From Pathology to ‘Born Perfect’: The Role of Scientific Authority in Campaigns to Ban Conversion Therapy
16 Joseph Henry HouseThe first meeting in the Spring 2020 Bodies of Knowledge Working Group series. The Bodies of Knowledge Working Group is supported by the Humanities Council and aims to engage faculty, staff, and graduate students in questions around embodiment from a wide range of viewpoints including the medical humanities, disability studies, art history and aesthetics, and […]
Cold War’s Nature: The Korean Demilitarized Zone and Mid-Century American Science
399 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building PrincetonSince the early 2000s, international media coverage of the interKorean conflict has frequently included stories about the rare and endangered species that live in the DMZ, a buffer area borne out of the Korean War. This “accidental” natural sanctuary is framed in mythical, ahistorical terms — an ecological paradise blossoming out of unending war and […]
The Ballad and Its Narratives
205 East PyneBy the middle of the nineteenth century, the generic description “ballad” could be appended to any number of aesthetic objects – a poem as much as a wordless piece for solo piano, program music and opera, stage play and oratorio. Nowhere was this range as capacious as in the German-speaking world. This paper traces what […]
Inside Buffalo. An African-Italian Story
010 East Pyne PrincetonFilm Screening of Inside Buffalo followed by Q&A with director, Fred Kuwornu. Support for this project has been provided in part by Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, the Humanities Council, Center for Collaborative History, and the Department of African American Studies
On Pattern-Thinking: A Conversation on R. Buckminster Fuller
Betts AuditoriumA discussion on R. Buckminster Fuller with Daniel López-Pérez and Lars Müller with Stan Allen, Jesse Reiser, and Jaime Snyder. Opening reception for the exhibition, R. Buckminster Fuller, Pattern-Thinking, to follow immediately after. Daniel López-Pérez (Madrid, 1973) holds a PhD in the History and Theory of Architecture from Princeton University and is an associate professor […]
Public Humanities Working Group: East Coast Corridor Public Outreach
103 Scheide Caldwell 103 Scheide Caldwell, PrincetonThe first in the Spring 2020 Public Humanities Working Group series. The monthly conversations with faculty, graduate students, and staff from across the university to think together about our shared humanistic work and its larger, public implications outside of university life, and to consider more largely the value and relevance of the humanities in our […]
