Celebrating Liliana Cavani’s Life and Films
Various PrincetonPresented by the Department of French and Italian and The Italian Cultural Institute, New York. In association with the Humanities Council, the Department of Comparative Literature, Committee for Film Studies and PIRELLI in Milan: March 27, 2023, 7:30 pm - East Pyne 010 Film Screening of Francesco (1989) March 28, 2023, 7:00 pm - The […]
Medieval Faculty Colloquium | Making Things Up: Improvisation in the Illustrated ‘Cantigas de Santa María’
209 Scheide CaldwellThe Program in Medieval Studies is pleased to offer the Faculty Colloquium series for Spring 2023. Pamela Patton (Art and Archaeology) will present this lunchtime talk on Wednesday, March 29. Patton’s project-in-progress examines artistic improvisation in the two illustrated Cantigas de Santa María manuscripts now in the Escorial (RBME, MS T-I-1) and Florence (Bib. Naz. […]
Book Talk “The Face of Peace: Government Pedagogy amid Disinformation in Colombia”
216 Aaron Burr HallColombia’s 2016 peace agreement with the FARC guerrillas sought to end fifty years of war and won President Juan Manuel Santos the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet Colombian society rejected it in a polarizing referendum, amid an emotive disinformation campaign. Gwen Burnyeat joined the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace, the government institution responsible for […]
Towards a New Understanding of the Late Imperial Corpora or How to Read An Anatomy of Lenses (Jingshi 鏡史), 1681
202 Jones HallA talk from Tina Lu, Yale University. ABSTRACT: Although it is mentioned in other seventeenth-century texts and strongly associated with Sun Yunqiu (~1630-1662), Jingshi (compiled sometime after 1681) was only rediscovered in 2015 as one of a handful of seventeenth-century Chinese texts that allude to a Chinese-made telescope. In both halves of my project—what Jingshi […]
The Background Fantastic: Ambient Fantasy from YouTube to the Metaverse
100 Jones HallJoin the Committee for Film Studies for the first lecture in our spring 2023 series that brings prominent film scholars into conversation with members of the Princeton community. This event features Paul Roquet, associate professor of media studies and Japan studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Talk title “The Background Fantastic: Ambient Fantasy from […]
Bhimrao Ambedkar, John Dewey, and the Evolution of Navayana Buddhism: Buddhist Studies Workshop
1879 Hall, Room 137Bhimrao Ambedkar is well known for his roles in anti-caste activism in India and his work in orchestrating vital parts of India’s democratic constitution. He was also famous at the end of his life for proffering a controversial new vision of Buddhism that was designed to create democratic communities and resist caste oppression. Uniting these […]
Toni Morrison Lectures | Here Stands a Man: Morrison’s (Feminist?) Molding of Black Masculinity
10 McCoshHeld over three days March 28 – March 30th, the Toni Morrison Lectures are held bi-annually and spotlight the new and exciting work of scholars and writers who have risen to positions of prominence both in academe and in the broader world of letters. The lectures are published to celebrate the expansive literary imagination, intellectual […]
LLL Presents | Take What You Need: A Novel
Labyrinth Books and Livestream 122 Nassau Street, PrincetonIn her new novel, Idra Novey zeroes in on the joys and difficulty of family, the ease with which we let distance mute conflict, and the power we can draw from creative pursuits. Please join us for a conversation between the author and fellow novelist Yiiyun Li. Idra Novey is also the author of the acclaimed […]
