**POSTPONED** The Criminalization of Adultery: Gender Equality, Monogamy, and Faithful Marraige in Postwar South Korea
202 Jones Hall**Please note that this event has been postponed to a later date. Please check the East Asian Studies website for more details.** Adultery was treated as a crime throughout Korean history until 2015, when the Constitutional Court of South Korea ruled the adultery law unconstitutional. The global trend of decriminalizing adultery began in the twentieth […]
Bua Comparative Project: Documentation and history of a language family of southern Chad
1-S-5 Green Hall 1-S-5 Green Hall, PrincetonIn this presentation, we report on ongoing descriptive and comparative-historical research on the Bua languages of Chad, a genetically related linguistic group that remains relatively little-known. We present the languages and internal classification of the Bua group, give a historical review of the state of documentation of the languages, and discuss some salient phonological and […]
Charlotte Delbo: Writing Auschwitz and After
127 East Pyne 127 East Pyne, PrincetonCharlotte Delbo: Writing Auschwitz and After, a Conversation between Ghislaine Dunant, author of the award-winning literary biography Charlotte Delbo: A Life Reclaimed, and translator Kathryn Lachman (Comparative Literature, UMass Amherst).
Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber
Labyrinth Books and Livestream 122 Nassau Street, PrincetonWendy Brown, one of America’s leading political theorists, analyzes the nihilism degrading and confounding political and academic life today and proposes ways to counter nihilism’s devaluations of both knowledge and political responsibility. She is joined for a conversation by the eminent critic and journalist Fintan O’Toole. Wendy Brown is Professor in the School of Social Science […]
