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Events Archive: 2022/23

2025/26 | 2024/25 | 2023/24 | 2022/23 | 2021/22 | 2020/21 | 2019/20

Jun
15
After the Yalta by Piotrowski: Questioning Europe in the history of art and architecture
Jun
13
Ritual and Materiality in Buddhism and Asian Religions
Jun
7
Cervantes Global | Global Cervantes
May
23
Fear and Loathing in the Movies
May
19
Andy Borowitz: Profiles In Ignorance
May
19
Instruments of Global Music Theoryโ€”Conference
May
17
โ€œThirteen Months in Dixie,โ€ Friends of Princeton University Library Small Talk
May
16
LLL Presents | Period: The Real Story of Menstruation
May
11
Il laboratorio teatrale presents: “Il portiere di notte”
May
11
Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination
May
10
“Wooden Horses, Minotaurs and Catalogues of Ships”
May
9
Faculty Workshop: New Technologies for Teaching and Learning with Images
May
8
The History of Political Thought: A Symposium on Methods and Current Controversies
May
5
“Erini featuring Ara Dinkjian: A Musical Chronicle of Asia Minor”
May
5
โ€œI Enter the Future with the Memory of the Pastโ€: Josรฉ Rizal (1861-1896), the Philippines, and Classical Antiquity Main page content Category Override
May
5
For Susan Stewart: Two Seminars & A Poetry Reading
May
4
Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
May
4
Confused by All the Chatter? Journalists, Researchers & Policymakers Talk Chatbots and Other Large Language Models
May
4
The medieval transmission of ancient knowledge in colonial and post-colonial narratives: moving beyond them with help from the Greek and Arabic grammarians
May
4
Memento by Hala Moughanie: A staged reading
May
3
Creative Writing Seniors Reading: Fiction
May
3
Poetry and War: Readings from Feuillets D’Hypnos by Renรฉ Char
May
2
Lโ€™Avant-Scรจne presents “Travaux dโ€™Acteurs IX”
May
2
The Arc of Interference: Medical Anthropology for Worlds on Edge
May
2
Creative Writing Seniors Reading: Poetry, Translation & Screenwriting
May
2
Opening Reception for Art of Science 2023
May
2
Translators in Publishing
Apr
28
Reproductive Justice and Youth Led Movements with Olivia Julianna
Apr
28
Cinema with Power | Public Screening of โ€œRajneetiโ€ with Intro and Q&A session by Prakash Jha
Apr
28
โ€˜Magister ex machina, or, Artificial Ingenuity: Who wrote the student poetry of the Old Society of Jesus?โ€™ Main page content Category Override
Apr
27
The Form that Thinks: The Essay-Film from Inside
Apr
27
How Princeton Research Becomes A Film and A Vault At The Venice Biennale
Apr
27
Maritime Buddhist Art of the East Asian โ€œMediterranean,โ€ ca. 900โ€“1200
Apr
27
Leaping Clear of the Many and the One
Apr
27
PLAS Graduate Workshop | Alex Diaz-Hui & Julia Kornberg
Apr
27
Global Existential Challenges: The Art(s) of Domination and Resistance
Apr
26
Debt Working Group | Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico
Apr
26
A Conversation with Anne Berest
Apr
26
Inside the Mind of the Influencing Machine: Set Design in the Age of Cold War Television
Apr
26
Las desmayadas. Un recorrido entre el desmayo y la voz de las mujeres
Apr
25
Lโ€™Avant-Scรจne presents โ€œQuai ouestโ€ by Bernard-Marie Koltรจs
Apr
25
LLL Presents | Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Lies about the Past
Apr
25
“The Geometries of Afro Asiaโ€
Apr
25
“A Nation of Prisoners: The Rise and Growth of Immigration Detention in the United States”
Apr
25
Roundtable on Reporting/Writing the History of the War in Ukraine
Apr
24
“Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory”: The Making of an Exhibit
Apr
24
Negative Anthropology: Shakespeare, Sophocles, Freud
Apr
22
Symposium | Psychoanalysis and its Discontents: Reality, Media, and the Subject
Apr
21
Cinema with Power | Public Screening of โ€œMatto Ki Saikilโ€ with Intro and Q&A session by Prakash Jha
Apr
21
John Witherspoon in Historical Context
Apr
21
Colloquium โˆ™ News from Aphrodisias: Greek urban culture under the Roman Empire, April 21-22
Apr
21
Citizenship as the Cityโ€™s Revealing Mirror: Comparative Considerations on the Content and Historical Context of Citizenship in ancient Athens and Rome
Apr
21
Cinema with Power | The Worlds of Indian Cinema Workshop
Apr
20
2023 Anthony B. Evnin Lecture: Stories from the Field – Conservation Photography
Apr
20
Kassler Lecture: Ecological Architecture (Rescheduled from Fall 2022)
Apr
20
On Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Apr
20
Cinema with Power | Princeton Public Lectures: Social Justice, Power and Politics in India Cinema
Apr
20
Georgian Literature Against the Red Terror
Apr
20
“Manuscripts at the Foundations of Modern Law: Multispectral Imaging, Artificial Intelligence and the Recovery of Gaiusโ€™s Institutes and the oldest Koran”
Apr
20
“Our Muses Are Our Ancestors”: Contemporary Indigenous Writers of North America and Greco-Roman Antiquity.
Apr
19
LLL Presents | The Archivists: Stories
Apr
19
Debt Working Group | Feminist Challenges to Debt in Puerto Rico
Apr
19
Universality and the Impotence of Discourse
Apr
19
The Annual Jansen Lecture: Mori Nao Divorces Her Husband and His Family Puts Him in a Cage
Apr
19
Documenting the ASL communities: MoLo and O5S5 projects
Apr
19
“The Undiscovered Country: Ancient Texts and Modern Technologies”
Apr
19
Medieval Faculty Colloquium: โ€œTranslating Jurjani: Why read an eleventh-century text about Arabic poetics?โ€
Apr
18
Munich Museums and the 1939 Silver Plunder
Apr
18
SURREALICE. Lewis Carroll and the surrealists. How to do an exhibition on surrealism today.
Apr
18
Roman Citizenship and its Value in the Roman Empire until and after the Constitutio Antoniniana
Apr
17
Mamadou Diabate and Percussion Mania: Master of the talking balafon from Burkina Faso
Apr
17
โ€œWho will Dry My Tears?โ€ Reflections on the History of a Lynching
Apr
17
Epistemological Reconfigurations in Queer German Cinema
Apr
17
Just Me: An Asian American Artist on Disability and Mental Health
Apr
16
Princeton French Film Festival
Apr
14
Kyung-Sook Shin Book Reading
Apr
14
How rhythm and timing structure experience: Music and social interaction
Apr
14
Hideyoshi’s Goal of Conquering Ming China? A Misconstrued Narrative of Japanโ€™s Invasion of Chosลn Korea in 1592-1598
Apr
14
The Wealth of Merovingian Bishops: The Case of the Desiderii
Apr
14
Accommodating Justice Systems
Apr
14
Janson-La Palme Conference | Machines between Learning and Practice in Early Modern Europe
Apr
14
The History of Value in Nineteenth Century North America
Apr
14
FIT Graduate Conference: “Taboo”
Apr
13
โ€œWho Reads Greek in 3rd Century CE Oxyrhynchus?: The Jewish Community of Oxyrhynchus Before and After 117 CEโ€
Apr
13
“How Do We Think of Social Diversity”
Apr
13
Spring 2023 Anschutz Lecture | Talk to Me: A Story of Racial Capitalism, Coup, and Democracy
Apr
13
HIdeyoshi’s Goal of Conquering Ming China? A Misconstrued Narrative of Japan’s Invasion of Chosลn Korea in 1592-1598
Apr
13
Art Hx Presents | Collectives in Crisis: Healing Through Storytellingย with Neil Bardhan
Apr
13
Shimmers of the Fabulous: Intimate Touch and Public Sex in Queer and Trans Bombay
Apr
12
Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber
Apr
12
Charlotte Delbo: Writing Auschwitz and After
Apr
12
Bua Comparative Project: Documentation and history of a language family of southern Chad
Apr
12
**POSTPONED** The Criminalization of Adultery: Gender Equality, Monogamy, and Faithful Marraige in Postwar South Korea
Apr
11
LLL Presents | Reading Shakespeare Reading Me
Apr
11
Media and Modernity: “Gawkersโ€
Apr
11
Cinema with Power | Documentary Screening and Welcome Reception
Apr
11
The Jesuits: A History
Apr
11
Translators on Publishing
Apr
11
The Rise of the Christian Economy in the post-Christian West
Apr
10
Black Girls Fly: Ruminations on Religion, Race, and Technology
Apr
10
AfroColombia: A panorama of life and living in Chocรณ
Apr
10
“The Making Out of Americans: Biology and the Poetics of Queer Social Reproduction”
Apr
10
CFS Faber Lecture: Cinematic Faces and Hands
Apr
10
Translating Egyptians: Race-Consciousness of 1960s Egyptians in the African American Imagination
Apr
10
Progressive Politics in a Turbulent World: A New Pink Tide in Latin America?
Apr
6
Teaching Language, Culture and Texts in the 21st Century: Insights from the Multiliteracies Framework
Apr
6
Carl E. Schorske Memorial Lecture | Giving the Working Class a Body: Politics, Literature, and Class War
Apr
6
Trading with the Enemy: Greek Pottery in the Persian World
Apr
4
A Transgenre Celebration
Apr
4
Best of Friends: A Novel
Apr
4
“Revolving Closets, Open Undergroundsโ€
Apr
4
Gauss Seminars in Criticism: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Apr
4
American Classical Scholarship, Comedy, and Disorientation
Apr
4
Mellon Forum: Cรผirtopia
Apr
3
Theravada Buddhist responses to colonialism and their modern implications: Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture in Buddhism
Apr
3
โ€œLabor, Love and Loss: Black Women and Care-Work during the Civil Warโ€
Apr
3
Book Talk: The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature
Apr
3
One Book, Five Writers: Translating Jaguars’ Tomb
Mar
31
Opening Reception for F(r)iction: Post-Professional M.Arch Thesis Exhibition
Mar
31
โ€œUneasy Peace: The Good Friday Agreement 25 Years On”
Mar
31
Dear Philosopher: A Conversation About Philosophical Advice Columns
Mar
31
Women in Classics & Ancient Studies: Careers and Choices
Mar
30
TigerTalks in the City: Innovations in Arts Accessibility
Mar
30
Toni Morrison Lectures | On the Far Side: Globalization in Morrison’s World
Mar
30
Flaubert Blues
Mar
30
Ut ekphrasis pictura: When Words Take Shape in Sir John Chardinโ€™s Drawings of Muhammadโ€™s Tomb in Mecca
Mar
30
Judge Zahid Quraishi in Conversation with Professor Udi Ofer
Mar
30
โ€œWhy were masks so essential for Greek tragedy?โ€
Mar
30
Oceanography Otherwise: Marine Methods in the Environmental Humanities
Mar
29
LLL Presents | Take What You Need: A Novel
Mar
29
Toni Morrison Lectures | Here Stands a Man: Morrison’s (Feminist?) Molding of Black Masculinity
Mar
29
Bhimrao Ambedkar, John Dewey, and the Evolution of Navayana Buddhism: Buddhist Studies Workshop
Mar
29
The Background Fantastic: Ambient Fantasy from YouTube to the Metaverse
Mar
29
Towards a New Understanding of the Late Imperial Corpora or How to Read An Anatomy of Lenses (Jingshi ้กๅฒ), 1681
Mar
29
Book Talk “The Face of Peace: Government Pedagogy amid Disinformation in Colombia”
Mar
29
Medieval Faculty Colloquium | Making Things Up: Improvisation in the Illustrated ‘Cantigas de Santa Marรญa’
Mar
28
Reading by Emma Cline & A. Van Jordan
Mar
28
Toni Morrison Lectures | Dear Toni: Morrison Edits a Generation of Black Men
Mar
28
“Nightmare Landscapes, Ambient Splendor, and the End(s) of Art”
Mar
28
Aimer en franรงais: exil, identitรฉ(s), รฉcriture (in French)
Mar
28
Winckelmannโ€™s Epistolary Art
Mar
27
Reading by Ina Cariรฑo
Mar
27
Religion, the Secular, and Machines in Between
Mar
27
“Asiiskusiipuw” Munsee Language Revitalization
Mar
27
Feral Atlas: Toward a Collaborative Environmental Humanities
Mar
27
Celebrating Liliana Cavaniโ€™s Life and Films
Mar
25
Art and Devotion – New Accounts of Religious Culture, Race, and Gender in the United States
Mar
24
Atelier@Large: Conversations on Art-making in a Vexed Era
Mar
24
North-East Milton Seminar: “Milton and Monism, Yet Once More”
Mar
24
Musicology Colloquium Series: Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora
Mar
23
Book Discussion | Carlo Ginzburg: History/Microhistories/Architectural Histories
Mar
23
LLL Presents: Poverty, by America
Mar
23
Venetian Air and the Avatars of Disegno in Sixteenth-Century Art Theory
Mar
23
On the Edge of the World: Romeโ€™s Fluid Frontier in Northern Britain
Mar
23
Sites of Memory: A Symposium on Toni Morrison and the Archive
Mar
23
Investigating Injustice with Data
Mar
22
Hitch: An Iranian Story
Mar
22
War and Machine
Mar
22
Reading, Scribbling, Copying: Cy Twombly and the Modern Greek Poets
Mar
22
What Moses Forgot: Memory Failures in Late Ancient Rabbinic Judaism
Mar
22
Fear of others: Some comments on the fear of witchcraft in traditional China
Mar
22
Gossip Etherealized: Mid-Victorian Sensation Fiction and the Logic of the Record
Mar
21
Reading by Holmes Poet Marilyn Chin
Mar
21
Translators Beyond the Academy
Mar
20
UCHV Research Film Studio | Research & Filmmaking: A Conversation with Gyula Gazdag & Erika A. Kiss
Mar
20
Archaeological Research at the Ancient Ionian City of Notion
Mar
20
Spatial Operations. Harun Farocki and Architecture
Mar
13
UCHV Research Film Studio
Mar
9
Concert | ‘Ode to the Fallen Trees’ by Alfonso Fuentes Colรณn with Oskar Espina Ruiz
Mar
9
*CANCELLED* LLL Presents | After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America
Mar
9
Medieval Black Sea Seminar Series
Mar
8
The Seed Keeper
Mar
8
The role of demonstratives across languages
Mar
8
Mellon Forum // Practicing Palimpsestry: Archives, Counter-mapping, and Spatial Storytelling
Mar
7
COLECTIVO LASTESIS | Decolonial Activisms: Feminist Performance / Activismos decoloniales: Performance feminista
Mar
7
Media and Modernity Doctoral Colloquium | Spring 2023
Mar
6
LLL Presents: The World and All That It Holds: A Novel
Mar
6
Take No for An Answer. Reclaiming the French Canon Through the Female Gaze.
Mar
5
Lโ€™Avant-Scรจne presents Les Caprices de Marianne by Musset & La seconde surprise de l’amour by Marivaux
Mar
4
Felon: An American Washi Tale by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Mar
4
Ancient Graeco-Roman Medicine and Biology Workshop
Mar
3
Felon: An American Washi Tale by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Mar
3
“Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? Towards a Critical Historiography”
Mar
2
Lโ€™Avant-Scรจne presents Les Caprices de Marianne by Musset & La seconde surprise de l’amour by Marivaux
Mar
2
Felon: An American Washi Tale by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Mar
2
Japanโ€™s Magna Carta: Property, Inheritance and Gender in Medieval Japan
Mar
2
Metapoesis in Late สฟAbbฤsid Poetry: The Dove, the Crow, and the Camel in al-Maสฟarrฤซโ€™s Saqแนญ al-Zand
Mar
2
In Pursuit of Companionship: Hansenโ€™s Disease in the Jลdo Shinshลซ Moral Imagination
Mar
2
Sovereignties of the Imagination: Worlding from the Ethnographic Museum
Mar
2
Are the Kids Alright? Examining the intergenerational Discourse on Social Networking Services and Smartphone-Related Harm in Contemporary Japan
Mar
2
Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
Mar
2
Medieval Black Sea Seminar Series
Mar
2
Law, Citizenship, and Dissent in India
Mar
2
Telling Stories of Economic Inequality
Mar
2
Svetlana Kana Radeviฤ‡: Aggregate Assemblies, 2023 Womxn in Design and Architecture Conference
Mar
1
Organizing Stories: Dinner & Dialogue
Mar
1
A Universe of Terms: Religion in Visual Metaphor
Mar
1
Variation in color expression in languages of Cameroon
Mar
1
Betting on the Farm: Institutional Change in Japanese Agriculture
Mar
1
Archives of Repetition: Adapting Greek Heroines in the Digital Age
Feb
28
“The Architecture of Disability”
Feb
28
Art Hx Presents: A Conversation with Artist Nate Lewis
Feb
28
2022-23 Old Dominion Public Lecture Series โ€“ The Buddhist Wheel of Rebirth: Painting & Performance, Then & Now
Feb
27
Reception + Gallery Talk | Living Histories: Space for Reckoning by STOSS Landscape Urbanism + MPdL Studio
Feb
27
The Ver-Fremdworteffekt. Adorno on Languageโ€™s Glitches
Feb
27
Toward a History of Waiting: Social Hierarchy and Architecture
Feb
27
A Constitutional Coup in Israel: Background, Causes, Consequences
Feb
27
Translation as a Multiplayer Game
Feb
27
Mellon Forum || Christianizing Algiers: Reshaping Urban Identity by โ€œCross and Plowโ€
Feb
24
Ruha Benjamin in Conversation with Chris Gilliard
Feb
24
THATโ€™S HISTORY? Thirty Years After the End of Apartheid
Feb
24
“Politically Red”
Feb
23
Born Under Punches
Feb
23
A Conversation with Sandy Ouvrier
Feb
23
Renรฉ Char’s Mobility
Feb
23
Europe and the Wolf: Militant Economies of Sound in Pere Portabella and Carles Santos
Feb
23
The ‘Cross of Gold’ revisited: Money and Populism in the Age of Empire
Feb
23
Immersion: Reporting From Within Vulnerable Communities
Feb
23
โ€œSecuritas: Embodied Conceptโ€
Feb
23
Material Aesthetics, Tonality, and the Politics of Racial Mixture in Puerto Plata
Feb
22
Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America
Feb
22
Debt Working Group: Narrating Debt
Feb
22
Articulating the Aesthetics of Democracy and Women’s Liberation: The Quest for a Decolonial Art history in South Korea
Feb
22
From Etruscan Town to Medieval Castle: Recent Excavations of a Central Italian Hilltop Settlement
Feb
21
Reading by Rodrigo Toscano & Katie Kitamura
Feb
21
The French Heritage Language Program: A Language Equity Model
Feb
21
Medieval Faculty Colloquium | Oath and Law: Legal Language in Early Imperial and Medieval China
Feb
16
Qu’est-ce que la Francophonie? Langue et variation, langues en contact et multilinguisme
Feb
16
The Vulgarity of Caste: A Social and Intellectual History of Dalit Performance of Tamasha
Feb
16
Medieval African Writing Technologies: A Conversation
Feb
16
The Devil of Details: Titivillus, from Yesterdayโ€™s Monks to Todayโ€™s Dungeons & Dragons
Feb
15
Ecotheories Colloquium: Black Soil
Feb
15
Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan’s Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895-1945
Feb
15
โ€œEurope raped your mother:” The De/Colonialization of Medea (Grillparzer โ€“ Jahnn โ€“ Jones)
Feb
15
The Puzzle of Panamanian Exceptionalism
Feb
15
CDH Grants Information Session
Feb
14
Translators in/and the Academy
Feb
14
Mellon Forum // Stigma, public space, and the symbolic value of race in Cartagena, Colombia
Feb
14
Douglass Day Transcribe-a-Thon
Feb
14
Where Slaves Became Queens
Feb
13
Building a Community with Vertical Video
Feb
10
Kลshiki and Music in Japanese Sลtล Zen
Feb
10
Tlingit Art, Spirit, and Ancestry: Healing Histories of Dispossession
Feb
9
Art Exhibition as Work-in-Progress
Feb
9
Museumverse: Incorporating Virtual Reality and Digital Technologies into Art History Research and Curatorial Strategies
Feb
9
James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures in Ethics – Dignity and Historical Injustice: An Albanian Family’s History
Feb
9
Medieval Black Sea Seminar Series
Feb
8
Edward Said Memorial Lecture: On “Perfect Victims” and the Politics of Appeal
Feb
8
2022-23 Old Dominion Public Lecture Series โ€“ โ€œ The Harvest Indeed is Great, but the Labourers are Fewโ€: Strangers in the Medieval Countryside
Feb
8
Mellon Forum // Smallpox and Slavery in the Early Modern Atlantic World: A Digital History
Feb
8
Historias para lo que viene: Podcasting for Social Justice in Colombia
Feb
7
“Signalsโ€
Feb
7
5000 Years of African Literature
Feb
6
Reading by Dantiel W. Moniz
Feb
6
Transistors. Mediating Migration
Feb
3
โ€œThe Quiet Girls of Early Ireland: Women in medieval Irish literatureโ€
Feb
3
Musicology Colloquium Series | Petrine Prophecy as Power Discourse in the Thought of John Plousiadenos, โ€˜unionist priestโ€™ (แผ‘ฮฝฯ‰ฯ„ฮนฮบแฝนฯ‚ แผฑฮตฯฮตแฝปฯ‚)
Feb
3
Abundance and Loss: Narratives of Diversity Across the Natural and Human Sciences
Feb
2
Medieval Black Sea Seminar Series
Feb
1
Friends of Princeton University Library Small Talk with Gene Andrew Jarrett
Feb
1
The Opposite of Cancel Culture: Shifting Opera and Ballet for a Multiracial Future
Jan
31
The Falling Sky and The Yanomami Struggle
Jan
18
Friends of Princeton University Library Small Talk with Nina Khrushcheva *98
Jan
16
Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Jan
11
Discovery of the Secret Gospels, Nag Hammadi Egypt, 1945
Dec
21
MPP 219 Performance: OLAGร“N
Dec
15
Debussy, Ravel, and The Jazz Age
Dec
15
Artist Conversation: Samuel Fosso
Dec
14
Seeing Providence Chinatown
Dec
13
Compiling Magic: the Scribe at Work
Dec
13
17th Annual Innovation Forum
Dec
12
Synaxis and Workshops | A Hidden World Revealed: The Palimpsests of Saint Catherineโ€™s Monastery on Mount Sinai
Dec
9
Conference | Art & the Americanization of France
Dec
9
Faculty Research Forum: Introduction to Project-Based Humanities Grantseeking
Dec
9
Crime, Safety and Justice in the 2022 Elections
Dec
9
Machine Learning and the Future of Philology
Dec
8
Justice for Animals
Dec
8
Communities of piety from Late Antiquity to Byzantium
Dec
7
Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative
Dec
7
‘Angรฉlica’ Film Screening and Q & A with Marisol Gรณmez-Mouakad
Dec
7
On the origins of Cikunda, “a language without a land” (Presentation of the OriKunda project)
Dec
7
Focus on Ukraine Seminar Series: Is Ukraine Still Post-Soviet?
Dec
7
Value and Solidarity
Dec
6
L’Avant-Scรจne presents “Race in French Theater”
Dec
6
Two Writers on Writing: Considering Class, Play, Power, and Language in the Essay and the Poem
Dec
6
โ€œTen Minutes Laterโ€ A Public Lecture by Belknap Visiting Fellow Josephine Meckseper
Dec
6
Exile and Justice: A Panel Discussion
Dec
6
Lโ€™Avant-Scรจne presents Fragments XXII
Dec
6
Sick Architecture
Dec
5
Data Science for the Humanities and Social Sciences Social Hour
Dec
5
Late Ottoman Turkey in Princetonโ€™s Forgotten Maps, 1883-1923
Dec
5
The Kids Arenโ€™t Alright: Afro-German Afrofuturism and the Fight for Futurity
Dec
3
How did they learn? How did they teach?: Exploring Knowledge Transmission from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern
Dec
2
“A tree named for friendship: reading Homerโ€™s phylia”
Dec
2
Princeton Phonology Forum (PษธF) – The Wheres and Whens of Affixation
Dec
1
Lโ€™Avant-Scรจne presents Cyrano de Bergerac By Edmond Rostand
Dec
1
East of Eden: A Case Against Nostalgia
Dec
1
Fictions of Accumulation: The Economic Turn in Latin American Cultural Studies
Dec
1
Medieval Black Sea Seminar Series
Dec
1
Rubensโ€™s Saltcellar: On the Generative Power of Nature and (Antwerpโ€™s) Art
Dec
1
Introduction to Digital Humanities Funding
Nov
30
LLL: Teaching White Supremacy-Americaโ€™s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity
Nov
30
On: Ontology and its Glitches
Nov
30
Experiments in Euphemism Detection
Nov
30
A Talk About Theater and Performance in the 60s and 70s
Nov
29
Atelier@Large: Conversations on Art-making in a Vexed Era with Actor Jonathan Majors
Nov
29
LLL | The Unfolding: A Novel
Nov
29
“Swampโ€
Nov
29
Human Morality in the Digital Age
Nov
29
Native Nation Building and Sustainability
Nov
29
Science Fiction in the Anthropocene
Nov
29
Arriving in the Present: Transcultural Perspectives in Contemporary German-Speaking Contextsโ€”A Reading Group
Nov
29
Medieval Studies Faculty Colloquium: โ€œThe Return of the Magus: Theurgy in Safavid Iranโ€
Nov
21
Leisure Justice: Pleasure, Policy, and the Promotion of Equality
Nov
21
Partitions of Europe and Healing Spaces of Expulsion
Nov
21
Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration
Nov
19
Open House | Samuel Fosso: Affirmative Acts
Nov
18
Translation as Coded Critique
Nov
17
Performance by A. Revathi
Nov
17
James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures in Ethics: Du Bois and ‘The Souls of White Folk’
Nov
17
PLAS Graduate Works in Progress
Nov
17
On Books, Bibliography, Bibliophilia & Associational Literary History
Nov
17
Humanities and Beyond: Humanities Council Funding Information Session
Nov
16
The Matter of Inscription in Early Modern China
Nov
16
2022-23 Old Dominion Public Lecture Series – The Less Selfish Gene: Forest Altruism, Neoliberalism, and the Tree of Life
Nov
16
Sustainable Oystering: A Farmer-to-Table Conversation
Nov
16
On Writing an Opera about Family Separation at the US-Mexico Border
Nov
15
Reading by harris and Otsuka
Nov
15
Atelier@Large: Conversations on Art-making in a Vexed Era
Nov
15
“Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Dispositionโ€
Nov
15
PUL Author Talk: โ€œThirteen Months in Dixieโ€
Nov
15
Caribbean Studies Speakers Series: Self-Writing in the Caribbean: An โ€œIโ€ for an โ€œEyeโ€
Nov
15
“Temptation Transformed: The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple”
Nov
15
AI and the Future of Religion
Nov
14
Book Banning on the Rise
Nov
14
Ecotheories Colloquium: “Waves and Edges: Ecologies of Displacement”
Nov
12
Index of Medieval Art Conference: Looking at Language
Nov
11
โ€œListen to the Land Speak: Lost Wisdom of the Land and Language of Irelandโ€
Nov
11
The Scale of Space in the Roman World
Nov
10
LLL: Mirror in the Sky: The Life and Music of Stevie Nicks
Nov
10
Organizing Stories: Open House
Nov
10
Tanner Lectures on Human Values: “Known and Strange Things: The Political Necessity of Art”
Nov
10
Is Democracy in the Arab World a Trap? Reflections on the Arab Spring and the Case of Tunisia
Nov
9
LAMB Workshop: Curfew: Or, For the Time Being
Nov
9
A Bird in the Hand: The Work of ESTAR(SER)
Nov
9
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele
Nov
9
EHL Seminar: “Disentangling Genetic, Cultural, and Environmental Effects on Stature in Ancient Europe”
Nov
9
Tanner Lectures on Human Values: “Known and Strange Things: The Political Necessity of Art”
Nov
8
“Atmospheres of Projectionโ€
Nov
8
“The Moon and the Map in the Ancient World”
Nov
8
Mellon Forum: Religion and the Politics of Space in Urban Planning
Nov
8
The Empathy Test: Seeing Humanity in Killers, Terrorists and Other Difficult Interview Subjects
Nov
7
UCHV Film Forum: Julius Onah’s Luce (2019)
Nov
7
Reading by Jonah Mixon-Webster and Creative Writing Seniors
Nov
7
Hidden in Plain Sight: the Rediscovery of an Italian Classic
Nov
7
Fury and Justice in the Humanities
Nov
7
Romanticism and the Material Fragment
Nov
7
“Horses, Wheels, and Languages. Indo-European in the Ancient Near East.”
Nov
5
LUDUS presents ModernMedieval Voices: Hildegard of Bingen, The Living Word
Nov
4
Interworlds: HMEI 2022 Summer Intern Art Show Reception
Nov
4
The Visuality of Writing in Colonial Korea
Nov
4
Paying Attention: Images of Monuments on Roman Imperial Coins
Nov
4
Alfred Hitchcock and the Ideology of Absolute Music
Nov
4
Taxing the Rich in the Just City: Cicero and Dionysius on Fiscal Fairness
Nov
3
Lโ€™Avant-Scรจne presents “Des territoires (โ€ฆ Et tout sera pardonnรฉ?)” by Baptiste Amann
Nov
3
Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
Nov
3
Symposium: How Museums Are Diversifying Their Collections to Include Black and Brown Artists
Nov
3
Ecotheories Colloquium: “Ecology/Echography: Heidegger’s Hut–Three Displacements”
Nov
3
Faculty Discussion: How Do We Create Deep Engagement?
Nov
3
The World on a Lithograph Scroll from Meerut, 1849
Nov
2
Concert with “Sounds of Cyprus” and Lecture with Alkinoos Ioannidis
Nov
2
โ€˜Unbehagen in der Naturโ€™: On Thinking the End of Nature
Nov
2
Focus on Ukraine Seminar Series: How Russian Propaganda Works
Nov
2
Romanticism Colloquium
Nov
2
Mellon Forum: Urban Greening and the Off-Modern
Nov
2
Workshop: Hardware, Everywhere. An Invitation to a New Field of Media Materialism
Nov
1
Princeton Sound Kitchen: Dan Trueman & Caoimhรญn ร“ Raghallaigh
Nov
1
LLL: The Babysitter: a Novel
Nov
1
Getting to the Point. Genealogies of the Analog Code
Nov
1
Latinx Archives in Context
Nov
1
Arriving in the Present: Transcultural Perspectives in Contemporary German-Speaking Contextsโ€”A Reading Group
Nov
1
Transnational Terrorism and Organized Crime in Afghanistan and their Implications for Security in the Region and Beyond
Oct
31
UCHV Film Forum: Jordan Peele’s Nope (2022)
Oct
31
Caribbean Studies Speakers Series: (An)archiving the Caribbean: Matters, Methods, Meanings
Oct
31
The problem of Roman copies: A Transatlantic Dissent
Oct
31
Indian Muslims and the BJP: the quest for the โ€œacceptableโ€ Muslim
Oct
28
โ€œLow the sun; short its courseโ€: Tracing the Celtic ritual cycle through music, manuscript and performance
Oct
28
Screening of Free Chol Soo Lee and Filmmaker Q&A
Oct
28
Industrious Nations: Reconsidering Nationality and Economy in the Soviet Union
Oct
28
The Same River Twice: On The Practice of Translating
Oct
28
Sappho Book 1: the beginning, the middle, and the end
Oct
27
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
Oct
27
Archival Silences Working Group: Too Many Metaphors: Sex and Reproduction in the Archive
Oct
27
Chryselephantine Couches, Feasting, and Royal Opulence in Hellenistic Macedonia
Oct
27
Victorian Colloquium
Oct
27
PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress
Oct
27
Global Existential Challenges: Democratic Challenges & Backsliding in the Global North
Oct
27
Munsee Language & History Symposium
Oct
26
The Golden Ass
Oct
26
Debt Working Group Inaugural Meeting
Oct
26
The Blank Beach: Sand as Material Memory in the Caribbean
Oct
26
My talk, othersโ€™ talk โ€” Quoted speech and evidentials in Kotiria conversation
Oct
26
The Invention of the “Political Offender”: The Sino-Japanese War and the Abortive Sino-American Extradition Treaty, 1893-1895
Oct
26
The Caribbean Through a Science Fiction Lens
Oct
25
Princeton University Press Poets with Susan Stewart
Oct
25
“Getting to the Point. Genealogies of the Analog Codeโ€
Oct
25
The Queerness of Home
Oct
25
Gauss Seminars in Criticism: Hortense J. Spillers
Oct
25
Mellon Forum // Of Milk, Blood, and Bones: Brazilโ€™s Colonial and Postcolonial Plantation “Big House”
Oct
25
Everyday Life in the โ€˜Spectacularโ€™ City: Making Home in Dubai
Oct
25
Faculty Discussion: What Does Experiential Teaching Look Like?
Oct
24
Till Movie Screening and Talk Back w/film producer Keith Beauchamp
Oct
24
The Epidemic Sublime: Reflections on the Representation of Collective Suffering
Oct
24
The Royal Mint at Potosรญ: Inside a Global Seventeenth-Century Cash Machine
Oct
24
Politics of Contamination: Nuclear Impacts on Community Health
Oct
24
Getting to Net-Zero: A Canadian Perspective
Oct
14
An American Martyr in Persia
Oct
14
Screening Ireland: A Life in Film with Lenny Abrahamson
Oct
13
“The Present: A New Period in European History”
Oct
12
LAMB Workshop: Between Rabbi and Saint: The Reception of Gamaliel in the Medieval Latin West (1000-1300)
Oct
12
Of Plush Toys, Hope, and Sorrow: Presenting Children’s War Experiences in a Museum Setting
Oct
12
Faculty Discussion: What Are the Limits of Flexibility and Compassion?
Oct
11
Isostasy: Chamber Music from Ukraine
Oct
11
The Book of Goose: A Novel
Oct
11
Canceled: Program in Media and Modernity: “Untying Things Togetherโ€
Oct
11
James Baldwin Lecture Series: “The Limits Of The Quantitative Approach To Discrimination”
Oct
11
Book Talk: Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South
Oct
11
โ€˜THE ANCIENT THREAD INTO MODERN DRESS: Using the Greek Classics to Tell Contemporary Storiesโ€™
Oct
11
Soldiers and Kings: Inside the World of Human Smuggling
Oct
11
โ€œThe US Governmentโ€™s Formulation of Middle East Policies: An Insiderโ€™s Perspectiveโ€
Oct
11
Documenting the Unreal: Chronicling the Covid Lockdown in India
Oct
10
UCHV Film Forum: Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep (1978)
Oct
10
Seed Farm Open House
Oct
7
Celebration/Party Time
Oct
7
Silence in Free Improvisation
Oct
7
Artist Conversation: Marianne Nicolson
Oct
7
Reassessing Rousseauโ€™s Political Antiquity
Oct
6
Medieval Studies Book Club: Wonderful to Relate: Miracle Stories and Miracle Collecting in High Medieval England
Oct
6
The Spirit of โ€™76: Slavery, Empire, and the Anthropocene in Octavia E. Butlerโ€™s โ€˜Kindredโ€™
Oct
6
The Sassoons: The Global Merchants and the Making of a Dynasty
Oct
6
A Symposium on the Work of Patrice Nganang
Oct
6
Troubling Times: South Asia and the Postcolonial
Oct
5
Glare Captured Through Telescope Eyes: On Seeing and Unseeming in the New Ethers
Oct
5
Marxโ€™s Critique and its Implications for a Critical Philosophy
Oct
5
EHL Seminar: โ€œHistoGenes: Integrating Genomic, Archaeological, and Historical Perspectives on Eastern Central Europe”
Oct
5
Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela
Oct
5
Medieval Studies Faculty Colloquium: โ€œBeginnings and Anomalies. The Example of Medieval Iberiaโ€
Oct
4
Fall 2022 Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment / Palm Politics
Oct
3
UCHV Film Forum: Melvin Van Peebles’ Three Day Pass (1969)
Oct
3
Roman failure: inequality in practice
Oct
3
Ahasver, the Wandering Jew: Between History and Literature
Oct
3
Howard Crosby Butler: The Man Who Went to Wake The Dead, 1872-1922
Sep
30
Celebration/Party Time
Sep
30
Faculty Panel: Seeing Shipwrecks
Sep
29
Book Launch: Radical Pedagogies
Sep
29
Friends Annual Mary Pitcairn Keating Lecture | Art Museums on the Verge: Christopher Knight
Sep
29
“Cities of Gold?” Immigration, Prosperity, and Place in the American Economy
Sep
29
Global Existential Challenges: Democratic Challenges & Backsliding in the Global South
Sep
28
Whose Water? A Conversation About the Human Impact of Californiaโ€™s Water Policies
Sep
27
Body Work and Media Design: The F+F School for Experimental Design 1971-1981
Sep
27
Hamaguchi in Residence: Screening and Discussion of the Workshop Student Films
Sep
27
Arriving in the Present: Transcultural Perspectives in Contemporary German-Speaking Contextsโ€”A Reading Group
Sep
27
Taking a Knee: Human Rights, Social Justice and Sports Writing for a Conflicted World
Sep
26
Jacques Schwarz-Bart presents The Harlem Suite
Sep
26
UCHV Film Forum: Gordon Parks’ The Learning Tree (1969)
Sep
26
Songwriting: Theory of Medieval Song
Sep
26
Life at Berkou: a newly-discovered Roman fortress in Egypt
Sep
25
Hamaguchi in Residence: Public Screening of “Asako I & II”
Sep
24
Hamaguchi in Residence: Public Screening of “Drive My Car”
Sep
23
Hamaguchi in Residence: Public Screening of “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy”
Sep
23
Belknap Global Conversation with Filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Sep
23
Hamaguchi in Residence: Public Screening of “Storytellers”
Sep
23
Working for the Emperor: Behind the Scenes at Antium
Sep
22
Atelier@Large: Conversations on Art-making in a Vexed Era with Tom Stoppard
Sep
22
Alphabets, Fridge Magnets, the Morning Paper
Sep
22
Caribbean Studies Speakers Series (CSSS)โ€“ โ€œTuning into the Caribbean: Sonic Practices and Technologiesโ€
Sep
22
Artist Talk: Mario Moore
Sep
22
Returning to Ambrogio Lorenzettiโ€™s Government Frescoes
Sep
22
Ask Your Questions, a Belknap Visiting Fellows Residency with Daniel Alexander Jones
Sep
22
The Garden of Bedil: The Indo-Persian Literary and Cultural Landscape
Sep
21
Author Conversation
Sep
21
Latin America: The Temptation of Authoritarianism
Sep
21
Mellon Forum: RACE EMPIRE ENVIRONMENT // Remapping Afro-Caribbean Landscapes
Sep
20
On the Bias
Sep
20
The E. Franklin Robbins/UJA-Federation Lecture – Ilana Pardes
Sep
20
Major Corrections: the Materialist Philology of Sebastiano Timpanaro
Sep
20
Writers In Conversation: On Migration, Language and the Stories of Our Lives
Sep
20
Poison and politics: toward a (pre-modern?) theory of community and communication
Sep
20
‘Asfรผriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East
Sep
19
Ask Your Questions, a Belknap Visiting Fellows Residency with Daniel Alexander Jones
Sep
19
Missing Universality: Absence and Politics
Sep
19
Leonardo Sciascia: The Man and the Writer
Sep
19
Center for Digital Humanities Open House
Sep
16
Doctrine and Practice beyond Borders: International Interactions in East Asian Buddhism. A Numata Visiting Scholar Fund Workshop
Sep
14
LAMB Workshop: Preliminary Remarks on Thomas Hรฉlye and the Miracula Antiqua
Sep
14
2022 Princeton University Constitution Day
Sep
14
“Us” as “one”: First person plurals as impersonals in Mayan
Sep
14
Mellon Forum // Race Empire Environment // The Politics of Dwelling
Sep
14
Un Apocalipsis Bรญblico: Guerra de Vietnam, Religiรณn y Orden Ecolรณgico en la Obra de Leรณn Ferrari
Sep
13
Atelier@Large: Conversations on Art-making in a Vexed Era – Jennifer Egan & Michael J. Love
Sep
13
Program in Media and Modernity Event: A Black Gaze
Sep
13
The Rose and Isaac Ebel Lecture
Sep
13
Doublespeak in ancient Greek and modern Ethiopian satire
Sep
13
Degrade and Destroy: How the U.S. Defeated the Islamic State?
Sep
9
Artist Conversation: Rose B. Simpson
Sep
9
The Court Jester and the Black Castrato: Giovannino Buonaccorsi at the Medici Court
Sep
9
The News from Dublin: A Reading by Colm Tรณibรญn
Sep
9
Seuls en Scรจne – Princeton French Theater Festival
Sep
8
16th Annual Humanities Colloquium
Sep
6
Has Political Islam in Turkey been Ended by the AKP?
Aug
24
CCH Summer Book Club | “Violeta: A Novel” by Isabel Allende
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