The Laboratory of Literary Architecture: Translating the Structure of a Story Into a Physical Architectural Model
ZoomHow do we perceive literary texts? What is the shape of a story? Can a literary structure be explored the same way as a physical architectural space? Speaker: Matteo Pericoli, architect, author, and illustrator; Class of 1932 Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of French and Italian If you would like to […]
China’s Viral Villages: Digital Nationalism in Times of Crisis
Zoom PrincetonNationalism, in China as much as elsewhere, is today adopted, filtered, transformed, enhanced, and accelerated through digital networks. And digital nationalism interacts in complicated ways with nationalism "on the ground." If we are to understand the political complexities of the 21st century, we need to ask: what happens to nationalism when it goes digital? In […]
‘I Put Food on Everyone’s Table’: Food Provisioning and Domestic Work across Three Generations of Black Women in Santiago de Cuba
Zoom PrincetonBased on long-term ethnographic research, this talk draws on three generations of Black women from a low-income family in Santiago de Cuba. Hanna Garth details their household labor to feed the family, paid domestic labor cooking and cleaning in the homes of wealthier white Cubans, and entrepreneurial endeavors, such as raising pigs, and selling prepared […]
Reading by Peter Ho Davies and Jenni Olson, presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing
Hearst Dance Theater NJThe Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series returns in-person for the 2021-22 season with a reading by Anisfield-Wolf Award-winning novelist Peter Ho Davies and writer/ filmmaker and former co-director of the San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival Jenni Olson, presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University Free […]
