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In the history of Brazil, the colonial wound is based on two major violences: the indigenous ethnocide and the black diaspora. As an optical instrument at the service of modernity, the museum of modern art in Brazil has made invisible these processes of coloniality. However, some examples of past intellectual inconformism bring to the present […]

In the wake of the “ethnographic turn” of the 1990s, much artistic research became a mix of learning exercise, theatrical rehearsal, scientific experiment, and/ or laboratory test. Our workshop will address this expanding field of artists, actors/ dancers/ performers, curators, media activists, writers, who shared an interest in experimental and performative methods of collective education. […]

Session 6: Conversation with Peter Burian, Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies at Duke University. Lunch Talk Please RSVP to Eileen Robinson eileenrobinson@princeton.edu

A talk by Haruko Momma, Professor of English at NYU, co-sponsored by the Theory and Medieval Colloquia in English.

This lecture explores the ways in which the myth of Columbus can be mobilized to unearth “underground” indigenous, African and Jewish histories in the New World, and suggests a new geography for American Jewish literature that exceeds the boundaries of English and the United States. Rachel Rubinstein is professor of American literature and Jewish studies […]