Exhibition — Poetic Record: Photography in a Transformed World
Hurley Gallery, Lewis Arts complexThis exhibition is presented as part of Poetic Record: Photography in a Transformed World, a two-day symposium that gathers photo-based artists, writers, curators, historians, and students to explore the poetics of photography, its instability, and its latent potential. The exhibition is co-curated by Deana Lawson and Michael Famighetti, editor-in-chief of Aperture magazine. The exhibition and symposium coincide with […]
“Writing the Waves: John Tzetzes and the Allegory of Book 18 of the Iliad”
103 Scheide CaldwellIn Book 18 of the Iliad, Achilles mourns the death of Patroclus. Thetis, his mother and goddess of the sea, consoles him and then leaves to procure him new armor […]
Parmenides in Babylon: A Dialogue on Tunnel Vision
100 Jones HallThere is a strange, structural parallel between the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh and On Nature, a long philosophical poem bythe ancient Greek thinker Parmenides. Both poems depict the main character […]
Historical Crisis and Paranoid Emplotment: The Discursive Structure of Racial Panics in Interwar Year Europe
002 Robertson Hall**Please note this event has changed locations. It will now be held in Robertson 002** Annual ECS Faber Lecture with Donna V. Jones (University of California, Berkeley) Please RSVP HERE […]
Fashioning Monogamy: Constitutional Rights of Gender (In) Equality and Adultery Law in Postcolonial South Korea
202 Jones HallEstablishing modern monogamous marriage based on gender equality emerged as one of the priorities for the state to construct a civilized nation-state in postcolonial South Korea. The state embedded the […]
The Middle Ages in Catalan Historiography and Imagination
010 East PyneA reception will follow the lecture. This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP HERE. In the nineteenth century, a literary movement within Catalonia known as the Renaixença revived the Catalan language and national sentiment. As was the case with other politically subordinated nations, a Romantic revival centered on the medieval period. Catalonia has […]
Misadventures in Magazine Making: An Evening with The European Review of Books
Chancellor Green Rotunda PrincetonThe editors of The European Review of Books will share tales of felicity and failure from their years as magazine makers. The ERB, which began as a crowd-funded idea in 2021, was first published in June 2022 and has continued to grow, attracting new readers of all backgrounds across the globe. In this playful conversation, […]
