Mellon Forum // Predatory Development and Climate Change
Betts Auditorium and Zoom PrincetonRenewal, revitalization, remediation, and resilience describe a range of actions that have used the language of growth to advance often inequitable plans for urban neighborhoods. Predominantly Black communities in many U.S. cities have borne the brunt of past urban restructuring, raising the question of who benefits and who is left out of renewal and revitalization […]
LAMB – Ephrem and Eusebius: Church and Empire in the Traumatic Providentialism of the Fourth Century
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 […]
Machine Learning + Humanities Working Group Meeting
Firestone Library, Floor B and Zoom PrincetonJoin the new Machine Learning + Humanities Working Group for our second meeting of the semester on Wednesday, November 17. We’ll discuss the latest trends in research at the intersections of ML+Hum, and will look specifically at several projects including Machines Reading Maps from the Turing Institute and Newspaper Navigator from the Library of Congress. Participants are also encouraged to browse […]
From the Caribbean/A partir des Antilles
Zoom PrincetonA virtual event in French with simultaneous English translation. Open to the Princeton University Community Patrick Chamoiseau is a Belknap Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of French and Italian, and author of Solibo Magnifique, Texaco (Prix Goncourt) Eloge de la créolité, Frères migrants, and many other works of fiction and criticism. […]
Marvelous Extinctions: Melville on Animal Suffering
Zoom PrincetonBranka Arsić is a Class of 1932 Visiting Fellow in the Council of the Humanities and the Department of English and professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Beginning with Melville's remarks left in his Encantadas concerning the Galapagos tortoises this lecture examines the scientific and historical archives to which he had recourse, […]
The Cornucopian Stage: Dramas of Surplus in Early Modern China
Zoom PrincetonThis talk takes the titular object of the play Jubaopen 聚寶盆 (Cornucopia), attributed to the Suzhou playwright Zhu Suchen 朱素臣 (ca. 1620–after 1701), as the point of departure for an exploration of the productive possibilities of early modern drama. Ariel Fox is an assistant professor of Chinese literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Committee […]
Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette
Labyrinth Books and Livestream 122 Nassau Street, PrincetonSpanning a century, Pushing Cool reveals how the twin deceptions of health and Black affinity for menthol were crafted and how the industry’s disturbingly powerful narrative has endured to this day. We invite you to a discussion between Keith Wailoo (History, SPIA) and Ruha Benjamin (African American Studies), two exceptional scholars of race in America. […]
