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 […]
Poetry in the Public Sphere in Republican Mexico: A Reading of Ignacio Ramírez
216 Aaron Burr 216 Aaron Burr, PrincetonIn the middle of the national crisis prompted by the US invasion of 1846 and a heated debate against monarchists, liberal intellectual Ignacio Ramírez, "El Nigromante", wrote about the limits and the future of poetry. This paper argues that poetry was a central dimension of political discourse in post independence Mexico. Ramírez believed that a […]
Book Talk: The Crucified Christ in Everyday Life
103 Scheide Caldwell 103 Scheide Caldwell, PrincetonA lecture by Joseph Sanzo (University of Warwick) on his book The Crucified Christ in Everyday Life: Authoritative Tradition, Ritual Performance, Religious Differentiation in Late Antique Lived Religion.
At the Crossroads of Magic and Anti-Magical Discourse: The Classification of Ritual in a Late-Antique Coptic Codex (Leiden, Ms. AMS 9)
103 Scheide Caldwell 103 Scheide Caldwell, Princeton
Manifesting America in the Colorado Beet Fields
111 East Pyne 111 East PyneEnvironmental Humanities Colloquium Pérez will use the history of the Colorado beet fields to explore the relationship between sugar, scientific agriculture and the intensification of settler colonialism at the turn of the 20th century. Beets powered the nation’s expansion after the Civil War and transatlantic sugar-beet culture offered a framework for “re-landscaping” the West. Pérez […]
Death in Edo: Hayashi Razan between Japan, China, and Korea
202 JonesThe 2019 Annual Jansen Lecture
A Colloquium on Style
Joseph Henry HouseComments by Jeff Dolven (English), Claudia Johnson(English), and Susan Wolfson (English) on Garrett Stewart’s pre-circulated essay Words, snapshots of their own recent work on style, and discussion by all. Reflections on Garrett Stewart’s Reading Voices ( 1990).
Careers in Arts – alumni panel discussion for students only
This event is for students who are interested in careers in the arts. Please join 4 alumni to hear about their current roles in various institutions - SPACE Gallery, Newark Arts Education Roundtable, Whitney Independent Study Program, and MoMA.
Faber Lecture: Only in Naples
A17 Julis Romo RabinowitzOnly in Naples is the story of the author’s journey to the heart of Neapolitan life. Through courtship, culture clashes, and most of all the preparation and consumption of food with her mother-in-law, American-born Katherine Wilson learns to embrace the Neapolitan approach to life. Goethe said: See Naples and die. Katherine Wilson saw Naples and […]
