Rethinking the Aerial Destruction of Cities in East Asia, 1932-45
PrincetonThis international workshop brainstorms about the recent wave of scholarship on the bombing wars experienced in Japan and China from 1932 to 1945. Joining the several East Asia specialists will be two scholars, Paul Saint-Amour and Dietmar Süss, whose books on bombing in Europe have inspired many of the participants. The workshop seeks to foster interdisciplinary approaches, […]
LUDUS: Puzzling out the Fleury Playbook
209 Scheide Caldwell 209 Scheide Caldwell, PrincetonThe "Fleury Playbook" (Orléans BM 201 pp. 176–243) has been at the center of discussions about medieval drama for almost two centuries. Made in the second half of the twelfth century, and containing a collection of ten plays, this book is unique in its size and nature. The manuscript provokes many questions: who made it? […]
‘Africa’ in French: Mid-Century Translations of Colonial Blackness
144 Simpson International Building
From Opulent Banquets to Drudgery: The World of Mesopotamian Musicians
202 Jones PrincetonNES/TRI Brown Bag Lunch Talk. Light Lunch Served.
Archiving America: A Hemispheric Approach
Library, Prospect House NJKirsten Silva Gruesz will discuss the promise and challenge of working with “Transamerican” methodologies and archives that necessitate a hemispheric understanding. How does our understanding of Americanity shift when we look across nation, time, and language? How do categories of race, ethnicity, and gender shift over the Americas? What can we learn from the strange […]
Margaret Dauler Wilson Lecture: Sensible Qualities in Locke, Berkeley, and Wilson
101 McCormickThe Department of Philosophy presents the biennial Margaret Dauler Wilson Lecture, with guest lecturer Lisa Downing (Ohio State University).
Urban Renewal and Recovery: The Case of Antioch on the Orontes
106 McCormick NJ
The Salaberga Psalter and the Ethiopian Face
A6 McCormick A6 McCormick, PrincetonCo-sponsored by the Department of Music; Program in Medieval Studies; Index of Medieval Art
