The Archaeology of the European Steppe: Huns, Avars, and Other Bad Europeans
203 Scheide Caldwell HouseFalko Daim is a Short-Term Visiting Fellow in Comparative Antiquity: A Humanities Council Global Initiative. From 2003 to 2018, he was director of the Römisch-Germanische Zentralmuseum in Mainz. Before 2003, he was Professor at the University of Vienna and held several visiting professorships at international universities, among them Ljubljana, Los Angeles, Bratislava, Xi’an, and Bukarest. […]
The Swedish-led Gendarmerie in Persia 1911-1916 State Building and Internal Colonization
219 Aaron Burr PrincetonThis talk will investigate the Swedish-led gendarmerie in Persia (Iran) as a case of state building through defensive modernisation (weaker state modernises its institutions to resist stronger states). The gendarmerie in Persia illustrates Swedish participation in this process and the personal records of the Swedish officers can help us map a wide spectre of approaches, […]
A Hebrew Renaissance in 10th Century Egypt: The Mystery of the Earliest Medieval Jewish Documents
McCormick 106 McCormick 106, Princeton.Literary Stories of Migration
399 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building PrincetonConversation with Tracy K. Smith, Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor of the Humanities, Professor of Creative Writing and author Imbolo Mbue (Behold the Dreamers) Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series, Session XI: Literary Stories of Migration “Global Migration: The Humanities and Social Sciences in Dialogue” is funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The Problem of Speech’s Presence in Late Ancient Christianity
1879 Hall Lounge 1879 Hall Lounge, PrincetonLounge Seminar
The Future of Black Studies (In Theory)
010 East PyneThis paper revisits the moment of emergence for Black studies, paying particular attention to the ferment of social and cultural activity that happened in the early 1970s. Through attention to the publication of Toni Cade Bambara’s The Black Woman (1970), the advent of the National Black Feminist Organization (1973), and an examination of early Black […]
M+M: Documenting the Disaster: On Philip Scheffner’s “Havarie (2016)”
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ECS workshop – The Right of Languages: Justice, Translatability, and Multilingualism
209 Scheide Caldwell HouseA workshop organized by the ECS Graduate Affiliate Working Group on Traveling Identities and Migration. How have concepts and practices around justice, belonging, and citizenship been reformulated in the last thirty years around a particular vision of civic mono / multilingualism, while previous models of ethnic citizenship fell out of fashion, for instance, in Germany? […]
Days & Days: Poems and Kill Class: Poems
Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street, PrincetonAn evening of poetry to celebrate two important new collections. Michael Dickman’s intuitive, agile verse captures us in its unusual pulse. Image-driven and shape-driven, the poems of Days & Days touch on parenthood, childhood, local natural habitats, graffiti culture, roses, and romantic love. Throughout, Dickman meets the brutality, banality, and strange beauty of the quotidian […]
