James E. Fleming will discuss his timely and important new book, Constructing Basic Liberties: A Defense of Substantive Due Process

Professor Fleming will argue—in terms of Bob Dylan’s prophetic “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”—that in Dobbs we can hear “the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world” of personal autonomy and bodily integrity that should be protected through the doctrine of substantive due process. These basic liberties, he argues in his book, are necessary to extend ordered liberty and the status of equal membership in our political community to all. 

Commentator is Keith Whittington, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics (Princeton University)

Moderated by Stephen Macedo, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values (Princeton University)

 

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Dan Pallotta’s Uncharitable documentary adaptation will premiere at Lincoln Center in New York

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Join us for the launch of Scott Stroud's new book "The Evolution of Pragmatism in India"

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Neubauer, author of Beginning to End the Climate Crisis, will be featured during the 25th anniversary celebration of the Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University

To kick off our 25th anniversary celebration, we are planning a conference in coordination with Brandeis' Year of Climate Action (YOCA) and the launch of our director Sabine von Mering’s English translation of Luisa Neubauer and Alex Repenning's book, Beginning to End the Climate Crisis: A History of Our Future. Join us to celebrate CGES and enjoy a stimulating conversation on German climate action, climate justice, and climate activism, and what must be done to protect a livable future.

 

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Rabbi Joseph A. Skloot, author of First Impressions, will lecture at the 92nd Street Y

Encased in leather, embossed in gold, the classics of ancient and medieval Jewish literature appear to exist today as they always have. But these books became what they are during the 16th century, in the Hebrew print shops of Venice, Bologna, and Basel. Explore how the Jewish bookshelf came to be with historian Joseph A. Skloot.

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Book Launch: Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Evolution of Pragmatism in India

Join Scott R. Stroud as he launches his new book, The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction (Chicago, 2023), in conversation with Prof. Sumit Guha, historian of South Asia.

Many know that the Indian thinker, politician, and activist Bhimrao Ambedkar thought highly of his teacher at Columbia University, John Dewey. But what more can be said about the importance of Dewey for Ambedkar's creative anti-caste thought? How might Ambedkar's work on social democracy and Buddhism be seen as a new form of pragmatism responsive to the problems in India?

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Galison, author of Image and Logic, will deliver the opening keynote at “Science and Liberalism” conference at the University of Chicago

Science and liberalism appear to be bound more and more tightly as the crises of the present moment, from the pandemic to severe weather events, make painfully clear. This conference begins from the observation that liberalism and science have always been linked in ways that are both explicit and unspoken. At the same time that historical scholarship has laid bare the genealogies of liberalism in relation to colonialism, racism, and capitalism, science studies scholars and historians of science have revealed the many ways that science is produced and bounded by the social worlds it inhabits. In light of these critical traditions, we will bring together a diverse group of scholars to explore two related themes.

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Benson, author of Surroundings, will discuss “Liberal Subjectivity” at the Science and Liberalism conference at the University of Chicago

Science and liberalism appear to be bound more and more tightly as the crises of the present moment, from the pandemic to severe weather events, make painfully clear. This conference begins from the observation that liberalism and science have always been linked in ways that are both explicit and unspoken. At the same time that historical scholarship has laid bare the genealogies of liberalism in relation to colonialism, racism, and capitalism, science studies scholars and historians of science have revealed the many ways that science is produced and bounded by the social worlds it inhabits. In light of these critical traditions, we will bring together a diverse group of scholars to explore two related themes.

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Join Jeffrey Saletnik writer of "Josef Albers, Late Modernism, and Pedagogic Form" in a panel for the AAH conference

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Steinberg, author of Every Goddamn Day, will have an event with the Hyde Park Book Club

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Join Karl Maurer's lecture in Boston University’s literary translation series

Selected lectures and presentations from BU’s long-running seminar, “The Theory and Practice of Literary Translation,” in which noted translators discuss the problems, pleasures, and mysteries of their craft.

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Celebrate National Poetry Month by enjoying a free JAC Outloud Poetry Reading featuring Sawako Nakayasu

Celebrate National Poetry Month by enjoying a free JAC Outloud Poetry Reading on Sunday, April 23 at 3pm. Four poets will read selected works: 
Tina Cane, Poet Laureate of RI 
Imani Elizabeth Jackson, 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow Sawako Nakayasu, artist working with language, performance, and translation
Timothy Donnelly, Guggenheim fellow. 

An open discussion will follow.  

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A discussion of Christina Dunbar-Hester's book, Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond

The author will be joined in conversation by Ashley Carse (Vanderbilt University) and Deborah Cowen (University of Toronto), moderated by Juan De Lara (USC). Co-sponsored by the Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life and the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies. 

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Join Chris Thorogood, author of Chasing Plants, for a glimpse into the exhilarating adventures of a field botanist.

In his adventures across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, Thorogood has clambered over cliffs and up erupting volcanoes and trekked through typhoons. Along the way, he’s encountered pitcher plants, irises, and orchids of unimaginable beauty.

Thorogood brings his travels to life with his vivid paintings, shares details of hair-raising excursions, and explains the vital work he and other botanists are doing to protect the world’s plants.

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Alison Bashford, author of The Huxleys, will deliver the Alison Winter Faculty Lecture at the University of Chicago

Alison Bashford’s historical research connects the history of science, global history, and environmental history into new assessments of the modern world, from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Her most recent book is The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution (University of Chicago Press, 2022). Alison Bashford is currently Laureate Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Director of the Laureate Centre for History & Population and Co-Director of the New Earth Histories Research Program. 

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Join us for an authorial double-header, with readings from Jessica E. Johnson, author of Metabolics

Jessica E. Johnson writes poetry, nonfiction, and things in between. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Harvard Review, Entropy, River Teeth, Poetry Northwest, DIAGRAM, Interim, The Account, and Tin House, among others. She is an Oregon Literary Fellowship recipient and an Oregon Book Award Finalist for her chapbook In Absolutes We Seek Each Other (New Michigan Press). Her first full-length collection, Metabolics, is forthcoming from Acre Books in 2023. She lives in Portland, Oregon and teaches at Portland Community College.

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Join us for an event with readings from Jessica E. Johnson, author of Metabolics

Jessica E. Johnson writes poetry, nonfiction, and things in between. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Paris Review, River Teeth,  Poetry Northwest, Tin House, DIAGRAM, Four Way Review, The New Republic, Sixth Finch, and Dream Pop, among others. She is an Oregon Literary Fellowship recipient and an Oregon Book Award Finalist for her chapbook In Absolutes We Seek Each Other (New Michigan Press). Her first full-length collection, Metabolics, is forthcoming from Acre Books in 2023. She lives in Portland, Oregon and teaches at Portland Community College.

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Giuliana Bruno, author of Atmospheres of Projection, will have an event at Centre Pompidou

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Sara Burnett author of "Seed Celestial" will have an event at the Ivy Bookshop in Baltimore

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Join us for The Great American Transit Disaster's launch

In The Great American Transit Disaster urban and planning historian Nicholas Dagen Bloom offers a potent re-examination of America’s history of public disinvestment in mass transit. Countering the standard histories that critique American auto-centric culture and government policies, Bloom asserts our transit networks are bad for a very simple reason: we wanted it this way.

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J.D Debris author of " The Scorpion's Question Mark" will have a reading at the Grolier Bookstore.

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Dong Li author of "The Orange Tree" will participate in the Poesie Festival

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