Humanities News at Princeton

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Past Campus Community Events

March 30, 2022 · 12:00 pm1:20 pm · Zoom

Algerian Letters – Unlearning Short Histories

IHUM, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay Virtual


March 17, 2022 · 12:00 pm1:15 pm · 16 Joseph Henry House

Eat the Buddha: Using literary non-fiction to bring to life a ‘closed town’ in Tibet

Program in Journalism, Barbara Demick, Program in Journalism; Sophie Gee, English

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March 3, 2022 · 7:30 pm · James Stewart Film Theater

Fall 2021 Film/Video Classes Screening

Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Visual Arts


March 2, 2022 · 7:30 pm · James Stewart Film Theater

Fall 2021 Film/Video Classes Screening

Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Visual Arts


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October 28, 2021 · 12:00 pm1:15 pm · 16 Joseph Henry House and Zoom

Empathy and Journalism: The power of immersive reporting in creative nonfiction

Program in Journalism

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October 28, 2021 · 12:00 pm1:30 pm · 209 Scheide Caldwell

Languages of Emergency, Infrastructures of Response and Everyday Heroism in the Circumpolar North

Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Princeton (NAISIP); Humanities Council


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September 23, 2021 · 12:00 pm1:30 pm · 209 Scheide Caldwell

The Original Red Scare: The Criminalization of Indigenous Resistance

Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Princeton (NAISIP), Humanities Council, Nick Estes, Lower Brule Sioux Tribe and University of New Mexico


September 22, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Betts Auditorium and Livestream

Re-Framing International: Ethics, Sustainability, and Equity in a Global Context

Office of the Dean of the College; Office of the Provost, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Philosophy; Chika Okeke-Agulu, Art and Archaeology; Deborah Yashar, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs


June 4, 2021June 6, 2021 · Virtual

Conference | Global Publishing and the Making of Literary Worlds: Translation, Media, and Mobility

Fung Global Fellows Program, PIIRS; Princeton University Press; International Comparative Literature Association Virtual Event - details to come


April 30, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · TBD

Political Philosophy Colloquium

The University Center for Human Values, Benjamin Straumann



April 20, 2021 · 10:00 am11:30 am · Zoom

Workshop on Technology, Empire, and Decolonization in South Asia

Program in South Asian Studies, Aditya Ramesh Zoom


April 8, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · TBD

POSTPONED: Political Philosophy Colloquium

The University Center for Human Values, Simone Chambers


April 6, 2021 · 10:00 am11:30 am · Zoom

Workshop on Technology, Empire, and Decolonization in South Asia

Program in South Asian Studies, Subin Paul Zoom



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