Teaching Locally
330 Frist PrincetonJoin a conversation led by faculty from across campus on why and how they teach courses that engage students deeply with place – with local ecosystems, local communities, local politics, and local artmaking. Co-sponsored with ProCes. RSVP to reserve a seat.
From Rage to Repentance: An Emotions History Approach to Qur’an and Sira
202 JonesNES & TRI Brown Bag Lunch Talk
The Politics of Translation: The Discovery of Walter Benjamin in China
144 Simpson International BuildingWalter Benjamin was discovered by the Chinese knowledge class in the 1980s, and since then his main works have been regularly translated and retranslated. Today, Benjamin’s works have not only been adopted in almost all areas of the social sciences and humanities in China, his critical ideas on cultural modernity in terms of bohème, flâneur […]
The History of Emotions and Islamic Pietistic Literature
103 Scheide Caldwell 103 Scheide Caldwell, PrincetonThis talk explores methodological issues pertaining to the history of emotions and Islamic (Arabic) Tradition-based literature, including the literature of ‘Religious Merits’ and other pietistic or devotional genres. Supported by the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund
Dignity as a Central Category of World Politics and its Russian Version
144 Louis A. Simpson BuildingDignity has become a central concern in Russian politics in recent years. if the government is stressing the fact that the dignity of the country was put into question as a result of the collapse of the USSR, and thus it should be resolutely defended, the opposition is stressing that dignity is currently the main […]
Film Forum: “Simon, the Magician” (1999), Ildikó Enyedi
101 McCormickUCHV Film Forum Fall 2019
Film Screening: “Mary Shelley”
Princeton Garden Theatre 160 Nassau Street, PrincetonFollowing a screening of the 2017 romantic period drama about Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s first love and relationship with the poet Percy Shelley, Professor of English Susan Wolfson shares her perspective on the film and her knowledge of the writer. Wolfson is co-editor of the award-winning The Annotated Frankenstein. A Q&A will follow.
