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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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SUMMARY:Manuscript and the Human in Modern China
DESCRIPTION:While the stylus\, or handwriting tool\, is typically left out of narratives of technologization\, I am interested in the ways in which manuscript was expressive of modernity. Through an examination of representations of pens and brushes in print media and cinema from the Republican and Socialist eras\, this talk will explore how the stylus served as a metonym for the changing status of the human in manuscript writing in the modern period. While earlier literary examples show that the brush and the human were understood to be commensurable\, mutually resonant categories\, examples from the modern period reveal increasing friction between the human and various forms of manuscript technology. Rapid technological and political changes in the twentieth century led to a reevaluation of the relationship between writer and stylus. This reevaluation began in the early twentieth century with attempts to integrate mechanized forms of inscription into a human-centered writing process\, and resulted in anxiety over the gradual sidelining of the writing subject. Examples from Maoist cinema in the latter half of the twentieth century show the replacement of this anxiety with an embrace of the non-human into narratives of inscription. \nChloe Estep is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese and Sinophone Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania. Her current book project\, Print Classicism: Poetry\, Politics\, and Media in Republican China\, 1911-1949\, examines how print periodicals enabled the transformation and expansion of classical poetics in early twentieth century China\, and is supported by a Luce/ACLS China Studies Early Career Fellowship. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Nan Nü: Men\, Women\, and Gender in China\, Comparative Literature\, and The Translation Studies Reader\, and her translation of Lu Yao’s 1982 novel Life was published in 2019. She holds a PhD in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University\, an MA in Chinese Studies from the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, and an AB in Comparative Literature from Princeton University.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/manuscript-and-the-human-in-modern-china/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall
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SUMMARY:The Poetics of Reading: In Conversation with Maureen N. McLane and Rowan Ricardo Phillips
DESCRIPTION:Maureen N. McLane is a poet\, scholar\, and critic whose work often arises from the conjunction of romanticism and/or now. She has published seven books of poetry: Same Life (FSG\, 2008); World Enough (FSG\, 2010); This Blue (FSG\, 2014); Mz N: the serial (FSG\, 2016); Some Say (FSG\, 2017); What I’m Looking For: Selected Poems (Penguin UK\, 2019); and More Anon: Selected Poems (FSG\, 2021). Her poems have appeared in e.g. Bomb\, Granta\, London Review of Books\, The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, and PN Review; her work has been translated into Czech\, French\, Greek\, Italian\, and Spanish. Her book My Poets (FSG\, 2012)\, an experimental hybrid of memoir and criticism\, was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography. Her scholarship has focused on British romanticism and longer histories of poetries in English: she is the author of Balladeering\, Minstrelsy\, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry (Cambridge UP\, 2008\, 2011) and Romanticism and the Human Sciences (CUP\, 2000\, 2006). She co-edited The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry (2008). \nRowan Ricardo Phillips is a Distinguished Professor of English at Stony Brook University. A highly acclaimed\, multi-award-winning poet\, author\, screenwriter\, academic\, journalist and translator\, Phillips is the author of several books. His poetry collections include The Ground (FSG\, 2012)\, Heaven (FSG\, 2015)\, Living Weapon (2020)\, and the forthcoming Silver (FSG\, 2024). He is also the author of When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness (a new edition of which is forthcoming from FSG) and the nonfiction book The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey. His translations\, primarily from Catalan\, have appeared widely; including his translation of Salvador Espriu’s classic short-story collection Arianda and the Grotesque Labyrinth (Dalkey Archive\, 2012).Phillips has written on contemporary art for Artforum as well as for David Kordansky Gallery. In 2021\, an exhibition inspired by one of Phillips’ poems\, “The Beatitudes of Malibu” debuted at the David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles. Phillips is a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine\, the President of the Board of the New York Institute of the Humanities\, and the poetry editor of The New Republic. \nSponsored by the Department of English\, the Bain-Swiggett Fund; IHUM\, Lewis Center for the Arts\, the Department of Comparative Literature\, UCHV
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-poetics-of-reading-in-conversation-with-maureen-n-mclane-and-rowan-ricardo-phillips/
LOCATION:60 McCosh Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jessica Brofsky":MAILTO:jbrofsky@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:“Reconnection\, Resistance\, and Land Back”
DESCRIPTION:Tara Houska\, Couchiching First Nation\, will present “Reconnection\, Resistance\, and Land Back.” This is the third talk in the fall 2023 Environmental Humanities and Social Transformation Colloquium. \nAn indigenous perspective on climate and frontlines action. What can we do\, how do we heal\, how does connectivity play a role in movement? \nThe colloquium is co-funded by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI)\, and the Fluid Futures Forum (a Humanities Council Magic Project) and co-sponsored with Anthropology\, the Department of English\, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies\, and the Eco-Theories Colloquium.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/fluid-futures-forum-and-environmental-humanities-colloquium-talk-by-tara-houska-couchiching-first-nation/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Anne McClintock":MAILTO:am31@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T170000
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SUMMARY:"Tricks of the Light”
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Program in Media + Modernity | Princeton University \nJonathan Crary\n“Tricks of the LIght”\n[Response: Hal Foster]\nWednesday\, November 15\, 2023 @5pm ET\nN107 (School of Architecture) \n:: Please note that this event will take place on Wednesday\, instead of Tuesday :: \nJonathan Crary\, internationally known for his groundbreaking and widely admired studies of modern Western visual culture\, will discuss his recent book\, Tricks of the Light: Essays on Art and Spectacle (Zone Books\, 2023)\, a compelling selection of Crary’s responses to modern and contemporary art and to the transformations of twentieth-century media systems and urban/technological environments. Tricks of the Light explores the work of painters\, performance artists\, writers\, architects\, photographers\, and filmmakers\, while it is enhanced by several expansive essays on the historically unstable status of television\, assessing its many-sided role in the reshaping of subjectivity\, temporality\, and the operation of power. \nJonathan Crary is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University. His books include Techniques of the Observer (MIT Press\, 1992)\, Suspensions of Perception (MIT Press\, 2001)\, 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep (Verso\, 2013)\, and Scorched Earth (Verso\, 2022). \nHal Foster is Townsend Martin\, Class of 1917\, Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. His publications include Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet\, Bataile\, Jorn\, Paolozzi\, Oldenburg (Princeton University Press\, 2020)\, What Comes After Farce? Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle (Verso\, 2020)\, and Conversations about Sculpture\, with Richard Serra (Yale University Press\, 2018). \nM+M strives to make everyone feel welcome. If you are concerned that room N107 will not provide adequate physical accommodation for you\, please contact us in advance to discuss it. \nPlease visit M+M’s official website for details and current information.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/tricks-of-the-light/
LOCATION:Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Iason Stathatos":MAILTO:iasons@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:"The State"
DESCRIPTION:The future of our species depends on the state. Can states resist corporate capture\, religious zealotry\, and nationalist mania? Can they find a way to work together so that the earth heals and its peoples prosper? Two eminent writers and thinkers — one a philosopher\, one a journalist — consider these questions and their answers. \nIn his new book\, Philip Pettit examines the nature of the state and its capacity to serve goals like peace and justice within and beyond its borders. \nOffering an account that is more realist than utopian\, Pettit starts from the function the polity is meant to serve\, looks at how it can best discharge that function\, and explores its ability to engage beneficially in the life of its citizens. This enables him to identify an ideal of statehood that is a precondition of justice. Only if states approximate this functional ideal will they be able to deal with the perennial problems of extreme poverty and bitter discord as well as the challenges that loom over the coming centuries\, including climate change\, population growth\, and nuclear arms. \nPhilip Pettit is Professor of Human Values at Princeton University and Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University\, Canberra. He is the author of Republicanism\, On the People’s Terms\, and Just Freedom\, among other books. Fintan O’Toole is a columnist for the Irish Times and  professor in the Lewis Center for The Arts at Princeton University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and the Guardian\, he is the author of many acclaimed books\, most recently of We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland\, which is on the list of best books of 2023 of The NYTimes\, The Atlantic\, The Washington Post\, The New Statesman. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council\,  Center for Human Values\, and Lewis Center for the Arts.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/philip-pettit-fintan-otoole-the-state/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:“The Shape of Water – Surveying the Aqueducts of the Knossos Region in Crete”
DESCRIPTION:Amanda Kelly has been mapping the aqueducts in the Knossos region of Crete since 2019 as part of her field project\, “The Aqueducts of the Greater Iraklio Area” (AGIA)\, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation. Amanda’s fieldwork initially targeted the Roman aqueduct supplying Knossos\, but developed into a much wider chronological survey when she identified the Ottoman-Egyptian and Venetian aqueducts supplying what is now modern Iraklio. In this lecture\, Amanda will focus on the Venetian aqueduct\, highlighting the many challenges faced by engineers in securing the civic water supply for Candia.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-shape-of-water-surveying-the-aqueducts-of-the-knossos-region-in-crete/
LOCATION:203 Scheide Caldwell\, 203 Scheide Caldwell
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eleni Banis":MAILTO:hbanis@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Severe Brain Injury\, Neuroethics & Disability Rights: Why the Sciences & Humanities must be in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Advances in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of consciousness heighten the possibility of recovery but also raise value questions that require more than scientific expertise. To address the challenge of covert consciousness\, the promise and possibility of emerging therapeutics\, and ensure the promotion of disability rights\, neuroscience must be in conversation with the humanities. Drawing upon his experience with novel trials such as the use of deep brain stimulation in severe brain injury\, Dr. Fins will emphasize the importance of epistemic pluralism – drawing on the sciences and humanities – when addressing medical advances in research and practice. \nJoseph J. Fins is an Old Dominion Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and Department of Classics in Fall 2023. He is the founding Chair of the Ethics Committee of New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center where he is an Attending Physician and Director of Medical Ethics. The author of over 500 papers\, chapters\, essays\, and books\, his most recent volume is Rights Come to Mind: Brain Injury\, Ethics\, and the Struggle for Consciousness (Cambridge University Press\, 2015). He was appointed by President Clinton to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy and currently serves on the New York State Task Force on Life and the Lawby gubernatorial appointment.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/severe-brain-injury-neuroethics-disability-rights-why-the-sciences-humanities-must-be-in-conversation/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Decolonization of Higher Education in East Africa
DESCRIPTION:Higher Education in the East African Countries of Kenya\, Tanzania\, and Uganda was a creation of the British colonial government right from the 1920s when Makerere College was established as a tertiary institution that trained a few East and Central African students to prepare them to take jobs in support of the economic growth of the United Kingdom. The curriculum that was followed in the Higher Education Institutions in East Africa was a replica of the one that was being taught in Higher Education Institutions in the United Kingdom. In this presentation\, I will seek to demonstrate that since independence in the ’60s\, Higher Education in East Africa has experienced an exponential growth of Universities and other tertiary institutions. I will trace this transformation while underscoring how the development of Higher Education in East Africa contributed to the struggle for freedom and independence from colonial bondage. I will highlight how the curriculum has evolved allowing both the learners and the lecturers to engage in introspection as they go on to decolonize their minds and culture.\nTracing the history of University education from the 1920s\, I will demonstrate that during the colonial period\, the driving force behind the development of Education in general and Higher Education\, in particular\, was to ensure that there would be an adequate supply of a trained human capital that could be deployed in a strategic economic undertaking whose proceeds would be repatriated to the home country of the colonizers. I will also discuss the question of the curriculum\, language\, and culture in an attempt to indicate that the use of English in the three countries continues to be a pertinent question that scholars are debating to date.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/decolonization-of-higher-education-in-east-africa/
LOCATION:144 Louis A. Simpson Building
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ORGANIZER;CN="Fiona Romaine":MAILTO:fromaine@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:"Marcel Proust"
DESCRIPTION:From one of our most subtle and witty critics\, who invariably shows us how to read with fresh eyes\, comes a book on the experience of reading Marcel Proust. \nWhat would the world be like without the work of Proust\, where would we be if it hadn’t happened? This is how Michael Wood found himself writing about Proust’s work as an event and about events in relation to that work itself. The event that created the figure we know as Proust did not take a whole lifetime\, we can date it to within certain months\, perhaps certain weeks\, of a certain year\, 1908. That was when Proust the interesting occasional writer and full-time socialite\, turned into an ostensible hermit and a real novelist. \nThis short book says something about the event as a lifetime affair\, and shows what the sudden change of 1908 looks like. It explores the work of Marcel Proust as an event in the world\, something that happened to literature and culture and our understanding of history. This event has more aspects than we can count\, but this book offers detailed critical snapshots of seven of them: the birth of Proust as a novelist; what he teaches us about the mythology of beginnings; about metaphor as a kind of rebellion; about love as a permanent anxiety attack; about the Dreyfus Affair; about the concept of justice; about the mythology of endings. \nMichael Wood is professor emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He has written widely on 20th century literature\, film\, and literary theory and is an admired cultural critic who writes regularly for the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. He is the author of seminal books on Nabokov\, Marquez\, Yeats\, Oracles\, and much more. His book previous to Marcel Proust is Alfred Hitchcock: The Man Who Knew Too Much. Christy Wampole is Professor of French at Princeton University and the author of Degenerative Realism: Novel and Nation in 21st Century France; Rootedness: The Ramifications of a Metaphor; and The Other Serious: Essays for the New American Generation. \n This event is cosponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council and French and Italian as well as Comparative Literature Departments.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/michael-wood-marcel-proust/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:UCHV Film Forum: "The Green Border" (2023)\, a film by Agnieszka Holland
DESCRIPTION:The University Center for Human Values Film Forum presents a screening of “The Green Border” (2023)\, a film by Agnieszka Holland on November 16 and a discussion with the director on November 17. Visit the Film Forum website for more details.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/uchv-film-forum-the-green-border-2023-a-film-by-agnieszka-holland/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="kim girman":MAILTO:kgirman@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:All The Things They Wish They Said
DESCRIPTION:Written by Matthew Cooperberg ‘26\nDirected by Orion Lopez-Ramirez ’26 \nFriday and Saturday 11/17-18 at 8pm\, Sunday 11/19 at 2pm \nAfter Kane loses the love of his life\, he thinks he might have found a second chance in Felix. He’s everything he could ever want\, but his past threatens to turn his dreams of love into a nightmare. \nTickets can be purchased at tickets.princeton.edu or on-site.\nGeneral Public $12.00\nSeniors\, Faculty\, Staff $10.00\nStudents $8.00*\n*or free with Passport to the Arts!
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/all-the-things-they-wish-they-said/
LOCATION:Theatre Intime\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kat McLaughlin":MAILTO:km6212@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Princeton Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:The biennial Princeton Poetry Festival\, organized by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon\, returns with a full day of readings\, panel discussions and a lecture featuring poets from around the world\, including Mei-mei Berssenbrugge\, Joyelle McSweeney John Okrent\, Roger Reeves\, and Philip Schultz from the U.S.; Valzhyna Mort from Belarus; Padraig Regan from Ireland; and Luci Tapahonso from the Navajo Nation. \nAdmission: Free and open to the public; no tickets required. Guests are invited to attend all or part of the day’s events. Free box lunches will be available to Festival audiences.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/princeton-poetry-festival-3/
LOCATION:Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lewis Center":MAILTO:lewiscenter@princeton.edu
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231117T132000
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SUMMARY:"Byzantium Revisited: A Focus on Modern Greek Painting"
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop exploring examples of European culture from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries – including theater\, cinema\, poetry\, and painting – I will discuss the strong interest that Western Europeans had in Byzantine culture. At first glance\, the common threads uniting the work of such disparate Greek artists as Costis Parthenis\, Photis Contoglou\, Yiannis Tsarouchis\, Aghinor Asteriadis\, and surrealist Nikos Engonopoulos may not be apparent. Yet upon closer examination\, it’s clear that each of these artists had a passion for Byzantine culture. Incorporating traditional and modern elements into their work proved essential to creating a new visual discourse.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/byzantium-revisited-a-focus-on-modern-greek-painting-2/
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:20231117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231117T133000
DTSTAMP:20260702T072453
CREATED:20231107T152315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231107T152315Z
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SUMMARY:UCHV Film Forum: Conversation with Agnieszka Holland
DESCRIPTION:The University Center for Human Values Film Forum presents a screening of “The Green Border” (2023)\, a film by Agnieszka Holland on November 16 and a discussion with the director on November 17. Visit the Film Forum website for more details.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/uchv-film-forum-conversation-with-agnieszka-holland/
LOCATION:A71 Louis A. Simpson Building
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231117T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231117T213000
DTSTAMP:20260702T072453
CREATED:20231026T131446Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231026T131446Z
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SUMMARY:Princeton Pianists Ensemble Presents: Aurora
DESCRIPTION:The Princeton Pianists Ensemble presents its fall 2023 concert\, “Aurora.” We’ll be exclusively performing our own\, brand-new arrangements of music spanning four centuries\, including arrangements of pieces by Mozart and Debussy and songs from the Lord of the Rings\, ET\, and Mario franchises\, just to name a few. “Aurora” is also a great opportunity to visit Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall\, one of the jewels of Princeton’s campus and history. All are welcome to attend! Get tickets here.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/princeton-pianists-ensemble-presents-aurora/
LOCATION:Alexander Hall\, Richardson Auditorium\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Roberto Lachner":MAILTO:roberto.lachner@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231127T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231127T132000
DTSTAMP:20260702T072453
CREATED:20230929T164736Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231121T150314Z
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SUMMARY:The Prado at Princeton
DESCRIPTION:Featuring four scholars who will present their research in connection with the current exhibition: \nThe Lost Mirror:  Jews and Conversos in Medieval Spain\n \nMuseo Nacional del Prado\, Madrid\nOctober 10\, 2023­­—January 14\, 2024 \nParticipants: \nCloe Cavero de Carondelet\nFellow\, Center for Research on Global Catholicism\nSaint Louis University \nYonatan Glazer-Eytan\nAssistant Professor of History\nPrinceton University \nDavid Nirenberg\nDirector and Leon Levy Professor\nInstitute for Advanced Study \nPamela Patton\nDirector\, The Index of Medieval Art\nPrinceton University \nLunch will be served. \nSpace is limited. Please RSVP here\, to confirm attendance.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-prado-at-princeton/
LOCATION:105 Chancellor Green\, 105 Chancellor Green\, Princeton\, NJ\, 05844\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231127T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231127T132000
DTSTAMP:20260702T072453
CREATED:20231124T202021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231124T202021Z
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SUMMARY:Ukraine\, War\, Love: Olena Stiazhkina and Dominique Hoffman on Writing and Translating War
DESCRIPTION:Join Ukrainian writer and historian Olena Stiazhkina\, her American translator Dominique Hoffman\, and Princeton’s Translator in Residence Hanna Leliv for a conversation about writing and translating war in Ukraine. Participants will discuss Ukraine’s complex linguistic landscape and explore recent shifts in language and identity as reflected in Stiazhkina’s latest novel\, “Cecil the Lion Had to Die.” Hoffman will also share her experience of translating into English this tour de force of stylistic registers and intertwining voices. \nCo-Sponsored by EPS\, REES and the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/ukraine-war-love-olena-stiazhkina-and-dominique-hoffman-on-writing-and-translating-war/
LOCATION:144 Louis A. Simpson Building
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ORGANIZER;CN="Yolanda Sullivan":MAILTO:syolanda@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231127T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231127T173000
DTSTAMP:20260702T072453
CREATED:20231010T172408Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231011T185454Z
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SUMMARY:The Unburied: Material Histories of Film in the Owens Valley
DESCRIPTION:The Owens Valley\, a slender stretch of high desert in Eastern California\, is a place of origins. It has played a major\, if underrecognized\, role in the industrial development of Los Angeles\, particularly for the silver extracted in the late 19th century and the water diverted into the Los Angeles Aqueduct in the early 20th. These and other histories have been inscribed\, though often miswritten\, in film\, including in the nearly 500 Hollywood productions shot in the region’s Alabama Hills. But look closer into these beginnings and one will find traces of the lives and labors of dispossessed Indigenous peoples\, Mexican settlers\, and Asian immigrants. This talk focuses on the latter group: Chinese miners killed in a devastating accident at the Cerro Gordo mine\, Japanese-Americans interned at Manzanar\, and the minor characters that\, through their background expressions in films\, point to a different direction for the Hollywood imaginary. The history of film\, in its most basic\, material composition of silver nitrate\, is conditioned by these half-buried figures\, however incidental they have been to an already neglected landscape. As the experience of “film” has become all but entirely digitized\, the retrieval of these foundational elements of the film image reveals a representational form whose geographical and material origins are still largely unexplored. \nGenevieve Yue is an associate professor of Culture and Media and director of the Screen Studies program at Eugene Lang College\, The New School. She is co-editor of the Cutaways series at Fordham University Press\, and her essays and criticism have appeared in Reverse Shot\, October\, Grey Room\, The Times Literary Supplement\, Film Comment\, and Film Quarterly. She is also an independent film programmer\, with screenings at Anthology Film Archives\, Metrograph\, Light Industry\, and\, most recently\, Tallinn Photomonth\, a biennial of contemporary art and visual culture in Tallinn\, Estonia. Her book Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality was published in 2020 by Fordham University Press.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-unburied-material-histories-of-film-in-the-owens-valley-12/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231207T200000
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SUMMARY:When Pages Breathe: Immersive Elocution of Literature\, an installation
DESCRIPTION:Lecturer in Theater Chesney Snow and students in his fall course\, “The Oral Interpretation of Toni and William\,” present a multimedia oral interpretation of literature installation that examines speech as an aspect of fine art through the exploration of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby\, as well as the literary canons of iconic American writer Toni Morrison and English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. The installation also includes work by visual artists Brian Gonzalez and AK Lovelace and New York City-area high school students and features live music by AJ Khaw. The work to be presented is inspired by the writings of Fitzgerald\, Morrison and Shakespeare’s first folio in the University Library’s Special Collections archive and featured in the Library’s current exhibition\, In the Company of Good Books: Shakespeare to Morrison.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/when-pages-breathe-immersive-elocution-of-literature-an-installation/
LOCATION:CoLab Gallery\, Lewis Arts Complex
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Lewis Center for the Arts":MAILTO:lewiscenter@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231128T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231128T132000
DTSTAMP:20260702T072453
CREATED:20230922T182240Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Faculty Colloquium: “El Greco – Architect?”
DESCRIPTION:The Program in Medieval Studies is pleased to offer the Faculty Colloquium series for Fall 2023. Charlie Barber\, Donald Drew Egbert Professor of Art and Archaeology\, will present this lunchtime talk on Tuesday\, November 28. \nToday\, Domēnïkos Theotokópoulos (El Greco)\, ca. 1540-1614\, is primarily known today for his extraordinary and distinctive paintings. In the seventeenth century\, attention was also drawn to his relationship with architecture. Over the past century\, the nature of this architectural identity has generated a regular\, slight\, but unresolved conversation. In this paper\, Professor Barber would like to return to this topic\, and consider what it was that Theotokópoulos wanted from architecture and why it was possible for his near contemporaries to describe him as an architect. \nPlease RSVP Here. Lunch will be provided.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/medieval-faculty-colloquium-el-greco-architect-2/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231128T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231128T180000
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SUMMARY:“I Judge No One: A Political Life of Jesus”
DESCRIPTION:David Lloyd Dusenbury Lounge Seminar \n\nAbout the book \nWhy was Jesus\, who said ‘I judge no one’\, put to death for a political crime? Of course\, this is a historical question—but it is not only historical. Jesus’s life became a philosophical theme in the first centuries of our era\, when ‘pagan’ and Christian philosophers clashed over the meaning of his sayings and the significance of his death. Modern philosophers\, too\, such as Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche\, have tried to retrace the arc of Jesus’s life and death. \nI Judge No One is a philosophical reading of the four memoirs\, or ‘gospels’\, that were fashioned by early Christ-believers and collected in the New Testament. It offers original ways of seeing a deeply enigmatic figure who calls himself the Son of Man. \nDavid Lloyd Dusenbury suggests that Jesus offered his contemporaries a scandalous double claim. First\, that human judgements are pervasive and deceptive; and second\, that even divine laws can only be fulfilled in the human experience of love. Though his life led inexorably to a grim political death\, what Jesus’s sayings revealed—and still reveal—is that our highest desires lie beyond the political. \nAbout the author \nDavid Lloyd Dusenbury is a philosopher and historian of ideas\, whose books include The Innocence of Pontius Pilate (also published by Hurst) and Platonic Legislations. He is a senior visiting fellow at Budapest’s Danube Institute\, and he currently holds a joint chair at the University of Antwerp’s Institute of Jewish Studies and University Centre Saint-Ignatius. He writes for The Times Literary Supplement\, La Lettura\, and others.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/i-judge-no-one-a-political-life-of-jesus/
LOCATION:1879 Hall\, Room 140
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T164500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T180000
DTSTAMP:20260702T072453
CREATED:20231121T151403Z
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SUMMARY:When Pages Breathe: Bringing Literature to Life — An Oral Interpretation of The Great Gatsby
DESCRIPTION:Experience the magic of classic American literature through the art of oral interpretation as the Program in Theater in collaboration with Princeton University Library’s special collections exhibition presents\, When Pages Breathe: Bringing Literature to Life. Join us for a mesmerizing performance of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s seminal work\, The Great Gatsby\, presented by Literature to Life with actor Bryce Foley. This compelling performance adapted and directed by Kelvin Grullon\, promises to transport you to the Roaring Twenties—a time of opulence\, jazz\, and the complexities of the American Dream. Dive into the exploration of social stratification\, the stark contrasts between ‘old money’ and ‘new money\,’ and the intricate dynamics of gender\, race\, and environmentalism woven into the narrative. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to engage with the story in both performance and discussion. With special guests Elise Thoron\, Bryce Foley\, and Kelvin Grullon. This is not just a performance; it’s an homage to the timeless spirit of one of America’s greatest literary masterpieces and one Princeton’s most renowned alums\, F. Scott Fitzgerald\, Princeton Class of 1917. Hosted by Lecturer in Theater Chesney Snow in conjunction with his fall course\, “The Oral Interpretation of Toni and William\,” and will include presentations by students in the class. Also presented in collaboration with the Library’s special collections exhibition\, In the Company of Good Books: Shakespeare to Morrison.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/when-pages-breathe-bringing-literature-to-life-an-oral-interpretation-of-the-great-gatsby/
LOCATION:Drapkin Studio at Lewis Arts complex\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Lewis Center for the Arts":MAILTO:lewiscenter@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T190000
DTSTAMP:20260702T072453
CREATED:20231115T231109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231126T160448Z
UID:57412-1701192600-1701198000@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Reading by Kwame Dawes and Creative Writing Seniors
DESCRIPTION:Critic\, editor and poet Kwame Dawes\, winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry\, a Pushcart Prize\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and author of the recent collection Sturge Town\, reads from his work along with seven creative writing seniors. The C.K. Williams Reading Series showcases senior thesis students of the Program in Creative Writing with established writers as special guests. \nAdmission: Free and open to the public; advance tickets encouraged through University Ticketing at tickets.princeton.edu. \nAccessibility: The Kerr Studio is an accessible venue. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at least one week in advance at lewiscenter@princeton.edu
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/reading-by-kwame-dawes-and-creative-writing-seniors/
LOCATION:Godfrey Kerr Theater Studio\, Lewis Arts complex\, 122 ALEXANDER STREET\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Lewis Center":MAILTO:lewiscenter@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T193000
DTSTAMP:20260702T072453
CREATED:20230727T160331Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231017T174050Z
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SUMMARY:"Prickly Moses: Poems" & "Aurora Americana: Poems"
DESCRIPTION:Labyrinth Books and the Princeton University Press invite you for an evening of readings by the poets whose collections are the most recent in the Press’s Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. The series is edited by Professor Susan Stewart. Professor Stewart — herself an acclaimed poet\, critic\, as well as translator — will introduce the poets\, and we will celebrate her tenure\, (which is coming to a close)\, as editor of this series. \nAn uncanny blend of the external and the intimate has been a hallmark of Simon West’s poetry for nearly twenty years. In this new collection\, the Australian poet and Italianist delights in the transforming and endlessly varied powers of naming and speaking. Again and again\, language and the senses throw themselves into the nameless riot of the world\, from eucalypts and clouds to a medieval bell tower and the sounds a pencil makes as it crosses a page. \nIn Aurora Americana\, Myronn Hardy\, an American poet who moved back to the United States after living for years in Morocco\, reflects on exile and return as he describes the experience of leaving North Africa and rediscovering a North America both recognizable and unrecognizable. What does it mean to feel exiled both away from and at “home”? What does it mean to miss something? With poems set at or near dawn\, Hardy explores an ominous yet hopeful new morning in America\, one in which potential cataclysm exists alongside possibility and change. \nSimon West is the author of four previous collections of poetry\, including Carol and Ahoy and The Ladder\, which was shortlisted for the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. He is also the author of Dear Muses? Essays in Poetry and the editor and translator of The Selected Poetry of Guido Cavalcanti. Myronn Hardy is the author of five previous books of poems\, including Radioactive Starlings. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, Poetry\, the New Republic\, and the Baffler\, among other publications\, and have won many prizes\, including the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award. He teaches at Bates College. \nThis event is co-presented by Princeton University Press and cosponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council and English Department.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/susan-stewart-princeton-university-press-poets-simon-west-and-myronn-hardy-prickly-moses-poems-aurora-americana-poems/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T193000
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SUMMARY:"Beyond Reparations: Post-Colonial Loudreaders\, Colonial Footprints\, and the case for white studies”
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Program in Media + Modernity | Princeton University \nWAI Think Tank\n“Beyond Reparations: Post-Colonial Loudreaders\, Colonial Footprints\, and the case for white studies”\n[Response: V. Mitch McEwen]\nTuesday\, November 28\, 2023 @6pm ET\n201\, Morrison Hall (African American studies) \nEvent co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies (AAS). \n:: Please note that this event will start at 6:00 pm instead of 5:00 pm\, and that it will take place in Room 201 (Morisson Hall)\, instead of Room N107 (SoA):: \nAddressing the scaffolding of reparations\, WAI Think Tank proposes to redefine the post-colonial\, not as life after the colony (since Puerto Rico continues being one after more than 500 years)\, but as the brutalizing regimes historically imposed on the colonial plantations spilling on the rest of the world like organic matter. This condition of planetary urgency calls for radical practices of solidarity and education like the loudreaders that shared anti-capitalist and anti-colonial imaginaries in the tobacco factories of the Caribbean\, and the possibility and necessity of white studies that account for the colonial footprint of the architectures of white supremacy\, capitalism\, heteropatriarchy and the cosmogonies of destruction and subjugation they produce and reproduce. \nNathalie Frankowski and Cruz Garcia are co-founders of WAI Architecture Think Tank and the free and alternative education platform and trade-school LOUDREADERS. They are authors of several books including A Manual of Anti-Racist Architecture Education\, and co-editors of Journal of Architectural Education issue on Reparations! and InForma Journal issue on Networks of Solidarity. \nV. Mitch McEwen is an Assistant Professor at Princeton’s School of Architecture. She is principal of Atelier Office\, director of the Black Box Research Group\, and co-founder of the Black Reconstruction Collective. \nM+M strives to make everyone feel welcome. If you are concerned that room S118 will not provide adequate physical accommodation for you\, please contact us in advance to discuss it.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/beyond-reparations-post-colonial-loudreaders-colonial-footprints-and-the-case-for-white-studies/
LOCATION:201 Morrison Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Iason Stathatos":MAILTO:iasons@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T132000
DTSTAMP:20260702T072453
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231117T200918Z
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SUMMARY:Plato on the Spirit of the Law
DESCRIPTION:Visit the University Center for Human Values website for information.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/plato-on-the-spirit-of-the-law/
LOCATION:301 Wooten Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Dawn Disette":MAILTO:ddisette@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231129T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231129T180000
DTSTAMP:20260702T072453
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231115T230001Z
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SUMMARY:Ticha: archival texts\, linguistic analysis\, and language activism
DESCRIPTION:There are thousands of pages of texts written in Zapotec from the 17c and 18c. In fact\, Zapotec has one of the largest corpora of early alphabetic texts in the Americas. In this talk\, I present Ticha: a digital text explorer for Colonial Zapotec (https://ticha.haverford.edu; Lillehaugen et al. 2016\, Broadwell et al. 2020)\, a digital humanities project which makes this corpus accessible to a diverse global audience. I reflect on how linguists can be productive partners in this type of interdisciplinary public humanities project (Plumb et al. in press) and share how Ticha is being used by members of the community to reclaim words and strengthen language programs (Lopez 2021). Finally\, I’ll also show how linguists are using the corpus to better understand the Zapotec morphosyntax and semantics over the last three hundred years\, including the development of the progressive aspect (Broadwell 2015)\, two-part negation (Anderson and Lillehaugen 2016)\, and the positional verb system (Foreman and Lillehaugen 2017). \nBrook Danielle Lillehaugen is Associate Professor and Chair of Linguistics at Haverford College. She received her Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California\, Los Angeles in 2006 and has been learning from speakers of Zapotec languages since 1999. She publishes on the grammar of Zapotec in both its modern and colonial forms\, including publications in Language Documentation and Conservation\, International Journal of American Linguistics\, and Tlalocan. Lillehaugen is the co-director of Ticha: a digital text explorer for Colonial Zapotec. Her work has been supported by the NSF\, NEH\, and the ACLS.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/ticha-archival-texts-linguistic-analysis-and-language-activism/
LOCATION:1-S-5 Green Hall\, 1-S-5 Green Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T180000
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SUMMARY:Sinews of the Soul: Comparing Christian Baptism and Indigenous Adoption
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reception following the lecture. \nThis event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP Here. \nFor all of the real and important contrasts between them\, the Indigenous peoples and French Catholic colonists who encountered one another in seventeenth-century New France were both convinced that spiritual change was possible across cultural\, linguistic\, and ethnic lines.  Both saw religious belonging and cultural identity as being essentially behavioral – and thus volitional – rather than as an immutable ethnic given.  Both boasted powerful rituals that could effectively transform strangers into kin: positing a kind of symbolic rebirth or soul shift involving the reception of a new name and identity that literally and objectively re-made the individual concerned from “one of them” into “one of us.”  For Indigenous people\, this ritual was adoption.  For Catholics\, it was baptism.  This presentation will explore the many fascinating parallels between Indigenous adoption and Catholic baptism in seventeenth century New France\, and chart how these ceremonies of transformative incorporation were themselves transformed with the imposition of foreign blood quantum measurements as an index of Indigenous identity in the late nineteenth century. \n\n \nEmma Anderson graduated with a Ph.D. in American Religious History from Harvard University in 2005\, and has taught at the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa ever since.  An expert on the religious encounter between Catholic missionaries and Indigenous peoples in colonial North America\, she is the author of two award-winning books published by Harvard University Press. Her first book\, The Betrayal of Faith: The Tragic Journey of a Colonial Native Convert explores the momentous transatlantic transformation of an Indigenous boy\, Pierre-Antoine Pastedechouan.  Her second work\, The Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs critically re-examines the lives and deaths of eight slain Jesuits in the 1640s\, and probes the ongoing consequences of their veneration for Indigenous peoples. \nAs Pathy Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies\, Prof. Anderson teaches the Program in Humanistic Studies course\, Indigenous Peoples and Christianity\, and continues to write her current monograph-in-progress\, Dawn in the West: How the Thought of Indigenous People Ushered in Modernity\, which delineates the seminal impact of Indigenous perspectives upon Enlightenment philosophes. To read more about Anderson’s teaching\, publications\, and current projects\, please visit her website at www.emmajaneanderson.com.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/sinews-of-the-soul-comparing-christian-baptism-and-indigenous-adoption-as-mechanism-of-incorporation-in-early-modern-new-france-8/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium\,  School of Architecture\, Betts Auditorium\, School of Architecture\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:HOS Colloquia: Listening to Albert the Great on the Art of Becoming a Natural Scientist
DESCRIPTION:Katja Krause is a historian of science and medicine\, and a philosopher specializing in medieval thought and beyond. She received her PhD in 2014 from King’s College London for her dissertation entitled “Aquinas’ Philosophy of the Beatific Vision: A Textual Analysis of his Commentary on the Sentences in Light of Its Greek\, Arabic\, and Latin Sources.” After her doctorate\, Krause was awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science\, where she worked on a series of articles examining the empirical turn of the thirteenth century that emerged from the appropriation of Averroes’ commentaries on the corpus Aristotelicum. In 2016/17 she served as Assistant Professor in Medieval Thought at Durham University\, UK\, and in 2017/18 was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Divinity School\, supported by the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften. Krause is currently Leader of the Max Planck Research Group “Experience in the Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body\, ca. 800–1650\,” jointly with a professorship at the Technische Universität Berlin. \nKatja Krause has recently completed the edited volume Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation (edited with Maria Auxent and Dror Weil\, Routledge 2023); the volume Contextualizing Premodern Philosophy: Explorations of the Greek\, Hebrew\, Arabic\, and Latin Traditions (edited with Luis Xavier López-Farjeat and Nicholas Oschman) is in press. Her translation of Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on Peter Lombard’s Sentences IV.49.2\, with introductions and notes\, appeared in autumn 2020 with Marquette University Press. \n\nThis event is sponsored by the Program in the History of Science and the Program in Medieval Studies
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/hos-colloquia-listening-to-albert-the-great-on-the-art-of-becoming-a-natural-scientist-2/
LOCATION:211 Dickinson Hall
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