Troubling Times: South Asia and the Postcolonial
A71 Simpson International BuildingYou are invited to attend Princeton’s 2022 South Asia conference, ′Troubling Times: South Asia and the Postcolonial’. The conference will take place from Thursday 6th October to Saturday 8th October in A71, Louis A. Simpson International Building. The conference has an exciting line-up of panellists and speakers, who will interrogate “post-coloniality” as a paradigm for representing South Asia. There will be […]
A Symposium on the Work of Patrice Nganang
Prospect House, Presidential Dining RoomPanel 1: Jean-Michel Devesa, Writer (University of Limoges, France): Minorizing the French language in the work of Nganang Peter Vakunta (Defense Language Institute-Foreign Language Center, Monterey-California): Is this French? The Task of Teaching Nganang's Temps de chien Bertrand Eric Oka Kouame (University of Abidjan-Cocody, Ivory Coast): Patrice Nganang, a writer between theory and practice Panel […]
The Sassoons: The Global Merchants and the Making of a Dynasty
202 Jones Hall and Zoom 202 Jones Hall, NJThe influential merchants of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries shaped the globalization of today. The Sassoons, a Baghdadi-Jewish trading family, built a global trading enterprise by taking advantage of major historical developments during the nineteenth century. Their story is not just one of an Arab Jewish family that settled in India, traded in China, […]
The Spirit of ’76: Slavery, Empire, and the Anthropocene in Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Kindred’
010 East Pyne PrincetonThe Effron Center for the Study of America presents the Fall 2022 Anschutz Lecture: Susana Morris In 1976, the United States was celebrating the Bicentennial, or the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Still reeling from Vietnam, Watergate, and the previous decade’s culture wars, the still young nation threw itself into the culmination of […]
Medieval Studies Book Club: Wonderful to Relate: Miracle Stories and Miracle Collecting in High Medieval England
209 Scheide Caldwell 209 Scheide Caldwell, PrincetonTo start off the academic year, the Medieval Studies Book Club will be meeting on Thursday, October 6 from 6 to 7:20pm to discuss Rachel Koopmans’s “Wonderful to Relate: Miracle Stories and Miracle Collecting in High Medieval England” (2011).
