Africans are the fastest-growing immigrant group to the United States. Only a tiny fraction in the 1960s, they represented ten percent of documented immigrat...

A discussion on the economic dimensions of belonging and the transformative potential of refugee entrepreneurship.

Ainehi Edoro-Glines’ latest book explores the ways African writers play with (and in) the forest.

Celia Bookshop is a community-minded independent bookstore in Swarthmore, PA.

Don’t miss this very special event at the Roadhouse with author and historian Nora Rubel, presented in collaboration with the EMU Center for Jewish Studies! Rubel is coming to Ann Arbor all the way…

For decades, scholar and journalist Orville Schell has been one of the nation’s leading experts on China. The author of numerous books on China, Schell runs the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the…

“No other thinker, Hegelian Marxist or otherwise, has lived up to this modernist vocation with the originality, intellectual élan, aesthetic intelligence, and political trenchancy of Fredric Jameson.”

Nicholas Freudenberg, professor emeritus of public health at the City University of New York School of Public Health and the author of Fighting for New York: Activism for Health and Social Justice…

Rarely has a cookbook been so beloved, and so misunderstood, as the The Settlement Cook Book.

The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...

Pordenone Silent Film Festival | 3>10 ottobre 2026

From the Smithsonian Institution.

" Frivolity makes an elegant case for its subject, if also a highly associative one." -- Renee K. Nicholson in her review of Jehanne Durbow's book

Critic Erika Balsom leads a panel discussion featuring filmmakers from the NYFF64 Currents lineup considering the recent histories and possible futures of alternative filmmaking practices, and…

Critic Erika Balsom leads a panel discussion featuring filmmakers from the NYFF64 Currents lineup considering the recent histories and possible futures of alternative filmmaking practices, and reflect...

For Mixtape # 9 we asked a few of our colleagues what recent academic monographs were on their summer reading list. What insights are they taking into the new academic year? What should we put back…

Is it the end of reading or a brand-new era?

Proof of registration, via a QR code on your phone or on paper, will be required to enter Reid Hall. Entry will be refused to those who are not registered. Please note that access will not be…

To begin, a guessing game. The February 1967 issue of Cahiers du cinéma includes a “Dictionary of New French Cinema” comprising capsule commentaries on

Lights, Camera, Author! · Episode

What is a trial for? Is it enough simply to establish guilt, or must that guilt then be communicated to the wider world?

This talk, by Professor Nora Rubel, examines the ways that the 20th century cookbook, The Way to a Man’s Heart: The Settlement Cook Book, became a beloved Jewish icon. Filled with non-kosher recipes,…