Events Archive: 2016/17 2020/21 |2019/20 | 2018/19 | 2017/18 | 2016/17 | 2015/16 Sep14Opening the Boxes: New Elephantine Papyri from Four MillenniaSep15Constitution Day Lecture: Who Belongs? The Limits of American CitizenshipSep16Epistemic Risk, Infertility, and Disease DefinitionsSep16Golden Bands and Gaudy Slaughter: The Politics of Luxury from Milton’s Samson Agonistes to Dryden’s All for LoveSep19The Causes and Effects of the Rivalry between Iran and Saudi ArabiaSep19On Remembering Others: Vietnam and the Memory of WarSep20Distinguished Teaching Lecture in Service and Civic Engagement: The Moral Quandaries of Public ServiceSep21Mellon Forum | Coastal Resilience: Past & Present PerspectivesSep21Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading SeriesSep22The Visualization of Political Rhetoric in the Reign of NervaSep22Conversation with US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe HerreraSep23Cervantes’ Cultural Labyrinth: The Persiles at 400Sep24Cervantes’ Cultural Labyrinth: The Persiles at 400Sep26Disease, Death, and Memorials: The Agent Orange Quilt of Tears and the AIDS Memorial QuiltSep26A Reconsideration of the Pythia’s Use of Lots at Delphi: Nymphs, Dice, and Second ChancesSep26Half-Caste: The Calculus of Numbers and Fictions of Racial LogicsSep26Kwartler Family Lecture: Karl Marx’s Jewish Question(s)Sep28Globalization Meets Decolonization: The Urban Linkage, 1940s–70sSep29Modernist Fragmentation and After: International Postgraduate ConferenceSep29Where Is the Global South?Sep29Synesthesia of Law—An International and Trans-Disciplinary ConferenceSep30Modernist Fragmentation and After: International Postgraduate ConferenceSep30Synesthesia of Law—An International and Trans-Disciplinary ConferenceOct4Waves in Space: The Spatiotemporal Movements of Spatial JusticeOct4Publishing from the Margins: the Challenges, Opportunities and Responsibilities of Working with ‘Under-Represented’ LanguagesOct4Nonobjects and Folded FramesOct5Applying for a Gardner Magic Project GrantOct5What Freud Really MeantOct6David Unger: A Reading and ConversationOct6Plato and Lucretius on the Theoretical Subject: A Metaphysical InquiryOct6Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy LeagueOct7Enkrasia or Evidentialism?Oct7Keep the Damned Women Out: the Struggle for CoeducationOct8The Modernity of SculptureOct10Eunuchs and Sunni Orthodoxy: Attitudes of the Ottoman Chief Harem Eunuch to Sufism and Shi`ismOct10Colonial Indigenous Language Encounters in the Americas and Intellectual History in the Atlantic WorldOct10Evnin Lecture: Embracing CuriosityOct11Forms of Contamination: Nuclear Fiction and the Chernobyl EffectOct11The Dawn of Christian Art in Panel Paintings and IconsOct12Imagining Nonhuman PhiladelphiaOct12Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading SeriesOct12Ratf**ked: The True Story behind the Secret Plan to Steal American DemocracyOct13The Princeton and Slavery Project: Bulletins from the FrontOct14Putting Transparency in its PlaceOct16Wild Lives: Catesby, Audubon, Lear, and FordOct17Migration and the Making of HistoryOct17In the Wake of Defeat: The Historiographical Afterlives of June 1967Oct17Xenophon in a Pontic Landscape: Settlement Models for the Iron Age in the Kırkgeçit çayı Drainage, Sinop (Turkey)Oct18Seeing Citizens: re-reading the ring of Gyges’ ancestor in Plato’s RepublicOct18Launching the David Rumsey Map Center: Resource and Incubation Hub for Historic Spatial DataOct18Ethics in the Real WorldOct20Africa and Europe: Rethinking Medieval and Early Modern Artistic Engagements and Cross-CurrenciesOct26The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 15 years laterOct26Lecture by Writer Margarita ValenciaOct26Hegel and Spinoza: Telos and TeleologyOct26The Lofts of SoHo: Gentrification, Art, and Industry in NY 1950-80Oct27Scribal Identity in Burials of Early China and Ancient EgyptNov7Very Fuzzy Ideas of What They’re Gonna Do Next: Place, Responsibility and Interpreting Law’s Roles in Adaptation for Extreme Weather EventsNov8Untimely Theses on Time, Energy, and Plant GrowthNov9The Lessons of 19th Century Boston HarborNov10A History of DetailNov10Read the Aeneid, Go Straight to Hell? How Fulgentius Saved a Classic for the ChristiansNov11Let Us Aim High in Creation – a Lecture in North Korean Propaganda CinemaNov14Abydos, Egypt: Landscape of Kings, Landscape of MythNov14Experimental StatuesNov15Sculptural DecisionsNov15Criminality, Deviance, and Anthropological Diversity: Narratives of Inborn Criminality and Atavism in Late Imperial Russia (1880–1990)Nov16Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive EraNov16Reading by Stephen King and Eileen MylesNov16To Ransom Destiny: The Daoist Search For Deliverance In Medieval ChinaNov16The Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the ImaginationNov17Writing and ReadingNov17What is Populism?Nov17Colonial Capital or ‘African City’?: Emergent Publics in LagosNov17Artist Talk: Shahzia SikanderNov17Telling It Like It Is: The Evolving Dialogue Between Courts and LegislaturesNov19Exhibition Opening: Epic Tales from IndiaNov21When the Borders become the Centre: The Roman-Sasanian Occupations Viewed from a Syriac, non-Imperial Perspective (4-7th c.)Nov21Transculturating Subjectivity in the Philippines of Early ModernityNov21Luminaries of American Musical Theatre: Terrence McNallyNov29Prediction, Peripeteia and Practice. A New Cognitive Approach to Ancient Dramatic NarrativeNov29Doing Everything Together: Exploring Female Same-Sex Intimacy in Postcolonial GhanaNov29Greek Liberalism(s) and the Intellectual Origins of the Greek State (ca.1830 -1860)Nov29Poetry Reading by Monica YounNov30We Are Satisfied with the Rocks: Indigeneity and the Theft of Land and Life at Mākua, Hawai’iNov30Trust in Science?Nov30Hooligan Sparrow, Q&A With Director Nanfu WangNov30American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political JusticeDec1My Poor Heart Sometimes Runs, Sometimes Whirls: Meet Sa’di the ComedianDec1Signature(s)Dec1Artifacts and AgnosiaDec1Oil, Amber, Fire, Smoke: Greek Art beyond MaterialsDec1When Not to Trust Science, or When Science Goes AwryDec1The Hidden Worlds of Narrative NonfictionDec1A North Korean History without Kim Il Sung? Towards a History of Socialist ConsumptionDec1World AIDS Day: A Conversation with Edmund White and Larry KramerDec1The Curious Humanist: Siegfried Kracauer in AmericaDec2Chinese Religious PoetryDec2Wall-Writings, Middle Voice, and Crisis Rhetoric in Present-day GreeceDec2Classical Philosophy ConferenceDec2In Conversation with John CooperDec3South Asian Arts and Music FestivalDec5Happy Hour Screening and Q&ADec5No Safe Face: Frederick Douglass and the Risk of ExpressionDec5Jihads and Empires: The Long First World War and the Making of the Modern Middle East and North AfricaDec5Allies and Enemies: Jews and Ukrainians Before and During the HolocaustDec6Waving/Drowning: Making Contact with the Queer PastDec6Selves, Their Guidance System, and Narrative FallibilityDec6‘Chinese’ Clothing and the Changing Qualities of the Greek Social FabricDec6Berlin for Jews: A 21st Century CompanionDec7Perspectives on Urban Environmental History: The Case of PittsburghDec7Spotlight on the Humanities with Hussein Rashid on American Muslims: 500 Years of HistoryDec7Stories For The Nation: Rewriting History In MangaDec7Patriots and Internationalists: The Greek Left, the Cyprus Question and Latin AmericaDec7Once again, Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia IDec7Genius at Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton ConwayDec8White Strangers: Writing an Immigrant History of Post-War BritainDec8Information Session for FundingDec8Islamic Adaptations in the WestDec8Bolshoi Confidential: The Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to TodayDec9To a Certain Degree Sacredness is in the Eye of the BeholderDec9Alberti’s Eye—The Body of VisionDec10Location of Japanese Studies and the World Discursive SystemDec12Who Makes Mistakes?Dec12What Can Be Poetry? The Prose Poem in ArabicDec12On the Role of Religion in Diaspora: the ‘Greek Experience’ of Catholic Power in the Eighteenth-Century ItalyDec12Forum on Intellectual Life in a Critical TimeDec13Jhumpa Lahiri discusses The Clothing of BooksDec13Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in AmericaDec14Racial Literacy: A Panel DiscussionDec15Krazy: George Harriman — A Life in Black and WhiteJan20Sophocles: Ajax WorkshopJan20Global Liberalism in Crisis?Feb2Annual Faculty and Staff Open HouseFeb6Eugenics, Demography and Refugee Integration Policies in the Post-1945 Era: A Transnational Intellectual HistoryFeb7Molecular Red: Theory for the AnthropoceneFeb8What Native American Spirituality Can Teach Us About Climate ChangeFeb8Reading by Paul Beatty and Marilyn ChinFeb8Away From the Lone Historian? Multidisciplinary Approaches in a Collaborative Digital Research LabFeb8Arms Races, Comprehensive Security, and American Grand Strategy to East AsiaFeb8Film: The Loving StoryFeb9Artist Talk: Zanele MuhoiFeb9Blaxploitalian 100 Years of Blackness in Italian CinemaFeb10Un/natural Nineteenth Century: A Princeton-Rutgers Victorian SymposiumFeb10The Historian and the X, An AggregateFeb13Was Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328) really a Scriptualist? Reassessing the Role of Reason in One of Islam’s Most Successful Theological ProjectsFeb13Ancient history and modern anti-Haitianism in 20th/21st-c. HispaniolaFeb13Far from Sanctuary: African American Travel and the Road to Civil RightsFeb13The Challenges of Translating the Book of JobFeb13Slavic DH: Samizdat and Alternative HistoryFeb13Vergil in Action, Performances in and of The AeneidFeb14Classics and RevolutionFeb14Hannah Arendt’s Revolutionary AntiquityFeb14Religious Dimensions of the Catholic Sexual Abuse CrisisFeb14Why Fighting Online Abuse Is Good for Free SpeechFeb14Oikos: A Poetry Reading and ConversationFeb15Documento, Alias RelatoFeb16Michelangelo and paper as palimpsest: drawings, letters, records, and sonnetsFeb16Your Father’s Interests: Emotions, Business, and Judaism in the Eighteenth-Century MediterraneanFeb16Lost Monuments of Fourth-Century ConstantinopleFeb16Politics of Self-translation: Authorial Representation, Cultural Identity, and Global Hong Kong LiteratureFeb16Misrepresenting the PlanFeb17Risky Ventures: Trade, Violence, and Identity in the 17th Century MediterraneanFeb1717 Volcanoes: Works by Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Armin Linke, Bas Princen, U5 and Wermke/LeinkaufFeb17Poems of Peach and War: Apollinaire, Seferis and the World WarsFeb17If It Wasn’t for the Irish and the JewsFeb17C.K. Williams Reading Series: Chinelo OkparantaFeb20Liberal Entanglements: Palestinians and the 1946 Anglo-American Committee of InquiryFeb20Whose Voice Is This? Translating Gender in Sinophone Literature About Gender in Sinophone LiteratureFeb20Notes on a Virginia Statehouse: Race, Slavery, and Jefferson’s AmericaFeb21Latin America and Global HistoryFeb21Space-Time, Death-Resurrection, and the Russian RevolutionFeb22Police and Infrastructure in the US-Mexico BorderlandFeb22Born Traveling: Dacia Maraini in a Belknap Global ConversationFeb22Drawing the Kivgik: Inupiaq Art and the Colonial ArchiveFeb22The Sounds of MandarinFeb22Carnal Israel: Ethnic Fixity in the Letter of PaulFeb23Sugar and Fish: Islands of Labor, Bodies of ViolenceFeb24Augmenting Possibilities and Regulating Risk: Speculation in Early Modern EuropeFeb27How (not) to Plan a Language: The Endurance of EsperantoFeb27A Delicate Operation: Provincial Administration, Khedivial Espionage, and the Critique of Colonial Economism in EgyptFeb27Visualizing the Invisible: The Scandalous Interpreter in the First Opium War, 1839-1842Feb28Susan Sontag: An-aesthetics and AgencyFeb28Sound Imagination: The Making of a New Musical Culture in Modern ChinaFeb28Populism and the Roman Republic: demagogues, democracy and the limits of debateFeb28Gender and Politics: Before and After the Break-Up of YugoslaviaFeb28Democracy and Human Values Lecture: America’s Ailing Democracy: What’s Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About ItFeb28Once We Were Sisters: A MemoirFeb28Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of LivingMar1Havana in TransitionMar1God is on the Other Shore: Iranians in Dubai and the Formation of a Transnational Social Field (RSVP required)Mar1Utopics for Now: Why We Re-read Plato TodayMar1Dao-Buddhist Stelae of the Northern Dynasties and the Lived Religion of Local CommunitiesMar12016-17 Holmes Lecture: Poet Claudia RankineMar2Investigating a Minoan Coastal Town in East Crete: New Work at Palaikastro, 2012–16Mar2Against Normalization: Intersectionality and Social Justice in the Age of TrumpMar3Race and Religion in the Americas and the Atlantic World ConferenceMar3The Pirate, the Planter, and the Purveyor: Three Models of Colonial InvestmentMar3Old and New: The Birth of Byzantine EpigraphyMar3Paradise Lost – All Night ReadingMar3C.K. Williams Reading Series: Phil KlayMar4The Berlin Painter and His World: Athenian Vase-Painting in the Early Fifth Century B.C.Mar4Robert Lowell: Setting the River on FireMar6What’s a Translator to Do with Theory?Mar6Legal Ambiguities and Diminished Democracy: Adhikari v. Daoud and the Outsourcing of U.S. Military LaborMar6Tehran 1979, Damascus 2011: Adonis, Foucault, and the Genealogy of RevoltMar6Novelist Colson Whitehead: Reading and Book SigningMar6Material GestureMar7Cien Veces Tres: Una Investigación Sobre la SimetríaMar7Roman Pantomime and Greek Tragedy: Reperformance and Embodied KnowledgeMar7The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory, and LoveMar8Environmental Translations: Experiments in Writing Space, Environment, and TimeMar8Tropical Modernity: Neutra, Burle-Marx and Cuba – De Schulthess HouseMar8Writing Atmosphere: Experiments in Spatial and Environmental WritingMar8Saving China’s HistoryMar8Reading and Book Launch Celebration with Jenny JohnsonMar8Cinder: New and Selected PoemsMar9Trump and RussiaMar9Revealing Humanity: A Conversation about Visual Identity in Postcolonial South AfricaMar9New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great MigrationMar10Managing Scientific and Political Uncertainty: Environmental and Health Risk Assessment in a Historical PerspectiveMar10Epistemic Modals: Are There Any?”Mar10Ties: A NovelMar12Both Sides NowMar13Immigration and the Limits of DemocracyMar13Enslaved and Emancipated Africans in Ottoman Izmir, 1850-1922Mar13Henry Cow’s Rock ImprovisationMar14Steve Reich at 80: A Princeton CelebrationMar14Why Did They Not Fight?: Awkward Truths about Jews and the Civil WarMar14Collective Agency and Community Resilience: Black Agricultural Cooperatives and Building Sustainable CommunitiesMar14The Usefulness of Useless KnowledgeMar15What Does a Global History of Urban Segregation tell us about Global Urban History?Mar15Reading by Douglas Kearney and Kirstin Valdez QuadeMar15Agents of Changes in the Material Culture of the Empire: Technical and Aesthetical Innovations at the Abbasid CourtMar15A “South” Imagined and Lived: The Entanglement of Medical Things and Experts in Pre-Modern “Lingnan 嶺南”Mar15Understanding the Digital WorldMar16PLAS Graduate Works-in-ProgressMar16(Cancelled) The Now-or-Never Bottleneck: A Fundamental Constraint on LanguageMar16Lecture Series TalkMar16Queer Theory: The French ResponseMar16At Home in the World — Women Writers and Public LifeMar17Risk and Fortune in Ancient Textual AmuletsMar27The Alien in our Midst: Memory, Displacement and the Making of our Everyday WorldMar27Is there such a thing as untranslatable poetry? The case of the Irish languageMar27We are Satisfied with the Rocks: Military Partitions and Resurgent Indigenous Economies in Hawai’iMar27Ethnic Politics in Post-Revolutionary Aintab: The End of Euphoria and Return of Violence in the late Ottoman EmpireMar27Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the (Pointless) Search for the Origins of Christian MonasticismMar27Black Cities: Architecture / Race / TheoryMar28YOU’RE DOING WHAT!? Experimental Theater and Five Small Towns Named MiltonMar28Misanthropology: Varieties and VariationsMar28Language Change and Social Class in the Novel – Proust, Ó Cadhain, FerranteMar28Selected Poems, 1968-2014Mar29Sacramental Learning: Confession, Communion, and Laywomen in Colonial MexicoMar29Rethinking the Critique of Violence/PowerMar29Japan’s Bovine Revolution: On the Origins, and Social Consequences, of “Kobe Beef”Mar29Donner ce que l’on n’a pas; Les gestes paradoxaux du Testament de François VillonMar29A-Fest: Encuentro de escritoras en Nueva York: El Cuerpo del delitoMar30Zaha Hadid: Pedagogy as PracticeMar30Decolonizing the American Musicological Society III: The Legacy of Settler ColonialismMar30A Cosmos of Silkworms: Textiles and Knowledge of Nature from 12th to 14th Century ChinaMar30Downwardly Global: Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani DiasporaMar31Words for Music, PerhapsMar31Risky Bodies: Quantification, Fungibility, and Slave Trade in the Seventeenth-Century AtlanticMar31Poetry Reading: Dialogue in Chinese and English PoeticsApr2The Devil and Webster: a NovelApr2The London Circle: Early Explorations of PhotographyApr3Stalinist Noir: Translating Colloquialisms in Heda Margolius Kovály’s Innocence; or, Murder on SteepApr3Diva Relations in The Color Purple Broadway MusicalApr3Middle East Studies in the Time of TrumpApr3The Achievements of Sir Roger ScrutonApr3Making Ontologies Visible: An Anthropological Perspective on ImagesApr3The Historical Background of Early Arabic DocumentsApr4The Politics of Counting: Pro-Regime Media Strategy in the Islamic Republic of IranApr4Time Twisters: Laplace’s, Maxwell’s, and Einstein’s Demon (1814-1924)Apr4The Other Enemy: StyleApr4White Cannibalism in the Slave Trade: The Curious Case of the Schooner ‘Arrogante’Apr4All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent NationApr5Constellations of 1968 Mexico: Experiments on Freedom and DemocracyApr5Why Preservation Matters – Max PageApr5Modern Chinese Literature and Republican Era(1912-49)LiteratureApr6The Global EnlightenmentApr6PLAS Graduate Works-in-ProgressApr6The Glory and Poverty of the ’68 GenerationApr6Artist Talk: Edmund ClarkApr6The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les MisérablesApr7One Complex Situation: Histories of Observation in ArchitectureApr7Risk and New Fortunes: Prosperity and Confounded Narratives of Cardiac Risk in Independent IndiaApr7PopulismosApr8Artist Talk: Shahzia SikanderApr9The Lingerie Dealers of Upper EgyptApr10Improper Translations: Multilingual Reading Practices in Fourteenth-Century English LiteratureApr10Terror and the Guillotine in the American Democratic Movement, ca. 1793-1795Apr10In Defense of a Ministry: The Ikhwanization of Culture and the Threat to Egyptian IdentityApr10Movement in Black: Civil Rights Legislation and the Desire for Spatial JusticeApr10Italian Opera and the Performance of CinemaApr10Knowledge and Power: A Social History of the Transmission of European Mathematics in China during the Kangxi Reign (1662-1722)Apr10Recent Work: Diller Scofidio + RenfroApr11Race and the American Musical: A Conversation with David StoneApr11Race and the American Musical: A Master Class and Conversation with Arielle JacobsApr11The Aural, the Oral, SilenceApr11The James F. Haley Memorial LectureApr12Governing Bilingually: A History of Spanish in the USApr12Global Flesh and Spirit: The Information Age as Seen from the League of NationsApr12Poetry during the Holocaust and the Adornean Discourse of ‘Poetry after Auschwitz’Apr12“Countries for Commercial Relations” (Tsusho-no-Kuni): The Tokugawa Struggle to Control the Chinese in JapanApr13From Ife to Ifranji: Materials in a World System, circa 1300Apr13Landscape and the African DiasporaApr13Book Talk: The Brink of FreedomApr14Risk, Uncertainty, and Innovation: The Political Economy of Technical Change, 1920-1970Apr14An Irish solution? Contraception, the Catholic Church and Irish Society 1960-1983Apr14Blot Out: Travel Writing as TrespassingApr17Persian Calligraphy in an Ottoman Album: Imperial Rivalry or Artistic Continuity?Apr17How to Sustain an Activist LifeApr18Instead of Disaster: Japanese Cinema after “3/11”Apr18Book Talk: Flaubert in the Ruins of ParisApr18Film Screening and Discussion: “Behind the White Glasses”Apr18Flex-N PrincetonApr19Was There Ever a Neolithic in the Neotropics?: A Discussion from the AmazonApr19Theater of History: Encountering the Past in American Jewish MuseumsApr19Reading by John Ashbery and Jim JarmuschApr19Paris in Ruins, 1871Apr19Religion in Four Dimensions: Puritanism and its place in Early Modern British HistoryApr19The Chief Harem Eunuch’s Impact on Ottoman Religious and Intellectual LifeApr19Global Transformations of Time in the Nineteenth CenturyApr19Public Lecture: Nadia MuradApr20Protestantism and the Materiality of TextsApr20Textures of Imagery: Severo Sarduy, Diamela Eltit, and the Technologies of Reading in Times of DangerApr20Origins of Japanese Epigraphy: Inscriptions of the Ancient Capitals (Kokyō ibun; 1818/1912)Apr20Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of ReproductionApr21Genealogies of Risk: Health, Safety, and Environmental Law in 20th Century AmericaApr21CANCELLED: The Normative Scope of ConsentApr21Framing Community: Magnum Photos, 1947-PresentApr24Land for Loyalty? Resettling Migrants and Distributing Abandoned Properties in the Borderlands of the Early Turkish RepublicApr24Lorraine Hansberry: An American Radical at the CrossroadsApr24Henry Cow’s Rock ImprovisationApr25Memory Indigo: Sacred Aesthetics in the Greater CaribbeanApr25Too Many Times: On Klee’s Angelus NovusApr25Book Talk: Hell’s TracesApr26A La Escucha de la Guerra Fría: El Ojo Acústico de Lorenzo HomarApr26Artist Lecture and ConversationApr26Psychoanalyzing FormApr26China and the Wider World: Art and Material Cultures of the Qin and Han DynastiesApr26Visualizing a Coup d’Etat: A Conversation and Book Signing with the Creators of Operation AjaxApr26Book Talk: Rumi’s SecretApr27LectureApr27Translation Reading by Jenny McPheeApr27Contemporary Korean Fiction: Recitation by Bae SuahApr27Architectures of the OceanApr28Earthquake Saints: Taming Nature with Devotion in Early Modern ItalyApr28Book Talk: BeatleboneApr28Poetry Reading by Saeed JonesMay1Defining the Immigration Problem in Progressive-Era AmericaMay1The Hermeneutics of Empire in the Cold War: Tayeb Salih, the CIA, and “Season of Migration to the North”May1The Strategic Idea of North: Glenn Gould, Sergeant Jones, and White AliceMay1Visual Philosophy, Pirandello and the Languages of the ImageMay1Book Talk: Are We Human?May2Augustus’ Religion in the Mirror of Ovid’s Fasti: The Case of Concordia AugustaMay2“How to Write a Song” Concert of New SongsMay2Book Talk: The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign PolicyMay3Shaping Atmospheres: Early Environmental Approaches in Latin American ArchitectureMay3Documentary Screening: The Enclave (2016)May3Spring 2017 Student ReadingMay3Book Talk: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American CultureMay4The Memory of Shoes: Reflections on Symbolic Action in Late Imperial ChinaMay4Facebook, Global Community and the LawMay4New Vision-Modernity from the Top of a SkyscraperMay4Book Talk: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, WeilMay5Ninth Annual International Graduate Student Conference in Modern Greek StudiesMay5Spinoza: Reason, Religion and PoliticsMay5The Happy, Risky Life of Moneychangers in Early Modern JapanMay8Professors and the Permanent Record: Implications of Big-data Driven Education, Personalized Learning, and Blockchain CredentialsMay8Creative Writing Seniors Reading IMay9Carl G. Hempel Lectures: The Fundamental Error of Social Ontologies and How to Correct ItMay9Book Talk: On EmpsonMay9Frankenstein: The MusicalMay10Carl G. Hempel Lectures: Rethinking social ontology: Things culturalMay10Creative Writing Seniors Reading IIMay10Struggle, Distortion, Surrender: Translating the Zhen’gao (“Declarations of the Perfected”)May10Book Talk: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal CourtMay10Spencer Trask Lecture: Salman RushdieMay11Democracy’s Global CrisisMay11Book Talk: Hitler’s American ModelMay12Conference in Honor of Brent Shaw: Subjects of EmpireMay12Carl G. Hempel Lectures: Rethinking social ontology: Unpacking institutionsMay15Ancient Philosophy in Early Modern EuropeMay15Callimachus and the Description of Rhetorical Style