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Past Council Event Events

Thu, 9/5 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Chancellor Green Rotunda

18th Annual Humanities Colloquium: Knowledge and Action

Humanities Council


September 12, 2023 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 010 East Pyne

Confusion, Nonsense, and Consciousness: Poetry as a Source for a Novel Theory of Subjectivity

Renaissance and Early Modern Studies and the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council, Markus Gabriel, University of Bonn


September 23, 2022 · 5:00 pm7:00 pm · Betts Auditorium

Belknap Global Conversation with Filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Humanities Council; Department of East Asian Studies; Department of Comparative Literature, the Program in East Asian Studies; Committee for Film Studies; Princeton Public Library


September 8, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Chancellor Green Rotunda

16th Annual Humanities Colloquium

Humanities Council


November 22, 2021 · 4:30 pm5:30 pm · Zoom

Humanities Council Funding Information Session

Humanities Council



November 4, 2021 · 12:00 pm1:20 pm · Zoom

Bodies of Knowledge Working Group—Conflating animal slaughter and animal and human sacrifice: Vasily Rozanov and ritual murder trials

Humanities Council; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures


October 7, 2021 · 12:00 pm1:20 pm · Zoom

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

Humanities Council; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures


September 30, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 010 East Pyne

Scriptural Vitality in Ancient Judaism: Poesis and Forward Moving Philology

Humanities Council; Program in Judaic Studies, Hindy Najman


September 27, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

Medical Bondage, Mobility, and Fugitive Logic: Revisiting Harriet Tubman as an Intellectual Figure

Humanities Council; Center for Digital Humanities; Department of African American Studies; Department of Art and Archaeology, Deirdre Cooper Owens


September 23, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom Webinar and Livestream

15th Annual Humanities Colloquium

Humanities Council


April 19, 2021 · 4:30 pm · Zoom

Old Dominion Series: Pride and Prejudice: not altogether ‘light & bright & sparkling’

Humanities Council, Susan J. Wolfson


April 2, 2021 · 12:00 am2:30 pm · Zoom

Material Histories of Latin America

Program in Latin American Studies; Humanities Council Virtual event on Zoom (registration link available soon)


March 30, 2021 · 5:00 pm · Livestream

Book Talk: Absentees: On Variously Missing Persons

Labyrinth Books; Humanities Council, Daniel Heller-Roazen, Comparative Literature; Hal Foster, Art and Archaeology



March 26, 2021 · 7:30 pm · Zoom

ESL: A Digital Theater Experiment

Humanities Council; The University Center for Human Values


March 25, 2021 · 12:00 pm · Zoom

Old Dominion Series: Rabbinic Reactionaries in the Sephardic Diaspora: Notes on a Social Type

Humanities Council, Yaacob Dweck


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

Labyrinth Books; Humanities Council; Department of History, Linda Colley, History; Maya Jasanoff, Harvard University


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