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

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Brown University

IHUM

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

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

Program in Journalism
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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

November 4, 2021 · 12:00 pm1:20 pm · Zoom

Bodies of Knowledge Working Group—Conflating animal slaughter and animal and human sacrifice: Vasily Rozanov and ritual murder trials

Henrietta Mondry, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Humanities Council; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
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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

Helen Thorpe, Journalism; with Carolyn Rouse, Anthropology

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

Olga Ulturgasheva, Pathy Distinguished Visitor in the Fund for Canadian Studies; Barbara Bodenhorn, University of Cambridge

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

October 7, 2021 · 12:00 pm1:20 pm · Zoom

Bodies of Knowledge Working Group—The Human Colony: Symbiogenesis and Sympoiesis in the Works of Konstantin Merezhkovskii and Alexander Bogdanov

Mieka Erley, Colgate University

Humanities Council; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
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October 5, 2021 · 12:00 pm1:15 pm · 16 Joseph Henry House and Zoom

People, Politics and Journalism: How Americans consume news in an era of partisanship and social media

Terence Samuel, Journalism; with Stephen Macedo, Politics

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

The Original Red Scare: The Criminalization of Indigenous Resistance

Nick Estes, Lower Brule Sioux Tribe and University of New Mexico

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

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

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

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

Office of the Dean of the College; Office of the Provost

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

April 30, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · TBD

Political Philosophy Colloquium

Benjamin Straumann, New York University

The University Center for Human Values

April 28, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

Besting the Sociolinguistic Interview: New Elicitation Methodology for Rare Elliptical Constructions in African American English

Tracy Conner, University of California, Santa Barbara

Program in Linguistics

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

Workshop on Technology, Empire, and Decolonization in South Asia

Aditya Ramesh, University of Manchester

Program in South Asian Studies

April 8, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · TBD

POSTPONED: Political Philosophy Colloquium

Simone Chambers, University of California-Irvine

The University Center for Human Values

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

Workshop on Technology, Empire, and Decolonization in South Asia

Subin Paul, University of Iowa

Program in South Asian Studies


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