A major university and community event, the annual Distinguished Lecture program brings to campus a prominent humanities scholar whose work highlights the importance of humanities research.
While on campus, speakers discuss humanities trends and participate in informal sessions, allowing ASU colleagues and students to share related research interests.
2027 Distinguished Lecture
"The Rouse" with China Miéville
February 25 | 5 p.m. – 6 p.m. (MST)
Don’t miss a rare opportunity to engage with the bestselling, award-winning master of uncanny fiction China Miéville, who will discuss his new book “The Rouse” at the annual Humanities Institute Distinguished Lecture. A defining work twenty years in the making, “The Rouse” is a deeply moving, decade- and continent-spanning epic of personal grief, global tumult and grim conspiracy.
China Miéville's works are never just one thing. Fantasy, horror, speculative and pulp fiction combine, explode and recombine to make dense tales. His cast of characters are experimental, absurdist and hauntingly surreal from gun-wielding steampunk cyborgs and carnivorous giraffes to insect-like aliens and dark unnamable spirits. They navigate through gritty politically charged terrains with world building trap doors, portals and mazes. You are never quite the same after reading a Miéville novel. Come see why!
