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SUMMARY:When Pages Breathe: Immersive Elocution of Literature\, an installation
DESCRIPTION:Lecturer in Theater Chesney Snow and students in his fall course\, “The Oral Interpretation of Toni and William\,” present a multimedia oral interpretation of literature installation that examines speech as an aspect of fine art through the exploration of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby\, as well as the literary canons of iconic American writer Toni Morrison and English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. The installation also includes work by visual artists Brian Gonzalez and AK Lovelace and New York City-area high school students and features live music by AJ Khaw. The work to be presented is inspired by the writings of Fitzgerald\, Morrison and Shakespeare’s first folio in the University Library’s Special Collections archive and featured in the Library’s current exhibition\, In the Company of Good Books: Shakespeare to Morrison.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/when-pages-breathe-immersive-elocution-of-literature-an-installation/
LOCATION:CoLab Gallery\, Lewis Arts Complex
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SUMMARY:Medieval Faculty Colloquium: “El Greco – Architect?”
DESCRIPTION:The Program in Medieval Studies is pleased to offer the Faculty Colloquium series for Fall 2023. Charlie Barber\, Donald Drew Egbert Professor of Art and Archaeology\, will present this lunchtime talk on Tuesday\, November 28. \nToday\, Domēnïkos Theotokópoulos (El Greco)\, ca. 1540-1614\, is primarily known today for his extraordinary and distinctive paintings. In the seventeenth century\, attention was also drawn to his relationship with architecture. Over the past century\, the nature of this architectural identity has generated a regular\, slight\, but unresolved conversation. In this paper\, Professor Barber would like to return to this topic\, and consider what it was that Theotokópoulos wanted from architecture and why it was possible for his near contemporaries to describe him as an architect. \nPlease RSVP Here. Lunch will be provided.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/medieval-faculty-colloquium-el-greco-architect-2/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:“I Judge No One: A Political Life of Jesus”
DESCRIPTION:David Lloyd Dusenbury Lounge Seminar \n\nAbout the book \nWhy was Jesus\, who said ‘I judge no one’\, put to death for a political crime? Of course\, this is a historical question—but it is not only historical. Jesus’s life became a philosophical theme in the first centuries of our era\, when ‘pagan’ and Christian philosophers clashed over the meaning of his sayings and the significance of his death. Modern philosophers\, too\, such as Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche\, have tried to retrace the arc of Jesus’s life and death. \nI Judge No One is a philosophical reading of the four memoirs\, or ‘gospels’\, that were fashioned by early Christ-believers and collected in the New Testament. It offers original ways of seeing a deeply enigmatic figure who calls himself the Son of Man. \nDavid Lloyd Dusenbury suggests that Jesus offered his contemporaries a scandalous double claim. First\, that human judgements are pervasive and deceptive; and second\, that even divine laws can only be fulfilled in the human experience of love. Though his life led inexorably to a grim political death\, what Jesus’s sayings revealed—and still reveal—is that our highest desires lie beyond the political. \nAbout the author \nDavid Lloyd Dusenbury is a philosopher and historian of ideas\, whose books include The Innocence of Pontius Pilate (also published by Hurst) and Platonic Legislations. He is a senior visiting fellow at Budapest’s Danube Institute\, and he currently holds a joint chair at the University of Antwerp’s Institute of Jewish Studies and University Centre Saint-Ignatius. He writes for The Times Literary Supplement\, La Lettura\, and others.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/i-judge-no-one-a-political-life-of-jesus/
LOCATION:1879 Hall\, Room 140
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SUMMARY:When Pages Breathe: Bringing Literature to Life — An Oral Interpretation of The Great Gatsby
DESCRIPTION:Experience the magic of classic American literature through the art of oral interpretation as the Program in Theater in collaboration with Princeton University Library’s special collections exhibition presents\, When Pages Breathe: Bringing Literature to Life. Join us for a mesmerizing performance of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s seminal work\, The Great Gatsby\, presented by Literature to Life with actor Bryce Foley. This compelling performance adapted and directed by Kelvin Grullon\, promises to transport you to the Roaring Twenties—a time of opulence\, jazz\, and the complexities of the American Dream. Dive into the exploration of social stratification\, the stark contrasts between ‘old money’ and ‘new money\,’ and the intricate dynamics of gender\, race\, and environmentalism woven into the narrative. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to engage with the story in both performance and discussion. With special guests Elise Thoron\, Bryce Foley\, and Kelvin Grullon. This is not just a performance; it’s an homage to the timeless spirit of one of America’s greatest literary masterpieces and one Princeton’s most renowned alums\, F. Scott Fitzgerald\, Princeton Class of 1917. Hosted by Lecturer in Theater Chesney Snow in conjunction with his fall course\, “The Oral Interpretation of Toni and William\,” and will include presentations by students in the class. Also presented in collaboration with the Library’s special collections exhibition\, In the Company of Good Books: Shakespeare to Morrison.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/when-pages-breathe-bringing-literature-to-life-an-oral-interpretation-of-the-great-gatsby/
LOCATION:Drapkin Studio at Lewis Arts complex\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reading by Kwame Dawes and Creative Writing Seniors
DESCRIPTION:Critic\, editor and poet Kwame Dawes\, winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry\, a Pushcart Prize\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and author of the recent collection Sturge Town\, reads from his work along with seven 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. \nAdmission: Free and open to the public; advance tickets encouraged through University Ticketing at tickets.princeton.edu. \nAccessibility: The Kerr Studio is an accessible venue. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at least one week in advance at lewiscenter@princeton.edu
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/reading-by-kwame-dawes-and-creative-writing-seniors/
LOCATION:Godfrey Kerr Theater Studio\, Lewis Arts complex\, 122 ALEXANDER STREET\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:"Prickly Moses: Poems" & "Aurora Americana: Poems"
DESCRIPTION:Labyrinth Books and the Princeton University Press invite you for an evening of readings by the poets whose collections are the most recent in the Press’s Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. The series is edited by Professor Susan Stewart. Professor Stewart — herself an acclaimed poet\, critic\, as well as translator — will introduce the poets\, and we will celebrate her tenure\, (which is coming to a close)\, as editor of this series. \nAn uncanny blend of the external and the intimate has been a hallmark of Simon West’s poetry for nearly twenty years. In this new collection\, the Australian poet and Italianist delights in the transforming and endlessly varied powers of naming and speaking. Again and again\, language and the senses throw themselves into the nameless riot of the world\, from eucalypts and clouds to a medieval bell tower and the sounds a pencil makes as it crosses a page. \nIn Aurora Americana\, Myronn Hardy\, an American poet who moved back to the United States after living for years in Morocco\, reflects on exile and return as he describes the experience of leaving North Africa and rediscovering a North America both recognizable and unrecognizable. What does it mean to feel exiled both away from and at “home”? What does it mean to miss something? With poems set at or near dawn\, Hardy explores an ominous yet hopeful new morning in America\, one in which potential cataclysm exists alongside possibility and change. \nSimon West is the author of four previous collections of poetry\, including Carol and Ahoy and The Ladder\, which was shortlisted for the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. He is also the author of Dear Muses? Essays in Poetry and the editor and translator of The Selected Poetry of Guido Cavalcanti. Myronn Hardy is the author of five previous books of poems\, including Radioactive Starlings. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, Poetry\, the New Republic\, and the Baffler\, among other publications\, and have won many prizes\, including the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award. He teaches at Bates College. \nThis event is co-presented by Princeton University Press and cosponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council and English Department.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/susan-stewart-princeton-university-press-poets-simon-west-and-myronn-hardy-prickly-moses-poems-aurora-americana-poems/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:"Beyond Reparations: Post-Colonial Loudreaders\, Colonial Footprints\, and the case for white studies”
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Program in Media + Modernity | Princeton University \nWAI Think Tank\n“Beyond Reparations: Post-Colonial Loudreaders\, Colonial Footprints\, and the case for white studies”\n[Response: V. Mitch McEwen]\nTuesday\, November 28\, 2023 @6pm ET\n201\, Morrison Hall (African American studies) \nEvent co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies (AAS). \n:: Please note that this event will start at 6:00 pm instead of 5:00 pm\, and that it will take place in Room 201 (Morisson Hall)\, instead of Room N107 (SoA):: \nAddressing the scaffolding of reparations\, WAI Think Tank proposes to redefine the post-colonial\, not as life after the colony (since Puerto Rico continues being one after more than 500 years)\, but as the brutalizing regimes historically imposed on the colonial plantations spilling on the rest of the world like organic matter. This condition of planetary urgency calls for radical practices of solidarity and education like the loudreaders that shared anti-capitalist and anti-colonial imaginaries in the tobacco factories of the Caribbean\, and the possibility and necessity of white studies that account for the colonial footprint of the architectures of white supremacy\, capitalism\, heteropatriarchy and the cosmogonies of destruction and subjugation they produce and reproduce. \nNathalie Frankowski and Cruz Garcia are co-founders of WAI Architecture Think Tank and the free and alternative education platform and trade-school LOUDREADERS. They are authors of several books including A Manual of Anti-Racist Architecture Education\, and co-editors of Journal of Architectural Education issue on Reparations! and InForma Journal issue on Networks of Solidarity. \nV. Mitch McEwen is an Assistant Professor at Princeton’s School of Architecture. She is principal of Atelier Office\, director of the Black Box Research Group\, and co-founder of the Black Reconstruction Collective. \nM+M strives to make everyone feel welcome. If you are concerned that room S118 will not provide adequate physical accommodation for you\, please contact us in advance to discuss it.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/beyond-reparations-post-colonial-loudreaders-colonial-footprints-and-the-case-for-white-studies/
LOCATION:201 Morrison Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Iason Stathatos":MAILTO:iasons@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Plato on the Spirit of the Law
DESCRIPTION:Visit the University Center for Human Values website for information.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/plato-on-the-spirit-of-the-law/
LOCATION:301 Wooten Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Dawn Disette":MAILTO:ddisette@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Ticha: archival texts\, linguistic analysis\, and language activism
DESCRIPTION:There are thousands of pages of texts written in Zapotec from the 17c and 18c. In fact\, Zapotec has one of the largest corpora of early alphabetic texts in the Americas. In this talk\, I present Ticha: a digital text explorer for Colonial Zapotec (https://ticha.haverford.edu; Lillehaugen et al. 2016\, Broadwell et al. 2020)\, a digital humanities project which makes this corpus accessible to a diverse global audience. I reflect on how linguists can be productive partners in this type of interdisciplinary public humanities project (Plumb et al. in press) and share how Ticha is being used by members of the community to reclaim words and strengthen language programs (Lopez 2021). Finally\, I’ll also show how linguists are using the corpus to better understand the Zapotec morphosyntax and semantics over the last three hundred years\, including the development of the progressive aspect (Broadwell 2015)\, two-part negation (Anderson and Lillehaugen 2016)\, and the positional verb system (Foreman and Lillehaugen 2017). \nBrook Danielle Lillehaugen is Associate Professor and Chair of Linguistics at Haverford College. She received her Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California\, Los Angeles in 2006 and has been learning from speakers of Zapotec languages since 1999. She publishes on the grammar of Zapotec in both its modern and colonial forms\, including publications in Language Documentation and Conservation\, International Journal of American Linguistics\, and Tlalocan. Lillehaugen is the co-director of Ticha: a digital text explorer for Colonial Zapotec. Her work has been supported by the NSF\, NEH\, and the ACLS.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/ticha-archival-texts-linguistic-analysis-and-language-activism/
LOCATION:1-S-5 Green Hall\, 1-S-5 Green Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sinews of the Soul: Comparing Christian Baptism and Indigenous Adoption
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reception following the lecture. \nThis event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP Here. \nFor all of the real and important contrasts between them\, the Indigenous peoples and French Catholic colonists who encountered one another in seventeenth-century New France were both convinced that spiritual change was possible across cultural\, linguistic\, and ethnic lines.  Both saw religious belonging and cultural identity as being essentially behavioral – and thus volitional – rather than as an immutable ethnic given.  Both boasted powerful rituals that could effectively transform strangers into kin: positing a kind of symbolic rebirth or soul shift involving the reception of a new name and identity that literally and objectively re-made the individual concerned from “one of them” into “one of us.”  For Indigenous people\, this ritual was adoption.  For Catholics\, it was baptism.  This presentation will explore the many fascinating parallels between Indigenous adoption and Catholic baptism in seventeenth century New France\, and chart how these ceremonies of transformative incorporation were themselves transformed with the imposition of foreign blood quantum measurements as an index of Indigenous identity in the late nineteenth century. \n\n \nEmma Anderson graduated with a Ph.D. in American Religious History from Harvard University in 2005\, and has taught at the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa ever since.  An expert on the religious encounter between Catholic missionaries and Indigenous peoples in colonial North America\, she is the author of two award-winning books published by Harvard University Press. Her first book\, The Betrayal of Faith: The Tragic Journey of a Colonial Native Convert explores the momentous transatlantic transformation of an Indigenous boy\, Pierre-Antoine Pastedechouan.  Her second work\, The Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs critically re-examines the lives and deaths of eight slain Jesuits in the 1640s\, and probes the ongoing consequences of their veneration for Indigenous peoples. \nAs Pathy Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies\, Prof. Anderson teaches the Program in Humanistic Studies course\, Indigenous Peoples and Christianity\, and continues to write her current monograph-in-progress\, Dawn in the West: How the Thought of Indigenous People Ushered in Modernity\, which delineates the seminal impact of Indigenous perspectives upon Enlightenment philosophes. To read more about Anderson’s teaching\, publications\, and current projects\, please visit her website at www.emmajaneanderson.com.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/sinews-of-the-soul-comparing-christian-baptism-and-indigenous-adoption-as-mechanism-of-incorporation-in-early-modern-new-france-8/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium\,  School of Architecture\, Betts Auditorium\, School of Architecture\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:HOS Colloquia: Listening to Albert the Great on the Art of Becoming a Natural Scientist
DESCRIPTION:Katja Krause is a historian of science and medicine\, and a philosopher specializing in medieval thought and beyond. She received her PhD in 2014 from King’s College London for her dissertation entitled “Aquinas’ Philosophy of the Beatific Vision: A Textual Analysis of his Commentary on the Sentences in Light of Its Greek\, Arabic\, and Latin Sources.” After her doctorate\, Krause was awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science\, where she worked on a series of articles examining the empirical turn of the thirteenth century that emerged from the appropriation of Averroes’ commentaries on the corpus Aristotelicum. In 2016/17 she served as Assistant Professor in Medieval Thought at Durham University\, UK\, and in 2017/18 was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Divinity School\, supported by the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften. Krause is currently Leader of the Max Planck Research Group “Experience in the Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body\, ca. 800–1650\,” jointly with a professorship at the Technische Universität Berlin. \nKatja Krause has recently completed the edited volume Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation (edited with Maria Auxent and Dror Weil\, Routledge 2023); the volume Contextualizing Premodern Philosophy: Explorations of the Greek\, Hebrew\, Arabic\, and Latin Traditions (edited with Luis Xavier López-Farjeat and Nicholas Oschman) is in press. Her translation of Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on Peter Lombard’s Sentences IV.49.2\, with introductions and notes\, appeared in autumn 2020 with Marquette University Press. \n\nThis event is sponsored by the Program in the History of Science and the Program in Medieval Studies
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/hos-colloquia-listening-to-albert-the-great-on-the-art-of-becoming-a-natural-scientist-2/
LOCATION:211 Dickinson Hall
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SUMMARY:"'The Syriac Dots:' Oral Reading Traditions Recorded in Ink"
DESCRIPTION:In the 5th century Syriac scribes began to use dots in order to document the oral reading traditions of the Bible. Some dots were used to vocalise words and differentiate between otherwise identical words. Another set of dots is the topic of this lecture. These dots\, often called accents\, were used to mark rising and falling tones\, as well as different types of pauses. How and why were these dots used? Did Syriac scribes invent the earliest question mark in the history of writing? How did the native Syriac grammarians describe this system? These are some of the questions we will explore in this lecture.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-syriac-dots-oral-reading-traditions-recorded-in-ink/
LOCATION:103 Scheide Caldwell
ORGANIZER;CN="Eleni Banis":MAILTO:hbanis@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Xiaoshuo as China's Fourth Religion:  Pitfalls and Potentials of Vernacular Literature in the late Qing (1644-1911 CE)
DESCRIPTION:This talk\, based on the first chapter of my forthcoming book\, focuses on how Yu Zhi (1809-1874)\, a firm believer in the socio-moral harm caused by vernacular literature\, also built a strong case for how vernacular literature was also the most powerful tool available to further the Confucian civilizing mission of jiaohua 教化 (teaching and transformation) in the midst of empire-shattering crisis. In attempting to convince his peers and superiors of this radical claim\, Yu drew attention to the historical failures of jiaohua\, especially due to its inability to compete with xiaoshuo. Yu adopted a framework developed by mid-Qing scholar official Qian Daxin in which\, since the Ming\, China’s traditional three jiao have been supplanted by a fourth jiao\, xiaoshuo\, to convince his elite readers that its moral dangers were even worse than they may have thought\, and its successes were due to their failures to apprehend its. Though literary censorship and inquisitions were common approaches to combating objectionable literature throughout the Qing\, and Yu wholeheartedly supported such efforts\, he also believed they were fundamentally flawed tools that did not go far enough to address the underlying causes and conditions in which popular literature spread socially-destabilizing immorality. In the hyper-literate world of late imperial literati\, it may have been difficult for them to seriously consider alternatives to transforming society beyond centuries-old institutions and millennia-old Classical texts. Even so\, Yu emphasized that in competition with powerful\, dangerous enemies – popular drama and vernacular fiction – jiaohua as it was traditionally enacted lost out every time. It was time to let popular culture transform Confucians just enough that they might become the teachers that such dark times called for.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/xiaoshuo-as-chinas-fourth-religion-pitfalls-and-potentials-of-vernacular-literature-in-the-late-qing-1644-1911-ce/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chao-Hui Jenny Liu":MAILTO:chaoliu@princeton.edu
GEO:40.7228732;-74.0621867
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T193000
DTSTAMP:20260624T142519
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SUMMARY:"Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political"
DESCRIPTION:Plato famously defends the rule of knowledge. Knowledge\, for him\, is of the good. But what is rule? In her new study\, which she will present and discuss with her colleague in Classics\, Melissa Lane shows Plato to have been deeply concerned with the roles and relationships between rulers and ruled. \nLane reveals how political office and rule were woven together in Greek vocabulary and practices that both connected and distinguished between rule in general and office as a constitutionally limited kind of rule in particular. Adopting a longstanding Greek expectation that a ruler should serve the good of the ruled\, Plato’s major political dialogues—the Republic\, the Statesman\, and Laws—explore how different kinds of rule might best serve that good. With this book\, Lane offers the first account of the clearly marked vocabulary of offices at the heart of all three of these dialogues\, explaining how such offices fit within the broader organization and theorizing of rule. \nTaking Plato’s interest in rule and office seriously reveals tyranny as ultimately a kind of anarchy\, lacking the order as well as the purpose of rule. When we think of tyranny in this way\, we see how Plato invokes rule and office as underpinning freedom and friendship as political values\, and how Greek slavery shaped Plato’s account of freedom. Reading Plato both in the Greek context and in dialogue with contemporary thinkers\, Lane argues that rule and office belong at the center of Platonic\, Greek\, and contemporary political thought. \nMelissa Lane is Professor of Politics and a faculty member of the Program in Classical Philosophy at Princeton University. Her books include Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics\, Virtue\, and Sustainable Living and The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter. Benjamin Morison is Professor of Philosophy at Princeton. He is the author of On Location: Aristotle’s Concept of Place. \nThis event is cosponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council and Politics\, Philosophy\, and Classics Departments.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/melissa-lane-benjamin-morison-of-rule-and-office-platos-ideas-of-the-political/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
GEO:40.3502494;-74.6588981
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T210000
DTSTAMP:20260624T142519
CREATED:20231124T201729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231127T213615Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: "Goodbye Julia"
DESCRIPTION:Goodbye Julia is a 2023 Sudanese drama and the first feature film directed by Mohamed Kordofani. It is the first film from Sudan ever to be presented in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival\, when it went on to win that section’s Prix de Liberté (Freedom Prize). \nWracked by guilt after covering up a murder\, Mona a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow\, Julia\, and her son\, Daniel\, into her home. Unable to confess her transgressions to Julia\, Mona decides to leave the past behind and adjust to a new status quo\, unaware that the country’s turmoil may find its way into her home and put her face to face with her sins.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/film-screening-goodbye-julia/
LOCATION:101 Friend Center
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ORGANIZER;CN="Deena Abdel-Latif":MAILTO:Deenaa@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T132000
DTSTAMP:20260624T142519
CREATED:20231115T230133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231115T230133Z
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SUMMARY:“Belonging to a 'Lost' Island: Sovereignty\, Memory\, and Landscape on Imbros”
DESCRIPTION:The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne established the present borders between Greece and Turkey and led to a compulsory population exchange that transformed all aspects of life in the region. The Orthodox Greeks of Istanbul and the Aegean islands of Imbros and Tenedos\, and the Muslims of Western Thrace were exempted from the compulsory expulsion. My research covers the experiences of those who stayed on Imbros and those who were displaced after 1923. This workshop explores forgotten and remembered aspects of the past by tracing the shifting topography of the landscape. I will focus on state practices of dispossession and on local resistance to dominant narratives and policies. My research incorporates ethnographic fieldwork on Imbros and in Athens from 2022-23.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/belonging-to-a-lost-island-sovereignty-memory-and-landscape-on-imbros/
LOCATION:203 Scheide Caldwell House
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eleni Banis":MAILTO:hbanis@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T180000
DTSTAMP:20260624T142519
CREATED:20231121T151238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231121T184611Z
UID:57596-1701360000-1701367200@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:When Pages Breathe: Adaptation of Modern Classics with Pulitzer Prize-winning Hodder Fellow Martyna Majok
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a deep dive into the art of adaptation with Pulitzer Prize winner and 2018-19 Princeton Hodder Fellow Martyna Majok and Lecturer in Theater Chesney Snow. Discover the secrets to transforming The Great Gatsby into a theatrical treasure for the stage. Majok wrote the book for a new musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s legendary novel with a score by international rock star Florence Welch of Florence + The Machine and Oscar and Grammy Award nominee Thomas Bartlett that will have its world premiere in May 2024. A must-see event for literature and theater lovers alike! See student performances alongside unprecedented insight into the mind of one of today’s most prolific theater artists. Don’t miss this community discussion that uncovers the craft of bringing pages to life. Hosted by Snow in conjunction with his fall course\, “The Oral Interpretation of Toni and William\,” and in collaboration with Princeton University Library’s special collections exhibition\, In the Company of Good Books: Shakespeare to Morrison
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/when-pages-breathe-adaptation-of-modern-classics-with-pulitzer-prize-winning-hodder-fellow-martyna-majok/
LOCATION:CoLab Gallery\, Lewis Arts Complex
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Lewis Center for the Arts":MAILTO:lewiscenter@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231130T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231130T180000
DTSTAMP:20260624T142519
CREATED:20231003T201222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231115T225638Z
UID:57098-1701361800-1701367200@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:The Ovide moralisé: The Divine Comedy of Medieval France?
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: \nMatthieu Boyd (’03)\, Professor of Literature and Chair of the School of the Humanities\, Fairleigh Dickinson University \nSarah-Jane Murray (*03)\, Associate Professor of Great Texts & Creative Writing\, Honors College\, Baylor University \nThe anonymous fourteenth-century Ovide moralisé (“Moralized Ovid”) is a translation into French of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and much of the accumulated mythographical commentary in Latin. It gathers many sources and adds to them\, forming a massive and coherent\, if not seamless\, whole that invites comparison with Dante’s masterwork in various ways: its scope (the OM is actually five time longer)\, its use of the vernacular\, its creative relationship to the Classics (the OM is guided by Ovid as Dante is by Virgil)\, and its Christian mission. Beyond that\, without necessarily claiming that the OM matches Dante in poetic elegance\, the comparison provokes us to reassess the OM’s place in French and medieval literary history\, which has not been properly appreciated since the text could not be read by almost any modern audiences – until now. This presentation is associated with the first-ever modern translation of the Ovide moralisé (Boydell & Brewer\, 2023)\, the result of a collaboration that had its genesis at Princeton. We include discussion of the manuscripts\, some of which have now been fully digitized and permit extended study of text-image relations\, and the OM’s strategies of translation and interpretation. \n\nThis event is sponsored by the Department of French & Italian and the Program in Medieval Studies.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-ovide-moralise-the-divine-comedy-of-medieval-france-4/
LOCATION:Robertson Hall\, Room 002
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T180000
DTSTAMP:20260624T142519
CREATED:20231117T201642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231117T201642Z
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SUMMARY:The Priest Nichiren’s Miraculous Escape from Death and Its Modern Skeptics: Negotiating History and Myth in a Japanese Buddhist Tradition
DESCRIPTION:The Danforth Lecture in the Study of Religion \nThe Priest Nichiren’s Miraculous Escape from Death and Its Modern Skeptics:\nNegotiating History and Myth in a Japanese Buddhist Tradition \nJacqueline I. Stone \nIn the year 1271\, the dissident Buddhist teacher Nichiren was arrested by officials of Japan’s warrior government and taken under cover of night to the execution grounds. Tradition holds that his attempted beheading was foiled when a luminous object suddenly shot across the sky\, terrifying his would-be executioners. For more than seven hundred years\, this dramatic episode has been celebrated in hagiographies\, paintings\, kabuki plays\, woodblock prints\, novels\, and manga. In recent times\, however\, its historicity has been questioned; naturalistic explanations for the “luminous object” have also been proposed. These responses invite reflection on the hermeneutic shifts that occur when religious accounts of miraculous events are assessed by modern critical and scientific standards. They also raise challenging questions about what responsibility the historian of religion bears in analyzing a tradition’s foundational narratives. \nRegister here.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-priest-nichirens-miraculous-escape-from-death-and-its-modern-skeptics-negotiating-history-and-myth-in-a-japanese-buddhist-tradition/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231201T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231201T132000
DTSTAMP:20260624T142519
CREATED:20231121T183634Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231121T183634Z
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SUMMARY:"How did Byzantines Read Herodotus? The Case of Marginalia in Verse"
DESCRIPTION:The Histories’ textual transmission provides an important source of information for the multilayered reception of Herodotus in the Greek Middle Ages. Byzantine manuscripts are often studied not as Byzantine artifacts but as a means to reconstruct ancient texts. However\, Byzantine readers also made creative use of the Histories while copying it. In this lecture\, I will focus on the marginal annotations written in verse in Herodotus’ manuscripts. Byzantines annotated these texts in a variety of contemporary literary genres\, including didactic\, polemic\, and paraenetic poetry\, to express distinctive ideological agendas. I argue that these finely crafted marginalia should be studied as literature in their own right\, not merely as subsidiary commentaries or records of the afterlife of Herodotus.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/how-did-byzantines-read-herodotus-the-case-of-marginalia-in-verse/
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:20231202T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231202T160000
DTSTAMP:20260624T142519
CREATED:20231120T211256Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231120T211256Z
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SUMMARY:Journalism and Democracy: 2023 Public Humanities Forum
DESCRIPTION:A keynote speaker and two panels of experts\, featuring historians and journalists\, will discuss the history of democracy\, active citizenship\, and participatory journalism. Registration requested. \nThe 2023 Public Humanities Forum explores the relationship between democracy and journalism through two panel discussions and a public lecture. \nHere is the program of the day’s activities: \n10 a.m. – Check-in and Coffee \n10:30 a.m. to noon – First Panel: “Democracy\, Citizenship\, and the Power of the Powerless” \nNoon to 1:15 p.m. – Lunch (complimentary to registered guests) \n1:15 to 2:45 p.m. – Second Panel: “Democratic Societies and Participatory Journalism” \n2:45 p.m. to 3 p.m. – Coffee Break \n3 p.m. to 4 p.m. – Public Lecture on Democracy and Journalism: Title TBA \nJan-Werner Müller (Politics) is the keynote speaker. Panelists include: Dan-El Padilla Peralta (Classics)\, Rachel Devlin (Rutgers University)\, Stanley Katz (SPIA)\, Christopher Fisher (College of New Jersey)\, Jane Ferguson (Journalism)\, Tennyson Donyéa (journalist)\, Andrew Rodriguez Calderón (The Marshall Project)\, Anastasia Mann (SPIA in NJ). \nCo-sponsored by the Princeton University Humanities Council and the Princeton University Program in Journalism and presented with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Any views\, findings\, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this programming do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/journalism-and-democracy-2023-public-humanities-forum/
LOCATION:Community Room\, Princeton Public Library\, Community Rm\, Princeton Public Library\, 65 Witherspoon Street\, Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Cliff":MAILTO:Robinson
GEO:40.3572976;-74.6672226
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Community Room Princeton Public Library Community Rm Princeton Public Library 65 Witherspoon Street Princeton Princeton NJ 08540 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Community Rm\, Princeton Public Library\, 65 Witherspoon Street\, Princeton:geo:-74.6672226,40.3572976
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231203T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231203T123000
DTSTAMP:20260624T142519
CREATED:20230727T160808Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231017T174446Z
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SUMMARY:LLL Presents Mihret Sibhat & Wendy Belcher - "The History of a Difficult Child: a Novel"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Sunday book brunch: a reading from and conversation about a breathtaking\, tragicomic debut novel about the indomitable child of a scorned\, formerly land-owning family who must grow up in the wake of Ethiopia’s socialist revolution. The History of a Difficult Child is about what happens when mother\, God\, and country are at odds\, and how one difficult child finds her voice. \nWisecracking\, inquisitive\, and bombastic\, Selam Asmelash is the youngest child in her large family. Even before she is born\, she has a wry\, bewitching omniscience that animates life in her small town in southwestern Ethiopia in the 1980s. Selam and her father listen to the radio in secret as the socialist military junta that recently overthrew the government seizes properties and wages civil war in the North. The Asmelashes\, once an enterprising\, land-owning family\, are ostracized under the new regime. \nAs Selam’s mother\, the powerful and relentlessly dignified Degitu\, grows ill\, she embraces a persecuted\, Pentecostal God and insists her family convert alongside her. The Asmelashes stand solidly in opposition to the times\, and Selam grows up seeking revenge on despotic comrades\, neighborhood bullies\, and a ruthless God. Wise beyond her years yet thoroughly naive\, she contends with an inner fury\, a profound sadness\, and a throbbing\, unstoppable pursuit of education\, freedom\, and love.\n \nMihret Sibhat was born and raised in a small town in western Ethiopia before moving to California when she was seventeen. She was a 2019 A Public Space Fellow and a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grantee. In a previous life\, she was a waitress\, a nanny\, an occasional shoe shiner\, a propagandist\, and a terrible gospel singer. Wendy Belcher is professor in Comparative Literature and African American Studies at Princeton University and the author of Abyssinia’s Samuel Johnson: Ethiopian Thought in the Making of an English Author\, and of the translation with Michael Kleiner of The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman. \nThis event is co-presented by Labyrinth and the Princeton Public Library and cosponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council\, Comparative Literature Department\, and Program in African Studies.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lll-presents-mihret-sibhat-wendy-belcher-the-history-of-a-difficult-child-a-novel/
LOCATION:Princeton Public Library
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T173000
DTSTAMP:20260624T142519
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SUMMARY:Reading by award-winning writer Caoilinn Hughes
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning writer Caoilinn Hughes (The Wild Laughter) reads from her work\, including an excerpt from her forthcoming novel\, The Alternatives (Riverhead\, April 2024). An unforgettable family portrait\, The Alternatives follows four Irish sisters who were plunged prematurely into adulthood when their parents died in tragic circumstances. Now in their thirties and living disparate lives\, three are brought unexpectedly together in search of one sister who doesn’t want to be found. Introduced by Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’52 Professor in Irish Letters Fintan O’Toole.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/reading-by-award-winning-writer-caoilinn-hughes/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Lewis Center":MAILTO:lewiscenter@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T180000
DTSTAMP:20260624T142519
CREATED:20231201T144505Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231201T144505Z
UID:57753-1701707400-1701712800@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Political Imaginaries Unmoored: Beyond the Universal and Particular
DESCRIPTION:This talk uses a series of images to evoke a form of diagrammatic reasoning which lies beyond the stranglehold of western dialectics of the universal and particular\, the general and the individual\, the abstract and the concrete\, structure and event. \nElizabeth A. Povinelli is Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University\, Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities\, and a founding member of the Karrabing Film Collective. Over eight books\, numerous essays\, as well as eight films with the Karrabing Film Collective\, Povinelli has examined the logics\, strategies and tactics of late settler liberalism and its otherwise. \nCo-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/political-imaginaries-unmoored-beyond-the-universal-and-particular/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Barbara Leavey":MAILTO:blleavey@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T180000
DTSTAMP:20260624T142519
CREATED:20231025T195213Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231025T195213Z
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SUMMARY:Photo History’s Futures: Aglaya Glebova
DESCRIPTION:2021 marked 50 years of photography at Princeton\, sparking both a reflection on the medium’s history and projection toward its future. As part of the Photo History’s Futures lecture series highlighting exciting voices in the field\, the Department of Art and Archaeology and the Princeton University Art Museum welcome Aglaya Glebova to speak about her recent book\, Aleksandr Rodchenko: Photography in the Time of Stalin\, with its emphasis on revolutionary modernity and a well-known artist’s “shadow oeuvre.” Glebova is associate professor in the History of Art Department at the University of California\, Berkeley.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/photo-historys-futures-aglaya-glebova/
LOCATION:101 Friend Center
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mo Chen":MAILTO:mochen@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T180000
DTSTAMP:20260624T142519
CREATED:20231203T213445Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231203T213445Z
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SUMMARY:Fall Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Selected students from fall courses in Creative Writing read from their work in fiction\, poetry\, screenwriting and literary translation as part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series\, presented by the Program in Creative Writing. \nAdmission: Free and open to the public; no tickets required. \nAccessibility: Chancellor Green Rotunda is an accessible venue via the elevator in East Pyne. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at least one week in advance at lewiscenter@princeton.edu\nFor more information: https://arts.princeton.edu/events/fall-2023-student-reading/
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/fall-student-reading/
LOCATION:Chancellor Green Rotunda\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Lewis Center":MAILTO:lewiscenter@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231204T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231204T203000
DTSTAMP:20260624T142519
CREATED:20231120T183827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231120T183827Z
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SUMMARY:PHS & LLL Present - Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City
DESCRIPTION:Labyrinth\, Princeton High School\, and partners present James Beard Award–winning author Kim Foster. Her book is a new portrait of hunger and humanity in America and has been woven into the curriculum of several classes at the high school this fall. \nFood is a conduit for connection; we envision smiling families gathered around a table—eating\, happy\, content. But what happens when poverty\, mental illness\, homelessness\, and addiction claim a seat at that table? In The Meth Lunches\, Kim Foster peers behind the polished visions of perfectly curated dinners and charming families to reveal the complex reality when poverty and food intersect. \nWhether it’s heirloom vegetables or a block of government cheese\, food is both a basic necessity and a nuanced litmus test: what and how we eat reflects our communities\, our cultures\, and our place in the world. The Meth Lunches gives a glimpse into the lives of people living in Foster’s Las Vegas community—the grocery store cashier who feels safer surrounded by food after surviving a childhood of hunger; the inmate baking a birthday cake with coffee creamer and Sprite; the unhoused woman growing scallions in the slice of sunlight on her passenger seat. \nThe Meth Lunches reveals stories of difficulty intertwined with hope\, of the insurmountable obstacles and fierce determination all playing out on the plates of ordinary Americans. It’s a bold invitation to pull up a chair and reconsider our responsibilities to the most vulnerable among us. \nKim Foster is a James Beard Award-winning food writer. \nThis event is co-presented by Labyrinth Books\, the Princeton High School\, and the Princeton Public Library and co-sponsored by the Princeton Food Project: A Humanities Council Magic Project. 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/phs-lll-present-meth-lunches-food-and-longing-in-an-american-city/
LOCATION:Princeton High School Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231205T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231205T180000
DTSTAMP:20260624T142519
CREATED:20231127T182332Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231127T182332Z
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SUMMARY:Kwartler Family Lecture – How did Helena of Adiabene Become Queen of Jerusalem?
DESCRIPTION:Join the Program in Judaic Studies for this year’s Kwartler Family Lecture with Sarit Kattan Gribetz on Tuesday\, December 5. \nAbstract\nAccording to the first-century historian Josephus Flavius\, Queen Helena of Adiabene traveled from northern Mesopotamia to Jerusalem because she loved the Jewish God and wished to worship in the temple. Helena became a beloved patron of Jerusalem\, feeding its residents during famine and erecting monumental buildings\, including a palace and a mausoleum. Late antique rabbinic and Christian writings continued to tell her story. But by the medieval period\, she was remembered as queen of Jerusalem during the life of Jesus and the adjudicator between Judaism and Christianity. How did Helena of Adiabene become queen of Jerusalem – and why? This talk will explore the complex interplay of texts\, landscape\, and embodied practices in the transmission of traditions\, the construction of memory\, and interreligious relations and polemics. \nOpen to the public. Refreshments will be available. \nMore about Sarit Kattan Gribetz \nSarit Kattan Gribetz is Associate Professor of Classical Judaism at Fordham University and the Co-Director of Fordham’s Center for Jewish Studies. Her book Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism (Princeton UP\, 2020) received a National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship and a Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies. She is currently writing her next book\, A Queen in Jerusalem: Helena of Adiabene through the Ages\, under contract with Princeton University Press. She received her A.B. and Ph.D. from the Religion Department at Princeton University.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/kwartler-family-lecture-how-did-helena-of-adiabene-become-queen-of-jerusalem/
LOCATION:A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building\, Washington Road\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544
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SUMMARY:Writing in Good Faith for Reading in Bad Faith\, Or: Making Literature in the Age of Haters
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Comparative Literature Lecture Series. Co-Sponsored by the Department of German\, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese\, and the Humanities Council.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/writing-in-good-faith-for-reading-in-bad-faith-or-making-literature-in-the-age-of-haters/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Buddhist and the Ethicist: Conversations on Effective Altruism\, Engaged Buddhism\, and More
DESCRIPTION:In their eye-opening new book\, an unlikely duo – the preeminent philosopher and professor of bioethics Peter Singer\, and Venerable Shih Chao-Hwei\, a Taiwanese Buddhist monastic and social activist—join forces to talk ethics in lively conversations that cross oceans\, overcome language barriers\, and bridge philosophies. Peter Singer will discuss their shared insights; please join us. \nThe dialogues collected in The Buddhist and the Ethicist share unique perspectives on contemporary issues like animal welfare\, gender equality\, the death penalty\, and more. Together\, these two deep thinkers explore the foundation of ethics and key Buddhist concepts\, and ultimately reveal how we can all move toward making the world a better place. \nPeter Singer is Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He is best known for Animal Liberation\, first published in 1975 and widely considered to be the founding statement of the animal rights movement; and for The Life You Can Save\, which led him to found the charity of the same name. His other books include Practical Ethics and The Most Good You Can Do. In 2005\, Time magazine named him one of the World’s 100 Most Influential People. Robert Wright is the author of Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment. His other books include The Evolution of God\, which was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize\, The Moral Animal and Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny. In 2009 Wright was named by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the top 100 global thinkers. \nCosponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council\, the University Center for Human Values\, Religion Department\, and Office of the Dean of Religious Life.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-buddhist-and-the-ethicist-conversations-on-effective-altruism-engaged-buddhism-and-more/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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