Calendar of Events

Please join the Humanities Council for a lunchtime conversation with Sarah Churchwell *98, Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities and Professor of American Literature at the School of Advanced […]

As part of McGraw’s new “How to/Why to” series, the session will offer participants ideas for using social annotation assignments in classes and demonstrations of how to implement them in […]

Had social media existed in the 1930s, "Distant Horizons" —an engrossing travel diary which PIIRS Translator-in-Residence Hanna Leliv is translating into English — would have gone viral, and its author, […]

Author Juliana Borrero Echeverry (Bogotá, 1973) will discuss her writing and recent book, Las Extraterrestres (Cajón de Sastre, 2021), a feminist work of poetic fiction set at the end of the world, where language mutates and extraterrestrials set the stage for a new way of living on planet Earth. Graduate students Grace Monk (Comparative Literature), […]

Please join AWI for a Q&A session with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who was born in Enugu, Nigeria in 1977. She grew up on the campus of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where her father was a Professor and her mother was the first female Registrar. She studied medicine for a year at Nsukka and then […]

An Exhibition of Photography Princeton in Portugal’s inaugural trip to Cabo Verde, a small archipelago off the coast of West Africa, yielded a rich trove of cultural experiences and connections. This exhibition of photography by students and faculty is our opportunity to share "impressions" and invite the Princeton community on a journey “traz d’horizonte”, beyond […]

The Moffett Lecture Series aims to foster reflection about moral issues in public life, broadly construed, at either a theoretical or a practical level, and in the history of thought about these issues. The series is made possible by a gift from the Whitehall Foundation in honor of James A. Moffett ’29. Abstract: Are today’s […]

The Department of French and Italian presents “The Art of Losing or The Afterlives of the Algerian War. A Conversation with Alice Zeniter” organized by André Benhaïm, featuring Alice Zeniter, Novelist, translator, screenwriter, and director, André Benhaim, Department of French and Italian, Gyan Prakash, Department of History. Alice Zeniter studied literature and theater at l’École […]

Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī’s Hazz al-quḥūf (c. 1686) is, formally speaking, a commentary on a poem by a peasant. This, however, is but a structuring device. The Hazz teems with anecdotes about peasants interlaced with quotations from the Quran, ḥadīth, poetry, and more. Drawing on Arabic encyclopedias and the ʿajāʾib tradition, I argue that the Hazz pertains […]

Please join us on October 26 for our first LAMB workshop of the semester in 209 Scheide Caldwell. We will read and discuss Radka Pallová's paper entitled 'Lapidatores, Percussores Urbisque Depopulatores': Urban Violence in the Chronicle of Marcellinus Comes. This workshop is for Graduate Students only. Please Please RSVP Here and download the paper on the LAMB website. About LAMB:  […]

Jordan Weber is a New York-based regenerative land sculptor and activist who works at the intersection of social justice and environmental apartheid through grassroots collaboration in industrially polluted places such as St. Louis, Detroit, Boston, Des Moines, and the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn. In 2020, the Walker Art Center commissioned Weber to create an […]