Old Dominion Series: Lycurgus, Solon, Charondas…Figuring the Legislator in Platonic Political Thought and its Aftermath
via Zoom PrincetonIn the second of the 2020-2021 Old Dominion Series, Melissa Lane (Politics) gives a talk on "Lycurgus, Solon, Charondas…Figuring the Legislator in Platonic Political Thought and its Aftermath." Were early Greek legislators seen as having invented the laws of their peoples ex nihilo? Against later discourses of founder-legislators in Machiavelli, Rousseau, and Nietzsche, this lecture […]
Factive Relative Clauses in Wolof
ZoomThis talk investigate factive constructions in Wolof, an Atlantic language of Senegal. Harold Torrence is an associate professor of linguistics at the University of California Los Angeles. His research focuses on the syntax and morphology of African and Native American languages.
The Depiction of Japanese Deities in Modern Japan
Zoom PrincetonJapanese mythology was compiled in the Kojiki and Nihon shoki in the 8th century. How were deities depicted at that time? Throughout their long history, the Japanese have depicted deities in various ways. But from the Yayoi period (about 4th or 5th century BCE–3rd century C.E.) to the 8th century, Japanese people do not seem […]
