All sessions take place on Tuesday evenings, 7-9pm, in hybrid format, over Zoom and in-person in HQ 121 unless otherwise specified (as for 18 and 25 February).
18 February 2025
Hannah Zaves-Greene, Religion, University of Pennsylvania
Title of Presentation: “Able to Be American: Disability in U.S. Immigration Law and the American Jewish Response”
To be held at the regular time in Miller Hall 203 (406 Prospect)
25 February 2025
Tazeen Ali, Religion and Politics, Washington University in St. Louis
Title of Presentation: "Performing Islamophobia: September 11th and the Specter of the Violent Muslim Man in Hulu's Ramy"
PLEASE NOTE THIS SESSION TAKES PLACE FROM 10AM TO 11:45AM and will meet in the RSV Room at YDS, 409 Prospect Street.
4 March 2025
Alexis Wang, History of Art, Binghamton University, SUNY
Title of Presentation: “Reflecting the Divine in Giotto's Arena Chapel”
15 April 2025 (tentative date)
Harini Kumar, Anthropology, Postdoctoral Associate, ISM
Title of Presentation: TBA
Additional Sensory Cultures events in spring 2025:
On 26 February, from 1:30 to 3:20, Robert Cozzolino, independent curator, will speak to the Museums and Religion graduate seminar (in Miller Hall 203) on the subject: “Curating the Supernatural,” about his recent Minneapolis Institute of Art exhibition on the paranormal in American arts. We invite interested Sensory Cultures participants to join us but ask that you RSVP before 19 February so that we can plan for adequate space.