VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: American Contact: Intercultural Encounter and the History of the Book
via Zoom Princeton“AMERICAN CONTACT: lntercultural Encounter and the History of Objects” focuses on the use of material texts and objects in cross-cultural encounters in the Americas. This conference will explore how texts—broadly defined to include not only books but visual art, musical scores, and various kinds of handwork—have facilitated communication across cultural divides, the creation and transmission […]
CANCELED: Revisiting the Common Ground
Marx Hall PrincetonThe common ground between participants in a conversation is typically taken to be a body of information that is in some sense shared between those participants. Since its development in the seventies and eighties at the heart of Neo-Gricean pragmatics, the idea of common ground has steadily increased its reach both inside and outside of […]