Dante’s Lasting Presence in Popular Culture
Zoom PrincetonA two-day international conference on Dante’s vital presence in global pop culture. Graphic novels, comic books, rock and pop songs, film and television productions, video and board games, all extend the impact of Dante’s work beyond its institutional life in schools and universities. The conference brings together experts exploring the many media in which Dante’s […]
Native Americans and the Legacy of Residential Boarding Schools: Why America Needs a Truth and Reconciliation Effort
209 Scheide CaldwellAs part of the Humanities Council's Fall 2021 Working Group Seminars presented by the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Princeton (NAISIP), join celebrated Indigenous scholar and activist, Anton Treuer '91, for a look at the history and politics of truth and reconciliation in America with a window into the Indigenous experience. Recent revelations […]
Empire of Rubber: A Conversation About the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Liberia
010 East Pyne PrincetonThe Humanities Council is pleased to host a Belknap Global Conversation with Gregg Mitman (University of Wisconsin-Madison), author of the newly published book Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia, and Simon Gikandi (Chair, English). Mitman’s scrupulously researched narrative of ecology and disease, commerce and science, and racial politics and political maneuvering, uncovers the global history of a corporate empire—a story with special import for the Princeton community.
Personal Limits: A Series on Personal Writing, #2
Livestream PrincetonMonica Huerta (English, American Studies), author of Magical Habits, will host Personal Limits, a conversation series with critics, authors, and poets about contemporary experiments in personal writing amid overlapping crises. In this second session, Huerta will speak with Lili Loofbourow, a staff writer at Slate. Huerta's forthcoming book is The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics […]
Negative Energy and (Dis)Embodied Carbon
Betts Auditorium and Livestream PrincetonFred Bernstein entered Princeton hoping to become an architect. When he graduated from the School of Architecture in 1977, his chosen career seemed out of reach. He pursued other interests, as a journalist and lawyer, but for the last 20 years his main occupation has been writing about architecture. He has published more than 500 […]
