Mellon School Lecures
Date and Time
Location
Evening public lectures presented by guest speakers are free and open to the public. All Mellon School Public Lectures take place in Farkas Hall, 12 Holyoke Street, Room 203 from 5:30-7pm. Some of these lectures are generously supported by the English Department's Spencer Fund.
Monday, June 24: Martin Puchner, Opening Address, "Migrations"
Tuesday, June 25: Patricia Ybarra (Brown University), "Reconsidering Reza Abdoh's Father was a Peculiar Man in the age of Gore Capitalism: A transnational perspective"
Wednesday, June 26: Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard University), "Border Histories: Creation Myths and On-going Tensions Along the U.S.-Mexico Border"
Thursday, June 27: Lizzy Cooper Davis (Emerson College)
Monday, July 1: Debra Caplan (Baruch College, CUNY), "The Art of Itinerancy: Yiddish Theater as a Prototype for Contemporary Migratory Performers"
Tuesday, July 2: Ju Yon Kim (Harvard University), "Documents of Passage: Migration, Suspicion, and Asian American Performance"
Wednesday, July 3: Helena de Bres (Wellesley University), "The Ethics of Immigration”