Wednesday, February 17 | 12:00pm | Zoom
Neelum Sohail (CHAT Dissertation Fellow; PhD Candidate in History)
“Making Lists and Checking Them Twice: Policing and Governance in 19th century Colonial India”
Tuesday, February 23 | 12:00pm | Zoom
Hesam Sharifian (PhD Candidate in Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies)
“The Stratford Edition: The Old ‘Young America’ and an Anachronistic Democratic Shakespeare”
Friday, February 26 | 1:30pm | Zoom
Alisha Rankin (Associate Professor of History)
“The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science”
Tuesday, March 9 | 12:00pm | Zoom
Ichiro Takayoshi (CHAT Faculty Fellow; Associate Professor of English)
“Art Addiction”
Thursday, March 18 | 12:00pm | Zoom
Peter Spearman (CHAT Dissertation Fellow; PhD Candidate in Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies)
“In Your Reality”: Cute Girls, Violence, and Your Computer in Doki Doki Literature Club
Thursday, April 8 | 12:00pm | Zoom
Nick Seaver (CHAT Faculty Fellow; Assistant Professor of Anthropology)
“Homo Attentus: Technological Backlash and the Rise of Humanism”
Tuesday, April 13 | 12:00pm | Zoom
Gayathri Goel (CHAT Dissertation Fellow; PhD Candidate in English)
“Place-Based Knowledge: Epistemology and Politics of Place in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide”
Friday, April 16 | 12:00pm | Zoom
Elias Khoury (Novelist and public intellectual)
“The Culture of Challenge: Arabic Culture in the Face of Oppression and Decadence”
Thursday, April 22 | 1:30pm | Zoom
Daanika Gordon (Assistant Professor of Sociology);
Lilian Mengesha (Fletcher Foundation Assistant Professor of Dramatic Literature in the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, and the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism and Diaspora);
and their research assistants, Jenny Henderson and Paula Gil-Ordoñez Gomez
“Building Transformative Justice at Tufts”
Friday, April 23 | 10:00am | Zoom
H. Adlai Murdoch (Tufts University);
Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken (Research Center for Material Culture)
Vincent Joos (Florida State University)
Jacqueline Lazu (DePaul University)
Hanétha Vété-Congolo (Bowdoin College)
“The Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories: Neoliberalism Since the French Antillean Uprisings of 2009“
