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Events Archive: 2017/18

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Sep
8
Culture and Society in the Lyric Age of Greece
Sep
11
Academic Expo: Visit the HUM Table!
Sep
11
Freshman Open House for Humanistic Studies
Sep
11
11th Annual Humanities Colloquium: Is There Progress in the Humanities?
Sep
12
Exhibition Models
Sep
12
“Heretics!
Sep
13
Luis Pรฉrez Oramas presents โ€œEl legado de Aby Warburg en sus campos extendidos: Modernidad, Cinetismo y Humanismo: Pathosformel, forma intermediaria y sobrevivencia antitรฉticaโ€
Sep
13
Simple comme un pรฉriscope: Anne Portugal between Mobile and Galveston
Sep
13
F%*# Free Speech: An Anthropologist’s Take on Campus Free Speech Debates
Sep
14
Drawing Things Together
Sep
14
Syrian Perspectives Film Screening: 4.1 Miles and From Damascus to Chicago
Sep
17
That’s So Annoying! Thomas Rowlandson and “The Miseries of Human Life”
Sep
18
โ€œโ€™In the evening, I am a Nabฤซแนญ [an Aramaic speaker]โ€ฆ In the morning, I am an Arab.โ€™ Multilingualism in the Middle East and Syro-Arabic Contact before the Abbasidsโ€
Sep
18
Solving the Mystery of Grace Jones: Itโ€™s the Holy Ghost
Sep
18
Translating Syrian Literature Today
Sep
18
Killing and Causing to Exist
Sep
19
As Luck Would Have It: Discovery in the Digital Age
Sep
19
The Winthrop Family on the Page: A Play on Words
Sep
20
The FARCโ€™s First March and the Making of Contemporary Colombia
Sep
20
Applicative Constructions in American Sign Language and Nicaraguan Sign Language
Sep
20
Reading the Social: Lenz, Moritz, Karsch
Sep
20
Drawing the Line: What Happens When the Data Gets Graphic?
Sep
20
Reading by Erika L. Sรกnchez and Yiyun Li
Sep
21
Blackface and Drag in Early Roman Comedy
Sep
21
Securing ‘Asia for Asians’: Race, Counterinsurgency, and the U.S. Empire, 1954-1963
Sep
21
Can Film Be Saved?
Sep
22
Religion and the State of Classical Greece and Rome
Sep
25
Arbitraging Japaneseness: Translating Haruki Murakami in the West
Sep
25
The Cairo Geniza, Central Asian Paper, and the Middle Eastโ€™s Archive Problem
Sep
25
Becoming Feral: Sex, Death, and Falconry
Sep
26
Landscapes of the Poor in Late Antiquity
Sep
26
Thinking Cinema Lecture: “Is Film an Optical Medium?”
Sep
27
Chile: 25 Years of Democracy
Sep
27
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution
Sep
28
Propaganda or Art: Steve Bannon’s Films, A Closer Look
Sep
28
The World Refugee Crisis: A Long View
Sep
28
Fake News and Information Leaks: Constructing Documentary Authority in Late Imperial China
Sep
28
Capturing Transient Effects
Sep
28
Loud Lines
Sep
28
Shariah at the University
Sep
29
Rape and the Rise of the Novel at 30: A Master Class
Sep
29
Hegel and the Humanities: A Symposium
Sep
29
C.K. Williams Reading Series: Vincent Toro
Sep
30
Contested Lands: Territory, Resources and Identity in Contemporary Canada
Oct
2
The Formation of Turkish Republicanism
Oct
2
Enslaved and Free Asians in the Spanish Empire, 1565-1680
Oct
2
A Sixth Century Chronicle of the Sasanian Empire
Oct
2
The Shape of an Elephant or The Survival of a Publisher of Translations
Oct
2
The First Robert Fagles Lecture for Classics in the Contemporary Arts
Oct
2
Lay Congregations in Chinese Buddhism (In Chinese)
Oct
2
Fragments of a Political Phenomenology
Oct
2
Propaganda or Art: Steve Bannon’s Film, A Close Look
Oct
2
Reclamations! A Lecture in Black Feminist Performance with Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Oct
3
Kurt Gรถdelโ€™s Philosophical Notebooks: An Intellectual and Ethical Tool for his Development as a Thinker
Oct
3
Engaged Citizenship and the Canadian Constitution
Oct
3
The Struggle for LGBT Rights in Mainland China: The Voice of a Student Activist
Oct
3
Kurt Gรถdelโ€™s Philosophical Notebooks: An Intellectual and Ethical Tool for His Development as a Thinker
Oct
3
A Conversation on Contemporary Art Practices
Oct
3
Mariposas Nocturnas — Moths of Central and South America
Oct
4
Genealogies of Violence and Animations of Indigenous Law in Louise Erdrich’s ‘LaRose’
Oct
4
Self-Esteem in Philosophy and Psychology Compared
Oct
4
Falling Awake & Other Poems
Oct
4
The Films of Jack Smith
Oct
5
Opening of Princetonโ€™s New Lewis Center for the Arts Complex
Oct
5
Princeton Poetry Festival
Oct
5
The Architecture of the Lewis Center for the Arts
Oct
5
The Lost Lives of Greek Vases
Oct
5
Architecture Thinking
Oct
5
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell us about Who We Really Are
Oct
5
The Hart of London (16mm), dir. Jack Chambers (1970)
Oct
6
The Way and the Words: Religion and Poetry in Medieval China
Oct
6
F. Scott Fitzgerald: New in Bookstores and Now Playing
Oct
8
DC Comicsโ€™ Jim Lee โ€™86: A Lecture/Demonstration
Oct
9
Luisa Coleta and the Capuchin Friar: Slavery, Salvation, and the Adjudication of Status (Havana, 1817)
Oct
9
The Constitutionalism of Ruhollah Khomeini’s Political Thought
Oct
9
In and Out of Africa: Advocating Art, Music of Africa, and Its Diaspora
Oct
9
Jean Rouch’s Moi, un Noir in the French New Wave
Oct
9
Medical Practice during the Song Dynasty (960-1279) and Changing Perceptions of the Female Body
Oct
9
As If: Idealization and Ideals
Oct
10
Belknap Global Conversation: A Tale of Refugees in Berlin
Oct
10
Past, Present, and Future: Old and New Perspectives in Dodona and Greek Oracles
Oct
10
Israel at 70: Deep Social Fissures, Shared Aspirations
Oct
10
Iran Barometer: Political Challenge and Social Change in the Islamic Republic
Oct
10
Factions and Family in the Making of a High Qing Scandal
Oct
10
Saving Charlotte: A Mother and the Power of Intuition
Oct
11
What the Constitution Means to Me
Oct
11
Shakespeare Afoot
Oct
11
Reading by Rachel Cusk and Nathaniel Mackey
Oct
11
Textual Practices of Literary Training in Medieval China: Evidence from Dunhuang
Oct
11
Ethics of Reading VII: Crime and Punishment
Oct
11
No One’s Ways: An Essay on Infinite Naming
Oct
12
How Did the Computer Learn to See?
Oct
12
from speculations โ€” via proposals โ€” to speculations
Oct
12
El Otro Lado, dir. Danny Lyon (1978)
Oct
13
Student Advisory Board Annual Visiting Artist Talk
Oct
14
The Index at 100: Iconography In A New Century
Oct
14
Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895-1925
Oct
16
On Principals and Agency: Reassembling Trust along the Arabian Littoral
Oct
16
Carbon
Oct
16
Imperial Connections: The Nahda and Translation Movements between Ottoman Turkish and Arabic, 1860-1914
Oct
16
Thinking Cinema Lecture: โ€œThinking Like a Holy Girl: A Philosophy of Grandma’s Bedroom”
Oct
16
Cultures of Sound: Lineages and Languages of Sutra Recitation in Goshirakawa’s Japan
Oct
16
Intersections presents: Blackness & Disability, a roundtable discussion
Oct
16
How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848
Oct
16
Media, Technology, and Race: A Walter Lord Society Dinner Conversation with Tanzina Vega
Oct
16
Film Forum: White Supremacy in Hollywood
Oct
17
Queer Filiation from Virgil to Dante
Oct
17
The Counter Revolution
Oct
17
Nicholas Kristof: Reporting a World in Crisis
Oct
17
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
Oct
18
The Art of Language Invention
Oct
18
The Hands of the Engraver: Albert Flocon Meets Gaston Bachelard
Oct
18
The Immanence of Truths
Oct
18
Transpacific Aspiration Towards Modern Domesticity in Japanese Colonial-era Korea
Oct
19
Teaching with the Archive
Oct
19
Refusal, Bodily Struggle, and Japanese American Resistance in Tule Lake Stockade
Oct
19
Ethics in the Humanities Classroom
Oct
19
The Enduring Allure of Seashells: Conchology and Art
Oct
19
Human Scale
Oct
19
Remembering the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box
Oct
19
Light Industry at Princeton: Abstronics, Mary Ellen Bute
Oct
20
Reading by Phillip B. Williams
Oct
20
Notes from the Field: Teaching Challenges in Context
Oct
20
C.K. Williams Reading Series: Rumaan Alam
Oct
22
Artist Talk: Zanele Muhoi
Oct
22
A Musical Tribute to the Poetry of Iakovos Kambanellis
Oct
23
Religion and Society in Ancient and Medieval Japan ๆ—ฅๆœฌๅคไปฃไธญไธ–ใฎ็คพไผšใจๅฎ—ๆ•™ใจ่จ€่ชฌ
Oct
23
The Sing Sing Revolt: The Incarceration Crisis and the Politics of Prison Construction in the 1980s
Oct
23
Structuring Middle East Historical Data
Oct
23
Literature as an Ark: On the Stylistic and Ethical Aspects of Zoopoetics
Oct
23
Film Forum: White Supremacy in the White House
Oct
24
Unraveling the Mysteries of Jan van Eyckโ€™s Late Paintings
Oct
24
A Conversation with John McPhee: Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
Oct
24
Regimes of Spectacle in Weimar Cinema
Oct
25
A Women’s Ally: Franรงoise de Graffigny, Madame de Lambert and ร‰milie du Chรขteletโ€™s Invocations of Nature
Oct
25
Late Medieval Publishing Culture in Japan during the 14th and 16th Centuries
Oct
25
Unfinished Business: Michael Jackson, Detroit, and American Deindustrialization
Oct
25
Unfinished Business: M. Jackson, Detroit, and the Figural Economy of American Deindustrialization
Oct
26
How to Cure Deconstruction of Its Allergy to Ecology?
Oct
26
Playback
Oct
29
Josephโ€™s Dream, Modern Visions
Nov
4
Meet the Music: Four Harmonious Friends
Nov
6
The Islamic History of Bฤmiyฤn Buddhas
Nov
6
Dispatches from the Frontlines of Race, Gender, and American Media
Nov
6
Lifestyle Algorithms: Wearable Technology as Self-Regulation
Nov
6
Six hundred and twenty years: amid.cero9
Nov
6
Film Forum: Casablanca by Michael Curtiz
Nov
6
Reclamations!
Nov
6
The Analysing Engine
Nov
7
Radio Diaries Presents: The Art of Storytelling
Nov
7
Poetry Readings from Promise and Fair Sun
Nov
7
Government and the Economy in the Byzantine Empire and the Muslim Caliphate in the Early Middle Ages
Nov
7
Weimar Cinema: Metropolis
Nov
8
Ethics of Reading VII: Crime and Punishment
Nov
8
The Work of Interpretation
Nov
8
Perfect Strangers
Nov
8
The First Master Text: The Classic of Odes
Nov
8
Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum
Nov
8
Field Notes From An Ethical Minefield
Nov
9
Ni Prose Ni Vers: On the Psychoanalytic Notebook
Nov
9
Climate Surprises: Pivotal Generations and Risk Transfer
Nov
9
The Youth of Antiquity
Nov
9
A Discussion with the Emissary Flute Quartet
Nov
9
Langston’s Salvation: American Religion and the Bard of Harlem
Nov
9
Light Industry at Princeton: A Study in Choreography for Camera
Nov
10
Remembering Langston Hughes: His Art, Life, and Legacy Fifty Years Later
Nov
10
The Modal Framework of Duns Scotus’s Argument for God’s Existence
Nov
11
Werner Hamacher: In Memoriam
Nov
13
Thinking Cinema Lecture: The Sky of an Image: Modernityโ€™s Cin-Aerial Dimension
Nov
13
Who Has Fiction? The Middle Ages, Fictionality, and ‘The Rise of X’
Nov
13
Conversation with John Sacret Young
Nov
13
Film Forum: Memory of the Camps by Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Bernstein
Nov
14
And When That I was and a Little Tiny Boy: Psychoanalysis, Shakespeare and Siblings
Nov
14
Ancient World Research and Tools in Synergy
Nov
14
Imperial Visual Propaganda: Claims of Legitimacy in the Byzantine Paris Psalter
Nov
14
Weimar Cinema: Pandora’s Box
Nov
14
Lonely Motel: Music from Slide
Nov
15
Eremia Komurjian Chelebiโ€™s Place in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Intellectual History
Nov
15
“Eremia Komurjian Chelebi’s Place in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Intellectual History
Nov
15
Cargo
Nov
15
Geo-referencing Literary Texts and Historic Maps: A Pelagios and Pleiades Workshop
Nov
15
Should We Respect the Past Desires of People with Dementia?
Nov
15
Digital Humanities and Social Justice
Nov
15
The Significance of Plowing in Early Chinese Texts
Nov
15
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler
Nov
15
Cinema Today โ€” Film Blackness: Screening of films by Kevin Everson
Nov
15
Reading by Hilton Als and Hoa Nguyen
Nov
16
Reshaping the Humanities and Sciences: The Berlin “Lautabteilung” in the 1920s
Nov
16
Toward a Transnational Asian American Studies: Afro-Asian Encounters in the Caribbean
Nov
16
Ships, Savages, and States: the Rover and the Qing on the Sea
Nov
16
Artist Talk: Titus Kaphar
Nov
16
Transmaterial Architecture
Nov
16
Light Industry at Princeton: Film and Photo League Program
Nov
17
The Princeton & Slavery Project Symposium
Nov
17
The Neues Museum of the Berlin Museum Island โ€“ Highlights and recent discoveries from the Egyptian Papyrus Collection
Nov
17
From Darkness to Light
Nov
17
Parallax & Anders Tveit: A Parallax View
Nov
18
Sign & Sing!
Nov
20
U.S. premiere of Daniela Thomas’ Vazante
Nov
20
Lines of Freedom
Nov
20
Film Forum: Death Mills by Billy Wilder
Nov
21
Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness
Nov
27
Noble Johnson and the Lincoln Motion Picture Company
Nov
27
Sacred Time in Islamic Thought and Practice: the Case of the Month of Rajab
Nov
27
Ghetto Urbanism in Early Modern Venice
Nov
27
Film Forum: The Blue Light by Leni Riefenstahl, Bรฉla Balรกzs
Nov
28
Building Materials
Nov
28
The Initial Stages of the Phoenician Expansion Overseas: When and Why?
Nov
28
The Half-Life of Freedom: A Conversation with New Yorker Staff Writer Jelani Cobb on Race and Justice in America Today
Nov
28
Whose Century Is It?: Variables shaping China’s future in the world
Nov
28
Double Bill of Queer Weimar Films
Nov
29
Making Protest Work
Nov
29
The Dynamic Effects of Trade Liberalization: The Case of Latin America
Nov
29
“Modularity and Computation in Semantic Theory”
Nov
29
Emoji Dick, Emoji Dickinson
Nov
29
Ethics of Reading VII: Crime and Punishment
Nov
29
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
Nov
30
After the Carolingians: Manuscript Illumination in the 10th โ€“ 11th Centuries
Nov
30
Emozioni e ragioni del Risorgimento. De Amicis racconta la Presa di Roma
Nov
30
Cosmism: A Superhumanity Symposium
Nov
30
American History From Beginning to End
Nov
30
Light Industry at Princeton: Modesty, or Immodesty (1991), dir. Hervรฉ Guibert
Dec
1
Making History Visible: Art and Visualizing the American Nation
Dec
1
Will There Still Be Singing? A Hanns Eisler Cabaret
Dec
2
Artist Talk: Michael Kenna
Dec
4
What Remains of the Ottomans? Heritage and Memories in Hashemite Iraq
Dec
4
Dzi Croquettes: Then and Now: A Conversation with Ciro Barcelos
Dec
4
Film Forum: Somewhere in Europe by Gรฉza Radvรกnyi
Dec
5
Sarah Nooter Lecture
Dec
5
Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Dec
5
Weimar Cinema: M: A City Seeks A Murderer
Dec
6
Water
Dec
6
Reflections on Course Travel to Chiapas to Explore Art and Politics of the Maya West
Dec
6
Reconstructing the Proto-Indo-European Stop System: An Experimental Approach
Dec
6
Ethics of Reading VII: Crime and Punishment
Dec
6
Politics And Introspection In The Late Ming: The Career And Struggles Of Xu Rijiu (1574-1631)
Dec
7
Reconstructing the Early Modern Material World
Dec
7
Logistical Monstrosities: Megaships, Megaports, and Infrastructures of Violence along the TransPacific Supply Chain
Dec
7
Dystopia, Utopia, Atopia: H.D., Susan Howe, and Anarchic Poetics
Dec
7
Music and Work
Dec
7
Sex and Secularism
Dec
7
Light Industry at Princeton: One Way or Another (1977) 16mm, dir. Sara Gรณmez
Dec
8
Digital Scholarship In Japanese Studies
Dec
8
State of the Field: Victorian Studies
Dec
9
Delaware Valley Medieval Association Winter Meeting 2017
Dec
11
Race and Enlightenment
Dec
11
Islamic Legal Responses to Modernization: 3 Cases from the Fatwa Literature
Dec
11
Digital Automation and Transcendental Instrumentality
Dec
11
Pedro Meira Monteiro: The Other Roots
Dec
11
Film Forum: Kincsem – Bet on Revenge by Gรกbor Herendi
Dec
12
A Poetry Reading by Michael Speier
Dec
12
Nomadland: Surviving America in the 21st Century
Dec
12
Weimar Cinema: Who Owns The World?, Issues Of The Time: How The Worker Lives
Dec
12
Somebody Should Tell This Place to Go Home: Poetry Performance
Dec
13
Reading by Creative Writing Students
Dec
13
Senses of Style: Poetry before Interpretation
Dec
13
Princeton, Slavery and Me: Autobiographical Storytelling
Dec
14
Light Industry at Princeton: Mechanics of the Brain (1926) 16mm, dir. V. I. Pudovkin
Dec
18
Memories, Traces, Evidence: Visualizing Deindustrialization
Jan
5
Are We Human? The Design of the Species
Jan
9
Weimar Cinema: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Jan
11
The Present Moment: A Graduate Conference
Jan
13
Symposium on the Opera, Monteverdiโ€™s Lโ€™Orfeo
Jan
13
Symposium on the Opera, Monteverdiโ€™s Lโ€™Orfeo
Jan
16
Greg Tate and Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber Concert
Jan
17
Stories from Yellow House Radio: An Evening with Joe Richman and His Students
Jan
23
Journalists Julia Ioffe and Deborah Amos to Discuss Russia, Putin, Trump, and Their Careers on the Front Lines
Jan
23
The Long Hangover: Putin’s Russia and the Ghosts of the Past
Jan
25
Suits, Soldiers, and Hippies: The Vietnam War in Princeton
Feb
5
Aldo Rossi: The Architecture and Art of the Analogous City
Feb
5
The Mandate System as Law and as History
Feb
5
Translation and Decanonization: The American Manzoni
Feb
7
Making a Narco: Childhood Exposure to Illegal Labor Markets and Criminal Life Paths
Feb
8
Stafford Beer, Gui Bonsiepe et al, Operations Room, Project Cybersyn, 1973, Santiago, Chile
Feb
8
Critical Data Studies, or Ways to Re-Imagine Networks
Feb
8
My End is My Beginningโ€”Or Not
Feb
8
On Eye Level: A Reading and Talk with Jenny Xie
Feb
8
Wings of a Dove: Form, History, and the Gift of Black Art
Feb
8
Special Screening and Discussion of The Post
Feb
9
Religion and the American Normal Conference
Feb
9
Recent Research at the Sanctuary of Zeus at Mt. Lykaion, Arcadia
Feb
12
Overseas Conversations: On Translating Jenny Erpenbeck
Feb
12
Exceptionally Religious? The History of Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Middle East
Feb
12
Center or Periphery? Constantinople and the Eurasian Trading System
Feb
12
Auerbach’s Augustine: Existential Realism and the Low Style
Feb
12
Representations of Rare Manuscripts Kept at the Royal Library in Rabat
Feb
12
Bandoneon & Guitar Tango Performance and Discussion
Feb
12
Film Forum Spring 2018: War of the Sexes
Feb
12
About New York: A Dinner Conversation with Jim Dwyer
Feb
13
Gauss Seminars in Criticism: Catherine Malabou
Feb
14
Douglass Day
Feb
14
Master Class on Teaching with Ruha Benjamin
Feb
14
In the Intense Now
Feb
15
Can We Work Towards a Better Future?
Feb
15
The Political Economy of Energy Subsidy Reforms in Iran
Feb
15
AnthroDay
Feb
15
A Short History of โ€œBlack Paintingโ€ (Hei hua): A Counter Tradition in Chinese Art
Feb
15
Weather as a Test Case for Media Theory
Feb
15
The Integration of Migrants and its Limits in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Feb
15
Possessing Polynesians: Whiteness and Settler Colonialism in Hawai`i
Feb
16
Bound Together Through an Indissoluble Power: On Certain Problems with Maximus the Confessorโ€™s Cosmology
Feb
19
Bottom’s Up: The Translator as Toast
Feb
19
The Politics of Archeology in the Late Ottoman Empire
Feb
19
Waka and Things, Waka as Things
Feb
20
The Semitic โ€˜Perfect’ and the Problem of 3rd Person Zero
Feb
20
Profiles in Innovative Teaching
Feb
20
Orlando Furioso as Paradoxical Source of Early Italian Epic Theory
Feb
20
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay: Growing Up, Moving Out, and Narrative Form
Feb
20
Aesthetic Ecologies: Air and the Space of Art around 1900
Feb
20
Hebrew and Aramaic: Siblings, Neighbors, Authoritative Languages
Feb
21
Colloquial Arabic and Comparative Semitics in the Quest for Proto Arabic
Feb
21
Work-in-Progress Series: Queer Postmemory
Feb
21
Young Radicals or Active Citizens: Political Attitudes of Protest Participants and Non-Participants in Mexico City
Feb
21
Research, Truth, and Academic Freedom
Feb
21
Was China the Source of the Plague?
Feb
21
The Antics Of The Virtual: The Otherness In The Self In The Japanese Expression, “Nanchatte” (ใชใ‚“ใกใ‚ƒใฃใฆ.๏ผ‰
Feb
21
American Power and Human Rights in the Post-My Lai Era with Christopher Fisher
Feb
22
By the Light of Forgetfulnes
Feb
22
Failure as a Criterion for the Assessment of Emperors and Emperorship
Feb
22
Turning Your Dissertation into a Book
Feb
22
A Conversation with Guillaume Gallienne
Feb
22
Settler Colonialism Observed: Palestine’s Alter-natives
Feb
22
Ethics in the STEM Classroom
Feb
23
Lunch Talk with Andrew Zimmerman
Feb
24
The Artist Sees Differently: Modern Still Lifes from the Phillips Collection
Feb
24
Olagรณn: A Cantata in Doublespeak
Feb
26
Indigenous Literature and Perspectives on Reindeer, Art, and Politics in the High North
Feb
26
Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930
Feb
26
37th Annual Black Maria Film Festival Tour
Feb
26
Modus Machabaeorum. Hagiography and Biblical Narrative in 5th and 6th Century Gaul.
Feb
26
Just Teaching: Why Inclusive Classrooms and Campuses Matter
Feb
26
Acting and Directing Masterclass with Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Feb
26
The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
Feb
26
Mass Incarceration, Criminal Justice, and Civil Rights
Feb
26
Seeing Grace: A Dinner Conversation with Sarah L. Kaufman
Feb
27
Ruben Santiago-Hudson in Conversation with Brian Herrera
Feb
27
Unlearning the Archive and the Case for Reparations
Feb
27
Student Conversation with Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Feb
28
The Political body in Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985
Feb
28
Mudd Exhibition Panel: How Has War Impacted Education at Princeton?
Feb
28
CANCELED…Dealing with ingratitude in Early Modern Italian Culture (Leonardo, Machiavelli, Ariosto)
Feb
28
So Moved: On the Gelatinous
Feb
28
Human Rights, Biological Citizenship, And Reproductive Policy In Japanโ€™s Leprosy Sanitaria
Feb
28
DeCamp Seminar Series
Feb
28
The Black Metropolis
Feb
28
Human Rights, Biological Citizenship, and Reproductive Policy in Japanโ€™s Leprosy Sanitaria
Feb
28
Mellon Research Forum on the Urban Environment: Nerves
Feb
28
Truth is the New Banned Substance
Feb
28
Utopias of One
Mar
1
Shias in the Gulf Monarchies and their Relations with Iran
Mar
1
The Heartโ€™s Double
Mar
1
Slow Life and Palestine: Settler Colonialism in Five Parts
Mar
1
The Refugee Crisis: Reporting on the Front Lines in Greece and Canada
Mar
1
A State of Freedom: A Novel, Neel Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri
Mar
2
Epistemic Breakdowns and Crises in East Asia
Mar
2
Philosophy Colloquium: Flawed Consent
Mar
2
Brexit, Ireland and the Rise of English Nationalism
Mar
2
Reading by Kaitlyn Greenidge and Seniors from the Program in Creating Writing
Mar
2
Mendel Night at the Opera
Mar
2
Reading of August Wilsonโ€™s Seven Guitars with Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Mar
2
Kammermusik: Chamber music and poetry by German composers and authors
Mar
5
Black Graphics: Circumscribed and On the Run
Mar
5
The Corsican Connection
Mar
5
Take Care of the Sounds: On Translating Italian Nonsense Verse
Mar
5
Urban Gardening in Early Medieval Italy
Mar
5
Jews and Anti-Semites: The Unlikely Uprising in Algiers That Helped the Allies Win the War
Mar
5
Recovering the Global Dimensions of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Career
Mar
5
Migrations Series: Jhumpa Lahiri and Alessandro Giammei
Mar
6
Digital Humanities in Translation: Communicating Your Scholarship to Multiple Publics
Mar
6
Epitaphs and Identity: Medieval German Jewish Cemeteries and Communal Practice
Mar
6
The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy: How American Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interest
Mar
6
Spy Schools: Daniel Golden
Mar
7
Animation and Animism
Mar
7
“The Right and the Left Yell at Us, So We Must Be Doing Something Right”
Mar
7
Drive-By Truckers
Mar
7
The Right and the Left Yell at Us, So We Must Be Doing Something Well
Mar
7
Social Justice Selfies: Hashtag Counter Narratives and Activist Counter Publics
Mar
7
Cities and Immigration: Should Cities have Borders?
Mar
7
Bernard Shaw and the Uses of Celebrity
Mar
7
Reading by Osama Alomar and Luc Sante
Mar
8
Deadlines (literally)
Mar
8
The Great Migration Reconsidered
Mar
8
CANCELLED: Raphaelโ€™s Nature
Mar
8
RESCHEDULED: The Roman Kings: Genealogies of Power
Mar
8
Jews and Anti-Semites: The Unlikely Uprising in Algiers That Helped the Allies Win the War
Mar
8
Blood on the Floor: Mosaic Art, Violent Imagery, and Militant Piety in a Galilean Synagogue
Mar
8
Transparency and Enigma in the Gimmick as Capitalist Form
Mar
8
Varรจse and Mingus at Greenwich House, 1957
Mar
8
Slavic Film Series: Welcome, No Trespassing (1964, dir. Elem Klimov)
Mar
8
Slavic/REEES Film Series: Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Professions (1973, dir. Leonid Gaidai)
Mar
9
Colloquium: The Future of the Puerto Rican Body
Mar
9
In Search of Fortune: Migration and Risk in The Pacific World
Mar
9
Alexander the Greatโ€™s Economic Revolution
Mar
9
Philosophy Colloquium: Theory of Valuing
Mar
9
Book Reading by Sally Rooney
Mar
12
Insect Light: Knowledges from the Plantationocene
Mar
12
Translating Classical Arabic Literature Together
Mar
12
Not a Cycle of Violence: An Episodic Analysis of the Israel-Gaza Conflict
Mar
12
The Spirit, the Letter, and the Life of the Text
Mar
12
Paintings, Songs, and Board Games
Mar
12
Derridaโ€™s Matrix: The Births of Deconstruction
Mar
12
Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition
Mar
13
Nostoi and Material Culture in the Classical and Hellenistic Adriatic
Mar
13
Sexuality as Failure: Psychoanalytic Concepts, Cultural Perspectives
Mar
13
Migration Series: Sarah Rivett and Sean Wilentz
Mar
13
Unscripted America – Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation
Mar
14
Armar Pรกginas, Corregir Pruebas: Borges as Author, Editor, and Publisher
Mar
14
Teaching Graduate Students in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Mar
14
“Representing Events in Russian: How Much is Compulsory and How Much is Open to Construal?”
Mar
14
Religious Subjectification in Modern Japan
Mar
14
Out of Sync: Antonio Tabucchiโ€™s Fictions of Time
Mar
14
Environmental Humanities Colloquium: Colonial Semiotics
Mar
14
The Structure of the Bayeux Tapestry
Mar
15
PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress: Charlie Hankin and Brandon Hunter
Mar
15
James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures in Ethics
Mar
15
Rhythms in the Middle Ages
Mar
15
How Does Enlightenment End?
Mar
15
Indigenous Studies Workshop: Our Beloved Kin: A Digital Awikhigan
Mar
15
The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America
Mar
16
Racing The Classics
Mar
26
The Legal Roots of Consumer Discomfort: Advertising in Britain 1850-1914
Mar
26
The Merchants of Oran: A Jewish Port at the Dawn of Empire
Mar
26
Dress Rehearsal for Dreyfus
Mar
26
Pig Partnerships and Identities in the Early Medieval West
Mar
26
Whose City?: Histories of Urban Governance and Democratic Participation in the U.S. After 1968
Mar
27
SITE: The Impossibility of Remembering the Past at Nanjing
Mar
27
โ€œMade inโ€ฆโ€ : Exploring contemporary narratives in the teaching of foreign languages
Mar
27
The Intergenerational Persistence of Racial Disparities
Mar
27
Choral Fabrications
Mar
27
NAFTA, Trade, and the Canada/U.S. Relationship
Mar
27
Subverting the Facade: Paris Architecture between Haussmann and Radical Modernism
Mar
27
On Wendy Wasserstein
Mar
28
Anti-Pluralism: The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy
Mar
28
Creative Construction: The Rise and Corruption of Infrastructure Projects in Latin America
Mar
28
Cascading S-Curves: The Birth of a New Paucal Construction in Russian
Mar
28
From Compressed Speech to Sounds of Infinite Duration
Mar
28
Neighborhood Effects: Childhood Environment and Upward Mobility
Mar
28
TIME: The Memory of an Assassin and Problem of Legitimacy in the Wang Jingwei Regime (1940-45)
Mar
28
Migrations Series: Unfinished: The Anthropology of Becoming
Mar
29
Translations in Contemporary Iranian Art
Mar
29
On the Magnitude of the Gods in Materialist Theology, Epic Poetry and Greek Art
Mar
29
China in WWII: Wartime Everydayness and the Globalization of the Second World War
Mar
29
Turkey and the West: Navigating a Troubled Relationship
Mar
29
Slavic Film Series: Mimino (1977, dir. Georgiy Daneliya)
Mar
29
On Accountability: A Dinner Conversation with Michael LaForgia
Mar
30
Goethe Workshop
Mar
30
Lina Bo Bardi: Material Ideologies Conference
Mar
30
Bound Together Through an Indissoluble Power
Mar
30
The Global Enlightenment Series
Apr
2
Pleines de Tromperies, or โ€œLiterally?โ€ Really?
Apr
2
Founded Utopias for Emancipation: The Algerian Liberation War as the Mecca of a Scientific Revolution
Apr
2
“Melodrama Unbound,” or The Elephant That is Melodrama
Apr
3
Understanding the Politics of the Gulf Cooperation Council States
Apr
3
Repair Work
Apr
3
Mecca, Mujฤhids, and Modernity
Apr
3
Subsidia Dominationi: The Early Careers of Tiberius and Drusus Revisited
Apr
3
Could Less Be More? Restraint as a U.S. Strategy for the Middle East
Apr
4
Why a Student is a Willing Termite Rather Than an Irish Elk
Apr
4
Athens and Sparta of the New World: The Classical Passions of Santo Domingo
Apr
4
Return to River Town: Twenty Years in the Life of a Chinese City
Apr
5
The Secret Life of Crowds: Gender, Sexuality, and the Masses
Apr
5
The 2018 Princeton Environmental Film Festival
Apr
5
An Insignificant Man: Film Screening and Q&A
Apr
5
Lamento Borincano: Puerto Rican Sites of the Catastrophic, 1968/2018
Apr
5
Iran’s Challeges to the Regional Order
Apr
5
Artist Talk: Jhumpa Lahiri
Apr
5
May We Forever Stand: Imani Perry and Kinohi Nishikawa
Apr
6
The Moral Economy: A Belknap Global Conversation & Workshop
Apr
6
Princeton Symposium on Syntactic Theory
Apr
6
Princeton School of Architecture Post-Professional Thesis Student Exhibition: Nine Constructionists
Apr
6
Under the Skin: Tattoos in Japanese Prints
Apr
6
Landscapes Behind Cรฉzanne
Apr
6
Kant: The Veil of Perception and the Veil of Agency
Apr
6
Global Governance Forum Lecture: Edward Wong
Apr
6
Belknap Global Conversation Keynote Address: Rescuing Economics from Economists
Apr
7
Conference: De Canciones y Cancioneros
Apr
7
Vaya de Fiesta
Apr
8
SNCC to BLM: Robert Moses Discusses the Evolution of Racial Justice Organizing in the U.S.
Apr
9
Liquid La Habana: Ice Cream, Rum, Waves, Sweat and Spouts
Apr
9
Open Wounds: Gloria E. Anzaldรบaโ€™s Borderlands La Frontera and the 1917 Bath Riots
Apr
9
Understanding the Tunisian Anomaly: An Inquiry into a History of Reform
Apr
9
Law Before Islam
Apr
9
Catechizing the Lord’s Prayer
Apr
9
Between Pyongyang and Washington: A New Yorker Writer on Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump
Apr
9
Velazquez, Aesop, and War
Apr
9
Factory Girls: Reporting Among the Working Women of China and Egypt
Apr
9
The Trenton Project Remembers April 9, 1968
Apr
10
Post-Fierce + reEarth: Black Code Work
Apr
10
Inter-Imperiality and Translation in the Chansons de Geste
Apr
10
Transnationality and Cultural Mobility in the Netherlands
Apr
10
The Return of the Owl: The Rediscovery of Athenian Democracy in the Italian Renaissance
Apr
10
Migration Series: Kamila Shamsie in Conversation with Michael Wood
Apr
11
Murder, Denial, and Hope in Todayโ€™s Colombia
Apr
11
Let Us Alter and Corrupt the Maxim
Apr
11
Haunted Scholarship: Speculative Frameworking using Scrivener and Twine
Apr
11
News from the Afterlife: Civil War Mass Grave Exhumations in Contemporary Spain
Apr
12
Living at the Intersection Symposium 2018
Apr
12
Brazil in the United Nations
Apr
12
Colonialism in the 21st Century: A Humanistic Inquiry
Apr
12
Epica classica, epica moderna: la Resistenza di Beppe Fenoglio
Apr
12
THE AAS James Baldwin Lecture With Brian Herrera
Apr
12
A Conversation with Fazal Sheikh and Eduardo Cadava
Apr
12
Tact: David Russell and Barry McCrea in Conversation
Apr
13
Symposium: Music and the Language Arts in Early Modern Song
Apr
13
How Literatures Begin: A Comparative Approach to Problems and Methods
Apr
13
Object or Image? Arthur Dove’s “Things”
Apr
13
The Prison and the Academy: Exploring Critical Prison Pedagogy
Apr
13
Mexico 2018 Elections: Institutional Safeguards and Challenges
Apr
14
2018 Latinx Theater Commons Marรญa Irene Fornรฉs Institute Symposium
Apr
16
The Evasive Bodies of May’s Photo Studio
Apr
16
When the Starving May “Steal”: Necessity and the Persistence of a Paradigm in the Shฤfiสฟฤซ School
Apr
16
Media Archaeology as Symptom
Apr
16
Shall the Fundamentalists Win? A Moral Argument for Reproductive Justice
Apr
17
Feminist Struggles in Latin America: Past/Present
Apr
17
Position Matters
Apr
17
A History of Judaism: Martin Goodman and Anthony Grafton
Apr
18
Recursive Prosodic Words in Kaqchikel
Apr
18
Between the Word and the Deed…
Apr
18
Medieval Kashan
Apr
18
The Right and the Left Yell at Us, So We Must Be Doing Something Well
Apr
18
Althea Ward Clark Reading Series
Apr
18
Intimate Networks: The Jeju-Hanshi Passage
Apr
18
Library Live: Min Jin Lee
Apr
18
Adventures From a Life of Writing: Finding Success in Journalism, Politics, and Entertainment
Apr
19
Blurred Lines: Vanessa Grigoriadis and Anne McClintock
Apr
19
Dipingere Per Agire. Muralismo e Politica in Sardegna
Apr
19
Art & Archaeology Lecture
Apr
19
Embodying Labor-Time: Vital Temporalities and Vital Proximities in the Filipino Labor Diaspora
Apr
19
Drei Sรถhne | Three Sons Film Screening & Discussion
Apr
19
Book Talk: Leila Slimani
Apr
20
Women in Classics
Apr
20
The Adventure of Life
Apr
20
ร‰crits et Images Dans lโ€™Espace Urbain: Perspectives Pluridisciplinaires
Apr
20
Zen Ink: Paintings by Hakuin Ekaku
Apr
20
PLAS 50th Anniversary Symposium: PLAS in Perspective
Apr
20
Philosophy Colloquium: Farewell to the Sex/Gender Distinction
Apr
21
The Mind on the Page: Mental Health in Literature and the Arts
Apr
23
Islamophobia in the Name of Women’s Rights
Apr
23
A Tale of Two Ranks: William, Duke of Juliers and Earl of Cambridge (ca. 1299-1361)
Apr
24
What was a Grove in the Suburbs of Rome During the Empire ?
Apr
24
Victorian Colloquium
Apr
24
Lecture by Burhan Ozbilici, Winner of the World Press Photo of the Year 2017
Apr
24
The Trump Administration’s Incoherent Middle East Policy
Apr
24
Film Screening: Uptight
Apr
25
Understanding Iran’s Electoral Processes and its Political Implications
Apr
25
The Politics of the Japanese Emperor’s Abdication
Apr
25
Once We Were Slaves: How One Early American Jewish Family Changed Their Race
Apr
25
The Home Show
Apr
26
Borges’s El Inmortal: Learning from the Manuscript
Apr
26
Asian American Collisions Along the Arc of History, Past Present Future Tense
Apr
26
Crowd Wisdom: Three Scholars Take on the Multitudes
Apr
26
Naqshbandi Sufi and Qing Aristocrat: Kafshin Khoja and his Hagiographic Works
Apr
26
Spring Roundtable: Erasmus and Interpretation
Apr
26
The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor
Apr
27
Surrealism: From France to the World
Apr
27
Risky Matters: Perspectives on the Beginning of Insurance in North America
Apr
27
Readings Lectures Performances accompanying the exhibition Hanne Darbovenโ€™s Address โ€” Place and Time
Apr
27
Islamic Art, Armenian Art: Connections across Religions
Apr
28
Race & Housing 50 Years Later: The Legacy of the Fair Housing Act
Apr
28
Philosophy of Mind in Early Modern Philosophy
Apr
28
ASL Slam Poetry Event
Apr
30
The Uses and Abuses of Incarceration: Dehumanization, Slavery, and Profit
Apr
30
Documentaryโ€™s Listening Ear
May
1
The Limits of Functional Critique: Capitalism, Racism, and Political Repression
May
1
The Intelligence of Algorithms โ€” before Electronic Computers
May
1
Sensing Divinity?
May
1
17 Years of War-fighting without War-thinking
May
1
Reading and Launch of Nepantla, An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color
May
1
Bernard Shaw and the Uses of Celebrity
May
2
The Origins of Legal Rule in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
May
2
The Truth in Abolition: Structural Reform and Crime Prevention
May
2
Intonation Beyond Black and White
May
2
Levees and Levies: Mapping the Yellow River in the Long Durรฉe
May
2
Spring 2018 Student Reading
May
2
A Taste for the Beautiful: Michael Ryan and Michael Lemonick
May
3
The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
May
3
PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress
May
4
The Intellectual Lives of Hugo Grotius
May
4
Conference: Thresholds
May
4
Graduate Conference: Works in Progress, New Approaches
May
4
Lottery Lives: Gambling and the English State Lotteries, 1694-1826
May
4
Philosophy Colloquium: What We Make When We Make an Effort
May
4
An imported cultural tradition in material abundance: The Islamic gravestones of Ottoman Crete
May
6
Hecuba
May
7
Liberty, Listening: โ€˜The New Colossusโ€™ and the Poetry of Immigration
May
7
Wade in the Water: Poems, Tracy K. Smith
May
8
Creative Writing Seniors Reading I
May
8
Film Screening: Medium Cool
May
9
Creative Writing Seniors Reading II
May
10
Conference: The Art of Collaboration in 17th-Century France
May
10
Love and Friendship in the Movies
May
10
Princeton Research Day 2018
May
10
The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can’t Do
May
14
Medical Humanities Fair
May
15
Republics of the New World: The Revolutionary Political Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
May
15
CANCELLED: Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
May
17
Legal Pluralism and Social Change in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
May
19
Opening Celebration: Frank Stella Unbound
Jun
1
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