Name: Callimachus and the Description of Rhetorical Style
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Sep

Opening the Boxes: New Elephantine Papyri from Four Millennia

Sep

Constitution Day Lecture: Who Belongs? The Limits of American Citizenship

Sep

Epistemic Risk, Infertility, and Disease Definitions

Sep

Golden Bands and Gaudy Slaughter: The Politics of Luxury from Milton’s Samson Agonistes to Dryden’s All for Love

Sep

The Causes and Effects of the Rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia

Sep

On Remembering Others: Vietnam and the Memory of War

Sep

Distinguished Teaching Lecture in Service and Civic Engagement: The Moral Quandaries of Public Service

Sep

Mellon Forum | Coastal Resilience: Past & Present Perspectives

Sep

Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series

Sep

The Visualization of Political Rhetoric in the Reign of Nerva

Sep

Conversation with US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera

Sep

Cervantes’ Cultural Labyrinth: The Persiles at 400

Sep

Cervantes’ Cultural Labyrinth: The Persiles at 400

Sep

Disease, Death, and Memorials: The Agent Orange Quilt of Tears and the AIDS Memorial Quilt

Sep

A Reconsideration of the Pythia’s Use of Lots at Delphi: Nymphs, Dice, and Second Chances

Sep

Half-Caste: The Calculus of Numbers and Fictions of Racial Logics

Sep

Kwartler Family Lecture: Karl Marx’s Jewish Question(s)

Sep

Globalization Meets Decolonization: The Urban Linkage, 1940s–70s

Sep

Modernist Fragmentation and After: International Postgraduate Conference

Sep

Where Is the Global South?

Sep

Synesthesia of Law—An International and Trans-Disciplinary Conference

Sep

Modernist Fragmentation and After: International Postgraduate Conference

Sep

Synesthesia of Law—An International and Trans-Disciplinary Conference

Oct

Waves in Space: The Spatiotemporal Movements of Spatial Justice

Oct

Publishing from the Margins: the Challenges, Opportunities and Responsibilities of Working with ‘Under-Represented’ Languages

Oct

Nonobjects and Folded Frames

Oct

Applying for a Gardner Magic Project Grant

Oct

What Freud Really Meant

Oct

David Unger: A Reading and Conversation

Oct

Plato and Lucretius on the Theoretical Subject: A Metaphysical Inquiry

Oct

Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League

Oct

Enkrasia or Evidentialism?

Oct

Keep the Damned Women Out: the Struggle for Coeducation

Oct

The Modernity of Sculpture

Oct

Eunuchs and Sunni Orthodoxy: Attitudes of the Ottoman Chief Harem Eunuch to Sufism and Shi`ism

Oct

Colonial Indigenous Language Encounters in the Americas and Intellectual History in the Atlantic World

Oct

Evnin Lecture: Embracing Curiosity

Oct

Forms of Contamination: Nuclear Fiction and the Chernobyl Effect

Oct

The Dawn of Christian Art in Panel Paintings and Icons

Oct

Imagining Nonhuman Philadelphia

Oct

Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series

Oct

Ratf**ked: The True Story behind the Secret Plan to Steal American Democracy

Oct

The Princeton and Slavery Project: Bulletins from the Front

Oct

Putting Transparency in its Place

Oct

Wild Lives: Catesby, Audubon, Lear, and Ford

Oct

Migration and the Making of History

Oct

In the Wake of Defeat: The Historiographical Afterlives of June 1967

Oct

Xenophon in a Pontic Landscape: Settlement Models for the Iron Age in the Kırkgeçit çayı Drainage, Sinop (Turkey)

Oct

Seeing Citizens: re-reading the ring of Gyges’ ancestor in Plato’s Republic

Oct

Launching the David Rumsey Map Center: Resource and Incubation Hub for Historic Spatial Data

Oct

Ethics in the Real World

Oct

Africa and Europe: Rethinking Medieval and Early Modern Artistic Engagements and Cross-Currencies

Oct

The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 15 years later

Oct

Lecture by Writer Margarita Valencia

Oct

Hegel and Spinoza: Telos and Teleology

Oct

The Lofts of SoHo: Gentrification, Art, and Industry in NY 1950-80

Oct

Scribal Identity in Burials of Early China and Ancient Egypt

Nov

Very Fuzzy Ideas of What They’re Gonna Do Next: Place, Responsibility and Interpreting Law’s Roles in Adaptation for Extreme Weather Events

Nov

Untimely Theses on Time, Energy, and Plant Growth

Nov

The Lessons of 19th Century Boston Harbor

Nov

A History of Detail

Nov

Read the Aeneid, Go Straight to Hell? How Fulgentius Saved a Classic for the Christians

Nov

Let Us Aim High in Creation – a Lecture in North Korean Propaganda Cinema

Nov

Abydos, Egypt: Landscape of Kings, Landscape of Myth

Nov

Experimental Statues

Nov

Sculptural Decisions

Nov

Criminality, Deviance, and Anthropological Diversity: Narratives of Inborn Criminality and Atavism in Late Imperial Russia (1880–1990)

Nov

Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era

Nov

Reading by Stephen King and Eileen Myles

Nov

To Ransom Destiny: The Daoist Search For Deliverance In Medieval China

Nov

The Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

Nov

Writing and Reading

Nov

What is Populism?

Nov

Colonial Capital or ‘African City’?: Emergent Publics in Lagos

Nov

Artist Talk: Shahzia Sikander

Nov

Telling It Like It Is: The Evolving Dialogue Between Courts and Legislatures

Nov

Exhibition Opening: Epic Tales from India

Nov

When the Borders become the Centre: The Roman-Sasanian Occupations Viewed from a Syriac, non-Imperial Perspective (4-7th c.)

Nov

Transculturating Subjectivity in the Philippines of Early Modernity

Nov

Luminaries of American Musical Theatre: Terrence McNally

Nov

Prediction, Peripeteia and Practice. A New Cognitive Approach to Ancient Dramatic Narrative

Nov

Doing Everything Together: Exploring Female Same-Sex Intimacy in Postcolonial Ghana

Nov

Greek Liberalism(s) and the Intellectual Origins of the Greek State (ca.1830 -1860)

Nov

Poetry Reading by Monica Youn

Nov

We Are Satisfied with the Rocks: Indigeneity and the Theft of Land and Life at Mākua, Hawai’i

Nov

Trust in Science?

Nov

Hooligan Sparrow, Q&A With Director Nanfu Wang

Nov

American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice

Dec

My Poor Heart Sometimes Runs, Sometimes Whirls: Meet Sa’di the Comedian

Dec

Signature(s)

Dec

Artifacts and Agnosia

Dec

Oil, Amber, Fire, Smoke: Greek Art beyond Materials

Dec

When Not to Trust Science, or When Science Goes Awry

Dec

The Hidden Worlds of Narrative Nonfiction

Dec

A North Korean History without Kim Il Sung? Towards a History of Socialist Consumption

Dec

World AIDS Day: A Conversation with Edmund White and Larry Kramer

Dec

The Curious Humanist: Siegfried Kracauer in America

Dec

Chinese Religious Poetry

Dec

Wall-Writings, Middle Voice, and Crisis Rhetoric in Present-day Greece

Dec

Classical Philosophy Conference

Dec

In Conversation with John Cooper

Dec

South Asian Arts and Music Festival

Dec

Happy Hour Screening and Q&A

Dec

No Safe Face: Frederick Douglass and the Risk of Expression

Dec

Jihads and Empires: The Long First World War and the Making of the Modern Middle East and North Africa

Dec

Allies and Enemies: Jews and Ukrainians Before and During the Holocaust

Dec

Waving/Drowning: Making Contact with the Queer Past

Dec

Selves, Their Guidance System, and Narrative Fallibility

Dec

‘Chinese’ Clothing and the Changing Qualities of the Greek Social Fabric

Dec

Berlin for Jews: A 21st Century Companion

Dec

Perspectives on Urban Environmental History: The Case of Pittsburgh

Dec

Spotlight on the Humanities with Hussein Rashid on American Muslims: 500 Years of History

Dec

Stories For The Nation: Rewriting History In Manga

Dec

Patriots and Internationalists: The Greek Left, the Cyprus Question and Latin America

Dec

Once again, Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I

Dec

Genius at Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway

Dec

White Strangers: Writing an Immigrant History of Post-War Britain

Dec

Information Session for Funding

Dec

Islamic Adaptations in the West

Dec

Bolshoi Confidential: The Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today

Dec

To a Certain Degree Sacredness is in the Eye of the Beholder

Dec

Alberti’s Eye—The Body of Vision

Dec

Location of Japanese Studies and the World Discursive System

Dec

Who Makes Mistakes?

Dec

What Can Be Poetry? The Prose Poem in Arabic

Dec

On the Role of Religion in Diaspora: the ‘Greek Experience’ of Catholic Power in the Eighteenth-Century Italy

Dec

Forum on Intellectual Life in a Critical Time

Dec

Jhumpa Lahiri discusses The Clothing of Books

Dec

Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America

Dec

Racial Literacy: A Panel Discussion

Dec

Krazy: George Harriman — A Life in Black and White

Jan

Sophocles: Ajax Workshop

Jan

Global Liberalism in Crisis?

Feb

Annual Faculty and Staff Open House

Feb

Eugenics, Demography and Refugee Integration Policies in the Post-1945 Era: A Transnational Intellectual History

Feb

Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene

Feb

What Native American Spirituality Can Teach Us About Climate Change

Feb

Reading by Paul Beatty and Marilyn Chin

Feb

Away From the Lone Historian? Multidisciplinary Approaches in a Collaborative Digital Research Lab

Feb

Arms Races, Comprehensive Security, and American Grand Strategy to East Asia

Feb

Film: The Loving Story

Feb

Artist Talk: Zanele Muhoi

Feb

Blaxploitalian 100 Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema

Feb

Un/natural Nineteenth Century: A Princeton-Rutgers Victorian Symposium

Feb

The Historian and the X, An Aggregate

Feb

Was Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328) really a Scriptualist? Reassessing the Role of Reason in One of Islam’s Most Successful Theological Projects

Feb

Ancient history and modern anti-Haitianism in 20th/21st-c. Hispaniola

Feb

Far from Sanctuary: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights

Feb

The Challenges of Translating the Book of Job

Feb

Slavic DH: Samizdat and Alternative History

Feb

Vergil in Action, Performances in and of The Aeneid

Feb

Classics and Revolution

Feb

Hannah Arendt’s Revolutionary Antiquity

Feb

Religious Dimensions of the Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis

Feb

Why Fighting Online Abuse Is Good for Free Speech

Feb

Oikos: A Poetry Reading and Conversation

Feb

Documento, Alias Relato

Feb

Michelangelo and paper as palimpsest: drawings, letters, records, and sonnets

Feb

Your Father’s Interests: Emotions, Business, and Judaism in the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean

Feb

Lost Monuments of Fourth-Century Constantinople

Feb

Politics of Self-translation: Authorial Representation, Cultural Identity, and Global Hong Kong Literature

Feb

Misrepresenting the Plan

Feb

Risky Ventures: Trade, Violence, and Identity in the 17th Century Mediterranean

Feb

17 Volcanoes: Works by Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Armin Linke, Bas Princen, U5 and Wermke/Leinkauf

Feb

Poems of Peach and War: Apollinaire, Seferis and the World Wars

Feb

If It Wasn’t for the Irish and the Jews

Feb

C.K. Williams Reading Series: Chinelo Okparanta

Feb

Liberal Entanglements: Palestinians and the 1946 Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

Feb

Whose Voice Is This? Translating Gender in Sinophone Literature About Gender in Sinophone Literature

Feb

Notes on a Virginia Statehouse: Race, Slavery, and Jefferson’s America

Feb

Latin America and Global History

Feb

Space-Time, Death-Resurrection, and the Russian Revolution

Feb

Police and Infrastructure in the US-Mexico Borderland

Feb

Born Traveling: Dacia Maraini in a Belknap Global Conversation

Feb

Drawing the Kivgik: Inupiaq Art and the Colonial Archive

Feb

The Sounds of Mandarin

Feb

Carnal Israel: Ethnic Fixity in the Letter of Paul

Feb

Sugar and Fish: Islands of Labor, Bodies of Violence

Feb

Augmenting Possibilities and Regulating Risk: Speculation in Early Modern Europe

Feb

How (not) to Plan a Language: The Endurance of Esperanto

Feb

A Delicate Operation: Provincial Administration, Khedivial Espionage, and the Critique of Colonial Economism in Egypt

Feb

Visualizing the Invisible: The Scandalous Interpreter in the First Opium War, 1839-1842

Feb

Susan Sontag: An-aesthetics and Agency

Feb

Sound Imagination: The Making of a New Musical Culture in Modern China

Feb

Populism and the Roman Republic: demagogues, democracy and the limits of debate

Feb

Gender and Politics: Before and After the Break-Up of Yugoslavia

Feb

Democracy and Human Values Lecture: America’s Ailing Democracy: What’s Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It

Feb

Once We Were Sisters: A Memoir

Feb

Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living

Mar

Havana in Transition

Mar

God is on the Other Shore: Iranians in Dubai and the Formation of a Transnational Social Field (RSVP required)

Mar

Utopics for Now: Why We Re-read Plato Today

Mar

Dao-Buddhist Stelae of the Northern Dynasties and the Lived Religion of Local Communities

Mar

2016-17 Holmes Lecture: Poet Claudia Rankine

Mar

Investigating a Minoan Coastal Town in East Crete: New Work at Palaikastro, 2012–16

Mar

Against Normalization: Intersectionality and Social Justice in the Age of Trump

Mar

Race and Religion in the Americas and the Atlantic World Conference

Mar

The Pirate, the Planter, and the Purveyor: Three Models of Colonial Investment

Mar

Old and New: The Birth of Byzantine Epigraphy

Mar

Paradise Lost – All Night Reading

Mar

C.K. Williams Reading Series: Phil Klay

Mar

The Berlin Painter and His World: Athenian Vase-Painting in the Early Fifth Century B.C.

Mar

Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire

Mar

What’s a Translator to Do with Theory?

Mar

Legal Ambiguities and Diminished Democracy: Adhikari v. Daoud and the Outsourcing of U.S. Military Labor

Mar

Tehran 1979, Damascus 2011: Adonis, Foucault, and the Genealogy of Revolt

Mar

Novelist Colson Whitehead: Reading and Book Signing

Mar

Material Gesture

Mar

Cien Veces Tres: Una Investigación Sobre la Simetría

Mar

Roman Pantomime and Greek Tragedy: Reperformance and Embodied Knowledge

Mar

The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory, and Love

Mar

Environmental Translations: Experiments in Writing Space, Environment, and Time

Mar

Tropical Modernity: Neutra, Burle-Marx and Cuba – De Schulthess House

Mar

Writing Atmosphere: Experiments in Spatial and Environmental Writing

Mar

Saving China’s History

Mar

Reading and Book Launch Celebration with Jenny Johnson

Mar

Cinder: New and Selected Poems

Mar

Trump and Russia

Mar

Revealing Humanity: A Conversation about Visual Identity in Postcolonial South Africa

Mar

New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration

Mar

Managing Scientific and Political Uncertainty: Environmental and Health Risk Assessment in a Historical Perspective

Mar

Epistemic Modals: Are There Any?”

Mar

Ties: A Novel

Mar

Both Sides Now

Mar

Immigration and the Limits of Democracy

Mar

Enslaved and Emancipated Africans in Ottoman Izmir, 1850-1922

Mar

Henry Cow’s Rock Improvisation

Mar

Steve Reich at 80: A Princeton Celebration

Mar

Why Did They Not Fight?: Awkward Truths about Jews and the Civil War

Mar

Collective Agency and Community Resilience: Black Agricultural Cooperatives and Building Sustainable Communities

Mar

The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge

Mar

What Does a Global History of Urban Segregation tell us about Global Urban History?

Mar

Reading by Douglas Kearney and Kirstin Valdez Quade

Mar

Agents of Changes in the Material Culture of the Empire: Technical and Aesthetical Innovations at the Abbasid Court

Mar

A “South” Imagined and Lived: The Entanglement of Medical Things and Experts in Pre-Modern “Lingnan 嶺南”

Mar

Understanding the Digital World

Mar

PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress

Mar

(Cancelled) The Now-or-Never Bottleneck: A Fundamental Constraint on Language

Mar

Lecture Series Talk

Mar

Queer Theory: The French Response

Mar

At Home in the World — Women Writers and Public Life

Mar

Risk and Fortune in Ancient Textual Amulets

Mar

The Alien in our Midst: Memory, Displacement and the Making of our Everyday World

Mar

Is there such a thing as untranslatable poetry? The case of the Irish language

Mar

We are Satisfied with the Rocks: Military Partitions and Resurgent Indigenous Economies in Hawai’i

Mar

Ethnic Politics in Post-Revolutionary Aintab: The End of Euphoria and Return of Violence in the late Ottoman Empire

Mar

Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the (Pointless) Search for the Origins of Christian Monasticism

Mar

Black Cities: Architecture / Race / Theory

Mar

YOU’RE DOING WHAT!? Experimental Theater and Five Small Towns Named Milton

Mar

Misanthropology: Varieties and Variations

Mar

Language Change and Social Class in the Novel – Proust, Ó Cadhain, Ferrante

Mar

Selected Poems, 1968-2014

Mar

Sacramental Learning: Confession, Communion, and Laywomen in Colonial Mexico

Mar

Rethinking the Critique of Violence/Power

Mar

Japan’s Bovine Revolution: On the Origins, and Social Consequences, of “Kobe Beef”

Mar

Donner ce que l’on n’a pas; Les gestes paradoxaux du Testament de François Villon

Mar

A-Fest: Encuentro de escritoras en Nueva York: El Cuerpo del delito

Mar

Zaha Hadid: Pedagogy as Practice

Mar

Decolonizing the American Musicological Society III: The Legacy of Settler Colonialism

Mar

A Cosmos of Silkworms: Textiles and Knowledge of Nature from 12th to 14th Century China

Mar

Downwardly Global: Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani Diaspora

Mar

Words for Music, Perhaps

Mar

Risky Bodies: Quantification, Fungibility, and Slave Trade in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic

Mar

Poetry Reading: Dialogue in Chinese and English Poetics

Apr

The Devil and Webster: a Novel

Apr

The London Circle: Early Explorations of Photography

Apr

Stalinist Noir: Translating Colloquialisms in Heda Margolius Kovály’s Innocence; or, Murder on Steep

Apr

Diva Relations in The Color Purple Broadway Musical

Apr

Middle East Studies in the Time of Trump

Apr

The Achievements of Sir Roger Scruton

Apr

Making Ontologies Visible: An Anthropological Perspective on Images

Apr

The Historical Background of Early Arabic Documents

Apr

The Politics of Counting: Pro-Regime Media Strategy in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Apr

Time Twisters: Laplace’s, Maxwell’s, and Einstein’s Demon (1814-1924)

Apr

The Other Enemy: Style

Apr

White Cannibalism in the Slave Trade: The Curious Case of the Schooner ‘Arrogante’

Apr

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

Apr

Constellations of 1968 Mexico: Experiments on Freedom and Democracy

Apr

Why Preservation Matters – Max Page

Apr

Modern Chinese Literature and Republican Era（1912-49）Literature

Apr

The Global Enlightenment

Apr

PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress

Apr

The Glory and Poverty of the ’68 Generation

Apr

Artist Talk: Edmund Clark

Apr

The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables

Apr

One Complex Situation: Histories of Observation in Architecture

Apr

Risk and New Fortunes: Prosperity and Confounded Narratives of Cardiac Risk in Independent India

Apr

Populismos

Apr

Artist Talk: Shahzia Sikander

Apr

The Lingerie Dealers of Upper Egypt

Apr

Improper Translations: Multilingual Reading Practices in Fourteenth-Century English Literature

Apr

Terror and the Guillotine in the American Democratic Movement, ca. 1793-1795

Apr

In Defense of a Ministry: The Ikhwanization of Culture and the Threat to Egyptian Identity

Apr

Movement in Black: Civil Rights Legislation and the Desire for Spatial Justice

Apr

Italian Opera and the Performance of Cinema

Apr

Knowledge and Power: A Social History of the Transmission of European Mathematics in China during the Kangxi Reign (1662-1722)

Apr

Recent Work: Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Apr

Race and the American Musical: A Conversation with David Stone

Apr

Race and the American Musical: A Master Class and Conversation with Arielle Jacobs

Apr

The Aural, the Oral, Silence

Apr

The James F. Haley Memorial Lecture

Apr

Governing Bilingually: A History of Spanish in the US

Apr

Global Flesh and Spirit: The Information Age as Seen from the League of Nations

Apr

Poetry during the Holocaust and the Adornean Discourse of ‘Poetry after Auschwitz’

Apr

“Countries for Commercial Relations” (Tsusho-no-Kuni): The Tokugawa Struggle to Control the Chinese in Japan

Apr

From Ife to Ifranji: Materials in a World System, circa 1300

Apr

Landscape and the African Diaspora

Apr

Book Talk: The Brink of Freedom

Apr

Risk, Uncertainty, and Innovation: The Political Economy of Technical Change, 1920-1970

Apr

An Irish solution? Contraception, the Catholic Church and Irish Society 1960-1983

Apr

Blot Out: Travel Writing as Trespassing

Apr

Persian Calligraphy in an Ottoman Album: Imperial Rivalry or Artistic Continuity?

Apr

How to Sustain an Activist Life

Apr

Instead of Disaster: Japanese Cinema after “3/11”

Apr

Book Talk: Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris

Apr

Film Screening and Discussion: “Behind the White Glasses”

Apr

Flex-N Princeton

Apr

Was There Ever a Neolithic in the Neotropics?: A Discussion from the Amazon

Apr

Theater of History: Encountering the Past in American Jewish Museums

Apr

Reading by John Ashbery and Jim Jarmusch

Apr

Paris in Ruins, 1871

Apr

Religion in Four Dimensions: Puritanism and its place in Early Modern British History

Apr

The Chief Harem Eunuch’s Impact on Ottoman Religious and Intellectual Life

Apr

Global Transformations of Time in the Nineteenth Century

Apr

Public Lecture: Nadia Murad

Apr

Protestantism and the Materiality of Texts

Apr

Textures of Imagery: Severo Sarduy, Diamela Eltit, and the Technologies of Reading in Times of Danger

Apr

Origins of Japanese Epigraphy: Inscriptions of the Ancient Capitals (Kokyō ibun; 1818/1912)

Apr

Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction

Apr

Genealogies of Risk: Health, Safety, and Environmental Law in 20th Century America

Apr

CANCELLED: The Normative Scope of Consent

Apr

Framing Community: Magnum Photos, 1947-Present

Apr

Land for Loyalty? Resettling Migrants and Distributing Abandoned Properties in the Borderlands of the Early Turkish Republic

Apr

Lorraine Hansberry: An American Radical at the Crossroads

Apr

Henry Cow’s Rock Improvisation

Apr

Memory Indigo: Sacred Aesthetics in the Greater Caribbean

Apr

Too Many Times: On Klee’s Angelus Novus

Apr

Book Talk: Hell’s Traces

Apr

A La Escucha de la Guerra Fría: El Ojo Acústico de Lorenzo Homar

Apr

Artist Lecture and Conversation

Apr

Psychoanalyzing Form

Apr

China and the Wider World: Art and Material Cultures of the Qin and Han Dynasties

Apr

Visualizing a Coup d’Etat: A Conversation and Book Signing with the Creators of Operation Ajax

Apr

Book Talk: Rumi’s Secret

Apr

Lecture

Apr

Translation Reading by Jenny McPhee

Apr

Contemporary Korean Fiction: Recitation by Bae Suah

Apr

Architectures of the Ocean

Apr

Earthquake Saints: Taming Nature with Devotion in Early Modern Italy

Apr

Book Talk: Beatlebone

Apr

Poetry Reading by Saeed Jones

May

Defining the Immigration Problem in Progressive-Era America

May

The Hermeneutics of Empire in the Cold War: Tayeb Salih, the CIA, and “Season of Migration to the North”

May

The Strategic Idea of North: Glenn Gould, Sergeant Jones, and White Alice

May

Visual Philosophy, Pirandello and the Languages of the Image

May

Book Talk: Are We Human?

May

Augustus’ Religion in the Mirror of Ovid’s Fasti: The Case of Concordia Augusta

May

“How to Write a Song” Concert of New Songs

May

Book Talk: The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy

May

Shaping Atmospheres: Early Environmental Approaches in Latin American Architecture

May

Documentary Screening: The Enclave (2016)

May

Spring 2017 Student Reading

May

Book Talk: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture

May

The Memory of Shoes: Reflections on Symbolic Action in Late Imperial China

May

Facebook, Global Community and the Law

May

New Vision-Modernity from the Top of a Skyscraper

May

Book Talk: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil

May

Ninth Annual International Graduate Student Conference in Modern Greek Studies

May

Spinoza: Reason, Religion and Politics

May

The Happy, Risky Life of Moneychangers in Early Modern Japan

May

Professors and the Permanent Record: Implications of Big-data Driven Education, Personalized Learning, and Blockchain Credentials

May

Creative Writing Seniors Reading I

May

Carl G. Hempel Lectures: The Fundamental Error of Social Ontologies and How to Correct It

May

Book Talk: On Empson

May

Frankenstein: The Musical

May

Carl G. Hempel Lectures: Rethinking social ontology: Things cultural

May

Creative Writing Seniors Reading II

May

Struggle, Distortion, Surrender: Translating the Zhen’gao (“Declarations of the Perfected”)

May

Book Talk: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court

May

Spencer Trask Lecture: Salman Rushdie

May

Democracy’s Global Crisis

May

Book Talk: Hitler’s American Model

May

Conference in Honor of Brent Shaw: Subjects of Empire

May

Carl G. Hempel Lectures: Rethinking social ontology: Unpacking institutions

May

Ancient Philosophy in Early Modern Europe

May

Callimachus and the Description of Rhetorical Style

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