Calendar of Events

The 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 […]

Over 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 […]

In 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 […]

Marisol 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 […]

There 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 […]

The 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 […]