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 Bourdieu’s contribution, I try to sketch an approach that insists on the role of cultural repertoires providing sets of context-specific models of action. Examples are […]
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 develop ideas on the place of photographs, prints, drawings, newspaper articles and other objects in the form of history as knowledge. Sarnath Banerjee is a […]
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 colonial history.
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: The Humanities and Social Sciences in Dialogue” is funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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 Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History and Old Dominion Research Professor 2018-19) will deliver the final lecture in the series entitled "The Politics of […]
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 a previously unknown range of sound, music, and emotion. “Primal Sound” describes a posthuman positionality whereby one might use the prosthetic extension of technical media […]
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 deservedness in our classrooms? Join us for a moderated conversation among faculty on these questions. Speakers: Martha Coven (Woodrow Wilson School) Kathryn Edin (Woodrow Wilson […]
