For More Information, Keep Reading: How to Use a Late Imperial Chinese Encyclopedia
Zoom PrincetonThis talk considers the reading strategies suggested in Fang Yizhi’s 方以智(1611–1671) Tongya (通雅 Comprehensive Elegances), a major encyclopedic text of the seventeenth century. Registration required. Register here: https://princeton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvf-GuqzMuHdHmOP1SuZC3t2-mNCsgBmzv
Inglorious, Unemployed: Trans/Crip Conjunctions and the Law of Maims in Samson Agonistes
ZoomColby Gordon (Bryn Mawr) considers the early modern origins of contemporary anti-trans legislation in the UK and investigates labor and care at the intersections of trans and crip embodiment through the figure of Samson in John Milton's seventeenth-century closet drama. Zoom link: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/93255071711
Mellon Forum: Resistance // Facing the Eviction Apocalypse
Zoom PrincetonWith Kendra Brooks, Philadelphia City Council, and Rasheedah Phillips, Community Legal Services of Philadelphia. The Spring 2021 Mellon Forum is organized by Sophie Hochhäusl (Princeton Mellon Fellow), and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (African-American Studies). It is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Princeton University Humanities Council, Center for Collaborative History, School of Architecture, and […]
Reading by Ottessa Moshfegh and Creative Writing Seniors
via ZoomA reading by bestselling, award-winning novelist and screenwriter Ottessa Moshfegh and five seniors in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University. The C.K. Williams Reading Series showcases senior thesis students of the Program in Creative Writing with established writers as special guests. Viewers in need of access accommodations are […]