HSS Humanities Center Events: Fostering Scholarship-Centered Community
The HSS Humanities Center holds events throughout the year to bring together scholars at all career stages from across HSS.
February 2025
| DATE | TIME/LOCATION | EVENT NAME | EVENT DETAILS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2/3/25 | 4:00 p.m., Hill Memorial Lecture Hall | Public Lecture | Jenny Mann (NYU) will deliver a public lecture on "The Forms of Utopia: Paradox, Labyrinth, and Infinity" as part of her mini-residency, hosted by Prof. David Nee (English) and the students of ENGL 7943. Mann's most recent book is The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime, newly out in paperback. |
| 2/6/25 | 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m., Hodges Hall 155 | Graduate Writing Workshop | Katelyn Knox (LSU Department of French Studies) will lead this workshop on "Building and Evaluating Your Bibliography: For seminar papers, journal articles, dissertation chapters, and general exam lists." This workshop is open to all HSS grad students, at every stage of their study. Topics to be covered include: What is secondary literature? What types of "buckets" do we need to ensure our bibliographies contain? How to do an exhaustive search for secondary sources. How to identify relevant sources. How to evaluate that unfolding bibliography, and to identify and fill gaps. (We will not be discussing citation management software, balancing reading and writing, annotated bibliography preparation, writing lit reviews, formatting bibliographies, or quoting from these materials.) Light refreshments will be served. Questions? Write Chris Barrett (cbarrett@lsu.edu) or Katelyn Knox (katelynknox@lsu/edu). |
| 2/10/25 | 11:30 a.m., Hill Memorial Lecture Hall | Public Lecture | Karma Chávez (UT Austin) will deliver a public lecture on "Rock Throwing, State Violence, and the Question of Resistance" as part of her mini-residency, hosted by Prof. Bryan McCann (Communication Studies) and the students of CMST 7970. |
| 2/10/25 | 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m., Hodges Hall 155 | Graduate Workshop | Karma Chávez (UT Austin) will lead this session on "The State of Higher Education in the US South and Beyond," as part of her mini-residency, hosted by Prof. Bryan McCann (Communication Studies) and the students of CMST 7970. Refreshments will be served. All HSS graduate students are welcome. |
| 2/20/25 | 11:00 a.m., Hill Memorial Lecture Hall | Public Lecture | Jeanne-Marie Jackson (Johns Hopkins University) will deliver a public lecture on "Disciplined Fictions" as part of her mini-residency, hosted by Prof. Saumya Lal (English) and the students of ENGL 7221. |
| 2/21/25 | 12:30 p.m., Howe Russell 313W | Book Institute Momentum Workshop | The HSSHC Book Institute’s Momentum Workshop Series welcomes Lauren Griffin (Religious Studies and History), who will discuss work in progress from her monograph. Write to organizers Pallavi Rastogi (prastogi@lsu.edu) or Benjy Kahan (bkahan@lsu.edu) to request a pre-circulated copy. All HSS faculty welcome to join the conversation; review of precirculated material not required. Light refreshments will be served. |
March 2025
| DATE | TIME/LOCATION | EVENT NAME | EVENT DETAILS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3/17/25 | 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m., Zoom | Book Institute Momentum Workshop | The HSSHC Book Institute’s Momentum Workshop Series welcomes Jacob Berman (English), who will discuss work in progress from his monograph. Write to organizers Pallavi Rastogi (prastogi@lsu.edu) or Benjy Kahan (bkahan@lsu.edu) to request a pre-circulated copy. All HSS faculty welcome to join the conversation; review of precirculated material not required. Light refreshments will be served. |
April 2025
| DATE | TIME/LOCATION | EVENT NAME | EVENT DETAILS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4/7/25 | 4:00 p.m., Hill Memorial Lecture Hall | Public Lecture | Alyosha Goldstein (University of New Mexico) will deliver a public lecture on "What is Colonialism Now?" as part of his mini-residency, hosted by Prof. Alex Meany (English) and the students of ENGL 7170. |
| 4/8/25 | Time and place to be announced | Workshop | Alyosha Goldstein (University of New Mexico) will offer a workshop, "The Politics and Processes of Collaboration," for faculty and graduate students, on writing and publishing collaborative scholarship. This workshop is part of the mini-residency hosted by Prof. Alex Meany (English) and the students of ENGL 7170. |
June 2025
| DATE | TIME/LOCATION | EVENT NAME | EVENT DETAILS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6/2/25-6/6/25 | Place to be announced | Book Institute | The call for applications for the 2025 HSSHC Book Institute will be announced early in Spring 2025. For more information on the Book Institute, click here. |
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