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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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        September 15, 2023 · 1:30 pm—3:00 pm         · 010 East Pyne    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Public Talk: Art in Times of War        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        September 14, 2023 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · Room 219, 185 Nassau Street    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Film Screening: Art in Times of War        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        September 14, 2023 · 4:30 pm—6:30 pm         · CoLab Gallery, Lewis Arts Complex    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Mindscapes Unveiled: Artist’s Talk with Chanika Svetvilas        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        September 13, 2023 · 12:00 pm—1:15 pm         · Betts Auditorium and Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Mellon Forum // Land, Law & Speculative Urban Futures        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        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        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        November 11, 2021 · 6:00 pm         · Livestream    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Personal Limits: A Series on Personal Writing, #2        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        October 27, 2021 · 6:00 pm—7:00 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Black Bodies, White Gold—Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        October 26, 2021 · 6:00 pm—7:00 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        October 25, 2021 · 12:30 pm—1:30 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Translating Between Modalities: The Case Study of American Sign Language and English        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        May 12, 2020 · 6:00 pm         · Labyrinth Books    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Book Talk: Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        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        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        April 23, 2020 · 6:00 pm         · Labyrinth Books    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Book Talk: Arts of Dying: Literature and Finitude in Medieval England        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

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

                            
    

                    
    
            
    
        
    
    
    

    


    
    
    
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