Medieval Studies Faculty Colloquium: “Beginnings and Anomalies. The Example of Medieval Iberia”
209 Scheide Caldwell 209 Scheide Caldwell, PrincetonMedieval Studies is pleased to offer the Faculty Colloquium Series for the 2022-23 academic year. Professor Marina S. Brownlee will present this lunchtime talk.
Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela
216 Aaron Burr HallWhy have thousands of Venezuelan youth and their families chosen to invest their desires in classical music? In this talk, Yana Stainova will discuss her new book Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela, based on 16 months of ethnographic research with musicians from Venezuela’s classical music program El Sistema. The state-funded initiative provides free classical […]
Marx’s Critique and its Implications for a Critical Philosophy
100 Jones HallThis lecture will present the principles and epistemological aspects of Marx's critical method and the specific categorical structures associated with it. It will thus present, among other things, Marx's distinction between the esoteric and exoteric levels of analysis, between the real object and the object of knowledge, and indicate the connection of his epistemological approach […]
EHL Seminar: “HistoGenes: Integrating Genomic, Archaeological, and Historical Perspectives on Eastern Central Europe”
219 Aaron Burr Hall or ZoomThis seminar is organized by The Environmental History Lab (EHL), an interdisciplinary program affiliated with the Program in Medieval Studies and funded by a Humanities Council David A. Gardner '69 Magic Grant for innovation.
Glare Captured Through Telescope Eyes: On Seeing and Unseeming in the New Ethers
010 East Pyne PrincetonEthers come and go. Devices make present spectacular and sublime incomprehensibilities, the tiniest shudders in space and time, a glimmer from something so distant its seeming existence might just be an effect of the mechanism - lending interest to Adorno's line about the splinter in one's eye being the best magnifying glass . Our media […]
