Upcoming Events

• Dartmouth Summer Arts Festival 2008 - Africas - June 19, 2008 - August 20, 2008. This year's theme, Africas, aims to enliven life on campus during the summer term by focusing on the vitality, hybridity, and creativity and global reach of Africa's many cultures. Featuring Eti! East Africa Speaks, Black Womanhood events from the the Hopkins Center and the Dartmouth Film Society's summer series.
• 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 at Dartmouth.
• Cultures of Democracy - A conference organized by Annabel Martin, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. October 9, 2008. Main conference in Haldeman Center Room 041 9.00am - 1.00pm. Workshop in Room 125 Haldeman Center 2.00pm - 5.00. Cosponsored by the Leslie Center for the humanities, Dickey Center for International Understanding, Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Office of the Provost at Dartmouth.
• 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 at Dartmouth , DAAD, the Max Kade Foundation and the German Consulate in Boston.

Upcoming Humanities Institutes

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