REGISTRATION REQUIRED — Princeton University Humanities Council

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

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

Dessa, rapper, singer, and writer

Poster for Dessa, a rapper, singer, and writer

November 18, 2021 · 4:30 pm—5:45 pm · Zoom

Archival Silences Working Group: Language In/Of the Archive

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

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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 26, 2021 · 5:00 pm—6:30 pm · Zoom

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

Adela Navarro Bello, Semanario Zeta; Mary Beth Sheridan, The Washington Post; Adriana Zehbrauskas, photojournalist and documentary photographer

October 26, 2021 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · Zoom

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

Angelina McMillan-Major, University of Washington; Gimena del Rio Riande, University of Buenos Aires; Lauren Klein, Emory University; Margaret Mitchell, Ethical AI LLC; Ted Underwood, University of Illinois

October 13, 2021 · 7:00 pm—8:30 pm · Zoom

Smiling behind the mask: Tokyo Olympics and its volunteers

Barbara Holthus, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo

October 13, 2021 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · Zoom

DeCamp Bioethics Seminar: “‘A Kind of Insanity in My Spirits’: Frankenstein, Childhood, and Criminal Intent”

Melissa Ganz, University Center for Human Values and Marquette University

October 12, 2021 · 5:00 pm—6:30 pm · Zoom

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

Christopher Neilson, Economics, School of Public and International Affairs

October 12, 2021 · 5:00 pm—6:30 pm · Donald G. Drapkin Studio, Lewis Arts Complex

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

Raena Shirali, poet

October 7, 2021 · 4:30 pm—5:45 pm · Zoom

Archival Silences Working Group: Building the Archive

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 6, 2021 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · Zoom

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

Morgane Cadieu, Yale University

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

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

Janet Kay, Art and Archaeology; Avner Goldstein, Boston College

October 6, 2021 · 12:00 pm—1:00 pm · Zoom

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

October 5, 2021 · 7:30 pm—9:00 pm · Hearst Dance Theater

Reading by Sherwin Bitsui and Maaza Mengiste

Sherwin Bitsui, poet; Maaza Mengiste, novelist and essayist

October 5, 2021 · 6:00 pm—7:00 pm · Zoom

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

Dessa, rapper, singer, and writer

Archival Silences Working Group: Language In/Of the Archive

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

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

Helen Thorpe, Journalism; with Carolyn Rouse, Anthropology

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

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

Adela Navarro Bello, Semanario Zeta; Mary Beth Sheridan, The Washington Post; Adriana Zehbrauskas, photojournalist and documentary photographer

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

Angelina McMillan-Major, University of Washington; Gimena del Rio Riande, University of Buenos Aires; Lauren Klein, Emory University; Margaret Mitchell, Ethical AI LLC; Ted Underwood, University of Illinois

Smiling behind the mask: Tokyo Olympics and its volunteers

Barbara Holthus, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo

DeCamp Bioethics Seminar: “‘A Kind of Insanity in My Spirits’: Frankenstein, Childhood, and Criminal Intent”

Melissa Ganz, University Center for Human Values and Marquette University

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

Christopher Neilson, Economics, School of Public and International Affairs

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

Raena Shirali, poet

Archival Silences Working Group: Building the Archive

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

Mieka Erley, Colgate University

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

Morgane Cadieu, Yale University

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

Janet Kay, Art and Archaeology; Avner Goldstein, Boston College

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

Reading by Sherwin Bitsui and Maaza Mengiste

Sherwin Bitsui, poet; Maaza Mengiste, novelist and essayist

Talk and Film Screening with Mimi Ọnụọha

Mimi Ọnụọha, artist and researcher

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Dessa, rapper, singer, and writer

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

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Henrietta Mondry, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Humanities Council; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Helen Thorpe, Journalism; with Carolyn Rouse, Anthropology

Program in Journalism

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

Adela Navarro Bello, Semanario Zeta; Mary Beth Sheridan, The Washington Post; Adriana Zehbrauskas, photojournalist and documentary photographer

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

Angelina McMillan-Major, University of Washington; Gimena del Rio Riande, University of Buenos Aires; Lauren Klein, Emory University; Margaret Mitchell, Ethical AI LLC; Ted Underwood, University of Illinois

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

Barbara Holthus, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo

East Asian Studies Program

Melissa Ganz, University Center for Human Values and Marquette University

University Center for Human Values

Christopher Neilson, Economics, School of Public and International Affairs

Program in Latin American Studies

Raena Shirali, poet

Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Creative Writing

Humanities Council

Mieka Erley, Colgate University

Humanities Council; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Morgane Cadieu, Yale University

Department of French and Italian

Janet Kay, Art and Archaeology; Avner Goldstein, Boston College

Program in Medieval Studies

Center for Digital Humanities; Princeton Research Data Service

Sherwin Bitsui, poet; Maaza Mengiste, novelist and essayist

Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing

Mimi Ọnụọha, artist and researcher

Center for Digital Humanities