The Affects of Manumission: Racial Melancholy and Roman Freedpersons
Zoom PrincetonWednesday, October 13 12:00 pm EDT Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Department of Classics, Princeton University “The Affects of Manumission: Racial Melancholy and Roman Freedpersons” Registration is required. Please be sure to add this event to your calendar. Register here for the seminar with Dan-el Padilla Peralta. The Medievalists of Color, the Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University, the […]
Crime Fiction, Bad Living, and the Anthropocene
Zoom PrincetonJennifer Fay has called film noir “the genre most devoted to the arts of bad living.” Taking up this argument, Lucas Hollister discusses how crime fiction and film—specifically French and American strains—can be read in light of the modes of ecological awareness characteristic of the Anthropocene. Lucas Hollister is Associate Professor of French and Italian […]
DeCamp Bioethics Seminar: “‘A Kind of Insanity in My Spirits’: Frankenstein, Childhood, and Criminal Intent”
Zoom PrincetonThe Ira W. DeCamp Bioethics Seminars are open to all students, faculty, and interested members of the public. Seminars range across a wide variety of topics at the intersections of philosophy, biology, medicine, ecology and public policy. The seminar series is made possible by a generous grant from the Ira W. DeCamp Foundation. Register for […]
Personal Limits #1: Sarah Chihaya and Merve Emre
Virtual PrincetonMonica Huerta (English, American Studies), the author of Magical Habits, hosts Personal Limits, a conversation series with critics, authors, and poets about contemporary experiments in personal writing amid overlapping crises. In this first in the series, she will be joined by Sarah Chihaya (English) and Merve Emre (University of Oxford), co-authors of The Ferrante Letters: […]
Smiling behind the mask: Tokyo Olympics and its volunteers
Zoom PrincetonWith the last Paralympic athletes heading home a month ago, Tokyo 2020 in 2021 has closed its gates. This presentation revisits the hopes, dreams, and desires originally connected with Tokyo 2020, and attempts an evaluation of what remains. A particular focus here lies on the Field Cast – the Olympic and Paralympic volunteers. Barbara Holthus has been deputy […]
