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in the Calgary Institute for the Humanities
Upcoming events
Works-in-Progress in Performance and Business
The Performance and Business Research Working Group (PBRWG) invites you to join us for a Zoom Writing Group Session. The goal of this session is to allow participants to share their works-in-progress and receive comments and encouragement to help them toward their scholarly goals.
Black Milk: The Fragility of Childhood in the Shoah
Sara R. Horowitz (York University) will present the 2025 University of Calgary Holocaust Memorial Lecture. How do children who survived the Holocaust recollect what they experienced? How do they integrate these experiences into their postwar lives? In this lecture, Sara R. Horowitz will consider the remembrances of four children whose wartime stories followed different paths. Many years later, their childhood memories refracted through four distinct genres – literary memoir, fiction, graphic novel, and photography – the effects of wartime atrocity and its aftermath on children and childhood.
Spanning from the late 19th century through the 20th century, the series traces the involvement of Sephardi Jews in socialist, communist, and anti-colonial movements, as well as their place in postcolonial thought. Guest speakers will examine how their diasporic identities, experiences of marginalization, and encounters with European colonialism influenced their political engagements. Session 1 will feature presentations by Gabriel Abensour (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Moshe Behar (University of Manchester).
The Abbasid Culture of Debate (750-1100): Competition, Piety and Knowledge
Mushegh Asatryan, Associate Professor of Arabic and Muslim Cultures at the University of Calgary, presents the Calgary Institute for the Humanities 2nd Annual Egmont Lee Founders’ Lecture on the culture of debate on the Abbasid empire. Debate was an expression of a multi-religious and a highly learned culture, which involved Muslims, Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians and others, and was a way to “perform” class, to curry favor with the powerful, and to woo converts.
Lee Carruthers presents the 7th Annual Calgary Institute for the Humanities Naomi Lacey Memorial Lecture. By focusing on the last films that a director gets to make—whether knowingly, as a considered closing act, or as a stark endpoint to creative activity—this talk seeks to illuminate what is distinctive about final works as well as the ideas about lateness and lastness that we project onto them.
Spanning from the late 19th century through the 20th century, the series traces the involvement of Sephardi Jews in socialist, communist, and anti-colonial movements, as well as their place in postcolonial thought. Guest speakers will examine how their diasporic identities, experiences of marginalization, and encounters with European colonialism influenced their political engagements. Session 2 will feature presentations by Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago) and Rami Ginat (Bar-Ilan University).