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February 2020
Seminars Wine Reception
Come meet chairs and members from other seminars and bring along friends who are interested in learning more about The University Seminars program. The University Seminars office staff and Advisory Board will attend.
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2022 Annual Dinner
November 16, 2022 2022 Tannenbaum Lecture Hecuba’s Howl: Poetry as Feminist Lament This talk includes a reading from my newly published poetry collection, Year of the Dog, a Latina chronicle of the Vietnam War era, and a discussion of the tradition and function of feminist elegy during times of disaster and atrocity. The talk interweaves my perspective as the daughter of a Mexican immigrant Vietnam veteran with other stories of historical and mythic women responding to Vietnam and other forms…
Find out more »March 2024
Reception in Memory of Francesco Pellizzi
The University Seminar for the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas will be hosting a reception to celebrate the life and achievements of Dr. Francesco Pellizzi, who joined the ancestors in August 2023. Francesco served generously as chair or co-chair of the seminar for 18 years (2005-23), which, under his guidance, made a huge contribution to the life of the department and the university. Thanks to Francesco’s international stature as an anthropologist, art critic, and the Founder and Editor…
Find out more »April 2024
77th Annual Dinner
The University Seminars invites you to join us for the Annual Dinner on April 17, 2024. Each spring, The University Seminars community gathers for a celebratory meal, to hear the Tannenbaum Lecture delivered by a distinguished speaker, and to witness the presentation of the Tannenbaum-Warner Award to an outstanding and long-serving member of The Seminars’ community. This year, the Tannenbaum-Warner awardee is Alice Newton, who retired in 2023 after a long career at The University Seminars. The Tannenbaum Lecture, “’What…
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