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SUMMARY:The Unburied: Material Histories of Film in the Owens Valley
DESCRIPTION:The Owens Valley\, a slender stretch of high desert in Eastern California\, is a place of origins. It has played a major\, if underrecognized\, role in the industrial development of Los Angeles\, particularly for the silver extracted in the late 19th century and the water diverted into the Los Angeles Aqueduct in the early 20th. These and other histories have been inscribed\, though often miswritten\, in film\, including in the nearly 500 Hollywood productions shot in the region’s Alabama Hills. But look closer into these beginnings and one will find traces of the lives and labors of dispossessed Indigenous peoples\, Mexican settlers\, and Asian immigrants. This talk focuses on the latter group: Chinese miners killed in a devastating accident at the Cerro Gordo mine\, Japanese-Americans interned at Manzanar\, and the minor characters that\, through their background expressions in films\, point to a different direction for the Hollywood imaginary. The history of film\, in its most basic\, material composition of silver nitrate\, is conditioned by these half-buried figures\, however incidental they have been to an already neglected landscape. As the experience of “film” has become all but entirely digitized\, the retrieval of these foundational elements of the film image reveals a representational form whose geographical and material origins are still largely unexplored. \nGenevieve Yue is an associate professor of Culture and Media and director of the Screen Studies program at Eugene Lang College\, The New School. She is co-editor of the Cutaways series at Fordham University Press\, and her essays and criticism have appeared in Reverse Shot\, October\, Grey Room\, The Times Literary Supplement\, Film Comment\, and Film Quarterly. She is also an independent film programmer\, with screenings at Anthology Film Archives\, Metrograph\, Light Industry\, and\, most recently\, Tallinn Photomonth\, a biennial of contemporary art and visual culture in Tallinn\, Estonia. Her book Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality was published in 2020 by Fordham University Press.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-unburied-material-histories-of-film-in-the-owens-valley-12/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ukraine\, War\, Love: Olena Stiazhkina and Dominique Hoffman on Writing and Translating War
DESCRIPTION:Join Ukrainian writer and historian Olena Stiazhkina\, her American translator Dominique Hoffman\, and Princeton’s Translator in Residence Hanna Leliv for a conversation about writing and translating war in Ukraine. Participants will discuss Ukraine’s complex linguistic landscape and explore recent shifts in language and identity as reflected in Stiazhkina’s latest novel\, “Cecil the Lion Had to Die.” Hoffman will also share her experience of translating into English this tour de force of stylistic registers and intertwining voices. \nCo-Sponsored by EPS\, REES and the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/ukraine-war-love-olena-stiazhkina-and-dominique-hoffman-on-writing-and-translating-war/
LOCATION:144 Louis A. Simpson Building
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ORGANIZER;CN="Yolanda Sullivan":MAILTO:syolanda@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231127T120000
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SUMMARY:The Prado at Princeton
DESCRIPTION:Featuring four scholars who will present their research in connection with the current exhibition: \nThe Lost Mirror:  Jews and Conversos in Medieval Spain\n \nMuseo Nacional del Prado\, Madrid\nOctober 10\, 2023­­—January 14\, 2024 \nParticipants: \nCloe Cavero de Carondelet\nFellow\, Center for Research on Global Catholicism\nSaint Louis University \nYonatan Glazer-Eytan\nAssistant Professor of History\nPrinceton University \nDavid Nirenberg\nDirector and Leon Levy Professor\nInstitute for Advanced Study \nPamela Patton\nDirector\, The Index of Medieval Art\nPrinceton University \nLunch will be served. \nSpace is limited. Please RSVP here\, to confirm attendance.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-prado-at-princeton/
LOCATION:105 Chancellor Green\, 105 Chancellor Green\, Princeton\, NJ\, 05844\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231117T200000
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SUMMARY:Princeton Pianists Ensemble Presents: Aurora
DESCRIPTION:The Princeton Pianists Ensemble presents its fall 2023 concert\, “Aurora.” We’ll be exclusively performing our own\, brand-new arrangements of music spanning four centuries\, including arrangements of pieces by Mozart and Debussy and songs from the Lord of the Rings\, ET\, and Mario franchises\, just to name a few. “Aurora” is also a great opportunity to visit Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall\, one of the jewels of Princeton’s campus and history. All are welcome to attend! Get tickets here.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/princeton-pianists-ensemble-presents-aurora/
LOCATION:Alexander Hall\, Richardson Auditorium\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Roberto Lachner":MAILTO:roberto.lachner@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:UCHV Film Forum: Conversation with Agnieszka Holland
DESCRIPTION:The University Center for Human Values Film Forum presents a screening of “The Green Border” (2023)\, a film by Agnieszka Holland on November 16 and a discussion with the director on November 17. Visit the Film Forum website for more details.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/uchv-film-forum-conversation-with-agnieszka-holland/
LOCATION:A71 Louis A. Simpson Building
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SUMMARY:"Byzantium Revisited: A Focus on Modern Greek Painting"
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop exploring examples of European culture from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries – including theater\, cinema\, poetry\, and painting – I will discuss the strong interest that Western Europeans had in Byzantine culture. At first glance\, the common threads uniting the work of such disparate Greek artists as Costis Parthenis\, Photis Contoglou\, Yiannis Tsarouchis\, Aghinor Asteriadis\, and surrealist Nikos Engonopoulos may not be apparent. Yet upon closer examination\, it’s clear that each of these artists had a passion for Byzantine culture. Incorporating traditional and modern elements into their work proved essential to creating a new visual discourse.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/byzantium-revisited-a-focus-on-modern-greek-painting-2/
LOCATION:103 Scheide Caldwell
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eleni Banis":MAILTO:hbanis@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231117T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231117T173000
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SUMMARY:Princeton Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:The biennial Princeton Poetry Festival\, organized by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon\, returns with a full day of readings\, panel discussions and a lecture featuring poets from around the world\, including Mei-mei Berssenbrugge\, Joyelle McSweeney John Okrent\, Roger Reeves\, and Philip Schultz from the U.S.; Valzhyna Mort from Belarus; Padraig Regan from Ireland; and Luci Tapahonso from the Navajo Nation. \nAdmission: Free and open to the public; no tickets required. Guests are invited to attend all or part of the day’s events. Free box lunches will be available to Festival audiences.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/princeton-poetry-festival-3/
LOCATION:Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lewis Center":MAILTO:lewiscenter@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:All The Things They Wish They Said
DESCRIPTION:Written by Matthew Cooperberg ‘26\nDirected by Orion Lopez-Ramirez ’26 \nFriday and Saturday 11/17-18 at 8pm\, Sunday 11/19 at 2pm \nAfter Kane loses the love of his life\, he thinks he might have found a second chance in Felix. He’s everything he could ever want\, but his past threatens to turn his dreams of love into a nightmare. \nTickets can be purchased at tickets.princeton.edu or on-site.\nGeneral Public $12.00\nSeniors\, Faculty\, Staff $10.00\nStudents $8.00*\n*or free with Passport to the Arts!
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/all-the-things-they-wish-they-said/
LOCATION:Theatre Intime\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kat McLaughlin":MAILTO:km6212@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T193000
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SUMMARY:UCHV Film Forum: "The Green Border" (2023)\, a film by Agnieszka Holland
DESCRIPTION:The University Center for Human Values Film Forum presents a screening of “The Green Border” (2023)\, a film by Agnieszka Holland on November 16 and a discussion with the director on November 17. Visit the Film Forum website for more details.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/uchv-film-forum-the-green-border-2023-a-film-by-agnieszka-holland/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="kim girman":MAILTO:kgirman@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T193000
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SUMMARY:"Marcel Proust"
DESCRIPTION:From one of our most subtle and witty critics\, who invariably shows us how to read with fresh eyes\, comes a book on the experience of reading Marcel Proust. \nWhat would the world be like without the work of Proust\, where would we be if it hadn’t happened? This is how Michael Wood found himself writing about Proust’s work as an event and about events in relation to that work itself. The event that created the figure we know as Proust did not take a whole lifetime\, we can date it to within certain months\, perhaps certain weeks\, of a certain year\, 1908. That was when Proust the interesting occasional writer and full-time socialite\, turned into an ostensible hermit and a real novelist. \nThis short book says something about the event as a lifetime affair\, and shows what the sudden change of 1908 looks like. It explores the work of Marcel Proust as an event in the world\, something that happened to literature and culture and our understanding of history. This event has more aspects than we can count\, but this book offers detailed critical snapshots of seven of them: the birth of Proust as a novelist; what he teaches us about the mythology of beginnings; about metaphor as a kind of rebellion; about love as a permanent anxiety attack; about the Dreyfus Affair; about the concept of justice; about the mythology of endings. \nMichael Wood is professor emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He has written widely on 20th century literature\, film\, and literary theory and is an admired cultural critic who writes regularly for the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. He is the author of seminal books on Nabokov\, Marquez\, Yeats\, Oracles\, and much more. His book previous to Marcel Proust is Alfred Hitchcock: The Man Who Knew Too Much. Christy Wampole is Professor of French at Princeton University and the author of Degenerative Realism: Novel and Nation in 21st Century France; Rootedness: The Ramifications of a Metaphor; and The Other Serious: Essays for the New American Generation. \n This event is cosponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council and French and Italian as well as Comparative Literature Departments.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/michael-wood-marcel-proust/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:Decolonization of Higher Education in East Africa
DESCRIPTION:Higher Education in the East African Countries of Kenya\, Tanzania\, and Uganda was a creation of the British colonial government right from the 1920s when Makerere College was established as a tertiary institution that trained a few East and Central African students to prepare them to take jobs in support of the economic growth of the United Kingdom. The curriculum that was followed in the Higher Education Institutions in East Africa was a replica of the one that was being taught in Higher Education Institutions in the United Kingdom. In this presentation\, I will seek to demonstrate that since independence in the ’60s\, Higher Education in East Africa has experienced an exponential growth of Universities and other tertiary institutions. I will trace this transformation while underscoring how the development of Higher Education in East Africa contributed to the struggle for freedom and independence from colonial bondage. I will highlight how the curriculum has evolved allowing both the learners and the lecturers to engage in introspection as they go on to decolonize their minds and culture.\nTracing the history of University education from the 1920s\, I will demonstrate that during the colonial period\, the driving force behind the development of Education in general and Higher Education\, in particular\, was to ensure that there would be an adequate supply of a trained human capital that could be deployed in a strategic economic undertaking whose proceeds would be repatriated to the home country of the colonizers. I will also discuss the question of the curriculum\, language\, and culture in an attempt to indicate that the use of English in the three countries continues to be a pertinent question that scholars are debating to date.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/decolonization-of-higher-education-in-east-africa/
LOCATION:144 Louis A. Simpson Building
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ORGANIZER;CN="Fiona Romaine":MAILTO:fromaine@princeton.edu
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231116T180000
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SUMMARY:Severe Brain Injury\, Neuroethics & Disability Rights: Why the Sciences & Humanities must be in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Advances in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of consciousness heighten the possibility of recovery but also raise value questions that require more than scientific expertise. To address the challenge of covert consciousness\, the promise and possibility of emerging therapeutics\, and ensure the promotion of disability rights\, neuroscience must be in conversation with the humanities. Drawing upon his experience with novel trials such as the use of deep brain stimulation in severe brain injury\, Dr. Fins will emphasize the importance of epistemic pluralism – drawing on the sciences and humanities – when addressing medical advances in research and practice. \nJoseph J. Fins is an Old Dominion Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and Department of Classics in Fall 2023. He is the founding Chair of the Ethics Committee of New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center where he is an Attending Physician and Director of Medical Ethics. The author of over 500 papers\, chapters\, essays\, and books\, his most recent volume is Rights Come to Mind: Brain Injury\, Ethics\, and the Struggle for Consciousness (Cambridge University Press\, 2015). He was appointed by President Clinton to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy and currently serves on the New York State Task Force on Life and the Lawby gubernatorial appointment.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/severe-brain-injury-neuroethics-disability-rights-why-the-sciences-humanities-must-be-in-conversation/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T120000
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SUMMARY:“The Shape of Water – Surveying the Aqueducts of the Knossos Region in Crete”
DESCRIPTION:Amanda Kelly has been mapping the aqueducts in the Knossos region of Crete since 2019 as part of her field project\, “The Aqueducts of the Greater Iraklio Area” (AGIA)\, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation. Amanda’s fieldwork initially targeted the Roman aqueduct supplying Knossos\, but developed into a much wider chronological survey when she identified the Ottoman-Egyptian and Venetian aqueducts supplying what is now modern Iraklio. In this lecture\, Amanda will focus on the Venetian aqueduct\, highlighting the many challenges faced by engineers in securing the civic water supply for Candia.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-shape-of-water-surveying-the-aqueducts-of-the-knossos-region-in-crete/
LOCATION:203 Scheide Caldwell\, 203 Scheide Caldwell
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eleni Banis":MAILTO:hbanis@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T193000
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SUMMARY:"The State"
DESCRIPTION:The future of our species depends on the state. Can states resist corporate capture\, religious zealotry\, and nationalist mania? Can they find a way to work together so that the earth heals and its peoples prosper? Two eminent writers and thinkers — one a philosopher\, one a journalist — consider these questions and their answers. \nIn his new book\, Philip Pettit examines the nature of the state and its capacity to serve goals like peace and justice within and beyond its borders. \nOffering an account that is more realist than utopian\, Pettit starts from the function the polity is meant to serve\, looks at how it can best discharge that function\, and explores its ability to engage beneficially in the life of its citizens. This enables him to identify an ideal of statehood that is a precondition of justice. Only if states approximate this functional ideal will they be able to deal with the perennial problems of extreme poverty and bitter discord as well as the challenges that loom over the coming centuries\, including climate change\, population growth\, and nuclear arms. \nPhilip Pettit is Professor of Human Values at Princeton University and Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University\, Canberra. He is the author of Republicanism\, On the People’s Terms\, and Just Freedom\, among other books. Fintan O’Toole is a columnist for the Irish Times and  professor in the Lewis Center for The Arts at Princeton University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and the Guardian\, he is the author of many acclaimed books\, most recently of We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland\, which is on the list of best books of 2023 of The NYTimes\, The Atlantic\, The Washington Post\, The New Statesman. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council\,  Center for Human Values\, and Lewis Center for the Arts.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/philip-pettit-fintan-otoole-the-state/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T170000
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SUMMARY:"Tricks of the Light”
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Program in Media + Modernity | Princeton University \nJonathan Crary\n“Tricks of the LIght”\n[Response: Hal Foster]\nWednesday\, November 15\, 2023 @5pm ET\nN107 (School of Architecture) \n:: Please note that this event will take place on Wednesday\, instead of Tuesday :: \nJonathan Crary\, internationally known for his groundbreaking and widely admired studies of modern Western visual culture\, will discuss his recent book\, Tricks of the Light: Essays on Art and Spectacle (Zone Books\, 2023)\, a compelling selection of Crary’s responses to modern and contemporary art and to the transformations of twentieth-century media systems and urban/technological environments. Tricks of the Light explores the work of painters\, performance artists\, writers\, architects\, photographers\, and filmmakers\, while it is enhanced by several expansive essays on the historically unstable status of television\, assessing its many-sided role in the reshaping of subjectivity\, temporality\, and the operation of power. \nJonathan Crary is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University. His books include Techniques of the Observer (MIT Press\, 1992)\, Suspensions of Perception (MIT Press\, 2001)\, 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep (Verso\, 2013)\, and Scorched Earth (Verso\, 2022). \nHal Foster is Townsend Martin\, Class of 1917\, Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. His publications include Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet\, Bataile\, Jorn\, Paolozzi\, Oldenburg (Princeton University Press\, 2020)\, What Comes After Farce? Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle (Verso\, 2020)\, and Conversations about Sculpture\, with Richard Serra (Yale University Press\, 2018). \nM+M strives to make everyone feel welcome. If you are concerned that room N107 will not provide adequate physical accommodation for you\, please contact us in advance to discuss it. \nPlease visit M+M’s official website for details and current information.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/tricks-of-the-light/
LOCATION:Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:“Reconnection\, Resistance\, and Land Back”
DESCRIPTION:Tara Houska\, Couchiching First Nation\, will present “Reconnection\, Resistance\, and Land Back.” This is the third talk in the fall 2023 Environmental Humanities and Social Transformation Colloquium. \nAn indigenous perspective on climate and frontlines action. What can we do\, how do we heal\, how does connectivity play a role in movement? \nThe colloquium is co-funded by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI)\, and the Fluid Futures Forum (a Humanities Council Magic Project) and co-sponsored with Anthropology\, the Department of English\, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies\, and the Eco-Theories Colloquium.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/fluid-futures-forum-and-environmental-humanities-colloquium-talk-by-tara-houska-couchiching-first-nation/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Anne McClintock":MAILTO:am31@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T180000
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SUMMARY:The Poetics of Reading: In Conversation with Maureen N. McLane and Rowan Ricardo Phillips
DESCRIPTION:Maureen N. McLane is a poet\, scholar\, and critic whose work often arises from the conjunction of romanticism and/or now. She has published seven books of poetry: Same Life (FSG\, 2008); World Enough (FSG\, 2010); This Blue (FSG\, 2014); Mz N: the serial (FSG\, 2016); Some Say (FSG\, 2017); What I’m Looking For: Selected Poems (Penguin UK\, 2019); and More Anon: Selected Poems (FSG\, 2021). Her poems have appeared in e.g. Bomb\, Granta\, London Review of Books\, The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, and PN Review; her work has been translated into Czech\, French\, Greek\, Italian\, and Spanish. Her book My Poets (FSG\, 2012)\, an experimental hybrid of memoir and criticism\, was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography. Her scholarship has focused on British romanticism and longer histories of poetries in English: she is the author of Balladeering\, Minstrelsy\, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry (Cambridge UP\, 2008\, 2011) and Romanticism and the Human Sciences (CUP\, 2000\, 2006). She co-edited The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry (2008). \nRowan Ricardo Phillips is a Distinguished Professor of English at Stony Brook University. A highly acclaimed\, multi-award-winning poet\, author\, screenwriter\, academic\, journalist and translator\, Phillips is the author of several books. His poetry collections include The Ground (FSG\, 2012)\, Heaven (FSG\, 2015)\, Living Weapon (2020)\, and the forthcoming Silver (FSG\, 2024). He is also the author of When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness (a new edition of which is forthcoming from FSG) and the nonfiction book The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey. His translations\, primarily from Catalan\, have appeared widely; including his translation of Salvador Espriu’s classic short-story collection Arianda and the Grotesque Labyrinth (Dalkey Archive\, 2012).Phillips has written on contemporary art for Artforum as well as for David Kordansky Gallery. In 2021\, an exhibition inspired by one of Phillips’ poems\, “The Beatitudes of Malibu” debuted at the David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles. Phillips is a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine\, the President of the Board of the New York Institute of the Humanities\, and the poetry editor of The New Republic. \nSponsored by the Department of English\, the Bain-Swiggett Fund; IHUM\, Lewis Center for the Arts\, the Department of Comparative Literature\, UCHV
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-poetics-of-reading-in-conversation-with-maureen-n-mclane-and-rowan-ricardo-phillips/
LOCATION:60 McCosh Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jessica Brofsky":MAILTO:jbrofsky@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Manuscript and the Human in Modern China
DESCRIPTION:While the stylus\, or handwriting tool\, is typically left out of narratives of technologization\, I am interested in the ways in which manuscript was expressive of modernity. Through an examination of representations of pens and brushes in print media and cinema from the Republican and Socialist eras\, this talk will explore how the stylus served as a metonym for the changing status of the human in manuscript writing in the modern period. While earlier literary examples show that the brush and the human were understood to be commensurable\, mutually resonant categories\, examples from the modern period reveal increasing friction between the human and various forms of manuscript technology. Rapid technological and political changes in the twentieth century led to a reevaluation of the relationship between writer and stylus. This reevaluation began in the early twentieth century with attempts to integrate mechanized forms of inscription into a human-centered writing process\, and resulted in anxiety over the gradual sidelining of the writing subject. Examples from Maoist cinema in the latter half of the twentieth century show the replacement of this anxiety with an embrace of the non-human into narratives of inscription. \nChloe Estep is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese and Sinophone Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania. Her current book project\, Print Classicism: Poetry\, Politics\, and Media in Republican China\, 1911-1949\, examines how print periodicals enabled the transformation and expansion of classical poetics in early twentieth century China\, and is supported by a Luce/ACLS China Studies Early Career Fellowship. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Nan Nü: Men\, Women\, and Gender in China\, Comparative Literature\, and The Translation Studies Reader\, and her translation of Lu Yao’s 1982 novel Life was published in 2019. She holds a PhD in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University\, an MA in Chinese Studies from the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, and an AB in Comparative Literature from Princeton University.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/manuscript-and-the-human-in-modern-china/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall
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SUMMARY:Jonah\, or the Prophet At Sea: Hélène Cixous On Prophecy
DESCRIPTION:Hélène Cixous has reflected on prophecy in general\, and on the calling\, craft\, and destiny of prophets in several texts\, with a predilection for Jonah\, starting with her first book\, God’s First Name. In one of the stories of the collection\, “Jonah’s Whale\,” she takes up and rewrites the Biblical Book of Jonah\, in which the prophet famously starts by refusing to announce the end of Nineveh. Much has been written about Jonah’s initial disobedience and persistent frustration with God’s mission. In general terms\, prophecy is not primarily characterized by Cixous as prediction or the conveying of preordained words\, but as a response to a call. In her story\, Jonah’s reluctance is predicated on his lack of certainty about his own name. In this early text and others\, Cixous investigates acts of nomination; understanding what is puzzling in naming sheds light on her stance on prophecy and on the prophet’s condition.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/jonah-or-the-prophet-at-sea-helene-cixous-on-prophecy/
LOCATION:100 Jones Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kelly Eggers":MAILTO:keggers@princeton.edu
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231115T180000
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SUMMARY:What is the Value of Literature in the Internet Age? Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium as a Guide to Meaningful Digital Communication
DESCRIPTION:In his Six Memos for the Next Millennium\, Italo Calvino offers a critical synthesis of his work\, a rich appraisal of the Western literary tradition\, and a forward-looking vision of the value of literature in the 21st century. In this presentation\, Dr. Luca Cottini investigates Calvino’s Lezioni americane as a prophetic description of the internet age\, and a complex reflection on literature as the ultimate value creator in digital communication. \nCalvino’s concepts anticipate the key features of social media (e.g.\, rapidity and multiplicity)\, visual branding (e.g.\, lightness and visibility)\, and content marketing (e.g.\, exactness and consistency). Calvino’s metaphors (e.g.\, the cloud\, the net\, and the chase) outline the core epistemology of the internet and a new ethics of complexity\, where literature and  storytelling act as creators and multipliers of meaning. Lastly\, Calvino’s idea of literature as an “open encyclopedia\,” and of writing as a dynamic vector connecting invisible points prefigure the polyhedral nature of digital communication and knowledge sharing. \nIn light of these considerations\, the reading of Calvino’s Lezioni aspires to provide a novel perspective on digital communication\, a diverse interdisciplinary approach to Italian Studies\, and a renewed reflection on the status of literature in contemporary academia. \n  \nLuca Cottini is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at Villanova University\, and the creator of Italian Innovators\, a YouTube channel exploring Italy’s approach to innovation and entrepreneurship through profiles\, interviews\, and lessons (on fashion\, food\, technology\, sports\, music\, and engineering). \nTrained in Italy (University of Milan\, BA) and the United States (University of Notre Dame\, MA; Harvard University\, PhD)\, his research and courses touch upon Italian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries; the intersection of arts and business; and the cultural history of industry\, advertising\, and design in Italy. \nHis books include a monograph on 20th century writer Italo Calvino (I passaggi obbligati di Italo Calvino\, Longo 2017)\, an award-winning study on the origins of Italian design (The Art of Objects. The Birth of Italian Industrial Culture\, 1878-1928\, University of Toronto Press\, 2018)\, and a recent biography of chocolate storyteller and entrepreneur Michele Ferrero (Il fabbricante di cioccolato. Nel mondo di Michele Ferrero\, Piemme 2023). \nHis Italian Innovators project (YouTube\, Spotify\, LinkedIn\, and Instagram) bridges academic scholarship and storytelling\, creative and strategic thinking\, as well as Italian and American perspectives on the processes and values underlying meaningful innovation. The channel (bit.ly/italianinnovators) has become a virtual piazza for academics\, students\, designers\, and entrepreneurs across the world (more info at www.italianinnovators.com). His work has been featured in national Italian media (La Stampa\, Sole 24 ore\, Canale 5) and his expertise in content creation and digital communication made him a business mentor and a guest speaker at numerous academic and corporate venues.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/what-is-the-value-of-literature-in-the-internet-age-calvinos-six-memos-for-the-next-millennium-as-a-guide-to-meaningful-digital-communication/
LOCATION:A71 Louis A. Simpson Building
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231115T132000
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SUMMARY:Humanities and Beyond: Council Funding Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Do you have an “outside the box” idea for a new project or course in the humanities? How about a collaborative research or teaching idea in an emerging or underrepresented humanities field? \nJoin Humanities Council Chair Esther Schor (English) and Executive Director Kathleen Crown for an overview of funding opportunities offered by the Council\, including Magic Grants for Innovation\, Collaborative Humanities Grants\, Team Teaching Grants\, and more. Faculty who have received grants in the past will also share insights into crafting proposals\, and Council staff will answer questions about the application process. Please visit our funding website for more information on eligibility and deadlines. \nRSVP for lunch here. \n\nUpcoming Council Deadlines: \n\nConferences and Project Co-Sponsorship (Faculty): Rolling basis\nProposals for Reading & Working Groups: Rolling basis\, a year or semester in advance\nFaculty Outreach and Community Based Grants: Rolling basis\nGraduate Conferences: September 5 for Fall 2023; January 29 for Spring 2024\nCollaborative Humanities projects: October 10 (first round); January 31 (second round)\nTeam Teaching Grants: December 1\nMagic Grants: January 31\n\nPlease visit our funding website for more information on eligibility and deadlines.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/humanities-and-beyond-humanities-council-funding-information-session/
LOCATION:16 Joseph Henry House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T210000
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SUMMARY:Reading by Marlon James & Patricia Smith
DESCRIPTION:Man Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James\, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings and the bestselling Dark Star Trilogy; and Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winner and Professor of Creative Writing Patricia Smith read from their work as part of the 2023-24 Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series. \nAdmission: Free and open to the public; advance tickets encouraged through University Ticketing at tickets.princeton.edu.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/reading-by-marlon-james-patricia-smith/
LOCATION:Drapkin Studio at Lewis Arts complex\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lewis Center":MAILTO:lewiscenter@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T210000
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SUMMARY:Atelier@Large: Conversations on Art-making in a Vexed Era – Andrey Kurkov and Alan Lightman
DESCRIPTION:In a series of conversations that bring guest artists to campus to discuss what they face in making art in the modern world\, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon\, director of the Princeton Atelier\, moderates a discussion with Andrey Kurkov\, award-winning Ukrainian journalist and author of 19 novels\, including the international bestseller Death and the Penguin\, and most recently Diary of an Invasion; and Alan Lightman\, award-winning writer\, physicist\, social entrepreneur\, and Princeton alumnus whose novel\, The Diagnosis\, was a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction\, and whose research focuses on the astrophysics of black holes\, astrophysical radiation processes\, and stellar dynamics. \nAdmission: Free and open to the public\, no tickets required.\nAccessibility: Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at least one week in advance at LewisCenter@princeton.edu \n  \n 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/atelierlarge-conversations-on-art-making-in-a-vexed-era-andrey-kurkov-and-alan-lightman/
LOCATION:Richardson Auditorium\, Richardson Auditorium\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lewis Center":MAILTO:lewiscenter@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T183000
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SUMMARY:Thomas Mann's Princeton Exile
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate the touring exhibition Thomas Mann: Democracy Will Win!\, presented by the Princeton German Department in the Lower Hyphen in East Pyne from November 6th – 28th\, there will be an official opening at 5pm on Tuesday\, November 14th\, in the Chancellor Green Café\, East Pyne Building. Following opening remarks by Thomas Y. Levin\, the local curator of the exhibition\, there will be a lecture on Thomas Mann’s Princeton Exile by Stanley Corngold\, Professor of German and Comparative Literature\, Emeritus\, Princeton University and author\, besides many other books\, of two recent volumes on Thomas Mann & Princeton: The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton (Princeton University Press\, 2022) and Weimar in Princeton: Thomas Mann and the Kahler Circle (Bloomsbury\, 2022). Signed copies of both volumes will be available for sale at the opening\, which will be followed by a reception.\nThis event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/thomas-manns-princeton-exile/
LOCATION:Chancellor Green Café
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ORGANIZER;CN="Fiona Romaine":MAILTO:fromaine@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231114T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231114T183000
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SUMMARY:Comparative Diplomatics: “How can Jesuits be mistaken for Buddhist monks? Ōuchi Yoshinaga’s 1552 commendation and its Portuguese and Latin Afterlives”
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Conlan (East Asian Studies) will be presenting on “How can Jesuits be mistaken for Buddhist monks? Ōuchi Yoshinaga’s 1552 commendation and its Portuguese and Latin Afterlives.” \nAll are welcome. Refreshments will be served! \nConveners: Thomas Conlan (East Asian Studies/History)\, Helmut Reimitz (History)\, Marina Rustow (Near Eastern Studies/History) \nCoordinators: Stephanie Luescher (Near Eastern Studies) and Lucia Waldschuetz (History) \nTo receive the edition\, translation and  image of the document discussed during each session\, sign up here. \n\nComparative Diplomatics is sponsored by the Center for Collaborative History with support from the Program in Medieval Studies.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/comparative-diplomatics-how-can-jesuits-be-mistaken-for-buddhist-monks-ouchi-yoshinagas-1552-commendation-and-its-portuguese-and-latin-afterlives-4/
LOCATION:Jones 202\, Jones Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:2023-24 Old Dominion Public Lecture Series - Painting in Common: Works of Love from Denmark’s Modern Breakthrough
DESCRIPTION:Imagine a portrait of a couple in which each paints the other within the same frame. Reciprocal double portraits are extremely unusual in the history of art\, and virtually unheard of in the context of marriage\, but a remarkable group of them were made in late nineteenth-century Denmark. These paintings were part of a broader culture of debate around intimate partnership\, gender inequality\, and domestic life in Scandinavia during “the modern breakthrough” (ca. 1870-1900). What challenges – aesthetic\, social\, and philosophical – do love and intimacy pose for art? For artists? For artists who are women? For models who are wives? Drawing on the philosophical writings of Søren Kierkegaard – who examined the vicissitudes of love and marriage in books like Either/Or\, Repetition\, and Works of Love – and illuminating a group of paintings little known outside Scandinavia\, this lecture opens up questions about artistic collaboration and dynamics of power that rarely make such a vivid appearance. \nRECEPTION TO FOLLOW. \nBridget Alsdorf is professor of art and archaeology and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. A historian of European art from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, her work explores art’s intersections with literature\, philosophy\, and social theory. Her books\, articles\, and essays have focused primarily on nineteenth-century France. Alsdorf’s project as Old Dominion Research Professor is a book titled “Shadowed: Intimacy and Collaboration in Modern Scandinavian Art\,” which explores Scandinavian painting\, photography\, and silent film of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries\, drawing on Søren Kierkegaard’s writings about marriage\, interpersonal suffering\, solitude\, and love. \n\nOld Dominion Research Professors contribute to the Council’s programs and events and engage the campus community in sustained discussions about their research. This cohort of senior faculty join a yearlong program designed to provide additional research time and to enhance the humanities community more broadly. They also serve as faculty fellows in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. Old Dominion Professors are full professors in the humanities and humanistic social sciences.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/2023-24-old-dominion-public-lecture-series/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Our AI Futures: Critical Humanistic Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Widely known for her pioneer research at the intersection of science\, technology\, and politics\, Alondra Nelson holds the Harold F. Linder Chair in the School of Social Science of the Institute for Advanced Study. From 2021–23\, she was deputy assistant to President Joe Biden\, and acting director and principal deputy director for science and society of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. She is the past president of the Social Science Research Council and the first Social Science Dean at Columbia University. In 2023\, she was included in the inaugural TIME100 list of the most influential people in AI. \nDr. Alex Hanna is Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) \n. A sociologist by training\, her work centers on the data used in new computational technologies\, and the ways in which these data exacerbate racial\, gender\, and class inequality. She also works in the area of social movements\, focusing on the dynamics of anti-racist campus protest in the US and Canada. \nIn conversation with Anthropology Assistant Professor Beth Semel\, Princeton University
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/our-ai-futures-critical-humanistic-perspectives/
LOCATION:113 Friend Center
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SUMMARY:Clinical Trials in Psychedelic Research: Implications for the Alleviation of End-of-Life Existential Distress and the Study of Religious Experience
DESCRIPTION:This presentation will review the history and scientific findings from psychedelic research in end-of-life and palliative care and provide an overview of a soon-to-be-published study on the administration of psilocybin to religious leaders. \nRegister here.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/clinical-trials-in-psychedelic-research-implications-for-the-alleviation-of-end-of-life-existential-distress-and-the-study-of-religious-experience/
LOCATION:1879 Hall\, Room 140
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SUMMARY:Sociolinguistic Challenges for Emerging Speech Technology
DESCRIPTION:As speech technology becomes an increasingly integral part of the everyday lives of humans around the world\, issues related to language variation and change and algorithmic inequality will come to the forefront for citizens and researchers alike. Indeed\, over the past few years\, researchers across disciplines such as computer science\, communications\, and linguistics have begun to approach these concerns from a variety of scholarly perspectives. For sociolinguists who are primarily interested in how social factors influence language use and vice versa\, the fact that humans and machines are regularly speaking with one another presents an entirely new area of research interest with major impacts for linguistics and the public. In this talk\, I will present the results of recent and ongoing research related to how humans perceive the social qualities of synthesized voices (such as Siri)\, and how such perceptions may reinforce and reproduce stereotypical perceptions of human voices.  I will also present research on how Automatic Speech Recognition systems designed to provide feedback (such as the Amazon Halo) demonstrate systematic bias against socially marginalized speakers\, focusing on issues of racialized and gendered variation in voice quality. Finally\, I will discuss large-scale challenges related to speech and algorithmic bias\, as well as the pitfalls that language researchers need to be aware of when designing and evaluating new TTS and ASR systems. \nNicole Holliday is a sociophonetician\, specifically interested in how people use linguistic variation to perform and construct their social identities and to understand the identities of others through differences in their use of properties related to intonation and voice quality.  Since 2017\, she has been an Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College. She is currently the PI on a grant entitled ““Don’t Take That Tone With Me”: Linguistic Variation and Disciplinary Action on African American Children in Schools” along with Dr. Sabriya Fisher (Wellesley College)\, a project funded by the Lyle Spencer Research Awards.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/sociolinguistic-challenges-for-emerging-speech-technology/
LOCATION:1-S-5 Green Hall\, 1-S-5 Green Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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SUMMARY:From the Cloud to the Resistance
DESCRIPTION:The paper discusses Abbas Kiarostami’s 1979 film\, First Case\, Second Case. Completed at the end of the Iranian Revolution\, just days before the Shah fled Iran and Khomeini returned from\nexile to take command of the newly-liberated nation\, the film had to be significantly revised in the face of this historical scission and an uncertain future. What was at stake in this moment\, Khomeini claimed\, was the sensorium of the Iranian people and the role cinema should play in restoring it. Kiarostami took these stakes seriously and responded directly. \nJoan Copjec is a philosopher\, theorist\, and feminist film scholar. Her books include Imagine There’s No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation (MIT Press\, 2003)\, Read My Desire: Lacan against the Historicists (MIT Press\, 1994)\, and Supposing the Subject (Verso\, 1994) \nSponsored by the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council and the Committee for Film Studies.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/faber-lecture-from-the-cloud-to-resistance/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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