Public Seminar

Writer's block?

McKenzie Wark on coaxing out new sentences with a little help from Rimbaud, Debord, Acker, and friends

Jan 16 • Public Seminar

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The work before us

"Faculty arrived one day to be informed that they were 'paid consultants' as students recalibrated their courses in real time ... "

Jan 9 • Public Seminar

December 2025

The right tool for the job

Rethinking political reporting, poetry on stage, and the romance between computers and comedy

Dec 19, 2025 • Public Seminar

The artist is not a storyteller

Paolo Sorrentino is not "in love" with his shots, Joanna Walsh mourns online creativity, and more

Dec 12, 2025 • Public Seminar

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The hospitals are burning

Coded language in Yugoslavia, the lost cause of American humility, and why the world ignores the women of Sudan

Dec 5, 2025 • Public Seminar

November 2025

Sports Digest

American fútbol and the blood sport of ableism

Nov 28, 2025 • Public Seminar

Follow the thread

Susan Cheever rediscovers her father, Quinn Slobodian remembers the “goldbug” frenzy, and more

Nov 21, 2025 • Public Seminar

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It may be the last time

Gaza’s devastation, Mahfouz’s dream of Cairo, Lithuania’s cultural resistance

Nov 14, 2025 • Public Seminar

Boom and bust

Renewing the republic—from the Holland Tunnel to Hollywood

Nov 7, 2025 • Public Seminar

October 2025

Raising the masses

Canvassing for Mamdani, excessively democratic social media, and more

Oct 31, 2025 • Public Seminar

Provost Putin

Militarized education in Russia, queer resistance in the gospels, and AI in the Amazon

Oct 24, 2025 • Public Seminar

Unhappy families

Protests in Panama, childhood in Lahore, and feeling cranky at the New York Film Festival

Oct 17, 2025 • Public Seminar

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