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Past Council Event Events

March 2, 2021 · 6:00 pm · Livestream

Book Talk: A Most Interesting Problem — What Darwin’s Descent Of Man Got Wrong

Jeremy DeSilva, Dartmouth College; Holly Dunsworth, University of Rhode Island; Augustin Fuentes, Anthropology


March 2, 2021 · 4:30 pm · via Zoom – Registration Required

Archival Silences Working Group: Fictioning Archives



February 11, 2021 · 12:00 pm · via Zoom

Old Dominion Series: Racist research: What does respect for researchers require? What should academic freedom allow?

Elizabeth Harman, Philosophy; The University Center for Human Values


February 6, 2021 · Arts Council of Princeton

Legends of the Arts: A Black History Month Exhibit


February 5, 2021 · 1:00 pm2:30 pm · via Zoom

Islamic, Byzantine and Latin Exchange Systems in the Mediterranean, 800–1150

Chris Wickham, University of Oxford


January 30, 2021 · 8:00 am5:00 pm · Arts Council of Princeton

Black History Month: “UNTITLED 2017 (FEAR EATS THE SOUL) (WHITE FLAG)” Art Installation


November 17, 2020 · 4:30 pm · via Zoom – Registration Required

Archival Silences Working Group: Decolonizing Knowledges


October 29, 2020 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · via Zoom

On Patiency, or, Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!

William Mazzarella, The University of Chicago


October 27, 2020 · 6:00 pm · Livestream

Dissimilar Similitudes: Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe

Caroline Bynum, author; Brooke Holmes, Classics


October 20, 2020 · 4:30 pm · via Zoom – Registration Required

Archival Silences in the Present Moment



October 2, 2020 · 12:00 pm1:30 pm · via Zoom – Registration Required

Martin Luther’s Pamphlet Wars: Owning Language, Dispossessing Speech

Barbara N. Nagel, German; Robert Remsen Laidlaw '04


September 29, 2020 · 1:00 pm · Webinar

Humanities Innovation Forum


September 22, 2020 · 6:00 pm · Livestream

Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate

Daniel Mendelsohn, author; Michael Wood, English and Comparative Literature (Emeritus)


September 16, 2020 · 4:30 pm · via Zoom – Registration Required

Mellon Forum: Phenomenology and Data

Jocelyn Frank, SoundSceneFest.org; Shannon Mattern, The New School; Dietmar Offenhuber, Princeton Mellon Fellow


September 15, 2020 · 5:00 pm6:30 pm · Webinar

Migration Stories in the American Border Crisis

Valeria Luiselli, author


September 15, 2020 · 3:00 pm4:30 pm · via Zoom – Registration Required

The Spirit and the Letter: Russell Atkins and the Politics of Form

Craig Dworkin, University of Utah


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