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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 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, Journalism; with Sophie Gee, English            Barbara Demick, Program in Journalism; Sophie Gee, English        
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        February 24, 2022 · 12:00 pm—1:15 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 pm—6:00 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Crime Fiction, Bad Living, and the Anthropocene        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        October 6, 2021 · 12:00 pm—1:20 pm         · 209 Scheide Caldwell    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            LAMB – Long-Distance Optical Communications in the Byzantine World: Revisiting the Anatolian Beacon Line Through Digital Experimental Archaeology        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        September 23, 2021 · 12:00 pm—1:30 pm         · 209 Scheide Caldwell    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            The Original Red Scare: The Criminalization of Indigenous Resistance        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        April 29, 2021 · 10:00 am—3:00 pm         · via Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Program in Journalism 2021 Senior Colloquium        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        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        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        April 8, 2021 · 4:30 pm—5:30 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Organizing Stories: Making|Future|Making with Ni’Ja Whitson        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        April 1, 2021 · 12:00 pm—1:20 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 pm—1:20 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 pm—5:30 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            NEW DATE: Organizing Stories: Community Organizing 101        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        March 4, 2021 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Writing the Impossible: African American Studies and Critical Archival Praxis        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        March 4, 2021 · 12:00 pm—1:30 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Modern America Workshop | Persistent Plagues: Race, Space, and Epidemiological Thinking in Illicit Drug Use Research, 1950-1980        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        March 4, 2021 · 12:00 pm—1:20 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 pm—5:30 pm         · via Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Quechua at Princeton        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        November 7, 2020         · via Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Iranian WomXn in Music: A Two-Day Symposium        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        November 2, 2020 · 4:30 pm         · via Zoom – Registration Required    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Talking about Race in Nineteenth-Century France: Ethics and the Impact of Distance        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        October 26, 2020 · 4:30 pm         · via Zoom – Registration Required    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Black Women and the French Republic        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                            
    

                    
    
            
    
        
    
    
    

    


    
    
    
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