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Princeton University Humanities Council

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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        April 19, 2023 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Documenting the ASL communities:  MoLo and O5S5 projects        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        September 9, 2022 · 5:30 pm         · via Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Artist Conversation: Rose B. Simpson        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        May 24, 2022 · 7:30 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Asian American Films Seminar: The Celine Archive (Dir. Celine Parreñas Shimizu, 2020)        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        April 28, 2022 · 6:00 pm—7:30 pm         · Labyrinth Books and Livestream    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data 1880-1930        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        April 28, 2022—April 29, 2022         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Art Hx 2022 Symposium: curative / spaces        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        April 26, 2022 · 7:30 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Asian American Films Seminar: Lingua Franca (Dir. Isabel Sandoval, 2019)        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        April 14, 2022 · 12:00 pm—1:30 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Bodies of Knowledge Working Group — Theorizing Eros: Queer Genealogies of Critical Materialism        
    
    
    
    
            
    
                        Angela Willey, University of Massachusetts Amherst                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        April 13, 2022 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            The Process Genre: Cinema and the Aesthetic of Labor        
    
    
    
    
            
    
                        Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky, University of Chicago; with Steven Chung, East Asian Studies                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        April 6, 2022 · 12:15 pm—1:15 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Organizing Stories: Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein in conversation with Selma James        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        April 1, 2022 · 12:00 pm—1:20 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Race, Race-Thinking and Identity in the Middle Ages and Medieval Studies: Archaeology and Race        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        March 31, 2022 · 12:00 pm—1:00 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Embodying the Virgin Mary, Christ and the Nation: A Contemporary Lebanese Female Mystic and her Unconventional Conduct” by Emma Aubin-Boltanski        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        March 31, 2022 · 12:00 pm—1:30 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Bodies of Knowledge Working Group — The monstrosity of humiliation: an ethnography among women who’ve been attacked with chemicals        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        March 30, 2022 · 6:00 pm—7:00 pm         · Livestream    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Personal Limits #5: A Conversation About Personal Writing        
    
    
    
    
            
    
                        Monica Huerta, English, American Studies; Yomaira Figueroa, Michigan State University; Tao Leigh Goffe, Cornell University            Monica Huerta, English; Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez, Michigan State University; Tao Leigh Goffe, Cornell University        
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        March 30, 2022 · 12:00 pm—1:20 pm         · 219 Aaron Burr Hall and Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Science from Below: Multispecies Relations and Global Health Inequalities        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        March 30, 2022 · 12:00 pm—1:20 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Algerian Letters – Unlearning Short Histories        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        March 29, 2022 · 12:00 pm—1:20 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            “Water Creatures”: Urbanization, Displacement and Developmental Paths in Amazonia        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        March 29, 2022 · 12:00 pm—1:30 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            The Black Death and the Justinianic Plague – Useful Frameworks for Historical Comparison? Insights from Big Data Paleoecology        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        March 28, 2022 · 12:30 pm—1:30 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            I’m that Tongue: On the Invisibility or Otherwise of the Translator        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                            
    

                    
    
            
    
        
    
    
    

    


    
    
    
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