Humanities Data Workshop Series: “What is ‘Data’ in the Humanities?”
Zoom Princeton"What is 'Data' in the Humanities?" will introduce participants to the challenges, contradictions, and possibilities of working with data in the context of humanities scholarship. We'll explore the many forms that humanities data can take. We'll learn about the ways source material from text files of primary source documents, oral history audio files, image files […]
LAMB – Long-Distance Optical Communications in the Byzantine World: Revisiting the Anatolian Beacon Line Through Digital Experimental Archaeology
209 Scheide Caldwell 209 Scheide Caldwell, PrincetonThe Late Antique, Medieval, and Byzantine Workshop at Princeton University (LAMB) brings together graduate students from across departments and disciplines who study and research any region ca. 300-1500 CE, and offers an opportunity to present and discuss their research with others from within and outside their fields. In addition to providing scholarly support, development, and […]
An ‘Under’ World of Practices: Romano-British Religious Cults in the Severn Valley
Zoom PrincetonThe Environmental History Lab of the Program in Medieval Studies invites you to join us for the first EHL seminar of Fall 2021. This is a virtual seminar via Zoom. Speakers: Dr. Janet E. Kay, Associate Research Scholar, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University Avner Goldstein ’21, Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Boston College […]
Introducing the Parvenant: Social Mobility in Twenty-First-Century France
Zoom PrincetonSocial climbers—the core characters of modern novels—have made a spectacular come-back in twenty-first-century France to become the digest of our political and literary moment. To apprehend this contemporary corpus of novels and narratives, Morgane Cadieu will survey the “conceptual characters” of class mobility in literature, sociology, and everyday fixed expressions (especially transfuge and transclasse) to […]
Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning
Labyrinth Books and Livestream 122 Nassau Street, PrincetonFrom investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Alan Maimon comes the story of how a perfect storm of events has had a devastating impact on life in small town Appalachia and on the soul of a shaken nation. Maimon is joined in discussion by the director of Princeton University's Program in Journalism, Joe Stephens. This […]
