Events

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Intelligent Artifice: Seduction Algorithms, Magic, and Computational Modernity

RELS Emerging Scholar Colloquium
Suzanne van Geuns (Princeton)
Feb 27, 2025 at -

For much of the early 2000s, seduction forum users struggled with magic. They had gathered online to perfect methods for persuading women to have sex with them. Having perfected…



The Scopes Trial at 100: Education, Secularism, and Race

2025 Boardman Symposium
Mar 19, 2025 - Mar 20, 2025 at -



"Toward the Human, After Man": A Sylvia Wynter Schematic

RELS Colloquium
Nathan Snaza (Richmond)
Apr 10, 2025 at -

This event provides a schematic introduction to the thought of Sylvia Wynter, a Jamaican theorist whose work has become enormously influential in contemporary theories of race,…



Coincidence, Contradiction, Affect: On Spirited Knowing

RELS Colloquium
Emily Ng (Penn Anthropology)
Apr 17, 2025 at -

Emily Ng is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research centers on themes of madness, religiosity, and cosmopolitics, with…