Calendar  /  Forum on Adaptations


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Past Events

Look alive poster
September 15, 2011—September 17, 2011 / 7:30 pm
Look Alive
Hemmingway's Boat Poster
September 21, 2011 / 5:00 pm
Hemingway's Boat
Paul Hendrickson
Video
Chinese Chief Photo
October 2, 2011 / 2:00 pm
Chinese Restaurants
The Non-Adaptive Origins of Language Poster
October 5, 2011 / 5:00 pm
The Non-Adaptive Origins of Language
Terrence Deacon
Video
Culture Creativity Adaptation Poster
October 12, 2011 / 5:00 pm
Culture, Creativity, and Adaptation
Pascal Boyer
Video
Time Travel Safari Poster
October 19, 2011 / 5:00 pm
Time Travel Safari
Olivia Judson
The Social Knowledge of Monkeys and Apes Poster
November 2, 2011 / 5:00 pm
The Social Knowledge of Monkeys and Apes
Dorothy Cheney
Robert Seyfarth
Video
Reel Injun Poster
November 6, 2011 / 2:00 pm
Reel Injun
The End of Capitalism Poster
November 30, 2011 / 5:00 pm
The End of Capitalism?
David Harvey
Video
Two women pushing each other
December 4, 2011 / 2:00 pm
Pushy Women
Man holding a paining with a woman on it
January 8, 2012 / 2:00 pm
Photo Wallahs
Speaking Utopian Poster
January 25, 2012 / 5:00 pm
Speaking Utopian
Michael Gordin
Nicolas Cage
February 1, 2012 / 5:00 pm
Pleasures and Pitfalls of Film Adaptation
Photo of a man
February 5, 2012 / 2:00 pm
Men of Words
A Photo of two hands circling the world
February 8, 2012 / 5:00 pm
Being Global: Transnational Spheres of Deaf People
Joseph Murray
Video
Adaptations Poster
February 17, 2012 / 9:00 am
Adaptations
Documentary Realism Between Cultures Poster
February 17, 2012 / 5:00 pm
Documentary Realism Between Cultures
Rey Chow
February 22, 2012 / 7:00 pm
Contempt
In praise of Unreal Sounds Poster
February 29, 2012 / 5:00 pm
In Praise of Unreal Sounds
Carolyn Abbate
February 29, 2012 / 7:00 pm
Adaptation
Two policemen looking into a bus
March 4, 2012 / 2:00 pm
Settling Down
Scriptural Conflict, Scriptural Change Poster
March 14, 2012 / 5:00 pm
Scriptural Conflict, Scriptural Change
David Nirenberg
Video
Poster for Feminist Darwin event
March 21, 2012 / 5:00 pm
Feminist Darwin
Elizabeth Wilson
Video
March 21, 2012 / 7:00 pm
Le Million
Form and Transform Poster
March 23, 2012 / 9:15 am
Form and Transform
March 28, 2012 / 7:00 pm
Day and Night; The Green Wave; Jack Smith Tumbling; Another Occupation; Seeking The Monkey King
Photo of a man with a mustache
March 30, 2012—March 31, 2012
Mixed Messages
Tehram Has No More Pomegranates Poster
April 1, 2012 / 2:00 pm
Tehran Has No More Pomegranates
A man taking photo of a group of people
May 6, 2012 / 2:00 pm
Future Remembrance