Calendar of Events

AMS Workshop: A Queer, Queer Race: Origins for Japanese/American Literature

via Zoom - Registration Required

“A Queer, Queer Race: Origins for Japanese/American Literature” provides a genealogy for Japanese and English-language literary texts written by persons of Japanese descent who sojourned or resided in the United States between 1885 and 1924. It argues that the back-application of a framework of progressive reproductive succession from Issei to Nisei, or first to second […]

Egypt’s Successful Transition to Failed Capitalism

Webinar

NES Virtual Seminar Registration required: https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8gnCq8sUR-qKYRt4DFmrLw(link is external) A digital copy of Cleft Capitalism: The Social Origins of Failed Market Making in Egypt is available for PUID holders here: https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/11951465(link is external)

Carl G. Hempel Lectures: The Thesis of Plural Signification

Webinar

2020 Hempel Lectures series: "The Multiplicity of Meaning" The Department of Philosophy is pleased to present the first of the three 2020 Carl G. Hempel Lectures, to be presented by Cian Dorr (NYU). To register in advance for this webinar series: https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RX2CC4eMSxOkkNTh-cXqHA(link is external) After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about […]

Black Buddhism as Religio-Racial Identity in the Early Twentieth Century

via Zoom - Registration Required

Virtual Lounge Seminar Adeana McNicholl is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. Her research focuses on early South Asian Buddhism and Buddhism and race in North America. This talk brings together the histories of the transmission of Buddhism to the United States, the emergence of new Black religio-racial movements in the early twentieth […]

Film Forum: The Namesake (2006)

Virtual

This film is available on Amazon Prime ($4.00),  Apple iTunes, and other online resources.   https://www.amazon.com/Namesake-Irfan-Khan/dp/B001023N1A A synchronized viewing will begin at 6:45 PM Please join us for a discussion with Professor Barbara Graziosi (Classics) at 9:00 PM on Zoom.  The Zoom link is available to everyone on the Film Forum email list.  To join the weekly email list, please […]

Book Talk: Adventures in English Syntax

via Zoom - Registration Required

In his new book, Robert Freidin (Linguistics) shows how the understanding of English sentence structure helps to be a more effective writer, a more perceptive reader, and a more precise thinker. For livestream information, visit: https://princetonlibrary.libnet.info/event/4507001

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