Calendar of Events

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Past Council Event Events

September 9, 2020 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Webinar

14th Annual Humanities Colloquium


September 8, 2020 · 7:00 pm · Webinar

2020 McMurtry Lecture: Lincoln & Democracy

Allen Guelzo, Senior Research Scholar, Humanities Council


September 2, 2020 · 1:00 pm · via Zoom

Alumni Panel: “Owning HUM”


June 18, 2020 · 1:30 pm3:00 pm · via Zoom – Registration Required

From Healthscaping to Disease Tracing: Plague and Public Health After the Black Death

Abigail Agresta, George Washington University


June 11, 2020 · 1:30 pm3:00 pm · via Zoom – Registration Required

The Justinianic Plague: Apocalypse or Overblown?

Lee Mordechai, Hebrew University; Merle Eisenberg, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center in Annapolis


June 4, 2020 · 1:30 pm3:00 pm · via Zoom – Registration Required

Avoiding Plague like the Plague: Some Pathogenic Context for Late Antique Pandemics

Tim Newfield, Georgetown University, Washington,


May 28, 2020 · 1:30 pm3:30 pm · via Zoom – Registration Required

The ‘Plague of Cyprian’: Sources, Problems, Origins and the ‘Crisis of the Third Century’

Sabine Huebner, University of Basel


May 21, 2020 · 1:30 pm3:00 pm · via Zoom – Registration Required

Plague: From the Late Neolithic to the Black Death

Phil Slavin, University of Stirling


May 14, 2020 · 1:30 pm3:00 pm · via Zoom – Registration Required

The Story of Pandemics in Scholarship and Popular Culture, 1890-2020

Merle Eisenberg, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center in Annapolis; Lee Mordechai, Hebrew University


May 14, 2020 · 12:00 pm1:00 pm · via Zoom

Public Humanities Working Group: The Public Humanities at Princeton


May 1, 2020 · 4:00 pm6:00 pm · TBD

CANCELED: Drawing Lines Through Rivers and Towns: A History of Axiomatics

Vincenzo De Risi, Centre national de la recherche scientifique


April 30, 2020 · 4:00 pm · via Zoom

(In)visibilities, Omissions and Discoveries: Archival Absences in Life Magazine and Beyond

Archival Silences Working Group


April 30, 2020 · 12:00 pm · via Zoom

The Body as Social Sculpture

Cassils, visual artist


April 30, 2020 · 12:00 pm1:30 pm · 1879 Hall, Tower Room

CANCELED: Leibniz on Continuity, between Euclid and Dedekind

Vincenzo De Risi, Centre national de la recherche scientifique


April 29, 2020 · 4:30 pm ·

CANCELED: IHUM Faber Lecture: Encumbrance

Cameron Rowland, artist


April 28, 2020 · 4:00 pm6:00 pm · TBD

CANCELED: Neque mare viderunt, neque diagrammata: Picturing Space in Modern Geometry

Vincenzo De Risi, Centre national de la recherche scientifique


April 24, 2020April 25, 2020 · via Zoom

VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: American Contact: Intercultural Encounter and the History of the Book

Organizers: Rhae Lynn Barnes, History; Glenda Goodman, University of Pennsylvania


April 16, 2020 · 2:30 pm5:00 pm · Taplin Auditorium

Masterclass with Lawrence Zazzo, Countertenor

Lawrence Zazzo, Countertenor


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