Mahindra Humanities Center

Urban Conversations Speaker: Geoff Boeing In conversation with Carole Voulgaris In his seminal 1965 article “A City Is Not a Tree,” design theorist Christopher Alexander argued that urban planners—working centrally and top-down—tend to design cities as...

Photo: James Stopforth, Courtesy of Thomas Dane Gallery and Marian Goodman Gallery THE NORTON LECTURES 2025-26 Norton Professor of Poetry: Steve McQueen Discussants: Edward Daffarn, former Grenfell Tower resident and activist; Patricia Kingori, Oxford...

Speaker: Anuk Arudpragasam In Conversation with Tara K. Menon Please note that this event location has changed: it will take place in Emerson Hall, Room 105. About the Speakers Anuk Arudpragasam is a Tamil novelist and translator from Colombo, Sri Lanka...

Entangled Catastrophes: Famine, Disease, and Governance in Late Eighteenth-Century Tunis Speaker: Lama Elsharif, 2025-26 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Jessica Marglin Lama Elsharif is a historian of the early modern and modern Middle East and North...

Registers of ‘Emptiness’ in the Paraguay River: From Guido Boggiani to Paz Encina Speaker: Manuela Luengas Solano, 2025-26 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Mayra Rivera Manuela Luengas Solano is a Latin American cultural studies scholar whose areas of...

A Right to Light: The Moral Economy of Electricity in Prague’s 1967 Strahov Demonstration Speaker: Julia Mead, 2025-26 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Alison Frank Johnson Julia Mead is an environmental historian of modern Eastern Europe, with a...

MODERN GREEK STUDIES SPEAKER: Robert McCabe, Photographer "When photographer Robert A. McCabe first came to Greece as a college student in 1954, he found a country still scarred by the Axis occupation of World War II and the civil war that followed...

Beginning with the assumption that AI skeptics need to know how it works to defend against it, this lunch session will explore what AI can and can't do, ending with ideas for assignments that use AI to preserve core humanities skills like reading, writing...

THE NORTON LECTURES 2025-26 Norton Professor of Poetry: Steve McQueen Featured Performers: Regina Reagan, Jeff Mash, Eric Meyers, and Laurel Lefkow Discussant: Donna De Salvo, Dia Art Foundation Moderator: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University The...

Hannah Freed-Thall (NYU) is giving a talk at the Mahindra Humanities Center's France and the World seminar, which is organized by RLL faculty, entitled "Claude Cahun's Curiosity". This talk explores the anti-fascistic potential of curiosity, taking avant...