Events Archive: 2023/24 2023/24 | 2022/23 | 2021/22 | 2020/21 | 2019/20 Dec6Science and Social Justice Salon: Sex and Gender ComplexityDec6“‘Tafaḍḍal,’ Come in and Delve!” – Or How to Sense the In/Visible Space in Manuscripts of the Islamic WorldDec6Sex and Gender Complexity in Scientific ResearchDec6China: From a Nationless State to a Nation Defined by StateDec6A Conversation on Literature and the Climate Crisis with Pierre DucrozetDec6Information structure insights from sign language anaphoraDec62023-24 Old Dominion Public Lecture Series – Women’s Property and the Downward Spiral into Fraud: Questioning the Persistent Narrative of Progress in Women’s Legal StatusDec6Readings from The Princeton Comics NotebookDec6Medieval Faculty Colloquium: “Engaging the Sensoria in Premodern Qur’an Commentary”Dec5L’Avant-Scène presents Fragments XXIIIDec5PISC Paper nº3: “Ripple Effects of Arabization. Coptic History and Memory in late-medieval Egypt”Dec5The Buddhist and the Ethicist: Conversations on Effective Altruism, Engaged Buddhism, and MoreDec5Writing in Good Faith for Reading in Bad Faith, Or: Making Literature in the Age of HatersDec5Kwartler Family Lecture – How did Helena of Adiabene Become Queen of Jerusalem?Dec4PHS & LLL Present – Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American CityDec4Fall Student ReadingDec4Photo History’s Futures: Aglaya GlebovaDec4Political Imaginaries Unmoored: Beyond the Universal and ParticularDec4Reading by award-winning writer Caoilinn HughesDec3LLL Presents Mihret Sibhat & Wendy Belcher – “The History of a Difficult Child: a Novel”Dec2Journalism and Democracy: 2023 Public Humanities ForumDec1“How did Byzantines Read Herodotus? The Case of Marginalia in Verse”Nov30The Priest Nichiren’s Miraculous Escape from Death and Its Modern Skeptics: Negotiating History and Myth in a Japanese Buddhist TraditionNov30POSTPONED: Libraries, Encyclopedias, and Other LabyrinthsNov30The Ovide moralisé: The Divine Comedy of Medieval France?Nov30When Pages Breathe: Adaptation of Modern Classics with Pulitzer Prize-winning Hodder Fellow Martyna MajokNov30“Belonging to a ‘Lost’ Island: Sovereignty, Memory, and Landscape on Imbros”Nov29Film Screening: “Goodbye Julia”Nov29“Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political”Nov29Xiaoshuo as China’s Fourth Religion: Pitfalls and Potentials of Vernacular Literature in the late Qing (1644-1911 CE)Nov29“‘The Syriac Dots:’ Oral Reading Traditions Recorded in Ink”Nov29HOS Colloquia: Listening to Albert the Great on the Art of Becoming a Natural ScientistNov29Sinews of the Soul: Comparing Christian Baptism and Indigenous AdoptionNov29Ticha: archival texts, linguistic analysis, and language activismNov29Plato on the Spirit of the LawNov28“Beyond Reparations: Post-Colonial Loudreaders, Colonial Footprints, and the case for white studies”Nov28“Prickly Moses: Poems” & “Aurora Americana: Poems”Nov28Reading by Kwame Dawes and Creative Writing SeniorsNov28When Pages Breathe: Bringing Literature to Life — An Oral Interpretation of The Great GatsbyNov28“I Judge No One: A Political Life of Jesus”Nov28Medieval Faculty Colloquium: “El Greco – Architect?”Nov27The Unburied: Material Histories of Film in the Owens ValleyNov27Ukraine, War, Love: Olena Stiazhkina and Dominique Hoffman on Writing and Translating WarNov27The Prado at PrincetonNov17Princeton Pianists Ensemble Presents: AuroraNov17“Byzantium Revisited: A Focus on Modern Greek Painting”Nov17UCHV Film Forum: Conversation with Agnieszka HollandNov17Princeton Poetry FestivalNov17All The Things They Wish They SaidNov16UCHV Film Forum: “The Green Border” (2023), a film by Agnieszka HollandNov16“Marcel Proust”Nov16Decolonization of Higher Education in East AfricaNov16Severe Brain Injury, Neuroethics & Disability Rights: Why the Sciences & Humanities must be in ConversationNov16“The Shape of Water – Surveying the Aqueducts of the Knossos Region in Crete”Nov15“The State”Nov15“Tricks of the Light”Nov15“Reconnection, Resistance, and Land Back”Nov15The Poetics of Reading: In Conversation with Maureen N. McLane and Rowan Ricardo PhillipsNov15Manuscript and the Human in Modern ChinaNov15Jonah, or the Prophet At Sea: Hélène Cixous On ProphecyNov15What is the Value of Literature in the Internet Age? Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium as a Guide to Meaningful Digital CommunicationNov15Humanities and Beyond: Council Funding Information SessionNov14Reading by Marlon James & Patricia SmithNov14Atelier@Large: Conversations on Art-making in a Vexed Era – Andrey Kurkov and Alan LightmanNov14Thomas Mann’s Princeton ExileNov14Comparative Diplomatics: “How can Jesuits be mistaken for Buddhist monks? Ōuchi Yoshinaga’s 1552 commendation and its Portuguese and Latin Afterlives”Nov142023-24 Old Dominion Public Lecture Series – Painting in Common: Works of Love from Denmark’s Modern BreakthroughNov13Our AI Futures: Critical Humanistic PerspectivesNov13Clinical Trials in Psychedelic Research: Implications for the Alleviation of End-of-Life Existential Distress and the Study of Religious ExperienceNov13Sociolinguistic Challenges for Emerging Speech TechnologyNov13From the Cloud to the ResistanceNov13McGraw Center Faculty Workshop: AI and Our Classrooms – Generating Images with DALL-E 2Nov10Film Screening: Perfect Days by Wim WendersNov10Lecture & Reading by Louise KennedyNov10Tanner Lectures on Human Values-“The Last Dystopia: Historicizing the Anthropocene Debate in an Age of Multipolarity: Lecture II: Polycrisis”Nov10“To put back all the things people cluttered up…To Straighten, like a diligent Housekeeper of Reality…”: The Greek, Roman and Byzantine collections at MFA Boston re-imaginedNov10“Disfigurement, Disability, and the Dangers of Punishment in Byzantium: The Case of Punitive Blinding”Nov10Building Life: Spatial Politics, Science, and Environmental EpistemesNov9L’Avant-Scène presents “Le Iench” by Eva DoumbiaNov9LLL Presents Melvin Rogers & Eddie Glaude – “The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought”Nov9Anschutz Lecture – Activism at the Intersections of Race and Youth: Prairie View A&M University, Black Colleges & the Fight for Voting RightsNov9From The Tokyo Toilet to Perfect DaysNov9EHL Seminar: “The Long Shadow of the 536 CE Event”Nov9Tanner Lectures on Human Values: “The Last Dystopia: Historicizing the Anthropocene Debate in an Age of Multipolarity: Lecture 1–Beyond the Unipolar Moment”Nov9“The ‘Long Road’ to the Identification of the Worshipped Deity – The Case of the Sanctuary of Demeter on Mount Ithome in Ancient Messene”Nov9The End of Popular Participation? City Politics in Post-Imperial HispaniaNov9McGraw Center Faculty Workshop: Flipping the ClassroomNov8LLL Presents Angus Deaton & Matthew Desmond: “Economics in America”Nov8“The True Adventures of His Life”: A Centenary Celebration for Victor BrombertNov8On the Integral Nature of the Zuo zhuan 左傳 (Zuo Tradition) as Seen from Such Factors as Character DevelopmentNov8LLM Forum: A Conversation with Wai Chee DimockNov8Le Théâtre d’Eva Doumbia Conversation avec Florent MasseNov8Mellon Forum // The Cost of BordersNov7“On Modern Living”Nov7Eberhard L. Faber Class of 1915 Memorial Lecture in Literature: A Long History of PandemicsNov7HMEI Faculty Seminar – Visuality Against the Anthropocene: Landscape Vision and Things That Do Not SeeNov6Chile 9/11 Series | Ariel Florencia Richards: Copello InterruptusNov6Unwelcoming Hermeneutics: Placing Multilingualism in Critical TheoryNov6Ideologies of Economy: Narrative Subversion in German Poetic RealismNov3Third Annual Munsee Language and History SymposiumNov2An Evening with Jhumpa Lahiri & Zahid ChaudharyNov2Towards a New History of Ukraine: Writing Women’s Lives into War and PostwarNov2France: quelle égalité, quelle fraternité aujourd’hui?Nov2Dalits and the Anti-Caste Epistemology: From Oral to Literary Tradition in Telugu CountryNov2Ideologies of resilience in ancient Roman architectureNov2Screening of “Il Moro (The Moor)” and Conversation with Filmmaker Daphne Di CintoNov2“Byzantium Revisited: A Focus on Modern Greek Painting”Nov2The Family Roe: The unknown woman at the heart of Roe v. WadeNov2Medieval and Early Modern German Studies Graduate ColloquiumNov1Ukrainian Poetry in Translation with Ilya Kaminsky, Katie Farris, Maya Chabra, Andrew Janco & Olga LivshinNov1History (Re)incarnate: George Eliot and Qurratulain HyderOct31“Art’s Properties”Oct31Documenting Violence in Writing and TranslationOct31Medieval Faculty Colloquium: “How Japan Became Known as the Land of the Rising Sun: The Enduring Influence of the Seventeen Commandments of 604”Oct31Chile 9/11 Series | Alfredo Castro: A Political Retrospective (Film Series)Oct30Circular ConnectingOct30Bain-Swiggett Library Open House with Patricia SmithOct30The Language of War: Rage, Love, MemoryOct27Documentary Screening & Panel Discussion “A Spear Through the Heart”Oct27“Language and the Irish Novel,” a talk and reading by Barry McCreaOct274th Annual Mid-Atlantic Ottomanist WorkshopOct27La Pisada Del Ñandú / The Rhea’s FootprintOct27Angelus Novus-Balancing Act from the Cosmological, Architectonic, Moral and Aesthetic Points of ViewOct27Re/Framing Eastern European CinemaOct27Conference: Finished? Early Modern Arts in the Imperfect TenseOct26Violence on Land and BodyOct26LAMB Workshop: ‘Lapidatores, Percussores Urbisque Depopulatores’: Urban Violence in the Chronicle of Marcellinus ComesOct26PISC workshop: “Are There Post-Mamluk Encyclopedias? Yusuf al-Shirbīni’s Hazz al-Quhuf (c. 1097/1686)”Oct26The Art of Losing or The Afterlives of the Algerian War: A Conversation with Alice ZeniterOct26Fatal Forgiveness: Euripides, Austin, Cavell, ArendtOct26Traz d’horizonte: Impressions from Cabo VerdeOct26Q&A with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Africa World Lecture SeriesOct26Writing a Feminist Epic: A Conversation about ‘Las Extraterrestres’Oct26(Re)Discovery: Modernist Travelogues by Sofia Yablonska, A Daring Ukrainian Woman Globetrotting in the 1930sOct26Public Humanities Across BordersOct26McGraw Center Faculty Workshop: Using Social Annotation to Increase Student EngagementOct25LLL Presents – Tabula Rasa, Vol. 1Oct25Caravaggio and the Echos of FigurationOct25LLM Forum: A Conversation with Meredith WhittakerOct25The Archaeology of Everyday Life in Late Medieval JapanOct25Africa World Lecture Series: Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieOct25CANCELLED – Introducing Grapholinguistics: Why and How a Linguist Studies Writing SystemsOct25Were the Ancient Greeks Responsible for Antisemitism?Oct25Femmes et Fictions Littéraires: Conversation avec Alice ZeniterOct25Mellon Forum // Three Propositions on the Relationship between Spatial Settings and Emotional AttachmentsOct25“Europe’s Coming of Age”Oct25McGraw Center Faculty Drop-in Session: Custom Course Evaluation QuestionsOct24Le Théâtre d’Alice Zeniter: Conversation avec Florent MasseOct24“Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis”Oct24The Nassau Literary Review’s 181st Anniversary Conference: Diversity and Representation in NassLit and Princeton’s HistoryOct24Gauss Seminars in Criticism: Silvia FedericiOct24Princeton Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)Oct24“Good Music and Bad Music in Late Antiquity”Oct24“Value and slavery, or the longue durée of the analog-digital distinction”Oct24On ‘Political Disappointment’ and its Origins in a Princeton English DissertationOct23The Flowers of Andromache: Allegory and the Ontological DifferenceOct23The First Kings of Europe: An International Exhibition about the Prehistoric BalkansOct23McGraw Center Faculty Workshop: AI and Our ClassroomsOct12Splendors and Miseries of Lies. Autofiction, Exofiction, Ego Histoire, and the Question of TruthOct12Seeking Justice: The Civil Rights Movement and the Federal GovernmentOct12LLL Presents – “Necessary Trouble: Growing up at Mid-Century”Oct11Chile 9/11 Series | Nona Fernández: ¿Cómo recordar la sed?/ How to Remember the Thirst?Oct11Fluid Futures Forum: Islands, Oceans and Volcanoes in TransformationOct11Ada Lovelace Day Graduate MixerOct11The Sergei Loznitsa SymposiumOct11Documenting War CrimesOct11Mytelka Memorial Lecture – The Yiddish of the Islamic World? When did Jews adopt Arabic and how did this change Jewish Literature?Oct10Atelier@Large: Conversations on Art-making in a Vexed EraOct10LLL Presents Boo Trundle & Christie Henry – “The Daughter Ship: A Novel”Oct10When Pages Breathe: Bringing Good Books to Life – An evening of reader’s theaterOct10“Architecture’s Theory”Oct10A Film Composer Fails Magnificently: Subjectivity and The Invention of Meaning in Film ScoringOct10The Sergei Loznitsa SymposiumOct10Mytelka Memorial Seminar – The Jewish Bookshelf in Medieval Cairo: Book Lists from the Cairo GenizahOct10Mining a Toxic Quarry: Louise Dupin’s Construction of the Work on WomenOct10Chile 9/11 Series | Diamela Eltit: ‘Lumpérica’ 40 Years, A SymposiumOct10Writing and Translating Poetry in Times of WarOct10McGraw Center Faculty Roundtable: Teaching Native American and Indigenous StudiesOct9Ernst Haas: Letters & StoriesOct9Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth LivingOct6Smells, Sounds and Textures of Iberian Modernity: Spain’s Perfumed ModernityOct5LLL Presents – “48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister & Zero-Sum: Stories”Oct5Gillett G. Griffin Lecture: “Deep Colonial Waters: Wars, Bankruptcy, Natural Catastrophes, Pandemics and Healing Through Art”Oct5McGraw Center Faculty Discussion: Mentoring Supports for Faculty: An Info Gathering LuncheonOct4LLL Presents – “Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History”Oct4Faculty Panel | Perspectives on Doug Aitken’s migration (empire)Oct4Environmental Humanities Colloquium: An Immense WorldOct4McGraw Center Faculty Discussion: A Conversation about Content WarningsOct4Sovereignty through Praxis: Contemporary Quechua Weaving from PeruOct4The 2023-24 Frederick W. Mote Memorial Lecture: The Sacrificial Body of Moye: Affect and Materiality in the Forging of Wu-Yue SwordsOct4Economic Challenges Amidst Times of Crisis in Latin AmericaOct3ALTHEA Reading: by Ling Ma & Sandra CisnerosOct3Panel: Creativity in the Age of ChatGPTOct3“Birdcalls: A roundtable”Oct3Princeton University Library Author Talk: Ryo Morimoto “Nuclear Ghost”Oct3Homer’s Hippiad: From the First Deaths to the Last WordOct3The Future of Hong Kong: Is free speech dead?Oct3A Conversation with Peruvian Filmmaker Melina LeónOct2Racial politics in Latin AmericaOct2Mellon Forum: ‘Faith Shines Equal’ / Airport SublimeOct1Timbuktu Grooves Festival: DjandjobaSep30Timbuktu Grooves Festival: Fatoumata DiawaraSep29Timbuktu Grooves Festival: Once the Dust Settles Flowers BloomSep29Concert: “Greek Rock Sounds: Rhythms and Riffs Across Cultures” featuring PANELSep29Structuring Itelmen Word OrderSep29Innovation ForumSep29The Chinua Achebe Symposium and 10th Anniversary Memorial CelebrationSep28Carlos Fonseca *15 | A Discussion on His Latest Novel: AustralSep28Embodied Minds in the Late Capitalist System: Suicide and Environmental Degradation in AfricaSep28McGraw Center Faculty Special Event: A Celebration of Excellent Teaching and MentoringSep28The Thief Who Stole My HeartSep28Medieval Song and the Sounding of World, Body, and ImaginationSep28Pond Music: Interspecies ImprovisationSep28Walking in Place: A Tour of Princeton and Vicinity, Organized by Robert SullivanSep28McGraw Center Faculty Presentation: The Power of Checking In – Mid-Semester Course FeedbackSep28“Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meetings to Wall Street” with Jackson Lears & Graham BurnettSep27Film Screening & Discussion: “Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb”Sep27Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature with Florian Fuchs & Daniel Heller RoazenSep27On the Translation and Adaptation of The Vocabulario da lingoa de IapamSep27“Into the Forever and Beautiful Sky”: Confronting Animal Brutality in a Galaxy of Limitless CapitalismSep27From “The Mind has No Sex?” to “Gendered Innovations”: A Historian’s Contribution to Enhancing Excellence in Science & TechnologySep27Vathy Astypalaia: Recent Data from a Diachronic Palimpsest of the AegeanSep27Writing Seminar: Where is Princeton?Sep26Climate InheritanceSep26Chile 9/11 Series | Voluspa Jarpa: “Chile 9/11 Before Chile 9/11”Sep26Sensory Life in South India: Counter-Narratives of Islamic Material CultureSep26Double Exposure: Re-Seeing the West with Timothy O’Sullivan, America’s Most Mysterious War PhotographerSep26Mellon Forum // Womanist Work: Black Women Preachers and the Making of Sermonic Space in Literature and MusicSep22Film Screening and Artist Talk: Chantel Comardelle and Dennis Davis of “Knowledge is Power”Sep22Thinking Through Minshū Bukkyō: Popular Buddhism and the Study of Premodern JapanSep22Black Sea Migrations in the Long Thirteenth Century: Bodies, Things, IdeasSep21LLL Presents – Wednesday’s Child: Short StoriesSep21On AssemblingSep21The Plataian Community in Athens: An Enclave?Sep2117th Annual Humanities Colloquium: Archives and the FutureSep21John Durham Peters & Shannon Mattern in ConversationSep20Notes Toward the Media History of GibberishSep20Transhemispheric Translation: Scenes from Contemporary Latin American PoeticsSep19Comparative Diplomatics: Han Dynasty Edicts and Ordinances on Official PromotionSep19No Ordinary Assignment: What it means to be a war correspondentSep19Seminar: Circumstantial DetailSep18Constitution Day Lecture 2023: The Constitution and the CourtSep18Center for Digital Humanities Open HouseSep18African Americans and Xenophon, c. 1800–1910Sep18Sounds in Wax: Musicology, Linguistics, and the World as a ResourceSep18McGraw Center Faculty Workshop: AI and Our Classrooms – Generating Text with Chat GPTSep15Soil & Light: A Poetry Reading at the FarminarySep15Public Talk: Art in Times of WarSep14Film Screening: Art in Times of WarSep14Mindscapes Unveiled: Artist’s Talk with Chanika SvetvilasSep13Coming into Color: The Cloth Classic, Jiangnan Dyeworks, and the Expansion of Cotton Dyes in Qing ChinaSep13The Sex ObsessionSep13Mellon Forum // Land, Law & Speculative Urban FuturesSep13Fictional Realism–What our Relationship to the Non-Existing Teaches Us About RealitySep12Media + Modernity: “Disability as Method”Sep12Confusion, Nonsense, and Consciousness: Poetry as a Source for a Novel Theory of SubjectivitySep8Mindscapes Unveiled, an exhibition by Chanika SvetvilasSep8Seuls en Scène – Princeton French Theater FestivalSep7Exhibition Opening – Resilient Coasts: Forests and AdaptationSep6Friends of Princeton University Library Small Talk: “When Democracy Was Threatened a Century Ago”
