VIRTUAL: Forced Womanhood!
via Zoom PrincetonRio Sofia first encountered sissification porn, where men are forced into womanhood as a form of punishment or humiliation, through fetish magazines. This rich underground visual language complicated her understanding of transgender representation and contradicted developing narratives in the mainstream that celebrated gender transition as an empowering form of self-determination. In her work, Sofia inserts […]
VIRTUAL: Mellon Forum: Citizenship
via Zoom PrincetonThis session will consider how design and architecture might be used to change how we think of citizenship, the possible roles that designers, architects, and scholars can take up in response to divisionary or carceral designs, and how new forms or uses of design might challenge norms around race and national identity. Zoom links will […]
Rich Bride Poor Bride: Two Trousseau Lists from the Cairo Geniza
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 Miriam Frenkel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) presenting “Rich Bride Poor Bride - Two Trousseau Lists from the Cairo Geniza.” Conveners: Tom Conlan (EAS/History), Helmut […]
CANCELED: Ciné-Club Presents: La Planète Sauvage (1973)
Rocky-Mathey Theater Rockefeller College, 203 Madison Hall, PrincetonCiné-Club presents René Laloux's La Planète sauvage (1973) This animated tale follows the relationship between the small human-like Oms and their much larger blue-skinned oppressors, the Draags, who rule the planet of Ygam. While the Draags have long kept Oms as illiterate pets, this hierarchy shifts after an Om boy becomes educated, thanks to a young […]
