First Fridays
Overview
Please join us on the first Friday of every month for an afternoon of intellectual discussion and socializing. The aim is twofold: to hear from outside speakers and from Gallatin colleagues about their latest research, and to create a space where we can gather in a relaxed social setting, unwind, and connect as colleagues over food and drinks.
All First Friday talks take place at 2pm in 1 Washington Place, Room 527, unless otherwise noted, followed by happy hour at a nearby establishment.
SPRING 2024
Dr. Hallie Franks
American Venus: Ancient Sculpture and the Imagination of Fit Femininity
February 2, 2024
Dr. Eve Meltzer
“Not Me, Mine, Ours: The Work of the Negative in
I Am Not Your Negro”
March 1, 2024
Dr. Orna Ophir
The Fundamental Covenant: Klein, Pyschoanalysis
and the Social Turn
April 1, 2024
FALL 2023
Dr. Courtney D. Cogburn
Exploring the Health Benefits of Imagination
October 6, 2023
Dr. Jonathan Metzl
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Shaped the American Pandemic Moment
November 3, 2023
Dr. Patricia Gherovici
Struggling With Identity: Neither Sex Nor Gender
December 1, 2023
SPRING 2023
Julie Malnig
Dancing Black, Dancing White: Rock 'n' Roll, Race, and Youth Cultures of the 1950's and Early 1960's
February 3, 2022
Duncan Yoon
China in Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century African Literature
March 3, 2022
Rosanne Kennedy and Delio Vásquez
Political Theory: State of the Field
April 7, 2022
FALL 2022
Geo Maher
Anticolonial Eruptions: Racial Hubris and the Cunning of Resistance
October 7, 2022
Shalini Satkunanandan
Passing By: Reticence and Radicalism in Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
November 4, 2022
Juliet Hooker
Why Erica Garner Also Couldn’t Breathe: Maternal Grief and Black Politics
December 2, 2022