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Events Archive: 2018/19

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Sep
7
A Conference in Honor of Jeffrey L. Stout
Sep
11
44 Low-resolution Houses
Sep
12
Constitution Day Lecture: Constituting Justice: Ida B. Wells’s Anti-Lynching Campaign
Sep
17
Chronic Wounds: Debating the Legacy of the Iran-Iraq War in Arabic and Persian Literatures
Sep
18
Data for Black Lives
Sep
18
Georg Vrachliotis: Fritz Haller and the Microchip: Architecture, Society and Technological Unrest
Sep
20
12th Annual Humanities Colloquium: Capturing the Human
Sep
20
The Future of Brazil: Economy and Society on the Eve of the 2018 Presidential Election
Sep
20
Porch: Politics as Usual
Sep
21
Cold War Civil Rights: A Conversation about the Circulation of Protest Photos
Sep
21
Gloss to Glossary East and West
Sep
21
Harlem Quartet
Sep
21
Portrait de Ludmilla en Nina Simone
Sep
22
Claire, Anton et Eux
Sep
22
Claire, Anton et Eux
Sep
23
Portrait de Ludmilla en Nina Simone
Sep
23
Harlem Quartet
Sep
24
Translating the Afro-Asian
Sep
24
Being in Life without Wanting the World: On Biopolitics and the Attachment to Life
Sep
24
A Conversation on the History of Casting
Sep
24
now is simply the mess. Formalism, Modernism, Again
Sep
24
CDH Fall 2018 Open House
Sep
24
Dough
Sep
25
Materiality and Textuality of Stelae and Epitaphs in the Tang Dynasty
Sep
25
Michael Osman: Modernism’s Visible Hand
Sep
25
Gonzo Conférence
Sep
26
Linguistics Insights in Text Normalization
Sep
26
Narrating Colombia’s (Post-) Conflict
Sep
26
Why Everything You Thought You Knew About the Opioid Crisis is Wrong
Sep
26
Framing Health Problems: Epistemic Injustice, Medicalisation and Public Health
Sep
26
Reading by Poet Li-Young Lee and Playwright Lynn Nottage
Sep
26
Gonzo Conférence
Sep
27
Urban Governance and Municipal Politics in Tehran
Sep
27
(Gay) Panic Attack: Coming Out in a Colorblind Age
Sep
27
Evander and the Invention of the Prehistory of Latium in Virgil’s Aeneid
Sep
27
Theory from the South Revisited
Sep
27
Book Talk: Battle for Paradise
Sep
27
Film Series: Koolhaas Houselife by Ila Bêka + Louise Lemoine
Sep
27
Film Screening: Good Bye Lenin!
Sep
28
Green Cities: Inequality, Space, and Sustainability
Sep
28
Long Nineteenth Century Workshop: “Browning’s Metaforms”
Sep
28
Painting Etruscan Tombs and Temples
Sep
28
Doreen
Oct
1
Invoking Legality in the Service of Domination: Anti-Immigrant Politics and the Pleasures of Herrenvolk Democracy
Oct
1
Byzantine War Propaganda and the Origins of the Qur’ānic Concept of Fighting Martyrdom
Oct
1
CANCELLED: Speaking With Arendt: TV and the Theatricality of Interviewing on “Zur Person”
Oct
1
Poetry Reading: Tom Pickard
Oct
1
Architecture Lecture Series: Yo Shimada
Oct
2
Gauss Seminar in Criticism: Neoliberalism’s Frankenstein
Oct
2
Experiments in Artificial Human Intelligence
Oct
2
Take No Prisoners: Unintended Consequences of Criminal Justice Reform in Venezuela
Oct
2
The New Wilderness
Oct
2
Revolt of the Suburbs in the 1968 & 2018 Elections
Oct
2
Book Talk: The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews in Italy
Oct
2
Mendel Night at the Opera
Oct
2
African Philosophers in Europe and the Question of Slavery, 1700-1750
Oct
4
Domestic Violence: The Limits and Possibilities of a Concept
Oct
4
The Life and Death of Latisha King
Oct
4
Architecture Lecture Series: Alice Friedman
Oct
5
Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in Late Classical and Medieval China
Oct
5
Readings by Novelist Hermione Hoby and Creative Writing Students
Oct
8
Qadi Ja’far and the Revival of Zaydi Islam in 6th/12th century Yemen
Oct
8
Algiers 1958/Paris 1968
Oct
8
I Peri N’Tera: A Study of the Migrant Crisis in Sicily, Italy
Oct
9
Humpty-Dumpty Populism in Venezuela (and Elsewhere)
Oct
9
Ovide Moralisé: Manuscript Tradition and Translation Strategies
Oct
9
Korean Ceramics: Not Your Usual Story
Oct
9
Media + Modernity Doctoral Colloquium Fall 2018
Oct
9
An Evening With Alison Bechdel
Oct
10
Ira W. DeCamp Bioethics Seminars: Sharon Bassan
Oct
10
Old Dominion Public Lectures: In the Ruins of Constitutional Government
Oct
11
Against Primordial Asian America: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions
Oct
11
Concept and Object: Adorno’s Critique of Kant
Oct
11
Amazonia Inc., A Series by Estevão Ciavatta
Oct
11
Electric Design: Light, Labor, and Leisure in Prewar Japanese Advertising
Oct
11
Carlo Coppola’s The Pestilence of 1656: Reflections on Art and Illness
Oct
11
Queer Identities and Justice: Celebrating Two New Books
Oct
11
Architecture Lecture Series: Landscapes of Intimacy
Oct
11
Film and Discussion: “Eyes on Mississippi”
Oct
12
Conference: Reading Derrida’s Geschlecht III: Responses to an Archival Discovery
Oct
12
Picturing 1960s Youth Protest: Dreamers, Delinquents, Students, Soldiers
Oct
12
Joyce Carol Oates Introduces Princeton Alumni Debut Authors
Oct
14
Concert – Music and Verse: From Sappho to Elytis
Oct
15
Times Like the Present
Oct
15
The Medieval Bulhān: An Unrecognized Genre of Illustrated Astrological Books
Oct
15
After ’68 in Japan: Urban/Media/Critique
Oct
15
Meaning in Language: A Computer’s Perspective
Oct
15
Translator’s Comments in Children’s and Teens’ Books: Russian Practices
Oct
15
Film Series: Barbicania by Ila Bêka + Louise Lemoine
Oct
16
The Fog Medium: Visualizing and Engineering the Atmosphere
Oct
16
Generation Wealth: Film Screening and Q & A with Lauren Greenfield
Oct
17
Translating Antiquity: Ancient Translation Practices
Oct
17
Where Events Happen: Spatial Aspect and the Localization of Actions
Oct
17
Nationality on Trial: Fixing Identity in the Modern Mediterranean
Oct
17
Ensayos y Escenas Desde el Abismo: Sobre el Horror Contemporáneo
Oct
17
Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in Late Classical and Medieval China
Oct
17
Environmental Humanities Colloquium: “Ecological Landscapes in Paleoanthropology and the Fates of Human Nature”
Oct
17
Two New Books by Imani Perry: On Lorraine Hansberry and on Gender and Liberation
Oct
17
Reading by Robin Coste Lewis and Sheila Heti
Oct
18
Belknap Global Conversation: Humanitarian Photojournalism: A History of the Present
Oct
18
PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress: Martín Cobas Sosa and Miguel Dominguez
Oct
18
Mindmapping: The Diagram Paradigm in the Middle Ages – and Beyond
Oct
18
Protecting the Nation from “Honor Killings”: Banning Immigration in the Time of Trump
Oct
18
From “A City of the Dead” to “A City in Its Fullness”
Oct
18
Democracy and the Digital Public Sphere
Oct
18
We’re Doomed. Now What?: Essays on War and Climate Change
Oct
18
Film Screening: Sonnen Allee
Oct
19
Screening of the Award-Winning Documentary, “Circles”
Oct
22
Translating Pre-Islamic Arabic Poetry: Challenges and Opportunities
Oct
22
Gendered Objects: Literarische Ding- und Geschlechtercodierungen im 19. Jahrhundert
Oct
22
Triggering Presuppositions
Oct
22
Who Counts?: A Symposium on Intersectional Data
Oct
22
Fake Letters: Authors and Agendas in the Ancient World
Oct
22
Battle on the Border: Inside the Midterm Elections—A Newsmaker Dinner with Kathleen McCleery
Oct
23
An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States
Oct
23
The Washing Society, a film by Lizzie Olesker and Lynne Sachs
Oct
23
The Aísthetic Sense of Liberatory and Decolonial Thought (Through a South-South Dialogue)
Oct
23
Jesus as God of the Egyptians and the Paschal Lamb: The Metamorphosis of a Jewish Anti-Christian Polemic
Oct
24
Poetry Reading: Dorothea Lasky
Oct
24
Networks of Debt, Coalitions of Trust, and Cycle of Crisis: The Ottoman Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century
Oct
24
Collaborations: Photographic and Otherwise
Oct
24
Readings and Conversation with John McPhee, Kushanava Choudhury, and Elisabeth Cohen
Oct
25
The Desire for Method in Early Modern Europe
Oct
25
The Perfectible Refugee and the Welfare Queen: The Reordering of Race and Disability
Oct
25
Political Philosophy Colloquium: Richard Tuck
Oct
25
Contact Warhol: Photography without End
Oct
28
Conceptions of Law: Between “Theology” and Positive Law
Oct
28
The Contested History of American Religious Freedom
Oct
30
Fluvial Metropolies
Oct
30
A Penitentiary in Patagonia: Constructing a Carceral Ecology at the End of the World (1902-1947)
Oct
31
Frankenread: 200th Anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Nov
2
Good Samaritans of the Entire World: Humanitarian Ethics and What We Owe to Whom
Nov
3
From Ardashir to Phrom Kesar: Workshop on Sasanian Coins and History
Nov
5
Abstraction, Extraction, Secretion: Liquid Blackness in Contemporary Art
Nov
5
Francesco Pecorini’s Letter in Arabic to Francesco Redi (Florence, 1667): An exercise in Microhistory and World Philology
Nov
5
Translation as a Living Organism Dynamics and Strategies in the Graeco-Arabic Transmission
Nov
5
Architecture Lecture Series: Situated Objects
Nov
6
Investing in Insurrection: The Arts and Education Infrastructure of West Berlin’s Red Decade
Nov
6
Wikidata Workshop for Beginners
Nov
7
A Conversation with John Weidman on Collaborating with Sondheim as a Librettist
Nov
7
Tensions in the Theory of the Conditional
Nov
7
Frankenstein’s Progeny: Science and Culture
Nov
7
What is Psychoanalysis? A Philological Speculation
Nov
7
Environmental Humanities Colloquium: Ryo Morimoto
Nov
7
VIS Fall Film Series: Alex Shebanow, Fail State
Nov
8
Comparative Memory and Justice: The Holocaust and Racial Violence in America
Nov
8
Low-resolution Houses Symposium
Nov
8
The Arid Negev Highlands (Southern Israel) in the Iron Age: The Impact of the Exact and Life Sciences
Nov
8
Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World
Nov
8
Delacroix’s Lyric Form
Nov
8
Program in Ethics and Public Affairs: Rahel Jaeggi
Nov
8
Frankenstein, Frankenstein, and the Dreams of Science
Nov
9
44 Low-resolution Houses
Nov
9
Jerusalem in Biblical Times
Nov
9
Reading by Tony Tulathimutte and Students
Nov
10
The Princeton Battlefield: Public Archaeology Day
Nov
12
ECS Workshop: On Max Klinger’s A Glove
Nov
12
The Arabic Plato: Problems and Prospects
Nov
12
The Reason of Rhyme
Nov
12
Data Conversations
Nov
12
Concert de Musique Sambla
Nov
12
Being Human Festival 2018: Screening of MATANGI/MAYA/M.I.A
Nov
13
Frankenstein: The Book
Nov
13
Desert in the Promised Land
Nov
13
Profiles in Distinguished Teaching with Eduardo Cadava – RESCHEDULED
Nov
13
Richard Serra and Hal Foster: Conversations about Sculpture
Nov
14
Translating Antiquity
Nov
14
Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry: Joshua Beckman
Nov
14
The Ethics of Prenatal Injury
Nov
14
VIS Fall Film Series: Debra Granik, Leave No Trace
Nov
14
Film Screening: Lola Rennt
Nov
14
Reading by Guy Maddin and Caryl Phillips
Nov
15
I can’t go on, I’ll go on. The Problem of Narrative Continuity in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
Nov
15
Political Philosophy Colloquium: Jonathan Quong
Nov
15
Classics As Crime Fiction. A Conversation with Caesar, Labienus, and Polybius
Nov
15
French Ecocriticism and Ecological Thought
Nov
15
Wartime Intimacies: Interracial Encounters and Postcolonial Imaginaries on the Western Front, 1915-1919
Nov
15
On State and Stateless Imaginations
Nov
15
Being Human Festival 2018: Studying the Past by Digging in the Dirt
Nov
15
Conversation with Journalist and Author Naomi Klein
Nov
15
Space, Place, and Accommodation: Herman Hertzberger
Nov
15
Princeton University Press Poets: Austin Smith and Dora Malech
Nov
16
The God Behind the Marble: Transcendence and the Art Object in the German Aesthetic State, 1794–1848
Nov
16
Design and Contestation in the Jewish Settlement of Hebron
Nov
17
Out of Bounds: Exploring the Limits of Medieval Art
Nov
19
Domestic, Houses & Landscapes: Selections from the Work of Catherine Opie
Nov
19
A Documentary Puzzle: A Message in Arabic Script from Kentucky in 1807
Nov
19
Many Chineses, Many Englishes
Nov
19
Constructing a Musical Phrase from the Ground Up
Nov
19
Poetry Reading: Alice Notley
Nov
26
Courtly Identities in Mamluk Egypt: Law, Gender, and Theology in the majālis of Sultan Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 1501–1516)
Nov
26
Can We Build a Better Society?
Nov
26
Being Human Festival 2018: Paper-cutting with Dan Landau
Nov
27
Studying Concubinage: Gender and Sources Across the Mediterranean
Nov
27
Rebooting Jewish Television: “Transparent,” Streaming Media, and Foundation-Backed Culture
Nov
27
Human Scale: Utopia in the Era of Climate Change
Nov
27
M+M: Lucia Allais: Designs of Destruction
Nov
28
Long Nineteenth Century Workshop
Nov
28
The President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power and the Constitution
Nov
28
Environmental Humanities Colloquium: Gavin Steingo
Nov
28
Eavesdropping on the Perfected: Reading the Zhengao 真誥
Nov
28
Profiles in Distinguished Teaching with Eduardo Cadava
Nov
28
Alternative Ways of Seeing language: Translanguaging and Metrolingualism
Nov
28
Tamsen Wolff: Juno’s Swans — a Novel
Nov
28
VIS Fall Film Series: Desiree Akhavan, The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Nov
29
Applied Historical and Corpus Linguistics
Nov
29
Exhausted Speculations and the Crisis of Futurity
Nov
29
Talisman-images Gather the Cosmos and Press it to Your Body
Nov
29
The President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power at Home and Abroad
Nov
29
Reading Matters Conference: Film Screening and Discussion
Nov
29
Fake Friends: A Symposium on Art History and Comparison
Nov
29
Artist Talk: Alexis Rockman
Nov
29
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
Nov
30
Reading Matters Conference: Presentations I
Nov
30
Environmental Perspectives on Nature’s Nation
Nov
30
Being Human Festival 2018: Slavery in Princeton and Brazil
Dec
1
Reading Matters Conference: Presentations II
Dec
1
Schubertiade: An Evening of Song, Stories, and Philosophy
Dec
1
A Conversation About Art, Education, and Social Change in Latin America
Dec
2
Quartet 212 with Mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo
Dec
3
Jazz Vocal Improvisation Ensemble
Dec
3
Bringing Home Here: Seed-Saving and Immigrant Foodways in the United States
Dec
3
Translating Contemporary Korean Literature: “High-context” to “Low-context” Translation
Dec
3
Girlhood translated? Fénelon’s Traité de l’éducation des filles (1687) as a Text of Egyptian Modernity (1901, 1909)
Dec
3
Balm in Gilead: Memory, Mourning and Healing in Afro-American Autobiography
Dec
3
Quanto Basta
Dec
4
Tropical Unconscious: An Anthropology of the Mosquito in Latin America
Dec
4
Being of Two Minds: Plotinus’ Account of Psychological Conflict in Ennead 4.3.31
Dec
4
‘Like Unbridled Horses’ Cypriot Nobles in the Regno Di Cipro and La Serenissima
Dec
4
The Jewish Political Tradition
Dec
4
Early Music Princeton
Dec
5
Meaning in Context
Dec
5
Translating Antiquity
Dec
5
The Ethics and Politics of Teaching
Dec
5
Ira W. DeCamp Bioethics Seminars: Eric Mathison
Dec
5
Cities in Turmoil: The 1960s in India/Indonesia
Dec
5
The Mao Badge Fad: How a State-Supported Consumer Fad undermined a Revolution
Dec
5
País Portátil II: Venezuela’s Migration Crisis
Dec
5
Jazz Small Groups in Concert
Dec
6
The Bigger Picture: A History and Theory of Expanded Views
Dec
6
How Do You Solve a ‘Problem’ Like Madea? Re/Reading Tyler Perry
Dec
6
Entropy and Constructed Worlds: Paul Kammerer’s ‘Law of the Series’
Dec
6
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Dec
6
Rethinking the Structure and Typology of Liturgical Texts from Dunhuang
Dec
6
A Discussion with Vicky Chow
Dec
6
Being Human Festival 2018: Examining an Agricultural Nation’s Nature
Dec
6
Princeton University Orchestra
Dec
7
Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective (Day 1)
Dec
7
Memories of Violence: From Heretics to Martyrs in Sixth-Century Syria
Dec
7
Hyperion Has Stumbled
Dec
7
Reading by Julian Talamantez Brolaski and Seniors From theProgram in Creating Writing
Dec
7
Princeton University Orchestra
Dec
8
Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective (Day 2)
Dec
8
Sixth International Symposium on the Music of Africa
Dec
9
Out of the Deep: Basso Profundo
Dec
10
Translation for Monolinguals
Dec
10
Reimagining the Reconquista: Problems in the Arabic Historiography of al-Andalus
Dec
10
Musicology Colloquium: Ellen Harris
Dec
10
Revisiting Handel’s Chamber Cantatas
Dec
11
The Politics of Resistance to Criminal Victimization
Dec
11
A Conversation with Naomi Klein
Dec
11
The Age of ‘Amok’
Dec
11
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
Dec
11
Fred McDarrah: New York Scenes
Dec
11
Princeton University Sinfonia
Dec
12
Signed, Sealed, and Undelivered: The Voyage of the Santa Catharina and a Global Microhistory of Trade and Politics in the Indian Ocean, 1739-1748
Dec
12
Long Nineteenth Century Workshop
Dec
12
Reading The Future Through Property And Pensions
Dec
12
Reading by Students From the Program in Creative Writing
Dec
12
As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Sermon
Dec
13
PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress: Ingrid Brioso Rieumont and Benjamin Murphy
Dec
13
Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America
Dec
13
Martin Fröst, Clarinet and Henrik Måwe, Piano
Dec
18
Hazards of Time Travel: A Novel
Jan
17
The Nassau Literary Review Winter 2019 Launch Party
Feb
4
Sharia Ethnography
Feb
4
VAULTS BEDS GARDENS: Public Hedonics and Alternative Publicness
Feb
4
Translating the Odyssey Again: How and Why, With Emily Wilson
Feb
6
Así No (Not Like This): Resisting Postpolitics on Mexico City’s Avenida Chapultepec
Feb
6
Mellon Forum: Settlement / Camp
Feb
6
The Ritual Economy at Consecratory Festivals in Late Antiquity
Feb
6
Book Talk and Screenings: Bernard Haykel on The Looming Tower
Feb
7
Faber Lecture: Saidiya Hartman
Feb
7
Lecture Series: Fosbury Architecture
Feb
7
Blinded by the Spotlight: Celebrity in American Culture—A Newsmaker Dinner with Landon Jones
Feb
8
Trading Objecthood: Global Business and the Language of Natural History in the Long Nineteenth Century
Feb
8
Time Capsule, 1970: Robert Rauschenberg’s Currents
Feb
8
I Was the Voice of Democracy
Feb
11
Teaching With Data: Digital Humanities in the Classroom
Feb
11
Faculty Workshop – Teaching Body & Identity with Art Museum Collections
Feb
11
The West: A New History: A conversation with David Bell and Tony Grafton
Feb
11
Blemishes and Burdens: Jewish Daughters of Iraq
Feb
11
Re-Thinking Ideology: A Practice-Theoretical Account
Feb
11
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide
Feb
12
ECS Faber Lecture: Francesca Trivellato
Feb
13
Rubí Carreño Bolívar: Cucurrucucú Paloma: Pájaros y Flores en las Letras y Canciones Chilenas, Una Perspectiva de Género
Feb
13
Simon Gikandi: On Art and Suffering
Feb
13
Gillett Griffin Memorial Lecture: Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century
Feb
14
Black Poetry: A Gala Reading
Feb
15
Black Poetry: A Conference
Feb
15
Politics at the Crossroads—A Newsmaker Lunch Conversation with Mara Liasson
Feb
15
Symposium — Japanese/America: Transpacific and Hemispheric
Feb
15
Book Talk: Explain Me This
Feb
15
Conversation with Poet and Playwright Lemn Sissay
Feb
15
Architecture, Ornament and the Qur’an Fragments from the Mosque of San’a’ in Yemen
Feb
15
Library Music Live: Songs from Mendel Music Library
Feb
16
The Place of Concepts: A Roundtable
Feb
18
Reading Palestinian Agency in Mandate History: The Buraq Revolt as Indigenous Resistance
Feb
18
Disquiets of Working in Colonial Field: The Affective Space of Archives
Feb
19
Building Safavid Isfahan—with Magic: Shaykh Baha’i as Architect-Mage
Feb
19
Not Just for the Church: Laypeople’s Use of Documents in the Carolingian Era
Feb
19
The U.S.and the Middle East: Where to Now?
Feb
19
The Operations of Culture
Feb
19
Open Archive: Drafting Princeton
Feb
20
CANCELLED: Brief Domestic Archaeology of Deportation
Feb
20
Postclassicisms 2018-1019: Translating Antiquity
Feb
20
Doubly conditioned phonology in Cophonologies by Phase
Feb
20
Rescheduled: Sean Wilentz: The Politics of Early American Abolitionism
Feb
20
CANCELLED: An Evening with Pascal Rambert
Feb
20
The Public Performance of Justice: The Transcultural Career of an Early Chinese Political Installation Across Eurasia
Feb
21
Migration and the Question of Dignity
Feb
21
How German Communists Invented French Radical Photography: Regards and Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung (1928-1936)
Feb
21
Gallery Talk: The Importance of Place in Japanese Art
Feb
21
Book Talk: Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions
Feb
22
10th Annual Princeton-Rutgers Victorian Symposium
Feb
22
C.K. Williams Reading Series: Tina Chang
Feb
23
Gainsborough’s Family Album Opening Celebration
Feb
25
At the Crossroads of Cultures
Feb
26
Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities: Art, Literature and Urban Spaces
Feb
26
Hark: A Novel
Feb
27
Fred Moten: Gauss Seminars in Criticism
Feb
27
Book Talk: Walter Kaufman: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic
Feb
28
Poetry, Mind & Action: What is a Poem?
Feb
28
Book Talk: Said I Wasn’t Gonna Tell Nobody
Mar
1
Structuralism and Skepticism
Mar
1
Francis Bacon: Philosophy, Gender and Law
Mar
1
Les Agréments de Musique: “La Vie Musicale en Nouvelle-France”
Mar
4
Mellon Forum: Settler Colonial Urbanism: From Waawiyaataanong to Detroit at Little Caesars Arena
Mar
4
RESCHEDULED: From Mandate to State: Israel’s Planning vis-a-vis Its Future Arab Citizens, 1947-1948
Mar
4
Poetry, Mind & Action: What is a Person?
Mar
4
The Ghost of Pacificus of Verona. Correctio and Emendatio as a Political Agenda North and South of the Alps
Mar
4
Free Speech: A View From Europe
Mar
5
Private Charters and the Making of Local Communities in Early Medieval Tuscany
Mar
5
Starry Skies, Awful Hieroglyphs, and Eternal Silence: Philosophical Lyricism in Anna Karenina
Mar
5
Book Talk: Ornamentalism
Mar
6
Downward Spiral: El Helicoide’s Descent from Mall to Prison
Mar
6
Poetry, Mind & Action: How to Know Everything
Mar
6
How Early Medieval Culture Was Built With Late-Antique Bricks: Scripts, and Books, Between Ravenna, Verona and Bobbio
Mar
6
Redefining Old Nassau: Women and the Shaping of Modern Princeton
Mar
7
Queer Marxism Workshop
Mar
7
“Fake News” and Real Threats: Accountability Journalism in the Era of Trump
Mar
7
Co-Constructing Embodiment in Avant-Garde Québécois Circus
Mar
7
Political Philosophy Colloquium: Rainer Forst
Mar
7
Musical Meaning after Aristotle
Mar
7
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Kandice Chuh
Mar
7
Migration and Human Dignity from Genesis to the Present: A Contrarian View
Mar
7
Refuge for the Homeless: Adorno, Jazz, and Black Dwelling
Mar
7
The Postcolonial Moment: Anxious Constitution-Making
Mar
7
Book Talk: Screw Consent: A Better Politics of Sexual Justice
Mar
8
Explain Me This
Mar
8
The Myth of Paternity: James Joyce and his Father
Mar
8
The Odyssey
Mar
9
The Odyssey
Mar
10
The Odyssey
Mar
11
The Challenges and Joys of Translating from Classical Ethiopic: The Curious Case of the Kəbra Nagaśt, A Northeast African Retelling of the Solomon and Sheba Story
Mar
11
Philosophy of Language before the Tenth Century: al-Kindī on Ambiguity
Mar
11
Sprachgewalt – Luthers Lust an Paradoxien (Die Heidelberger Disputatio)
Mar
11
The Princeton Garrett 6 Evangelists Revisited
Mar
12
Profiles in Innovative Teaching: Katie Chenoweth
Mar
12
Long Nineteenth Century Workshop
Mar
12
The Guest’s View: Objectivity, Disposability, and Ann Hui’s Cinema
Mar
12
Of Remorseless Cannibals and Loving Scribes
Mar
12
Disquiets of Working in Colonial Field: The Affective Space of Archives
Mar
12
“Greek To Me”: Making Form Out of Chaos
Mar
12
The Taiwan Expedition: New Perspectives on Japanese Imperialism and the Meiji Restoration
Mar
12
Book Talk: Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom
Mar
12
Book Talk: Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974
Mar
13
Decolonize the Museum: Utopia?
Mar
13
From Rehearsal to Simulation
Mar
13
Postclassicisms 2018-19: Translating Antiquity
Mar
13
Subjects Put to the Test. Learning Exercises in Contemporary Art
Mar
13
Michael Flower: Seven Types of Fiction in Historical Narrative: Or, Why You Cannot Trust Herodotus or Thucydides
Mar
13
Old English Scribbles: The Intersection of Materiality and Performativity
Mar
13
The Yiddish Columbus: Critical Counter-History and the Remapping of American Jewish Literature
Mar
14
The Feminist Porn Wars: A Retrospective
Mar
14
The Holocaust and the Nakba
Mar
14
Black Feminisms Across the Americas: A Tribute to Political Activist Marielle Franco
Mar
14
Changes in Manet’s Paintings
Mar
14
I Racconti Delle Nebbie
Mar
15
Habitually Unsettled: Opera Studies and Opera Staging Today
Mar
15
Excavations at a Forgotten Female Pharaoh’s “Temple of Millions of Years”
Mar
16
Workshop on Contemporary Russian Poetry
Mar
18
Conference on Comparative Ancient Philosophy
Mar
18
Person Place Thing: Live Interview with Elaine Pagels
Mar
25
Rare Books & Special Collections Discussion with Anne Waldman
Mar
25
Carl G. Hempel Lectures: Ideology in Practice
Mar
25
Fugitive Mirror
Mar
25
Octagonal Churches and Their Functions in Late Antiquity
Mar
25
A Reading with Anne Waldman
Mar
26
From Chaos to Chaos: Janus’ Speech in Fasti 1 and the Gates of War
Mar
26
Migration, Journalism, and the Question of Representation: Panel Discussion
Mar
26
From Grand Ambitions to Failure: America’s Mideast Wars Since 2001
Mar
26
Brown Matter, Noisy Flesh
Mar
26
M+M: Liz Diller: On “The Mile-Long Opera: A Biography of 7 o’clock”
Mar
26
Book Talk: War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Idea in Western and Islamic Thought
Mar
27
Mellon Forum: Indigenous Resistance and Anti-Colonial Critique of Environmental Justice
Mar
27
Virtual Reality and the Feeling of Virtue: Women of Color Narrators, Enforced Hospitality, and the Leveraging of Empathy
Mar
27
Frankenstein, Ethics, and Teaching Across the Disciplines
Mar
27
Albums of Ordinary Faces: The Practice of Portrait Painting in Late Imperial China
Mar
27
Victorians, Obviously
Mar
27
Shariah at the University
Mar
27
The Changing State Of Journalism In Greece
Mar
27
Mendel Night at the Opera
Mar
28
Carl G. Hempel Lectures: Conceptual Amelioration: Going On, Not in the Same Way
Mar
28
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Janelle Wong
Mar
28
Migration, Journalism, and the Question of Representation: Panel Discussion
Mar
28
Blindspotting, Gender, and China’s Revolutions
Mar
28
Human Archipelago: A Conversation with Teju Cole and Fazal Sheikh
Mar
29
The Filologos and the Antiquarius
Mar
29
Love and Survival: Aspiration and Yearning in South Asian Anthropology
Mar
29
Carl G. Hempel Lectures: Critical Standpoints and the Epistemology of Injustice
Mar
29
Irish Emigrant Girls in New York
Mar
29
Was It Frost? The Little Ice Age, Local Gazetteers and the Fall of the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368)
Apr
1
Queer Procreation: Reading Kleist Plantwise
Apr
1
Reimagining the World: The Gospel of Mary
Apr
1
The Mystery of Ehon Ōshukubai (Philadelphia, 1855)
Apr
2
Problems With Practice
Apr
2
History as Form: Wayward Textbooks
Apr
2
Reconfiguring Kinship and Knowledge, c.1500
Apr
2
Mexican Votives Across Time and Space
Apr
2
Sean Wilentz: The Politics of Early American Abolitionism
Apr
2
Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century
Apr
2
M+M: Erin Edwards: Sutures and Grooves: Modernist Skull Media and the Sounding of the Human
Apr
3
Teaching on Poverty and Inequality
Apr
3
Poetry in the Public Sphere in Republican Mexico: A Reading of Ignacio Ramírez
Apr
3
Book Talk: The Crucified Christ in Everyday Life
Apr
3
At the Crossroads of Magic and Anti-Magical Discourse: The Classification of Ritual in a Late-Antique Coptic Codex (Leiden, Ms. AMS 9)
Apr
3
Manifesting America in the Colorado Beet Fields
Apr
3
Death in Edo: Hayashi Razan between Japan, China, and Korea
Apr
3
A Colloquium on Style
Apr
3
Careers in Arts – alumni panel discussion for students only
Apr
3
Faber Lecture: Only in Naples
Apr
4
Conference: Indigenous/Settler
Apr
4
Land as Relationship
Apr
4
Keep the Damned Women Out: Lunch and Conversation with Nancy Weiss Malkiel
Apr
4
Art and Global Psychological Modernity
Apr
4
Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States
Apr
4
ECS Workshop — Staging a Staging: Patrice Chéreau’s production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte and the Problem(s) of Operatic Verisimilitude
Apr
5
Princeton Symposium on Syntactic Theory
Apr
5
Princeton Phonology Forum
Apr
5
HOPE: A Colloquium
Apr
5
Mapping Spectral Cities
Apr
5
Philosophy Colloquium: Incompleteness and Dynamic Consistency
Apr
5
No Woman’s Land: A 1929 Expedition to Mount Athos and Meteora
Apr
7
Reality Rounds – an autotune choir
Apr
8
Between English and Nihongo: The Poetics of Living and Writing between Languages
Apr
8
The Gold of the Steppe-Rulers: the Treasure of Nagyszentmiklós (ca. 700 – 820 CE)
Apr
8
On Reelecting Monolingualism
Apr
8
Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work
Apr
9
The Archaeology of the European Steppe: Huns, Avars, and Other Bad Europeans
Apr
9
The Swedish-led Gendarmerie in Persia 1911-1916 State Building and Internal Colonization
Apr
9
A Hebrew Renaissance in 10th Century Egypt: The Mystery of the Earliest Medieval Jewish Documents
Apr
9
Literary Stories of Migration
Apr
9
The Problem of Speech’s Presence in Late Ancient Christianity
Apr
9
The Future of Black Studies (In Theory)
Apr
9
M+M: Documenting the Disaster: On Philip Scheffner’s “Havarie (2016)”
Apr
9
ECS workshop – The Right of Languages: Justice, Translatability, and Multilingualism
Apr
9
Days & Days: Poems and Kill Class: Poems
Apr
10
Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans
Apr
10
Postclassicisms 2018-19: Translating Antiquity
Apr
10
Ecology of Images: Becomology and Multiplicities
Apr
10
The Black Sphinxes of Tanis
Apr
10
Literary Style and Theological Substance in the Homilies of Sophronios of Jerusalem
Apr
10
Transcribir: Self-Translation in U.S. Latinx Poetry
Apr
10
First-Person Illness Narratives in Early Medieval China: Autobiography, Correspondence, Poetry
Apr
11
Is This Not the Beginning of a Change?: Chernyshevsky, His Time & His Legacy
Apr
11
Both Sides Now: Writing Contradictory Books on the Same Subject
Apr
11
Piranesi’s Colossal Candelabra, Totem Poles and Other Varieties of Zoomorphism in the Age of Neoclassicism
Apr
11
She Came Anyway: Graduate Women and the Shaping of Modern Princeton
Apr
11
Innovative Pedagogical Approaches to Postcolonial Humanities
Apr
11
ECS workshop: Marionettes, Mechanics, and Artificial Nature: Robert Lepage’s Production of Stravinsky’s Nightingale
Apr
12
Honoring the Past; Preparing for the Future: Celebrating 50 years of Teacher Preparation
Apr
12
Machines Through the Ages / Machines à Travers les Âges
Apr
12
BIM Incubator Architechnopoetic Workshops
Apr
12
Building Bridges With Data
Apr
12
A Mother Brings Her Son to be Shot
Apr
12
Philosophy Colloquium: From Metaphysical Principles to Dynamical Laws
Apr
13
An Evening of Beethoven
Apr
14
Literary Stories of Migration: The Migration Plays
Apr
15
The Star of Piercing Brightness: The Proliferation of Encounters with the Hidden Imam in Late 19th Century Iran and Iraq
Apr
15
Film Screening: Carnal Orient
Apr
15
Conference: Prison Education and Engaged Scholarship
Apr
15
Art and its Institutions: A View from London’s Somerset House
Apr
16
Scribal Illuminators and the Making of Middle English Literature
Apr
16
The Politics of the Swarm
Apr
16
Triangle of Tensions: The U.S., Russia, and Israel
Apr
16
Book Talk: Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy’s Turning Point
Apr
17
Radical Women, an Instersectional Without Separability Perspective
Apr
17
Materials of Communication: Media and Exchange in Byzantium and the West
Apr
17
Mellon Forum: Architecture of Migration
Apr
17
People on the Margins: Photographic and Filmed Representations of Roma and Sinti in Italy
Apr
17
The Psychic of Necropower in “The Walking Dead” and “Zone One”
Apr
17
Dedicated de se and complement type: an argument against Uniformity
Apr
17
The Building Industry of Imperial Rome
Apr
18
Cultural and Gendered Sources of Soldier Motivation and Moral in the Ottoman First World War
Apr
18
CANCELLED: Race, Gender, and the Law
Apr
19
Matters of State: Bureaucracy, Procedure, and Power in South Asia
Apr
20
Anger: A Concept of the Moment
Apr
22
Mellon Forum: Migration Detention, Incarceration, and the Spatial Imagination
Apr
22
Algeria: The Struggle for Independence
Apr
22
The Form of the Sonnet: Petrarch, Schlegel, Pastior
Apr
22
The Curious Case of Coronado’s Shields: Towards a Pueblo Iconology on the Eve of Spanish Colonialism
Apr
23
A Sensory Reading of Generational Memory in Iran
Apr
23
Young Russia: The National Image in its Colorful Life
Apr
23
The World as It Is
Apr
23
Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left
Apr
23
M+M: Program in Media and Modernity Doctoral Colloquium
Apr
23
Troublemakers: A Philosophy of Puer Robustus
Apr
23
“On the Front Line” Screening to Benefit Gorongosa National Park
Apr
23
Screening and Discussion: The Chinese Exclusion Act
Apr
24
The Dash — The Other Side of Absolute Knowing
Apr
24
Mellon Forum: Underground Jerusalem: On the Relentless Modernization of the Jewish Past
Apr
24
An Evening with Pascal Rambert
Apr
24
The Genres of Slavery
Apr
24
Shrines to Living Men in the Ming: Out-takes and Inside Stories
Apr
24
Lumpendialectic
Apr
24
Sounds of Migration: Listening to Filipino Caregivers in America
Apr
24
Book Talk: Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells
Apr
24
Open Archive: Princeton’s Civil War
Apr
25
Colloquium: Climate, Environment and Migration in Historical Perspective
Apr
25
PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress: Yangyou Fang & Elisa Klüger
Apr
25
Of Stigmatology: Towards a General Theory of Punctuation
Apr
25
Catching Fire: Global Carbonization and the Making of the Middle East
Apr
25
Religion in China: Back to the Center of Politics and Society
Apr
25
Book Talk: Handsomely Done: Aesthetics, Politics, and Media After Melville
Apr
25
The Artist in Society: Gustavo Dudamel in conversation with Fintan O’Toole
Apr
26
Writing Insurgencies with José Rabasa
Apr
26
Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere: Historical and Normative Perspectives
Apr
26
Annual Medieval Studies Colloquium
Apr
26
Firestone Library Renovation Completion Open House
Apr
26
Plurilinguisme et Créativité au Canada Francophone: Approche Critique des Phénomènes Langagiers
Apr
26
Natalie Zemon Davis Workshop
Apr
26
Philosophy Colloquium: Seeing Through the Clouds
Apr
27
Arts as Resistance: Nassau Literary Review’s Sixth Annual Intercollegiate Literary Conference
Apr
28
Legendary Characters: Attribution and Personhood in Ancient Judaism
Apr
29
From Mandate to State: Israel’s Planning vis-a-vis Its Future Arab Citizens, 1947-1948
Apr
29
Freud and the Psychic Scene
Apr
29
Piranesi Works on Paper
Apr
29
The Three Cities of Dio Chrysostom: Conflict and Utopia in the Roman East
Apr
29
Language in Late Capitalism: Commodification and the Commons
Apr
29
The Real Reason for Refugees: A Lecture
Apr
29
Book Talk: Why Religion? A Personal Story
Apr
30
Before and After the Cinematic Turn: Passages de l’image, 1990
Apr
30
Carl E. Schorske Memorial Lecture: Josephine Meckseper
Apr
30
Pais Portátil III: Re-thinking the State: Criminal Organizations and Militarized Violence in Venezuela
Apr
30
The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy
Apr
30
M+M: New Media – New Formats Roundtable
May
1
The Trouble with Wagner…Continued
May
1
Kant’s Conception of Religion
May
1
Postclassicisms 2018-19: Translating Antiquity
May
1
Film Screening and Roundtable: Josephine Meckseper, PELLEA[S] (2017-18)
May
1
Earthlings Against Latour! or: Problems of Political Agency in the Anthropocene
May
1
Ecologies of Migrant Care in the Americas: Documenting Movements, Voices, and Struggles Across Borders
May
1
The Greek Revolution from the Italian Shores
May
2
What is Asian American Marxism?
May
2
No Woman’s Land: A 1929 Expedition to Mount Athos and Meteora
May
2
Iran and Europe: Towards a New Transatlantic Paradigm?
May
2
Cold War and the Chinese Revolution: The Rise and Fall of “May Fourth Studies” in the U.S.
May
2
Reading: Third Annual Workshop in Literary Translation (Greek to English)
May
3
Rome, Byzantium, and the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo: Imitation, Reinvention, or Strategic Adoption?
May
3
Eleventh International Graduate Student Conference in Modern Greek Studies
May
3
Early/Modern Color: Masquerades and Make Overs
May
3
On Nonhuman Sound: Sound as Relation
May
3
Anne Enright: A Reading
May
3
Concert: “Let Me Tell You A Story”
May
4
Conference: The Ties That Divide Us
May
6
Public Lands, Private Hands: Exploration and Exploitation of the American West
May
6
Film Forum: The City Without Jews (1924)
May
7
Exposure: The Intersection Between People and Place
May
7
Book Talk: Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna
May
8
Book Talk: A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter
May
9
After the Backlash: Reconsidering the Ethics, Politics, and Law of Borders and Migration
May
9
Transformations: A Conference for Leonard Barkan
May
9
Princeton Research Day 2019
May
9
Symposium: Necessary to Form a Lawyer
May
10
Histories of Sexuality and Erudition: Institutions, Texts, Practices
May
10
Ērānšahr in Transition-West and Central Asia Between the Sasanians and Islam, 600-750 CE
May
13
Medical Humanities Fair
May
14
Poetry Reading: Deep Breaths by Mi Jialu
May
16
The Roman Republic in the Long Fourth Century
May
16
Book Talk: Strawberry Fields: A Novel
May
17
Original Thoughts
May
17
Moving Under Pressure in an Age of War and Revolution, 1750-1830
May
17
Songs from Cyprus
May
23
The Fall of Zalam
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