One Book, Five Writers: Translating Jaguars’ Tomb
Zoom PrincetonAngélica Gorodischer’s novel Jaguars’ Tomb (Tumba de jaguares) is made up of three linked sections, each credited to a different fictional author. The protagonist of one section becomes the author […]
Book Talk: The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature
010 East Pyne PrincetonThe African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature unearths a buried African archive within widely-read Latinx writers of the last 50 years. It challenges dominant narratives in world literature and […]
“Labor, Love and Loss: Black Women and Care-Work during the Civil War”
211 Dickinson Hall or ZoomLaKisha Michelle Simmons is a historian of African American gender history specializing in Black girlhood, history of the family, history of sexuality and southern history in the 19th and 20th […]
Theravada Buddhist responses to colonialism and their modern implications: Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture in Buddhism
219 Aaron Burr HallThe warfare, disease and disruption to the status quo that came with European colonialism to the countries of Theravada Buddhism seemed to fulfill ancient predictions of the calamities that would […]
