Faculty Discussion: What Does Experiential Teaching Look Like?
Zoom PrincetonTeaching artmaking, labs, or with special collections on Zoom required deep creativity. What did we learn from the experience? What does experiential learning look like now? What new approaches or innovations to hands-on or haptic learning have faculty introduced? What spaces on campus are most equipped for experiential or haptic teaching and learning? Register here.
Everyday Life in the ‘Spectacular’ City: Making Home in Dubai
202 Jones Hall and Zoom 202 Jones Hall, NJThis talk will present an urban ethnography that reveals how middle class-citizens and long-time residents of Dubai interact with the city’s spectacular and so-called "superficial" spaces to create meaningful social lives. It will argue that residents adapt themselves to imposed spectacular structures, such as big shopping malls and new developments, while also making these same […]
Mellon Forum // Of Milk, Blood, and Bones: Brazil’s Colonial and Postcolonial Plantation “Big House”
Betts Auditorium and Zoom PrincetonGilberto Freyre's influential book Casa Grande e Senzala (1933) has been an international reference in Brazil's historical racial relations. In this equally historiographical and fictional study, a benevolent rendering of the plantation's "big house" stands for Brazil, that is, as the root of its modern, exceptional, and multiculturalist society. In this view, colonial domesticity's openness […]
The Queerness of Home
Room N107, School of Architecture Room N107, School of Architecture, PrincetonGraduate Program in Media + Modernity | Princeton University presents: Stephen Vider "The Queerness of Home” Tuesday, October 25, 2022 @5pm ET N107 (School of Architecture) Drawing on research from his new book, The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity After World II (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Vider will trace the history of two […]
“Getting to the Point. Genealogies of the Analog Code”
Room N107, School of Architecture Room N107, School of Architecture, PrincetonGraduate Program in Media + Modernity | Princeton University presents: Wolfgang Schäffner "Getting to the Point. Genealogies of the Analog Code” Tuesday, November 01, 2022 @5pm ET N107 (School of Architecture) Event co-sponsored by: Department of Art & Archaeology, Center for Collaborative History, Comparative Literature, Department of German, IHUM, Program in European Cultural Studies, Program […]
Gauss Seminars in Criticism: Hortense J. Spillers
Betts AuditoriumThe Humanities Council’s Fall 2022 Gauss Seminars in Criticism will be presented by Hortense Spillers (Emerita, Vanderbilt University). Her visit, under the general title, "Criticism in Times of Stress," will comprise a public lecture on Tuesday, October 25 and a seminar on Wednesday, October 26. Hortense J. Spillers is a Black Feminist scholar and Gertrude […]
Princeton University Press Poets with Susan Stewart
Labyrinth Books and Livestream 122 Nassau Street, PrincetonLabyrinth Books and the Princeton University Press invite you for an evening of readings by poets in the Press’s Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, which is edited by Professor Susan Stewart. Professor Stewart will introduce our wonderful line-up of poets. It had become a tradition at Labyrinth to introduce our community to two new poets […]
