Global Fellowship Distinguished Lecture

The Northeastern Humanities Center is pleased to present the Global Fellows Distinguished Lecture, the annual launch event of the Global Fellows Program. We are thrilled to welcome Professor Patricia Williams, University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities and a pioneering figure in critical race theory and the law and literature movement, whose groundbreaking work at the intersection of race, gender, technology, and the law brings a powerful and timely lens to this year’s theme of revolutions. Professor Williams will deliver her lecture, The Disembodied Revolution: Humanities, Inhumanities, and the Amputation of Reality, on Thursday, September 24, 2026 at 5:00 PM in Snell Library, Room 350.

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About the Global Fellows Distinguished Lecture Series

The Global Fellows Program brings together Northeastern Humanities Fellows to pursue dedicated research, collaborate, and share their work around a common theme with the global Northeastern community. A distinguished scholar is invited to campus each year to open conversation around that theme, setting the intellectual tone for the fellowship year ahead.

This year, the program turns its attention to revolutions. A revolution signals a foundational shift in action and thought. Whether taking the form of political uprisings, social movements, or collective struggles, revolutions transform our understanding of the world and our place in it by remaking our epistemologies and modes of relating. The word also carries a physical and astronomical meaning: a full turn, a return, or a cyclical rotation. A revolution can signal either a dramatic break with the past or the completion of a cycle making it a rich entry point for discussions about the nature of change, progress, disruption, and time in our societies.