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Mona Kareem, a 2021-2022 CHAT Postdoctoral Fellow, has recently published a personal essay on her experience seeking asylum in the United States. The essay is titled, “Mapping Exile: A Writer’s Story of Growing Up Stateless in Post-Gulf War Kuwait.”
Jackson Davidow, a 2021-2022 Translating Race Postdoctoral Fellow, has been recently published in two art magazines. His article, “The Healing Museum,” on museums’ use of art therapy in response to Covid, is published in the September/October 2021 issue of Art in America. His second article, “Arthur Tress’s photographs of student […]
On Friday, November 19 at 1:30 pm, Alexis Samuels, 2021-2022 CHAT Postdoctoral Fellow, discusses her research. The talk is entitled, “”Shaky” Essences & “Stable” Positions in the Prose of Queer Caribbean Diaspora Writers.” Learn more on our Events page or register for a Zoom link.
heidi andrea restrepo rhodes, a Translating Race Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center, was recently awarded The Editor’s Prize for Feature Article at Poetry Magazine for her article, “Impossible Word: Towards a Poetics of Aphasia.” Learn more about this prize here.
The Tufts Film and Media Studies Program will host an evening with Medhin Paolos, Artist-in-Residence at the Center for the Humanities. There will be a screening of her documentary film Asmarina on campus on Thursday, Novmeber 4 at 6:30 pm followed by a Q&A. Read more about this event here. […]
On Friday, November 12 at 1:30 pm, Jackson Davidow, 2021-2022 Translating Race Postdoctoral Fellow, discusses his research. The talk is entitled, “Picturing a Pandemic: Brian Weil’s AIDS Photographs and Epidemiological Art History.” Learn more on our Events page or register for a Zoom link.
As part of the New Books and Projects Series, Yonatan Y. Brafman, Assistant Professor of Modern Judaism & Neubauer Faculty Fellow, Department of Religion and Program in Judaic Studies will discuss his latest project during a talk entitled, “Critique of Halakhic Reason: Religious Norms and Human Reasoning in Jewish Tradition.” The […]
As part of the New Books and Projects Series, Tatiana Chudakova, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts, will discuss her latest book, Mixing Medicines: Ecologies of Care in Buddhist Siberia. This talk will be held on Friday, October 22 at 1:30 pm. Register for a Zoom link and find out more […]
The Center for the Humanities at Tufts is pleased to announce the hiring of five postdoctoral fellows for the 2021-2022 academic year. We look forward to welcoming these fellows into our community. Learn more about our fellows and their research below: Claire CooleyCultural History of the Modern Middle East Postdoctoral […]