Reading across literature, film, oral history, archival documents, legal history, and scientific texts, The Suicide Archive (2024) shows how aesthetic forms (literature, film, visual art, performance) preserve powerful histories of resistance and loss.

Join the MIT Global Humanities Initiative a lecture and discussion with Laikwan Pang, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, on the movement of Cantonese-speaking people and their language through and beyond China during the late Qing and early Republican periods.

"When Emily Eakin arrived at Harvard in the late 1980s, she fell under the spell of French theory. In her acclaimed new book, she intertwines her own youthful fascination with theory with the remarkable story of its rise in American intellectual and cultural life."

Co-sponsored with Boston French Library and Harvard Book Store.

In her acclaimed novel (Inter and Walser Awards), Pauly recounts the aftermath of her father’s death. The novel is a tragicomic exploration of grief, family, class, and the complicated bonds between parents and children.

Mat Fournier, Associate Professor of French, Ithaca College

In 1910, Gustav Klimt painted a young woman, then painted over her portrait. The painting was stolen in 1997 and unexpectedly resurfaced two decades later. Camille de Peretti uses this intriguing chapter in art history to imagine the woman behind the painting and the generations that follow her.