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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


February 24, 2022 · 12:00 pm1:15 pm · 16 Joseph Henry House and Zoom

Post-Insurrection Politics: Reporting on the Midterms, 2024 Election, and Democracy in Crisis

Michael Calderone, Journalism; with Julian Zelizer, History, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs


October 13, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

Crime Fiction, Bad Living, and the Anthropocene

Lucas Hollister, Dartmouth College



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


April 29, 2021 · 10:00 am3:00 pm · via Zoom

Program in Journalism 2021 Senior Colloquium


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


April 8, 2021 · 4:30 pm5:30 pm · Zoom

Organizing Stories: Making|Future|Making with Ni’Ja Whitson

Ni’Ja Whitson, artist, performer, and writer


April 1, 2021 · 12:00 pm1:20 pm · Zoom

What Migration Sounds Like: Reporting on Refugees in Europe for NPR

Joanna Kakissis, Humanities Council Ferris Professor of Journalism; Karen Emmerich, Comparative Literature


March 18, 2021 · 12:00 pm1:20 pm · Zoom

Love From Six Feet Apart: Telling Stories From the Pandemic

Joe Richman, Humanities Council Ferris Professor of Journalism; Judith Weisenfeld, Religion


March 11, 2021 · 4:30 pm5:30 pm · Zoom

NEW DATE: Organizing Stories: Community Organizing 101

Darren "Freedom" Green, Trenton activist and organizer


March 4, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

Writing the Impossible: African American Studies and Critical Archival Praxis

Reena N. Goldthree, African American Studies; Erica Williams, Spelman College



March 4, 2021 · 12:00 pm1:20 pm · via Zoom

Investigating With Your Hair on Fire: Accountability Journalism Meets the 24/7 News Cycle

James Martinez, Humanities Council Ferris Professor in Journalism; Nolan McCarty, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs


February 17, 2021 · 4:30 pm5:30 pm · via Zoom

Quechua at Princeton


November 7, 2020 · via Zoom

Iranian WomXn in Music: A Two-Day Symposium

Various Artists


November 2, 2020 · 4:30 pm · via Zoom – Registration Required

Talking about Race in Nineteenth-Century France: Ethics and the Impact of Distance

Jennifer Yee, University of Oxford


October 26, 2020 · 4:30 pm · via Zoom – Registration Required

Black Women and the French Republic

Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, University of Michigan


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