The Humanities Department will be hosting a talk by Illinois State Professor Chris Breu on Friday at the Great Lakes Research Center, Rm 202: 5 – 6.30pm. The talk is entitled “New/Marxist Materialisms: Theorizing Materiality in an Era of Finance Capitalism.” Brue will also be leading a seminar on Saturday morning, Sept 17th, from 9.00-12.00am in the Cherry Room of Wadsworth Hall — the readings for this will consist of selections from Jason Moore’s Capitalism and the Web of Life (2015).The Humanities Department will be hosting a talk by Illinois State Professor Chris Breu on Friday at the Great Lakes Research Center, Rm 202: 5 – 6.30pm. The talk is entitled “New/Marxist Materialisms: Theorizing Materiality in an Era of Finance Capitalism.” Brue will also be leading a seminar on Saturday morning, Sept 17th, from 9.00-12.00am in the Cherry Room of Wadsworth Hall — the readings for this will consist of selections from Jason Moore’s Capitalism and the Web of Life (2015).Join us for our weekly Conversation Table at 5 p.m. every Thursday in Walker 120 C. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, email Dany Jacob.
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The Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs announces that Ms. Heather Deering joined Michigan Tech as the new Director of the Intensive English as a Second Language (IESL) program Monday. In her new role, Deering will report directly to the Provost. She replaces former IESL Director, Dr. Beatrice Smith, who successfully led Michigan Tech’s IESL program through its inaugural and successful accreditation process.
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Assistant Professor Dana Van Kooy (HU) recently attended the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism conference (NASSR) at UC-Berkeley where she presented her essay, “New World Discontent and the Aesthetics of Disappearance” on a panel entitled Black Romanticism. She also participated in a special seminar on “Worldnessness and Wordlessness.”
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L. Syd M Johnson (HU) published the chapter “Reproductive Technologies” in the handbook Philosophy: Medical Ethics, Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Philosophy series.
Sandra M. Boschetto-Sandoval (HU) and
Ciro A. Sandoval (HU) are
co-authors of an essay published by Johns Hopkins University Press in College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies, Vol, 43, no. 3 (Summer 2016): 570-591.
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The New York Times published an article by Humanities alumna Roxane Gay about the police killing of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Read the article here.
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A review by Laura Kasson Fiss of three books on Victorian music appears in the latest issue of Victorian Studies.
L. Syd M Johnson (HU) is a featured philosopher at the blog Philosopher, and published “Paternalism, Protection, and Athlete Autonomy.”
Michael Bowler (HU) has published a co-edited volume, “Hermeneutical Heidegger” (Northwestern University Press, 2016).