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Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lecture Series

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Brent Hayes Edwards

Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University

November 10, 17, and 24, 2025

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Schoff Memorial Lectures | Lecture I

November 10, 2025 Faculty House

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Schoff Memorial Lectures | Lecture II

November 17, 2025 Faculty House

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Schoff Memorial Lectures | Lecture III

November 24, 2025 Faculty House

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Schoff Memorial Lectures | Lecture I

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Black Europe: A Field on the Move

November 12, 2025 Heyman Center for the Humanities

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November 26, 2025 Faculty House

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Yoga as Political Thought and Practice in India

Sunila S. Kalé and Christian Lee Novetzke

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The Political Activism of Anthropologist Franz Boas, Citizen Scientist

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Memory and Slavery: Social and Human Consequences

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Common Measures

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Experimental Histories

Interpolation and the Medieval British Past

Hannah Weaver

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Intimate Subjects

Touch and Tangibility in Britain’s Cerebral Age

Simeon Koole

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Austerity Measures

The Poetics of Food Insecurity in Early Modern English Literature

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