Upcoming Events

• Marcus Rediker: University of Pittsburgh. Historian, writer, teacher and activist will speak about his recent book The Slave Ship. Tuesday May 13, 2008. 4.00pm. Filene Auditorium. Cosponsored with the Leslie Center for the Humanities, the Race Seminar, African and African American Studies,the Dickey Center for International Understanding, English, MALS. Free and Open to the Public.
• Steven Bach, Leni: The Life and Works of Leni Riefenstahl. Thursday May 15, 2008. 4.15pm. Haldeman Conference Center, Kreindler Auditorium Room 041. Free and Open to the Public. Cosponsored with the Leslie Center for the Humanities, The Department of German Studies and the Department of Film and Television Studies.
• Dartmouth Summer Arts Festival - June 24, 2008 - August 19, 2008. Watch this space for more details!
• Eti! East Africa Speaks: June 30 - July 15, 2008. Part of the Dartmouth Summer Arts Festival.
• Alma Tadema and Antiquity: Imagining Classical Sculpture in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain. A conference organized by T. Barton Thurber, Curator of European Art, Hood Museum of Art. Sponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities in collaboration with the Hood Museum of Art. September 27-28, 2008.
• Crusades, Jihad, Identity. Annual New England Medieval Conference. October 3 -4, 2008. Organized by Cecilia Gaposchkin, Department of History, and Christopher MacEvitt, Department of Religion.Cosponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities, the Dickey Center for International Understanding and the Office of the Provost.
• Looking after Siegfried Kracauer. An international conference. Organized by Gerd Gemunden, Department of German Studies. November 7 -8 2008. Cosponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities, the Dickey Center for International Understanding, The office of the Provost, DAAD, and the Max Kade Foundation

Upcoming Humanities Institutes

• States of Exception: Sovereignty, Security, Secrecy, 2008.