Calendar of Events

You 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 […]

This interdisciplinary panel will discuss Flora Champy’s recent book, L’Antiquité politique de Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022). Studying Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s use of ancient material helps us explore several questions: how significant are examples in political writing? How important is the Early Modern regime of symbolism to foundational works of political theory? Rousseau deliberately turned […]

Marianne Nicolson is an artist and activist of the Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw First Nations. She will discuss her artistic practice, which incorporates light sculptures, installations, writing, graphic arts, and advocacy for Indigenous land rights. Join us—in person or live via Zoom—for a conversation with the artist moderated by Rachael Z. DeLue, Chair of the Department of Art […]

The Musicology Colloquium Series presents a talk by Professor Ritwik Banerji, co-sponsored by the Center for Digital Humanities and the Department of Anthropology. What does it mean when one or more improvisers remains silent in the midst of an improvised performance? While music scholars have given substantial attention to the meaning of musical silence, this […]

Two short works by the renowned playwright Harold Pinter. CELEBRATION, an interplay between two vivacious dinner parties with enough dry irony and sarcasm to keep you laughing all night. In PARTY TIME, eight wealthy guests gather for a house party amidst the upheaval outside. As the night goes on, subtle tensions grow. What’s going on […]