Critical Approaches to Race and Ethnicity: Premodern Identities and the Trans-Atlantic Politics of Scholarship
via ZoomThe Medievalists of Color, the Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University, the Division for Identity Studies at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, launch a new series of online seminars entitled “Race, Race-Thinking, and Identity in the Middle Ages and Medieval Studies.” […]
Old Dominion Series: Racist research: What does respect for researchers require? What should academic freedom allow?
via Zoom PrincetonThe first of the 2020-2021 Old Dominion Series.
Screening Rome as Empire Nostalgia in Takeuchi Hideki’s “Thermae Romae” (2012)
via Zoom PrincetonThis presentation explores how Takeuchi Hideki’s Thermae Romae (2012) uses the epic cinematic site of ancient Rome to project and confront its empire nostalgia. Ancient Rome on screen has often functioned as a lens through which filmmakers of different nationalities could negotiate their relationships with the ideas of power and empire, and the screening of ancient […]
How Indigenous Peoples Created Brazilian Biomes
YouTube PrincetonEduardo Góes Neves is Professor of Archaeology at the University of São Paulo. Neves has been studying middle Holocene occupations on fluvial shell mounds, as well as the archaeology of late pre-colonial mound building societies in southwestern Amazonia. He is a past president of the Brazilian Archaeological Society, a former member of the Board of […]
