Past Events

2012

Nov 29
A Closer Look Book Club reads Inferno by Dante
Nov 27
The Balkans Through Film Series: "The World is Big & Salvation Lurks Around the Corner"
Nov 17
Family Days at the Poetry Center
Nov 16
Milton Marathon
Nov 15
Poetry Center Reading: G.C. Waldrep
Nov 14
“On the Unveiling: Parable, Apocalypse, and Spiritual Practice in Contemporary Poetry”: A Talk by G.C. Waldrep
Nov 13
The Balkans Through Film Series: "Slogans"
Nov 13
Religion and Religious Studies in Contemporary China
Nov 9
SAMOVARTY!
Nov 9
AMAZONIUM.COM: A Modern Look at the Classics
Nov 8
UA Prose Series Reading with Lydia Millet and Shannon Cain
Nov 8
Images of Women in Lusophone African Film and Literature
Nov 7
Poetry Center Shop Talk on the work of poet Wisława Szymborska
Nov 6 - Dec 4
Humanities Seminars Course - Taking Charge of Aging
Nov 1
Poetry Center Reading: Carl Phillips
Oct 30
Poetry Center Shop Talk on the work of poet Carl Phillips
Oct 30
The Balkans Through Film Series: "Here & There"
Oct 30
Christian Coalitions in American Politics
Oct 25
A Closer Look Book CLub
Oct 25
A Closer Look Book Club reads Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Oct 25 - Nov 15
Humanities Seminars Course - The Archaeology and Geology of Ancient Greece
Oct 19
Moscow is Burning!: Russian Poetry, Music, and Mayhem
Oct 19
Sins of the Father: Nazi Progeny in the Postwar Era
Oct 19
DANTE #&@%!: Dante's Poetry of Insult
Oct 19
The Academic Job Market: The Beauty or the Beast?
Oct 18
A Meme's Memory: A Meditation on the Viral Spread of Ideas
Oct 18
The Technological Sublime: Virtual Money & Physical Violence: Suarez¹s Daemon & Freedom
Oct 17
There's an App for That?: The Evolution of Humanities
Oct 17
Listen Closely: Lyric Voices from Dada to Nicki Minaj
Oct 16
UofA-TUBE: Turning Language Students into Film Makers
Oct 15
Personality Politics: How Persona Plays into our Political Thinking
Oct 13
Family Days at the Poetry Center
Oct 11
Poetry Center "Next Word in Poetry" reading with Joyelle McSweeney and Zachary Schomburg
Oct 5
First Fridays Series: The Technological Sublime 2.0
Oct 5 - Dec 14
Humanities Seminars Course - Nobel Laureates of Literature
Oct 4 - Dec 13
Humanities Seminars Course - What's Bugging You?
Oct 3 - Dec 12
Humanities Seminars Course - Text and the City: Rome in Legend, Myth, and Imagination
Oct 2 - Dec 11
Humanities Seminars Course - "The Good Fight" Revisited: The Spanish Civil War and Its Intellectual Legacy
Oct 1 - Dec 17
Humanities Seminars Course - What's the good in party politics?
Oct 1 - Dec 17
Humanities Seminars Course - Mysterious Moments from the History of Astronomy
Sep 28
The Language of Poetry in the Age of Political Machination
Sep 28
Translating (Turkish) Weimar Berlin
Sep 26
Josef Haslinger, Renowned Austrian Novelist and Essayist
Sep 22
Family Days at the Poetry Center
Sep 20
A Closer Look Book Club reads The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
Sep 14
Alexander von Humboldt — (Transcultural) Memory Site
Sep 13
Poetry Center Reading: C.D. Wright
Sep 11
Poetry Center Shop Talk on the work of poet C.D. Wright
Sep 10 - Dec 7
Poetry Center Exhibition: From Here and Far Away ~ Artist's Books, Pages, and Paintings by Beata Wehr
Sep 7
First Fridays Series: The Technological Sublime 2.0