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SUMMARY:Canceling Spinoza
DESCRIPTION:Attend a screening and discussion of the documentary Spinoza: 6 Reasons for the Excommunication of the Philosopher on Tuesday\, September 3.Film synopsis: The excommunication of Baruch Spinoza\, the Dutch Jewish philosopher who revolutionized modern thought\, is a formative\, mysterious event in the understanding of his work. Director David Ofek takes us on an intercontinental journey tracing six reasons for Spinoza’s excommunication. Between Amsterdam\, The Hague\, New York\, Jerusalem\, and Tel Aviv\, he makes some surprising discoveries\, and traces the figure of a man who continues to intrigue our culture with his ideas\, which remain revolutionary\, spiritual\, and radical to this day. \nPrinceton faculty Daniel Garber\, the A. Watson J. Armour III University Professor of Philosophy\, and Leora Batnitzky\, the Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion\, will give an introduction. Post-screening discussants include David Ofek\, the film’s director\, and Yitzhak Melamed\, the Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. \nView the film trailer on YouTube. \nOpen to the public. This event is co-sponsored by the University Center for Human Values’ Film Forum\, the Department of Philosophy\, and the Program in Judaic Studies.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/canceling-spinoza/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
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ORGANIZER;CN="Margo Bresnen":MAILTO:mbresnen@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:18th Annual Humanities Colloquium: Knowledge and Action
DESCRIPTION:Join the Humanities Council at Princeton University for a kick-off event featuring a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary conversation about central issues in our research\, teaching\, and intellectual life. \nThis year’s speakers\, distinguished Princeton scholars whose work represents different approaches and historical periods\, will participate in a panel discussion on the theme “Knowledge and Action.” In A Letter to My Nephew (1962)\, James Baldwin wrote: “[P]eople find it very difficult to act on what they know.  To act is to be committed and to be committed is to be in danger.” Taking these words as a point of departure\, the Colloquium ponders the role that knowing and acting play in our democracy in this election. The conversation will be moderated by Council Chair Esther Schor (English). \nSpeakers: \n\nYelena Baraz (Classics; Society of Fellows)\, “Saving Persephone: Secondary Trauma and Bystander Intervention in Ovid’s Metamorphoses”\nEliza Griswold (Journalism)\, “A Legacy in Action: Baldwin’s Influence in Contemporary Politics”\nJan-Werner Müller (Politics)\, “The Will Not to Know: Varieties of Ignorance and the Rise of Autocracy in Our Time”\nKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (African American Studies)\, “Making America What America Must Become: Confronting Amnesia and Innocence after Baldwin”\n\nOpen to the University community. To see past events\, please visit the Humanities Colloquium page on our website.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/18th-annual-humanities-colloquium/
LOCATION:Chancellor Green Rotunda\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240909T120000
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SUMMARY:Baldwin Circles Convener Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Join Humanities Council Chair Esther Schor (English) and Executive Director Kathleen Crown for an information session about the Baldwin Circles project and to learn more about convening your own reading group. \nThis informal lunch discussion will provide an overview of the resources\, support\, and special opportunities available to conveners. \nNo previous experience or expertise with Baldwin’s work is expected of conveners; this opportunity is open to everyone eager to read\, ponder\, and discuss Baldwin and his legacy in a communal setting. All University faculty\, graduate students\, post-docs\, and staff are welcome to register as conveners. \nRSVP for lunch here. \n— \nAbout Baldwin Circles \nJames Baldwin was born on August 2\, 1924\, at Harlem Hospital in New York City. During his lifetime and since his death in 1987\, Baldwin’s life and works – novels\, essays\, reportage\, plays\, and more – have influenced generations of readers\, artists\, scholars\, and activists. \nTo celebrate his 100th birthday\, the Humanities Council is pleased to announce “Baldwin Circles\,” a yearlong cross-disciplinary initiative\, inviting the campus community to encounter Baldwin’s legacy in the intimate setting of a reading circle. \nThe Council will provide each Baldwin Circle with funds for books\, meals\, and refreshments during the 2024-25 academic year. Groups will come to their own consensus on what to read\, in what sequence\, and how often to meet. Each Baldwin Circle will: \n\nComprise up to 6 people\, one designated as the “convener”\nInvolve members of at least 2 departments or offices\nMeet at least 2 times per semester in AY 2024-25\nJoin in 1-2 larger-group receptions and lectures hosted by the Council during the year
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/baldwin-circles-convener-information-session/
LOCATION:16 Joseph Henry House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240909T163000
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SUMMARY:Understanding the Rise & Promise of Palestinian Studies
DESCRIPTION:Beshara Doumani is Professor of History and the Mahmoud Darwish Chair for Palestinian Studies at Brown University. His research focuses on communities\, places\, and time periods marginalized by mainstream scholarship on the early modern and modern Middle East. He also writes on academic freedom\, the politics and ethics of knowledge production\, and the Palestinian condition. His books include Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus\, 1700-1900\, and Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History. \nDoumani is the former President of Birzeit University in Palestine. He is the founding director of Brown University’s Center for Middle East Studies\, and of the New Directions in Palestinian Studies Research Initiative. From 2008-2011 he led a team that produced the strategic plan for the establishment of the Palestinian Museum. He is currently serving as the co-editor of the Jerusalem Quarterly and working on a modern history of the Palestinians through the social life of stone.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/understanding-the-rise-promise-of-palestinian-studies/
LOCATION:016 Robertson Hall
ORGANIZER;CN="Ginger Leonard":MAILTO:vl6423@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240910T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240910T132000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: "Emerging Global Cities: Origins and Significance"  
DESCRIPTION:Alejandro Portes is Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of (Emeritus) Sociology at Princeton University and Professor of Law and Distinguished Scholar of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami. He is the founding director of the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton. He has taught at several universities. He is a former president of the American Sociological Association. Portes is the author of more than 250 articles and chapters on national development\, international migration\, Latin American and Caribbean urbanization\, and economic sociology. He has published 40 books and special issues. His books include Immigrant America: A Portrait; Spanish Legacies: The Coming of Age of the Second Generation and The Global Edge: Miami in the XVI Century. His current research is on the adaptation process of the immigrant second generation in comparative perspective\, the role of institutions on national development\, and the comparative study of global cities. Portes is a former fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences and the Russell Sage Foundation. He has received honorary doctorates from different university around the world. He was awarded the Princess of Asturias Prize in the Social Sciences from the Kingdom of Spain. \nDISCUSSANT Benjamin H. Bradlow\, Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs\, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA); Associate Faculty\, High Meadows Environmental Institute This event is open to students\, faculty\, visiting scholars and staff. \nLunch will be provided while supplies last.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/book-talk-emerging-global-cities-origins-and-significance/
LOCATION:216 Aaron Burr Hall\, United States
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SUMMARY:After Transformation: Refiguring Christianity and the Late Roman World
DESCRIPTION:No word is more associated with late antiquity than ‘transformation\,’ a term signaling a departure from Gibbon’s melodramatic narrative of decline and collapse of the Roman empire\, for which Christianity was partially to blame. But transformation has its own romances\, not to mention its own exceptionalism\, and so this lecture will offer an alternative approach to conceptualizing the landscape of the late Roman world\, focusing on Christian ascetic practice and relic veneration as charged responses to it.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/after-transformation-refiguring-christianity-and-the-late-roman-world/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne
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ORGANIZER;CN="Luke Soucy":MAILTO:lsoucy@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240910T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240910T183000
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SUMMARY:Atelier@Large: Conversations on Art-making in a Vexed Era
DESCRIPTION:In a series of conversations that bring guest artists to campus to discuss what they face in making art in the modern world\, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon\, director of the Princeton Atelier\, moderates a discussion with Princeton scholar\, translator and biographer David Bellos (Who Owns This Sentence: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs); songwriter Bridget Kearney\, a multi-instrumentalist\, producer\, and founding member of the band Lake Street Dive; and novelist and journalist Dinaw Mengestu (The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears\, Someone Like Us). \nAdmission: Free and open to the public\, no tickets required \nAccessibility: Richardson Auditorium is an accessible venue with assistive listening devices available. Guests in need of other 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/atelierlarge-conversations-on-art-making-in-a-vexed-era-4/
LOCATION:Richardson Auditorium\, Richardson Auditorium\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Shuquin Windbush":MAILTO:lewiscenter@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240911T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240911T131500
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SUMMARY:Mellon Forum // Routes of Power: Transportation Technology and Socio-Urban Transformation in Early Modern Paris
DESCRIPTION:Scholars of the early modern period have traditionally accorded carriages a symbolic role in the historiography as material expressions of ostentatious display and social elitism. Yet these objects are captivating for more than the signifying prowess of their ornate exteriors. This talk\, using a case study of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Paris\, reinterprets carriages as catalysts of profound social\, political\, and environmental changes. Drawing on legal records\, financial accounts\, guidebooks\, and visual depictions of the capital\, I reveal how the nobility and bourgeoisie’s adoption of vehicle technology physically embedded uneven power dynamics and social injustices into the city’s fabric. The erosion of walkable street space to accommodate wheeled traffic in the heart of the capital and the police’s use of carriages to covertly transport the city’s poor to prisons for colonial deportation illustrate how early modern vehicles emerged as contentious entities. The interaction between transportation technology and society in early modern Paris thus allows us to reconsider several key aspects of urban life: the enforcement of bureaucratic control\, imperial expansion\, socio-economic stratification\, the development of city infrastructure\, and the freedoms and constraints on everyday human movement. \n\nSpecial funding for this session is provided by the Department of French & Italian. \nThe Fall 2024 Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment is kindly sponsored by the Mellon Foundation and African Studies\, Anthropology\, Art & Archaeology\, Brazil Lab\, Center for Collaborative History\, Chadha Global India Center\, Effron Center for American Studies\, English\, French & Italian\, High Meadows Environmental Institute\, Humanities Council\, PIIRS\, Program in Latin American Studies\, Russian\, East European and Eurasian Studies\, and the School of Architecture. \nMellon Forum events are free and open to the public. Lunch is provided while supplies last.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/mellon-forum-routes-of-power-transportation-technology-and-socio-urban-transformation-in-early-modern-paris/
LOCATION:School of Architecture
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240912
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240924
DTSTAMP:20260415T034904
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SUMMARY:Seuls en Scène\, Princeton French Theater Festival 2024
DESCRIPTION:Seuls en Scène brings celebrated French actors and directors\, as well as promising early-career artists\, to Princeton University and the local community to present their work\, introducing American audiences to dynamic and engaging French productions. We are thrilled to present this new edition of the festival in partnership with Festival d’Avignon. \nFor the 13th edition of the annual Seuls en Scène\, join us for 10 days of in-person performances of recent works by renowned French and Francophone artists including Tiago Rodrigues\, Tim Etchells\, Adama Diop\, Aurélie Charon\, Amélie Bonnin\, Audrey Bonnet\, Pascal Rambert\, and Stanislas Nordey\, among others. \nFull schedule and ticketing information can be found on the Lewis Center for the Arts’ website \nThe French Theater Festival is presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts\, the Department of French and Italian\, and L’Avant-Scène with additional support provided by Princeton University’s Humanities Council\, Provost’s Office\, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Study (PIIRS)\, Center for French and Francophone Studies\, Departments of Comparative Literature\, Art and Archaeology\, African American Studies\, Program in European Politics and Society\, Center of Excellence\, and Rockefeller College. International sponsors include Festival d’Avignon\, Festival d’Automne in Paris\, Cultural Services of the French Embassy – Villa Albertine\, FACE Contemporary Theater\, the Education Department of the French Embassy\, and Institut français.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/seuls-en-scene-princeton-french-theater-festival-2024/
LOCATION:Various\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kelly Eggers":MAILTO:keggers@princeton.edu
GEO:40.3467174;-74.6568772
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240912T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240912T190000
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SUMMARY:LLL Presents - Joy in Service on Rue Tagore: Poems
DESCRIPTION:Since his 1973 debut\, New Weather\, Paul Muldoon has created some of the most original and memorable poetry of the past half century. Joy in Service on Rue Tagore sees him writing with the same verve and distinction that have consistently won him the highest accolades. \nHere\, from artichokes to zinc\, Muldoon navigates an alphabet of image and history\, through barleymen and Irish slavers to the last running wolf in Ulster. The search involves the accumulated bric-a-brac of a life\, and a reckoning along the way of gains against loss. In the poet’s skillful hands\, ancient maps are unfurled and brought into focus—the aggregation of Imperial Rome and the dismantling of Standard Oil\, the pogroms of a Ukrainian ravine and of a Belfast shipyard. Through modern medicine and warfare\, disaster and repair\, these poems are electric in their energy\, while profoundly humane in their line of inquiry. \nPaul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He now lives in New York. A former radio and television producer for the BBC in Belfast\, he has taught at Princeton University for thirty years. He is the author of more than a dozen previous collections of poetry\, including Moy Sand and Gravel\, for which he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize; Selected Poems 1968–2014; and\, recently\, Howdie-Skelp. \nThis event is cosponsored by Labyrinth Books\, The Princeton Public Library\, the Humanities Council\, the Department of English\, and the Lewis Center for the Arts.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lll-presents-joy-in-service-on-rue-tagore-poems-2/
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:20240912T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240912T193000
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SUMMARY:Black Holes Ain't So Black
DESCRIPTION:Mario Gooden is Professor of Professional Practice\, Director of the Master of Architecture Program\, Sequence Director for Advanced Architecture Studios\, and Co-Director of the Global Africa Lab at Columbia GSAPP. He is also the Director of Mario Gooden Studio: Architecture + Design\, a transdisciplinary practice dedicated to the design and exploration of architecture and its relationships to culture and knowledge. His practice merges architectural design with landscape\, urbanism\, history\, cultural production\, and performance. \nA recipient of numerous design awards\, citations\, and recognitions\, Gooden is a 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow\, a MacDowell Fellow\, and a 2019 recipient of a National Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at the Venice Biennale\, Architekturmuseum der TU Mūnchen\, the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture\, the National Building Museum\, the Municipal Arts Society\, and the Museum of Modern Art. He has been featured in journals and magazines such as ARTFORUM International Magazine\, Architect Magazine\, Architectural Record\, Metropolis\, Wallpaper\, Architecture & Urbanism (A+U)\, and The New York Times. Gooden is also the author of Dark Space: Architecture Representation Black Identity (Columbia University Press\, 2016). \nIn addition to his roles at Columbia GSAPP\, Gooden is a Research Associate at the Visual Identities in Art and Design (VIAD) at the University of Johannesburg and a founding member of the Black Reconstruction Collective (BRC). Gooden received his Bachelor of Science in Design from Clemson University and his Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/black-holes-aint-so-black/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
ORGANIZER;CN="Gabrielle Langholtz":MAILTO:gml@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240913
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240916
DTSTAMP:20260415T034904
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SUMMARY:Is Ise Circular?
DESCRIPTION:The Ise Shrine (Jingū)\, in Mie Prefecture\, Japan\, is a complex of Shinto shrines and buildings that are rebuilt every 20 years. The last construction in 2013 is the 62nd iteration. With a few interruptions for wars the rebuilding has been carried on for over 1300+ years. There have been a few changes over the centuries but overall the building follows a strict design that is mostly in the minds and hands of master carpenters. This knowledge is passed on as 3 or 4 generations work together. We are now halfway through the cycle to 2033. \nThe Princeton School of Architecture together with the Global Japan Lab is hosting a symposium at Princeton 13 and 14 September on the topic of circularity and the Ise Shrines from both a materials and construction perspective and the broader questions of the cultural and social role of the shrines in Japanese history. The symposium will include informal lectures on Friday afternoon and a series of four roundtables on Saturday morning and early afternoon. \nRegistration is Required. Register here.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/is-ise-circular/
LOCATION:Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Mana Winters":MAILTO:manaw@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240916T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240916T132000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Dance\, Madness\, Ecstasy: A Workshop
DESCRIPTION:LUDUS Workshop \nMary Channen Caldwell (University of Pennsylvania) \nWhen does movement spill over from something we recognize as dance as an artistic and social form to something else? Something potentially otherworldly\, whether ecstatic or demonic? This workshop explores medieval dance practices that went outside conventional and socially accepted frameworks\, playing with the many meanings of bodily movement (and sometimes also sound) in the premodern period.  \nRSVP Here.\n \nLunch will be provided. 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/medieval-dance-madness-ecstasy-a-workshop/
LOCATION:Woolworth 102
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240916T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240916T133000
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Layal Liverpool
DESCRIPTION:Black and white women are just as likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States\, but black women are 41 per cent more likely to die from it. Meanwhile\, the lion’s share of recent studies on racism and health were conducted in the US. How do we make sense of these facts? What do we know\, and where should we be looking for more information? \nJoin Layal Liverpool\, author of Systemic: How Racism is Making Us Sick for a wide-ranging conversation about biopolitics\, racial inequity and medical research with Princeton graduate student Aliya Ram. Liverpool is a science journalist with a PhD from Oxford on viral immunology. The conversation is supported by Art Hx\, a project directed by Professor Anna Arabindan-Kesson\, that explores the legacies of medical colonialism and racism in contemporary visual and museum cultures. The first twenty people to register for the Zoom talk will receive a complimentary copy of Dr. Liverpool’s book. \nRegister: www.tinyurl.com/LayalLiverpool
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/a-conversation-with-layal-liverpool/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Aliya Ram":MAILTO:aliyar@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240916T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240916T180000
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SUMMARY:Ayahuasca Spirituality: Religion and the Public Conversation
DESCRIPTION:The Santo Daime is a syncretic religion that arose in the Amazon region of Brazil in the middle of the twentieth century and now has churches throughout the world. Its spiritual practice is based around the sacramental use of ayahuasca\, a psychedelic brew consumed only within regular ceremonies. In this conversation\, William Barnard—an initiate of the religion and a scholar of religious studies—will discuss the religious practice and transformative inner experiences of the Santo Daime community with Rachel Carbonara. \nThis event is part of the Religion and the Public Conversation series. This year’s theme is Religion\, Medicine and Healing. \nCan’t attend in person? Register(Link is external) for the webinar.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/ayahuasca-spirituality-religion-and-the-public-conversation/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jenny Legath":MAILTO:jlegath@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240916T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240916T183000
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SUMMARY:Power and Resistance in the Americas: Transdisciplinary Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Against different forms of violence\, women are often at the forefront of movements resisting oppression and defending rights. In their search for justice in war crimes trials\, women’s voices and narration are a critical part of the healing process for them as individuals but also for their communities\, while also contributing to rewriting difficult pasts. Women are also at the forefront of movements that seek to defend collective and community rights\, which are under threat by extractivist industries and illicit economies with the implicit and sometimes explicit support of the state. Caring and caring practices\, usually associated with women and their domestic worlds\, thus assume a public dimension\, as women become protagonists of movements to defend human rights\, communities\, and territories. With cases from Guatemala\, Peru\, Colombia\, and other Latin American countries\, this is an invitation to think together from different disciplinary perspectives on issues related to resistance and power\, women and territories\, displacements and politics. \nABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKERS \nJo-Marie Burt is Associate Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. At Mason\, she has served as director of Latin American studies\, co-director of the Center for Global Studies\, and associate chair for undergraduate studies. She is an affiliate faculty in global affairs\, Latin American studies\, conflict analysis and resolution\, and women and gender studies. Burt is also a senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)\, a leading human rights research and advocacy organization. Most recently she served as the President of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). \nMaría Eugenia Ulfe is senior professor and researcher in Anthropology at the department of Social Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). She is Honorary Visiting Professor at the Universidad Nacional de San Cristóbal de Huamanga and Honorary Professor in the School of Arts\, Media\, and American Studies at the University of East Anglia (2022-2027). She is a member of the Interdisciplinary Research Group Memory and Democracy at PUCP. She was Program Co-Chair of LASA Congress in Bogotá\, Colombia\, in June 2024\, and leading organizer of the VIII Congress Memories in Transit of the Memory Studies Association (MSA) at PUCP in July 2024. With Ximena Málaga Sabogal\, she published the book Reparando Mundos: Víctimas y Estado en los Andes peruanos (PUCP\, 2021)\, which received an honorary mentioned by the Peru Section of LASA Book Price Flora Tristán (2022). \nMODERATOR \nJavier Guerrero\, Professor\, Princeton University and President of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) \nThis event is open to the public.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/power-and-resistance-in-the-americas-transdisciplinary-perspective/
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:20240916T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240916T193000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Opening - Drawing on Ideas
DESCRIPTION:DRAWING ON IDEAS—Architectural representation is often misunderstood as a precursor to building: images that illustrate the architect’s ideas before they are given physical manifestation or merely as a roadmap for the production of architecture. The 77 drawings\, collages\, prints\, and paintings from the collection of Cynthia Davidson and Peter Eisenman\, included in this exhibition\, use various media to pursue\, work out\, and construct ideas independent of the material reality of buildings. The collection gathers ideas that both transcend time—from Piranesi to today—and once brought together a group of architects at a particular moment around the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. \nOpening at the Princeton University School of Architecture on Monday\, September 16\, and on view through December 16.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/exhibition-opening-drawing-on-ideas/
LOCATION:North Gallery\, School of Architecture\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Gabrielle Langholtz":MAILTO:gml@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T132000
DTSTAMP:20260415T034904
CREATED:20240902T024627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240902T024627Z
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SUMMARY:Who Am I to Judge? On Reviewing Works in Translation
DESCRIPTION:Many American critics shy from reviewing translations. Sometimes\, this is a manifestation of self-doubt; others\, of doubt that a translator can really create a work worth writing about. Of course\, the latter is pernicious\, but it has the same result as the former: less attention\, less critique\, and less respect for translated literature. \nFor the past nine years\, I have tried to resist this impulse—in book culture and in myself. I write regularly about translations\, which is so rare that\, although I have never had a staff reviewing job and have rarely been a full-time critic\, I am\, by default\, one of the country’s most prolific translation critics. I want this to stop being true! My hope is to have much more competition on my beat in three years than I do now. “Who Am I to Judge” will explore my strategies for reviewing books originally written in languages I don’t speak while also making a case that the U.S. needs more translation critics for the health of not just our literary ecosystem\, but our minds.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/who-am-i-to-judge-on-reviewing-works-in-translation/
LOCATION:144 Louis A. Simpson Building
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T180000
DTSTAMP:20260415T034904
CREATED:20240827T190905Z
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SUMMARY:What’s the Ancient Greek for “Picnic”?: Adventures in Translating the Odyssey
DESCRIPTION:THE ROBERT FAGLES LECTURE FOR CLASSICS IN THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS \nIn this lecture\, author\, critic\, classicist\, and translator Daniel Mendelsohn (*89\, *94)\, whose new translation of Homer’s Odyssey will be published next April\, takes his audience into the heart of the process of translating. Beginning with the dauntingly enigmatic adjective that Homer uses to describe his hero in the first line of the poem—polytropos\, “of many turns\,” about which no two translators have ever agreed—Mendelsohn will present a series of case studies in translation culled from his own experience during the past six years working on his Odyssey. In so doing\, he allows the audience to watch the translator at work as he grapples with the distinctive technical challenges posed by Homer’s verse: its meter and rhythms\, diction and tone\, the poet’s use of line-breaks\, alliteration\, and assonance\, and the real meaning of famous phrases such as “gray-eyed Athena” and “wingèd words.” (Hint: they don’t have wings.) \nDaniel Mendelsohn was born in New York in 1960 and educated at the University of Virginia\, where he received his BA in Classics in 1982\, and at Princeton\, where he received his PhD in Classics in 1994. His 11 books include the international bestsellers An Odyssey: A Father\, a Son\, and an Epic (2017) and The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (2006); a translation\, with commentary\, of the Modern Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (2009); and three collections of essays and criticism\, most recently Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones (2018). \nSupport for this project is provided in part by Princeton’s Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature\, Humanities Council\, Lewis Center for the Arts\, Princeton University Public Lectures Committee\, Program in Humanistic Studies\, and the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/whats-the-ancient-greek-for-picnic-adventures-in-translating-the-odyssey/
LOCATION:101 Friend Center and Livestream\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T131500
DTSTAMP:20260415T034904
CREATED:20240911T135957Z
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SUMMARY:Mellon Forum // South Africa’s Food Apartheid: Infrastructure and Everyday Urbanism in the Post-Colonial African City
DESCRIPTION:Over 2.6 million South African households have inadequate access to food\, and 1.1 million households face a severe food shortage. This problem is particularly acute in major metro areas. Building off a multimodal study in and around the city of Johannesburg\, this talk will argue that achieving spatial justice\, food justice and sustainable food security in the context of urban inequality and increasing climate variability are some of the most pressing challenges for the contemporary South African city.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/mellon-forum-south-africas-food-apartheid-infrastructure-and-everyday-urbanism-in-the-post-colonial-african-city/
LOCATION:School of Architecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T133000
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SUMMARY:Communicating your Research through the Senses: Toolkit Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The senses are tied to memory. We all want our research to be memorable. This workshop provides tips for incorporating the senses into your research and your communications about it\, whether to students in the classroom\, other scholars\, or the general public. \nLunch will be served. Space is limited\, with priority given to CCSR affiliates. RSVP to ccsr@princeton.edu by 9/16/24.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/communicating-your-research-through-the-senses-toolkit-workshop/
LOCATION:Green Hall 3-C-3
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jenny Legath":MAILTO:jlegath@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T180000
DTSTAMP:20260415T034904
CREATED:20240822T143818Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240826T132832Z
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SUMMARY:"Divine Grace\, Free Will\, and ‘Unavoidable’ Sex: Women in Service in the Late Antique West"
DESCRIPTION:This talk grapples with the impact of Christian ideas about grace and free will on the sexual exploitation and experiences of women in service in the late antique West. Theological debates in this period shaped how Christians thought about both freedom and sexual consent. What were the implications for women in service\, who were sometimes faced with ‘unavoidable’ sex?
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/divine-grace-free-will-and-unavoidable-sex-women-in-service-in-the-late-antique-west/
LOCATION:103 Scheide Caldwell
ORGANIZER;CN="Eleni Banis":MAILTO:hbanis@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T180000
DTSTAMP:20260415T034904
CREATED:20240822T144139Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240826T132722Z
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SUMMARY:James A. Moffett '29 Lectures in Ethics: “J’Accuse: A Critical Theory of Radical Legal Praxis”
DESCRIPTION:In a landmark essay published in 1990\, “The Role of Law in Progressive Politics\,” Professor Cornel West proposed that radical lawyers have a crucial but secondary role to play in social movement work. On West’s account\, movement lawyering is primarily defensive work that serves to backstop and support political action. Building on West’s groundbreaking work\, Bernard E. Harcourt develops a more ambitious political and ethical theory of legal praxis as an offensive practice that seeks to stand on its head and reverse the tables on the usual defensive posture. This theory conceives of radical lawyering as a political and ethical practice that positively aims to identify\, challenge\, and replace the dominant oppressive structures of society. In this lecture\, Harcourt will present the contours of a critical theory of radical legal praxis.” \nBernard E. Harcourt is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and a chaired professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. He is the founding director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought(Link is external) (CCCCT). His most recent books\, Cooperation: A Political\, Economic\, and Social Theory(Link is external) (2023) and Critique & Praxis: A Critical Philosophy of Illusions\, Values\, and Action(Link is external) (2020) attempt to reconstruct critical philosophy as a transformative political praxis. He has edited lectures and writings by Michel Foucault in French and English. Harcourt began his career representing men on Alabama’s death row\, working with Bryan Stevenson at what is now the Equal Justice Initiative\, in Montgomery\, Alabama. In 2019\, Harcourt was awarded the New York City Bar Association Norman J. Redlich Capital Defense Distinguished Service Award(Link is external)\, a lifetime achievement award for his work on behalf of individuals on death row. \nThe Moffett Lecture Series aims to foster reflection about moral issues in public life\, broadly construed\, at either a theoretical or a practical level\, and in the history of thought about these issues. The series is made possible by a gift from the Whitehall Foundation in honor of James A. Moffett ’29.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/james-a-moffett-29-lectures-in-ethics-jaccuse-a-critical-theory-of-radical-legal-praxis/
LOCATION:Computer Science Building\, Room 104\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Tammy Hojeibane":MAILTO:tammyh@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T180000
DTSTAMP:20260415T034904
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SUMMARY:Excited Delirium: A Conversation on Race\, Police Violence\, and the Invention of a Disease
DESCRIPTION:Henry Louis Gates\, Jr. in conversation with author Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús \nThursday\, September 19\, 2024\, at 4:30pm \nTheatre Intime at Murray Dodge Hall \nTicket are required and are available here: Effron Center presents: Excited Delirium
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/excited-delirium-a-conversation-on-race-police-violence-and-the-invention-of-a-disease/
LOCATION:Theatre Intime at Murray Dodge Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T180000
DTSTAMP:20260415T034904
CREATED:20240911T134306Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T134306Z
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SUMMARY:A New Agenda for African Languages x AI: Everything\, Everywhere\, All At Once
DESCRIPTION:Vukosi Marivate is an Associate Professor at the University of Pretoria (South Africa)\, where he also holds the prestigious ABSA UP Chair of Data Science. His expertise lies in the fields of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)\, with a particular focus on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and the development of solutions for local or low-resource languages. As the leader of the Data Science for Social Impact group\, Professor Marivate spearheads impactful projects across diverse sectors such as energy and public safety\, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to address pressing societal challenges. \nProfessor Marivate is also an entrepreneur and innovator in the field of AI. He co-founded Lelapa AI\, a pioneering startup dedicated to advancing AI technologies for the African continent. He is a co-founder of the Masakhane NLP research foundation\, which is dedicated to promoting NLP research and development in African languages. Professor Marivate is also a co-founder of the esteemed Deep Learning Indaba\, a transformative initiative aimed at fostering collaboration and skill development in the field of deep learning across the African continent and beyond. \nIn his talk\, Professor Marivate will discuss the crucial role of community building in developing technologies for African languages in the age of AI. He will touch upon the unique challenges and opportunities in fostering collaboration for African languages\, developing technologies that respects and empowers communities\, and his vision for the future of technology and community engagements in African languages. \nSimon Gikandi\, Chair of Princeton’s Department of English\, will serve as a respondent and moderate the Q&A. \nThis event will be held in-person at Princeton University\, and is free and open to the public. A recording will be posted shortly after the event.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/a-new-agenda-for-african-languages-x-ai-everything-everywhere-all-at-once/
LOCATION:006 Friend Center\, 006 Friend Center\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Carrie Ruddick":MAILTO:cruddick@princeton.edu
GEO:40.3503271;-74.6526857
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T180000
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SUMMARY:The mechanics of reciprocal shift
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I will present ongoing work that I am conducting on the structure of complex reciprocals (e.g.\, English’s each other) cross-linguistically. I will show that in many languages the complex reciprocal can be split apart by adpositions in PPs and also by possessums in possessive structures. This word order is also strongly correlated with case agreement between part of the reciprocal and its antecedent. I present an analysis in terms of movement of part of the reciprocal and couple that with a syntactic case transmission mechanism. This analysis will have consequences for the domain of agreement operations\, linearization\, and the binding of reflexive anaphors and reciprocals inside PPs and DPs. \nTroy Messick is an assistant professor in the department of linguistics at Rutgers\, The State University of New Jersey. He holds a PhD in linguistics from the University of Connecticut. His specialization is in generative syntactic theory. He has worked on a wide variety of topics in the field of syntax and its interfaces including ellipsis\, complementation\, semantic agreement\, the morphosyntactic representation of gender features\, and the structure of complex reflexives and reciprocals. He has published his work in journals such as Linguistic Inquiry\, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory\, Journal of Linguistics\, Syntax and Glossa.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-mechanics-of-reciprocal-shift/
LOCATION:1-S-5 Green Hall\, 1-S-5 Green Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T193000
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SUMMARY:LLL Presents - Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love\, Power\, and Justice in an American Church
DESCRIPTION:From the Pulitzer Prize winner Eliza Griswold\, Circle of Hope is an intimate portrait of a church\, its radical mission\, and its riveting crisis.“The revolution I wanted to be part of was in the church.”\nAmericans have been leaving their churches. Some drift away. Some stay home. And some have been searching for—and finding—more authentic ways to find and follow Jesus.This is the story of one such “radical outpost of Jesus followers” dedicated to service\, the Sermon on the Mount\, and working toward justice for all in this life\, not just salvation for some in the next. Part of a little-known yet influential movement at the edge of American evangelicalism\, Philadelphia’s Circle of Hope grew for forty years\, planted four congregations\, and then found itself in crisis. \nThe story that follows is an American allegory full of questions with urgent relevance for so many of us\, not just the faithful: How do we commit to one another and our better selves in a fracturing world? Where does power live? Can it be shared? How do we make “the least of these” welcome? \nBuilding on years of deep reporting\, the Pulitzer Prize winner Eliza Griswold has crafted an intimate\, immersive\, tenderhearted portrait of a community\, as well as a riveting chronicle of its transformation\, bearing witness to the ways a deeply committed membership and their team of devoted pastors are striving toward change that might help their church survive. Through generational rifts\, an increasingly politicized religious landscape\, a pandemic that prevented gathering to worship\, and a rise in foundation-shaking activism\, Circle of Hope tells a propulsive\, layered story of what we do to stay true to our beliefs. It is a soaring\, searing examination of what it means for us to love\, to grow\, and to disagree. \nEliza Griswold is the author of six books of poetry and nonfiction\, all published by Farrar\, Straus and Giroux. Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. She writes for The New Yorker\, is the Ferris Professor and Director of the Program in Journalism at Princeton University. Judith Weisenfeld is Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor in the Department of Religion at Princeton University. She is the author of New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration\, African American Women and Christian Activism: New York’s Black YWCA\, 1905-1945 and the coeditor of This Far By Faith: Readings in African American Women’s Religious Biography. \nThis event is cosponsored by Labyrinth Books\, The Princeton Public Library\, Princeton University’s Humanities Council\, The School of International & Public Affairs in NJ\, and Princeton’s Department of English\, Department of African American Studies\, and Department of Religion.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lll-presents-circle-of-hope-a-reckoning-with-love-power-and-justice-in-an-american-church/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T220000
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SUMMARY:BorderLens: Screening of 'And Then We Danced'
DESCRIPTION:Screening of “And Then We Danced” (2019) Directed by Levan Akin. Sweden and Georgia \nMerab is a dedicated young dancer at the Georgian National Ensemble in Tbilisi. His personal and artistic life follow the gender norms for young men in Georgian society\, although he struggles to conform to the standard performance of masculinity in traditional dance roles. One day\, the dance group is joined by Irakli. Irakli’s talent and exuberance will have him replace Merab in the choreography. After a short initial animosity\, Merab and Irakli will start getting closer and closer as the rehearsals go on. Their bond will evolve in surprising ways leading them to nurture and invent new vocabularies of intimacy and artistic forms of expression.\nDirected by Levan Akin\, a Georgian-born director from Sweden\, the film makes a statement in support of the 2013 anti-homophobic rallies against the Georgian Orthodox Church in Tbilisi. Its screenings themselves \n\nBorderLens\nQueer outlines of Geography and Gender \nThe Fall 2024 edition of the Slavic film series explores geographic displacement and queer identities. Shot by directors from Georgia\, former Yugoslavia\, Kazakhstan\, Hungary\, Russia\, and Ukraine\, the films show how bodies and borders subvert the fictious seamlessness of power structures. Ranging from 1982 to yet unreleased films\, the series shines a spotlight on how geography\, just like gender\, is performed. \nPresented by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Program in Russian\, East European and Eurasian Studies. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Council and the Program on Gender and Sexuality Studies. \nMore information can be found on the Slavic Languages and Literatures website.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/borderlens/
LOCATION:100 Jones Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sofia Guerra":MAILTO:sg8780@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T190000
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SUMMARY:Modernist Writing and the Ottoman Empire
DESCRIPTION:“Modernist Writing and the Ottoman Empire” gathers scholarly works that delve into modernist narrative discourses concerning the Ottoman Empire during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By underscoring the often-overlooked nexus between modernism and the Ottoman Empire and emphasizing Turkey’s contributions to modernist thought\, the symposium will foster discussions on how modernist narratives and practices engage with themes of “otherness\,” the Orient\, and the Ottoman Empire. \nPresentations by Ceyhun Arslan (Comparative Literature\, Koç University)\, Katharina Herold-Zanker (English\, Durham University)\, Demet Karabulut Dede (English\, Princeton University; American Culture and Literature\, Haliç University)\, Barry McCrea (novelist; Comparative and Irish Studies\, University of Notre Dame)\, Douglas Mao (English\, John Hopkins University)\, Kaitlin Staudt (English\, Union College). \nKeynote by Zeynep Çelik\n(History\, Columbia University). Respondent: M. Christine Boyer (Architecture\, Princeton University). \nSponsored by the departments of English\, comparative literature\, and Near Eastern studies\, with the added support of the Humanities Council. \nImage credit: Erol Akyavas. The Glory of the Kings. 1959(?). Oil on canvas. 48″ x 7′ 1/4″ (121.8 x 214 cm). The Museum of Modern Art. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Angeleski.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/modernist-writing-and-the-ottoman-empire/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Malone":MAILTO:sarah.k.malone@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Classics\, Love\, Revolution: The Legacies of Luigi Settembrini
DESCRIPTION:In Classics\, Love\, Revolution: The Legacies of Luigi Settembrini\, Barbara Graziosi and Andrea Capra intervene in current debates about classics and its relation to revolutionary ruptures\, nationalist movements\, and identity politics today. They begin with The Neoplatonists\, an explicit love story posing as the work of an imaginary ancient Greek author\, but actually written by the Neapolitan revolutionary and classical scholar Luigi Settembrini (1813–1876). \nOffering the first English translation of the tale—which\, because of its celebration of homosexuality\, long remained censored and unpublished—they read it in the context of Settembrini’s life\, scholarship\, and revolutionary politics. Drawing strength from his legacies\, Capra and Graziosi go on to tackle the nostalgias of post-truth politics today\, demonstrating the queer\, reparative potential of various strands of classical scholarship. On the basis of archival research\, combined with literary and philosophical analysis\, they argue that a commitment to social justice and an investment in the study of Greco-Roman antiquity can—and even should—be rooted in egalitarian\, embodied\, and joyous forms of love. \nClassics\, Love\, Revolution: The Legacies of Luigi Settembrini offers a reassessment of Italian homosexuality\, insurgence\, and scholarship\, while telling a moving story of love and resilience along the way.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/classics-love-revolution-the-legacies-of-luigi-settembrini/
LOCATION:161 East Pyne\, 161 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Luke Soucy":MAILTO:lsoucy@princeton.edu
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