Latin America Today: Upheavals and Repression, Part II
219 Aaron Burr PrincetonThis roundtable conversation explores the current political landscape in Latin America. With a focus on Puerto Rico, Colombia, and Mexico, discussants will address the roots of social unrest and state of repression, and offer insight into the major challenges facing each nation.
Law Enforcement, Diversity, and Accountability
16 Joseph Henry House Joseph Henry House, PrincetonKimbriell Kelly, a visiting Ferris Professor of Journalism in the Humanities Council, is deputy editor of enterprise and investigations in the Los Angeles Times’ Washington bureau. Formerly an investigative reporter at The Washington Post, she also was part of the team that launched that paper’s “Fatal Force” series on police-involved shootings, which won the Pulitzer […]
Serious Games: Annibale Carracci, Pietà
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Metrical Latin Lives of Mohammed
010 East Pyne PrincetonThis talk examines how the latin verse lives of Mohammed appear suddenly between the eleventh and twelfth centuries, developing in a novelistic direction the hints of the prose biographies or biographical passages written between VIII and X centuries.
Inscribing Land Titles: Geographical Imaginations in Legal Texts
Jones 202 Jones Hall, PrincetonComparative Diplomatics Workshops are a faculty-graduate student working group of the Comparative Antiquities network at the Humanities Council, co-sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies. Join the Comparative Diplomatics Workshop with Professor Debjani Bhattacharyya (Drexel) presenting “Inscribing Land Titles: Geographical Imaginations in Legal Texts.” Conveners: Tom Conlan (EAS/History), Helmut Reimitz (History), Marina Rustow (NES/History) Coordinator: Brendan Goldman […]
Portrait of the Algerian Jew as a Berber: Postcolonial Imaginaries in Contemporary Jewish Algerian Literature
103 Chancellor GreenHow was Algerian Jews’ position as the “indigenous foreigners” of French Algeria to make sense after the independence in 1962? As they massively emigrated to France, Algerian Jews were left with an essentially and inherently paradoxical identity: at once immigrants and repatriates, foreigners and French citizens, in exile and at home. Recent formulations in literature […]
The British Empire, the League of Nations, and the Problem of International Investment in Republican China
211 DickinsonThe Modern Europe Workshop (MEW) is a workshop series for Princeton students and faculty interested in the study of modern European history. The series provides current Princeton University graduate students and outside scholars an opportunity to present their research and discuss problems and trends in modern European history broadly construed. Workshops may involve either lectures […]
Electric Mud: Presentation of The Surreal Visions of Hernán Díaz Alonso/HDA-x
Betts AuditoriumHernán Díaz Alonso assumed the role of SCI-Arc director beginning in the 2015 academic year. He has been a distinguished faculty member since 2001, serving in several leadership roles, including coordinator of the graduate thesis program from 2007–10, and graduate programs chair from 2010–15. He is widely credited with spearheading SCI-Arc’s transition to digital technologies, […]
