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SUMMARY:Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Join the Arts Council of Princeton to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. \nWe will begin the morning with remarks from our 2023 featured speaker\, Tina Campt – noted Black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art and Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University – during a community bagel and coffee breakfast. \nFamilies are invited to pick up a copy of an updated limited-edition coloring book featuring prominent Black residents of Princeton from history\, including accomplished business owners\, politicians\, educators and influential women\, in addition to Martin Luther King Jr.’s visits to campus in the 1960s\, designed in partnership with the Historical Society of Princeton\, neighborhood historian Shirley Satterfield\, and Princeton University Wintersession. \nHelp us help those in need: bring canned or boxed non-perishables for our food drive. All donations will benefit Princeton Nursery School\, a non-profit organization providing a quality preschool education program and child care for families in need\, providing a diverse environment and a broad array of support services. \nCo-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies\, the Humanities Council\, and the Office of Campus Engagement. \nAbout the speaker: \nTina Campt is Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor of Humanities\, holding a joint appointment between the Department of Art and Archaeology and the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. Campt is a Black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art and lead convener of the Practicing Refusal Collective and the Sojourner Project. She began her career as a historian of modern Germany\, earning a Ph.D. in history from Cornell University. She is one of the founding scholars of Black European Studies\, and her early work theorized gender\, racial\, and diasporic formation in Black communities in Europe and southern Africa\, with an emphasis on the role of vernacular photography in historical interpretation. Campt’s more recent scholarship bridges the divide between vernacular image-making in Black diasporic communities and the interventions of Black contemporary artists in reshaping how we see ourselves and our societies. Her teaching reflects her ongoing interest in exploring the multiple sensory registers of images and the importance of attending to their sonic and haptic registers. \nCampt has published five books and received the 2020 Photography Catalogue of the Year Award from Paris Photo and Aperture Foundation for her co-edited collection\, Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography (with Marianne Hirsch\, Gil Hochberg and Brian Wallis\, Steidl). Campt has held faculty positions at Brown University\, Barnard College-Columbia University\, Duke University\, University of California-Santa Cruz\, and the Technical University of Berlin.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/celebrating-the-life-and-legacy-of-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton
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SUMMARY:Friends of Princeton University Library Small Talk with Nina Khrushcheva *98
DESCRIPTION:Russia\, Ukraine\, and the Perils of History \nJoin the Friends of PUL for their monthly Small Talk\, which will feature Nina Khrushcheva *98\, Professor of International Affairs\, The New School. \nWhen Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a “special military operation” in Ukraine last February what were his reasoning and his endgame? Did he want to punish Ukraine for turning towards the West by destabilizing its government\, destroying its military infrastructure as well as parts of the country in its totality? Did he want to challenge the West for its perceived “unjust” world domination waging his own “just” war on this\, what he often calls\, “brotherly nation”? In a year since the conflict began there are still debates as to what the Kremlin’s exact motivations had been\, and how far the Russian president may go to achieve his goals. Putin’s actual reasons for invading Ukraine are much less political or pragmatic than one should expect in 21st century geopolitics\, but there are relevant instances of history\, both czarist and Soviet\, that have been driving Putin’s current actions. In this context\, the events of October 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis\, which recently marked its sixtieth anniversary\, provides for a useful comparison to the Ukraine crisis today. \nIn-person attendance is reserved for members of the Friends of PUL\, but the virtual component is open to all. Registration is required: https://libcal.princeton.edu/event/9860826
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/friends-of-princeton-university-library-small-talk-with-nina-khrushcheva-98/
LOCATION:Princeton Senior Resource Center\, 101 Poor Farm Road\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stephanie Oster":MAILTO:soster@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:The Falling Sky and The Yanomami Struggle
DESCRIPTION:The world-renowned shaman and Indigenous leader Davi Kopenawa will visit Princeton on Tuesday\, January 31. He will speak at Chancellor Green’s Rotunda at 4:30 pm. Kopenawa is the author of the classic The Falling Sky and is at the forefront of struggles to guarantee Indigenous rights and to safeguard the Amazon rainforest. \nKopenawa will be accompanied by the acclaimed photographer Cláudia Andujar\, the anthropologists Bruce Albert and Ana Maria Machado\, and the Indigenous artists and activists Ehuana Yaira\, Morzaniel Ɨramari\, Joseca Mokahesi\, and Dario Yanomami. \nOn February 3\, the group will participate in the North American debut of The Yanomami Struggle\, an exhibition at The Shed in New York dedicated to the collaboration and friendship between Andujar and the Yanomami people. The exhibition includes more than 80 drawings and paintings by Yanomami artists. Visitors will also discover new video works by contemporary Yanomami filmmakers. These works will appear alongside more than 200 photographs by Claudia Andujar that trace the artist’s encounters with the Yanomami and continue to raise visibility for their struggle to protect their land\, people\, and culture. \nThe Yanomami Struggle is organized by the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain and Instituto Moreira Salles in partnership with the Brazilian NGOs Hutukara Associação Yanomami and Instituto Socioambiental. \nThroughout the Spring\, the Brazil LAB and the Department of Anthropology will help to organize guided tours to The Yanomami Struggle exhibition at The Shed in New York. \nThe event at Princeton\, The Falling Sky and The Yanomami Struggle\, is being organized by the Brazil LAB and the Department of Anthropology in conjunction with multiple partners on campus. \nCo-sponsors: PIIRS\, Department of Art and Archaeology\, Princeton University Art Museum\, Lewis Center for the Arts\, Pace Center for Civic Engagement\, High Meadows Environmental Institute\, University Center for Human Values\, Humanities Council\, Program in Latin American Studies\, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. \nNot on campus? Watch the livestream here.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-falling-sky-and-the-yanomami-struggle/
LOCATION:Chancellor Green Rotunda\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Opposite of Cancel Culture: Shifting Opera and Ballet for a Multiracial Future
DESCRIPTION:As performing art forms of Europe like opera and ballet shift to serving diverse communities\, how do they continue to uphold tradition and artistic legacy without resorting to canceling works with outdated racial depictions that don’t ring true with audiences today? Join author\, choreographer\, and advocate Phil Chan for a practical discussion on what a shift from a Eurocentric to a multiracial artforms needs to look like to survive in the 21st century. \nRegister here. \nCo-sponsored by the Effron Center for the Study of America\, Lewis Center for the Arts\, and the Department of Music
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-opposite-of-cancel-culture-shifting-opera-and-ballet-for-a-multiracial-future/
LOCATION:300 Wallace Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Barbara Leavey":MAILTO:blleavey@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230201T160000
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SUMMARY:Friends of Princeton University Library Small Talk with Gene Andrew Jarrett
DESCRIPTION:“From the Library of Congress to Loafing-Holt: Reliving Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Libraries” \nThe Friends of Princeton University Library present Gene Andrew Jarrett\, the Dean of the Faculty and William S. Tod Professor of English at Princeton University. Jarrett will share the story of how remarkable libraries bookended the professional career of the legendary African American writer Paul Laurence Dunbar at the turn of the 20th century. \nLibraries inspired Dunbar both as a young man and as a poet. In his mid-twenties\, he overcame illnesses to work at the Library of Congress\, where he built his brilliant sense of literary time and place\, and where he learned that distinctive forms of art\, such as music and poetry\, could converge\, stimulate the imagination\, and move audiences. A decade later\, in 1905\, he published a book titled Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow\, which included a poem about the “sylvan\, cool retreat” called “Loafing-Holt\,” or the second-floor study inside his home in Dayton\, Ohio\, where he prematurely passed away the following year. \nDean Jarrett will be introduced by Tera Hunter\, Edwards Professor of American History; Professor of History and African American Studies; Acting Chair\, Council of the Humanities; Acting Director\, Program in Humanistic Studies \nIn-person attendance to the talk is reserved for Friends of PUL\, but the virtual component (Zoom) is open to all. Registration is required: https://libcal.princeton.edu/event/10146022
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/friends-of-princeton-university-library-small-talk-with-gene-andrew-jarrett/
LOCATION:Princeton Senior Resource Center\, 101 Poor Farm Road\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stephanie Oster":MAILTO:soster@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Medieval Black Sea Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, February 2\, 2023\n4:30 PM | 211 Dickinson Hall & Zoom \n\nRodrigo Pacheco-Ruiz\, University of Southampton | “Documenting Archaeological Sites Using Deep Sea Robotics – The Black Sea MAP Project”\nJohan Rönnby\, Södertörn University | “Sea Change. A Maritime Archaeological Perspective to Black Sea Long-term Human and Environmental History”\n\nZoom Registration – For those who wish to attend this seminar virtually. \nRegistration is not required for in-person attendance of this seminar. We kindly ask that you please follow the current University Covid-19 guidelines. \nThe recording of any meeting\, activity or event relating to the Medieval Black Sea Project (and/or distribution of that recording) is not authorised without advance notice to\, consultation with and express permission from the organisers and administrators of the project. Unauthorised recording is a violation of the policy of Princeton University and may result in disciplinary action. For further information on university policies\, please consult with the Office of the General Counsel. \nSponsored by: Center for Collaborative History | Department of Art & Archaeology | Department of Religion | Humanities Council | Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies | Program in Medieval Studies | Program in Russian\, East European and Eurasian Studies | The Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies | University Center for Human Values
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/medieval-black-sea-seminar-series-3/
LOCATION:211 Dickinson Hall or Zoom
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SUMMARY:Abundance and Loss: Narratives of Diversity Across the Natural and Human Sciences
DESCRIPTION:The History of Science Program is delighted to announce their annual workshop. This year’s topic focuses on “Abundance and Loss: Narratives of Diversity Across the Natural and Human Sciences.” Biodiversity as a topic has been explored by scholars across the environmental humanities and environmental history\, including many of the participants in this workshop. As a scientific idea\, biodiversity has long origins in theories of natural abundance and hope\, tinged with fears over death and loss. Even more broadly\, analogies between human populations and plant or animal species have long driven shifts in social\, economic\, and political theory. Our goal with this workshop is to think together about the intellectual and cultural work done by ideas of abundance and loss in nature\, from the early modern world to the twenty-first century\, and especially the nodes crossing the natural sciences and humanities that have driven changes in these ideas. In recent decades\, biodiversity and diversity have become proxies for many things. There is a rich critique of diversity work in the academy\, including its recent form as Diversity\, Equity\, Inclusion (DEI). Diversity has become a powerful buzzword across disciplines and a compelling site for organizing funding and garnering institutional attention. Have these concepts become bland avatars\, emptied of power and meaning? If so\, how and why did this happen? If not\, how did these narratives become so widespread? Untangling the power and politics at the heart of these histories would be useful so as to rearticulate their meanings and give us greater traction over the present. We have in mind three sessions – Power and Politics; Meaning and Value; and Abundance and Loss – although we imagine that these themes will run through many of the papers. \nCo-organized by Erika Milam and Banu Subramaniam \nFull schedule and more information.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/abundance-and-loss-narratives-of-diversity-across-the-natural-and-human-sciences/
LOCATION:211 Dickinson Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Erika Milam":MAILTO:emilam@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Musicology Colloquium Series | Petrine Prophecy as Power Discourse in the Thought of John Plousiadenos\, ‘unionist priest’ (ἑνωτικός ἱερεύς)
DESCRIPTION:Among the most intriguing aspects of late Byzantine intellectual and religious history is the phenomenon of Greek theologians who renounced the schism and advocated reunion with the Roman Church. The unionist movement reached its high point in the proceedings that resulted in the Council of Florence and its declaration of union between the Latin and Greek Churches in 1439. This article examines a key theological motif visible in the writings of Greek proponents of the Florentine Union\, and John Plousiadenos (fl. 1460s) in particular: their identification of the Roman See and its bishop with prophetic power capable of overcoming earthly kings and disturbing terrestrial kingdoms. For unionists such as Plousiadenos\, the Roman Church was not merely the “Mother See” and divinely appointed Head of Christendom\, but a formidable Mistress that must be respected and obeyed at the threat of loss of power and liberty. For Plousiadenos\, as well as other unionists who influenced him such as Basil Bessarion and George of Trebizond\, the recent conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks stood as a warning for the rest of the Greek Christian world about the consequences of rejecting Roman authority. While elaborating this motif\, this article also demonstrates that a narrative about Pope Alexander III allegedly humiliating the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa\, which was previously thought to have been fabricated by Martin Luther or else by German humanists of the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries\, was actually known in the middle of the fifteenth century by the Greek unionist John Plousiadenos. \nFree\, non-ticketed
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/musicology-colloquium-series-petrine-prophecy-as-power-discourse-in-the-thought-of-john-plousiadenos-unionist-priest-%e1%bc%91%ce%bd%cf%89%cf%84%ce%b9%ce%ba%cf%8c%cf%82-%e1%bc%b1/
LOCATION:102 Woolworth\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Simeon Brown":MAILTO:swbrown@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:“The Quiet Girls of Early Ireland: Women in medieval Irish literature”
DESCRIPTION:“The Quiet Girls of Early Ireland: Women in medieval Irish literature\,” a lecture by Dr. Geraldine Parsons\, Senior Lecturer in Celtic and Gaelic and Head of Subject at the University of Glasgow\, Scotland\, seeks to complicate the gender history of the Finn Cycle\, by recovering women’s roles in its production and in the narratives themselves. Introduced by Chair of the Fund for Irish Studies Fintan O’Toole.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-quiet-girls-of-early-ireland-women-in-medieval-irish-literature/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Steve Runk":MAILTO:LewisCenter@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Transistors. Mediating Migration
DESCRIPTION:In Christian Petzold´s film Transit\, an adaptation of Anna Seghers´s eponymous novel\, the protagonist Georg repairs the transistor radio of the young boy Driss\, a scene which unintentionally practices and reflects the polyvalence of language. The transistor – a portmanteau of transfer and resistor – becomes emblematic for a politics of migration that resists appropriation and assimilation and instead produces zones of transition. In her talk\, Karl focuses on the intersection between narratives of migration and cultural belonging\, as well as the media transfer conditioning such polyvalence. In Olivia Wenzel´s novel 1000 Serpentinen Angst\, for instance\, the narrator puts her focal point inside a vending machine on the platform where her brother committed suicide. Similar to Driss´s transistor\, the apparatus is needed not only to mediate the traumatic loss of her twin sibling\, but also to unfold the multilayered auto-fictional account of a young Afro-German woman born and raised in the former GDR. Looking at Petzold´s film in tandem with Wenzel´s novel\, Karl will show that instances of transistors – moments that both trigger and resist narrativization – may help us explore the critical potential of German (post-) migrant literature and film today.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/transistors-mediating-migration/
LOCATION:205 East Pyne
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ORGANIZER;CN="Fiona Romaine":MAILTO:fromaine@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230206T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230206T183000
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SUMMARY:Reading by Dantiel W. Moniz
DESCRIPTION:Dantiel W. Moniz\, a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree and the Pushcart Prize-winning author of Milk Blood Heat\, reads from her work alongside several creative writing seniors. The C.K. Williams Reading Series showcases senior thesis students of the Program in Creative Writing with established writers as special guests.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/reading-by-dantiel-w-moniz/
LOCATION:Drapkin Studio at Lewis Arts complex\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Steve Runk":MAILTO:LewisCenter@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:5000 Years of African Literature
DESCRIPTION:2022-2023 CREMS Faber Lecture \nThis talk’s central claim is that Africa has a 5000-year literary history. Why does such a possibility remain almost entirely unrecognized? How well does the extant evidence support such a claim? And what difference might the answers to these questions make? The presentation takes up each of these matters in turn. It approaches the first by looking at the organization of academic programs—what they enable and obscure. The second follows the successive fortunes of various African writing systems\, from ancient Egyptian to the present\, including indigenous and imported literary languages. Transmission is traced via direct connections among these languages; through the reconstruction of oral linkages\, where possible\, and utilizing extra-African relays\, with the African literary diaspora constituting a brief if recurrent\, motif. Finally\, the conclusion reviews several issues raised by the preceding survey—the rationale for disciplinary divisions\, the ethical and political resonances (if any)\, the (un)importance of contributions to knowledge\, the relationship between broad historical summary and close reading of texts\, the tension between continuity and rupture in literary traditions\, the importance of geography in literary networks\, and\, not least\, the relative hierarchy of African literary languages. \nRespondent: Wendy Laura Belcher\, Professor of Comparative Literature and African American Studies\, Princeton University \nChair: Ousseina Alidou\, Professor of African\, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures\, Rutgers University \nWalter Cohen is a Professor of English at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, after having taught from 1980 to 2014 in Comparative Literature at Cornell University\, where he received a distinguished teaching award and held various college and university administrative positions for two decades (including Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost of the University). He is the author of Drama of a Nation: Public Theater in Renaissance England and Spain (Cornell UP\, 1985)\,  A History of European Literature: The West and the World from Antiquity to the Present (Oxford UP\, 2017)\, and of numerous articles on Renaissance literature\, literary criticism\, the history of the novel\, and world literature. He is also one of the editors of The Norton Shakespeare (3rd ed.\, 2015). His current research interests include the literature on ecological catastrophe\, the history of African literature\, the languages of Jewish literature\, the social agency of written language\, and the role of social class in literary study. \nReception to follow the presentation\nPlease RSVP to blleavey@princeton.edu if you plan to attend \n 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/5000-years-of-african-literature/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr\, 219 Aaron Burr\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:"Signals”
DESCRIPTION:Video is everywhere—on our phones and screens\, walls and streets\, defining new spaces and experiences\, spreading memes and lies\, fervor and power. Shared\, sent\, and networked\, it shapes public opinion and creates counter-publics in turn. \nThis talk explores the ways in which artists have both championed and questioned video as an agent of world change\, focusing on key works in Kuo’s forthcoming exhibition Signals: How Video Transformed the World (co-curated with Stuart Comer). From viral video to TikTok War\, surveillance footage to televised revolution\, video overflows boundaries of medium and geography; it splinters and migrates across disparate viewing conditions\, sites of display\, and modes of address\, both forming—and fraying—the networks of power within which we now live. \nDr. Michelle Kuo is The Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art\, New York. From 2010-17\, she was the Editor in Chief of Artforum International. She has published and lectured widely on new media and materials in contemporary art\, and is working on a book about the postwar organization Experiments in Art and Technology. \nDevin A. Fore is Professor of German at Princeton University. He is editor of Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test (Yale University Press\, 2017) and History and Obstinacy by Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt (Zone Books\, 2014); he is also author of Realism after Modernism: The Rehumanization of Art and Literature (The MIT Press\, 2012). \nImage: Nam June Paik. Good Morning Mr. Orwell. 1984. Video (color\, sound). 38 minutes. The Museum of Modern Art\, New York. Gift of the artist. © 2022 Estate of Nam June Paik. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)\, New York \nPlease visit M+M’s official website for the full events calendar and current information.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/signals/
LOCATION:Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Iason Stathatos":MAILTO:iasons@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Mellon Forum // Smallpox and Slavery in the Early Modern Atlantic World: A Digital History
DESCRIPTION:Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment\nSpring 2023 || SPATIAL STORYTELLING\nSmallpox and Slavery in the Early Modern Atlantic World: A Digital History is a digital history project consisting of a searchable database\, an embedded timelapse map\, and historical vignettes about enslaved people who survived smallpox outbreaks in the Atlantic World. It is based on Mitchell’s qualitative research database of over 500 smallpox outbreaks that affected enslaved Africans and free people of African descent in the Atlantic World\, with a focus on the Caribbean and West and West Central Africa\, between the 1500s and 1830s. The goal of the project is to offer historians the opportunity to examine the histories of outbreaks and epidemics across several regions\, empires\, and cultural contexts over 300 years\, without losing sight of the millions of people who endured the brutality of the slave trade and slavery. \nThe Spring 2023 Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment is kindly sponsored by the Mellon Foundation and the Princeton University Humanities Council\, Program in Latin American Studies\, Center for Collaborative History\, Departments of Art & Archaeology and English\, HMEI\, PIIRS\, SPIA\, and the School of Architecture.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/mellon-forum-smallpox-and-slavery-in-the-early-modern-atlantic-world-a-digital-history/
LOCATION:School of Architecture
ORGANIZER;CN="Jacquelyn Walsh":MAILTO:jw42@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T132000
DTSTAMP:20260502T072946
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SUMMARY:Historias para lo que viene: Podcasting for Social Justice in Colombia
DESCRIPTION:The participation of history in transitional justice processes has tended to be one of setting the record straight by providing objective evidence about past violent events. As such\, it is tied to conventional notions of history as linear\, progressive\, and centered in nation-states. This presentation showcases Historias para lo que viene\, a public history project which posits that history can do much more than that: it can be a forward-looking endeavor that combines critical inquiry with radical action. The project grew out of the 2016 peace accords between the FARC guerrillas and the Colombian government\, and it is based on the premise that building futures of social justice entails addressing long histories of exclusion and inequality. This collaborative project brings together social leaders from communities victimized in the context of the armed conflict\, communicators\, schoolteachers and historians to co-produce audio stories that entwine the past and present of those communities and their political struggles\, from their perspective and in their voices\, as an epistemological intervention. Just as historical narratives have been inherent to the production of power structures\, they can play a role in challenging them. \nABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER \nCatalina Muñoz (Ph.D.\, University of Pennsylvania) is an associate professor of history at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her publications include A Fervent Crusade for the National Soul: Cultural Politics in Colombia\, 1930-1946 (Lexington Books\, 2022) and articles in the Hispanic American Historical Review\, Ethnohistory\, and Revista de Estudios Sociales\, among others. She was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Humanities Action Lab in Rutgers University-Newark in the fall of 2017 and was awarded a membership in the Institute for Advanced Study\, School of Social Science\, in the fall of 2022. A public historian\, her research and practice examine the relevance of historical thinking and longue durée analysis to transitional justice\, a field traditionally dominated by lawyers. Read full bio. \nDISCUSSANT\nSebastián Ramírez\, Lecturer\, Anthropology\, Princeton University \nOpen to students\, faculty\, visiting scholars\, staff and specially invited guests. A boxed lunch will be provided while supplies last.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/historias-para-lo-que-viene-podcasting-for-social-justice-in-colombia/
LOCATION:216 Aaron Burr Hall\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Damaris Zayas":MAILTO:damaris@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T180000
DTSTAMP:20260502T072946
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SUMMARY:2022-23 Old Dominion Public Lecture Series – “ The Harvest Indeed is Great\, but the Labourers are Few”: Strangers in the Medieval Countryside
DESCRIPTION:Seasonal labor brought considerable numbers of workers long distances to villages and estates in the Middle Ages. These ‘strangers’ faced many difficulties in their interactions with the local population. The lecture addresses several of these difficulties and how elites\, villagers\, and migrant laborers coped with them. \nWilliam Chester Jordan is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History. He is a former director of the Humanities Council’s Program in Medieval Studies and previously served as director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies. Jordan is a prolific author whose current research focuses on migrant labor in the 13th and early 14th century. His Old Dominion Research Professorship will support the study of the economic and social experiences of migrant laborers in the High Middle Ages in the rural areas of northwestern continental Europe. \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/2022-23-old-dominion-public-lecture-series-william-jordan/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230208T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230208T183000
DTSTAMP:20260502T072946
CREATED:20230202T182624Z
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SUMMARY:Edward Said Memorial Lecture: On "Perfect Victims" and the Politics of Appeal
DESCRIPTION:Palestinians dead and alive have been increasingly visible in Anglophone media—but not everyone can get the mic. For them to make noise\, dead Palestinians need to have been ethnocentrically “exceptional” or have had to endure an exceptionally violent death. And those who are alive need to fit the “perfect victim” prerequisite: docile\, defanged\, and preferably with an American accent. In this lecture\, Mohammed El-Kurd investigates this phenomenon\, asking a question once posed by Edward Said: who has the permission to narrate? And\, more importantly\, why should Palestinians seek such permissions in the first place? \nThis event is sponsored by the Edward W. Said ’57 Memorial Lecture Fund\, the Princeton Committee on Palestine\, and the Department of English.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/edward-said-memorial-lecture-on-perfect-victims-and-the-politics-of-appeal/
LOCATION:10 McCosh
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230209T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230209T180000
DTSTAMP:20260502T072946
CREATED:20221013T000822Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Black Sea Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, February 9\, 2023\n4:30 PM | 211 Dickinson Hall & Zoom \n\nYulia Mikhailova\, New Mexico Tech | “O Rus Land\, Brightest of the Bright”: Land\, Religion\, and Identity between the Pontic Steppe and the Eastern Baltic\, 10th – 13th cc.\nChristian Raffensperger\, Wittenberg University | “The Arc of Medieval Europe: Shifting our Focus in Medieval Studies”\n\nZoom Registration – For those who wish to attend this seminar virtually. \nRegistration is not required for in-person attendance of this seminar. We kindly ask that you please follow the current University Covid-19 guidelines. \nThe recording of any meeting\, activity or event relating to the Medieval Black Sea Project (and/or distribution of that recording) is not authorised without advance notice to\, consultation with and express permission from the organisers and administrators of the project. Unauthorised recording is a violation of the policy of Princeton University and may result in disciplinary action. For further information on university policies\, please consult with the Office of the General Counsel. \nSponsored by: Center for Collaborative History | Department of Art & Archaeology | Department of Religion | Humanities Council | Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies | Program in Medieval Studies | Program in Russian\, East European and Eurasian Studies | The Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies | University Center for Human Values
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/medieval-black-sea-seminar-series-4/
LOCATION:211 Dickinson Hall or Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230209T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230209T180000
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SUMMARY:James A. Moffett '29 Lectures in Ethics - Dignity and Historical Injustice: An Albanian Family's History
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: Professor Lea Ypi reads and discusses a chapter from her new book project which follows the journey of a woman from Ottoman Salonica to a life under surveillance in post-war Communist Albania. The book explores the moral and political meanings of dignity\, individual and collective\, in connection to questions of truth and reconciliation\, historical injustice and the relationship between fact and fiction. \nRegistration is required. Click here to register. \nLea Ypi: Lea Ypi is professor in political theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science and an honorary professor in philosophy at the Australian National University. A native of Albania\, she has degrees in philosophy and in literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza\, a Ph.D. from the European University Institute and was a post-doctoral prize research fellow at Nuffield College\, Oxford University. She is the author of “Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency\,” “The Meaning of Partisanship” (with Jonathan White)\, and “The Architectonic of Reason\,” all published by Oxford University Press. Her latest book\, a philosophical memoir entitled “Free: Coming of Age at the End of History\,” published by Penguin Press in the UK and W. W. Norton & Company in North America\, won the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize and is being translated into more than twenty languages. Her academic work has been recognized with the British Academy Prize for Excellence in Political Science and the Leverhulme Prize for Outstanding Research Achievement. She coedits The Journal of Political Philosophy and occasionally writes for The Guardian.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/james-a-moffett-29-lectures-in-ethics-dignity-and-historical-injustice-an-albanian-familys-history/
LOCATION:101 Friend Center
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ORGANIZER;CN="Tammy Hojeibane":MAILTO:tammyh@princeton.edu
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230209T180000
DTSTAMP:20260502T072946
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SUMMARY:Museumverse: Incorporating Virtual Reality and Digital Technologies into Art History Research and Curatorial Strategies
DESCRIPTION:Museumverse engages with emerging virtual reality and digital technologies to facilitate curatorial\, research\, and pedagogical strategies in art history. Funded by a Flash Grant from the Humanities Council in 2022\, Museumverse recently won first place in the humanities division at the Keller Center Innovation Forum. \nPlease join us for a presentation on the foundations of 3D scanning\, digital asset creation\, and virtual object management in relation to art historical research. This will be followed by an active demonstration. Participants are invited to bring an object to be 3D scanned\, especially if they have one relevant to their research. For best results\, the object should be portable and opaque. \nApply to have your object scanned. \n\nSponsors\n\nHumanities Council\nKeller Center\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nMichael Zhang\, Ph.D. candidate\, Co-Investigator of Museumverse\n\nPrinceton University\n\n\n\n\n\nMengge Cao\, Ph.D. candidate\, Co-Investigator of Museumverse\n\nPrinceton University\n\n\n\n\n\nIheanyichukwu Onwuegbucha\, Ph.D. student\, Art & Archaeology\n\nPrinceton University\n\n\n\n\n\nShruti Sharma\, Ph.D. candidate\, Electrical and Computer Engineering
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/museumverse-incorporating-virtual-reality-and-digital-technologies-into-art-history-research-and-curatorial-strategies/
LOCATION:Green Hall 1-C-4C
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230209T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230209T180000
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SUMMARY:Art Exhibition as Work-in-Progress
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, award-winning Brazilian curator Thyago Nogueira explores the makings and remakings of The Yanomami Struggle\, an exhibition on the life and work of Claudia Andujar. A Touring Art Exhibition as Work-in-Progress details how the research in Andujar’s photographic archive has been transformed into a platform to showcase the cultures of resistance of the Yanomami people\, thanks to an extensive tour of Brazil\, Europe and the Americas since 2018. Thyago Nogueira will be in conversation with Juliana Dweck\, Chief Curator of the Princeton University Art Museum. Program moderated by João Biehl\, Professor of Anthropology and Brazil LAB Director. \nNot on campus? Watch here. \nOrganized with the Princeton University Art Museum. Co-sponsors: Departments of Anthropology\, Art & Archaeology\, and Spanish and Portuguese; Program in Latin American Studies; Humanities Council; University Center for Human Values; Lewis Center for the Arts.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/art-exhibition-as-work-in-progress/
LOCATION:A71 Louis A. Simpson Building
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230210T133000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230210T163000
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SUMMARY:Tlingit Art\, Spirit\, and Ancestry: Healing Histories of Dispossession
DESCRIPTION:In the late nineteenth century\, Presbyterian missionaries brought hundreds of Tlingit belongings from southeastern Alaska to the Princeton Theological Seminary. The belongings were later relocated to Princeton University’s collections. The movement of these Tlingit belongings between multiple institutions reflects an ongoing condition of broken knowledge. \nWhere does Tlingit art belong at Princeton University\, and how might knowledge be restored to those from whom the items were taken? This symposium explores this question by reuniting Tlingit scholars and artists with these belongings. Our symposium will confront histories of dispossession and ask how we can restore ancestral connections. Speakers will reorient Western understandings of material objects towards Tlingit and Indigenous experiences of embodiment\, spirituality\, land\, and kinship. Organizers envision this symposium as the beginning of an ongoing partnership between Princeton University and the University of Alaska Southeast. \nSpeakers: \nErnestine Saankaláxt Hayes\, Kaagwaantaan Clan\, Tlingit Nation\, author and Emerita Professor\, University of Alaska Southeast \nJudith Daxootsú Ramos\, Kwáashk’ikwáan Clan\, Yaakwdáat Kwáan\, Tlingit Nation\, Program Coordinator\, Haa Yoo X’atángi Deiyí: Our Language Pathway\, University of Alaska Southeast \nGuná Megan Jensen\, Dakhká Tlingit and Tagish Khwáan Ancestry from the Dahk’laweidi Clan\, Tlingit artist \nWayne Price\, Tlingit master carver and Northwest Coast artist of Haines\, Alaska \nCarin Silkaitis\, Dean of School of Arts and Sciences\, University of Alaska Southeast \nLiz Zacher\, Associate Professor of Art\, University of Alaska Southeast \n\nSponsors: \n\n\nLand\, Language\, and Art: A Humanities Council Global Initiative\nNative American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Princeton\nPrinceton University Art Museum\nEffron Center for the Study of America\nFund for Canadian Studies
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/tlingit-art-spirit-and-ancestry-healing-histories-of-dispossession/
LOCATION:Chancellor Green Rotunda\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230210T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230210T180000
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SUMMARY:Kōshiki and Music in Japanese Sōtō Zen
DESCRIPTION:Although Zen is often depicted as a silent tradition focused on seated meditation (zazen 坐禅)\, Sōtō clerics have performed a wide range of rituals featuring a colorful soundscape since the 13th century. Among these rituals\, we find ceremonies belonging to the liturgical genre of kōshiki 講式\, a genre that was developed in the context of Tendai Pure Land belief in the late 10th century and that represents a milestone in the development of a vernacular liturgy in Japan. Based on my new book Memory\, Music\, Manuscripts (University of Hawaii Press)\, I will discuss the historical development of these rituals and their performance practice. After explaining how clerics vocalize the ritual texts\, I will analyze how contemporary Zen clerics interpret the performance of kōshiki and the singing of liturgical texts. I suggest that we need to understand Zen as a bodily practice accompanied by a rich aural component. \nA Buddhist Studies Workshop. Registration is required.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/koshiki-and-music-in-japanese-soto-zen/
LOCATION:1879 Hall\, Room 137
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jenny Legath":MAILTO:jlegath@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T180000
DTSTAMP:20260502T072946
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T222325Z
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SUMMARY:Building a Community with Vertical Video
DESCRIPTION:Sophia Smith Galer is a multi-award-winning reporter\, author and TikTok creator based in London – making content for over 450\,000 followers around the world. Her videos have been seen over 130 million times. \nSophia began her career at the BBC\, working as a social media producer and then religion reporter\, where she reported on the complexities of contemporary faith across the BBC World Service\, BBC Radio 4 and BBC World News. \nHer pioneering use of TikTok as a newsgathering and publishing tool has won her recognition in the industry as a journalism innovator\, winning ‘Innovation of the Year’ at the British Journalism Awards as well as a spot on this year’s Forbes 30 under 30 list. She has just been named as one of Vogue’s 25 Most Influential Women in Britain list in 2022. \nShe is now a Senior News Reporter at VICE World News covering Europe\, the Middle East and Africa and is the author of Losing It: Sex Education for the 21st Century\, published this year by Harper Collins. She focuses on sexual and reproductive health rights\, gender violence and the environment.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/building-a-community-with-vertical-video/
LOCATION:Green Hall 0-S-6\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jenny Legath":MAILTO:jlegath@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230214T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230214T131500
DTSTAMP:20260502T072946
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SUMMARY:Where Slaves Became Queens
DESCRIPTION:Bayard Rustin\, Frances Thompson and William Dorsey Swann have been largely erased from U.S. history\, but they and other Black queer leaders played central roles in movements like emancipation\, civil rights\, and LGBTQ+ pride. Journalist and queer culture historian Channing Joseph will discuss their little-known stories\, connecting the origins of drag in the 1880s to the present day. \nJoseph\, a visiting Ferris Professor of Journalism in the Program in Journalism\, is a journalist with two decades of experience covering race\, poverty\, social justice and other topics in the U.S. and abroad. Also an award-winning\, groundbreaking scholar of Black queer history\, he is currently a contributor to The Nation. Discussant Brian Herrera is an Associate Professor of Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts. \nThe Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism invites faculty\, graduate students and staff to participate in the next in our series of events where distinguished visiting journalists discuss their work and pressing issues of the day with faculty from a variety of disciplines. These lunchtime talks offer intimate looks inside the work of colleagues and an opportunity for dialogue across specialties. \nAttendance by reservation only. Space is limited; RSVP to Margo Bresnen at mbresnen@princeton.edu\, noting your University affiliation. \nEmail Margo Bresnen\, Journalism Program Manager\, at mbresnen@princeton.edu with any questions or difficulties.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/channing-joseph/
LOCATION:16 Joseph Henry House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230214T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230214T131500
DTSTAMP:20260502T072946
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SUMMARY:Mellon Forum // Stigma\, public space\, and the symbolic value of race in Cartagena\, Colombia
DESCRIPTION:Institutions rely not only on seemingly valorizing culture- and ethnicity-led development strategies\, but ones simultaneously rooted in reifying and damaging narratives and visual depictions of racialized groups and geographies. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork\, content analysis\, and iconography\, Valle examines how social actors in the rapidly changing urban locale of Cartagena de Indias\, Colombia\, evaluate\, shift\, and legitimate racial value. Through the narratives and imagery of development stakeholders attempting to shift regional stigma\, and those of news and social media outlets who justify both the removal and “formalization” of informal street vendors\, we see how visual culture and aesthetics affect and reflect how people understand racial value. The racial hierarchy is maintained symbolically through racial representation by the media and government who shape how the broader society understands the roles and viability of Black people in the labor market\, and materially through public policy decisions that govern public space and determine the access that primarily Black street vendors have to the physical spaces of the city where they seek to informally earn their livelihoods. \nThis event is kindly sponsored by the Humanities Council.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/mellon-forum-stigma-public-space-and-the-symbolic-value-of-race-in-cartagena-colombia/
LOCATION:School of Architecture
ORGANIZER;CN="Jacquelyn Walsh":MAILTO:jw42@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230214T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230214T150000
DTSTAMP:20260502T072946
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230212T194651Z
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SUMMARY:Douglass Day Transcribe-a-Thon
DESCRIPTION:Douglass Day is an annual program that marks the birth of Frederick Douglass and strives to create new & freely available resources for learning about Black history during a “Transcribe-a-thon” – a crowdsourced transcription event. This year\, we will focus on the papers of Mary Ann Shadd Cary\, one of the earliest Black women to edit a newspaper\, serve as a Civil War recruiter\, and attend law school. \nDuring the event\, we’ll use Zooniverse to access digitized files from Mary Ann Shadd Cary’s papers and create machine-readable transcriptions of her hand-written documents. The resulting datasets will allow her papers to be more discoverable and accessible by communities all over the world. \nStop in to help us transcribe anytime between noon and 3 p.m. on February 14th\, A-6F\, A-Floor\, Firestone Library. \nCoffee\, tea\, and snacks will be provided. \nThe event is open to the Princeton University community. If you plan to stop by\, please consider registering to receive a reminder and so we can plan for the appropriate amount of food and drink.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/douglass-day-transcribe-a-thon/
LOCATION:Firestone Library\, Classroom A-6F
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ORGANIZER;CN="Camey VanSant":MAILTO:cvansant@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230214T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230214T180000
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SUMMARY:Translators in/and the Academy
DESCRIPTION:To what extent have translators of Latin American and Iberian literatures circulated within the academy? How do translator’s academic practices shape their literary approach\, and vice versa? Can the university be both a productive and disruptive space for translation? In this roundtable\, we’ll hear from three award-winning translators about how their identities as writers\, researchers and scholars have evolved through the art of translation–and how we might imagine a more porous relationship between the institutions that come to mediate their work. \nCo-sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese\, the Program in Latin American Studies\, and the Humanities Council.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/translators-in-and-the-academy/
LOCATION:A71 Louis A. Simpson Building
ORGANIZER;CN="Yolanda Sullivan":MAILTO:syolanda@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:CDH Grants Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Join us to learn more about CDH grant and fellowship opportunities. We will discuss the details of each program to help you learn which opportunity is right for you. \nOn the agenda: \n\nResearch Partnerships (deadline: March 1)\nHumanities + Data Science Institute (deadline: March 10)\nData Fellowships (deadline: March 1)\nGraduate Fellowships (deadline: March 10)\nGraduate Training Grants (rolling deadline)\n\nNo registration required. Join the Zoom via this link.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/cdh-grants-information-session/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Camey VanSant":MAILTO:cvansant@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:The Puzzle of Panamanian Exceptionalism
DESCRIPTION:In the three decades since the U.S. invasion that overthrew the dictatorship of General Manuel Noriega\, Panama has undergone a remarkable transformation. It has remained a stable democracy in an age of democratic backsliding\, and its economy has grown faster than that of any other country in Latin America. It is today one of the richest countries in the region and is considered by the UN to be a case of “very high” human development. These accomplishments have not only received little outside attention\, but have also occurred in ways that defy conventional wisdom about democratization and economic development in startling ways. This talk examines Panama’s rise and highlights four especially puzzling features: 1) it is a rare case of democratization by military invasion; 2) it is home to an extremely unlikely case of authoritarian successor party regeneration; 3) it is a standout instance of effective resource management by a state-owned enterprise; and 4) it has achieved rapid economic development despite very high levels of corruption. \nABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER \nJames Loxton is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the University of Sydney. He is currently a Visiting Research Scholar in the Program in Latin American Studies at Princeton University. His research examines authoritarian regimes\, democratization\, and political parties. He is the award-winning author of Conservative Party-Building in Latin America (Oxford University Press\, 2021) and the co-editor with Scott Mainwaring of Life after Dictatorship: Authoritarian Successor Parties Worldwide (Cambridge University Press\, 2018). He holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University. \nDISCUSSANT \nJared Abbott\, Ph.D.\, Harvard University; PLAS Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer \nIf you would like to receive a copy of James Loxton’s paper in advance of the discussion\, please email damaris@princeton.edu by February 14. \nOpen to students\, faculty\, visiting scholars\, staff and specially invited guests. A boxed lunch will be provided while supplies last.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-puzzle-of-panamanian-exceptionalism/
LOCATION:216 Aaron Burr Hall\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Damaris Zayas":MAILTO:damaris@princeton.edu
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