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Modern & Contemporary Workshop with Marcel Schmid

April 15, 2024

New Cabell Hall 236 | 11 am - 12:30 pm EST

Modern & Contemporary Workshop with Marcel Schmid

April 15, 2024

New Cabell Hall 236 | 11 am - 12:30 pm EST

Marcel Schmid (Assistant Professor, Department of German Languages & Literatures), “Aerospace and Smartphone - Paradigms in Car Aesthetics,” Monday, April 15, 11:00 AM, New Cabell Hall, Room 236.

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Seminar, "Repairing Play: A Black Phenomenology" with Aaron Trammell, Dept. of Media Studies, co-sponsored by IHGC

April 10, 2024

Wilson 142 | 12-1:30 pm

Seminar, "Repairing Play: A Black Phenomenology" with Aaron Trammell, Dept. of Media Studies, co-sponsored by IHGC

April 10, 2024

Wilson 142 | 12-1:30 pm
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“The Privilege of Play: Connecting Games and Race in the Twentieth Century” Games Lab Lecture with Aaron Trammell, University of California, Irvine

April 9, 2024

Wilson 142 | 4-6 PM

“The Privilege of Play: Connecting Games and Race in the Twentieth Century” Games Lab Lecture with Aaron Trammell, University of California, Irvine

April 9, 2024

Wilson 142 | 4-6 PM
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“Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: Interdisciplinarity and the Humanities Today." For the Humanities Lecture by Dixa Ramirez-D’Oleo, Brown University

April 4, 2024

Wilson 142 | 4 - 6 pm EST

“Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: Interdisciplinarity and the Humanities Today." For the Humanities Lecture by Dixa Ramirez-D’Oleo, Brown University

April 4, 2024

Wilson 142 | 4 - 6 pm EST

April 4, 4-6pm - For the Humanities Lecture:  “Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: Interdisciplinarity and the Humanities Today.”  Dixa Ramirez-D’Oleo, Associate Professor of English, Brown University

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Reading Lab Lecture: “The Science of Reading” with Adrian Johns (U Chicago)

March 28, 2024

Wilson 142 | 4 - 6 pm EST

Reading Lab Lecture: “The Science of Reading” with Adrian Johns (U Chicago)

March 28, 2024

Wilson 142 | 4 - 6 pm EST

March 28, 4-6pm - Reading Lab Lecture: “The Science of Reading”

Adrian Johns, Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History, University of Chicago

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Book Launch: "How Is It Between Us? Relational Ethics and Care for the World" by Jarrett Zigon (Anthropology, UVA)

March 22, 2024

Wilson 142 | 12-2 pm

Book Launch: "How Is It Between Us? Relational Ethics and Care for the World" by Jarrett Zigon (Anthropology, UVA)

March 22, 2024

Wilson 142 | 12-2 pm
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Modern & Contemporary Workshop with Ian Jayne

March 18, 2024

New Cabell Hall 236 | 11 am - 12:30 pm EST

Modern & Contemporary Workshop with Ian Jayne

March 18, 2024

New Cabell Hall 236 | 11 am - 12:30 pm EST

Ian Jayne (PhD candidate in the English Department, University of Virginia), presenting a chapter from his dissertation, “Freedom's Fluctuations: Queer Affect and Contemporary Fiction,” Monday, March 18, 11:00 AM, New Cabell Hall, Room 236.

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Games Lab Workshop with Elizabeth Elizabeth Hargrave: A Guided Playthrough of Undergrove

February 28, 2024

Wilson 142 | 11:30 am–2:30 pm

Games Lab Workshop with Elizabeth Elizabeth Hargrave: A Guided Playthrough of Undergrove

February 28, 2024

Wilson 142 | 11:30 am–2:30 pm

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“Wingspan and Beyond," Games Lab Lecture with Elizabeth Hargrave, Game Designer

February 27, 2024

Wilson 142 | 4-6 pm

“Wingspan and Beyond," Games Lab Lecture with Elizabeth Hargrave, Game Designer

February 27, 2024

Wilson 142 | 4-6 pm
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Modern & Contemporary Workshop with Samhita Sunya

February 26, 2024

New Cabell Hall, 236 | 11 am - 12:30 pm EST

Modern & Contemporary Workshop with Samhita Sunya

February 26, 2024

New Cabell Hall, 236 | 11 am - 12:30 pm EST

Samhita Sunya (Associate Professor of Cinema, Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Culture, University of Virginia), topic tba, Monday, February 26, 11:00 AM, New Cabell Hall, Room 236

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Reading Lab Symposium: “Reading Visuality," co-sponsored by New Literary History

February 23, 2024

Wilson 142 | 9 am - 5 pm

Reading Lab Symposium: “Reading Visuality," co-sponsored by New Literary History

February 23, 2024

Wilson 142 | 9 am - 5 pm

Schedule

9:30AM Coffee 

10AM Introduction: Jack Chen & Bruce Holsinger

10:15 “Seeing X Reading” W.J.T. Mitchell, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History, the University of Chicago

11:15 “Reading Authenticity” Sonja Drimmer, Associate Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture, University of Massachusetts Amherst

12:15-1:15 lunch

1:15 “Reading Interiority”  Lara Blanchard, Luce Professor of East Asian Art, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

2;15 “Reading Charlottesville” Andrea Douglas, Executive Director, Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, Charlottesville

3:15 “(Un)reading Coloniality” Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University

4:15-5:00 Discussion: Moderated by Tatiana Flores (Art History) & Christa Noel Robbins (Art History)

5:00 Reception

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"Wingspan" Introductory Play Through with Games Lab

February 21, 2024

Wilson 142 | 10 am -12 pm

"Wingspan" Introductory Play Through with Games Lab

February 21, 2024

Wilson 142 | 10 am -12 pm
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"Fictionality and Belief" Reading Lab Workshop with Julie Orlemanski

February 16, 2024

Wilson 142 | 12 - 2 pm EST

"Fictionality and Belief" Reading Lab Workshop with Julie Orlemanski

February 16, 2024

Wilson 142 | 12 - 2 pm EST

"Fictionality and Belief" Workshop by Julie Orlemanski
IHGC Reading Lab, Co-Sponsored by New Literary History
12 pm - 2pm EST, Wilson Hall 142
RSVP with Ian Jayne (imj4tq@virginia.edu)

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“Voice, Medium, and Person-Making” Reading Lab Lecture with Julie Orlemanski, University of Chicago

February 15, 2024

Wilson 142 | 4-6 pm

“Voice, Medium, and Person-Making” Reading Lab Lecture with Julie Orlemanski, University of Chicago

February 15, 2024

Wilson 142 | 4-6 pm

CLICK HERE FOR ZOOM REGISTRATION

Reception to follow

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“Buddhist Personhood Between Gendered Hierarchies: How Transgender Members of Soka Gakkai in Japan Cultivate Subjectivities" Personhoods Initiative Lecture with Levi McLaughlin, North Carolina State University

February 9, 2024

Wilson 142 | 3:15-4:30 pm

“Buddhist Personhood Between Gendered Hierarchies: How Transgender Members of Soka Gakkai in Japan Cultivate Subjectivities" Personhoods Initiative Lecture with Levi McLaughlin, North Carolina State University

February 9, 2024

Wilson 142 | 3:15-4:30 pm
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Graduate Student Winter Open House and Mixer

February 2, 2024

Wilson Hall Lounge | 4:30-6:30 pm

Graduate Student Winter Open House and Mixer

February 2, 2024

Wilson Hall Lounge | 4:30-6:30 pm
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“Unraveling the Ties that Bind: The Social Fragility of Old Age” Personhoods Initiative Lecture with Gail Weiss, George Washington University

January 26, 2024

Wilson 142 | 12-2 pm

“Unraveling the Ties that Bind: The Social Fragility of Old Age” Personhoods Initiative Lecture with Gail Weiss, George Washington University

January 26, 2024

Wilson 142 | 12-2 pm

Lunch served following lecture

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“Where Is Interpretation in Legal Midrash?” IHGC Fellowship Lecture with Elizabeth Alexander, UVA

January 25, 2024

Wilson 142 | 12-2pm

“Where Is Interpretation in Legal Midrash?” IHGC Fellowship Lecture with Elizabeth Alexander, UVA

January 25, 2024

Wilson 142 | 12-2pm

Lunch served following lecture

"Gamer Trouble: Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture" - Seminar with Amanda D. Phillips, IHGC Game Lab

November 17, 2023

Wilson 142 | 12–2 pm. Lunch with registration.

"Gamer Trouble: Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture" - Seminar with Amanda D. Phillips, IHGC Game Lab

November 17, 2023

Wilson 142 | 12–2 pm. Lunch with registration.

This talk requires prior registration. Copies of Dr. Phillips' book will be provided to the first twelve to register for this event. Register at humanities@virginia.edu.

Zoom registration here: https://virginia.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvdempqzgtEtOCaEMZKojO4LnFIFnCEGjp

 

Amanda Phillips (they/he/she) is Associate Professor of EnglishFilm and Media StudiesWomen’s and Gender Studies, and American Studies at Georgetown University. They are the author of Gamer Trouble: Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture, as well as co-editor of the Queer/Trans/Digital book series with NYU Press. Amanda writes about sex, death, identity, and politics in video games, with a particular emphasis on centering the insights of queer women of color feminism in the study of technology. His interests more broadly are in issues of racial and gender justice in and around technoculture, popular media, and the digital humanities.

“Video Games and the Pornography of Death" with Amanda Phillips, Georgetown University

November 16, 2023

Wilson 142 | 4:00-6:00 (EST). Reception to follow

“Video Games and the Pornography of Death" with Amanda Phillips, Georgetown University

November 16, 2023

Wilson 142 | 4:00-6:00 (EST). Reception to follow

Event Registration: https://virginia.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pduCprjkoG9CW0OfR9x2_6k6JlqzFo1i8

Amanda Phillips (they/he/she) is Associate Professor of EnglishFilm and Media StudiesWomen’s and Gender Studies, and American Studies at Georgetown University. They are the author of Gamer Trouble: Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture, as well as co-editor of the Queer/Trans/Digital book series with NYU Press. Amanda writes about sex, death, identity, and politics in video games, with a particular emphasis on centering the insights of queer women of color feminism in the study of technology. His interests more broadly are in issues of racial and gender justice in and around technoculture, popular media, and the digital humanities.

This talk explores the so-called "pornography of death" in video games. Once infamously called "murder simulators" by anti-obscenity activist Jack Thompson, the simulation and animation technologies of video games are indeed often used to depict elaborate, explicit, and exploitative fantasies about dying and killing. From exploding heads and blood fountains to flailing bodies and x-ray vision, the mechanics of death in video games are polymorphously perverse, and understanding the ways that digital technologies stimulate our curiosity of how bodies respond to violence or how individuals behave under threat is crucial in this moment of increased gun violence, racial injustice, and trans- and queerphobia.

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The Ancient Law featuring Alicia Svigals & Donald Sosin, Modern and Contemporary Workshop

November 14, 2023

Old Cabell Hall Auditorium | 7 PM

The Ancient Law featuring Alicia Svigals & Donald Sosin, Modern and Contemporary Workshop

November 14, 2023

Old Cabell Hall Auditorium | 7 PM

On November 14 at 7pm, the UVA Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures will host a screening of the recently restored 1923 silent film THE ANCIENT LAW (dir. E. A. Dupont, 135 min.) in the Old Cabell Hall Auditorium. Ewald André Dupont’s 1923 silent masterpiece, is the moving story of the rupture between a rabbi and his son in a Polish shtetl, when the young man abruptly leaves to become an actor in Vienna. With its fascinating attention to cultural detail, and an ensemble of some of the great actors of the day, the film still resonates deeply with audiences in its 100th anniversary year. The renowned klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and the celebrated silent film pianist Donald Sosin will be present to perform their newly composed score live. You can read more about the film and watch a trailer here.

This event is free and open to the public. Please contact Prof. Paul Dobryden (pad9q@virginia.edu) with any questions.

Links:

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"Toxic Encounters: A Tale of the Ephemeral and the Enduring" and Creative Writing Workshop with Gisela Heffes

November 6, 2023

Wilson 142 | Lecture from 2-3:30 pm, Workshop from 3:30-5:30 pm

"Toxic Encounters: A Tale of the Ephemeral and the Enduring" and Creative Writing Workshop with Gisela Heffes

November 6, 2023

Wilson 142 | Lecture from 2-3:30 pm, Workshop from 3:30-5:30 pm

2:00pm Talk "Toxic Encounters: A Tale of the Ephemeral and the Enduring" in Wilson 142. Lunch offered at 1:00pm in advance of the talk.

3:30-5:30pm Workshop on Anthropocene Creative Writing.

RSVP required for the workshop by Friday, November 3, link here

Gisela Heffes is a writer, ecocritic, and public intellectual with a particular focus on literature, media, and the environment in Latin America. Her highly reviewed book Políticas de la destrucción / Poéticas de la preservación (2013), currently translated into English, examines narratives from the mid-twentieth century to the present that are related to the environment in Latin America and analyzes how these texts refer to both the conservation and destruction of nature. 

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IHGC Graduate Student Mixer

November 3, 2023

Wilson Hall Lobby | 4:30-6:30 pm

IHGC Graduate Student Mixer

November 3, 2023

Wilson Hall Lobby | 4:30-6:30 pm

Registration here 

“Dreaming Sufism in the Sokoto Caliphate: Dreams and Knowledge in the Works of Shaykh Dan Tafa” - IHGC Fellows Lecture Series

November 2, 2023

Wilson 142 | 4–6 pm. Reception to follow

“Dreaming Sufism in the Sokoto Caliphate: Dreams and Knowledge in the Works of Shaykh Dan Tafa” - IHGC Fellows Lecture Series

November 2, 2023

Wilson 142 | 4–6 pm. Reception to follow

Dr. Oludamini Ogunnaike is Associate Professor of African Religious Thought and Democracy, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia.

Seminar with Eric Hayot on "Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan."

October 27, 2023

Wilson 142 | 12:00-2:00 pm (EST). Lunch with registration

Seminar with Eric Hayot on "Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan."

October 27, 2023

Wilson 142 | 12:00-2:00 pm (EST). Lunch with registration

This event requires prior registration. Copies of Dr. Hayot's book will be provided to the first twelve to register for this event. Register here:

Eric Hayot is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of five books, including The Hypothetical Mandarin (2009), On Literary Worlds (2012), The Elements of Academic Style (2014), and Humanist Reason (2021). He has co-edited three volumes, most recently, Information: A Reader (2022), and is the co-translator, with Lea Pao, of Peter Janich’s What is Information? He's also the Director of Penn State’s Center for Humanities and Information.

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