When Pages Breathe: Immersive Elocution of Literature, an installation
CoLab Gallery, Lewis Arts ComplexLecturer in Theater Chesney Snow and students in his fall course, “The Oral Interpretation of Toni and William,” present a multimedia oral interpretation of literature installation that examines speech as an aspect of fine art through the exploration of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, as well as the literary canons of iconic American writer […]
Plato on the Spirit of the Law
301 Wooten HallVisit the University Center for Human Values website for information.
Ticha: archival texts, linguistic analysis, and language activism
1-S-5 Green Hall 1-S-5 Green Hall, PrincetonThere are thousands of pages of texts written in Zapotec from the 17c and 18c. In fact, Zapotec has one of the largest corpora of early alphabetic texts in the Americas. In this talk, I present Ticha: a digital text explorer for Colonial Zapotec (https://ticha.haverford.edu; Lillehaugen et al. 2016, Broadwell et al. 2020), a digital […]
Sinews of the Soul: Comparing Christian Baptism and Indigenous Adoption
Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture, PrincetonJoin us for a reception following the lecture. This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP Here. For all of the real and important contrasts between them, the Indigenous peoples and French Catholic colonists who encountered one another in seventeenth-century New France were both convinced that spiritual change was possible across cultural, […]
HOS Colloquia: Listening to Albert the Great on the Art of Becoming a Natural Scientist
211 Dickinson HallKatja Krause is a historian of science and medicine, and a philosopher specializing in medieval thought and beyond. She received her PhD in 2014 from King’s College London for her dissertation entitled “Aquinas’ Philosophy of the Beatific Vision: A Textual Analysis of his Commentary on the Sentences in Light of Its Greek, Arabic, and Latin […]
“‘The Syriac Dots:’ Oral Reading Traditions Recorded in Ink”
103 Scheide CaldwellIn the 5th century Syriac scribes began to use dots in order to document the oral reading traditions of the Bible. Some dots were used to vocalise words and differentiate between otherwise identical words. Another set of dots is the topic of this lecture. These dots, often called accents, were used to mark rising and […]
Xiaoshuo as China’s Fourth Religion: Pitfalls and Potentials of Vernacular Literature in the late Qing (1644-1911 CE)
202 Jones HallThis talk, based on the first chapter of my forthcoming book, focuses on how Yu Zhi (1809-1874), a firm believer in the socio-moral harm caused by vernacular literature, also built a strong case for how vernacular literature was also the most powerful tool available to further the Confucian civilizing mission of jiaohua 教化 (teaching and […]
“Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political”
Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street, PrincetonPlato famously defends the rule of knowledge. Knowledge, for him, is of the good. But what is rule? In her new study, which she will present and discuss with her colleague in Classics, Melissa Lane shows Plato to have been deeply concerned with the roles and relationships between rulers and ruled. Lane reveals how political […]
Film Screening: “Goodbye Julia”
101 Friend CenterGoodbye Julia is a 2023 Sudanese drama and the first feature film directed by Mohamed Kordofani. It is the first film from Sudan ever to be presented in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, when it went on to win that section’s Prix de Liberté (Freedom Prize). Wracked by guilt after […]
