Calendar of Events

LUNAAPAHKIING, HULUNIIXSUWAAKAN, LUNAAPEEWAK (Munsee Land, Munsee Language, Munsee People) This second annual event takes place during the Punihle Waniipakw Niipaahum (Falling Leaf Moon) on Lunaapahkiing, at Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study. The gathering puts Princeton and IAS students, staff, members, and faculty in direct dialogue with members of the Munsee-Delaware Nation to learn about […]

Princeton graduate students, faculty and visiting scholars are invited to learn more about our graduate students' current research. "When Do International Organizations Praise or Criticize? Evidence from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights" The literature on the international promotion of human rights norms has mostly considered how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) publicly criticize or praise governments […]

Speakers: Mark R. Beissinger, Henry W. Putnam Professor of Politics. Jan-Werner Müller, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences. Director, Program in Political Philosophy. Kim L. Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values. Moderator: Deborah J. Yashar, Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International […]

Professor Cornelia Pearsall is Professor of English at Smith College. She is also affiliated faculty in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender, and earned her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Yale University.

Macedonian chryselephantine couches — exquisitely carved and gleaming with gold, glass, and ivory — constitute some of the most spectacular yet understudied monuments of the era of Alexander the Great. Well-documented in archaeological remains and written texts, the couches offer a concrete material lens through which to analyze the transfer of cultural knowledge about feasting: […]

In the aftermath of the United States Supreme Court’s recent decision to deny protection to abortion under the United States Constitution, the representation, presence and absence of narratives related to birth, menstruation, abortion and other aspects of human reproduction as they appear in the archival record feels more urgent than ever before. Inspired in part […]

Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes. But the twin plagues of COVID-19 and anti-Black police violence inspired her to rethink the importance of small, individual actions. Part memoir, part manifesto, Viral Justice is a sweeping and deeply personal exploration of how […]