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Please join us on March 12, 2026 for a lecture and Q&A with John Durham Peters, the Maria Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film and Media Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication (1999), Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition (2005), The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media (2015), and most recently, Promiscuous Knowledge: Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History (2020), with the late Kenneth Cmiel (all published by the University of Chicago Press).