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Frank Tannenbaum
Upcoming Events
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Feb
Desire, Unreason, and Truth in Affect
Feb 4 Heyman Center for the Humanities
27
Mar
Unsettled in Dakar: Architectural Modernity in 20th century Senegal
March 27, 2026 East Gallery, Buell Hall, Columbia University
27
Mar
New Directions in the History of Knowledge and Material Culture
March 27, 2026 Fayerweather Hall, Columbia University
02
Apr
Italians in/and the Maghreb: Between Integration and Isolation
April 2, 2026 Italian Academy for Advanced Studies
Fall 2025
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The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast
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The Sounds of Poetry Viewed as Music
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African Pharmakon
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The Meeting of Rivers
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Crabgrass Catholicism
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Irish Lacemaking
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Love, Money, Duty
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Les Volontaires
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All the World on a Page
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Margaret Mead