Lee McIntyre
“Post-Truth in the Internet Age”
Thursday, October 25, 2018
5:30 p.m., Sheldon Museum of Art
Humanities on the Edge is a speaker series co-founded by Dr. Marco Abel and Dr. Roland Végsö, who now co-ordinate the series together with Dr. Jeannette Jones (Department of History and Institute for Ethnic Studies), Ángel Maldonado, (Assistant Professor of Communication Studies) and Carrie L. Morgan (Curator of Academic Programs at the Sheldon). Founded in 2010, the series is now in its seventh year, and its mission remains the same: to promote cross-disciplinary conversation and theoretical research in the Humanities.
2018-2019: Post-Truth Futures
All events are free of charge and open to the public.
Thursday, October 11 - Kent A. Ono Professor in the Department of Communication, University of Utah “The Rhetoric of Sanctuary in the Post-Truth Era”
5:30-7:00pm, Sheldon Museum of Art, Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium
5:30-7:00pm, Sheldon Museum of Art, Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium
Thursday, October 25 - Lee McIntyre Research Fellow, Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and Instructor in Ethics, Harvard Extension School “Post-Truth in the Internet Age”
5:30-7:00pm, Sheldon Museum of Art, Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium
5:30-7:00pm, Sheldon Museum of Art, Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium
Thursday, March 7 - Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University 5:30-7:00pm, Sheldon Museum of Art, Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium
Thursday, April 18 - Charlotte Biltekoff Associate Professor of American Studies and Food Science and Technology, UC Davis “Real Food / Real Facts: Truth, Politics, and Power in the U.S. Food and Information Landscape”
5:30-7:00pm, Sheldon Museum of Art, Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium
5:30-7:00pm, Sheldon Museum of Art, Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium
We have reached a historical turning point, and [...] we must assume full responsibility for the direction of our futures.Manifesto for Humanities on the Edge
Lecture Videos
Kent A. Ono
*Due to technical difficulties, a portion in the middle of the lecture and another at the very end of the Q&A are missing from this recording.*
“The Rhetoric of Sanctuary in the Post-Truth Era”
Thursday, October 11, 2018
5:30 p.m., Sheldon Museum of Art
Ronald Judy - Part 1: Lecture
“Restless Flying from Haiti to Tunisia: What is ‘After Revolution’ Anyway?”
Recorded October 19, 2017 at Sheldon Museum of Art, Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium Ronald Judy is Professor of Critical and Cultural Studies in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh.