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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, Journalism; with Sophie Gee, English

Program in Journalism
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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

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

Crime Fiction, Bad Living, and the Anthropocene

Department of French and Italian

October 6, 2021 · 12:00 pm1:20 pm · 209 Scheide Caldwell

LAMB – Long-Distance Optical Communications in the Byzantine World: Revisiting the Anatolian Beacon Line Through Digital Experimental Archaeology

Program in Medieval Studies; Center for Collaborative History

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

The Original Red Scare: The Criminalization of Indigenous Resistance

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

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

Program in Journalism 2021 Senior Colloquium

Program in Journalism


April 8, 2021 · 4:30 pm5:30 pm · Zoom

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

Humanities Council

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

Program in Journalism; Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies

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

Program in Journalism

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

NEW DATE: Organizing Stories: Community Organizing 101

Humanities Council; Dean of Faculty; The Center for Human Values

March 4, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

Writing the Impossible: African American Studies and Critical Archival Praxis

Department of African American Studies


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

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

Quechua at Princeton

Program in American Studies; Department of Classics

November 7, 2020 · via Zoom

Iranian WomXn in Music: A Two-Day Symposium

Female Voice of Iran, Iranian Female Composers Association and Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies

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

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

Department of French and Italian

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

Black Women and the French Republic

Department of French and Italian

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