Afro-Queer Journeys: The Intimacies of Spirit Travel in Jamaican Revival Zion Religion
ZoomWhile considerable research has been conducted on African Diaspora religions, relatively little scholarship addresses Revival Zion — an indigenized and contested African-heritage form of Christianity practiced within Jamaica and Panama and among their diasporas. This talk explores how Revival practitioners craft transnational sensory networks and become spiritual travelers through the ritual of journeying. Register here: […]
Apocalypticism and Imperial Criticism: (Re)reading of Durr-i Meknun (The Hidden Pearl, c. 1460) in the Context of the anti-Ottoman Crusade
Zoom PrincetonA native of Istanbul, Turkey, Ebru Turan received her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago. Currently an assistant professor in the Department of History at Fordham University, Dr. Turan specializes in the political, cultural, and intellectual history of the early modern Ottoman Empire. Her research interests include Ottoman-Habsburg imperial […]
Remains of the Everyday: A Century of Recycling in Beijing
Zoom PrincetonJosh Goldstein will introduce his book Remains of the Everyday which traces the changing material culture and industrial ecology of China through the lens of recycling. Over the last century, waste recovery and secondhand goods markets have been integral to Beijing’s economic functioning and cultural identity, and acts of recycling have figured centrally in the ideological imagination of modernity and […]
Film Forum: The Red Shoes (1948)
VirtualAvailable to watch on on Eventive between 6 PM and 9 PM. If using Eventive, you need to go to filmforum.eventive.org and register. Do this by ordering a ticket for the film, which will take you to a place to either login or register. Please join a Zoom discussion with Simon Morrison (Music) and Pilar Castro-Kiltz (choreographer […]
