Center Calendar
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May 2022
5 CHIIRS - The Ethics of Extinction: Anthropocene Fragments (L. Huffer) 1:00pm CANCELLED
5 CHIIRS - Europe and Beyond Virtual Happy Hour 5pm
5 Great Works Seminar – Virgil’s Aeneid: Poem of Duty (Duquette/Thomas) 6:30pm
9 ECAS Commencement Ceremonies
9 Great Works Seminar - Readers of the Lost Arkhive: Afrofuturism, Black Speculative
Fiction, and Special Collections (C. Fluker) 6pm
16 Great Works Seminar - Readers of the Lost Arkhive: Afrofuturism, Black Speculative
Fiction, and Special Collections (C. Fluker) 6pm
18 CHIIRS - el Club de lectura/LAA Una vez fui tú de Maria Hinojosa 6pm
23 Great Works Seminar - Readers of the Lost Arkhive: Afrofuturism, Black Speculative
Fiction, and Special Collections (C. Fluker) 6pm
30 Great Works Seminar - Readers of the Lost Arkhive: Afrofuturism, Black Speculative
Fiction, and Special Collections (C. Fluker) 6pm
April 2022
4 CHIIRS - Europe and Beyond 4:15pm
5 Great Works Seminar - The 1960s in Global Perspective (S. Klug) 5pm
6 Undergraduate Honors Colloquium @ Carlos Museum 4pm
7 Great Works Seminar – Virgil’s Aeneid: Poem of Duty (Duquette/Thomas) 6:30pm
8 Junior Faculty Workshop - 12pm
8 Book Discussion (The White Indians of Mexican Cinema) with Dr. Mónica García Blizzard 3:15pm
7-9 Lovis Corinth Colloquium XII: Motus mixti et compositi: The Portrayal of Mixed and Compound
Emotions in the Visual and Literary Arts of Northern Europe: 1500 – 1700 9am
12 Great Works Seminar - The 1960s in Global Perspective (S. Klug) 5pm
12 CHIIRS - Contemporary Women Novelists (S. Still) 7pm
13 Fellows’ Works-in-Progress Lunch 12pm
13 Public Scholarship Forum - Talk by Christina E. Crawford, Art History @ Carlos Museum 4pm
13 CHIIRS - Transculturalism and Migrant Imagineries (S. Xavier) 4:15pm
14 Emerging Technologies – A talk with Tung-Hui Hu: "This Talk Was (Mostly) Written by a Human, or Two
Forgeries Using Big Data" 5pm
14 Great Works Seminar – Virgil’s Aeneid: Poem of Duty (Duquette/Thomas) 6:30pm
15 A Works In Progress Discission with Tung-Hui Hu 11am
18 Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson will present scenes from their latest play, A Song of Rome 4pm
19 Great Works Seminar - The 1960s in Global Perspective (S. Klug) 5pm
20 CHIIRS - el Club de lectura/LAA Los abismos por Pilar Quintana 6pm
20 Great Works Seminar - W.E.B. Du Bois: Then and Now (I. Browne) 6:30pm
21 CHIIRS - The Ethics of Extinction: Anthropocene Fragments (L. Huffer) 11:00am
21 Great Works Seminar – Virgil’s Aeneid: Poem of Duty (Duquette/Thomas) 6:30pm
25 ECAS Spring 2022 Classes End
28 Great Works Seminar – Virgil’s Aeneid: Poem of Duty (Duquette/Thomas) 6:30pm
March 2022
2 CHIIRS - Transculturalism and Migrant Imagineries (S. Xavier) 4:15pm
10 Georgia Seminar - Common Good Atlanta: Breaking Down the Walls of Mass Incarceration
with the Liberal Arts (H. Jacobs) 6:30pm
15 CHIIRS - Contemporary Women Novelists (S. Still) 7pm
16 Fellows’ Works-in-Progress Lunch 12pm
16 Humanities Honors Seminar 2pm
16 CHIIRS - el Club de lectura/LAA Fantomas contra los vampiros multinacionales por Julio Cortazar 6pm
17 CHIIRS - The Ethics of Extinction: Anthropocene Fragments (L. Huffer) 11:00am
17 Georgia Seminar - Common Good Atlanta: Breaking Down the Walls of Mass Incarceration
with the Liberal Arts (H. Jacobs) 6:30pm
22 Great Works Seminar - The 1960s in Global Perspective (S. Klug) 5pm
23 Fellows’ Works-in-Progress Lunch 12pm
24 Georgia Seminar - Common Good Atlanta: Breaking Down the Walls of Mass Incarceration
with the Liberal Arts (H. Jacobs) 6:30pm
25 Digital Publishing in the Humanities Workshop: What is a Digital Monograph? 9am
29 Great Works Seminar - The 1960s in Global Perspective (S. Klug) 5pm
31 A Trans & Non-Binary Poetry Reading hosted by Trace Peterson, Poetics Fellow 6:30pm
February 2022
1 Great Works Seminar - Language, Politeness, and Civility (D. Tuten) 6pm
2 Fellows’ Works-in-Progress Lunch 12pm
2 CHIIRS - Transculturalism and Migrant Imagineries (S. Xavier) 4:15pm
2 Great Works Seminar - W.E.B. Du Bois: Then and Now (I. Browne) 6:30pm
7 CHIIRS - Europe and Beyond 4:15pm
8 Great Works Seminar - Language, Politeness, and Civility (D. Tuten) 6pm
8 CHIIRS - Contemporary Women Novelists (S. Still) 7pm
9 Fellows’ Works-in-Progress Lunch 12pm
15 Great Works Seminar - Language, Politeness, and Civility (D. Tuten) 6pm
16 Fellows’ Works-in-Progress Lunch 12pm
16 Humanities Honors Seminar 2pm
16 CHIIRS - el Club de lectura/LAA El amor, las mujeres y la vida por Mario Benedetti 6pm
22 Great Works Seminar - Language, Politeness, and Civility (D. Tuten) 6pm
23 Fellows’ Works-in-Progress Lunch 12pm
23 Race, Social Justice, and Contemporary African-American Art: Glenn Ligon talk 4:15pm
23 Great Works Seminar - W.E.B. Du Bois: Then and Now (I. Browne) 6:30pm
24 CHIIRS - The Ethics of Extinction: Anthropocene Fragments (L. Huffer) 11:30am
25 Fox Center Junior Faculty Seminar 12pm
28 CHIIRS - Europe and Beyond 4:15pm
January 2022
11 Spring 2022 Classes Begin
12 Fellows’ Works-in-Progress Lunch 12pm
14 President's, Senior, and Postdoctoral Fellowship Application Deadline
19 Fellows’ Works-in-Progress Lunch 12pm
19 Junior Faculty Works in Progress Seminar 4pm
19 CHIIRS - el Club de lectura/LAA La sangre de la aurora, de Claudia Salazar (Perú) 6 pm
26 Humanities Honors Seminar 2pm
26 Response Forum XXI - Works in Progress Discussions 5pm
December 2021
1 Fellows’ Works-in-Progress Lunch 12pm
3 Announcement of Spring Undergraduate Honors Fellows
7 Fall 2021 Classes End
9 Georgia Seminar - Georgia's Origin Stories (R. Smith) 5:30pm
10 CHIIRS - The Right Thing in 21st Century America (B. Smith-Shomade) 12pm
15 CHIIRS - el Club de lectura/LAA 6pm
17 CHIIRS - The Right Thing in 21st Century America (B. Smith-Shomade) 2pm
November 2021
1 President's, Senior and Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs Open for Applications
1 Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellowship Application Deadline
2 Great Works Seminar - W.E.B. DuBois's Black Reconstruction in America (S. Klug) 5:30pm
3 Fellows’ Works-in-Progress Lunch 12pm
4 Georgia Seminar - Georgia's Origin Stories (R. Smith) 5:30pm
5 CHIIRS - The Right Thing in 21st Century America (B. Smith-Shomade) 12pm
9 Great Works Seminar - W.E.B. DuBois's Black Reconstruction in America (S. Klug) 5:30pm
10 Fellows’ Works-in-Progress Lunch 12pm
11 Georgia Seminar - Georgia's Origin Stories (R. Smith) 5:30pm
16 Great Works Seminar - W.E.B. DuBois's Black Reconstruction in America (S. Klug) 5:30pm
16 CHIIRS - Contemporary Women Novelists (S. Still) 7pm
17 Halle Institute/Fox Center Undergraduate Global Research Fellow Colloquium 4pm
17 CHIIRS - el Club de lectura/LAA La ruta de su evasión Yolanda Oreamundo (Costa Rica) 6pm
18 Georgia Seminar - Georgia's Origin Stories (R. Smith) 5:30pm
20 Fellows’ Works-in-Progress Lunch 12pm
22 Dissertation Completion Fellows Program Application Deadline
23 Great Works Seminar - W.E.B. DuBois's Black Reconstruction in America (S. Klug) 5:30pm
28 Thanksgiving Holiday
29 Thanksgiving Holiday
October 2021
1 CHIIRS - The Right Thing in 21st Century America (B. Smith-Shomade) 12pm
1 Dissertation Completion Fellows Program Open for Applications
6 Fellows’ Works-in-Progress Lunch 12pm
11 Fall Break
12 Fall Break
12 CHIIRS - Contemporary Women Novelists (S. Still) 7pm
14-16 Lovis Corinth Colloquium XI: Customized Books in Early Modern Europe 1400-1700
20 Fellows’ Works-in-Progress Lunch 12pm
20 CHIIRS - el Club de lectura/LAA La mucama de Omicunle, de Rita Indiana (República Dominicana) 6pm
September 2021
1 Fellows’ Works-in-Progress Lunch 12pm
8 Fellows’ Works-in-Progress Lunch 12pm
14 CHIIRS - Contemporary Women Novelists (S. Still) 7pm
15 Fellows’ Works-in-Progress Lunch 12pm
15 CHIIRS - el Club de lectura/LAA Señales que precederán al fin del mundo Yuri Herrera (México) 6pm
17 CHIIRS - The Right Thing in 21st Century America (B. Smith-Shomade) 12pm
22 Fellows’ Works-in-Progress Lunch 12pm
22 MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Digital Mapping and the Humanities **POSTPONED**
29 Fellows’ Works-in-Progress Lunch 12pm
August 2021
12-18 Public Humanities Workshop - Faculty and Graduate Students
18 CHIIRS - el Club de lectura/LAA Aire de tango Manuel Mejía Vallejo (Colombia) 6pm
26 Classes Begin / First Day of Center Operations
July 2021
12-16 Interventions Meetings
21 CHIIRS - el Club de lectura/LAA Yo el Supremo, de Augusto Roa Bastos (Paraguay) 6pm
June 2021
15 CHIIRS - Women Novelists (Still) 7:30pm
19 CHIIRS - el Club de lectura/LAA Temporada de huracanes, de Fernanda Melchor (México) 6pm