VIRTUAL: Information Management in Early Modern China: The Grand Secretariat and Its Clerks, ca. 1700-1800
via Zoom PrincetonEarly Modern History Workshop How does the history of archives inform other subfields of history, for instance, institutional history, and vice versa? My session first will analyze the reasons for the distinctive status of the archives of the Grand Secretariat (Neige) in the historiography of China and a series of myths about the archives. Thanks […]
Faber Lecture: The Italian Cinema of the New Millennium: The Case of La Grande Bellezza
010 East Pyne PrincetonSupported by the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council
CANCELED: Faber Lecture: The Art and Nature of Glass: A Material in the History of Knowledge
010 East Pyne 010 East Pyne, PrincetonToday, glass is ubiquitous, from window glass to tableware, and from eyeglasses to glass fibres. This lecture will reflect on the opportunities of a focus on one material – glass – in writing the history of knowledge. Such a history cuts across the worlds of art, science, craft and technology, and across the various properties […]
Covid-19 and Amazonia’s Future
via Youtube PrincetonBrazil LAB virtual lecture Via Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oLXc6WjuSc
LIFE Magazine’s Photojournalism and the American Century?
via Zoom PrincetonAt this Humanities Council’s David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project roundtable, Princeton faculty members Jeremy Adelman (History), Thomas Y. Levin (German), and Katherine Hill Reischl (Slavic) and the prize-winning documentary photographer Susan Meiselas discuss how Life used photographs in its weekly publication, from 1936 to 1972, as a way to establish its view of the world […]
