square Review, The New York Times, The New Republic, Bookforum, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Observer, and Salon.

He teaches creative writing at New York University and Columbia University.