Germanic Languages and Literatures

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois

  Food For Thought: Fahad Mahmood and Peter Fritzsche

  Join us for 2 talks featuring recent CAS Associates and Fellows: Fahad Mahmood on unlocking quantum emergence and Peter Fritzsche on the fragile nature of human solidarity.

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Friday, April 4, 2025

• • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W Illinois

  Food For Thought: Yuguo Chen and Soo Ah Kwon

  Join us for talks by recent CAS Associates. At 11am Yuguo Chen (Statistics) discusses how statistical network analysis is used to develop methods to account for the complex dependencies in network data; and at noon, Soo Ah Kwon (Asian American Studies) argues for moving beyond simple binaries such as reformist/radical to better understand youth activism.

  • Lecture

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

• • 5:00 pm
  • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory

  Playing the Changes: Jazz and Education in South Africa

  Darius and Catherine Brubeck discuss their pioneering jazz curriculum and performance program developed in apartheid-era South Africa that brought black and white musicians together to create a soundtrack to the freedom struggle and its aftermath. South African jazz scholar and performer Colin Miller joins this conversation.

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