Shimmers of the Fabulous: Intimate Touch and Public Sex in Queer and Trans Bombay
A71 Louis A. Simpson BuildingIn Bombay’s cruising parks, gay parties, pride events, and virtual spaces—what Brian Horton call queer sexpublics—queer sex, touch, and intimacy flourish. Though queer and trans people perpetually negotiate risk and […]
Art Hx Presents | Collectives in Crisis: Healing Through Storytelling with Neil Bardhan
Zoom PrincetonHow can storytelling help us mend the social and material fissures that governmental policies often create between individual and collective care? Community integration is central to mental and physical wellbeing, […]
HIdeyoshi’s Goal of Conquering Ming China? A Misconstrued Narrative of Japan’s Invasion of Chosŏn Korea in 1592-1598
202 Jones HallIt is common that a narrative of Japan’s invasion of Chosŏn Korea in 1592 starts with some words on what Hideyoshi, the de facto ruler of Japan at that time, […]
Spring 2023 Anschutz Lecture | Talk to Me: A Story of Racial Capitalism, Coup, and Democracy
A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building Washington Road, PrincetonThis presentation excavates the life and times of Daniel Fignolé, a spell-binding orator and one-time president of Haiti. A political and rhetorical daredevil, he was one of the most charismatic, […]
“How Do We Think of Social Diversity”
East Pyne 010 East Pyne 010, PrincetonToday's call for diversity in the United States quite often reduces itself to body counts. René Zavaleta Mercado (1937-1984) confronted the question of respecting diversity in the analysis of social reality […]
“Who Reads Greek in 3rd Century CE Oxyrhynchus?: The Jewish Community of Oxyrhynchus Before and After 117 CE”
103 Scheide CaldwellWithin the framework of his research project at Princeton University, Piotrkowski examines Jewish papyri discovered at Oxyrhynchus and seeks to test, inter alia, the generally accepted hypothesis that Egyptian Jews […]
