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November 18, 2021 · 5:00 pm · 219 Aaron Burr

“Hymns for Humanists”: Dessa on Religion, Humanism, and Artistic Inspiration

Department of Religion; Humanities Council; Lewis Center for the Arts; Center for Culture, Society and Religion

Poster for Dessa, a rapper, singer, and writer


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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

Photo of Helen Thorpe

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


October 26, 2021 · 5:00 pm6:30 pm · Zoom

Journalism at Borders: Covering Mexico in a Time of Pandemic, Migration and Violence

Program in Latin American Studies; Program in Journalism; Center for Migration and Development


October 26, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

Machine Predictions and Synthetic Text: A Roundtable on Large Language Models in the Humanities

Center for Digital Humanities; Center for Statistics and Machine Learning; DARIAH-EU Zoom


October 13, 2021 · 7:00 pm8:30 pm · Zoom

Smiling behind the mask: Tokyo Olympics and its volunteers

East Asian Studies Program, Barbara Holthus Zoom



October 12, 2021 · 5:00 pm6:30 pm · Zoom

Leveraging the Rise of Centralized Choice and Assignment Mechanisms to Improve Education Markets in Developing Countries

Program in Latin American Studies, Christopher Neilson, Economics, School of Public and International Affairs


October 12, 2021 · 5:00 pm6:30 pm · Donald G. Drapkin Studio, Lewis Arts Complex

Reading by poet Raena Shirali and seniors from the Program in Creative Writing

Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Creative Writing


October 7, 2021 · 4:30 pm5:45 pm · Zoom

Archival Silences Working Group: Building the Archive

Humanities Council


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October 6, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

Introducing the Parvenant: Social Mobility in Twenty-First-Century France

Department of French and Italian, Morgane Cadieu


October 6, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

An ‘Under’ World of Practices: Romano-British Religious Cults in the Severn Valley

Program in Medieval Studies, Janet Kay, Art and Archaeology; Avner Goldstein, Boston College


October 6, 2021 · 12:00 pm1:00 pm · Zoom

Humanities Data Workshop Series: “What is ‘Data’ in the Humanities?”

Center for Digital Humanities; Princeton Research Data Service


October 5, 2021 · 7:30 pm9:00 pm · Hearst Dance Theater

Reading by Sherwin Bitsui and Maaza Mengiste

Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing


October 5, 2021 · 6:00 pm7:00 pm · Zoom

Talk and Film Screening with Mimi Ọnụọha

Center for Digital Humanities

Portrait of Mimi Onuoha

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