Past Events

Oct

21

Event

Political Science Information Session

October 21, 2024, 3:30 - 4:30pm

Virtual

Oct

19

Event

CA Forum for Diversity in Graduate Education

Location:

UC Riverside

October 19, 2024, 10:30am - 2pm

Oct

18

Event

Physics Information Session

October 18, 2024, 2 - 3pm

Virtual

Oct

17

Lecture

Africana Studies: It’s Only Hidden if you Don’t Look: Race, Ghosts, and the Archive—Public Lecture with B. Brian Foster (5x10)

Location:

Business Innovation Building Room 108

October 17, 2024, 6 - 7pm

Drawing from his new book, Ghosts of Segregation: American Racism, Hidden in Plain Sight, B. Brian Foster tells a collection of stories that together show the importance of seeing the environment-the buildings we enter, the roads we travel, the things we are surrounded by-as…

Oct

17

Event

Mathematics Information Session

October 17, 2024, 4 - 5pm

Virtual

Oct

16

Lecture

Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship after Empire with SherAli Tareen

Location:

STEPS 101

October 16, 2024, 4:30 - 5:30pm

Perilous Intimacies explores how leading South Asian Muslim thinkers imagined and contested the boundaries of Hindu-Muslim friendship from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Based on the close reading of an expansive and multifaceted archive of Arabic, Persian,…

Oct

15

Lecture

Southeast Asia into the Eighteenth Century: The Lynchpin of Asia's Seaways with Professor Eric Tagliacozzo

Location:

STEPS 280

October 15, 2024, 4:30 - 5:30pm

Different parts of the world are said to have "entered modernity" – a tenuous phrase at best – at different times.  For Southeast Asia, there is an argument to be made that this transition was happening just as we move into the eighteenth century.  How and why was this…

Oct

15

Lecture

Beyond Sectarianism: Ambiguity, Hermeneutics, and Formations of Religious Identity in Early Islam with Tehseen Thaver

Location:

STEPS 101

October 15, 2024, 4:30 - 5:30pm

In her new book, Beyond Sectarianism, Tehseen Thaver offers a fundamental reevaluation of how one should think about the relationship between the Qur’an, Shi‘ism, and religious identity. This book focuses on the literary Arabic Qur’an exegesis of the highly influential yet less…

Oct

15

Class/Workshop

Africana Studies: Art in Dialogue: Placemaking Practices by Folk Artists from the American South—Walk and Talk with B. Brian Foster (5x10)

Location:

LUAG Main Gallery, Zoellner Arts Center

October 15, 2024, 4:30 - 5:30pm

Join  B. Brian Foster, an ethnographer and multi-medium storyteller,  and Lehigh University Art Galleries (LUAG) Curator of Education, Stacie Brennan for an Art in Dialogue discussion about Nellie Mae Rowe and the importance of her artwork and its intersection with…

Oct

15

Event

English Information Session

October 15, 2024, 12:15 - 1:15pm

Virtual

Oct

14

Event

Environmental Policy Information Session

October 14, 2024, 3:30 - 4:30pm

Virtual

Oct

11

Event

Africana Studies: We Travel, We Dance, We Make—Film Screening and Talkback with B. Brian Foster (5x10)

Location:

Sinclair Auditorium

October 11, 2024, 5 - 6:30pm

We will screen two of Brian’s award winning short films, We Travel (2020), We Dance (2021), and his forthcoming film We Make. Brian’s films explore the future of the south. After the screening, Brian will join Lehigh Professor of Political Science, Vera Fennell in&nbsp…