Princeton French Film Festival
Various PrincetonThe French and Francophone Society, along with its generous partners at Princeton University and beyond, are thrilled to invite you all to the first-ever Princeton French Film Festival, happening from April 16th to 28th at various venues across our campus. A unique opportunity to discover the richness and diversity of Francophone cultures through the magic […]
Medieval Faculty Colloquium: “Translating Jurjani: Why read an eleventh-century text about Arabic poetics?”
209 Scheide Caldwell 209 Scheide Caldwell, PrincetonThe Program in Medieval Studies is pleased to offer the Faculty Colloquium series for Spring 2023. Lara Harb (Near Eastern Studies) will present this lunchtime talk on Wednesday, April 19. Last fall, Harb spent the semester translating a work from Arabic entitled The Secrets of Eloquence and teaching it to a group of graduate students. […]
“The Undiscovered Country: Ancient Texts and Modern Technologies”
16 Joseph Henry HouseOver the last six months, scholars have recovered a host of unknown, damaged, or lost texts, that are changing the canon, among which Hipparchus’s star chart, a commentary by Apuleius on Plato’s Republic, Book 10, the lost ending to the Old Irish Bricriu’s Feast, and the provenance of the Sarajevo Haggadah. This lecture gives both […]
Documenting the ASL communities: MoLo and O5S5 projects
Zoom PrincetonAs a deaf linguist in North America, my recent work has revolved around documenting the language use of the ASL communities in North America. In my presentation, I first describe some of the motivations that drive my documentation work with ASL communities - ethics of working with signed language communities; lack of inclusion of signed […]
The Annual Jansen Lecture: Mori Nao Divorces Her Husband and His Family Puts Him in a Cage
202 Jones HallIn 1824 a young newlywed samurai woman of Kōchi castle town in southwestern Japan named Mori Nao wanted to divorce her samurai husband because she did not like him. Nao's husband adamantly refused to give her a divorce and the legal system said that only a man had the right and privilege to do so. […]
Debt Working Group | Feminist Challenges to Debt in Puerto Rico
216 Aaron Burr HallMarisol LeBron is one of the creators of the Puerto Rico Syllabus, a digital resource for understanding the Puerto Rico debt crisis. She is the author of Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico (2019) and Against Muerto Rico: Lessons from the Verano Boricua (2021). She is also the co-editor of […]
Universality and the Impotence of Discourse
300 Wallace HallThere is a lot is at stake in how we make sense of the claim that we have never been modern. We can rail against modernity by either disavowing the premodern or idealizing it: both operations lead to unfortunate results. Psychoanalysis insists and persists within the cut that is instilled by modern science while creating […]
LLL Presents | The Archivists: Stories
Princeton Public Library and LivestreamThe characters in Daphne Kalotay’s stories are everyday people, but when private losses or the shocks of history set their worlds reeling, they find connection and liberation in surprising, buoyant ways. Please join us for a conversation between two exceptional writers about this vibrant new collection. Daphne Kalotay is the author of Calamity and Other Stories and the award-winning novels Russian […]
