Calendar of Events

Avoiding Plague like the Plague: Some Pathogenic Context for Late Antique Pandemics

Tim Newfield, Georgetown University, Washington,

Program in Medieval Studies; Climate Change and History Research Initiative; Humanities Council

Race in the COVID Era: What America’s History of Racism and Xenophobia Means for Today

Associate Provost for International Affairs and Operations; Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity

The Justinianic Plague: Apocalypse or Overblown?

Lee Mordechai, Hebrew University; Merle Eisenberg, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center in Annapolis

Program in Medieval Studies; Climate Change and History Research Initiative; Humanities Council

Cocktails & Conversations: “The Plot Against America”

Center for Collaborative History

From Healthscaping to Disease Tracing: Plague and Public Health After the Black Death

Abigail Agresta, George Washington University

Program in Medieval Studies; Climate Change and History Research Initiative; Humanities Council

Grabbing Tea: Conversations in Queer Librarianship

Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, NYU Libraries; Sara A. Howard, Princeton University Library

Princeton University Library

Thomas Eakins and the Making of Walt Whitman’s Death Mask

Julie Mellby, Graphic Arts Curator; Karl Kusserow, John Wilmerding Curator of American Art

Princeton University Library

Discovery and Democracy: The Role of the Digital Image in the Transformation of the Cultural Heritage Landscape

William Noel, Special Collections, Princeton University Library

Princeton University Library

Afrofuturism: The Graphics of Octavia Butler

Julie Mellby, Graphic Arts Curator; Damian Duffy, Cartoonist; John Jennings, Megascope

Princeton University Library

Listening for Embodied Knowledge: An Approach to the Oral History Interview

Nyssa Chow, Princeton Arts Fellow

Lewis Center for the Arts; Columbia University