Women and Culture in the Early Modern World
Touba Ghadessi, Wheaton College
Vexed Rulership: Ambiguous Valois Bodies (1494-1589)

Eighteenth-Century Studies
New Eyes on the Eighteenth Century Symposium

Art, Popular Culture, and Civic Life
Roundtable Discussion
Movies and Memory: The Art of Remaking the Past

James Uden, Boston University
Satire and Superstition in Second-Century Rome

Society for Word-Music Relations - www.lyricasociety.org • lyricasociety@aol.com

The Lyrica Society is pleased to announce its

 9^th ANNUAL

LYRICA DIALOGUES AT HARVARD

 BEETHOVEN AND THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA

https://www.facebook.com/events/1642337345982999/

 Friday, 11 December 2015

9 A.m. - 5 p.m.

Pusey Room, The Memorial Church, Harvard Yard...

W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Spring Colloquium

Vincent Brown, Charles Warren Professor of American History; Founding Director, History Design Studio, Harvard University

• Fellow's Bio and Project Description

The Coromantee War: An Archipelago of Insurrection

Free and open to the public.  A Q+A session will follow each talk.  Please feel free to bring a lunch.

Kristin Nicole Dukes, Simmons College

#SayHerName: Examining Perceptions & Representations of Black Women

Part of the Mahindra Humanities Center Gender and Sexuality Seminar: Arresting Violence: Reconceptualizing Justice

Co-sponsored with the Mahindra Humanities Center

Kerry Chance, Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard University

• Fellow's Bio and Project Description

Living Politics

Free and open to the public.  A Q+A session will follow each talk.  Please feel free to bring a lunch.

Sanyu Mojola, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder

• Fellow's Bio and Project Description

Race, Health and Inequality: Producing an HIV Epidemic in the Shadow of the Capitol

Free and open to the public.  A Q+A session will follow each talk.  Please feel free to bring a lunch.

Speaker: Wendy Swartz, Rutgers University

Intertextuality lies at the heart of reading and writing practices in early medieval China. Reading and writing well meant demonstrating a command of the textual tradition and cultural codes, and the ability to appropriate them in a range of situations. Intertextuality thus constituted a condition of writing as well as a mode of reading. In particular, from the third to the fifth century, the Chinese literati drew extensively from a set of philosophical classics, namely the Laozi, Zhuangzi, and Yijing (later...

David Brophy, IAAS 2011, University of Sydney