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SUMMARY:McGraw Center Faculty Drop-in Session: Custom Course Evaluation Questions
DESCRIPTION:Drop-in session for faculty to get support developing well-written\, relevant questions to submit in the course evaluation system before the deadline arrives and the window closes. Join us at anytime between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. this day.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/mcgraw-center-faculty-drop-in-session-custom-course-evaluation-questions/
LOCATION:329 Frist\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ruthie Boyce":MAILTO:ruthieb@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T120000
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SUMMARY:Mellon Forum // Three Propositions on the Relationship between Spatial Settings and Emotional Attachments
DESCRIPTION:Even though the term “belonging” evokes a positive attribute of a spatial setting\, the relationship between spatial settings and emotional attachments is not as straightforward as it seems at first hearing. Drawing on studies of rural to urban migration and the formation of informal human settlements in cities in newly industrializing nations\, this exploratory talk will deliberate three questions: (1) What creates a sense of spatial belonging for new migrants (2) How does such attachment evolve over time\, and (3) Can belonging be exclusionary and be exploited by political leaders?
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/mellon-forum-three-propositions-on-the-relationship-between-spatial-settings-and-emotional-attachments/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium and Zoom\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Jacquelyn Walsh":MAILTO:jw42@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:"Europe's Coming of Age"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Tsoukalis will present his newly published book Europe’s Coming of Age. \n\n\n\nOrganized by the EU Program\, co-sponsored by the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society\, the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination\, and the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies\, with the support of the Paul S. Sarbanes ‘54 Fund for Hellenism and Public Service
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/europes-coming-of-age/
LOCATION:015 Robertson Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eleni Banis":MAILTO:hbanis@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Femmes et Fictions Littéraires: Conversation avec Alice Zeniter
DESCRIPTION:Alice Zeniter studied literature and theater at l’École Normale Supérieure and Sorbonne-Nouvelle University. She is the author of four novels and has won many awards for her work; Sombre dimanche (Albin Michel\, 2013) won the Prix du Livre Inter\, the Prix des lecteurs de l’Express and the Prix de la Closerie des Lilas; Juste avant l’oubli (Flammarion\, 2015) won the Prix Renaudot des lycéens. Her novel The Art of Losing\, which was translated into English by Frank Wynne and published by Picador in 2021\, won the International Dublin Literary Award in 2022. Zeniter will be a Short-Term Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of French and Italian in Fall 2023. \nConversation in French. \nOpen to members of the Princeton University community. Registration required.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/femmes-et-fictions-litteraires-conversation-avec-alice-zeniter/
LOCATION:102 Julis Romo Rabinowitz
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231025T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231025T180000
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SUMMARY:Were the Ancient Greeks Responsible for Antisemitism?
DESCRIPTION:This talk addresses a widespread notion that the roots of antisemitism lay in the Hellenistic period\, as Greek rulers and populace found the Jews to be divisive\, seclusive\, misanthropic\, and alien. It examines closely the principal episodes regularly cited as exhibiting deep Greek hostility to the Jews\, such as the persecutions of Antiochus IV\, the slanders and libels spread by Greek intellectuals\, and the “pogrom” in Alexandria. The talk attempts to reassess these actions and attitudes in the circumstances of the ancient world rather than through the lens of modern experience.” \nErich S. Gruen is Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics\, Emeritus at the University of California\, Berkeley. He owns degrees from Columbia\, Oxford\, and Harvard. He is the author\, among other works\, of The Last Generation of the Roman Republic\, The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome\, Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition\, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity\, and Ethnicity in the Ancient World – – Did It Matter?
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/were-the-ancient-greeks-responsible-for-antisemitism/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Introducing Grapholinguistics: Why and How a Linguist Studies Writing Systems
DESCRIPTION:*****Please note that this lecture has been cancelled. Additional details regarding rescheduling will be shared once they become available.*****
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/introducing-grapholinguistics-why-and-how-a-linguist-studies-writing-systems/
LOCATION:1-S-5 Green Hall\, 1-S-5 Green Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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SUMMARY:Africa World Lecture Series: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
DESCRIPTION:A high-level platform for imagining\, assessing and keeping pace with the idea\, realities and futures of Africa by the continent’s finest minds. The lectures are established to bring greater visibility\, from the perspective of Africa\, to Princeton’s support of knowledge production about Africa. The lectures will take place in October. \nNigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will be the inaugural lecturer. \nThere will also be a Q&A event with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on October 26 at 1 pm in Arthur Lewis Auditorium in Robertson Hall. \n 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/africa-world-lecture-series-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/
LOCATION:Alexander Hall\, Richardson Auditorium\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Aurelio Soto":MAILTO:aurelio.soto@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T163000
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SUMMARY:The Archaeology of Everyday Life in Late Medieval Japan
DESCRIPTION:This talk will introduce the provincial urban city of Ichijōdani\, which peaked in the sixteenth century\, a period usually associated primarily with political incohesion and endemic warfare. The archaeological evidence from Ichijōdani\, particularly when put into conversation with excavated materials from other urban sites in Japan\, illuminates the rhythms and logic of daily life for the many medieval Japanese who lived in urban agglomerates other than the capital city of Kyoto. I will also consider the destruction of this provincial city in 1573 and the meaning of that erasure for our understanding of both the period in which it took place and the larger metanarrative of Japanese history.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-archaeology-of-everyday-life-in-late-medieval-japan/
LOCATION:202 Jones\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chao-Hui Jenny Liu":MAILTO:chaoliu@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T163000
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SUMMARY:LLM Forum: A Conversation with Meredith Whittaker
DESCRIPTION:Recent breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have produced a new class of neural networks called Large Language Models (LLMs) that demonstrate a remarkable capability to generate fluent\, plausible responses to prompts posed in natural language. While LLMs have already revolutionized certain industry applications\, the debut of ChatGPT has generated new anxiety and curiosity about machine intelligence\, especially in the way we teach\, research\, tell stories and report facts. \nRegister for this event here. \nThe Princeton LLM Forum is bringing together leading scholars and researchers from a variety of disciplines and fields to discuss the implications that large language models (LLMs) have on our understanding of language\, society\, culture\, and theory of mind. Join us for our first panel\, a discussion between Meredith Whittaker\, president of Signal\, and Arvind Narayanan\, Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton\, about the implications of LLM technology on society. \nMeredith Whittaker is the President of Signal. She is the current Chief Advisor\, and the former Faculty Director and Co-Founder of the AI Now Institute. Her research and advocacy focus on the social implications of artificial intelligence and the tech industry responsible for it\, with a particular emphasis on power and the political economy driving the commercialization of computational technology. Prior to founding AI Now\, she worked at Google for over a decade\, where she led product and engineering teams\, founded Google’s Open Research Group\, and co-founded M-Lab\, a globally distributed network measurement platform that now provides the world’s largest source of open data on internet performance. She has advised the White House\, the FCC\, FTC\, the City of New York\, the European Parliament\, and many other governments and civil society organizations on artificial intelligence\, internet policy\, measurement\, privacy\, and security. \nCo-organized by the Center for Digital Humanities and the Department of Computer Science. Supported by the Humanities Council’s Magic Project.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/llm-forum-a-conversation-with-meredith-whittaker-2/
LOCATION:101 Friend Center
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ORGANIZER;CN="Camey VanSant":MAILTO:cvansant@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T170000
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SUMMARY:Caravaggio and the Echos of Figuration
DESCRIPTION:With their distinct markets\, institutions\, and specialists\, the realms of fine art and craft today largely exist as parallel\, specialized industries. When they do intersect\, practitioners and observers typically offer two syntheses: craft “rises” to the institutional and aesthetic condition of art or supplements its exclusivity as a model of unalienated production. Yet fine artists since the early modern period have\, at key moments\, called upon “craft\,” in its many valences\, to engage\, rather than negate\, the movements of history that conditioned their work. Focusing on such moments\, the participants in this series will assess the stakes and the meanings of art’s craft in settings ranging from the Italian Renaissance\, to eighteenth-century India\, to the contemporary Andes. \nOver six workshops scheduled throughout the 2023–24 academic year and taking place on Princeton’s campus\, Know How: Workshops on the Histories of Art and Craft aims to develop responses to the following questions: Under what social\, material\, and art-historical conditions does craft appear? How do the motivations and manifestations of such appearances compare across geographies and periods? As art historians\, what methods are at our disposal to follow artists and objects as they bridge the systems of value that separate their circulation?
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/caravaggio-and-the-echos-of-figuration/
LOCATION:3-S-15 Green Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Joe Bucciero":MAILTO:bucciero@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231025T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231025T193000
DTSTAMP:20260515T110745
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SUMMARY:LLL Presents – Tabula Rasa\, Vol. 1
DESCRIPTION:The legendary John McPhee looks at the work he never completed\, and two of his eminent former students help ask why. \nThis event is masked and ticketed; info is here. The ticket entitles the holder to one signed copy of Tabula Rasa. Please cancel your ticket if you can’t attend to make room for others. Here’s how. Doors open at 5:30; empty seats will go to folks on the wait list by 5:50.Over seven decades\, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges\, bark canoes\, experimental aircraft\, the Swiss Army\, geophysical hot spots\, ocean shipping\, shad fishing\, dissident art in the Soviet Union\, and an even wider variety of other subjects\, he has consistently written narrative pieces of immaculate design. \nIn Tabula Rasa\, Volume 1\, McPhee looks back at his career from the vantage point of his desk drawer\, reflecting wryly upon projects he once planned to do but never got around to—people to profile\, regions he meant to portray. There are so many examples that he plans to go on writing these vignettes\, an ideal project for an old man\, he says\, and a “reminiscent montage” from a writing life. This first volume includes\, among other things\, glimpses of a frosty encounter with Thornton Wilder\, interrogative dinners with Henry Luce\, the allure of western Spain\, criteria in writing about science\, fireworks over the East River as seen from Malcolm Forbes’s yacht\, the evolving inclinations of the Tower of Pisa\, the islands among the river deltas of central California\, teaching in a pandemic\, and persuading The New Yorker to publish an entire book on oranges. The result is a fresh survey of McPhee’s singular planet. \nJohn Angus McPhee is considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction. He is a four-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize\, and he won that award for Annals of the Former World. In 2008\, he received the Goerge Polk Career Award for his “indelible mark on American journalism during his nearly half-century career.” The most recent of his many\, many books is Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process. Since 1974\, McPhee has been the Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. Joel Achenbach writes about science and politics for The Washington Post’s National desk. He has been a regular contributor to National Geographic since 1998\, writing on such topics as dinosaurs\, particle physics\, earthquakes\, extraterrestrial life\, megafauna extinction and the electrical grid. He has taught journalism at Princeton and at Georgetown University. Robert Wright is the author\, most recently\, of Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment. His other books include The Evolution of God\, 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. Wright is a visiting lecturer at Princeton University. \nThis event is co-presented by Labyrinth Books and the Princeton Public Library and co-sponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lll-presents-tabula-rasa-vol-1/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231026T120000
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SUMMARY:Public Humanities Across Borders
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Humanities Council for a lunchtime conversation with Sarah Churchwell *98\, Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities and Professor of American Literature at the School of Advanced Study\, University of London. Churchwell serves as director of the UK’s annual Being Human Festival. \nLunch will be served. RSVP here by October 17\, 2023. \nSarah Churchwell is Professor in American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study\, University of London\, where she directs the Being Human Festival\, the UK’s national festival of the humanities. She is the author of The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells; Behold\, America: A History of America First and the American Dream; Careless People: Murder\, Mayhem and The Invention of The Great Gatsby; and The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe\, which was featured in Oscar-nominated director Liz Garbus’s 2012 film Love\, Marilyn\, and adapted into a 2022 CNN/BBC series narrated by Jessica Chastain. \nHer journalism has appeared widely in international newspapers and periodicals\, including the New York Review of Books\, Atlantic\, Washington Post\, New York Times\, Financial Times\, Prospect\, Guardian\, TLS\, New Statesman and many others\, focusing especially upon American culture\, history\, and politics. She has frequently contributed to television\, documentary film\, and radio and judged many literary prizes including the Booker Prize. She was co-winner of the 2015 Eccles British Library Writer’s Award\, and longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2021. \n 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/public-humanities-across-borders/
LOCATION:16 Joseph Henry House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T132000
DTSTAMP:20260515T110745
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SUMMARY:McGraw Center Faculty Workshop: Using Social Annotation to Increase Student Engagement
DESCRIPTION:As part of McGraw’s new “How to/Why to” series\, the session will offer participants ideas for using social annotation assignments in classes and demonstrations of how to implement them in Canvas. We will discuss Perusall and Hypothesis\, two digital annotation tools that allow students to collaboratively engage with course readings. \nThe session will feature Professor Jenny Legath\, who will share her approach to using Perusall in a graduate seminar to support student writing.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/mcgraw-center-faculty-workshop-using-social-annotation-to-increase-student-engagement/
LOCATION:Zoom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ruthie Boyce":MAILTO:ruthieb@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T132000
DTSTAMP:20260515T110745
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SUMMARY:(Re)Discovery: Modernist Travelogues by Sofia Yablonska\, A Daring Ukrainian Woman Globetrotting in the 1930s
DESCRIPTION:Had social media existed in the 1930s\, “Distant Horizons” —an engrossing travel diary which PIIRS Translator-in-Residence Hanna Leliv is translating into English — would have gone viral\, and its author\, the self-identified Ukrainian writer and photographer Sofia Yablonska\, would have become an instant sensation as a travel blogger with thousands of followers. In this collection of imaginative vignettes\, Yablonska describes her round-the-world journey from France to Port Said\, Colombo\, Saigon\, Bangkok\, and all the way to Bora Bora. The travelogue not only documents her wanderlust\, but invites the reader on an introspective journey from perception to reflection\, from mapping foreign terrain to self-mapping. \nThe figure of Sofia Yablonska is complex and unconventional — just like her writings\, which have only recently been rediscovered and properly appreciated. Why should it now be the turn of readers beyond Ukrainian borders to discover Yablonska? What does it take to adequately introduce an earlier cultural production from a less well-represented culture to a contemporary audience? And does it even make sense to do so\, given the number of urgent texts dealing with the Russian war against Ukraine that need to be translated and published? This lecture invites participants to reflect on these questions and gain a deeper insight into the vibrant and diverse Ukrainian literature. \nCo-sponsored by the Humanities Council\, The Program in Contemporary Politics & Society (EPS)\, and The Program in Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies (REES).
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/rediscovery-modernist-travelogues-by-sofia-yablonska-a-daring-ukrainian-woman-globetrotting-in-the-1930s/
LOCATION:161 East Pyne
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ORGANIZER;CN="Yolanda Sullivan":MAILTO:syolanda@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T132000
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SUMMARY:Writing a Feminist Epic: A Conversation about 'Las Extraterrestres'
DESCRIPTION:Author Juliana Borrero Echeverry (Bogotá\, 1973) will discuss her writing and recent book\, Las Extraterrestres (Cajón de Sastre\, 2021)\, a feminist work of poetic fiction set at the end of the world\, where language mutates and extraterrestrials set the stage for a new way of living on planet Earth. Graduate students Grace Monk (Comparative Literature)\, Nora Muñiz (Spanish and Portuguese)\, and Tatiane França Rangel (Spanish and Portuguese) will describe their experience translating Las Extraterrestres\, and the presenters will share excerpts from both the original Spanish text and the translation. \nThis event is open to students\, faculty\, visiting scholars and staff. Portions of the talk will be in English and Spanish. Lunch will be provided while supplies last.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/writing-a-feminist-epic-a-conversation-about-las-extraterrestres/
LOCATION:3rd Floor Atrium\, Aaron Burr\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Damaris Zayas":MAILTO:damaris@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T143000
DTSTAMP:20260515T110745
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SUMMARY:Q&A with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Africa World Lecture Series
DESCRIPTION:Please join AWI for a Q&A session with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who was born in Enugu\, Nigeria in 1977. She grew up on the campus of the University of Nigeria\, Nsukka\, where her father was a Professor and her mother was the first female Registrar. \nShe studied medicine for a year at Nsukka and then left for the US at the age of 19 to continue her education on a different path. \nShe graduated summa cum laude from Eastern Connecticut State University with a degree in Communication and Political Science. \nShe has a Master’s Degree in African Studies from Yale University\, and a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University. She was awarded a Hodder fellowship at Princeton University for the 2005-2006 academic year\, and a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University for the 2011-2012 academic year. In 2008\, she received a MacArthur Fellowship\, popularly known as the “genius grant.” \nShe has received honorary doctorate degrees from Eastern Connecticut State University\, Johns Hopkins University\, Haverford College\, Williams College\, the University of Edinburgh\, Duke University\, Amherst College\, Bowdoin College\, SOAS University of London\, American University\, Georgetown University\, Yale University\, Rhode Island School of Design\, Northwestern University\, and University of Pennsylvania. \nMs. Adichie’s work has been translated into over thirty languages.\nHer first novel\, Purple Hibiscus (2003)\, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize\, and her second novel\, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006)\, won the Orange Prize. Her 2013 novel Americanah won the US National Book Critics Circle Award\, and was named one of The New York Times Top Ten Best Books of 2013. A story from her collection\, The Thing Around Your Neck\, was awarded the O Henry Prize. \nShe has delivered two landmark TED talks: her 2009 TED Talk The Danger of A Single Story and her 2012 TEDx Euston talk We Should All Be Feminists\, which started a worldwide conversation about feminism\, and was published as a book in 2014. \nDear Ijeawele\, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions\, was published in March 2017.\nHer most recent work\, Notes On Grief\, an essay about losing her father\, was published in 2021.\nShe was named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2015. In 2017\, Fortune Magazine named her one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders. She is a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.\nMs. Adichie divides her time between the United States and Nigeria\, where she leads an annual creative writing workshop.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/qa-with-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-africa-world-lecture-series/
LOCATION:Arthur Lewis Auditorium\, Robertson Hall\, NJ
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ORGANIZER;CN="Fiona Romaine":MAILTO:fromaine@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231026T153000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231026T170000
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SUMMARY:Traz d’horizonte: Impressions from Cabo Verde
DESCRIPTION:An Exhibition of Photography \nPrinceton in Portugal’s inaugural trip to Cabo Verde\, a small archipelago off the coast of West Africa\, yielded a rich trove of cultural experiences and connections. \nThis exhibition of photography by students and faculty is our opportunity to share “impressions” and invite the Princeton community on a journey “traz d’horizonte”\, beyond the horizon. \nPlease join us for the opening celebration to enjoy typical food and music that will bring us a little closer to Cabo Verde: giving us all a small taste of its rich culture\, its unique “morabeza” hospitality and filling us with enthusiasm to visit this wonderful place.  In 2024 PiP returns to Cape Verde; Princeton goes beyond the horizon. \nExhibition runs through November 13\, 2023!
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/traz-dhorizonte-impressions-from-cabo-verde/
LOCATION:East Pyne Lower Hyphen
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T180000
DTSTAMP:20260515T110745
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SUMMARY:Fatal Forgiveness: Euripides\, Austin\, Cavell\, Arendt
DESCRIPTION:The 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. \nAbstract: Are today’s “Oath Keepers” descendants of Euripides’ Hippolytus\, whose titular hero is himself an oath keeper extraordinaire? This lecture explores classical and contemporary connections between oath-keeping and masculinity\, attending to the politics of sex/gender in connection with Hippolytus and Phaedra\, and reading the Hippolytus as noir. The Hippolytus is all about words\, and it is a veritable treasure trove of performativity\, featuring not only oaths\, but also vows of silence taken\, promises made\, and sentencing delivered. The most important of these is Hippolytus’ final forgiveness of his father\, Theseus\, for a lifetime of wrongs\, which—like the play as a whole—spans performative utterance\, as theorized by J.L. Austin\, and the passionate utterance with which Austin’s student Stanley Cavell supplemented the work of his teacher. Might Hannah Arendt’s account of forgiveness in The Human Condition help clarify the status of forgiveness as performative\, passionate\, both\, or neither? The lecture concludes by returning to Euripides\, to consider the possible fatality of forgiveness\, and its implications for ethics and politics. \nBonnie Honig is the Nancy Duke Lewis Professor\, Political Science and Modern Culture and Media (MCM)\, and co-director of the Democracy Project\, Brown University; she is an affiliate at the American Bar Foundation\, Chicago. Honig’s work in democratic and feminist theory studies the cultural politics of immigration (Democracy and the Foreigner\, Princeton\, 2001)\, emergency (Emergency Politics: Paradox\, Law\, Democracy\, Princeton\, 2009)\, mourning (Antigone\, Interrupted\, Cambridge\, 2013) and refusal (A Feminist Theory of Refusal\, Harvard\, 2021). Her book Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair (Fordham\, 2017) came out days after Trump’s 2017 inauguration and her first piece of public writing about that presidency\, “The President’s House is Empty\,” appeared on that inauguration day in the Boston Review. A collection of her public writing\, Shell Shocked: Feminist Criticism After Trump\, appeared with Fordham in 2021. In 2023\, her first book\, Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics\, was re-published as a 30th-anniversary edition by Cornell University Press.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/fatal-forgiveness-euripides-austin-cavell-arendt/
LOCATION:101 Friend Center
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ORGANIZER;CN="Tammy Hojeibane":MAILTO:tammyh@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231026T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231026T180000
DTSTAMP:20260515T110745
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SUMMARY:The Art of Losing or The Afterlives of the Algerian War: A Conversation with Alice Zeniter
DESCRIPTION:The Department of French and Italian presents “The Art of Losing or The Afterlives of the Algerian War. A Conversation with Alice Zeniter” organized by André Benhaïm\, featuring Alice Zeniter\, Novelist\, translator\, screenwriter\, and director\, André Benhaim\, Department of French and Italian\, Gyan Prakash\, Department of History. Alice Zeniter studied literature and theater at l’École Normale Supérieure and Sorbonne-Nouvelle University. She is the author of four novels and has won many awards for her work; Sombre dimanche (Albin Michel\, 2013) won the Prix du Livre Inter\, the Prix des lecteurs de l’Express and the Prix de la Closerie des Lilas; Juste avant l’oubli (Flammarion\, 2015) won the Prix Renaudot des lycéens. Her novel The Art of Losing\, which was translated into English by Frank Wynne and published by Picador in 2021\, won the International Dublin Literary Award in 2022.  \nZeniter is a Short-Term Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of French and Italian in Fall 2023. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Council and the Center for Collaborative History. For more information.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-art-of-losing-or-the-afterlives-of-the-algerian-war-a-conversation-with-alice-zeniter/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T193000
DTSTAMP:20260515T110745
CREATED:20231012T133622Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231012T134334Z
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SUMMARY:PISC workshop: "Are There Post-Mamluk Encyclopedias? Yusuf al-Shirbīni’s Hazz al-Quhuf (c. 1097/1686)"
DESCRIPTION:Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī’s Hazz al-quḥūf (c. 1686) is\, formally speaking\, a commentary on a poem by a peasant. This\, however\, is but a structuring device. The Hazz teems with anecdotes about peasants interlaced with quotations from the Quran\, ḥadīth\, poetry\, and more. Drawing on Arabic encyclopedias and the ʿajāʾib tradition\, I argue that the Hazz pertains to the genealogy of Arabic encyclopedic writings. In other words\, the Hazz\, and perhaps other works from the Ottoman period\, represents the next chapter of encyclopedic Arabic writing before the advent of colonialism—a history that remains to be written. \nThe Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium is a forum at Princeton University for workshopping students’ and guest scholars’ works-in-progress in Islamic Studies and related fields. REGISTER. \nCo-sponsors: Near Eastern Studies Department\, Department of Religion\, Near Eastern Studies Program\, Center for Culture\, Society and Religion\, Humanities Council with support from the Stewart Fund for Religion
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/pisc-workshop-are-there-post-mamluk-encyclopedias-yusuf-al-shirbinis-hazz-al-quhuf-c-1097-1686/
LOCATION:102 Jones\, 102 Jones\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Athina Pfeiffer":MAILTO:apfeiffer@princeton.edu
GEO:40.3888165;-74.5939473
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231026T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231026T193000
DTSTAMP:20260515T110745
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231022T150837Z
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SUMMARY:LAMB Workshop: 'Lapidatores\, Percussores Urbisque Depopulatores': Urban Violence in the Chronicle of Marcellinus Comes
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on October 26 for our first LAMB workshop of the semester in 209 Scheide Caldwell. We will read and discuss Radka Pallová’s paper entitled ‘Lapidatores\, Percussores Urbisque Depopulatores’: Urban Violence in the Chronicle of Marcellinus Comes. \nThis workshop is for Graduate Students only. Please Please RSVP Here and download the paper on the LAMB website. \nAbout LAMB:  \nThe Late Antique\, Medieval\, and Byzantine Graduate Workshop at Princeton (LAMB) provides interdisciplinary forums for presenting research\, fostering community\, and training in professional development. \nContact Amel Bensalim (ab7941@princeton.edu) or Anna D’Elia (anna.delia@princeton.edu) with any questions. \nLAMB is sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies\, the Center for Collaborative History\, and the Departments of Art & Archaeology\, English\, Religion\, and Classics.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lamb-workshop-lapidatores-percussores-urbisque-depopulatores-urban-violence-in-the-chronicle-of-marcellinus-comes/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T200000
DTSTAMP:20260515T110745
CREATED:20231023T140056Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231025T201128Z
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SUMMARY:Violence on Land and Body
DESCRIPTION:Jordan Weber is a New York-based regenerative land sculptor and activist who works at the intersection of social justice and environmental apartheid through grassroots collaboration in industrially polluted places such as St. Louis\, Detroit\, Boston\, Des Moines\, and the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn. In 2020\, the Walker Art Center commissioned Weber to create an urban phytoremediation farm in North Minneapolis as a counter tactic to industrial violence upon biodiverse lands and racially diverse communities. His work All Our Liberations–which took inspiration from Japanese Zen gardens and created a space for community learning\, reflection\, and healing–was exhibited through the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in 2021. This year\, the triennial civic exhibition Counterpublic engaged Weber to develop Defensive Landscape\, a site-specific regenerative earthwork in St. Louis’s Peace Park\, which will permanently house a community-engaged rainwater garden and gathering space\, offering a critical intervention into the generational health implications of the intertwined crises of captivity and ecological apartheid. \nWeber has received notable awards and honors including the 2023 Guggenheim Award and 2022 United States Artist Award\, and he was named a 2021 Harvard LOEB Fellow. He was recently appointed as the inaugural Yale University Artist in Residence to build an environmental-humanities focused project at Horse Island for the Black and Indigenous student body. His work was also featured in this year’s Architecture Biennale in Venice.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/violence-on-land-and-body/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kyara Robinson":MAILTO:kr9710@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231027
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231030
DTSTAMP:20260515T110745
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SUMMARY:Conference: Finished? Early Modern Arts in the Imperfect Tense
DESCRIPTION:“Imperfection” and “Renaissance” are antonyms. At least that is what Giorgio Vasari’s history of Italian artistic evolution (as with other early modern European writings on art\, poetry\, literature\, music\, and theatre) tries to convince us. His construction of perfection – in the sense of completeness and as an aesthetic ideal – as a defining attribute of the period renders incompleteness\, at best\, peripheral in consequence. At worst\, the incomplete stands as perfection’s negative alter-ego\, inherently deficient\, breaking boundaries\, and destabilizing artistic norms and their periodizing logic. Yet varieties of imperfection proliferated among the arts of early modernity\, existing in tension with\, simultaneous to\, and even correlative of paradigms of perfection. The imperfect manifests in objects and texts left unfinished\, whether intentionally or otherwise; in the fascination with witnessing\, describing\, and representing processes of production; in instances of extended collaboration across practitioners and time; in the mutability of printed books; in acts of retouching or alteration to finished objects; in works where the subject matter is left open and unresolved\, or where form threatens to dissolve into formlessness; in the preservation and replication of preparatory work; in the elisions between architectural construction and ruination; and in the tension between figural making and unmaking\, to name just a few. “Imperfection” perhaps is imbricated in “Renaissance” far more than Vasari\, and we\, acknowledge. \nThe goal of this conference is to explore the obstinate presence of things imperfect in the arts of the Renaissance\, and to consider the implications of interpreting the period from the vantage of the unfinished\, the open-ended\, and the deferred. Arts in the imperfect tense are works that exist in a state of flux\, their production ongoing\, incomplete\, continuous\, or coincident with other actions. Their liminality allows for multiple possibilities to exist simultaneously. The various contributions will examine instances of the imperfect or its reception from c. 1400-1650 and that give insight into an array of wide-ranging questions: In what ways might imperfection be understood as generative or desirable\, as constitutive of the age\, even as it was the subject of significant anxiety and discomfort? What artistic boundaries – medial\, visual\, conceptual\, temporal\, and so on – are blurred by incompleteness\, and what critical categories do such transgressions remake? Who or what determines when something is finished and by what terms? Can we speak of an aesthetics of imperfection\, of categories of unfinishedness? What is(are) the semantic field(s) of imperfection in the arts? What possibilities for interactive participation and viewership are produced by unfinishedness? What social\, political\, religious or scientific concerns might have encouraged deferral of ends in the arts? The conference will also include talks that examine notions of unfinishedness as articulated in the long historiography of the arts of the Renaissance and of early modernity.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/conference-finished-early-modern-arts-in-the-imperfect-tense/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mo Chen":MAILTO:mochen@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231027
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231031
DTSTAMP:20260515T110745
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SUMMARY:Re/Framing Eastern European Cinema
DESCRIPTION:A three-day international conference\, Re/Framing Eastern European Cinema\, focusing on the re-conceptualization of Eastern European cinema and its master narratives before and in the aftermath of the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2022. \nFull schedule here.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/re-framing-eastern-european-cinema/
LOCATION:50 McCosh Hall\, 50 McCosh Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T133000
DTSTAMP:20260515T110745
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SUMMARY:Angelus Novus-Balancing Act from the Cosmological\, Architectonic\, Moral and Aesthetic Points of View
DESCRIPTION:Join the bilingual round-table discussion about the principle of self-supporting balance. Panel discussants: Professors Attilio Pizzigone and Vittorio Paris (University of Bergamo)\, Erika A. Kiss (Princeton University) in person in Palazzo Mora\, Venice\, Italy\, and Professors Sigrid Adriaenssens and Chris Tully (Princeton University) participating online from Princeton\, USA. \nRegister for this hybrid event. \nStanding under the center of the Angelus Novus Vault in the garden of Palazzo Mora in Venice while holding up a mobile device equipped with the Plato’s Cave App\, one can see the inside of Brunelleschi’s dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore. The inside of the augmented reality dome is “painted” with the animated mashup of the Vasari fresco\, The Last Judgement ( just like in Brunelleschi’s dome) and Kiss’s Assembly/Disassembly. The augmented reality experience via the Plato’s Cave App under the Angelus Novus Vault reveals the correspondences of the self-balancing architectonics of Brunelleschi’s curved space engineering and the non-Euclidean\, spherical cosmology of Dante’s Divina Commedia that inspired the perfect moral balance of Vasari’s The Last Judgement. The European Cultural Center\, Italy and Princeton University presents a bilingual and bicontinental round-table discussion about the man-made balance that keeps balancing as if by itself.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/angelus-novus-balancing-act-from-the-cosmological-architectonic-moral-and-aesthetic-points-of-view/
LOCATION:Green Hall 3C3 and Zoom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kim Girman":MAILTO:kgirman@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T140000
DTSTAMP:20260515T110745
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231024T134120Z
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SUMMARY:La Pisada Del Ñandú / The Rhea’s Footprint
DESCRIPTION:There is a special thread of continuity between voices\, skins and stars that enables us to conjure up this visual essay in exhibition format. An essay formulated\, perhaps\, in the manner of those who listen to footsteps on the Earth\, akin to the practices of healing with plants and to dances of transition and transformation\, related to the temporality in which poetry or handicrafts are formed\, somewhat outside the classic contemporary discourse on art. We present here a constellation of intuitions\, knowledge and practices on the colonial invention of bodies based on the imposition of a hierarchy of skin\, sexuality\, gender and ethnic identity and the banning of certain individual and community erotic\, visual and spiritual practices. We will attest to the powerful beauty of the invocations against the effects of the colonial trauma and the permanent resistance against it in our bodies. The Rhea’s Footprint (Or How We Transform Silences) enables us to chart a counter-history of the bodies of the constellations of the south\, bodies that today we would term transvestite/trans/non-binary. \nYou are invited to a talk about the exhibition The Rhea’s footprint (or how we transform silences) which is currently on display at the Cultural Center of Memory Haroldo Conti in Buenos Aires\, Argentina\, after being shown at La Virreina Museum of Barcelona and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama. The exhibition\, curated by Río Paraná (Mag De Santo & Duen Neka’hen Sacch) brings together works by trans\, transvestite\, non-binary\, queer and bisexual artists from a diversity of cultures and origins in our Americas. Georgie Sanchez\, Ph.D. student in Art & Archeology will be moderating the event. \nThis event will be held in Spanish\, and is free and open to the public. Lunch provided while supplies last.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/la-pisada-del-nandu-the-rheas-footprint/
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:20231027T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T180000
DTSTAMP:20260515T110745
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SUMMARY:4th Annual Mid-Atlantic Ottomanist Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will provide an opportunity for scholars of Ottoman studies to gather\, discuss their research\, and receive substantive feedback. This initiative aims to bring together scholars of all stages based in the mid-Atlantic region who are working to advance the study of the Ottoman Empire as well as its interactions with the wider world from the 15th century through the early 20th century. \nThe theme of the 2023 workshop will be “Networks and Networking in the Ottoman Empire”. From Sufi-guild networks in early-modern Istanbul\, to the army-civilian networks forged by the Committee of Union and Progress in the early twentieth century\, a dense matrix of relations and interactions linked the Ottoman state to its subjects\, mediated between different sections of society\, and connected the Ottoman world with people\, ideas\, and commodities from other geographic regions. This workshop will seek to understand how social\, cultural/cross-cultural\, diplomatic\, entrepreneurial\, and geo-spatial networks\, influenced the course of Ottoman history. \nSponsored by: Center for Collaborative History | Humanities Council | Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies | M. Münir Ertegün Foundation for Turkish Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/4th-annual-mid-atlantic-ottomanist-workshop/
LOCATION:211 Dickinson Hall or Zoom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Loessy":MAILTO:jloessy@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T180000
DTSTAMP:20260515T110745
CREATED:20231012T171650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231012T171650Z
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SUMMARY:“Language and the Irish Novel\,” a talk and reading by Barry McCrea
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning writer Barry McCrea will give a brief talk on “Language and the Irish Novel” followed by a reading from his novel-in-progress Miracle at Thorn Island. Introduced by Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’52 Professor in Irish Letters Fintan O’Toole. \nAdmission: Free and open to the public; no tickets required. \nAccessibility: The Stewart Film Theater 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/language-and-the-irish-novel-a-talk-and-reading-by-barry-mccrea/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Lewis Center for the Arts":MAILTO:lewiscenter@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T190000
DTSTAMP:20260515T110745
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SUMMARY:Documentary Screening  & Panel Discussion "A Spear Through the Heart"
DESCRIPTION:This event will feature a screening of the 2022 documentary “A Spear Through the Heart”\, which explores the life\, legacy and impact of the legendary singer\, songwriter\, and activist\, Hachalu Hundessa\, who was assassinated in Addis Ababa\, Ethiopia\, on June 29th\, 2020. Hachalu was a hugely popular Oromo-Ethiopian musician widely viewed by the Oromo people as a symbol of unity and resistance. His evocative songs echoed the hopes and aspirations of the Oromo people and played a pivotal role in the 2014-2018 Oromo protests against the Ethiopian regime. \nThe documentary chronicles Hachalu’s life and the profound impact of his music on the Oromo quest for self-determination\, but it also addresses broader themes of state repression\, political violence and the transformative power of music in political mobilization. \nThe screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Ms. Fantu Demisse (Hundessa’s widow and Chairwomen of the Board of Hachalu Hundessa Foundation)\, Dr. Awol Allo (Visiting Fellow at UCHV\, Fung Global Fellow Alumni ’21\, and executive producer of the documentary)\, and Mr. Bruno Sorrentino (the documentary’s director and editor). The panel will be moderated by Professor Wendy Belcher\, Professor of Comparative Literature and African American Studies and Acting Chair\, Department of Comparative Literature. \nA trailer of the documentary can be found here. \nEvent co-sponsors: University Center for Human Values\, Department of Comparative Literature\,  PIIRS\, Program in African Studies\, Fung Glolbal Fellows Program\, Africa World Initiative
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/documentary-screening-panel-discussion-a-spear-through-the-heart/
LOCATION:A71 Louis A. Simpson Building
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ORGANIZER;CN="Fiona Romaine":MAILTO:fromaine@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:The Language of War: Rage\, Love\, Memory
DESCRIPTION:Oleksandr Mykhed will present his personal story and experience as a writer and a scholar and address how Ukrainians talk about the Russian invasion. How has the semiotic system of everyday life changed? What has happened to the meaning of words? How are these changes reflected in art? \nCo-sponsored by the Humanities Council\, The Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination\, The Program in Contemporary European Politics & Society (EPS)\, The Program in European Cultural Studies (ECS) and the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-language-of-war-rage-love-memory/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Yolanda Sullivan":MAILTO:syolanda@princeton.edu
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