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Anne Savarese: Information Session for Advanced Graduate Students and Junior Faculty on How to Publish Your First Book

Sponsors: The Arts and Humanities Inquiry Fund, the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, the Office of the Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Hightower Fund, Art History, English, Film and Media, History, and Philosophy. This information session will focus on publishing a book with a university press, especially a first book, with details on how the academic publishing process works, how and when to approach presses, and basic guidelines for proposals, followed by time for audience questions. University Event Topic: Academics. Graduate. Department / Organization: History Department. Speaker/Presenter: Anne Savarese, Publisher at Princeton University Press. Contact Name: Dr. Dan Sinykin. Contact Email: daniel.sinykin@emory.edu. Thursday, November 6, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM. Callaway Memorial Center, Room N301/Kemp Malone Library.

Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century: A Symposium

Sponsors: The Arts and Humanities Inquiry Fund, the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, the Office of the Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Hightower Fund, Art History, English, Film and Media, History, and Philosophy. Register via the link below. On Tuesday, October 21, a new pedagogical handbook for the humanities classroom that was co-edited by Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant—Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century—will be published by Princeton University Press. To launch the book, Dr. Sinykin is hosting this symposium, with panels (on studying, teaching, and evaluating close reading, and close reading across the disciplines). Fifteen of the volume's contributors are flying in to present, alongside Emory faculty from Art History, Film and Media, History, and Philosophy. The book and symposium aim to dust off the familiar practice of close reading and reinvigorate it for our classrooms and scholarship today. Friday, November 7, 505 North Kilgo Cir | Convocation Hall, Room 208, 8:15-8:45:… University Event Topic: Academics. Department / Organization: History Department. Registration / R.S.V.P. link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/close-reading-for-the-twenty-first-century-tickets-1820225586729?aff=oddtdtcreator. Contact Name: Dr. Dan Sinykin. Contact Email: daniel.sinykin@emory.edu. Friday, November 7, 2025, 8:15 AM – 5:15 PM. 505 North Kilgo Cir | Convocation Hall, Room 208.

TTA Workshop - Alejandro Guardado: "A New Dawn: Coffee and Community Autonomy in Late Twentieth Century Oaxaca, Mexico"

Sponsor: Theorizing the Americas Workshop. Co-sponsors: Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Program in Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies, Department of History, and Oxford College Humanities Division. RSVP via the link below. Email Rebecca Rubenstein for more information. Abstract: In the late 1980s, a Zapotec coffee farmer from the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, which is a region known for its longstanding traditions of semi autonomy and self governance, formed a cooperative and began selling coffee he harvested to German consumers. This farmer’s engagement with the global market through his cooperative is situated within three interlocking historical processes that include Mexican state’s privatization and deregulation of the national economy, liberation theologian activism in Latin America, and Indigenous self determination movements.  To better understand the three interlocking processes mentioned above that were so prevalent in Indigenous regions of 1980s… University Event Topic: Academics. Humanities. Department / Organization: History Department. Speaker/Presenter: Alejandro Guardado, Emory University. Series: Theorizing the Americas Workshops. Registration / R.S.V.P. link: https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.office.com%2FPages%2FResponsePage.aspx%3Fid%3DnPsE4KSwT0K80DImBtXfOGbZMjIJBHdOkgcW9QVGMVxURDk2NE05OFpCMFNLVTlSM041WDdLQlhGRi4u&data=05%7C02%7Ckbwilso%40emory.mail.onmicrosoft.com%7Ccf438b40580f453ae6a408de17d5c983%7Ce004fb9cb0a4424fbcd0322606d5df38%7C0%7C0%7C638974404228103950%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=rJKfSnQY%2FccMQDzgfa%2BRJ7… Contact Name: Rebecca Rubenstein. Contact Email: rebecca.rubenstein@emory.edu. Friday, November 7, 2025, 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM. 1635 N. Decatur Rd | Fox Center.

CPCS - Dr. Laura Bier & Dr. Jaime M. Pensado: "Challenges to Higher Education in Countries Outside of the U.S.: Latin America, the Middle East, and Beyond"

Sponsor: The Interdisciplinary Workshop in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies (CPCS). Register/RSVP via the link below. Readings will be shared 10 days before the workshop with all those who register for the event. Half Day Workshop Dr. Laura Bier - "The (Counter) Revolutionary University in Egypt: The Arab Spring and After" Associate Professor of History, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Bier is an Associate Professor in the School of History and Sociology whose research focuses on the social and cultural history of Egypt in the second half of the 20th century, with a particular emphasis on gender history. Dr. Jaime M. Pensado "Higher Education and Student Unrest in Mexico from the 1960s to Today" Professor of History, University of Notre Dame Dr. Pensado is a Professor in the Department of History. His research focuses on modern Latin American history with a particular emphasis in student politics, youth culture, the Cold War, and the Global Sixties in Mexico. Discussants: Dr. Courtney Freer,… University Event Topic: Academics. Department / Organization: History Department. Speaker/Presenter: Dr. Laura Bier, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Jaime M. Pensado, University of Notre Dame Discussants: Dr. Courtney Freer, Dr. Peter Little, & Dr. David Nugent, Emory University. Series: The Interdisciplinary Workshop in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies (CPCS). Registration / R.S.V.P. link: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=nPsE4KSwT0K80DImBtXfOEgzm9-qmEFMsGkhQVG1y2xUMUUxT1BGM1FPRlZWVVBBVTlUUDBEQkVFQy4u&origin=QRCode. Contact Name: Mohammad Javaid. Contact Email: Mohammad.javaid@EMORY.EDU. Friday, November 7, 2025, 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM. Bowden Hall, Room 323/Major Room.

CPCS - Hugo Hansen: "A City on the Edge: Criminality and Communalism in Bombay on the Eve of India's Partition"

Sponsor: The Middle Eastern & South Asian Studies Seminar. Co-sponsor: The Interdisciplinary Workshop in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies (CPCS) and the Department of History. University Event Topic: Academics. Department / Organization: History Department. Speaker/Presenter: Hugo Hansen, Emory University. Series: The Interdisciplinary Workshop in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies (CPCS). Contact Name: Mohammad Javaid. Contact Email: Mohammad.javaid@EMORY.EDU. Monday, November 10, 2025, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM. Callaway Memorial Center, Room N301/Kemp Malone Library.

CPCS Research Group Seminar

Sponsor: The Interdisciplinary Workshop in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies (CPCS). University Event Topic: Academics. Department / Organization: History Department. Series: The Interdisciplinary Workshop in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies (CPCS). Contact Name: Mohammad Javaid. Contact Email: Mohammad.javaid@EMORY.EDU. Monday, November 17, 2025, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM. Anthropology Bldg, Room 206.

New Book Launch - Dr. Clifton Crais: "The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World"

Sponsor: Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry. Co-sponsor: Department of History. RSVP via the link below. Please join the Fox Center and the Department of History as we celebrate the launch of Dr. Clifton Crais's new book The Killing Age (The University of Chicago Press)! Dr. Crais will be joined by Dr. Kristin Phillips (Department of Anthropology) and Dr. Lynne Huffer (Department of Philosophy) for a discussion about how our current planetary crisis emerged from the worst catastrophic destruction in human history—the killing age. Light refreshments will be served. Free and open to all. University Event Topic: Academics. Department / Organization: History Department. Speaker/Presenter: Dr. Clifton Crais, Emory University Respondents: Dr. Kristin Phillips and Dr. Lynne Huffer, Emory University. Event Open To: All (Public). Cost: Free. Registration / R.S.V.P. link: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=nPsE4KSwT0K80DImBtXfOCl0gQ5r2z1AuIwaK9PDCgFUMjM2R0tJNlk3Q0dUR1BTQVlMSVdLMVhLWCQlQCN0PWcu&route=shorturl. Contact Name: Karl-Mary Akre. Contact Email: km.akre@emory.edu. Thursday, November 20, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM. 1531 Dickey Dr | Candler School of Theology, Room 252.

TTA Workshop - Dr. Yanna Yannakakis: "Law, Temporality, and Indigenous Future-Making in Colonial Mexico"

Sponsor: Theorizing the Americas Workshop. Co-sponsors: Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Program in Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies, Department of History, and Oxford College Humanities Division. RSVP via the link below. Email Rebecca Rubenstein for more information. University Event Topic: Academics. Humanities. Department / Organization: History Department. Speaker/Presenter: Dr. Yanna Yannakakis, Emory University. Series: Theorizing the Americas Workshops. Contact Name: Rebecca Rubenstein. Contact Email: rebecca.rubenstein@emory.edu. Friday, December 5, 2025, 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM. 1635 N. Decatur Rd | Fox Center.