Where is the real home?
Zoom PrincetonIn the patriarchal context of Afghanistan, women have become domesticated through its history. The concept of the home gives full authority to its rulers such as father, brother, and husband; the woman is reduced to property of the owners and heirs, who are still men, in the house. From my personal experience in the broader […]
Mellon Forum: HighWaterLine
Betts Auditorium and Zoom PrincetonHow will sea level rise affect New Jersey? Christina Gerhardt presents the HighWaterLine, a public-facing and public-engaging project, walking and chalking the future shoreline forecast by sea-level rise projections. The HighWaterLine provides an opportunity to experience first-hand the future shoreline and to consider ways to address sea-level rise impacts.
Eve Krakowski – Before the Geniza Documents: The Case of a Marriage Arbitration from the Tenth-Century Fayyūm
209 Scheide Caldwell 209 Scheide Caldwell, PrincetonMedieval Studies is pleased to offer the Faculty Colloquium Series this Fall 2021. Eve Krakowski (Near Eastern Studies and Program in Judaic Studies) will present a lunchtime talk on October 27 entitled "Before the Geniza Documents: The Case of a Marriage Arbitration from the Tenth-Century Fayyūm". Attendees may choose to attend in-person or via Zoom, […]
Machine Learning + Humanities Working Group Meeting
Firestone Library, Floor BJoin the Machine Learning + Humanities group for a lunch discussion about the themes and provocations from the "Machine Predictions and Synthetic Text" roundtable event, which will have taken place on Tuesday, October 26, at 4:30 pm. Grant Wythoff (CDH) and Dan Friedman (COS) will facilitate the conversation. The event will take place both in […]
A Virtual Book Talk and Conversation with Rey Chow
Zoom PrincetonThe English Department’s Theory Colloquium will hold a virtual seminar with Rey Chow, Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Duke University’s Program in Literature. Professor Chow will discuss her recent book, A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present (Columbia 2021). The Theory Colloquium will reimburse the cost […]
Black Bodies, White Gold—Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World
Zoom PrincetonIn Black Bodies, White Gold, Anna Arabindan-Kesson (African American Studies, Art & Archaeology) uses cotton, a commodity central to the slave trade and colonialism, as a focus for new interpretations of the way art, commerce, and colonialism were intertwined in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. Artist and art-historian, Chika Okeke-Agulu (African American Studies, Art & Archaeology) joins […]
LAMB – Between Philosopher’s Cloak and Ascetic Habit: Religious Identity and the Transformation of the Tribon in Late Antiquity
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 […]
