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Events Archive: 2019/20

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Jun
11
The Justinianic Plague: Apocalypse or Overblown?
Jun
8
Race in the COVID Era: What America’s History of Racism and Xenophobia Means for Today
Jun
4
Avoiding Plague like the Plague: Some Pathogenic Context for Late Antique Pandemics
May
29
Conversation with a Theater Maker: Kimber Lee
May
28
An Art Historical Tasting: Food and Drink in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art
May
28
Reunions Lecture: Architecture as Art or Science at the End of the 18th Century: the Case of Jean-Jacques Lequeu’s Graphic Work
May
28
The ‘Plague of Cyprian’: Sources, Problems, Origins and the ‘Crisis of the Third Century’
May
25
Gender Crossings in the American Musical
May
22
Conversation with a Theater Maker: Anne Kauffman
May
22
New Theories on the Oldest American Woodcut: The Portrait of Richard Mather by John Foster, ca. 1670
May
22
Book Talk: Tehrangeles Dreaming
May
21
Contemporary Conversations: Artistic Practice in Response to the Present
May
21
Plague: From the Late Neolithic to the Black Death
May
20
Book Talk: Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe
May
20
The (so-called) Trenton Project Presents: Individually, Together
May
20
Princeton Livestock Exchange: Claire Chase
May
16
Princeton Livestock Exchange: AND (Aliya Ultan and Daniel Ivan Bruno)
May
15
Newspaper Navigator: Reimagining Digitized Newspapers with Machine Learning
May
14
The Female Gaze: LIFE Magazine, Gender, and World War II
May
14
Multimodal Pedagogy in the Italian Language Classroom
May
14
The Story of Pandemics in Scholarship and Popular Culture, 1890-2020
May
14
Public Humanities Working Group: The Public Humanities at Princeton
May
13
LAO Movie Screening
May
13
Book Talk: Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
May
13
Princeton Livestock Exchange: Casey Driessen
May
13
Research in Gender and Sexuality Studies with PUL Primary Materials
May
12
Book Talk: Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe
May
12
The Forgotten War: Yemen’s Regional Crisis in the Midst of a Global Pandemic
May
8
Pandemic, Creating a Usable Past: Epidemic History, COVID-19, and the Future of Health
May
7
Art Making | Drawing Contemplation and Reflection
May
7
Book Talk: How to be a Bad Emperor
May
7
The Museum, Citizenship, and the Post-Coronavirus Age
May
7
Cocktails & Conversations – “Babylon Berlin”
May
7
La Fontaine’s, “Les Animaux malades de la peste”
May
7
The Fate of Internationalism: Talking Solidarity in a Pandemic
May
7
Program in Journalism Senior Colloquium
May
7
Conference: Language and Migration: Experience and Memory
May
6
Pandemic and Chaos: Where to Next, Brazil?
May
6
‘They Were Amazed by What She Said’: Morisca Resistance in Early Modern Granada
May
5
CANCELED: Book Talk: Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
May
5
CANCELED: Medieval Studies Faculty Colloquium
May
5
Princeton Research Day 2020
May
1
Conversation with a Theater Maker
May
1
CANCELED: Drawing Lines Through Rivers and Towns: A History of Axiomatics
May
1
Teaching and Discussing Race, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism with Intentional Action in Different Classics Classrooms
Apr
30
Art Making | Drawing Interior Spaces
Apr
30
The Princeton Livestock Exchange Presents: Dan Tepfer
Apr
30
The Redemptive Power of Architecture
Apr
30
The Sounds of Jewish Prayer
Apr
30
CANCELED: Samurai’s Oath in Medieval Japan: From Princeton University Collection
Apr
30
(In)visibilities, Omissions and Discoveries: Archival Absences in Life Magazine and Beyond
Apr
30
The Body as Social Sculpture
Apr
30
CANCELED: Leibniz on Continuity, between Euclid and Dedekind
Apr
29
LAO Movie Screenings
Apr
29
CANCELED: Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Min Jin Lee and Parul Sehgal
Apr
29
CANCELED: IHUM Faber Lecture: Encumbrance
Apr
28
CANCELED: Ciné-Club Presents: Level Five
Apr
28
CANCELED: Magie Lecture: Josiah Ober
Apr
28
CANCELED: Neque mare viderunt, neque diagrammata: Picturing Space in Modern Geometry
Apr
25
CANCELED: Revisiting the Common Ground
Apr
24
CANCELED: The Minoan House of the Frescoes at Knossos: The Life and Afterlife of an Excavation
Apr
24
LAO Movie Screening
Apr
24
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: American Contact: Intercultural Encounter and the History of the Book
Apr
23
Book Talk: Arts of Dying: Literature and Finitude in Medieval England
Apr
23
Subversive Voices of Twenty-First Century Italy
Apr
23
CANCELED: Surveying the Museum: Tom Lloyd, Black Study, and the Art Workers’ Coalition
Apr
22
LIFE Magazine’s Photojournalism and the American Century?
Apr
22
Covid-19 and Amazonia’s Future
Apr
22
CANCELED: Faber Lecture: The Art and Nature of Glass: A Material in the History of Knowledge
Apr
22
Faber Lecture: The Italian Cinema of the New Millennium: The Case of La Grande Bellezza
Apr
22
VIRTUAL: Information Management in Early Modern China: The Grand Secretariat and Its Clerks, ca. 1700-1800
Apr
21
Book Talk: The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
Apr
21
Internal Inequalities: Taxpayers, Taxation and Expenditure in a Composite Colonial State, c. 1890-1937
Apr
20
PLOrk in Quarantine
Apr
20
VIRTUAL: Mellon Forum: Home
Apr
17
VIRTUAL: African Summit at Princeton
Apr
17
Writing the Region: Knowledge, Practice, and Power in South Asia
Apr
16
VIRTUAL: The Social Networks of Antiquities Collectors in Northern-Song China: An Experiment in Digital Humanities
Apr
16
Masterclass with Lawrence Zazzo, Countertenor
Apr
16
VIRTUAL: Public Works and Private Capital: A New Appraisal of Interstate Highway Financing in 1950s America
Apr
15
Countertenor and Early Music Princeton
Apr
15
VIRTUAL: Structuring Spontaneity: The Twilight of Anarchist Organization in Spain and Italy, c. 1917-1923
Apr
14
CANCELED: Ciné-Club Presents: La Planète Sauvage (1973)
Apr
14
Rich Bride Poor Bride: Two Trousseau Lists from the Cairo Geniza
Apr
14
VIRTUAL: Mellon Forum: Citizenship
Apr
14
VIRTUAL: Forced Womanhood!
Apr
13
POSTPONED: Princeton Environmental Film Festival: Wyeth
Apr
13
POSTPONED: A Queer, Queer Race: Origins for Japanese/American Literature
Apr
12
POSTPONED: ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch
Apr
12
POSTPONED: Princeton Environmental Film Festival: All The Time in the World
Apr
9
VIRTUAL: The Making of HBO’s Chernobyl: A Conversation with Writer/Producer Craig Mazin ’92
Apr
9
VIRTUAL: Reflecting on Boccaccio’s Decameron (The Frame Tale)
Apr
9
VIRTUAL: Statesmanship in Times of Crisis: Robert P. George in Conversation with Allen C. Guelzo
Apr
9
CANCELED: Bacchae in Relief: Wole Soyinka and the Greeks
Apr
9
POSTPONED: Princeton Environmental Film Festival: Patrimonio
Apr
9
VIRTUAL: Mellon Forum: Disability
Apr
8
POSTPONED: Princeton Environmental Film Festival: Free Solo
Apr
8
CANCELED: The Netherlands: Culture and Global History, 1500-1700
Apr
8
CANCELED: Long Live Fashion, Down with Art: Surrealism in the Department Store
Apr
7
VIRTUAL: Covid-19 in Brazil Today: Reckoning with the Pandemic in the Global South
Apr
7
CANCELED: Medieval Studies Faber Lecture: Fred Donner
Apr
7
VIRTUAL: Pre-Modern Pandemics in History, Science, and Popular Media
Apr
7
The Nobodies of Medieval Latin Literature
Apr
6
CANCELED: Structuring Spontaneity: The Twilight of Anarchist Organization in Spain and Italy, c. 1917-1923
Apr
6
VIRTUAL: LAO Lunch: Online Learning Check-in
Apr
3
POSTPONED: Political Values | Market Values | Art Values | The Ethics of American Art in the 1980s Conference
Apr
2
CANCELED: A Reading by Kevin Barry
Apr
2
CANCELED: The Limits of Legibility: Experiments in Writing Chinese
Apr
2
CANCELED: Seeing America From a Distance
Apr
1
CANCELED: The Body as Social Sculpture
Mar
31
CANCELED: Ciné-Club Presents: Selected Silent Films
Mar
31
CANCELED: Mendel Music Library Presents: Dialogues des Carmélites
Mar
31
CANCELED: Conversation with Georgia Stitt
Mar
30
VIRTUAL: Only the Clothes on Her Back: Law, Textiles, and Commerce in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Mar
29
CANCELED: Concert: the Fate of Bones
Mar
28
POSTPONED: The Antislavery Moment: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Origins of the Abolitionist Impulse
Mar
27
CANCELED: Reading by Hala Alyan and Program in Creative Writing Students
Mar
27
CANCELED: Euphrates Soundscapes
Mar
27
CANCELED: Powers as Sources of Change in Aristotle
Mar
27
CANCELED: Silence: 5th Annual French and Italian Graduate Conference
Mar
26
CANCELED: New Imaginings: Storytelling, Science and Activism
Mar
26
CANCELED: Music from an Elliptical Orbit: Tunes, Tuning, and the Gravitational Pull?
Mar
26
POSTPONED: “Vale poco” [of little value], a Forgotten Spanish-Chinese Dictionary in a Manila Archive
Mar
26
CANCELED: Securitas: Embodied Concept
Mar
26
POSTPONED: The Stuff of Memory: Soviet War Memorials and the Political Economy of Building Materials and Sculptural Labor
Mar
25
CANCELED: Renaissance Heraldry in Venetian Cyprus and the Greek Cathedral of Nicosia
Mar
25
CANCELED: Operation ‘Pushkin’: The White Russian Who Loved Poetry, Scammed the FBI, and Won Hitler’s Heart
Mar
25
POSTPONED: The Making of a Paragon of Virtue: The Transnational Commemoration of Consul Sugihara’s 1940 Visas to Jews in Lithuania
Mar
25
POSTPONED: Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Karan Mahajan and Jenny Xie
Mar
25
CANCELED: In the Aftermath of Violence: Andean Stones and the Heroics of Small Construction Details
Mar
24
M+M: Juliane Vogel: The Poetics of Glue
Mar
24
POSTPONED: Carl E. Schorske Memorial Lecture: Daniel Mendelsohn
Mar
24
Curated Scrap Paper: Documents on the Reverse Sides of Medieval Japanese Diaries
Mar
24
CANCELED: Conversation with Ken Cerniglia
Mar
24
CANCELED: Encounters of the Third Kind: Christians, Muslims, Traditional-religious Communities, and Their Interactions in Medieval Ethiopia
Mar
24
CANCELED: Philology and the Place of Arabic
Mar
24
CANCELED: Songwriting: Theory of Medieval Song – I Record
Mar
23
CANCELED: (In)visibilities, Omissions and Discoveries: Archival Absences in Life Magazine and Beyond
Mar
23
CANCELED: Religion in the Modern University
Mar
23
CANCELED: On the Origins of Limited-Term Sentences of Incarceration
Mar
13
CANCELED: From Cover to Cover: Spring Symposium of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Mar
13
CANCELED: Symposium: From Cover to Cover
Mar
12
CANCELED: Student Activism at Princeton: Then & Now (Part 2)
Mar
12
Bodies of Knowledge Working Group: Medicalization of Love: Neuroscience, Addiction and New Diagnostic Categories
Mar
11
Book Talk: Einstein In Bohemia
Mar
11
CANCELED: Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream
Mar
11
CANCELED: Alaskan Volcanoes and Mediterranean History
Mar
11
CANCELED: Study Session: Pomodoro Power Hour
Mar
11
CANCELED: Film Forum: The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Mar
11
CANCELED: The Clandestine Hands of the State: The Relational Dynamics of Police Collusion in Drug Markets
Mar
10
CANCELED: Ciné-Club Presents: Je t’aime, je t’aime (1968)
Mar
10
CANCELED: Book Talk: A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past
Mar
10
M+M: Martino Stierli: Montage and the Metropolis: Architecture, Modernity, and the Representation of Space
Mar
10
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Family and Legal Ties Between France and Algeria after Decolonization
Mar
10
What Medieval Africa Offers for Thinking Global Connectedness
Mar
10
Masterclass and Conversation with Sammi Cannold and Emily Maltby
Mar
9
POSTPONED: Talking to a Wall: Social Change and Public Communication in Late Antiquity
Mar
9
The Dark Side of the Nile: Nonnus of Panopolis and his world
Mar
6
Reading by Hernan Diaz and Program in Creative Writing Students
Mar
6
Renaissance Voyages
Mar
6
Philosophy Colloquium: Self-Consciousness and Self-Division
Mar
6
Metallurgy and Violence in Late Antiquity
Mar
6
Conversations Greek and Indian: Comparative Work on Plato’s Republic and Shantideva’s Bodhicaryavatara
Mar
6
Reading by Hannah Sullivan
Mar
5
CANCELLED: Theory Colloquium: Rey Chow
Mar
5
Perilous Reporting: The Growing Threat to Journalists in the Field
Mar
5
The Nineteenth-Century German Recitation Anthology and the Fortunes of Weltliteratur
Mar
5
The Colossus of Rhodes: Towards a Spatio-Temporal Aesthetic of Scale in Hellenistic Sculpture
Mar
5
Bodies of Knowledge: Standing in Line: Bodies in a Struggle with Soviet Scarcity
Mar
5
Anne Tyng: Ordered Randomness
Mar
4
Reading by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Yoko Tawada
Mar
4
Clausal Complementation as a Compatibility Relation
Mar
4
Environmental Humanities Colloquium: Sovereignty at the Margins: Precarious Lives in the Bengal Delta
Mar
4
Monastic Lessons in Cloth from Late Antique Egypt: Worn, Embodied, and Remembered
Mar
4
Old Dominion Public Lecture Series: Blood Flowers: Recolonizations
Mar
4
Film Forum: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Mar
4
Human Rights Guerrillas: Iran in the Long 1970s
Mar
4
Conducting Research on Latino/a/x People
Mar
4
Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas
Mar
3
From Medieval Charters to Roman Law and Back Again. Some Examples from the Late Antique West
Mar
3
M+M: Elena Vogman: Dance of Values: Sergei Eisenstein’s Capital Project
Mar
3
Homo Narrans
Mar
3
From the Puritan Errand to the Errant Latin(x): Language, Race, and American Memory
Mar
3
Theo’s Choice: Celebrating Diversity in the Francophone World
Mar
3
McGraw Center Teaching Initiatives and Programs for Faculty: Peer Review
Mar
3
Whitney J. Oates Fellow Graduate Workshop
Mar
3
Historical Change, Archaeology and Environment: Examples from the East Roman/Byzantine World
Mar
2
The Salaberga Psalter and the Ethiopian Face
Mar
2
Urban Renewal and Recovery: The Case of Antioch on the Orontes
Mar
2
Margaret Dauler Wilson Lecture: Sensible Qualities in Locke, Berkeley, and Wilson
Mar
2
Archiving America: A Hemispheric Approach
Mar
2
LUDUS: Puzzling out the Fleury Playbook
Mar
2
From Opulent Banquets to Drudgery: The World of Mesopotamian Musicians
Mar
2
‘Africa’ in French: Mid-Century Translations of Colonial Blackness
Mar
2
Rethinking the Aerial Destruction of Cities in East Asia, 1932-45
Mar
1
In Pursuit of the Picturesque: Exhibition Tour and Talk
Feb
29
The Next Chapter: A Princeton English Alumni Panel
Feb
28
Does Energy Cause Ethnic War? East Mediterranean and Caspian Sea Natural Gas and Regional Conflicts
Feb
28
Medieval and Early Modern Global Latin: The Eurasian Latin Archive
Feb
27
Electric Mud: Presentation of The Surreal Visions of Hernán Díaz Alonso/HDA-x
Feb
27
The British Empire, the League of Nations, and the Problem of International Investment in Republican China
Feb
27
Portrait of the Algerian Jew as a Berber: Postcolonial Imaginaries in Contemporary Jewish Algerian Literature
Feb
27
Inscribing Land Titles: Geographical Imaginations in Legal Texts
Feb
27
Metrical Latin Lives of Mohammed
Feb
27
Serious Games: Annibale Carracci, Pietà
Feb
27
Law Enforcement, Diversity, and Accountability
Feb
26
The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture
Feb
26
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Monica Youn and Jenny Zhang
Feb
26
Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East
Feb
26
The Birth of the Contemporary Avant-Garde in Guatemala, 1965-1974
Feb
25
Don’t You Know?
Feb
25
Ciné-Club Presents: La Jetée (1962) and Toute la mémoire du monde (1956)
Feb
25
Embracing the Dragon: Greece Becomes the 17th Plus 1
Feb
25
M+M: Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
Feb
25
Mellon Forum: Displacement
Feb
25
Presentation and Panel Discussion: Christopher Thornton
Feb
24
Latin America Today: Upheavals and Repression, Part II
Feb
24
Iranian Minority Communities during the Iran-Iraq War and After
Feb
21
Reading by Aaron Robertson
Feb
21
Film Screening: Nationtime, Gary
Feb
21
Philosophy Colloquium: Nihilism and the Abundance of Values
Feb
21
Those Who Remained (2019): Film Screening and Discussion with Director Barnabás Tóth
Feb
20
Film Screening: Say Amen, Somebody
Feb
20
Student Activism at Princeton: Then & Now (Part 1)
Feb
20
Pet Animals in Roman Antiquity: Reconstructions from Archaeological Evidence
Feb
20
What are Philologists for in a Destitute Time? Orphic Reverberations, Verbal Static, and the Failure of the Humanities
Feb
20
The Largest Building Stone in the World: On the Naturalization of the Architectural Canon since 1945
Feb
19
Francisco Goya and the Problem of Political Art
Feb
19
Pictures and Voices from a Paper Empire: Late Meiji (1868-1912) Magazines and Modern Japanese Mass Culture
Feb
19
Environmental Humanities Colloquium: After Us the Deluge
Feb
19
Crossovers: Chilean Singer Claudia Acuña in Conversation
Feb
18
M+M: Vanessa R. Schwartz: Jet Age Aesthetic: The Glamour of Media in Motion
Feb
18
Celebrating Diversity in the Francophone World
Feb
18
On the Aesthetic of Diagrams in Byzantine Art
Feb
18
Mellon Forum: Space
Feb
17
Buddhism and Free Will
Feb
17
Multi-centric Historicities of Law in Colonial Algeria (1870-1930)
Feb
14
Philosophy Colloquium: The Scientists Qua Scientist Makes No Assertion
Feb
14
Empirical Moral Psychology in the Philosophy Curriculum
Feb
13
Public Humanities Working Group: East Coast Corridor Public Outreach
Feb
13
On Pattern-Thinking: A Conversation on R. Buckminster Fuller
Feb
13
Inside Buffalo. An African-Italian Story
Feb
13
Cold War’s Nature: The Korean Demilitarized Zone and Mid-Century American Science
Feb
13
The Ballad and Its Narratives
Feb
13
From Pathology to ‘Born Perfect’: The Role of Scientific Authority in Campaigns to Ban Conversion Therapy
Feb
12
Reading by Sheila Heti and Joy Harjo
Feb
12
The Iranian Unfinished Revolution: Elaine Sciolino and David Burnett in conversation with Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
Feb
12
Old Dominion Public Lecture Series: The Division: John Doar, the Justice Department, and the Civil Rights Movement
Feb
12
Diaries, Notes & Sketches
Feb
12
Beyond the Will of Truth
Feb
11
Ambient Media and Chaucer’s House of Fame
Feb
11
Greece as an Imperial Crossroad, 1797-1830
Feb
11
Spring 2020 Anschutz Lecture: Becoming a Man
Feb
10
Faber Lecture: Coral Psyches: Melville on Minds and Islands
Feb
10
Sound Design and Foley Artist for Theater with Chesney Snow
Feb
10
Conceiving Authority: Pregnancy and Agency among Haredi Women in Jerusalem
Feb
9
Samples: Greek Music Across Digital and Acoustic Domains
Feb
7
Music Decoding: Forgetting Perfection, Finding Results in Digital Musicology
Feb
6
Film Screening: They Shall Not Grow Old
Feb
6
Biosynthesis & New Paradigms of Making
Feb
6
Princeton International Cinema Series: Cold Case Hammarskjöld
Feb
6
The Caliph and the Monks’ Cattle: An Almohad Decree in Favor of a Catalan Monastery (1217 CE)
Feb
6
Revisiting Exodus! Twenty Years Later
Feb
6
Skin Memories of War: Uncertainty, Opacity, and the Chemical Afterlife of Vietnam
Feb
5
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Death of an African Doctor
Feb
5
Rivers of Blood: Violence & Rural Transformation in Bolivia’s 1952 Revolution
Feb
5
Oil, Labor, and the Making of the Iranian Revolution
Feb
4
M+M: MoMA Rehang
Feb
4
Wandalgarius’ Letters of the Law
Feb
3
Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: U.S. Immigration and Abolitionist Futures
Feb
3
No Sources, No Targets: Translation as Realignment
Feb
3
City, Chaos, and Conflict in Syrian Television Drama
Jan
27
Research Data Management Workshop for Graduate Students
Jan
24
Hidden in Plain Sight: How Changing Our Priorities Can Reveal Underrepresented Demographics in Special Collections
Jan
23
Forced Life: Female Sexual Reproduction as Panacea and Poison in the Sixth Age of Extinction
Jan
22
In Pursuit of the Picturesque: British Color Plate Books 1776 – 1868
Jan
16
Jewel of the Delta: A Podcast Launch and Listening Event
Jan
16
Within & Without: Les Six at 100, Musicology Conference
Jan
13
Theory Underwater: Diving Memoirs, Vampire Squid and Speculative Fiction
Jan
9
NEW DATE: The Thicker Than Water Open Mic
Jan
7
Continent in Dust, Continent in Flux: Experiments in a Chinese Weather System
Dec
18
Illuminating Incarceration in Antiquity Through Digital Humanities
Dec
16
Workshop on Albert the Great, De Natural Loci
Dec
15
Exhibition Talk: Gutenberg & After
Dec
14
Serve It Forth
Dec
14
NEW DATE: Redesign Your Workplace: Space and Creativity
Dec
14
Exhibition Talk: Gutenberg & After
Dec
12
How the Bulgarian Jews Survived the Holocaust
Dec
12
Equivocation: A Play Reading and Panel
Dec
12
The Archive of Psychoanalysis: The Temptation of the Plot in Freud’s Studies on Hysteria
Dec
12
Framing Fors: Anecdotal Narratives in Livy’s History of Early Rome
Dec
12
NEW TIME AND LOCATION: The Secret Lives of PhDs
Dec
12
The Art of Being Human: St. Cecilia Through Poetry and Film
Dec
12
Proposing a New Course
Dec
12
PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress: Charlie Hankin and Patrick J. Signoret
Dec
11
Historical Fiction Book Group: Their Finest Hour and a Half
Dec
11
“O Lord”: Religious Evidence on Elephantine Island in Egypt
Dec
11
The Lawful Piracy of James Joyce’s Poems
Dec
11
Comparative Diplomatics: What Can(‘t) Greek Documents from Egypt Tell Us About Greek Documents from Bactria?
Dec
11
Argentina: A Regional Outlier in an Unsettled Region?
Dec
10
From Roman Sicily to a Sicilian Rome: Sicilian Influence on Rome in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries
Dec
10
Book Talk: The Seine: The River That Made Paris
Dec
10
Prescription Vegetable?
Dec
10
Exhibition Talk: Gutenberg & After
Dec
9
Improv and Being Human
Dec
9
The 10th Anniversary Edition of The Life You Can Save
Dec
9
Is Interpretation a Kind of Translation? Toward A Common Theory of Turbulence
Dec
9
Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique
Dec
7
Literature and Environment: A Reading and Creative Writing Colloquium
Dec
7
The Spirit of Truth-Seeking II
Dec
7
Refugee Oral History Convention
Dec
6
Film Screening: Me, My Selfie and I
Dec
6
Thinking Europe on Europe’s Margins: Russian and Greek discourses in the Early Nineteenth Century
Dec
5
International Cinema Series: Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
Dec
5
Fixing History: Ethics, Ritual, and Two Objects at Princeton
Dec
5
A World Made of Travel: Digital Approaches to the Eighteenth-Century Grand Tour of Italy
Dec
5
Dante, Teacher of his Reader
Dec
5
A Whole New Spinoza: Historical discoveries out of literary methods
Dec
5
Bodies of Knowledge Working Group: Queer Affect in Crip Landscapes: Disability, Desire, Devastation
Dec
4
Fall Film Series: The Assassin (2015)
Dec
4
Ciné-Club: “Détective” (1985), Jean-Luc Godard
Dec
4
Film Forum: “The Burning Child” (2019), Joseph Leo Koerner
Dec
4
Were They Enslaved? A New Look at Maya Figurines
Dec
4
Canonical and Non-canonical Questions
Dec
4
Luther, Theology, and the Research University
Dec
4
Reading Late Imperial Chinese Fiction: A Century of Developments
Dec
4
Environmental Humanities Colloquium: Salvage: Experiment, Engagement and the Environmental Humanities
Dec
4
From Periphery to Paris: Food, Photography and Planning in Interwar France
Dec
4
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Yiyun Li and Jia Tolentino
Dec
3
Open Archive: Memorializing Princeton’s History
Dec
3
Book Talk: Aftershocks of Disaster
Dec
3
Queer Letters: Writing Stories About Identities, Families, Gender, Cultures, and Communities
Dec
3
1809: A Genealogy of the Present
Dec
3
Byzantium Between the Paradigms of Philosophical and Prophetic Eschatology
Dec
3
Down with Influence! Proposals to Free the Humanities From an Empty Word
Dec
3
Old Dominion Public Lecture: Darwin’s Diagram
Dec
3
Why We Need a More Global History of Incarceration, and Why We Currently Don’t Have One
Dec
3
Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment: Buffer Zones
Dec
3
Telling Tales of Clever Women: Writing, Agency, and the Devotional Book in Late Medieval Germany
Dec
2
The Manichaean Story of Adam and Eve: Between Gnostic and Zoroastrian Traditions
Dec
2
How to Say “Religion” in Late Antique Iran
Nov
26
Exhibition Talk: Gutenberg & After
Nov
25
The Sword and the Shield: Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and American Democracy
Nov
25
LUDUS: Playtime with Manuscripts
Nov
23
A Barbara Strozzi Symposium and Concert
Nov
22
Philosophy Colloquium: Inference to the Best Theory
Nov
22
Words and Places: A Literary Tour and Walking Workshop
Nov
22
Unlikely Migrants: Race, Slavery, and Gradated Liberties in the Late Ottoman Mediterranean
Nov
22
Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism in Cicero’s De officiis
Nov
21
Now that the World has Become an Endless Hotel: Greek Narratives of Displacement in the Middle East during WWII
Nov
21
States of Health: Visualizing Illness and Healing
Nov
21
Urban Legends: Moses, Jews, and Africans in Illuminated World Chronicles
Nov
21
Roman Names and Roman Citizenship in Egypt
Nov
20
Library Music Live: Rarely Performed Music from the Special Collections
Nov
20
Ciné-Club: “Tirez sur le pianiste” (1960), François Truffaut
Nov
20
Liberation Through Labor? The Urban Commune Movement in Beijing
Nov
20
A diachronic perspective on interspeaker covariation in sound change
Nov
20
Under the Surface: William Seabrook, Marjorie Worthington, and (Sub)cultural Bonds in 1930s Paris
Nov
20
Managing Research Data in the Humanities
Nov
20
Plots, Secrets, Truths and Lies in Modern Iranian Historiography
Nov
20
Art & Activism in Puerto Rico: Valor y Cambio
Nov
20
Pacific and Atlantic Worlds: Encounters, Ecologies, Epistemologies
Nov
19
Book Talk: Mary Toft: or The Rabbit Queen
Nov
19
The Arts of Land and Water Defense
Nov
19
PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress: Charlie Hankin and Patrick J. Signoret
Nov
19
Mellon Forum: Divided Cities
Nov
18
Film Forum: “Dealer” (2004), Bence Fliegauf
Nov
18
Nature by Design: Rewilding, De-extinction and the Ongoing Troubles with American Wilderness
Nov
18
The City as a ‘River of Fire’: Religious Processions in Tenth-century Constantinople
Nov
16
Exhibition Talk: Gutenberg & After
Nov
15
Conversations on Identity and Difference
Nov
15
Articulating Sinic Values at the Interstices of Empire: Literary Sinitic, Vernacular Vietnamese, and Neo-Confucianism in the Cham Heartland
Nov
15
Pictorial Argument in Palaeologan Manuscripts
Nov
15
The Inscribed Ancient City: Writing and Reading in First Century Pompeii
Nov
15
In Principio: The Beginning of Europe’s Printed-Book Trade
Nov
15
The Poetics of Material Life
Nov
15
Symposium: States of Health: Visualizing Illness and Healing
Nov
14
Prof Pick Screening: Niagara
Nov
14
Book Talk: Blue Hours and An American Abroad in a Post-American World
Nov
14
Present Tense: The Iconology of Time
Nov
14
The Conspiratorial Mood of Plato’s Republic
Nov
14
Biderman Lecture: James Loeffler
Nov
13
Socrates NOW
Nov
13
Music and Cultures of Migration
Nov
13
A General Introduction to the Peking Opera 中国京戏之审美原则与表演形式
Nov
13
Formations of Belief: Historical Approaches to Religion and the Secular
Nov
13
Environmental Humanities Colloquium: A Woman of Many Masks
Nov
13
Old Dominion Public Lecture Series: Me Versus Them
Nov
13
Paris Modern: Paulette Nardal and the Paradoxes of Colonial Feminism
Nov
13
Rileggere il Cortegiano
Nov
13
El Camino de Arriba y el Camino de Abajo: Life on the Road in the South-Central Andes
Nov
12
Beyond the Canon: Anne Conway on Sense Perception
Nov
12
Egyptian Italian Encounters in Modern Italian Literature. Ideas of exile in Enrico Pea’s Vita in Egitto (1949)
Nov
12
Now that the World has Become an Endless Hotel’: Greek Narratives of Displacement in the Middle East during WWII
Nov
12
The Fire Next Time: Eddie Glaude and Steve Shapiro in Conversation
Nov
12
We Shall Come to You in a Manner More Befitting a King: The Royal Succession in Sasanian Iran
Nov
12
Jean de Meun and Visual Eroticism in Fifteenth-Century Poetics
Nov
12
Exhibition Talk: Gutenberg & After
Nov
12
A New Law on Earth’: Humanity’s Journey from Science to Science Fiction in the Wake of World War
Nov
11
Film Forum: “Just the Wind” (2012), Bence Fliegauf
Nov
11
A Sociology of Segregated Inclusion
Nov
11
Religion and the Nation in Greece and Turkey: From Conflict to Cooperation
Nov
11
Trust Us? Journalism In a Time of Doubt and Disinformation
Nov
11
Tracing the Specter of Semilingualism in Bilingual Educational Policy
Nov
11
Law School Preview
Nov
8
Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies 50th Anniversary Symposium
Nov
8
Film Screening: Pat Steir
Nov
8
Paradoxes of Parrhesia
Nov
8
My Princeton Oral History Training
Nov
8
Amazonian Poetics | Poéticas Amazônicas Workshop
Nov
7
Radical Nonfiction Film Series: “Hale County” and “Easter Snap” plus New Short Films
Nov
7
International Cinema Series: Birds of Passage
Nov
7
States of Health: Visualizing Illness and Healing
Nov
7
The Poetics of an Amazonian World: Flutes, Spells, Necklaces, and Manioc
Nov
7
My Princeton Oral History Training
Nov
7
On the Virtues of Philology from Nietzsche to Machine Learning
Nov
7
Tanner Lecture: Active and Passive Citizens II: Active Democracy
Nov
7
The Art of Assemblage: Auspicious Elegance and Erudition on Display
Nov
7
Knotty Testimonies: Reckoning with Andean Cord-keeper Accounts from the Mid-sixteenth Century
Nov
7
Discovering Gandhi in Prison
Nov
6
Fall Film Series: Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
Nov
6
Ciné-Club: “Un flic” (1972), Jean-Pierre Melville
Nov
6
EXILE
Nov
6
Comparative Diplomatics — Making a Case: Pahlavi Documents from early Islamic Iran
Nov
6
Book Talk: Race for Profit
Nov
6
I-language and interspeaker variation in a refugee community
Nov
6
Adorno, Aesthetic Negativity, and the Problem of Idealism
Nov
6
Rosie Won the War: A Conversation and a Display
Nov
6
Tanner Lecture: Active and Passive Citizens I: Rousseau and Sieyès
Nov
6
Queer Exile in Interwar Berlin and Paris
Nov
6
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Ken Chen and Sally Wen Mao
Nov
6
Defeated Revolutionaries, Lasting Legacies: The Afterlife of Revolution in Dhufar, Oman
Nov
6
My Princeton Oral History Training
Nov
5
M+M: Fall 2019 Doctoral Colloquium: Session I: Ivan L. Munuera + Ying Sze Pek
Nov
5
A Visit with Maya Lin
Nov
5
Places of Remembrance
Nov
5
Wong Kar Wai’s Soundtracks: Music—Bricolage—Representation
Nov
5
Profiles in Distinguished Teaching with Rosina Lozano
Nov
5
The Art of Assemblage: Decorating for the Seasons and Status
Nov
5
Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment: Unreal Cities
Nov
5
Some Medieval Poetics
Nov
5
Translating Poetry, Translating Blackness
Nov
5
Book Talk: The Nevada Test Site
Nov
4
Film Forum: “Womb” (2010), Bence Fliegauf
Nov
4
Jay Wright: A Poetry Reading
Nov
4
Book Talk: The Politics of Pain: Postwar England and the Rise of Nationalism
Nov
4
Philosophy Colloquium: Reasons as Evidence and Explanations
Nov
4
The ‘Secular’ Sasanian Empire: Babylonian Rabbinic Stories and Strategies of Accommodation in Context
Nov
4
Architecture Arboretum
Nov
4
2019-2020 Elmer Adler Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize
Nov
3
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Nov
2
Princeton’s Civil War
Oct
31
Books for Children: Transnational Encounters, 1750-1850. Part II
Oct
30
Building Communities of Data-Curious Humanists: The Test Case of Slavic DH at Princeton (and Beyond)
Oct
29
Exhibition Talk: Gutenberg & After
Oct
26
Cervantes Symposium of the Northeast: Cervantine Ventures
Oct
25
Princeton Poetry Festival
Oct
24
Book Talk: Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table
Oct
24
a thread, a hair, a lineage
Oct
24
The Challenges of Beneficence: Revising the Terms
Oct
24
Law, Agency, and the Management of Property in the Roman Empire
Oct
23
Ciné-Club: “Ascenseur pour l’échafaud” (1958), Louis Malle
Oct
23
Comparative Diplomatics: Multilingual Documents of Medieval Sicily and Peasant Studies
Oct
23
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Oct
23
Eternal Entertainment? Revisiting the So-called Acrobat Figurines at the First Emperor’s Tomb
Oct
23
The Seine: The River that Made Paris
Oct
23
Modern Europe Workshop: Artists between Tragedy, Camouflage, Mourning, and Mockery: From the Great War to the 1920s
Oct
23
Education is No Panacea: Inequality and Poverty in Brazil
Oct
23
SHE BAD: Women In Film
Oct
22
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
Oct
22
M+M: John R. Blakinger: Undreaming the Bauhaus
Oct
22
Fagles Lecture: “The Classics Can Console?”
Oct
22
COUP 53
Oct
22
A Historiography of the Trend
Oct
21
Film Forum: “Radio Kobanî” (2016), Reber Dosky
Oct
21
Is Population Growth a Problem: If so, What Would be an Ethical Response?
Oct
21
Medieval Futures: The Shape of Time in Universal Histories
Oct
21
16th Annual Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture: Where We Come From
Oct
21
Messengers of Disaster: Raphaël Lemkin, Jan Karski, and Genocide
Oct
21
A Synthesis of Graeco-Arabic Philosophy with Sharia: The Case of the Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Adjudications on al-Ghazālī’s Tahāfut al-falāsifa
Oct
21
First Impressions: The Print Trade in Children’s Books
Oct
21
On Display: The Public Lives of 20th-Century American Women
Oct
19
In Good Taste: Food and Feasting in Chinese Art
Oct
18
Fung Program Movie: “The Toxic Reigns of Resentment”
Oct
18
Inference to the Best Explanation as a Form of Non-Deductive Reasoning in Mathematics
Oct
18
The Amazing Adventures of Progressive Group Rights: A Jewish Constitutional Moment in Early-Twentieth-Century New York
Oct
18
Critical Art Historical Data Visualization
Oct
18
The Powers of African Spirituality in Global Consciousness: Light, Vision, & Truth
Oct
17
The Geography of Risk: Epic Storms, Rising Seas and the Cost of America’s Coasts
Oct
17
Radical Nonfiction Film Series: “My First Film” and “Walled Unwalled”
Oct
17
Open Archive: World War II on the Princeton Homefront
Oct
17
Sanctified Sisters: A History of Protestant Deaconesses
Oct
17
Artist Talk: Jordan Nassar
Oct
17
The Auctioneer’s Genre: Digital Approaches to Category Construction and the Rhetoric of the 18th Century Art Market
Oct
17
Emergency Politics as Emergency Claim-making
Oct
17
The Role of Race in the 2020 Elections
Oct
17
Kwartler Lecture
Oct
16
Reading by Aleksandar Hemon and Andrew Motion
Oct
16
On Content and Method
Oct
16
Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic
Oct
16
Full Extreme: Party Music, Affect, and the Politics of Modernity
Oct
16
Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism
Oct
16
Environmental Humanities Colloquium: Humans as Acquired Taste
Oct
16
Born This Way: Science and Citizenship in the American LGBTQ Movement
Oct
16
Scientific Racism in the French Debate about General Liberty during the Haitian Revolution
Oct
15
Thinking on the Edge of the Abyss
Oct
15
Gauss Seminars in Criticism: Michael Hardt
Oct
14
Film Forum: “My Twentieth Century” (1989), Ildikó Enyedi
Oct
14
Relics and their Legacy in the Borderlands of East Roman and Sasanian Empires
Oct
14
The Waltz, the Cotillon, and the Hazards of Choice
Oct
14
The Eliot Indian Bible and Early Colonial Language Encounters
Oct
14
For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq
Oct
11
The Spirit of Truth-Seeking I
Oct
11
Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence between Helmuth and Freya von Moltke, 1944-45
Oct
11
Belonging(s) in Movement
Oct
11
Philosophy Colloquium: Determinism and the Metaphysics of Quantity
Oct
11
Shipwrecks of the Modern: An Unknown Incident in the Life of Dimitris Pikionis
Oct
11
The Temple of Hera at Olympia and Rome
Oct
11
A Conversation with Clément Hervieu-Léger
Oct
10
Radical Nonfiction Film Series: America and New Short Films
Oct
10
Film Screening: Le Misanthrope
Oct
10
The Song of Songs: A Biography
Oct
10
Nature, Art and the Subjectivity of Color
Oct
10
Mpala in Motion: Student Films from the PIIRS Global Seminar in Kenya
Oct
10
Writing Prose: Narrative Forms and Social Communication in Goethe’s Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten
Oct
10
Translation and Philology in Greek-Chinese Comparative Philosophy
Oct
10
Fall 2019 Anschutz Lecture: Life After Earth: Speculations in World-Building from California to the Red Planet
Oct
10
PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress: Andy Alfonso and Francisco Cabezon
Oct
9
Literature for the People: Greek Modernists and the Media,1944-46
Oct
9
Superheroes on the Couch
Oct
9
Epistemological Racism, Southern Theory, and Scholarly Ethics
Oct
9
Iranian Cosmopolitanism: A Cinematic History of Nationalism in the Early Twentieth Century
Oct
9
The Open Invitation. Activist Video, Mexico, and the Politics of Affect
Oct
8
M+M: Graphic Assembly
Oct
8
Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment: Trauma
Oct
8
Radical Nonfiction Film Series: “Hale County” and “Easter Snap” plus New Short Films
Oct
7
Film Screening: “Mary Shelley”
Oct
7
Film Forum: “Simon, the Magician” (1999), Ildikó Enyedi
Oct
7
Dignity as a Central Category of World Politics and its Russian Version
Oct
7
The History of Emotions and Islamic Pietistic Literature
Oct
7
The Politics of Translation: The Discovery of Walter Benjamin in China
Oct
7
From Rage to Repentance: An Emotions History Approach to Qur’an and Sira
Oct
7
Teaching Locally
Oct
4
Reading by Matthew Zapruder
Oct
4
Philosophy Colloquium: Three Justifications for Women’s Sport
Oct
4
Arrian the Priest: Provincial Cultural Identity and Roman Imperial Policy
Oct
4
Book Symposium: Parliament the Mirror of the Nation: Representation, Deliberation, and Democracy in Victorian Britain
Oct
4
A Single Drop of Ink for a Mirror: A Symposium on Nineteenth-Century Literature and the Visual Arts
Oct
3
I Was the Voice of Democracy
Oct
3
Converts to the Real: Catholicism and The Making of Continental Philosophy
Oct
3
Early Iron Age Archaeology and the Tyranny of the Text: the Case of Athletic Nudity
Oct
2
Academic Performance Under Stress
Oct
2
Book Talk: The Italian Book of Short Stories
Oct
2
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Elaine Castillo and Jessica Hagedorn
Oct
2
The Power & Poetry of the Popol Vuh, the Creation Epic of the Maya
Oct
1
Gauss Seminars in Criticism: A Call to Action: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
Oct
1
M+M: Zvi Efrat: The Israel Project
Oct
1
Política y Narrativa de Mujeres en Chile Periodo 2000-2019
Oct
1
Publishers’ Panel on Open Access Book Publishing
Sep
30
Film Forum: “On Body and Soul” (2017), Ildikó Enyedi
Sep
30
Translating Persian
Sep
30
Adventures in the Skin Trade: Thomas Southerne’s Oroonoko and the Marks of Religion
Sep
28
Seuls en Scène presents: “Radio Live”
Sep
27
The Future of Technology and the Tale of Two Books: A Conversation with Microsoft’s Brad Smith and The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah
Sep
27
Seuls en Scène presents: “La Loi des prodiges”
Sep
27
Small Planet, Big Crises, and Hope Through Democratic Action
Sep
27
Hannah Arendt, Karl Jaspers, and the Nobel Prize: Examining the Archival Record
Sep
27
Conference: Considering the Counterculture: A History in Ideas
Sep
26
Susan Stewart Presents Two New Princeton University Press Poets
Sep
26
Slow Thought and The Love of Language
Sep
26
Nathalie Sarraute’s Quiet Revolution
Sep
26
“A Monster in its Breadth and Length”: Schiller’s Wallenstein and the Poetics of Scale, 1798–2007
Sep
26
Teach with Collections: Open House
Sep
25
Seuls en Scène presents “blablabla”
Sep
25
Reading by Yusef Komunyakaa, Maxine Hong Kingston, and David Treuer
Sep
25
Help (Not) Wanted: Immigration Politics in Japan
Sep
25
Moral Thought in the Age of Therapy
Sep
25
Environmental Humanities Colloquium: Once Upon a Tomorrow
Sep
25
Building Process and Regola D’arte: A Customized Approach to the Restoration of Historic Masonry
Sep
25
Data Visualization of our Collective Collections
Sep
24
Animalia: A Conversation with Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
Sep
24
Genres of Failure in Autotheory and Autofiction
Sep
24
Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment: MAPPING with Laura Kurgan and Matteo Pericoli
Sep
23
The Art of Bible Translation: A Belknap Conversation with Robert Alter
Sep
23
From Spoken to Signed: American Sign Language Translation
Sep
22
Seuls en Scène presents: “Avignon à vie” by Pascal Rambert
Sep
21
Seuls en Scène presents: “Qui a tué mon père” by Edouard Louis
Sep
21
Seuls en Scène presents: Laure Adler in Conversation with Julien Gosselin and Pascal Rambert
Sep
20
Seuls en Scène presents: “Le Marteau et la faucille” by Don DeLillo
Sep
20
Tabella Picta: Dedicatory Paintings in Greek and Roman Religion
Sep
20
Reading and Conversation with John Banville
Sep
20
Dealing with Doubt in Medieval English Law
Sep
19
Seuls en Scène presents: “Le Désordre du discours” by Fanny de Chaillé
Sep
19
An Evening of Literature and Music: Chandrahas Choudhury and Princeton Swara
Sep
19
Race After Technology Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Sep
19
The Language of Forgetting and Obliteration
Sep
19
Radicalized Brazil | Now What?
Sep
19
Dreams in Greek and Roman Religion: The Evidence of Inscriptions
Sep
19
A Vital Legacy: A Symposium in Conjunction with Helen Frankenthaler Prints: Seven Types of Ambiguity
Sep
18
Machines That Made Them: Identifying Twentieth-Century Duplicating Technologies
Sep
18
Recovering Lost Footprints: The New Mayan Narrators
Sep
17
Open Archive: Princeton School Days
Sep
17
Plato’s Phaedo and the Origins of the Concept of Body
Sep
17
On the Populist Reason, Ecuador-Venezuela
Sep
17
University Constitution Day Lecture: Is Constitution Day Unconstitutional?
Sep
16
From Royal Society to the 2020 Olympics: Transcultural Symbolic Languages
Sep
16
Gutenberg & After: Europe’s First Printers 1450-1470
Sep
16
Ethnicity and Conflict in Iraq’s Oil City: A History of Kirkuk
Sep
13
The Creation of The Hunger
Sep
13
Conference: Colonialism, Decolonization, and Global Justice
Sep
9
13th Annual Humanities Colloquium: Tradition, Critique, & Imagination
Sep
5
Thinking Infrastructurally: What’s In It for Humanities Scholars?
Sep
3
Speaking Figuratively: What Does Text Have To Do With Image?
Sep
3
Digital Humanities and Visual Resources: The Material and Digital Lives of Eastern European and Russian Artifacts
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