Colonial Americas Workshop | Of Differences and Diagnoses: Racializing Health in the American Atlantic
Zoom PrincetonRana Hogarth is associate professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. She holds a Ph.D. in History, with a concentration in History of Science/History of Medicine from Yale University; an M.H.S. in Health Policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the creation of ideas […]
2020-2021 Faculty-Graduate Seminar: Writing the Impossible
PrincetonThis seminar explores approaches to archival research in the field of African American studies. Archives, as Michel-Rolph Trouillot reminds us, are not passive repositories of historical materials. Rather, the archive as an institution authorizes particular narratives about the past, while simultaneously rendering other narratives as illegitimate or even “unthinkable." Working at the intersection of African […]
Committee for the Study of Books & Media | Collecting Words: Etymologies and the Ancient History of a New World
via Zoom PrincetonThis meeting will be held via Zoom. Registration is required to attend. To register, visit: https://princeton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwscuygrjkpHdwUky5a8u8Fjx43CtpO13aI After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing a unique link to join the meeting. For more than half a century, Princeton has been a center for the historical study of books, media and their readers. The Committee […]
Losing Picasso: The Challenges of Condensing a Life
via Zoom PrincetonFilmmakers Ismail Merchant and James Ivory faced almost insurmountable challenges in producing the film "Surviving Picasso," which takes on the relationship between Pablo Picasso and his companion Francoise Gilot. They were not able to attain the rights to Gilot’s autobiography Life with Picasso, relying instead on Arianna Huffington’s Picasso: Creator and Destroyer, nor did they […]
