February 2026

February 9, 2026 - 4:00pm

The Pre/Early Modern Forum is delighted to welcome Professor Leah DeVun (Rutgers University) for a lecture entitled “The Shape of Sex: Images of Nonbinary Gender before Modernity.” The lecture will take place on <

February 10, 2026 - 5:00pm

Pieties, Poems and Patrons: Forming Community after Rumi

Discussion of After Rumi: The Mevlevis and their world (Harvard University Press, 2025)

February 17, 2026 - 4:00pm

Drawing on his recent book, Far Calls: On Omens, Slips & Epiphanies, Daniel Heller-Roazen (Princeton University) will explore some of Lacan’s shifting treatments of “imposed words” (paroles imposées), from the phenomenology and psychiatry of v