Public Humanities Across Borders
16 Joseph Henry HousePlease 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 […]
McGraw Center Faculty Workshop: Using Social Annotation to Increase Student Engagement
ZoomAs 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 […]
(Re)Discovery: Modernist Travelogues by Sofia Yablonska, A Daring Ukrainian Woman Globetrotting in the 1930s
161 East PyneHad 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, […]
Writing a Feminist Epic: A Conversation about ‘Las Extraterrestres’
3rd Floor Atrium, Aaron Burr PrincetonAuthor 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 […]
Q&A with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Africa World Lecture Series
Arthur Lewis Auditorium, Robertson Hall NJPlease 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, […]
Traz d’horizonte: Impressions from Cabo Verde
East Pyne Lower HyphenAn 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. […]
Fatal Forgiveness: Euripides, Austin, Cavell, Arendt
101 Friend CenterThe 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 […]
The Art of Losing or The Afterlives of the Algerian War: A Conversation with Alice Zeniter
010 East Pyne PrincetonThe 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, […]
PISC workshop: “Are There Post-Mamluk Encyclopedias? Yusuf al-Shirbīni’s Hazz al-Quhuf (c. 1097/1686)”
102 Jones 102 Jones, PrincetonYūsuf 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 […]
LAMB Workshop: ‘Lapidatores, Percussores Urbisque Depopulatores’: Urban Violence in the Chronicle of Marcellinus Comes
209 Scheide Caldwell 209 Scheide Caldwell, PrincetonPlease 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': […]
Violence on Land and Body
Betts AuditoriumJordan 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 […]
