Calendar of Events

Professor Richard J.A. Talbert will outline the attraction and importance of the "Late Ottoman Turkey in Princeton’s Forgotten Maps, 1883-1923" exhibition, which is being launched a century after the Smyrna Fire and the establishment of the Turkish Republic. He will highlight the key role of the German cartographers Heinrich and Richard Kiepert and its remarkably […]

Are you curious about how machine learning can be used to study fragments of medieval Egyptian letters? Or how quantitative methods can help trace the monetization of misinformation on the web? Intrigued by AI but don’t know what it is? Not sure how to work with your complex collection of texts, images, and other media? […]

Drawing on theoretical models culled from Black (German) studies, Afrofuturism, performance studies and queer theory, in this talk I will analyze examples Black German artists’ engagement with “future-making” through fantasy and speculative and science fiction. From the “Afronauts” painting cycle (1999) of visual artist, Daniel Kojo Schrade, and the poetry of Philipp Khabo Köpsell, to […]