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SUMMARY:Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration
DESCRIPTION:Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration takes migration as a fundamental source of knowledge of the built environment\, situating it as the central concept\, historical event and method behind a set of feminist narratives of constructed environments and spatial and material practices. Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration is a three-part collection of articles edited by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi and Rachel Lee. We will talk with the editors and screen a video of special guests reading excerpts.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/feminist-architectural-histories-of-migration/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium and Zoom\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Jacquelyn Walsh":MAILTO:jw42@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Open House | Samuel Fosso: Affirmative Acts
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the opening of Samuel Fosso: Affirmative Acts at Art on Hulfish. Born in 1962 and currently working in the Central African Republic\, Samuel Fosso is one of the most renowned contemporary artists based in Africa today. This exhibition will focus on key aspects of Fosso’s work as an artist and a photographer\, underscoring his practice as an image-maker\, commentator\, Africanist\, and global citizen. Though Fosso is one of the best-known photographers from the African continent on the international scene\, this will be the first museum survey of his work in the United States. \nLearn more about the art on view from the exhibition’s curator\, Princeton Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu\, a specialist in African and African Diaspora art history and theory—together with Silma Berrada\, Lawrence Chamunorwa\, Maia Julis\, and Iheanyi Onwuegbucha\, students from his fall 2021 course “Post-1945 African Photography.” \nArt on Hulfish is made possible by the leadership support of Annette Merle-Smith and by Princeton University. Generous support is also provided by William S. Fisher\, Class of 1979\, and Sakurako Fisher; J. Bryan King\, Class of 1993; the New Jersey State Council on the Arts\, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; John Diekman\, Class of 1965\, and Susan Diekman; Christopher E. Olofson\, Class of 1992; Barbara and Gerald Essig; Rachelle Belfer Malkin\, Class of 1986\, and Anthony E. Malkin; the Curtis W. McGraw Foundation; Jim and Valerie McKinney; Tom Tuttle\, Class of 1988\, and Mila Tuttle; Nancy A. Nasher\, Class of 1976\, and David J. Haemisegger\, Class of 1976; Gene Locks\, Class of 1959\, and Sueyun Locks; H. Vincent Poor\, Graduate School Class of 1977; the Walther Family Foundation; and Palmer Square Management. Additional supporters include the Humanities Council\, the Lewis Center for the Arts\, the Africa World Initiative\, the Program in African Studies\, the Department of African American Studies\, and the Center for Collaborative History.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/open-house-samuel-fosso-affirmative-acts/
LOCATION:Art on Hulfish\, 11 Hulfish St\, Princeton\, 08542
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SUMMARY:Translation as Coded Critique
DESCRIPTION:In 2017\, a young boy was arrested while reciting Hamlet’s monologue to passersby on a central Moscow street. Why would a child reciting poetry on a public street be arrested? Does it matter that he was reading a translation of Hamlet? Aided by Russian-language news stories and accounts by independent journalists\, I discuss the event and its framings in light of translation’s role in critiques of Tsarist and Soviet censorship. \nK. Maya Larson is an ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow for the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication. Larson’s essays have appeared in Comparative Literature\, Deleuze and Guattari Studies\, and Amaltea Journal of Myth Criticism. Currently at work on a book about how Aesop’s translated Vita shaped Russian literature\, Larson holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon with a specialization in Translation Studies. \nRegister here.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/translation-as-coded-critique/
LOCATION:Zoom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Yolanda Sullivan":MAILTO:syolanda@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Performance by A. Revathi
DESCRIPTION:The inaugural event of The M.S. Chadha Center for Global India new series\, ‘Power\, Inequality\, Dissent\,’ will be a performance by A. Revathi\, a trans woman activist\, performer\, and writer from southern India. ‘Vellai Mozhi – Frankly Speaking’ is a powerful first-person account of a hijra-thirunangai-transfeminine experience in southern India. Revathi enacts her life as a Tamil trans woman\, stringing stories about finding community\, navigating family relationships\, encountering violence\, embracing hijra-thirunangai life\, building solidarities\, finding and losing love\, and discovering the joys of writing and performing. \nThe performance will be in Tamil with English subtitles and live commentary. Translation & Moderation by Aniruddhan Vasudevan (fellow; Anthropology). \nFull events details will be posted on the The M.S. Chadha Center for Global India events calendar.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/performance-by-a-revathi/
LOCATION:302 Frist Campus Center\, 302 Frist Campus Center\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:James A. Moffett '29 Lectures in Ethics: Du Bois and 'The Souls of White Folk'
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: Professor Gooding-Williams’s paper\, “Du Bois and ‘The Souls of White Folk'” is a study of W.E.B. Du Bois’s moral psychology of white supremacy. Du Bois means his moral psychology to serve two purposes.  The first is a social scientific explanation—specifically\, the social scientific explanation of the domination and exploitation of the world’s darker peoples.  The second is to articulate the Christian white supremacist’s ideal conception of his life as a Christian\, for it is in virtue of this conception that the Christian white supremacist is vulnerable to moral appeal. \nRobert Gooding-Williams is the M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American Studies and Professor of Philosophy and of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University.  He is the author of Zarathustra’s Dionysian Modernism (Stanford\, 2001)\, Look\, A Negro!: Philosophical Essays on Race\, Culture\, and Politics (Routledge\, 2005)\, and In The Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America (Harvard\, 2009).  Gooding-Williams was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018 and was a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow. \nRegistration is required. Click here to register.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/james-a-moffett-29-lectures-in-ethics-du-bois-and-the-souls-of-white-folk/
LOCATION:101 Friend Center
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SUMMARY:PLAS Graduate Works in Progress
DESCRIPTION:Princeton graduate students\, faculty and visiting scholars are invited to learn more about our graduate students’ current research. \n“Pan Americanism at Work”: CINVA and the Portable Brick Machine \nCamila Reyes Alé\, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Architecture \nThis presentation traces the history of the CINVA-RAM\, a manual machine for the production of stabilized-earth blocks created at the Centro Interamericano Experimental y de Adiestramiento en Vivienda (CINVA) in Bogotá\, Colombia\, in 1957. Founded in 1951 as a training center under the “technical cooperation” arm of the D.C.-based Organization of American States (OAS)\, CINVA trained and educated architects\, engineers and social workers from across Latin America with a focus on manual construction techniques applied to housing development and urbanization\, during a period of intense economic and social growth across the region\, and the proliferation of its attendant inequities. CINVA’s primary mission was to research\, experiment and develop technical solutions that were rooted in local materials\, practices and forms of knowledge. The CINVA-RAM was one of these solutions. Acquired by Rockefeller’s International Basic Economy Corporation (IBEC)\, the CINVA-RAM was later patented and sold in multiple countries worldwide becoming a kind of global instrument\, synonymous with terms such as ‘development’\, ‘self-help’ and ‘third world’. This presentation aims to situate the history of the CINVA-RAM as specific both to the history of CINVA as institution and to forms of rural/local building knowledge grounded in South America\, while questioning the neocolonial contradictions of its dissemination as a universal building solution. \nDISCUSSANT\nAna Ozaki\, Princeton-Mellon Fellow in Architecture\, Urbanism\, and the Humanities \n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \n“Violence in the House of Fiction. Conflict and the Forms of Literary Realism in Mexico after the Revolution.” \nAlonso Burgos\, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature \nThe development of the contemporary literary field in Mexico suggests that the overbearing scale of violence and loss that has taken over the country since the start of the “War against organized crime” has thoroughly seeped into the field of cultural production. Indeed\, what many of the most acclaimed and prominent writers of the present share seems to be a concern with the violent disintegration of the communal fabric of the country and its representation in the literary text. In this context\, the turn to the archive and the deployment of documents within the literary form have been hailed as some of the distinctive traits of contemporary Mexican literature. Rather than taking the documentary turn as an unprecedented change in the literary form in Mexico\, this dissertation project will seek to frame documentation as a form of literary realism by taking a look at other documentary practices and realist procedures that were deployed in Mexican literature during past periods of conflict in the last century. By taking a look at the place and role of narrative literature during the Revolution and the Dirty War\, the dissertation aims to offer a better understanding of the situation and the possibilities of the literary field in Mexico amid the contemporary moment of relentless violence. \nDISCUSSANT\nNora Muñiz Hernández\, Ph.D. candidate in Spanish and Portuguese \nMODERATOR\nMaria Smith\, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology \nOpen to students\, faculty\, visiting scholars\, staff and invited guests. A boxed lunch will be provided while supplies last. \nLearn more about our presenters and this workshop here:\nhttps://plas.princeton.edu/events/2022/plas-graduate-works-progress-camila-reyes-al%C3%A9-arc-alonso-burgos-com
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/plas-graduate-works-in-progress-6/
LOCATION:3rd Floor Atrium\, Aaron Burr\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Damaris Zayas":MAILTO:damaris@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Humanities and Beyond: Humanities 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 Acting Chair Tera Hunter (History\, African American Studies) and Executive Director Kathleen Crown for an overview of funding opportunities offered by the Council\, including Magic Grants for Innovation\, Exploratory Grants in Collaborative Humanities\, 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. \nLunch will be served. RSVP here. \n\nUpcoming Council Deadlines: \n\nConferences & Project Co-Sponsorship (Faculty): Rolling basis\nProposals for Reading & Working Groups: Rolling basis\nFaculty Outreach/Community Based Grants: Rolling basis\nGraduate Conferences: January 30 for Spring 2023\nTeam Teaching Grants: December 1\nExploratory Grants in Collaborative Humanities: January 31\nMagic Grants for Innovation: January 31\nOld Dominion Research Professors: February 28\n\nPlease visit our funding website for more information on eligibility and deadlines. \n 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/humanities-and-beyond-funding-info-session/
LOCATION:16 Joseph Henry House
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SUMMARY:On Books\, Bibliography\, Bibliophilia & Associational Literary History
DESCRIPTION:Please Join a Lunchtime Conversation\, “On Books\, Bibliography\, Bibliophilia & Associational Literary History” with Anthony Grafton\, Henry Putnam University Professor of History\, Princeton University and Denise Gigante\, Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities\, Stanford University. Prof. Gigante will discuss her new study: Book Madness: A Study of Book Collectors in America (Yale University Press\, 2022)\, ISBN 978-0-300-24848-7 \nLunch will be provided.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/on-books-bibliography-bibliophilia-associational-literary-history/
LOCATION:Hinds Library\, McCosh\, Hinds Library\, McCosh\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sustainable Oystering: A Farmer-to-Table Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Malin Pinsky\, Rutgers University \n4:30 pm – 6 pm: Presentations and Q&A\n6 pm – 7pm: Tasting/Reception \nRegister on the Effron Center event page. \nAnita Lo is a French-trained chef and cookbook author (Cooking Without Borders and SoLo\, a Modern Cookbook for a Party of One\, which won Eater’s Cookbook of the Year and was nominated for an IACP award) based in New York City. She is best known for her work at annisa\, a contemporary American fine dining restaurant in the West Village which she owned and operated for 17 years and which received a three star rating from the New York Times and a Michelin star among other accolades. She was the first female chef to collaborate for a state dinner at the White House\, under the Obama Administration. She has appeared on numerous television shows and films including Top Chef Masters\, Iron Chef America and The Heat. She is currently working with the Tour De Forks\, hosting culinary tours around the planet. She was recently knighted to the Order of Agricultural Merit from the French government. \nEighteen years ago\, Mike and Isabel Osinky sold their software firm. After a year of trying to retire\, they discovered they owned 5 acres of bottom in Greenport Harbor\, once New York’s oyster capital. Obtaining permits\, they began growing oysters\, taking them weekly into Manhattan. Through trial and error\, advice from the Greenporters who remembered the past trade in oysters\, and support from New York’s finest chefs\, the Widow’s Hole Oyster has become one of the city’s favorites. \nMalin Pinsky\, associate professor at Rutgers University\, is a marine biologist with expertise in ocean conservation\, climate change\, and rapid evolution. His more than 100 publications have appeared in Science\, Nature\, and other journals\, and his research has been covered by The New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, and BBC\, among others. He is an Earth Leadership Fellow and an Early Career Fellow of the Ecological Society of America\, and he was named one of Science News’ ten scientists to watch in 2019. Pinsky serves on advisory boards for the Beijer Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences\, the non-profit Oceana\, and the Chewonki Foundation. He has a Ph.D. in biology from Stanford University and a B.A. in biology and environmental studies from Williams College. He grew up exploring tidepools and mountains in Maine. \nCosponsored by the Effron Center for the Study of America\, the Humanities Council\, the University Center for Human Values\, and the High Meadows Environmental Institute
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/farmer-to-table-with-the-princeton-food-project/
LOCATION:Schultz Dining Room
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Malone":MAILTO:sarah.k.malone@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:The Matter of Inscription in Early Modern China
DESCRIPTION:In addition to writing on paper with a brush and ink\, seventeenth-century Chinese poets and calligraphers carved their words onto a wide range of objects\, from vessels and weapons to musical instruments and desktop tools. Why did leading literary figures work to revivify this ancient form of writing upon things precisely when it was no longer seen as a reliable strategy with which to ensure longevity or to guard against material decay? Working with a selection of artifacts from the late Ming and early Qing\, my talk considers how inscription came to constitute a form of literary thought uniquely attuned to the material contingencies and technical preconditions of writing. By carving inscriptions that query the meaning of durability\, early modern poets and calligraphers interrogated\, and worked to overcome\, rigid dichotomies between solidity and evanescence\, immutable essence and metamorphosis. Rejecting the fixity and closure that writing on a hard surface ought to evoke\, they turned to inscription to name and possess the contradictions of the age. \nThomas Kelly is an Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University where he teaches courses on late imperial Chinese literature. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2017 and was a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan from 2017 to 2019. His first book\, The Matter of Inscription in Early Modern China (forthcoming from Columbia University Press) investigates practices of carving literature onto solid objects in the late Ming and early to mid-Qing dynasties. His research on writing and materiality has appeared in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies\, Late Imperial China\, and a special issue of the Journal of Chinese History on material cultures guest-edited by Dorothy Ko. Other publications on late imperial literature have appeared in the Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature (2013) and the Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021). He is currently serving as the president of the Society of Ming Studies. His work has been supported by fellowships and grants from the Social Science Research Council and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, the Michigan Society of Fellows\, the Franke Institute for the Humanities\, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. \n\nAlso sponsored by the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-matter-of-inscription-in-early-modern-china/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall and Zoom\, 202 Jones Hall\, NJ
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chao-Hui Jenny Liu":MAILTO:chaoliu@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:2022-23 Old Dominion Public Lecture Series - The Less Selfish Gene: Forest Altruism\, Neoliberalism\, and the Tree of Life
DESCRIPTION:Why has the hitherto arcane field of plant communication magnetized millions of general readers? Since the great recession of 2008\, we have witnessed an upsurge in public science writing that popularizes research into forest sentience\, forest suffering and the forest as a form of collective intelligence. \nThis talk roots the contemporary allure of forest communication in a widespread discontent with neoliberalism’s antipathy to cooperative ways of being. Nixon argues that the science of forest dynamics offers a counter-narrative of flourishing\, an allegory for what George Monbiot has called “private sufficiency and public wealth.” \nRECEPTION TO FOLLOW. \nRob Nixon is the Barron Family Professor in Environment and Humanities at Princeton University. His books include\, most recently\, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Nixon is currently an Old Dominion Research Professor in the Humanities Council and is completing a book entitled Blood at the Root. Environmental Martyrs and the Defense of Life (University of Chicago). \nNixon writes frequently for the New York Times. His writing has also appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The Guardian\, The Nation\, London Review of Books\, The Village Voice\, Aeon\, Orion\, Critical Inquiry and elsewhere. Much of Nixon’s work focuses on environmental justice struggles in the global South. He is a particularly fascinated by the role that artists and writers can play in giving imaginative definition to the possibilities for social change. \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. \n 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/2022-23-old-dominion-public-lecture-series-rob-nixon/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:On Writing an Opera about Family Separation at the US-Mexico Border
DESCRIPTION:Anna Deeny Morales will discuss the production of her opera “¡ZAVALA-ZAVALA!” an opera she wrote about a real-life case of a grandmother who was separated from her grandson after crossing the Mexico-US border. “¡ZAVALA-ZAVALA!” debuted at the Kennedy Center with the Georgetown University Orchestra April of 2022. \nABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER\nAnna Deeny Morales is adjunct professor at the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University. She works in poetry and music as a literary critic\, translator\, and librettist. She received a PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and an MA in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College. Deeny Morales is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow for her translation of Tala by Nobel Laureate\, Gabriela Mistral. Her translations of Raúl Zurita’s poetry include Sky Below\, Selected Works (Northwestern University Press\, 2016)\, of which she is also the editor; Dreams for Kurosawa (arrow as aarow press\, 2011); and Purgatory (University of California Press\, 2009). Shearsman Press published her translations of Alejandra Pizarnik’s Diana’s Tree in 2020\, and Mercedes Roffé’s Floating Lanterns in 2015. Composer Theresa Wong set selections of Floating Lanterns to music during her residency at The Stone\, The New School\, New York City\, in 2018\, and for a Long Beach Opera commission in 2020. Deeny Morales has guest edited literary journals such as Almost Island\, based in Mumbai\, India. And her essays and translations of poetry by Amanda Berenguer\, Rosabetty Muñoz\, Malú Urriola\, Diana Bellessi\, Idea Vilariño\, Marosa di Giorgio\, Mirta Rosenberg\, Isabel de los Ángeles Ruano\, and Idea Vilariño\, among others\, have appeared in anthologies and journals such as the Paris Review\, Mandorla\, BOMB\, and the Harvard Review. Forthcoming translations include a volume of selected works by Nicanor Parra (New Directions)\, of which she is also the editor. Her original works in opera include “¡ZAVALA-ZAVALA!” which debuted at the Kennedy Center with the Georgetown University Orchestra. Recent adaptations of zarzuelas include Gonzalo Roig’s Cecilia Valdés (2018)\, and La Paloma at the Wall (2019)\, an adaptation of Tomás Bretón’s La verbena de la Paloma. Both were commissioned by the In Series and performed at Gala Hispanic Theater in Washington\, DC. Original works for contemporary dance and theater include La straniera (1997)\, an adaptation of Medea by Euripides\, and Tela di Ragno (1999–2002)\, inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Both were commissioned by Il Balletto di Spoleto and performed in Italy and Spain. \nDISCUSSANT\nMariana Bono\, Spanish and Portuguese\, Princeton University \nOpen to students\, faculty\, visiting scholars\, staff and invited guests. A boxed lunch will be provided while supplies last.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/on-writing-an-opera-about-family-separation-at-the-us-mexico-border/
LOCATION:216 Aaron Burr Hall\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Damaris Zayas":MAILTO:damaris@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Reading by harris and Otsuka
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning poet francine j. harris (Here Is the Sweet Hand) and bestselling novelist Julie Otsuka (When the Emperor Was Divine\, The Buddha in the Attic) read from their work as part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series\, hosted by the Program in Creative Writing. \nAdmission: Free and open to the public. All guests must either be fully vaccinated\, or have recently tested negative (via PCR within 72 hours or via rapid antigen test within 8 hours of the scheduled visit) and be prepared to show proof if asked\, or wear a face covering when indoors and around others. \nAccessibility: The Film Theater is an accessible venue. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at least one week in advance at LewisCenter@princeton.edu.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/reading-by-harris-and-otsuka/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Steve Runk":MAILTO:LewisCenter@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221115T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221115T210000
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CREATED:20221101T182635Z
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SUMMARY:Atelier@Large: Conversations on Art-making in a Vexed Era
DESCRIPTION:In a series of conversations that bring guest artists to campus to discuss what they face in making art in the modern world\, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon\, director of the Princeton Atelier\, moderates a discussion with Darryl McDaniels\, co-founder of Run-D.M.C.; Jennifer Homans\, historian\, critic\, former ballet dancer and writer of Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet; and internationally acclaimed traditional Irish Sean-nós singer Iarla O’Lionaird. \nAdmission: Free and open to the public\, however tickets are required through University Ticketing at tickets.princeton.edu. \nAll guests must either be fully vaccinated\, or have recently tested negative (via PCR within 72 hours or via rapid antigen test within 8 hours of the scheduled visit) and be prepared to show proof if asked\, or wear a face covering when indoors and around others. \nAccessibility: 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/atelierlarge-conversations-on-art-making-in-a-vexed-era/
LOCATION:Richardson Auditorium\, Richardson Auditorium\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Steve Runk":MAILTO:LewisCenter@princeton.edu
GEO:40.3483222;-74.6606209
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221115T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221115T193000
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SUMMARY:Caribbean Studies Speakers Series: Self-Writing in the Caribbean: An “I” for an “Eye”
DESCRIPTION:Panel III – Self-Writing in the Caribbean: An “I” for an “Eye” \nThe Caribbean Studies Speakers Series represents a collective effort to foreground Caribbean Studies at Princeton University by convening a group of scholars based on their innovative research in and on the region. From experimental soundscapes and digital self-writing to archival pedagogies and emancipatory memory\, the works of these pioneers cross academic disciplines\, not to mention historical\, linguistic\, and national boundaries. They also provide insights into ever-present questions about citizenship and belonging\, racialization and coloniality. The series will consist of three panels\, to take place on September 22\, October 31\, and November 15 of 2022: East Pyne 010\, 5:00 pm. (see events schedule to confirm future panel times and locations as listed here) \nSpeakers: Paloma Duong (MIT)\, Ana Rodríguez Navas (Loyola University Chicago)\nDiscussant: Rubén Gallo (Princeton University)\nChair: Rodney Lebrón Rivera (G4\, Spanish and Portuguese\, Princeton University)\nModerator: Rubens Riol (G2\, Spanish and Portuguese\, Princeton University)
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/caribbean-studies-speakers-series-self-writing-in-the-caribbean-an-i-for-an-eye/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Quinn Russell":MAILTO:qrussell@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221115T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221115T183000
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CREATED:20221110T165623Z
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SUMMARY:"Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition”
DESCRIPTION:Why did artists working in Europe around 1900 depart so dramatically from prior norms of depicting human body language? Modern Art & the Remaking of Human Disposition isolates a hitherto unexamined formal phenomenon in turn-of-the-century modernism––a rupture in conventions of corporeal disposition––to bring new concretion to our historical understanding of how turn-of-the-century European modernity was transforming its concepts of what it means to be human. Drawing out the main historiographic and methodological claims of the book\, this talk will explore how new understandings of human consciousness emerging in psychological and evolutionary sciences were theorized simultaneously in written discourse and in art across a range of media\, through a new vocabulary of postures and poses. More broadly\, the talk will elaborate on how and why bodily pose served in European art and philosophy as a primary device to both conceptualize and visualize psychological concepts. \nEmmelyn Butterfield-Rosen is Acting Director of the Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art at the Clark Art Institute. \nBridget Alsdorf is Professor in Princeton’s Department of Art and Archaeology. She is author of Gawkers: Art and Audience in Late Nineteenth-Century France (Princeton University Press\, 2022) and Fellow Men: Fantin-Latour and the Problem of the Group in Nineteenth-Century French Painting (Princeton University Press\, 2012) \nPlease note:\nA discount code will be provided to each attendee of the event. This code will provide a 30% discount on orders of Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition placed on the University of Chicago Press website. \nImage: Waslav Nijinsky and Flore Revalles in “Afternoon of a Faun”\, Jan. 1917\, University of Washington: Special Collections. \nM+M recommends using face masks whenever indoors. \nPlease visit M+M’s official website for the full events calendar and current information.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/modern-art-and-the-remaking-of-human-disposition/
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
GEO:40.3478617;-74.6561685
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221115T180000
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SUMMARY:PUL Author Talk: “Thirteen Months in Dixie”
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a PUL Author Talk with Jeaninne Surette Honstein and Steven Knowlton who will talk about their adventure in discovering\, transcribing\, and annotating an incredible manuscript that details the thrilling and sometimes horrifying ordeals of a starving prisoner in the last 13 months of the Civil War. \n“Thirteen Months in Dixie” is a rollicking tale of adventure\, captivity\, hardship\, and heroism during the last year of the Civil War in a first-hand account by Oscar Federhen. Federhen wrote his recollections not long after the war\, but they were hidden away for decades as a family heirloom. \nFederhen was a new recruit to the 13th Independent Battery\, Massachusetts Light Artillery\, when he shipped out to Louisiana in the spring of 1864 to participate in the Red River Campaign. Not long after his arrival at the front\, a combination of ill-luck and bad timing led to his capture. Federhen was marched overland to Tyler\, Texas\, where he was held as a prisoner of war in Camp Ford\, the largest POW camp west of the Mississippi River. \nThis event will be held in person. Limited availability. Registration is required.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/pul-author-talk-thirteen-months-in-dixie/
LOCATION:Firestone Library\, Classroom A-6F
ORGANIZER;CN="Stephanie Oster":MAILTO:soster@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221115T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221115T180000
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SUMMARY:"Temptation Transformed: The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple"
DESCRIPTION:The Program in Judaic Studies and the Ronald O. Perelman Institute for Judaic Studies invite you to join us for the 2022 E. Franklin Robbins/UJA-Federation Lecture. This public lecture will be given by Azzan Yadin-Israel\, Professor of Jewish Studies and Classics at Rutgers University\, and is titled “Temptation Transformed: The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple” based on Prof. Yadin-Israel’s upcoming book. \nTuesday\, November 15\, 2022\n4:30 – 6:00 p.m.\nA17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building \n* Registration is required. Please use this link to register for this event. \n* In person attendance is open to Princeton University ID holders and members of the public. In accordance with campus guidelines\, visitors must either be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (including booster)\, have recently received a negative test\, or agree to wear a face mask whenever indoors. \n* Ability to social distance may not be possible. \nIf you have any questions about this event\, please contact Heather Yacone at hyacone@princeton.edu.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/temptation-transformed-the-story-of-how-the-forbidden-fruit-became-an-apple/
LOCATION:A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building\, Washington Rd.\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Heather Yacone":MAILTO:hyacone@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221115T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221115T180000
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SUMMARY:AI and the Future of Religion
DESCRIPTION:Beth Singler is Assistant Professor in Digital Religion(s) at the University of Zurich in the Faculty of Theology. She explores the social\, ethical\, philosophical\, and religious implications of advances in Artificial Intelligence and robotics. A social and digital anthropologist\, Singler has also produced documentary films as part of her public scholarship. Dr. Singler will be interviewed by CCSR Visiting Fellow Suzanne van Geuns\, whose research on the rightwing internet broadly examines the intellectual exchange between computational projects and the gendered or sexual imagination. \nThis is the second event in this year’s Religion and the Public Conversation series. The theme for the 2022-2023 year is “Religion and Technology: From Codex to Coding.” Free and open to the public. The event will not be simulcast but will be recorded and posted on our website.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/ai-and-the-future-of-religion/
LOCATION:Green Hall 0-S-6\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jenny Legath":MAILTO:jlegath@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221114T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221114T210000
DTSTAMP:20260626T000711
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SUMMARY:Book Banning on the Rise
DESCRIPTION:Scholars Marilisa Jiménez García\, William Gleason and Jonathan Zimmerman discuss the current rise of book banning in the United States in historical and contemporary context. Virtual only. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis virtual program explores the rise of book banning in America. Against the backdrop of an unprecedented surge in efforts to ban books\, a panel of experts will examine the topic in both historical and contemporary context. This event will be held via Zoom Webinar. To register\, click here.\n \nPresented in partnership with Labyrinth Books. \nMarilisa Jiménez García is an Associate Professor of Children’s Literature at Simmons University. She is the author of “Side by Side: US Empire\, Puerto Rico\, and the Roots of Youth Literature and Culture” (University Press of Mississippi\, 2021). She researches the role of youth literature in education and racial justice struggles in the US\, and was the founding director of the Institute on Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at Lehigh University. Jiménez García’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic\, Refinery 21\, Children’s Literature\, and Latino Studies. \nBill Gleason is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of English and American Studies at Princeton University. A specialist in U.S. literary and cultural history\, he teaches courses on children’s literature\, popular culture\, and the environmental humanities. He is the author and/or co-editor of five books\, including “The Pocket Instructor: Literature\,” a collection of active learning exercises for the college literature classroom. \nJonathan Zimmerman is Professor of History of Education and the Berkowitz Professor in Education at the University of Pennsylvania. A former Peace Corps volunteer and high school teacher\, Zimmerman is the author of nine books\, including “Free Speech and Why You Should Give a Damn” (with illustrations by Signe Wilkinson) and “The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America.” In fall 2022\, University of Chicago Press will publish a revised 20th-anniversary edition of Zimmerman’s 2002 book\, “Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools.” Zimmerman is also a frequent oped contributor to the Washington Post\, the New York Review of Books\, and other popular magazines and newspapers. He has appeared on the Joe Rogan Show and dozens of other podcasts\, television shows\, and radio spots. Zimmerman previously taught for 20 years at New York University\, where he received its Distinguished Teaching Award in 2008. \n\nPresented with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views\, findings\, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this programming do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/book-banning-on-the-rise/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221114T180000
DTSTAMP:20260626T000711
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SUMMARY:Ecotheories Colloquium: "Waves and Edges: Ecologies of Displacement"
DESCRIPTION:This talk theorizes the edge between the land and the sea in Marianne Moore and Etel Adnan’s poetry. For these poets\, the edge is constituted as an array of fluctuating temporal rhythms created by living organisms and dynamic abiotic elements\, such as changing tides and the rocky or sandy substrates that make up the geological formation of the coastline. In her poem “Sea\,” Adnan writes about how “this erratic edge called restless tide changes its geometry\, and with urgent\, terrifying power\, covers the flat rocky formations” (7). The edge also appears in several of Moore’s poems\, including “The Fish\,” which depicts the intertidal zone populated by injured “crow-blue mussel-shells\,” “ink- / bespattered jelly fish\,” and sea-stars\, which resemble “pink / rice-grains” (41-42). One of Moore’s most famous poems\, “An Octopus\,” in turn\, portrays a transposition between an aquatic and a terrestrial environment by embedding the alpine landscape of Mt. Rainier into the representational space created by the “mimetic” body of an octopus. In the midst of this transposition\, marine and terrestrial ecosystems come to be intermixed and superimposed. This chapter reads such moments as experiments in the textured edges of displacement. In these instances of encounter\, organisms find themselves in unlikely configurations of space and time\, akin to those arising as a consequence of geophysical and ecological redistributions associated with the effects of climate change. This contemplation of displacement is situated within a developing book project\, which draws on Sara Ahmed’s concept of “migrant orientation” to consider how alternate spatial and temporal geometries produced through histories of migration and displacement can reorient our understandings of temporalities and spatialities associated with ecological change. \nA speaker series co-sponsored by: the English Department’s Contemporary Poetry Colloquium\, the High Meadows Environmental Institute\, the Environmental Media Lab\, the Bain-Swiggett Poetry Fund\, the Effron Center for the Study of America\, the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities\, and the University Center for Human Values
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/ecotheories-colloquium-waves-and-edges-ecologies-of-displacement/
LOCATION:111 East Pyne\, 111 East Pyne
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kyra Morris":MAILTO:kyram@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221112T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221112T170000
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SUMMARY:Index of Medieval Art Conference: Looking at Language
DESCRIPTION:Please save the date for the next Index of Medieval Art conference\, “Looking at Language\,” on November 12\, 2022. Assuming no major changes in university or government pandemic protocols\, the conference will be hosted in person as well as live-streamed. It will feature eight medievalist scholars\, in a wide range of specializations\, who will address the many relationships between language and works of art\, including the literal use and/or representation of language in creating a work; the linguistic traditions that surrounded its creation and reception\, and the language now used to analyze and understand it. \nSpeakers will include: \nLudovico Geymonat\, Louisiana State University\nMargaret Graves\, Indiana University\nRuba Kana’an\, University of Toronto\nSean Leatherbury\, University College\, Dublin\nSarit Shalev-Eyni \, Hebrew University\nKathryn Starkey\, Stanford University\nBen Tilghman\, Washington College\nWarren Woodfin\, Queens College CUNY \nThe conference schedule\, location details\, and live stream registration link will be posted on the Index of Medieval Art website in September. Please direct questions to fionab@princeton.edu. More information can be found on the Index of Medieval Art website.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/index-of-medieval-art-conference-looking-at-language/
LOCATION:A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building\, Washington Rd.\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Fiona F Barrett":MAILTO:fionab@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221111T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221111T180000
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SUMMARY:“Listen to the Land Speak: Lost Wisdom of the Land and Language of Ireland”
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling writer and documentary-maker Manchán Magan presents a lecture entitled “Listen to the Land Speak: Lost Wisdom of the Land and Language of Ireland\,” based on his recently published book of the same title. Inspired by language\, landscape and mythology\, Magan explores the insight and hidden wisdom native Irish culture offers to the people of Ireland and the world. Introduced by Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters and Chair of the Fund for Irish Studies Fintan O’Toole. \nAdmission: Free and open to the public; no tickets required. All guests must either be fully vaccinated\, or have recently tested negative (via PCR within 72 hours or via rapid antigen test within 8 hours of the scheduled visit) and be prepared to show proof if asked\, or wear a face covering when indoors and around others. \nAccessibility: The Stewart Film Theater is an accessible venue. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at least one week in advance at LewisCenter@princeton.edu.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/listen-to-the-land-speak-lost-wisdom-of-the-land-and-language-of-ireland/
LOCATION:James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, James M. Stewart ’32 Theater\, 185 Nassau St.\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Steve Runk":MAILTO:LewisCenter@princeton.edu
GEO:40.3467174;-74.6568772
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SUMMARY:The Scale of Space in the Roman World
DESCRIPTION:This talk attempts to provide a theoretical framework for analyzing the phenomenon of scale in the Roman world. Space itself is not the same at different scales\, and scale is not the same at different times. Previous scholars have explored how Romans understood space differently at different scales\, most obviously in work on large-scale space as hodological rather than cartographic. Riggsby revisits Rambaud’s foundational work on space in Caesar\, BG\, arguing that the three types of space Rambaud distinguishes (geographical: Gaul as divided into three parts; strategic: a few days’ march; and tactical: the distribution of troops on a battlefield) are not differentiated by scale but by use context. Yet if we consider how contemporary theories of scale in geography define scale\, the two curve back round to meet: scale itself is not a given\, but is formed by practice. Once we realize this\, it is possible to track change over time. I argue that the arrival of empire as a new scale of cultural relevance changed Roman understandings of scale as well as space. \nAmy Russell is Associate Professor of Classics and History and Director of the Program in Early Cultures at Brown University. She has lived and worked in the US\, the UK\, and Italy. Her research focuses on Roman Republican and early Imperial political and cultural history\, with an enduring interest in space and architecture. Her previous work has been honored with the Goodwin Award and the Philip Leverhulme Prize. She is currently working on monuments of the imperial Senate; the institutional form of the populus Romanus\, and the spatial turn in Roman studies. \n 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-scale-of-space-in-the-roman-world/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell
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SUMMARY:LLL: Mirror in the Sky: The Life and Music of Stevie Nicks
DESCRIPTION:Labyrinth and the Princeton Public Library invite you to a conversation with a distinguished music historian and perhaps the best known\, self-proclaimed\, rock’n roll groupie\, about Morrison’s new musical biography of Stevie Nicks\, which paints a portrait of an artist\, not a caricature of a superstar. \nJoin us at Labyrinth or click here to register for the livestream. \nReflective and expansive\, Mirror in the Sky situates Stevie Nicks as one of the finest songwriters of the twentieth century. This biography examines Nicks as a singer and songwriter before and beyond her career with Fleetwood Mac\, from the Arizona landscape of her childhood to the strobe-lit Night of 1000 Stevies celebrations. Morrison analyzes Nick’s craft\, identifies her many influences\, and connects Nick’s story to those of California’s above- and underground music history. \nSimon Morrison teaches music history at Princeton University. He specializes in 20th-century Russian and Soviet music with expertise in opera\, dance\, film\, sketch studies\, and historically informed performance. His books include Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today; The People’s Artist: Prokofiev’s Soviet Years; and The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev: the Story of Lina and Serge Prokofiev. Mindy Gonzales-Backen is professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Science at Florida State University. She is an author of over 40 scholarly articles and chapters focused on identity\, gender\, and systems of oppression and privilege as they relate to child development and families. She is a lifelong Stevie Nicks superfan and sometimes described as having a doctorate in Nicksology by friends. Her deep love and respect of Nicks’ music and interest in her life has fostered a growing following among fellow fans. \nThis event is part of  Labyrinth’s and the Public Library’s joint programming and is cosponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lll-mirror-in-the-sky-the-life-and-music-of-stevie-nicks/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books and Livestream\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T170000
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SUMMARY:Organizing Stories: Open House
DESCRIPTION:Do you want to bridge advocacy and academia? Organizing Stories connects intellectual work and movement work through our intersectional scholarly-activist praxis. We will be featuring some of this campus’s most prominent advocates and activists. Come learn about our goals and enjoy snacks and swag! \nRSVP Here \nThis ongoing student-driven project investigates the long history of anti-racist activism\, racial justice organizing\, and coalition-building as it relates to questions of narrative\, storytelling\, and humanistic study. By creating new avenues of exchange between Princeton University and community-based social justice work\, students and activists will imagine new ways to support and amplify a scholarly-activist praxis.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/organizing-stories-open-house/
LOCATION:Effron Center Gather Space (Morrison Hall\, 2nd Floor)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T163000
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SUMMARY:Tanner Lectures on Human Values: "Known and Strange Things: The Political Necessity of Art"
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: The relationship between democracy and art has shifted simultaneously in opposite directions. On the one hand\, very few people still believe that aesthetic experience has a positive political value. Yet\, on the other\, democratic practice is increasingly saturated in performativity and the fictional narratives of identity. Ideas that once belonged to artists – provocation\, invention and knowingness – are now the stuff of reactionary politics. \nWe need\, therefore\, to reassert the necessity of art for democratic citizenship. It is through art that we learn how to live at once in different time frames\, as we must do if we are to come to terms with the climate crisis. The aesthetic experience engages with the past but does not pretend that is finished or complete. It creates mental spaces that are “neither here nor there/ A hurry through which known and strange things pass” (Seamus Heaney). It allows us to hover between states without having to land on the fixed terrain of absolutes. The democratic mindset is one in which this capability is embraced and we can behave as if we know who we are and what we are doing even while also knowing that we do not. \nLecture II: Negative Capability \nDemocracy cannot sustain itself without what John Keats called “negative capability” – the capacity to live with doubts\, uncertainties and mysteries without having to impose apparent resolutions. The current crisis of democracy is rooted in the loss of this capacity and the insistence that contradictions are inherently intolerable. How can artists seek to restore it? \n\nFintan O’Toole\nColumnist with The Irish Times and Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Visiting Professor of Irish Letters at Princeton University \nFintan O’Toole is a columnist with The Irish Times and Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Visiting Professor of Irish Letters at Princeton University. He is the winner of both the Orwell Prize for Journalism\, the European Press Prize and the AT Cross Award for Supreme Contribution to Irish Journalism. He is currently working on the official biography of Seamus Heaney. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy. \nBorn in Dublin in 1958\, he has been drama critic of the New York Daily News\, and The Irish Times and Literary Adviser to the Abbey Theatre. He contributes regularly to the New York Review of Books and The Guardian. \nHis most recent book\, “We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland” was named Book of the Year in the 2021 Irish Book Awards. \nCommentators: \nRebecca Solnit\nWriter\, Historian\, Activist \nRebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books on feminism\, western and urban history\, popular power\, social change and insurrection\, wandering and walking\, hope and catastrophe. They include “Orwell’s Roses”; Recollections of My Nonexistence;” “Hope in the Dark;” “Men Explain Things to Me;” “A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster;” and “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school\, she writes regularly for the Guardian\, serves on the board of the climate group Oil Change International\, and just launched the climate project Not Too Late (nottoolateclimate.com). \nAlexander Nehamas\nEdmund N.Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities\, Emeritus\, Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature\, Emeritus at Princeton University \nAlexander Nehamas is the author of “Nietzsche: Life as Literature;” “Virtues of Authenticity: Essays on Plato and Socrates;” “The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault;” “Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art;” and “On Friendship”.  He has translated\, with Paul Woodruff\, Plato’s “Symposium” and “Phaedrus” into English.  At Princeton\, he chaired the Council of the Humanities\, directed the Program in Hellenic Studies\, and was the Founding Director of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts.  He has given the Sather Lectures at the University of California at Berkeley\, the Tanner Lectures at Yale University\, and the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh.  He has received a Mellon Foundation Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities\, he was named a Commander of the Order of the Phoenix by the Greek Government\, and he holds the Chair in the History of Philosophy at the Academy of Athens. \nRegistration is required. Click here to register \nCO-SPONSORS \nCenter for Collaborative History\nDepartment of Anthropology\nDepartment of Art & Archaeology\nDepartment of English\nDepartment of Philosophy\nDepartment of Politics\nLewis Center for the Arts\nPrinceton School of Public and International Affairs\nPrinceton University Art Museum\nPrinceton University Humanities Council\nPrinceton University Public Lectures\nThe Program in Creative Writing at Princeton\nThe Program in Journalism at Princeton
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/tanner-lectures-on-human-values-2/
LOCATION:101 Friend Center
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SUMMARY:Is Democracy in the Arab World a Trap? Reflections on the Arab Spring and the Case of Tunisia
DESCRIPTION:Political messaging to Arab countries before 2011 strongly conveyed the idea that establishing democracy would enable them to join the club of advanced and developed countries. They would not only enjoy freedom but also a standard of living comparable to their neighbors on the north shore of the Mediterranean. Eleven years after the Arab spring events a growing perception exists in the Arab world that democracy is not the ideal form of governance nor an avenue for attaining prosperity. In Tunisia\, for example\, many people believe that democracy has led to a weakened economy and impoverishment. Many perceive the democratic system to have exacerbated social injustices\, weakened the authority of the state\, and resulted in even more corruption and disorder than in the past.\nThis talk will attempt to explain this perception in the Arab world. It will also try to explain why democracy\, despite the many sacrifices and deaths\, has not delivered economic growth and prosperity. Why is it that most Arab countries are not democracies? Are the reasons cultural\, educational\, or something else entirely? Is democracy a trap for the Arab world? \nPrime Minister Youssef Chahed is the youngest appointed head of government of the Republic of Tunisia\, where he served from August 2016 to February 2020. Previously\, he was Minister of Local Affairs and Secretary of State for Fisheries. Prime Minister Chahed is an advocate for freedom of speech\, the press and the protection of civil liberties in Tunisia since the January 2011 revolution. During his mandate\, he led a successful war against terrorist groups such as ISIS and Al Qaeda. He was a leader in the Arab world in the fight against corruption\, smugglers\, and mafia barons. Despite a difficult economic context\, he succeeded in addressing Tunisia public finance issues based on a program signed between Tunisia and the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. Prime Minister Chahed earned his Ph.D. in agribusiness sciences in 2003. \nRegister to attend via Zoom.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/is-democracy-in-the-arab-world-a-trap-reflections-on-the-arab-spring-and-the-case-of-tunisia/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall and Zoom\, 202 Jones Hall\, NJ
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ruchi Chaudhary":MAILTO:rc9054@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:A Bird in the Hand: The Work of ESTAR(SER)
DESCRIPTION:Dream-scholars and archival fabulists\, the artist-researchers of the ESTAR(SER) collective pursue the evasive angel of “pure attention\,” creating occasions to test the power of the focused mind and the vital senses. To celebrate the publication of the group’s new book\, In Search of the Third Bird\, as well as the opening of the year-long exhibition\, “THE THIRD\, MEANING” at the Frye Museum in Seattle\, ESTAR(SER) research associates D. Graham Burnett (Princeton) and Jeff Dolven (Princeton) will sit down with discussant Michael Wood (Princeton) to discuss history\, attention\, and scholarly metafiction. \nJoin us at Labyrinth or register here for the livestream. \nESTAR(SER) is an international research collective concerned with the history—and the mythology—of attention. Recent work includes: “All Senses on the Qui Vive\,” 33rd São Paulo Biennial; “El Halo del Cuidar\,” Reina Sofia\, Madrid; “The Dance of Attention\,” Glasgow International; and “The Milcom Memorial Reading Room and Attention Library\,” Mana Contemporary and the Monira Foundation\, Jersey City. Other installations\, performances\, and lectures have taken place at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris)\, Manifesta (Zurich)\, MoMA PS1 (New York)\, the Museo Tamayo (Mexico City)\, and elsewhere. \nGraham Burnett works at the intersection of historical inquiry and artistic practice. He is a professor of History at Princeton University and the author of a number of books and many essays. Jeff Dolven is a poet and professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of four books\, one of which (Take Care) was written in twenty-four hours. His New English Grammar\, a book of poems\, is out this October from Dispersed Holdings. Michael 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. \nThis event is cosponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/a-bird-in-the-hand-the-work-of-estarser/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books and Livestream\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:LAMB Workshop: Curfew: Or\, For the Time Being
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the Late Antique\, Medieval\, and Byzantine workshop on Wednesday 11/9\, to discuss Jordan Skinner’s paper “Curfew: Or\, For the Time Being.” Andrew Finn will be commenting. Food will be provided. \nAbout LAMB:  \nThe Late Antique\, Medieval\, and Byzantine Graduate Workshop at Princeton (LAMB) provides interdisciplinary forums for presenting research\, fostering community\, and training in professional development. \nRSVP HERE & download the Pre-Circulated Paper on the LAMB website. \nContact Lucia Waldschuetz (lucia.waldschuetz@princeton.edu) or Chiara Battisti (battisti@princeton.edu) with any questions. \nLAMB is sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies and the departments of Art & Archaeology\, English\, History\, Religion\, and Classics.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lamb-workshop-curfew-or-for-the-time-being/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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