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Princeton University Humanities Council

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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        Thu, 9/5 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · Chancellor Green Rotunda    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            18th Annual Humanities Colloquium: Knowledge and Action        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        September 12, 2023 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 010 East Pyne    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Confusion, Nonsense, and Consciousness: Poetry as a Source for a Novel Theory of Subjectivity        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Markus Gabriel, University of Bonn                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        September 23, 2022 · 5:00 pm—7:00 pm         · Betts Auditorium    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Belknap Global Conversation with Filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        September 8, 2022 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · Chancellor Green Rotunda    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            16th Annual Humanities Colloquium        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        November 22, 2021 · 4:30 pm—5:30 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Humanities Council Funding Information Session        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        November 11, 2021 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 010 East Pyne    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Empire of Rubber: A Conversation About the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Liberia        
    
    
    
    
            
    
                        Gregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Simon Gikandi, English        
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        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        
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        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        
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        September 30, 2021 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 010 East Pyne    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Scriptural Vitality in Ancient Judaism: Poesis and Forward Moving Philology        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Hindy Najman, Oriel College, University of Oxford                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        September 27, 2021 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Medical Bondage, Mobility, and Fugitive Logic: Revisiting Harriet Tubman as an Intellectual Figure        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Deirdre Cooper Owens, University of Nebraska–Lincoln                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        September 23, 2021 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · Zoom Webinar and Livestream    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            15th Annual Humanities Colloquium        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        April 19, 2021 · 4:30 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Old Dominion Series: Pride and Prejudice: not altogether ‘light & bright & sparkling’        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Susan J. Wolfson, English                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        April 2, 2021 · 12:00 am—2:30 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Material Histories of Latin America        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        March 30, 2021 · 5:00 pm         · Livestream    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Book Talk: Absentees: On Variously Missing Persons        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Daniel Heller-Roazen, Comparative Literature; Hal Foster, Art and Archaeology                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        March 30, 2021 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Is this America? Conversations on Jill Lepore’s “This America: The Case for the Nation”        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        March 26, 2021 · 7:30 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            ESL: A Digital Theater Experiment        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        March 25, 2021 · 12:00 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Old Dominion Series: Rabbinic Reactionaries in the Sephardic Diaspora: Notes on a Social Type        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Yaacob Dweck, History; Judaic Studies                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        March 23, 2021 · 6:00 pm         · Livestream    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Book Talk: The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Linda Colley, History; Maya Jasanoff, Harvard University                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                            
    

                    
    
            
    
        
    
    
    

    


    
    
    
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