Council Sponsored — Princeton University Humanities Council

September 15, 2023 · 1:30 pm—3:00 pm · 010 East Pyne

Public Talk: Art in Times of War

Iryna Tsilyk, filmmaker; Hanna Leliv, translator

September 14, 2023 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · Room 219, 185 Nassau Street

Film Screening: Art in Times of War

Iryna Tsilyk, filmmaker; Hanna Leliv, translator

September 14, 2023 · 4:30 pm—6:30 pm · CoLab Gallery, Lewis Arts Complex

Mindscapes Unveiled: Artist’s Talk with Chanika Svetvilas

Chanika Svetvilas, Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab 2022-23 Artist-in-Residence

September 13, 2023 · 12:00 pm—1:15 pm · Betts Auditorium and Zoom

Mellon Forum // Land, Law & Speculative Urban Futures

Sheila Crane, University of Virginia; Greg Valdespino, Princeton-Mellon/PIIRS Fellow

September 8, 2023—September 28, 2023 · Hurley Gallery, Lewis Arts complex

Mindscapes Unveiled, an exhibition by Chanika Svetvilas

September 8, 2023—September 29, 2023 · Princeton University

Seuls en Scène – Princeton French Theater Festival

December 8, 2021 · 6:00 pm—7:00 pm · Livestream

Personal Limits: A Series on Personal Writing, #3

Monica Huerta, English, American Studies; Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Classics

November 11, 2021 · 6:00 pm · Livestream

Personal Limits: A Series on Personal Writing, #2

Monica Huerta, English, American Studies; Lili Loofbourow, writer

October 27, 2021 · 6:00 pm—7:00 pm · Zoom

Black Bodies, White Gold—Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World

Anna Arabindan-Kesson, African American Studies, Art and Archaeology; Chika Okeke-Agulu, Art and Archaeology, African American Studies

October 26, 2021 · 6:00 pm—7:00 pm · Zoom

The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance

Leonard Barkan, Comparative Literature; Caroline Mangone, Art & Archaeology

October 25, 2021 · 12:30 pm—1:30 pm · Zoom

Translating Between Modalities: The Case Study of American Sign Language and English

Amelia Becker, Humanities Council, Linguistics

May 12, 2020 · 6:00 pm · Labyrinth Books

Book Talk: Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe

Anthony Grafton, History

May 7, 2020—May 9, 2020 ·

Conference: Language and Migration: Experience and Memory

May 5, 2020 · 6:00 pm · Labyrinth Books

CANCELED: Book Talk: Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

Eddie S. Glaude Jr., African American Studies

April 23, 2020 · 6:00 pm · Labyrinth Books

Book Talk: Arts of Dying: Literature and Finitude in Medieval England

D. Vance Smith, English; Andrew Cole, English

April 3, 2020—April 4, 2020 · 106 McCormick

POSTPONED: Political Values | Market Values | Art Values | The Ethics of American Art in the 1980s Conference

March 28, 2020 · 9:00 am—5:00 pm · 211 Dickinson

POSTPONED: The Antislavery Moment: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Origins of the Abolitionist Impulse

March 23, 2020 · 4:30 pm · McCormick

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Public Talk: Art in Times of War

Iryna Tsilyk, filmmaker; Hanna Leliv, translator

Film Screening: Art in Times of War

Iryna Tsilyk, filmmaker; Hanna Leliv, translator

Mindscapes Unveiled: Artist’s Talk with Chanika Svetvilas

Chanika Svetvilas, Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab 2022-23 Artist-in-Residence

Mellon Forum // Land, Law & Speculative Urban Futures

Sheila Crane, University of Virginia; Greg Valdespino, Princeton-Mellon/PIIRS Fellow

Mindscapes Unveiled, an exhibition by Chanika Svetvilas

Seuls en Scène – Princeton French Theater Festival

Personal Limits: A Series on Personal Writing, #3

Monica Huerta, English, American Studies; Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Classics

Personal Limits: A Series on Personal Writing, #2

Monica Huerta, English, American Studies; Lili Loofbourow, writer

Black Bodies, White Gold—Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World

Anna Arabindan-Kesson, African American Studies, Art and Archaeology; Chika Okeke-Agulu, Art and Archaeology, African American Studies

The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance

Leonard Barkan, Comparative Literature; Caroline Mangone, Art & Archaeology

Translating Between Modalities: The Case Study of American Sign Language and English

Amelia Becker, Humanities Council, Linguistics

Book Talk: Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe

Anthony Grafton, History

Conference: Language and Migration: Experience and Memory

CANCELED: Book Talk: Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

Eddie S. Glaude Jr., African American Studies

Book Talk: Arts of Dying: Literature and Finitude in Medieval England

D. Vance Smith, English; Andrew Cole, English

POSTPONED: Political Values | Market Values | Art Values | The Ethics of American Art in the 1980s Conference

POSTPONED: The Antislavery Moment: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Origins of the Abolitionist Impulse

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

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Iryna Tsilyk, filmmaker; Hanna Leliv, translator

Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication

Iryna Tsilyk, filmmaker; Hanna Leliv, translator

Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication

Chanika Svetvilas, Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab 2022-23 Artist-in-Residence

Department of African American Studies; Lewis Center for the Arts

Sheila Crane, University of Virginia; Greg Valdespino, Princeton-Mellon/PIIRS Fellow

Princeton Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism & the Humanities; Humanities Council

Department of African American Studies' Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab; Lewis Center for the Arts

Lewis Center for the Arts; Department of French and Italian; L’Avant-Scène

Monica Huerta, English, American Studies; Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Classics

Labyrinth Books; Princeton Public Library; Lewis Center for the Arts; Humanities Council; Department of English

Monica Huerta, English, American Studies; Lili Loofbourow, writer

Labyrinth Books; Princeton Public Library; Lewis Center for the Arts; Humanities Council; Department of English

Anna Arabindan-Kesson, African American Studies, Art and Archaeology; Chika Okeke-Agulu, Art and Archaeology, African American Studies

Labyrinth Books; African American Studies; Humanities Council; the Princeton Public Library

Leonard Barkan, Comparative Literature; Caroline Mangone, Art & Archaeology

Labyrinth Books; Humanities Council

Amelia Becker, Humanities Council, Linguistics

Program in Translation & Intercultural Communication; Humanities Council; Program in Linguistics

Anthony Grafton, History

Labyrinth Books; Humanities Council

Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies; Humanities Council; Department of Comparative Literature; Department of English; Lewis Center for the Arts; University Center for Human Values

Eddie S. Glaude Jr., African American Studies

Labyrinth Books; Humanities Council

D. Vance Smith, English; Andrew Cole, English

Labyrinth Books; Humanities Council

Department of Art and Archaeology; University Center for Human Values; Humanities Council; American Studies

Center for Collaborative History

Princeton University Art Museum; Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities; Humanities Council