Seuls en Scène – Princeton French Theater Festival
Princeton UniversitySeuls en Scène brings celebrated French actors and directors, as well as promising early-career artists, to Princeton University and the local community to present their work, introducing American audiences to dynamic and engaging French productions. This year we are thrilled to resume the French Theater Festival in person in collaboration with the 51st Edition of […]
‘Asfüriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East
Zoom PrincetonDr. Abi-Rached will present her recent book 'Asfüriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East (MIT Press, 2020). Formally, the Lebanon Hospital for the Insane, 'Asfüriweh was founded by a Swiss Quaker missionary in 1896. The medical establishment of the day hailed it as one of the first modern psychiatric hospitals […]
Ask Your Questions, a Belknap Visiting Fellows Residency with Daniel Alexander Jones
CoLab Gallery, Lewis Arts ComplexDaniel Alexander Jones, a Belknap Short-Term Visiting Fellow in Princeton’s Humanities Council, collaborates with members of the Princeton community at the Lewis Center for the Arts to construct an altar over the course of a week-long residency. Centered around the prompt “Ask Your Questions,” the conversations, offerings, building and activation of the altar will be […]
Writers In Conversation: On Migration, Language and the Stories of Our Lives
A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building Washington Rd., PrincetonIs language a “place” you call home? How do migratory patterns influence the stories we tell? Sámi-Swedish writer Linnea Axelsson, Professor of Creative Writing Aleksandar Hemon, and Translator-in-Residence Saskia Vogel join editor, critic and poet John Freeman in conversation and with short readings from their recent works. Axelsson’s forthcoming American debut Aednan, in Vogel’s translation […]
Major Corrections: the Materialist Philology of Sebastiano Timpanaro
East Pyne 010 and Zoom PrincetonSebastiano Timpanaro (1923-2000) was one of the tightest and brightest thinkers of the 20th century. Trained as a classical philologist in the most German sense of the word, Timpanaro also maintained an unwavering, antagonistic, and near life-long commitment to the realisation of socialism. But his intellectual contributions go well beyond one or the other sphere […]
The E. Franklin Robbins/UJA-Federation Lecture – Ilana Pardes
A71 Louis A. Simpson BuildingThe Program in Judaic Studies and the Ronald O. Perelman Institute for Judaic Studies invite you to join us for a panel discussion in the 2022 E. Franklin Robbins/UJA-Federation Lecture Series. The panel discussion of "Ruth, A Migrant's Tale" will include author Ilana Pardes (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Maya Kronfeld (Princeton), Moulie Vidas (Princeton) and […]
Poison and politics: toward a (pre-modern?) theory of community and communication
219 Aaron Burr Hall 219 Aaron Burr Hall, PrincetonThe first task in this talk will be to suggest, by drawing on linguistics, literary texts, myth and scripture, that in many pre-modern cultures poison, hypocrisy, politics, and communication were intimately related concepts. In these cultures, communication could be thought of as profoundly ambivalent, capable of both deceit and revelation. The dangers of this ambivalence were often imagined in terms of poison, and specialists in communicative action often represented as poisoners.
On the Bias
Room N107, School of Architecture Room N107, School of Architecture, PrincetonThis talk will consider the diagonal line as a technique within thought. Inherently formal and spatial, if not also graphical, the diagonal or oblique line has played any number of important roles: from the diagonal of the unit square (which nearly destroyed Pythagoreanism and, later, played an important role in Plato’s "Meno"), to the clinamen or oblique swerve in Lucretius, to the modern intervention of Georg […]