Faculty Focus | Encountering Sorrow
Lynn Xu speaks at Reid Hall for an evening of poetry and multidisciplinary reflections on time, suffering, and human experience
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Programs, events and other opportunities for engagement.
ParisIn-PersonJanuary 30, 2025, 6:00 PM
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The Museum of Days
Filmmaker Kamal Aljafari explores the intersection of fiction and reality in his work, challenging the notion that images are simply something you "create."
ParisIn-PersonMarch 6, 2025, 6:00 PM
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Faculty Focus | Architecture, Urban Planning and Political Thought in Senegal 1960–1989
Discussion on urban planning and political thought in post-independence Senegal.
ParisIn-PersonMarch 20, 2025, 5:00 PM
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Faculty Focus | The Reincarnation of Blind Tom
A talk on the denial of subjectivity for robots and slaves, with a focus on the former slave and great American composer Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins.
ParisIn-PersonApril 3, 2025, 5:00 PM
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Faculty Focus | Mother of Exiles
A discussion of the uneven historical trajectory in how refuge and asylum have figured in America’s national self-image.
