Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
May 6, 2019 Kevin Young, Director of The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and Poetry Editor of The New Yorker Magazine
spring 2019
Truing Psychology and What about its Objects?
April 22, 2019 Jill Morawski, Wesleyan
Hyperbole as Community Performance: An Unbelievable Breakthrough from STS
April 15, 2019 Steve Woolgar, Oxford University and Linköping University
Marking Time: Art in the Era of Mass Incarceration
April 8, 2019 Nicole Fleetwood, Rutgers University
Plato on the Possibility of a Reality-Based Community
March 25, 2019 Tushar Irani, Wesleyan
Etcetera: On Hyperbolic Description
March 4, 2019 Christopher Johnson, Arizona State University
Seagullmachine
February 21, 2019 The Assembly
The History of Extra or The Sound of Hyperbole in Three Scenes
February 25, 2019 Roger Grant, Wesleyan
This Face is Not For Us: Thinking Escape in Queer Visual Narratives
February 18, 2019 Katherine Brewer Ball, Wesleyan University