Problems With Practice
399 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building PrincetonReconstructing the logic of practices remains a challenge, and not for historians alone. I shall argue that an invocation of the ‘habitus’ as generating practices elides major problems. Without discarding […]
History as Form: Wayward Textbooks
210 Dickinson 210 DickinsonA lunchtime conversation between Gyan Prakash and Sarnath Banerjee on history as a form by exchanging ideas on the interpretation of visual evidence. The seminar's goal would be explore and […]
Reconfiguring Kinship and Knowledge, c.1500
106 McCormick 106 McCormickGadi Algazi is a professor of medieval history at Tel Aviv University. His research focuses on historical anthropology, social-cultural history of the late medieval-early modern period, history of scholarship and […]
Mexican Votives Across Time and Space
101 McCormick 101 McCormick Hall, PrincetonFaculty Discussion: Gabriela Nouzeilles (Spanish and Portuguese) Jessica Delgado (Religion) Pamela Patton (Art and Archaeology) Moderated by Patricia Fernandez-Kelly (Sociology) Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series, Session X: Arts in Migration “Global Migration: […]
Sean Wilentz: The Politics of Early American Abolitionism
219 Aaron Burr 219 Aaron Burr Hall, PrincetonThe Humanities Council invites the campus community to join us for a new series of public lectures given by the Council’s Old Dominion Research Professors for 2018-19. Sean Wilentz (George […]
Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century
010 East PyneJeannette Krieger and Herman D. Mytelka Memorial Lecture
M+M: Erin Edwards: Sutures and Grooves: Modernist Skull Media and the Sounding of the Human
N101 School of ArchitectureRespondent: Gavin Steingo (Music) In a 1919 essay entitled “Primal Sound,” Rainer Maria Rilke fantastically imagines using the phonograph stylus to “play” the coronal suture of the skull, thereby liberating […]
Teaching on Poverty and Inequality
330 Frist PrincetonWhat narratives about poverty, inequality, and consumption do students bring to our courses? How do we deepen, complicate, or nuance those narratives? How do we address questions of virtue or […]
