The Savage Mind: Understanding Violence in America
David Treuer describes America’s “savage mind” in its past and present incarnations and aims to reframe its causes and effects.
In the Mean-Time
Claudia Rankine presents her adaptation of a recorded conversation between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde at Hampshire College in 1984.
Fellow Spotlight: Claudia Rankine
Poet and playwright Claudia Rankine is adapting into a play the transcript of two recorded conversations between James Baldwin and poet Audre Lorde.
Sweetmeats: A Novel
Alexandra Chreiteh’s reads from her magical novel-in-progress "Sweetmeats," set in a border town between Lebanon and Syria, on the cusp of the Syrian revolution.
The 2022 Henry A. Kissinger Prize
The 2022 Henry A. Kissinger Prize was presented to German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in New York City.
The Idea and Image of Slavery in Plato’s “Phaedo”
Jackie Murray focuses on the significance of Phaedo's role as she explores the function of the slavery analogy in Plato's famed dialogue.
China and the Uyghurs: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Assessment of Mass Atrocities in Xinjiang
Naomi Kikoler, of the Simon Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, on the plight of the Uyghurs.
Accountable Democracy? Representative Politics in America
In this lecture, Alma Steingart investigates how changing computational practices insinuated themselves into the most basic definitions of “fairness” in the American electorate in the twentieth century.
Fellow Spotlight: Alma Steingart
Alma Steingart is an assistant professor of history and Columbia University who studies the intersection of mathematical thought and electoral politics in the United States.
Fellow Spotlight: Alexandra Chreiteh
Alexandra Chreiteh's novel-in-progress, “Sweetmeats,” tells the story of a Syrian family living in a Lebanese border town at the cusp of the Syrian revolution.
