The Center’s 2023-24 Speaker Series invites scholars to take diverse approaches to answer the question: How and where do we belong?
Exiles and refugees may never belong where they make homes. Migrants may never feel at home where they belong. While some choices we make, others are made for us. People move—as much as they are moved by forces of nature and politics. In another key, we are moved by things that affect us: literature, film, the lives of others. If shared worlds make life meaningful on a fragile planet, how do we connect across diverse communities in different scales of belonging?
These concerns guide the Center’s 2023-24 Speaker Series on the theme, “Scales of Belonging.” The inaugural lecture in the series was delivered by Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago) on Sept. 21, with talks and workshops by Leonard N. Moore (University of Texas at Austin) and Emma Shaw Crane (Columbia University), among others,
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