Making Sense of the Shaking: The 1861-62 Lake Baikal Earthquakes and the Meanings of Nature in Imperial Russia
via Zoom - Registration RequiredRussia & Eurasia Workshop Registration is required to attend this workshop. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing a unique link to join the meeting. If there is a pre-circulated paper, it will be distributed to those who registered approximately one-week prior to the workshop. Nicholas B. Breyfogle is Associate Professor of History […]
Global History Workshop Book Talk: Time’s Monster: How History Makes History
via ZoomPart of the Global History Workshop, this book talk will feature Prof. Priya Satia's new book, Time's Monster: How History Makes History (Belknap Press, October 2020). For generations, British thinkers told the history of an empire whose story was still very much in the making. While they wrote of conquest, imperial rule in India, the […]
Religion and the Public Conversation Series: Carolyn Rouse
via ZoomA series of conversations from the Center for the Study of Religion on "How can the study of religion correct errors, raise new questions, and elevate the public discourse?" In this session, Carolyn Rouse, Professor of Anthropology, will engage in conversation about her own scholarly work in relation to religion with Ph.D. Candidate Fatima Siwaju. […]
Fact vs. Opinion: A psycholinguistic look at the interpretation of subjective adjectives
via ZoomIn today’s world, we are continuously faced with a flood of information from many channels. A fundamental step for navigating this information stream is distinguishing objective, factual information from subjective opinions. This talk looks at a series of psycholinguistic experiments from my lab investigating the comprehension of subjective, opinion-conveying adjectives (e.g. tasty, funny, frightening, unfair), […]
M+M: An Apartment on Uranus: Chronicles of the Crossing
Zoom and Facebook PrincetonInterlocutor: Ivan Lopez Munuera One night, months after I have started a process of gender transitioning, I dreamt that I had an apartment on Uranus. That dream was not like other dreams. It was like a virus, it induced the feeling that that extraterrestrial apartment existed. Why Uranus? Why having an apartment on the coldest […]
