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Princeton University Humanities Council

We seek to foster creative scholarship, transformative teaching, and intellectual collaboration by bringing humanities departments and programs into dialogue with arts and sciences.

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Princeton University Humanities Council

The Council Chair and Executive Director lead an administrative team that is responsible for day-to-day operations and activities.

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        March 30, 2022 · 12:00 pm—1:20 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Algerian Letters – Unlearning Short Histories        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Brown University                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        March 17, 2022 · 12:00 pm—1:15 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        
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        March 3, 2022 · 7:30 pm         · James Stewart Film Theater    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Fall 2021 Film/Video Classes Screening        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        March 2, 2022 · 7:30 pm         · James Stewart Film Theater    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Fall 2021 Film/Video Classes Screening        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        November 4, 2021 · 12:00 pm—1:20 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        
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        October 28, 2021 · 12:00 pm—1:15 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        
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        October 28, 2021 · 12:00 pm—1:30 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        
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        October 7, 2021 · 12:00 pm—1:20 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        
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        October 5, 2021 · 12:00 pm—1:15 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        
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        September 23, 2021 · 12:00 pm—1:30 pm         · 209 Scheide Caldwell    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            The Original Red Scare: The Criminalization of Indigenous Resistance        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Nick Estes, Lower Brule Sioux Tribe and University of New Mexico                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        September 22, 2021 · 4:30 pm—6:00 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                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        June 4, 2021—June 6, 2021         · Virtual    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Conference | Global Publishing and the Making of Literary Worlds: Translation, Media, and Mobility        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        April 30, 2021 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · TBD    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Political Philosophy Colloquium        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Benjamin Straumann, New York University                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        April 28, 2021 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Besting the Sociolinguistic Interview: New Elicitation Methodology for Rare Elliptical Constructions in African American English        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Tracy Conner, University of California, Santa Barbara                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        April 20, 2021 · 10:00 am—11:30 am         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Workshop on Technology, Empire, and Decolonization in South Asia        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Aditya Ramesh, University of Manchester                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        April 8, 2021 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · TBD    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            POSTPONED: Political Philosophy Colloquium        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Simone Chambers, University of California-Irvine                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        April 6, 2021 · 10:00 am—11:30 am         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Workshop on Technology, Empire, and Decolonization in South Asia        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Subin Paul, University of Iowa                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        March 30, 2021 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Is this America? Conversations on Jill Lepore’s “This America: The Case for the Nation”        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                            
    

                    
    
            
    
        
    
    
    

    


    
    
    
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