Humanities Events Archive: 2025/26 2025/26 | 2024/25| 2023/24 | 2022/23 | 2021/22 | 2020/21 | 2019/20 May31Slow Looking Art Activity: “Nursery of Rebellion”May19“Transported: The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams”May14Antisemitism and the Law: Jewsโ Unfinished Quest for Liberation Through LawMay14The French Revolution and the Sacred – Global and Contemporary Perspectives (18th c. โ present)May13Audio & Ideas: Exploring the Possibilities for Scholarly PodcastingMay11Commentary Continuities, Medieval to ModernMay7Patchwork: A String Orchestra ConcertMay7โRevolution Up Closeโ Public Lecture Series | The Boston Massacre: A Family HistoryMay6JRN 314 Film Screening: The Legacy of Lead / El Legado del PlomoMay6When Pages Breathe: Public Domain InSight, In MindMay4Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal MovementMay1Concert: “Anamnฤsis: Regaining Time in Music & Poetry”May1Singing Matters: Song Ecologies from the Troubadours to the Global SouthMay1Did Saint Paul Eat Kosher?May1Medieval Matters: Manuscript Culture and the Five Senses in the Middle AgesApr30โChoreographing Velocity: Contemporary Performance Emerging from the African ContinentโApr30Designing the Future of Palestine-IsraelApr30Symposium: Learning Through PhotographyApr29Hear Our Poetry: A Multilingual Poetry ReadingApr29“A Kingdom and a Village: A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow”Apr28“Bramble”Apr28“Travaux d’Acteurs” performed by students enrolled in FRE 311-THR 312Apr28When Literature Takes a Strange Turn…Apr28Experiential Learning through Community-Engaged TeachingApr27Poetry in a Burning World: Works by Ilya Kaminsky and Katie FarrisApr27Hidden in Plain Sight: Reworked Priestly-Sectarian Traditions in Rabbinic LiteratureApr27Must we choose between militancy and repair? The example of Bouba TourรฉApr27Un Destino Comรบn: A Conversation with Filmmaker Lucrecia MartelApr26Film Screening of “Nuestra Tierra (Landmarks)” and Q&A with Filmmaker Lucrecia MartelApr26The Jefferson Paradox: Race, Slavery and the Promise of AmericaApr23French Film Festival | Screening of “Dilili in Paris” (2018) + Q&A with filmmaker Michel OcelotApr23‘Revolution Up Close’ Public Lecture Series | The Painterโs Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American RevolutionApr23Verse and Voice Poetry Festival Keynote: Robert PinskyApr23French Film Festival | Dinner conversation with award-winning animation filmmaker Michel OcelotApr23“Filling in the Blanks: Increasing the Representation of Late Antique and Early Medieval Coin Finds from Greece and Tรผrkiye”Apr23Walking with Stories: Palestine, Memory and Practices of Ongoing ReturnApr22French Film Festival | Screening of “Little Amelie, or the Character of the Rain” (2025) + Q&A with filmmaker Mailys ValladรฉApr22KOREAN MESSIAH: Kim Il Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea’s Personality CultApr22Charlotte Beradtโs Third Reich of DreamsApr21L’Avant-Scรจne presents “Juste la fin du monde” by Jean-Luc LagarceApr21L’Avant-Scรจne presents “Juste la fin du monde” by Jean-Luc LagarceApr21On Journalism and Scholarship: Kevin Sack in Conversation with Avram Alpert about “Mother Emanuel”Apr21Regulatory Landscapes at the Whitney Biennial 2026Apr21Lacan, Althusser and the โVery Pretty Dreamโ of InterdisciplinarityApr21Creative Writing Seniors Reading: Fiction & Creative NonfictionApr21REPORTING FROM BEIJING with Jonathan Cheng ’05Apr21โWhy Do You Begrudge Us Your Daughter?โ: Genealogy as Slaveholding PracticeApr21How to Write a Song: Concert of New SongsApr20Exhibition Opening | Princeton in/and Cinema: From Thomas Edison to OppenheimerApr20Christian Converts to Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean WorldApr20Creative Writing Seniors Reading: Poetry, Playwriting & ScreenwritingApr18“Le Retour au dรฉsert” by Bernard-Marie KoltรจsApr18Rethinking the Origins of Buddhist Studies in North America Kenneth Chโen and the Central Role of Asian and Asian-American Scholars in Founding the FieldApr17“Le Retour au dรฉsert” by Bernard-Marie KoltรจsApr17Possessing the Recent Past: Renewing the National Palace Museum of the Republic of ChinaApr16PLAS Graduate WorkshopApr16Faculty Salon: Materials and Art in the LaboratoryโGoldApr16Mother Emanuel: Faith and Forgiveness Ten Years After the Charleston Church MassacreApr16Floralia: A Conference in Honor of Harriet and Michael FlowerApr16The Mediterranean and Caribbean: A Wayward ComparisonApr15“The Five Ages of Antifascism”Apr15Film Screening of The Fishbowl/La Pecera followed by Q&A with Film Director Glorimar Marrero SรกnchezApr15The Morality of Taxpaying in AmericaApr15โDefining the Old Japanโโ Interpretations of Self-Cultivation in the Late Meiji and Taishล PeriodsApr15The Abraham Accords: Their Origins and their FutureApr14Spring Student ReadingApr14Sound Performance: Echoes from the BorderlandsApr14The Black Androids: Writing the Technological UndergroundApr14Book Discussion: Elites and DemocracyApr14Reporting on Iran From AfarApr14Electroshocking the Past: Art History and the Political Project of Non-Generative AIApr14Metropolises in the Mud: lnnovation in Building Technology in the Low CountriesApr13“Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims” Short Film Screening + Q&AApr132026 Meredith Miller Memorial Lecture with Shaina TaubApr13Simone de Beauvoir and the Cult of Thinness in 2026Apr13Thracian Rock Monuments: the cult complex at Gluhite Kamani in SE BulgariaApr12French Film Festival | Screening of “When Fall is Coming” (2024) by Franรงois OzonApr12Founding Families and Their Musical WorldApr11Princeton FrancoFest (2nd Edition) – Francophone FestivalApr10French Film Festival | Screening of “Black in France” (2022) followed by Q&A with UCLA Prof. Alain MabanckouApr10French Film Festival | Dinner conversation with UCLA Distinguished Prof. Alain Mabanckou: Can Books and Films Shape our World?Apr10Pulse and Projection: Visio Cordis in PracticeApr10โAfter Oscar: Wilde between the li(n)es,โ a lecture by Merlin HollandApr10Thrive: A Day for Art and WellbeingApr10future of (data) work conferenceApr10The Long Arc of FascismApr9Reclaiming Transcultural HistoriesApr9A Book Talk with Serang Chung: See You on the RooftopApr9The Unequal Tongue: Latin Competence and Community in Early Medieval St. GallApr9Framing the Long Arc of Fascism with Naomi Klein and Aaju PeterApr9Secret Stories of Migration: Cars, Coffins, Cash, and Other EncomiendasApr8“What Happened to the Black Lives Matter movement?” A Conversation with Jelani Cobb and Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorApr8Humanistic Studies Sophomore Open HouseApr8The Stenographerโs Invisible Hand: How Speech Became Language in Modern JapanApr8AI for humanities research?Apr8New Books Forum – Rhodri Lewis and ‘Shakespeare’s Tragic Art’Apr8Psychoanalysis, Islam, and the Calligraphy of InventionApr7“Down Time: A Novel”Apr7Leave If You Can: Migration and Violence in Bordered WorldsApr6European Studies Sophomore Open HouseApr5French Film Festival | Screening of “Jerome’s Secret” (1994) + Q&A with director Phil ComeauApr4French Film Festival | Screening of “Resonance Acadie” (2025) + Q&A with director Phil ComeauApr3French Film Festival | Screening of Misericordia (2024) by Alain GuiraudieApr3Make a Zine with Special CollectionsApr2French Film Festival | Premiere Screening of “Bardot” (2025) + Q&A with Prof. Ericka KnudsonApr2Grouping Read: A Workshop with Ethan PhilbrickApr2French Film Festival | Women in French Cinema (Book Talk with Prof. Ericka Knudson)Apr1Preaching and Hiding: Buddhist Stuff, Spirits, and Storytelling in Early Modern Sลtล Zen Secret DocumentsApr1Tara Menon in Conversation with Maria DiBattista on โUnder Water: A NovelโApr1Medieval Studies Faculty Colloquium โ โReading by Candlelight in Late-Medieval BritainโApr1Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and SolidaritiesMar31โOn the Palestinian Diaspora and the Dream of Returnโ: A conversation between Professor Max Weiss and Hannah Lillith Assadi on her novel “Paradiso 17”Mar31No Humans-in-the-Loop: The People-less Stories Generated by GPTMar31Rethinking the Naked Warrior: Armor, Sculpture, and the Body in Archaic and Classical GreeceMar31Exhausting Socialist Internationalism: Kira Muratova and Sergei ParajanovMar31Understanding Syria After Assad: Faris Zwirahn in Conversation with Bernard HaykelMar31Rethinking Industrial Policies for Argentina: Fostering Innovation and EntrepreneurshipMar31Practice doesn’t make perfect (but it helps)Mar30Film Screening & Talkback: “Memory of Princess Mumbi”Mar27Now is the Time: Artists Go to Work – Toni Morrisonโs Atelier and the Importance of Artistic Convening and CollaborationMar27Seeing Sound, Speaking Images: The Senses in the Middle AgesMar26“The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism”Mar26Panel Discussion Toshiko Takaezu: Dialogues in ClayMar26Edward W. Said โ57 Memorial Lecture: Exit & ExceptionMar26Visions of Sublime Excess: Visionary Literature, Expansive Art, and Transformative Technologies in Ancient and Modern BuddhismMar26The “Wealth of Nations” ProblemMar26AI x Journalism: Transforming the NewsMar26Beyond Words: The Visualization of Myths in Greek AntiquityMar26CREMS Spring Exhibition Preview – Gothic by Design: The Dawn of Architectural DraftmanshipMar25Film Screening: So Surreal: Behind the MasksMar25Spencer Trask Lectures: Percival EverettMar25German Department Sophomore Open HouseMar25E. Franklin Robbins/UJA-Federation Lecture โ Cooperation, Care, and Suspicion: Jewish Encounters with Early Modern DiseaseMar25PAW Magie Lecture โ Divining Scriptures: Homer, the Gospels, and DivinationMar25Princeton’s Inaugural 3 Minute Thesis CompetitionMar25Fragile States, Resilient Autocracy, and the Precarious Path to Democratization in the Arab WorldMar25Princeton Initiative Forum on the Urban Environment // Cities Made & Unmade Infrastructure, Resistance, and the Agency in the South Asian CityMar25Yes, and! Improv for creativity, collaboration, and innovationMar24Reading by Kaitlyn Greenidge and Hisham MatarMar24Paranoid Publics: Psychopolitics of TruthMar24“I, Wandering Jew” Book Launch: Yair Mintzker in conversation with David NirenbergMar24Memorial Service & Reception for David BellosMar24The Invention of Verse Translation in the Latin RenaissanceMar22French Film Festival | Screening of “Last Summer” (2023)Mar21French Film Festival | US Premiere Screening of “Claude McKay, Wanderings of a Rebellious Poet” (2025) + Q&A with filmmaker Matthieu VerdeilMar20French Film Festival (Opening Night) | US Premiere Screening of “Rodrigue in Love” (2025) + Q&A with filmmaker Johann DionnetMar20OVERBURDEN: World Premiere Film ScreeningMar20โFor and Against a United Irelandโ with Fintan OโToole and Sam McBrideMar19Medieval Studies Sophomore Open HouseMar18“Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement”Mar18Of Gods, Courtiers, and Sacred Scrolls in Medieval Japan: The Illustrated Handscroll of Miracles of the Kasuga DeityMar18Mytelka Memorial Lecture โ Mutability and Mediation: The Kabbalah of Lady Anne Conway (1631-79)Mar18The Rise & Demise of Political IslamMar18โNile Nightshadeโ Book Talk with Anny GaulMar17Film Forum โ RiefenstahlMar17Friends Annual Mary Pitcairn Keating Lecture: Artist Nick CaveMar17A Pretense of Ownership: The Attempted Enslavement of Rose Bazile (Port-au-Prince, Santiago de Cuba, New Orleans)Mar17Democracy and the Earth in Aeschylus’ SuppliantsMar16Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian NakbaMar16Mytelka Memorial Seminar โ “Like a Conversation”: The Problem of Evil between F.W.J. Schelling and Lurianic KabbalahMar16Over the Mediterranean Sea and The Pacific: writing about colonialism and diasporasMar16Reasons and Feelings: Writing for the Humanities Now: A Conversation with Sarah Mesle and Jeff DolvenMar5Freedom of the press? Journalism in the โfake newsโ eraMar4Book Talk: “When All the Men Wore Hats: Susan Cheever on the Stories of John Cheever”Mar4On the Invention of Xuanxue ็ๅญธ (โDark Learningโ): A Reading of Xie Lingyunโs ่ฌ้้ (385โ433) โBian zong lunโ ่พฏๅฎ่ซ (โDiscourse on Discriminating the Ultimate Sourceโ)Mar4On Being and Knowing: A Response to Thomas Ogdenโs โOntologicalโ FrameworkMar3“Clutch: A Novel”Mar3Panel Discussion & Opening Reception | Media and Modernity: 25 Years of Thinking through MediationMar3Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the BinaryMar3Liberating Information: Exploring Computational Methods to Study Histories of Information, from Decolonization to Digital Humanities Modeling Culture TalkMar3Anarchic Justice: Responding to the “Enforced Disappearance Apparatus” in MexicoMar2Over- and Under- Constitutionalization as Democratic ProblemsMar2Highland, Lowland: Chlorite Landscapes of the Iranian Plateau in the Third Millennium BCEMar2Contact PhilologyFeb27Black Studies Is for EveryoneFeb26Baroque Sovereignty: A Colonial Poetics | 3. FingernailsFeb26โWorking Girlsโ Film ScreeningFeb26Hermes, Close ReaderFeb26Rengetsuโs Haptic Poetics: Toward a Kinesthetic Theory of ArtFeb26Princeton Initiative Forum on the Urban EnvironmentFeb26From the Global to the Local: A Symposium on Community-Engaged HumanitiesFeb25Artist Talk: Richard MosseFeb25CANCELED: Film Screening and Discussion: “The Nest”Feb25Baroque Sovereignty: A Colonial Poetics | 2. GiantsFeb25Brutality of Perfectionism and the Perils of the Mandate of Heaven in Early Chinese EmpiresFeb24Reading by Jordan Salama โ19 and Creative Writing SeniorsFeb24Baroque Sovereignty: A Colonial Poetics | 1. MirrorsFeb24CANCELED: Performance: Echoes from the BorderlandsFeb24Screening of PBS Documentary BOMBSHELLFeb24Voice, Gender, Character: Tessitura Film Screening and Q&AFeb23CANCELED: Climate Storytelling: Works in ProgressFeb23Why Go Back to Beauvoir? Situating The Second SexFeb23TO BE RESCHEDULED: “Jesuits and the Circulation of Objects in the Hispanic World”Feb20Princeton Research Day โ Undergraduate EditionFeb20The Suicide StateFeb19ECS Faber Lecture – Provincializing Europe, 25 Years OnFeb19Fascism as Preventive Counter-RevolutionFeb19MY AI MOM: Artificial intelligence may not replace my job. But could it replace my mother?Feb18Stafford Little Lectures: Kate Manne and Tressie McMillan CottomFeb18Robert Janson-La Palme *76 Lecture | โThrough a Glass, Darklyโ โ Leonardo da Vinci as an Innovative Creator of Religious PaintingsFeb18Rethinking the Circuits of Cold War Culture: International Dance Exchanges in Mao-Era ChinaFeb18โOccupying Selvesโ or โHow to be an Indian via Unciteable PainโFeb18The Colonial-Fascist Boomerang and the Politics of TragedyFeb18Samuel Beckett on the CouchFeb17Conversation: “Epic in Our Times”Feb17Reading by Didi Jackson and Major JacksonFeb17Race, History, and Memory in the 250th Year of the U.S.Feb17Suetoniusโ Phoney Followers: The Invention of Emperor-Biography in the Historia AugustaFeb17The Politics of Joy: Collective Art Practices Across BordersFeb17Tomorrow is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/PalestineFeb13Black History Month: Free Screening of “The Story of Souleymane” (2024)Feb12Picturing the Human: Religion and the Public ConversationFeb11Love as/in Game, or Chinese Streaming Media in the Age of InvolutionFeb11Aura before PetrarchFeb11Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American CityFeb10Reading by Hala Alyan and Creative Writing SeniorsFeb10An Israeli Rabbiโs Engagement with the Arab World – in ArabicFeb10Rose and Isaac Ebel Lecture โ Literary Metareflection in Extremis: Writing from Nazi Ghettos in PolandFeb10From Marxism and Dependentismo to Civil Society and Democracy: Reconsidering the Democratic Transition Turn in Latin American Politics and Political ThoughtFeb9Quรฉbec Day at Princeton โ Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Public Policy: Challenges and PerspectivesFeb8‘No One is Forgotten’ Conversation on: โWhat Art Can Do That Journalism CannotโFeb8No One is Forgotten: An Immersive Opera DramaFeb7“Britannicus” by Jean RacineFeb7No One is Forgotten: An Immersive Opera DramaFeb6“Britannicus” by Jean RacineFeb5Book Talk: “Atlas’s Bones”ย Feb4Comparative Diplomatics | Medieval Arabic Legal DocumentsFeb4Friends of PUL Small Talk: โLooking for John McPheeโ with Noel RubintonFeb4Que peuvent les classiques ? A Conversation between Stรฉphane Braunschweig and Florent MasseFeb4Princeton Initiative Forum // The Last House on the Block: Black Homeowners, White Homesteaders, and Failed Gentrification in DetroitFeb3Book Talk: “Far Calls: On Omens, Slips, & Epiphanies”Feb3Of Pigs and the Proper: Philosophy and the Other in Plutarch’s GryllusFeb3Public Theater in Crisis – the State of the Arts in FranceFeb3Between the Great Powers: South American Non-Alignment in an Era of Great Power CompetitionFeb3Intersections Working Group: John LurzFeb2Author Talk: Sanyu A. MojolaFeb2How To Read A Revelation: Interpretation and Commentary in Classical ChinaFeb2Modeling โWorth by Associationโ in U.S. Book Reviews, 1905โ1925Feb2Biderman Lecture โ Antisemitism, an American TraditionJan29I Was Married to a Horse, and Other Tales of an Accidental AnthropologistJan29A Sense of Place: Lubaina Himid and the SeaJan28Brian Jones in conversation with Naomi Murakawa: “Black History Is for Everyone”Jan28Jesuits in Emperor Kangxiโs Private Power NetworkJan27Dust and the Digital BorderlandJan27The Muslim Sensorium: From the 10th-century Brethren of Purity to Muแธฅammad Farฤซd Wajdฤซ (d. 1954)Jan27Hurwitz, Henkin, and Herzl: The Transnational Network that Sustains Orthodox Jewish FeminismJan25Author Talk: Miriam LeonardJan22Conservation Panel: Preparing the Collections for Their New HomeDec10Information Session: Journalism Summer Seminar in GreeceDec8Back to the Splendor of Language: The Resilience and the Restless Joy of a Multilingual Poet-TranslatorDec5Weitzmann Memorial Lecture โ Art as Proof: Statues and High Relief as Ideological Statements at the Time of the Image Controversy, c.750โ850?Dec5When Pages Breathe: American Black/OutDec4Dante in the Chapel: An Evening of Poetry and MusicDec4Imagine Otherwise: Fantasy, Fairytale, Fiction (Slavic Film Series)Dec4Journalism Lunch Talk: The Detainees of Crystal CityDec3Ce qui fait trembler les hommes. Rรฉflexions sur la soumission conjugale (1690-1703)Dec3Upriver Empire: Imperial Japan, Watersheds, and Dispossession in Colonial TaiwanDec3GSS Faculty-Graduate Seminar: โSecular Power and Its Spatial OtherโDec3PAW Lunch Talk | The Economy of Madness in the Greek and Roman World: Coining the IrrationalDec3Capercaillie on the Wire. Or: Freedom, Not Law for PsychoanalysisDec2L’Avant-Scรจne presents “Fragments XXV”Dec2Feminist Approaches in Musical Theatre: Book talk with Paige Allen ’21, Stacy Wolf, and Jill DolanDec2Extraits de piรจces sur le climatDec2IHUM Open HouseDec2Distributed Authorship in the Sulpicia CorpusDec1Reading as writers: Lunch talk with Pierre DucrozetDec1‘Things that Function Like Truth’: Translating Contemporary Poetry from Latin AmericaNov21ESSAY WEEK: Why the Essay Is NecessaryNov20Journalism Lunch Talk: Reporting and Writing on Mental IllnessNov20Graduate Student Workshop: “Imaginations of the Womb โ Uterine Imaginaries”Nov19Lawrence in Lahore: The Lost YearsNov19“Democracy’s Foot Soldiers” A Conversation with Reena Goldthree and Ada FerrerNov19Numbers at Play: The Logic of Quantification in Early Modern Chinese Games and LiteratureNov19Book Talk with President Christopher L. Eisgruber: “Terms of Respect: How Colleges Get Free Speech Right”Nov19Analysis Possible and ImpossibleNov18From Paris to Romania: Music of George EnescuNov18A Poetry Reading by Nathaniel MackeyNov18Another America, Another Cuba: Josรฉ Martรญ & Cayo HuesoNov18Publishing Empire: Modeling Early 20th-Century British Book CultureNov18Nature in the Abstract: Art and Extractivism in VenezuelaNov17Transformation, Regulation, and Pluriformity in Jewish TextualityNov17The Diasporic Jewish Question of the Best RegimeNov17Viral Authors: Postwar American Literature in the Age of Social Media and AINov17Translating America: The United States as Third Culture in TranslationNov17ESSAY WEEKNov16Screening of ‘Zelensky’ + Q&A with filmmaker and journalist Ariane CheminNov14A Conversation with Olwen FouรฉrรฉNov14Poetry and prose: Bishop, Hopkins, Salgaฬdo, Brooks, Victor, KapilNov13Imagine Otherwise: Fantasy, Fairytale, Fiction (Slavic Film Series)Nov13Forms and Forums: Women Ceramists, Skill, and the Classroom as SiteNov13Gabii and the Archaeology of Roman Urbanism: Recent Discoveries and New DirectionsNov13Tanner Lectures on Human Values: “A Defense of Free Speech from Its Progressive Critics”Nov13PLAS Graduate Workshop | Nora Muรฑiz (SPO) & Manuel Pรฉrez Archila (ECO)Nov12IHUM Graduate Salon: wrinkle, foldNov12Democracy and CapitalismNov12Tanner Lectures on Human Values: “A Defense of Free Speech from Its Progressive Critics”Nov12Humanities and Beyond: Council Funding Information SessionNov11Reading by Kaveh Akbar and Aracelis GirmayNov11Spyros Papapetros || Magic ArchitectureNov11Book Talk: “Unchanged Trebles”Nov11What is Antifascist Theory?Nov11On Fear and the Familial Undead in Homer’s Odyssey and the Films of George A. RomeroNov11Aids, Brazil and Global Health: 1986-2001Nov10A Conversation with Kimberlรฉ Crenshaw and Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.Nov10The Princeton Companion to Jewish Studies Book Launch and RoundtableNov10Younghill Kang: The Korean Who Wanted to Be an American PoetNov10Medicine and Megastructures: The Hospital as Collective Form in Films by Ulrich Seidl and Nikolaus GeyrhalterNov9‘Forms & Function’ Slow Looking Art ActivityNov8A Moment of Silence by Mohammad YaghoubiNov8A Moment of Silence by Mohammad YaghoubiNov7A Moment of Silence by Mohammad YaghoubiNov7โArticulateโ Book Talk with Rachel KolbNov6Imagine Otherwise: Fantasy, Fairytale, Fiction (Slavic Film Series)Nov6Translation Workshop with Torange YeghiazarianNov6The Other American DreamNov6Lusophone Africa 50: Liberation, Memory & BeyondNov6Yoko Tawadaโs Traveling Voices: Film Screening & Discussion with Director HyeJeong SonNov6ApollopopNov6Art Histories of Resistance in the Trans-Imperial Americas During the Long Eighteenth CenturyNov5Twice Gendered: Danggui in Chinese Medical HistoryNov5Reorienting the Tudors: from Istanbul to VirginiaNov5Racism, Psychosis, and a West African Practice of Psychoanalysis in 1960s ParisNov4Author Talk: “Henry James Comes Home”Nov4Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the windNov4Going Public: Broadcast, Podcast and Curation in a Digital Civil SphereNov3Holy Rebellion: Religious Feminism in IsraelNov3Jews in the News: Otherness and Selfhood in the London GazetteNov3Reading: Jazra Khaleed, The Light That Burns UsNov3RETOUR ร MONTRรALNov3The Dogberry Conundrum: Translating Shakespeare into American Sign LanguageNov1A Moment of Silence by Mohammad YaghoubiOct31A Moment of Silence by Mohammad YaghoubiOct30Imagine Otherwise: Fantasy, Fairytale, Fiction (Slavic Film Series)Oct30Gillett G. Griffin Memorial Lecture: “Graphic Minded” with artists Nick Butcher and Nadine NakanishiOct30Intersections Working Group: Nan Z. Da โ ‘Lear and the Location of Literary Criticism’Oct30Scaling Multilingual Evaluation of LLMs to Many LanguagesOct30Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar CityOct30Bramanteโs Obsolescence: Drawing Architecture in TimeOct30Aoife Kelleher screens “Mrs. Robinson”Oct30What’s a Fact, Anyway?ย Oct29POLITICIZING BUSINESS: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in ChinaOct29Mellon Forum: The Rise of the Modern Traffic Rule: Building a Legal Infrastructure of “Common Sense”Oct28Reading by Maya Marshall and Creative Writing SeniorsOct28The Nile Flows with Gold: Money and the Global Economy of Roman EgyptOct28James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures in Ethics: “Why Americans Tolerate such a Monstrous Penal State”Oct28Searching for the Disappeared: A Family-Led Forensic Approach to Human IdentificationOct27Wickerwork: A Poetry-in-Translation ConversationOct27On Art and MotherhoodOct23Imagine Otherwise: Fantasy, Fairytale, Fiction (Slavic Film Series)Oct23The Truth of Fiction: A Conversation with filmmaker Nicolรกs PeredaOct23A Conversation on Spirit with Robert Pogue Harrison and Christy WampoleOct23Pottersโ Workflows and Energetics in Ancient GreeceOct23Journalism Lunch Talk: Writing about Islamophobia in the U.S.Oct22Twenty Years of Entitled Opinions: An Evening with Robert Pogue HarrisonOct22Film Screening: At this Moment, in the Nationโs SkyOct22The Term โJibin ็ฝฝ่ณโ in the History of BuddhismOct22(Im)migrants in the Occupational World in the Roman Empire: Exclusion versus IntegrationOct22Fixation: Freudโs Queer Counter-ConceptOct22Medieval Studies Seminar Series โ โRapine, the Carolingians, and the Transformation of Frankish SocietyโOct22Innovation Forum 2025Oct22Conversations from Beirut – The Biosphere of WarOct21Author Talk: Rhacel Salazar ParreรฑasOct21Reading by Ellen Bass and Creative Writing SeniorsOct21Archives That Made History: Dunhuang, the Geniza, and the ShลsลinOct21Kwartler Family Lecture โ Calendar and Commemoration: Memorializing War in the Hebrew BibleOct21โWe touched the monster. Now the monster is fighting back.โ Anti-impunity efforts in post-genocide GuatemalaOct20Faculty In Conversation: โAfterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South”โOct20The Shape of Ideas: A New History of Failure in the Long Eighteenth CenturyOct20The Modern World between Them: Danteโs Monologues and Shakespeareโs SoliloquiesOct20With or without Stalin – A Story of Bringing Hannah Arendt’s Graphic Biography to ChinaOct17Fashion, Feminism, and Fear: A Symposium on Clothing and PowerOct17Workshop: Reconsidering Socialism & Modernity (SovMode)Oct9Imagine Otherwise: Fantasy, Fairytale, Fiction (Slavic Film Series)Oct9The Kingdom of Philoktetes: Northern Greece in the Age of HomerOct8Free Screening of Claude McKay, From Harlem to Marseille (2023) + Q&A with filmmaker Matthieu VerdeilOct8“Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ”Oct8Jack of All Trades, Master of None!Oct8Black in the World: Art. Resistance. BelongingOct7Hodder Poets Represent Through the DecadesOct7AMEFRICANA: Rosana Paulino and the Red AtlanticOct6A Visibility TurnOct3LโAvant-Scรจne presents “Mon pays de terre rouge” by Nicolas Girard-MichelottiOct3A Reading by Sinรฉad GleesonOct3Forms and Function: A Symposium on the Splendors of Global Book MakingOct3The Aesthetics of Singularity: A Gauss Seminar on Fredric JamesonOct3Symposium – In the Flow: Religious Movements Through Space, Time and PowerOct2LโAvant-Scรจne presents “Mon pays de terre rouge” by Nicolas Girard-MichelottiOct2Like the Dawn of Creation: Byzantine Fragments in the Queer ImaginationOct2Publishing in Medieval StudiesOct1Special Collections Fall Open HouseOct1Zhu Xiโs ๆฑ็น (1130โ1200) Theory of EmotionsSep30Reading by Karen Russell and Jericho BrownSep30Book Talk: A New Antiquity. Art And Humanity as Universal, 1400-1600Sep30Spacing PalestineSep30Healing Disease in Classical GreeceSep29Human and Machine Intelligence in Networks of Early Modern PrintSep29Concealing/Revealing: Depictions of the Enslaved in Late Antique InteriorsSep29Judgment, Generative AI, and the Practice of TranslationSep26Jazz Concert: Jacques Schwarz-Bart & Grรฉgory Privat Present โ22โSep26The Voice of the Century: A Tribute to Umm KulthumSep26*CANCELLED* Presidential Visit: His Excellencey Duma Gideon BokoSep25Book Talk: “The Phoebe Variations”Sep25“A Night of Knowing Nothing” (2021): Film Screening and Conversation with Director Payal Kapadia and Cinematographer Ranabir DasSep25Pulcinella in ArcadiaSep25Journalism Lunch Talk: Reporting on Earthโs DeadlineSep23Book Talk: “What’s On Her Mind: The Mental Workload of Family Life”Sep23From Margins to Visibility: The Experience of the Red De PolitรณlogasSep22Revitalizing Lunaapeew: Bridging Disciplines and Collaborating Efforts for a Vibrant Linguistic FutureSep22Liminal speakers in Valerius Maximusโ “Facta et dicta memorabilia”Sep18Book Talk: “Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress”Sep18In the Open Time of Dispossession: Camp, Colony, PalestineSep17Mellon Forum // Infrastucture and DifferenceSep16Community Pre-Read: Author Talk with Professor Michael GordinSep16Book Talk: “John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life under American Racial Law”Sep16Book Talk: Bringing War Back In Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin AmericaSep15Book Talk: “Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist”Sep15โNot Paradise But Plain Realityโ: George Stanley and the Concept of PoetrySep15The Rabbit in the Theory Translation, Doubt, Trust and Teaching; and the Aesthetic Attitude to TranslatingSep12A Reading by Anne EnrightSep12Seuls en Scรจne, Princeton French Theater Festival 2025Sep11Architecture for SharingSep11Book Talk: “Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution”Sep1119th Annual Humanities Colloquium: TimelinessSep10Book Talk: “Classicism and Other Phobias”Sep10Semicivilized Finance: Learning from the Ottoman Sarraf-Doll Lecture on Religion and MoneySep10Empathy for the Dead: Hiomaros Poem on a Dead Man Among the RocksSep10Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment // INFRASTRUCTURE AND DIFFERENCESep9Book Talk: “Something Between Us”Sep9The Economic Lives of the 90%Sep9HMEI Faculty Seminar: โSediments of Meaning: A Military History of Mapungubwe National Park, 1932-presentโSep9โThe Spirit of Unrest”: Veterans’ Politics, Racial Panics, and the Limits of Inclusion in the Greater CaribbeanSep4Modern Love: Housing for Humanity ofย the Day After TomorrowAug25Academic Expo 2025Aug6Exhibition: From Las Vegas to Rome
