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Registration Deadline for Spring Prospectus Club
Starting work on your prospectus? The GSAS Writing Studio can help: The Prospectus Club offers early-stage dissertation support for students in the Humanities or Social Sciences who are starting to work on their prospectus/proposal and who could benefit from an interdisciplinary group of peers. What to expect: by the end of 8 sessions, writers will have […]
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Teachers’ Lounge | Intercultural Pedagogy and the Pandemic
What are key elements of intercultural pedagogy, and in what ways have they been challenged by the disruptions of COVID-19? Join us to review established models of “intercultural competence” in the classroom, and to consider their ongoing pertinence to engaging students across cultural differences in the current moment. Teachers’ Lounges are a series of informal […]
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Experiments in Skin: “Resting” History, Intimate Labor, and the Chemical Afterlife of Vietnam
Thuy Linh Tu, New York University Environmental historians have characterized the Vietnam War as a “chemical war,” fought with chemically-saturated explosives and incendiaries, tear gas and firebombs, herbicides and insecticides. Despite decades of scientific research, legal challenges, and political organizing, the consequences of this broad chemical exposure remain shrouded in a politics of uncertainty. This talk offers an account of how Vietnam's […]
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