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SUMMARY:"The True Adventures of His Life": A Centenary Celebration for Victor Brombert
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Humanities Council to celebrate former Council Chair Victor Brombert on the splendid occasions of his centenary and his new book\, The Pensive Citadel. This event will feature a panel discussion with Maria DiBattista (English and Comparative Literature)\, Alexander Nehamas (Philosophy and Comparative Literature\, emeritus)\, and Christy Wampole (French and Italian).\n \nCopies of The Pensive Citadel will be available for purchase after the event\, courtesy of Labyrinth Books. \n\n\nVictor Brombert is the Henry Putnam University Professor Emeritus of Romance and Comparative Literatures at Princeton University and the author of many books including In Praise of Antiheroes\, Musings on Mortality\, and Stendhal. His most recent publication\, The Pensive Citadel\, will be released in October 2023 by The University of Chicago Press. In The Pensive Citadel\, Victor Brombert looks back on a lifetime of learning within a university world greatly altered since he entered Yale on the GI Bill in the 1940s. Yet for all that has changed\, much of Brombert’s long experience as a reader and teacher is richly familiar: the rewards of rereading\, the joy of learning from students\, and most of all the insight to be found in engaging works of literature. The essays gathered here range from meditations on laughter and jealousy to new appreciations of Brombert’s lifelong companions Shakespeare\, Montaigne\, Voltaire\, and Stendhal. Foreword by Christy Wampole.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/centenary-celebration-for-victor-brombert/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:LLL Presents Angus Deaton & Matthew Desmond: "Economics in America"
DESCRIPTION:In his new book\, the Nobel-prize winning economist explains in clear terms how the field of economics addresses pressing issues from poverty\, retirement\, and the minimum wage to the ravages of the nation’s uniquely disastrous health care system\, and he recounts his own experiences as a naturalized US citizen and academic economist. We are thrilled to welcome him along with Matthew Desmond\, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Evicted and Poverty\, by America\, for a presentation and discussion. \nWhen Angus Deaton immigrated to the United States from Britain in the early 1980s\, he was awed by America’s strengths and shocked by the extraordinary gaps he witnessed between people. In his incisive\, candid\, and funny book\, he describes the everyday lives of working economists\, recounting the triumphs as well as the disasters\, and tells the inside story of the Nobel Prize in economics and the journey that led him to Stockholm to receive one. He discusses the ongoing tensions between economics and politics—and the extent to which economics has any content beyond the political prejudices of economists—and reflects on whether economists bear at least some responsibility for the growing despair and rising populism in America. \nAngus Deaton\, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in economics\, is Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus and Senior Scholar at Princeton University. He is the author with Anne Case of the New York Times bestselling Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism. Matthew Desmond is professor of sociology at Princeton University. He is the author of four seminal books\, including Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City\, and Poverty\, by America\, and is the principal investigator of The Eviction Lab at Princeton. \nCo-presented by Labyrinth Books and the Princeton Public Library and cosponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council\, Economics and Sociology Departments\, and Eviction Lab\, and  SPIA in NJ.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lll-presents-angus-deaton-matthew-desmond-economics-in-america/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:McGraw Center Faculty Workshop: Flipping the Classroom
DESCRIPTION:Increasingly\, instructors are embracing the flipped classroom as a way to encourage active learning. In a flipped classroom\, students engage with course content outside of class (often via short recorded lecture segments) and then complete higher-level\, more challenging activities during class\, often with their peers. \nIn this “How to/Why to” session\, we will discuss the pedagogy of flipped classrooms\, hear from Princeton faculty who have used the approach\, and learn about McGraw’s resources to support these active learning strategies.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/mcgraw-center-faculty-workshop-flipping-the-classroom/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ruthie Boyce":MAILTO:ruthieb@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:The End of Popular Participation? City Politics in Post-Imperial Hispania
DESCRIPTION:By the sixth century\, political\, social\, and demographic changes brought traditional popular urban participation in late antique Hispania to an end. This crisis\, however\, did not result in a complete abandonment of non-elite participation. While sources tend to downplay the intervention of non-elite actors and favor the view of a “universal” consensus\, the written evidence occasionally betrays the political action of popular or middling groups. This talk offers different criteria to conceptualize non-elite actors in the textual and material evidence and advances some ideas on how to approach non-elite participation in post-imperial cities. \nDamián Fernández is Associate Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. He has published on the social\, institutional\, and economic history of the Iberian Peninsula in late antiquity\, including a monograph titled Aristocrats and Statehood in Western Iberia\, 300-600 CE. He is currently co-authoring a translation and commentary of the seventh-century law code known as Liber Iudiciorum. \nPlease register here if you plan to attend.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-end-of-popular-participation-city-politics-in-post-imperial-hispania/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House\, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
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SUMMARY:"The 'Long Road' to the Identification of the Worshipped Deity - The Case of the Sanctuary of Demeter on Mount Ithome in Ancient Messene"
DESCRIPTION:Until recently\, the small Hellenistic temple built on the southern slope of Mount Ithome in ancient Messene was identified with the sanctuary of Eileithyia\, the goddess of childbirth\, and the Kouretes mentioned by Pausanias. New evidence\, however\, has come to light during excavations between 2006-2013\, expanding our knowledge of the identity of the goddess the Messenians worshiped. My detailed study of these finds offers new insight into the character of this deity and allows us to reconstruct ritual practices at this temple that happened continuously from the early Hellenistic era to the Roman period. In addition\, my analysis incorporates other sanctuaries in the city\, including the sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis and that of Zeus Ithomatas. Rather than Eileithyia and the Kouretes\, a picture emerges of this deity as Demeter\, responsible for the well-being and growth of vegetation\, animals and\, especially\, young women.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-long-road-to-the-identification-of-the-worshipped-deity-the-case-of-the-sanctuary-of-demeter-on-mount-ithome-in-ancient-messene/
LOCATION:203 Scheide Caldwell\, 203 Scheide Caldwell
ORGANIZER;CN="Eleni Banis":MAILTO:hbanis@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231109T163000
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SUMMARY:From The Tokyo Toilet to Perfect Days
DESCRIPTION:In 2020\, the public toilet renovation project\, “THE TOKYO TOILET” commenced in Shibuya\, Tokyo. Representing Japan and featuring 16 internationally renowned creators\, including architects at the forefront\, this project brought the world’s highest level of creativity and design to the often-overlooked realm of urban architecture – the public toilet. It successfully introduced new value. \nIn this talk\, founder of the project Koji Yanai will explain why he embarked on the toilet project and what insights he gained. Respondents will talk about how this project illustrates behavioral design\, novel takes on addressing global health and sustainability\, and how public-private partnerships can be successful. \nRegister here. A reception will follow the talk and panel in Dodds Atrium\, Robertson Hall. \nNote: Mr. Yanai also initiated a new film project to address the challenges of The Tokyo Toilet project and his debut production\, Perfect Days\, earned the Best Actor award at the 2023 Cannes International Film Festival. Perfect Days will be screened\, for free\, to the University community on November 10 at 6:30 pm\, well prior to widespread North American release. \nSpeakers: \n\n\n\nKoji Yanai\n\nDirector of the Board\, Group Senior Executive Officer\, Fast Retailing (Uniqlo); Founder of The Tokyo Toilet\n\n\n\n\n\nEldar Shafir\n\nFounding Director\, Kahneman-Treisman Center and Class of 1987 Professor in Behavioral Science and Public Policy\n\n\n\n\n\nJessica Metcalf\n\nAssociate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs\, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and Co-Director\, Program in Global Health and Health Policy\n\n\n\n\n\nMegumi Muto *93\n\nVice President and Chief Sustainability Officer\, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)\n\n\n\n\n\nChukwuemeka V. Chukwuemeka\n\nConvener and Moderator; Sugarman Practitioner in Residence\, Kahneman-Treisman Center
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/from-the-tokyo-toilet-to-perfect-days/
LOCATION:Arthur Lewis Auditorium\, Robertson Hall\, NJ
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ORGANIZER;CN="Dr. Chukwuemeka V. Chukwuemeka":MAILTO:chukwuemeka@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Anschutz Lecture - Activism at the Intersections of Race and Youth: Prairie View A&M University\, Black Colleges & the Fight for Voting Rights
DESCRIPTION:Melanye T. Price is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at Rutgers—New Brunswick. Dr. Price is an Endowed Professor of Political Science at Prairie View A&M University and principal investigator for their African American Studies Initiative\, which is funded by the Mellon Foundation. She is the author of The Race Whisperer: Barack Obama and the Political Uses of Race\, and Dreaming Blackness: Black Nationalism and African American Public Opinion. \n 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/anschutz-lecture-activism-at-the-intersections-of-race-and-youth-prairie-view-am-university-black-colleges-the-fight-for-voting-rights/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tanner Lectures on Human Values: "The Last Dystopia: Historicizing the Anthropocene Debate in an Age of Multipolarity: Lecture 1--Beyond the Unipolar Moment"
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: In the last 25 years the concept of the Anthropocene has emerged as a master category for thinking the contemporary environmental crisis. As much as it has energized the humanities and social sciences\, the concept has been criticized for falsely postulating a collective human agent of environmental destruction. In the 2023 Tanner lectures\, Adam Tooze will historicize this debate\, placing it in relation to the struggle over global development. Born in the era of the first Cold War the vision of a comprehensive environmental transformation in the service of humankind needs to be placed now in relation to a new era of comprehensive global development\, great power competition and polycrisis. \nLecture I: Beyond the Unipolar Moment \nIn this lecture\, Tooze will locate the first phase of global climate politics in the unipolar moment of the 1990s.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/tanner-lectures-on-human-values-the-last-dystopia-historicizing-the-anthropocene-debate-in-an-age-of-multipolarity-lecture-1-beyond-the-unipolar-moment/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Tammy Hojeibane":MAILTO:tammyh@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:EHL Seminar: "The Long Shadow of the 536 CE Event"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lee Mordechai\, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Shelby Cullom Davis Center Fellow 2023-24) \n*Light refreshments will be served starting at 4:00 pm.* \nRegistration is required for virtual attendance only. Zoom registration link. \nFind more information on the EHL website. \n\nThis seminar is organized by The Environmental History Lab (EHL)\, an interdisciplinary program affiliated with the Program in Medieval Studies and funded by a David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Grant from the Humanities Council. \n 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/ehl-seminar-the-long-shadow-of-the-536-ce-2/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231109T190000
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SUMMARY:LLL Presents Melvin Rogers & Eddie Glaude - "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race\, Democracy\, and Freedom in African American Political Thought"
DESCRIPTION:Could the African American political tradition save American democracy? Melvin Rogers provides a bold new account of African American political thought through the works and lives of individuals who built this vital tradition and discusses this tradition with Eddie Glaude\, one of this country’s foremost public intellectuals helping to shape the conversation about race in the US. \nAfrican Americans have had every reason to reject America’s democratic experiment. Yet African American activists\, intellectuals\, and artists who have sought to transform the United States into a racially just society have put forward some of the most original and powerful ideas about how to make America live up to its democratic ideals. \nRogers reexamines how figures as diverse as David Walker\, Frederick Douglass\, Anna Julia Cooper\, Ida B. Wells\, W.E.B. Du Bois\, Billie Holiday\, and James Baldwin thought about the politics\, people\, character\, and culture of a society that so often dominated them. Sharing a light of faith darkened but not extinguished by the tragic legacy of slavery\, they resisted the conclusion that America would always be committed to white supremacy. They believed that democracy is always in the process of becoming and that they could use it to reimagine society. But they also saw that achieving racial justice wouldn’t absolve us of the darkest features of our shared past\, and that democracy must be measured by how skillfully we confront a history that will forever remain with us. \nMelvin L. Rogers is professor of political science and associate director of the Center for Philosophy\, Politics\, and Economics at Brown University. He is the author\, previously\, of The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion\, Morality\, and the Ethos of Democracy. Eddie Glaude is professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University. His influential books include Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul; In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America; and Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for our Own. \nCo-presented by Labyrinth Books and The Princeton Public Library and co-sponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council\, Religion Department\, Office of the Dean of Religious Life\, as well as SPIA in NJ and the Princeton Theological Seminary.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lll-presents-melvin-rogers-eddie-glaude-the-darkened-light-of-faith-race-democracy-and-freedom-in-african-american-political-thought/
LOCATION:Princeton Public Library
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231109T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231109T220000
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SUMMARY:L'Avant-Scène presents "Le Iench" by Eva Doumbia
DESCRIPTION:As part of Eva Doumbia’s Short-Term Scholar visit in the Council of the Humanities and Department of French and Italian\, L’Avant-Scène presents her play “Le Iench” (2020). 11-year-old Drissa\, born in France of Malian descent\, moves into a small-town house with his parents\, twin sister\, and little brother. He dreams of a family like those he sees in advertisements. But will he be able to escape the role society is trying to force upon him? \nThe performance will feature L’Avant-Scène actors Gil Joseph ’25\, Jeielle Habinam ’26\, Hervé Ishimwe ’24\, John Patrick ’24\, Darius Rudasingwa Ganza ’24\, Oladoyin Phillips GS\, Eddie Kong ’27\, Mikaela Avankian ’24\, Jordan Coty Eloundou Ndongo GS\, and Clément Herman GS. Performed in French.\nRegistration required
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lavant-scene-presents-le-iench-by-eva-doumbia/
LOCATION:Whitman College Class of 1970 Theater
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kelly Eggers":MAILTO:keggers@princeton.edu
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231113
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SUMMARY:Building Life: Spatial Politics\, Science\, and Environmental Epistemes
DESCRIPTION:Building Life: Spatial Politics\, Science\, and Environmental Epistemes is a two-day symposium that examines how entanglements between the interdisciplinary fields of the built environment and the sciences have transformed concepts of nature\, territory\, and the environment over time\, reproducing global inequities that continue to (un)build life. The symposium will feature an array of scholars and practitioners whose work is reshaping our understanding of what it means to inhabit\, study\, and care for a climate-changed world. \nSpanning the fields of art and architectural history\, environmental studies\, anthropology\, sociology\, race and ethnicity studies\, Indigenous studies\, colonial and postcolonial studies\, and science and technology studies\, among others\, papers will consider how spatial and scientific practices have historically shaped human interpretations and approaches to life. They will also offer speculative projections to imagine alternative possibilities. \nAs a collective thought experiment\, Building Life proposes that remaking socio-technological systems to repair the planet for collective human and non-human futures requires a critical rethinking of the relations between the interdisciplinary fields of the built environment and science\, which serve as world-making institutions continually shaping current practices and understandings of the living. \nConvened by Spyros Papapetros (Princeton University) and Esther M. Choi (The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art)\, Building Life is a Humanities Council Magic Project co-presented by Princeton University and The Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment at The Museum of Modern Art. This event is supported by a David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Grant from the Humanities Council at Princeton University. \nPlease click here to register for either or both days. See full event program and locations on the School of Architecture website.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/building-life-spatial-politics-science-and-environmental-epistemes/
LOCATION:Various\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Gabrielle Langholtz":MAILTO:gml@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:"Disfigurement\, Disability\, and the Dangers of Punishment in Byzantium: The Case of Punitive Blinding"
DESCRIPTION:This talk is about punishment and exclusion in the Byzantine world. It focuses on a particular penalty—blinding—commonly used to disqualify victims from positions of political leadership. But despite its official justification as a merciful alternative to death\, “political” blinding in Byzantium often backfired and provoked popular opposition. Drawing on insights from disability studies\, this talk examines the sightless body an unstable site of meaning: whether it reflected the compassion\, or the injustice\, of the state remained an open question. It is precisely blinding’s tendency to provoke contestation and controversy that makes it revealing of the most persistent tensions within Byzantine society across time.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/disfigurement-disability-and-the-dangers-of-punishment-in-byzantium-the-case-of-punitive-blinding/
LOCATION:103 Scheide Caldwell
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eleni Banis":MAILTO:hbanis@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231110T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231110T180000
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SUMMARY:“To put back all the things people cluttered up...To Straighten\, like a diligent Housekeeper of Reality...”: The Greek\, Roman and Byzantine collections at MFA Boston re-imagined
DESCRIPTION:This lecture is part of the Kurt Weitzmann Memorial Lecture Series in Late Antique\, Early Christian\, Byzantine\, and Early Medieval Art in the Department of Art & Archaeology. \n 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/%e2%88%99-to-put-back-all-the-things-people-cluttered-up-to-straighten-like-a-diligent-housekeeper-of-reality-the-greek-roman-and-byzantine-collections-at-mfa-boston-re-imagi/
LOCATION:A71 Louis A. Simpson Building
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mo Chen":MAILTO:mochen@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231110T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231110T180000
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SUMMARY:Lecture & Reading by Louise Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning writer Louise Kennedy presents “Trespasses: Fact\, Fiction and Memory\,” a lecture based on her bestselling novel Trespasses\, which won the British Book Awards Debut Novel of the Year\, the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year\, and the McKitterick Prize. Kennedy will read from the book and examine her use of news reports\, family lore and her own childhood memories in creating a fictional account of ordinary lives blighted by sectarian and class conflict. \nKennedy will be introduced by Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters Fintan O’Toole. \nPart of the fall 2023 Fund for Irish Studies lecture series.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lecture-reading-by-louise-kennedy/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231110T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231110T183000
DTSTAMP:20260407T085434
CREATED:20231009T185528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231009T185528Z
UID:56399-1699633800-1699641000@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Tanner Lectures on Human Values-"The Last Dystopia: Historicizing the Anthropocene Debate in an Age of Multipolarity: Lecture II: Polycrisis"
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: In the last 25 years the concept of the Anthropocene has emerged as a master category for thinking the contemporary environmental crisis. As much as it has energized the humanities and social sciences\, the concept has been criticized for falsely postulating a collective human agent of environmental destruction. In the 2023 Tanner lectures\, Adam Tooze will historicize this debate\, placing it in relation to the struggle over global development. Born in the era of the first Cold War the vision of a comprehensive environmental transformation in the service of humankind needs to be placed now in relation to a new era of comprehensive global development\, great power competition and polycrisis. \nLecture II: Polycrisis \nIn this lecture\, Tooze will address a series of questions about the 2015 synthesis of the Paris Climate Accords and SDG targets.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/tanner-lectures-on-human-values-the-last-dystopia-historicizing-the-anthropocene-debate-in-an-age-of-multipolarity-lecture-ii-polycrisis/
LOCATION:101 Friend Center
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ORGANIZER;CN="Tammy Hojeibane":MAILTO:tammyh@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231110T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231110T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T085434
CREATED:20231022T151809Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231022T151809Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Perfect Days by Wim Wenders
DESCRIPTION:The critically-acclaimed Perfect Days will be screened for free\, to the University community on November 10 at 6:30 pm\, well prior to widespread North American release. \nHirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and for books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them. Koji Yakusho’s portrayal of Hirayam earned him the Award for Best Actor at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.A series of unexpected encounters gradually reveal more of his past. Directed by Wim Wenders\, the film was produced by Wim Wenders\, Takuma Takasaki\, and Koji Yanai. \nThis screening is in association with the public talk “From The Tokyo Toilet to Perfect Days” by Mr. Koji Yanai\, taking place on Thursday\, November 9 at 4:30 pm in Arthur Lewis Auditorium\, Robertson Hall. \nRegister here. \nSpeakers: \n\n\n\nChukwuemeka V. Chukwuemeka\n\nSugarman Practitioner in Residence\n\n\n\n\n\nJunko Yamazaki\n\nAssistant Professor of East Asian Studies; Assistant Professor\, Japanese Film and Media Studies
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/film-screening-perfect-days-by-wim-wenders/
LOCATION:Taylor Auditoium\, Fick Chemistry Building
ORGANIZER;CN="Dr. Chukwuemeka V. Chukwuemeka":MAILTO:chukwuemeka@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231113T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231113T170000
DTSTAMP:20260407T085434
CREATED:20230918T205149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230918T205149Z
UID:55874-1699891200-1699894800@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:McGraw Center Faculty Workshop: AI and Our Classrooms - Generating Images with DALL-E 2
DESCRIPTION:This series of workshops will provide faculty the opportunity to do some guided\, hands-on experimentation with generative AI tools\, to reflect in community on the experience\, and to discuss the tools’ potential impact on our teaching. \nAttendees are encouraged to bring their laptop for use during the session. \nDALL-E 2 is an AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language. Questions we will consider include: How have AI-created images complicated the landscape for media literacy? How might AI-created images affect student projects? How can AI-created images support students with minimal technical or artistic training? How does this tool connect to conceptions of copyright and intellectual property?
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/mcgraw-center-faculty-workshop-ai-and-our-classrooms-generating-images-with-dall-e-2/
LOCATION:330 Frist\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ruthie Boyce":MAILTO:ruthieb@princeton.edu
GEO:40.3467174;-74.6568772
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231113T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231113T173000
DTSTAMP:20260407T085434
CREATED:20231003T150627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231011T184810Z
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SUMMARY:From the Cloud to the Resistance
DESCRIPTION:The paper discusses Abbas Kiarostami’s 1979 film\, First Case\, Second Case. Completed at the end of the Iranian Revolution\, just days before the Shah fled Iran and Khomeini returned from\nexile to take command of the newly-liberated nation\, the film had to be significantly revised in the face of this historical scission and an uncertain future. What was at stake in this moment\, Khomeini claimed\, was the sensorium of the Iranian people and the role cinema should play in restoring it. Kiarostami took these stakes seriously and responded directly. \nJoan Copjec is a philosopher\, theorist\, and feminist film scholar. Her books include Imagine There’s No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation (MIT Press\, 2003)\, Read My Desire: Lacan against the Historicists (MIT Press\, 1994)\, and Supposing the Subject (Verso\, 1994) \nSponsored by the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council and the Committee for Film Studies.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/faber-lecture-from-the-cloud-to-resistance/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231113T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231113T180000
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SUMMARY:Sociolinguistic Challenges for Emerging Speech Technology
DESCRIPTION:As speech technology becomes an increasingly integral part of the everyday lives of humans around the world\, issues related to language variation and change and algorithmic inequality will come to the forefront for citizens and researchers alike. Indeed\, over the past few years\, researchers across disciplines such as computer science\, communications\, and linguistics have begun to approach these concerns from a variety of scholarly perspectives. For sociolinguists who are primarily interested in how social factors influence language use and vice versa\, the fact that humans and machines are regularly speaking with one another presents an entirely new area of research interest with major impacts for linguistics and the public. In this talk\, I will present the results of recent and ongoing research related to how humans perceive the social qualities of synthesized voices (such as Siri)\, and how such perceptions may reinforce and reproduce stereotypical perceptions of human voices.  I will also present research on how Automatic Speech Recognition systems designed to provide feedback (such as the Amazon Halo) demonstrate systematic bias against socially marginalized speakers\, focusing on issues of racialized and gendered variation in voice quality. Finally\, I will discuss large-scale challenges related to speech and algorithmic bias\, as well as the pitfalls that language researchers need to be aware of when designing and evaluating new TTS and ASR systems. \nNicole Holliday is a sociophonetician\, specifically interested in how people use linguistic variation to perform and construct their social identities and to understand the identities of others through differences in their use of properties related to intonation and voice quality.  Since 2017\, she has been an Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College. She is currently the PI on a grant entitled ““Don’t Take That Tone With Me”: Linguistic Variation and Disciplinary Action on African American Children in Schools” along with Dr. Sabriya Fisher (Wellesley College)\, a project funded by the Lyle Spencer Research Awards.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/sociolinguistic-challenges-for-emerging-speech-technology/
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:20231113T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231113T180000
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SUMMARY:Clinical Trials in Psychedelic Research: Implications for the Alleviation of End-of-Life Existential Distress and the Study of Religious Experience
DESCRIPTION:This presentation will review the history and scientific findings from psychedelic research in end-of-life and palliative care and provide an overview of a soon-to-be-published study on the administration of psilocybin to religious leaders. \nRegister here.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/clinical-trials-in-psychedelic-research-implications-for-the-alleviation-of-end-of-life-existential-distress-and-the-study-of-religious-experience/
LOCATION:1879 Hall\, Room 140
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231113T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231113T183000
DTSTAMP:20260407T085434
CREATED:20231030T204432Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231030T204809Z
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SUMMARY:Our AI Futures: Critical Humanistic Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Widely known for her pioneer research at the intersection of science\, technology\, and politics\, Alondra Nelson holds the Harold F. Linder Chair in the School of Social Science of the Institute for Advanced Study. From 2021–23\, she was deputy assistant to President Joe Biden\, and acting director and principal deputy director for science and society of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. She is the past president of the Social Science Research Council and the first Social Science Dean at Columbia University. In 2023\, she was included in the inaugural TIME100 list of the most influential people in AI. \nDr. Alex Hanna is Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) \n. A sociologist by training\, her work centers on the data used in new computational technologies\, and the ways in which these data exacerbate racial\, gender\, and class inequality. She also works in the area of social movements\, focusing on the dynamics of anti-racist campus protest in the US and Canada. \nIn conversation with Anthropology Assistant Professor Beth Semel\, Princeton University
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/our-ai-futures-critical-humanistic-perspectives/
LOCATION:113 Friend Center
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231114T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231114T180000
DTSTAMP:20260407T085434
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231018T181803Z
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SUMMARY:2023-24 Old Dominion Public Lecture Series - Painting in Common: Works of Love from Denmark’s Modern Breakthrough
DESCRIPTION:Imagine a portrait of a couple in which each paints the other within the same frame. Reciprocal double portraits are extremely unusual in the history of art\, and virtually unheard of in the context of marriage\, but a remarkable group of them were made in late nineteenth-century Denmark. These paintings were part of a broader culture of debate around intimate partnership\, gender inequality\, and domestic life in Scandinavia during “the modern breakthrough” (ca. 1870-1900). What challenges – aesthetic\, social\, and philosophical – do love and intimacy pose for art? For artists? For artists who are women? For models who are wives? Drawing on the philosophical writings of Søren Kierkegaard – who examined the vicissitudes of love and marriage in books like Either/Or\, Repetition\, and Works of Love – and illuminating a group of paintings little known outside Scandinavia\, this lecture opens up questions about artistic collaboration and dynamics of power that rarely make such a vivid appearance. \nRECEPTION TO FOLLOW. \nBridget Alsdorf is professor of art and archaeology and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. A historian of European art from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, her work explores art’s intersections with literature\, philosophy\, and social theory. Her books\, articles\, and essays have focused primarily on nineteenth-century France. Alsdorf’s project as Old Dominion Research Professor is a book titled “Shadowed: Intimacy and Collaboration in Modern Scandinavian Art\,” which explores Scandinavian painting\, photography\, and silent film of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries\, drawing on Søren Kierkegaard’s writings about marriage\, interpersonal suffering\, solitude\, and love. \n\nOld Dominion Research Professors contribute to the Council’s programs and events and engage the campus community in sustained discussions about their research. This cohort of senior faculty join a yearlong program designed to provide additional research time and to enhance the humanities community more broadly. They also serve as faculty fellows in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. Old Dominion Professors are full professors in the humanities and humanistic social sciences.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/2023-24-old-dominion-public-lecture-series/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231114T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231114T183000
DTSTAMP:20260407T085434
CREATED:20231017T144152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231017T172429Z
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SUMMARY:Comparative Diplomatics: “How can Jesuits be mistaken for Buddhist monks? Ōuchi Yoshinaga’s 1552 commendation and its Portuguese and Latin Afterlives”
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Conlan (East Asian Studies) will be presenting on “How can Jesuits be mistaken for Buddhist monks? Ōuchi Yoshinaga’s 1552 commendation and its Portuguese and Latin Afterlives.” \nAll are welcome. Refreshments will be served! \nConveners: Thomas Conlan (East Asian Studies/History)\, Helmut Reimitz (History)\, Marina Rustow (Near Eastern Studies/History) \nCoordinators: Stephanie Luescher (Near Eastern Studies) and Lucia Waldschuetz (History) \nTo receive the edition\, translation and  image of the document discussed during each session\, sign up here. \n\nComparative Diplomatics is sponsored by the Center for Collaborative History with support from the Program in Medieval Studies.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/comparative-diplomatics-how-can-jesuits-be-mistaken-for-buddhist-monks-ouchi-yoshinagas-1552-commendation-and-its-portuguese-and-latin-afterlives-4/
LOCATION:Jones 202\, Jones Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T183000
DTSTAMP:20260407T085434
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SUMMARY:Thomas Mann's Princeton Exile
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate the touring exhibition Thomas Mann: Democracy Will Win!\, presented by the Princeton German Department in the Lower Hyphen in East Pyne from November 6th – 28th\, there will be an official opening at 5pm on Tuesday\, November 14th\, in the Chancellor Green Café\, East Pyne Building. Following opening remarks by Thomas Y. Levin\, the local curator of the exhibition\, there will be a lecture on Thomas Mann’s Princeton Exile by Stanley Corngold\, Professor of German and Comparative Literature\, Emeritus\, Princeton University and author\, besides many other books\, of two recent volumes on Thomas Mann & Princeton: The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton (Princeton University Press\, 2022) and Weimar in Princeton: Thomas Mann and the Kahler Circle (Bloomsbury\, 2022). Signed copies of both volumes will be available for sale at the opening\, which will be followed by a reception.\nThis event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/thomas-manns-princeton-exile/
LOCATION:Chancellor Green Café
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ORGANIZER;CN="Fiona Romaine":MAILTO:fromaine@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T085434
CREATED:20231107T143929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231107T143929Z
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SUMMARY:Atelier@Large: Conversations on Art-making in a Vexed Era – Andrey Kurkov and Alan Lightman
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 Andrey Kurkov\, award-winning Ukrainian journalist and author of 19 novels\, including the international bestseller Death and the Penguin\, and most recently Diary of an Invasion; and Alan Lightman\, award-winning writer\, physicist\, social entrepreneur\, and Princeton alumnus whose novel\, The Diagnosis\, was a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction\, and whose research focuses on the astrophysics of black holes\, astrophysical radiation processes\, and stellar dynamics. \nAdmission: Free and open to the public\, no tickets required.\nAccessibility: Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at least one week in advance at LewisCenter@princeton.edu \n  \n 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/atelierlarge-conversations-on-art-making-in-a-vexed-era-andrey-kurkov-and-alan-lightman/
LOCATION:Richardson Auditorium\, Richardson Auditorium\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lewis Center":MAILTO:lewiscenter@princeton.edu
GEO:40.3483222;-74.6606209
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T210000
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SUMMARY:Reading by Marlon James & Patricia Smith
DESCRIPTION:Man Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James\, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings and the bestselling Dark Star Trilogy; and Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winner and Professor of Creative Writing Patricia Smith read from their work as part of the 2023-24 Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series. \nAdmission: Free and open to the public; advance tickets encouraged through University Ticketing at tickets.princeton.edu.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/reading-by-marlon-james-patricia-smith/
LOCATION:Drapkin Studio at Lewis Arts complex\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lewis Center":MAILTO:lewiscenter@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231115T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231115T132000
DTSTAMP:20260407T085434
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SUMMARY:Humanities and Beyond: Council Funding Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Do you have an “outside the box” idea for a new project or course in the humanities? How about a collaborative research or teaching idea in an emerging or underrepresented humanities field? \nJoin Humanities Council Chair Esther Schor (English) and Executive Director Kathleen Crown for an overview of funding opportunities offered by the Council\, including Magic Grants for Innovation\, Collaborative Humanities Grants\, Team Teaching Grants\, and more. Faculty who have received grants in the past will also share insights into crafting proposals\, and Council staff will answer questions about the application process. Please visit our funding website for more information on eligibility and deadlines. \nRSVP for lunch here. \n\nUpcoming Council Deadlines: \n\nConferences and Project Co-Sponsorship (Faculty): Rolling basis\nProposals for Reading & Working Groups: Rolling basis\, a year or semester in advance\nFaculty Outreach and Community Based Grants: Rolling basis\nGraduate Conferences: September 5 for Fall 2023; January 29 for Spring 2024\nCollaborative Humanities projects: October 10 (first round); January 31 (second round)\nTeam Teaching Grants: December 1\nMagic Grants: January 31\n\nPlease visit our funding website for more information on eligibility and deadlines.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/humanities-and-beyond-humanities-council-funding-information-session/
LOCATION:16 Joseph Henry House
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231115T180000
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SUMMARY:What is the Value of Literature in the Internet Age? Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium as a Guide to Meaningful Digital Communication
DESCRIPTION:In his Six Memos for the Next Millennium\, Italo Calvino offers a critical synthesis of his work\, a rich appraisal of the Western literary tradition\, and a forward-looking vision of the value of literature in the 21st century. In this presentation\, Dr. Luca Cottini investigates Calvino’s Lezioni americane as a prophetic description of the internet age\, and a complex reflection on literature as the ultimate value creator in digital communication. \nCalvino’s concepts anticipate the key features of social media (e.g.\, rapidity and multiplicity)\, visual branding (e.g.\, lightness and visibility)\, and content marketing (e.g.\, exactness and consistency). Calvino’s metaphors (e.g.\, the cloud\, the net\, and the chase) outline the core epistemology of the internet and a new ethics of complexity\, where literature and  storytelling act as creators and multipliers of meaning. Lastly\, Calvino’s idea of literature as an “open encyclopedia\,” and of writing as a dynamic vector connecting invisible points prefigure the polyhedral nature of digital communication and knowledge sharing. \nIn light of these considerations\, the reading of Calvino’s Lezioni aspires to provide a novel perspective on digital communication\, a diverse interdisciplinary approach to Italian Studies\, and a renewed reflection on the status of literature in contemporary academia. \n  \nLuca Cottini is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at Villanova University\, and the creator of Italian Innovators\, a YouTube channel exploring Italy’s approach to innovation and entrepreneurship through profiles\, interviews\, and lessons (on fashion\, food\, technology\, sports\, music\, and engineering). \nTrained in Italy (University of Milan\, BA) and the United States (University of Notre Dame\, MA; Harvard University\, PhD)\, his research and courses touch upon Italian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries; the intersection of arts and business; and the cultural history of industry\, advertising\, and design in Italy. \nHis books include a monograph on 20th century writer Italo Calvino (I passaggi obbligati di Italo Calvino\, Longo 2017)\, an award-winning study on the origins of Italian design (The Art of Objects. The Birth of Italian Industrial Culture\, 1878-1928\, University of Toronto Press\, 2018)\, and a recent biography of chocolate storyteller and entrepreneur Michele Ferrero (Il fabbricante di cioccolato. Nel mondo di Michele Ferrero\, Piemme 2023). \nHis Italian Innovators project (YouTube\, Spotify\, LinkedIn\, and Instagram) bridges academic scholarship and storytelling\, creative and strategic thinking\, as well as Italian and American perspectives on the processes and values underlying meaningful innovation. The channel (bit.ly/italianinnovators) has become a virtual piazza for academics\, students\, designers\, and entrepreneurs across the world (more info at www.italianinnovators.com). His work has been featured in national Italian media (La Stampa\, Sole 24 ore\, Canale 5) and his expertise in content creation and digital communication made him a business mentor and a guest speaker at numerous academic and corporate venues.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/what-is-the-value-of-literature-in-the-internet-age-calvinos-six-memos-for-the-next-millennium-as-a-guide-to-meaningful-digital-communication/
LOCATION:A71 Louis A. Simpson Building
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SUMMARY:Jonah\, or the Prophet At Sea: Hélène Cixous On Prophecy
DESCRIPTION:Hélène Cixous has reflected on prophecy in general\, and on the calling\, craft\, and destiny of prophets in several texts\, with a predilection for Jonah\, starting with her first book\, God’s First Name. In one of the stories of the collection\, “Jonah’s Whale\,” she takes up and rewrites the Biblical Book of Jonah\, in which the prophet famously starts by refusing to announce the end of Nineveh. Much has been written about Jonah’s initial disobedience and persistent frustration with God’s mission. In general terms\, prophecy is not primarily characterized by Cixous as prediction or the conveying of preordained words\, but as a response to a call. In her story\, Jonah’s reluctance is predicated on his lack of certainty about his own name. In this early text and others\, Cixous investigates acts of nomination; understanding what is puzzling in naming sheds light on her stance on prophecy and on the prophet’s condition.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/jonah-or-the-prophet-at-sea-helene-cixous-on-prophecy/
LOCATION:100 Jones Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kelly Eggers":MAILTO:keggers@princeton.edu
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