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SUMMARY:Economic Challenges Amidst Times of Crisis in Latin America
DESCRIPTION:Leonard Jay Horwitz *68 Lecture \nThis discussion will feature the renowned economist and policymaker from Colombia\, José Antonio Ocampo. Ocampo recently held a position as Finance Minister in Colombia and has grappled with the challenging task of implementing progressive economic measures during times of financial distress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic\, the war in Ukraine\, and rising interest rates in the United States. \nHis presentation will bring exciting and on-the-ground debates about the economic challenges faced by his country to the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS) at Princeton. Additionally\, Ocampo will provide a more general reflection on Latin America’s role in the global economy. This talk will appeal to anyone interested in the region\, as well as those interested in economic policymaking and macroeconomic issues. \nThis event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/economic-challenges-amidst-times-of-crisis-in-latin-america/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Damaris Zayas":MAILTO:damaris@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:ALTHEA Reading: by Ling Ma & Sandra Cisneros
DESCRIPTION:Fiction writer Ling Ma\, author of the novel Severance and the story collection Bliss Montage\, and MacArthur Foundation Fellow and National Medal of Arts-winning writer Sandra Cisneros read from their work to kick off the 2023-24 Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/althea-reading-by-ling-ma-sandra-cisneros/
LOCATION:Drapkin Studio at Lewis Arts complex\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="lewiscenter@princeton.edu":MAILTO:lewiscenter@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231003T180000
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SUMMARY:Panel: Creativity in the Age of ChatGPT
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a panel discussion featuring a diverse set of voices from the tech industry\, journalism\, the arts\, and higher education. Participants will consider how ChatGPT\, and generative AI more broadly\, will alter how we define\, understand\, and practice creativity in the future. \nRishi Jaitly\, Princeton University alumnus and former Trustee\, former executive at Twitter\, Google\, and YouTube\, and current Distinguished Fellow at Virginia Tech’s Center for Humanities\, will serve as moderator. The panel features eminent and diverse voices from the worlds of art\, tech\, and higher education\, including: \n\nMin Li Chan\, Essayist\, Technologist\, Alphabet/Google alum\nEdward Jones-Imhotep\, Director\, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology\, University of Toronto\nHelena Sarin\, Engineering Artist\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged but not required.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/panel-creativity-in-the-age-of-chatgpt/
LOCATION:Community Room\, Princeton Public Library\, Community Rm\, Princeton Public Library\, 65 Witherspoon Street\, Princeton\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Cliff Robinson":MAILTO:crobinson@princetonlibrary.org
GEO:40.3572976;-74.6672226
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231003T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231003T183000
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SUMMARY:"Birdcalls: A roundtable"
DESCRIPTION:For this work\, sometimes referred to as “Patriarchal Rollcall”\, Louise Lawler sounded out the familiar names of male artists dominating the art world in the 1970s using the chirps and peeps of birdcalls – activating the artistic tradition of mimesis but with a twist. ​The humor of the work is tinged with urgency as it attests to how the constant repetition of these names operates to block the voices of women artists\, artists of color and other underrepresented persons. Installing Birdcalls also calls attention to the importance of sound and animal studies to current discourses on aesthetics and hence to the environmental conditions undergirding the making and showing of art today. \nSylvia Lavin is a Professor of History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University. Her work explores the limits of architecture across a wide spectrum of historical periods. Her publications include Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture\, Everything Loose Will Land: 1970s Art and Architecture in Los Angeles and Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths. She is currently working on a new book\, Building Sylvan Media. \nThomas Y. Levin is an Associate Professor of German at Princeton University. He teaches media theory and history\, cultural theory\, intellectual history\, aesthetics\, and sound studies. His publications include The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility\, and Other Writings on Media\nand Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother \nMaria Hsiuya Loh is a Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study. She is an expert in the field of early modern Italian art and theory. She is the author of Titian Remade: Repetition and the Transformation of Early Modern Italian Art\, Still Lives: Death\, Desire\, and the Portrait of the Old Master\, and Titian’s Touch: Art\, Magic & Philosophy. She is currently working on her new book: Liquid Sky: Visual Representations of the Early Modern Sky. \nGavin Steingo is a Professor of Music at Princeton University. His research examines sound and music as fundamental features in the construction of global modernity\, with research specializations in African music\, sound studies\, acoustic ecology\, and music and philosophy. He is the author of Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanity\, and Kwaito’s Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa. \nReception to follow the roundtable discussion. \nEvent co-organized by the School of Architecture\nand the Program in Media and Modernity.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/birdcalls-a-roundtable/
LOCATION:Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Gabrielle Langholtz":MAILTO:gml@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231003T163000
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SUMMARY:Homer's Hippiad: From the First Deaths to the Last Word
DESCRIPTION:Mules are the first deaths in the timeline of the poem; the last word of the poem is ἱπποδάμοιο\, “breaker of horses.” In between\, horses (and mules) share with men the experiences of battle\, hard labor\, and athletic excellence\, and with women\, being judged by their beauty\, seized as spoils\, and offered as prizes. They have names and pedigrees. They may be free or enslaved. They may be mortal\, like most humans\, or immortal\, like gods and certain heroes. They may even have a share in that most human of behaviors\, speech. What can we learn about the human actors in the poem by observing their equine counterparts? \nSupport for this project is provided in part by Princeton’s Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature\, Humanities Council\, Lewis Center for the Arts\, Princeton University Public Lectures Committee\, Program in Humanistic Studies\, and the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/from-the-first-deaths-to-the-last-word/
LOCATION:A71 Louis A. Simpson Building
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ORGANIZER;CN="Luke Soucy":MAILTO:lsoucy@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231003T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231003T173000
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SUMMARY:Princeton University Library Author Talk: Ryo Morimoto "Nuclear Ghost"
DESCRIPTION:“There is a nuclear ghost in Minamisōma.” This is how one resident describes a mysterious experience following the 2011 nuclear fallout in coastal Fukushima. Investigating the nuclear ghost among the graying population\, Ryo Morimoto encounters radiation’s shapeshifting effects. \nMorimoto\, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University\, has written one of the first in-depth ethnographic accounts of coastal Fukushima in English\, “Nuclear Ghost.” In conversation with physicist and co-director of Princeton’s Program in Science and Global Security\, Zia Mian\, Morimoto presents the stories of residents who aspire to live and die well in their now irradiated homes and their determination to recover their land\, cultures\, and histories for future generations. \nMorimoto and Mian will also discuss Princeton’s role in nuclear-related research and projects. \nThis special author talk is brought to you by Global Japan Lab\, the Humanities Council\, and Princeton University Library.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/princeton-university-library-author-talk-ryo-morimoto-nuclear-ghost/
LOCATION:Firestone Library\, Classroom A-6F
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stephanie Oster":MAILTO:soster@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231003T120000
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SUMMARY:The Future of Hong Kong: Is free speech dead?
DESCRIPTION:The widespread 2019 protests in Hong Kong\, and the imposition of a sweeping new National Security Law the following year\, irrevocably changed the fabric of this once open and free-wheeling society. Dozens of civil society groups\, labor unions and political parties disbanded\, news outlets were shuttered and dozens of activists were arrested or fled into exile overseas. But while Hong Kong has plummeted in global press freedom rankings\, journalists continue to do their jobs every day\, and the territory remains a regional hub for many foreign media organizations. How much space still exists for independent media in the new Hong Kong? And how are journalists learning to navigate this new normal? \nKeith Richburg\, Washington Post columnist. With discussant Stephen F. Teiser\, Suzuki Professor in Buddhist Studies and Professor of Religion. \nRegistration is now open; space is limited.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-future-of-hong-kong-is-free-speech-dead-5/
LOCATION:16 Joseph Henry House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231003T110000
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Peruvian Filmmaker Melina  León
DESCRIPTION:Oct 3\, 2023\, 11:00 am – 12:20 pm\nOct 3\, 2023\, 1:30 pm – 2:50 pm\n\nPlease join us for a special Q&A in Spanish with Peruvian filmmaker Melina León on her debut feature film Canción sin nombre (2019) available on Princeton University Kanopy Streaming. This event is co-sponsored by the Spanish and Portuguese department\, the Humanities Council and the Department of Music. \nRegister here.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/a-conversation-with-peruvian-filmmaker-melina-leon/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Amina Shabani":MAILTO:abshabani@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231002T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231002T160000
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SUMMARY:Racial politics in Latin America
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this special Q&A with Professor Mariela Noles Cotito\, from Universidad del Pacífico (Perú). Noles Cotito is a professor of Political Science and Discrimination and Public Policies. Her research portfolio includes human rights\, gender equality\, non-discrimination\, and the analysis of public inclusion policies in the country. More recently\, she has focused on ethnicity policies in Latin America and legislation that promotes the rights of Afro-descendant populations in the region. In this open event\, Professor Noles Cotito will talk to the attendants and answer questions in both Spanish and English.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/racial-politics-in-latin-america/
LOCATION:011 East Pyne
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ORGANIZER;CN="Anais Holgado Lage":MAILTO:anaish@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231002T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231002T133000
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SUMMARY:Mellon Forum: 'Faith Shines Equal' / Airport Sublime
DESCRIPTION:The major 1950’s expansion of New York International Airport (JFK) by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey included space for free-standing Catholic\, Protestant\, and Jewish chapels. The Tri-Faith Chapel Plaza the first of its kind and the origin of the now ubiquitous airport prayer rooms\, was publicly feted as a project of American religious cooperation and religious freedom. But in truth it was in a top-down initiative of the secular planners and architects that confounded the plaza’s religious partners. This less familiar and more surprising history invites several distinctive and important ways to understand the challenges of placing religion in modern America. While the tri-faith chapel’s creation calls new attention to the exclusionary principles at work in modern conceptions American religious pluralism\, I argue that viewing the plaza as a component of the larger airport plan allows us to also catch a glimpse of a longstanding modernist desire to build an American landscape that would support a spiritual citizenry released from “architectural” religion altogether. \nThis is a hybrid event. Attend in person at the School of Architecture\, or register for the zoom webinar. \n\nThe Fall 2023 Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment is kindly sponsored by the Mellon Foundation and the Princeton University Humanities Council\, Program in Latin American Studies\, Center for Collaborative History\, Departments of Art & Archaeology and English\, HMEI\, PIIRS\, SPIA\, and the School of Architecture. \nMellon Forum events are free and open to the public. Boxed lunches are available while supplies last.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/mellon-forum-faith-shines-equal-airport-sublime/
LOCATION:School of Architecture and Zoom
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SUMMARY:Timbuktu Grooves Festival: Djandjoba
DESCRIPTION:Djandjoba or “The Big Gathering” is the final performance of the Timbuktu Grooves Festival celebrating the vibrant sounds and rhythms of the African continent and its diaspora. This concerts transports listeners spiritually to West Africa by the calming sound of the kora\, an ancient 21-sring African harp\, with a duet performed by master griots Wassa Kouyate from Mali and Flatie Dembele from Burkina Faso. The program will also highlight contemporary African music played by SÖ Percussion\, Dafra Kura band from Burkina Faso\, and the Princeton University Afrobeat Ensemble. \nTickets: $15 General | $5 Student \nPassport to the Arts Eligible \nClick here for livestream
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/timbuktu-grooves-festival-djandjoba/
LOCATION:Alexander Hall\, Richardson Auditorium\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230930T200000
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SUMMARY:Timbuktu Grooves Festival: Fatoumata Diawara
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Timbuktu Grooves Festival\, McCarter Theatre Center presents a concert highlighting Malian singer-songwriter Fatoumata Diawara\, wielding her electric guitar to write songs that blend Wassoulou folk music\, spiritually centered Afropop\, and desert blues. Singing mostly in Bambara\, the national language of Mali\, Diawara sings about migration\, African identity\, motherhood\, and the struggle of African women. A veteran of the screen and stage\, she debuted as an actress in the ‘90s\, appearing in films such as Cheick Oumar Sissoko’s La Genèse and the Oscar-nominated Timbuktu. Since her 2011 debut LP Fatou\, she’s collaborated with the likes of Herbie Hancock\, Bobby Womack\, Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers\, and Damon Albarn (Blur\, Gorillaz)\, who co-produced her latest album London Ko. In 2019 she became the first Malian artist to perform at the Grammys\, where she was nominated for “Best World Music Album” for her 2018 record Fenfo (Something to Say). \nTickets*: $25-$55 available at www.mccarter.org \n*Princeton University Students can access FREE tickets with Passport to the Arts using code PUTIGER. Tickets must be booked ONLINE with student ID. More Info on PU Student Tix: www.mccarter.org/tigertix \nPrinceton University Faculty & Staff get 20% off with code PUSTAFF24 (Zones B & C only) \n\nBe sure to check out additional Timbuktu Grooves concerts here: \n\nTimbuktu Grooves Festival: Djandjoba
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/timbuktu-grooves-festival-fatoumata-diawara/
LOCATION:Matthews Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230929T200000
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SUMMARY:Timbuktu Grooves Festival: Once the Dust Settles Flowers Bloom
DESCRIPTION:Olivier Tarpaga‘s humanist piece Once the Dust Settles Flowers Bloom is the first of three concerts in the Timbuktu Grooves Festival celebrating the vibrant sounds and rhythms of the African continent and its diaspora. The piece sheds light on refugees of Burkina Faso and the Sahel region\, who were displaced after fleeing from the shadow of jihadists. Seven dancers and five musicians from Burkina Faso\, Mali\, Senegal\, Benin\, Morocco and France will channel the strength and beauty of this displaced population. \nThis performance will begin with a brief moderated conversation with Olivier Tarpaga. \nThe performance is in partnership with McCarter Theatre Center and Seuls en Scène\, Princeton French Theater Festival. \nBONUS: Afrobeats After-Party! Join us for a post-show after-party at the McCarter Lobby\, featuring drink specials\, live DJ\, and dancing! \nTickets*:  $25-$65 available at www.mccarter.org \n*Princeton University Students can access FREE tickets with Passport to the Arts using code PUTIGER. Tickets must be booked ONLINE with student ID. \nMore Info on PU Student Tix: www.mccarter.org/tigertix \nPrinceton University Faculty & Staff get 20% off with code PUSTAFF24 (Zones B & C only) \n\nBe sure to check out additional Timbuktu Grooves concerts here: \nTimbuktu Grooves Festival: Fatoumata Diawara \nTimbuktu Grooves Festival: Djandjoba
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/timbuktu-grooves-festival-once-the-dust-settles-flowers-bloom/
LOCATION:Matthews Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Concert: "Greek Rock Sounds: Rhythms and Riffs Across Cultures" featuring PANEL
DESCRIPTION:Building upon last year’s successful event with Sounds of Cyprus\, musicians from the Princeton Hellenic Studies community will collaborate in a concert performance with PANEL\, by Elena Chris and Peter Douskalis. Greek Rock Sounds takes listeners on a journey through the evolution of Greek rock music and its cross-cultural influences including blues\, jazz\, Latin\, and reggae. \nAs each era and subgenre of Greek rock unfolds\, the song selections demonstrate the profound impact of globalization and multilingual cultural exchange inherent in rock ‘n roll. The adaptation and combination of styles\, including folk melodies and rhythms\, results in a rich musical culture experience. \nPANEL is the emergence of the collaborative musicing of Peter Douskalis and Elena Chris\, and is a project that blends together their passions in American music\, Greek music\, original music\, Sounds of Cyprus\, and education programs. \nThe concert takes form as a multimodal lecture and performance presentation. \nPerformers:\nElena Chris\, voice\, Artistic Director\nPeter Douskalis\, guitar\, Music Director and orchestrator\nDominic Frigo\, bass\nKasey Blezinger\, drums and percussion \nPrinceton Musicians:\nSimeon Brown GS\, guitar and percussion\nJacob Neis GS\, clarinet\nKarolina Rokka ’27\, voice\nNikitas Tampakis ’14\, viola \nFree and Open to the Public \nRegistration for all attendees is required either at the door or in advance\, online \n.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/concert-greek-rock-sounds-rhythms-and-riffs-across-cultures-featuring-panel/
LOCATION:301 Frist Campus Theater
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230929T133000
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SUMMARY:Structuring Itelmen Word Order
DESCRIPTION:Word order in Itelmen (itl\, Chukotko-Kamchatkan) is quite flexible and has not been previously studied in any depth. This talk draws on a small text corpus to investigate the role of Information Structure in conditioning the distribution of object-verb and verb-object (OV\,VO) word orders. Although speakers in elicitation contexts generally assent to both orders and describe them as meaning the same\, a robust pattern emerges in the corpus: O denoting new discourse entities are overwhelmingly preverbal\, while given objects may occur pre- or post-verbally. In this talk\, I argue that these results have a variety of implications: (i) the observed pattern converges with other evidence that Itelmen is an OV language and provides an argument that the VO order in Itelmen is not simply a calque from Russian\, (ii) the Information-Structural evidence provides a means to resolve a syntactic puzzle about the analysis of perception verb complements in Itelmen\, (iii) the pattern contributes to larger debates about the syntactic/grammatical representation of new versus given (or topic and focus)\, potentially arguing against “focus-movement” (cartographic) perspectives\, and (iv) Information Structure provides a better characterization of the OV/VO alternations than competing accounts of such alternations that appeal to extra-grammatical communicative efficiency\, notably those rooted in ambiguity avoidance with animate objects. \n  \nJonathan David Bobaljik (B.A. McGill\, Ph.D. MIT) is Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University. He previously held faculty positions at McGill University and the University of Connecticut. He has worked with speakers of the Itelmen language in Kamchatka since 1993. His recent publications include Universals in Comparative Morphology  (MIT Press 2012) and Bogoras’s 1901 Itelmen Notebooks (Kulturstiftung Sibirien 2023\, with M. Pupynina and A. Syuryun).
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/structuring-itelmen-word-order/
LOCATION:1-S-5 Green Hall\, 1-S-5 Green Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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SUMMARY:Innovation Forum
DESCRIPTION:Innovation Forum is the Keller Center’s annual competition and networking event showcasing Princeton research with commercialization\, or cultural and societal potential. Princeton faculty\, research staff\, postdocs\, and graduate students present their research in a three-minute presentation to the audience and a panel of judges\, followed by a question and answer period. Following the presentations is a poster session and networking reception where participants can further discuss and demonstrate their research. \nThe event consists of two distinct tracks: \n\nScience and engineering innovations\nSocial sciences and humanities innovations\n\n\n\nOpen to the public and the campus community. Refreshments will be served. Registration is required. \n\n\nInnovation Forum is co-sponsored by the Office of Technology Licensing and the Humanities Council.\n \n\n\n12 pm – Registration/Check-in opens\n12:30 pm – Opening remarks & STEM pitches\n1:35 pm – Keynote\n2 pm – Humanities pitches\n3 pm – Demo station reception\n3:45 pm – Winners announced
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/innovation-forum/
LOCATION:Frist Multipurpose Room\, Frist Multipurpose Room
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230929T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230930T180000
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SUMMARY:The Chinua Achebe Symposium and 10th Anniversary Memorial Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Princeton University’s Africa World Initiative and Program in African Studies in partnership with The Christie and Chinua Achebe Foundation are hosting the Chinua Achebe Symposium and 10th Anniversary Memorial celebration on September 29th and 30th. \nMore information can be found here.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-chinua-achebe-symposium-and-10th-anniversary-memorial-celebration/
LOCATION:50 McCosh Hall\, 50 McCosh Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T163000
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SUMMARY:Carlos Fonseca *15 | A Discussion on His Latest Novel: Austral
DESCRIPTION:Princeton alumnus Carlos Fonseca *15 will be in conversation with Xita Rubert\, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature\, to discuss his latest novel Austral. Translated by Megan Mcdowell\, Austral (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\, 2023) is a story that deals with issues concerning memory\, extinction and language. Rubert and Fonseca will be discussing these themes as well as his work on the Latin American archival novel\, testimony\, the language of pain and the limits of expression. \nABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER \nCarlos Fonseca was born in Costa Rica in 1987\, brought up in Puerto Rico and graduated from Princeton in 2014. He was selected by the Hay Festival as part of the Bogotá 39 group (2016)\, by Granta magazine as one of the twenty-five best young Spanish-language writers (2021) and by Encyclopaedia Britannica as one of the twenty most promising writers in the world for their ‘Young Shapers of the Future’ series (2022). His previous novels are Colonel Lágrimas and Natural History\, both translated by Megan McDowell. His work has been translated into more than ten languages. He is Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Latin American Literature at the University of Cambridge \, where he is a fellow of Trinity College. His latest novel\, Austral\, has been described by The New York Times as a “a masterly voyage of discovery\, both physical and intellectual.” \nThis event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/carlos-fonseca-15-a-discussion-on-his-latest-novel-austral/
LOCATION:216 Aaron Burr Hall\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Damaris Zayas":MAILTO:damaris@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T180000
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SUMMARY:Embodied Minds in the Late Capitalist System: Suicide and Environmental Degradation in Africa
DESCRIPTION:This talk limns the landscape of suicide in Africa\, but also here in the US\, as a means to contemplate the deadly and I believe escalating psychic toll of our environmental predicament. It asks how climate change — a welter of incremental\, corrosive shifts layered with sudden catastrophic events generated and perpetuated through industrial systems of profit can get under the skin and into the human psyche.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/embodied-minds-in-the-late-capitalist-system-suicide-and-environmental-degradation-in-africa/
LOCATION:144 Louis A. Simpson Building
ORGANIZER;CN="Fiona Romaine":MAILTO:fromaine@princeton.edu
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T180000
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CREATED:20230907T181042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230907T181042Z
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SUMMARY:McGraw Center Faculty Special Event: A Celebration of Excellent Teaching and Mentoring
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a celebration of excellent teaching and mentoring! This event will feature short pedagogy presentations by and engaged discussion with recent winners of the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching\, followed by a wine and cheese reception. Featuring presentations by Matt Weinberg (Computer Science ); Neta A. Bahcall (Astrophysics); and Jesse Gomez (Neuroscience)
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/mcgraw-center-faculty-special-event-a-celebration-of-excellent-teaching-and-mentoring/
LOCATION:330 Frist\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ruthie Boyce":MAILTO:ruthieb@princeton.edu
GEO:40.3467174;-74.6568772
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230928T180000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Song and the Sounding of World\, Body\, and Imagination
DESCRIPTION:LUDUS and the Program in Medieval Studies present “Medieval Song and the Sounding of World\, Body\, and Imagination:” a lecture-performance by Sarah Kay and Concordian Dawn.   \n“Almost everything we might wish to know about the sound of medieval music is lost to us\,” warns Daniel Leech-Wilkinson. Through the double medium of discursive speculation and live performance\, Sarah Kay and Concordian Dawn set out in this lecture-performance not to know medieval song – we agree that is not possible – but to relive some of its affective realities\, which we locate not in the objective worlds of time\, place\, or historical circumstance\, but in dynamic interactions between body and world inflected by imagination. The sounds of this song are conjured not just by birds and fountains\, but by celestial beasts and alluring sirens. Some of these sung texts represent the singing subject captivated by beauty\, others struggling between life and death\, others at the limits of a dream world\, or ecstatic with joy. \nLUDUS is a Collaborative Humanities Project from the Humanities Council. \nSarah Kay bio: \nCurrently Professor Emerita at New York University and a Life Fellow of Girton College Cambridge\, Sarah Kay has taught French and Medieval Occitan at the universities of Liverpool\, Cambridge\, and Princeton\, as well as at NYU. Her many publications range widely over medieval literature in French\, Occitan\, and Latin\, especially in relation to medieval and modern thought. Her most recent book\, Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera\, was published by Cornell in 2022 together with a companion website that hosts experimental performances by Christopher Preston Thompson and Concordian Dawn of many of the songs discussed in her book. \nConcordian Dawn bio: \nConcordian Dawn specializes in twelfth- through fourteenth-century vocal repertoire\, drawing on primary source material and focusing on socio-philosophical similarities between texts from centuries ago and the mindset of modern society. In so doing\, Concordian Dawn produces a musical experience accessible to contemporary audiences\, relating the human condition of the past to the familiar experiences of the present. The ensemble’s “mesmerizing” (Early Music America) debut album\, Fortuna Antiqua et Ultra (MSR Classics)\, was released in December of 2021 to critical acclaim\, and in July of 2022\, Cornell University Press published a collaborative book-recording project between the ensemble and medieval studies scholar\, Sarah Kay\, entitled Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera. Since its inaugural concert in 2012\, Concordian Dawn has performed regularly on the east coast and annually with Gotham Early Music Scene\, NYC. The ensemble has given performances and led workshops and lectures for Princeton University\, New York University\, the University of Pennsylvania\, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music\, the Universities of California-Berkeley and Davis\, Bard College\, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York\, the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival\, and the Medieval Academy of America\, among others. \nDetails of Concordian Dawn: \nConcordian Dawn\, Ensemble for Medieval Music \nAmber Evans\, soprano \nClifton Massey\, countertenor \nDavid Dickey\, recorder and countertenor \nThomas McCargar\, baritone \nNiccolo Seligmann\, vielle \nChristopher Preston Thompson\, artistic director\, tenor and medieval harp
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/medieval-song-and-the-sounding-of-world-body-and-imagination/
LOCATION:Taplin Auditorium\, Taplin Auditorium\, 08544
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SUMMARY:The Thief Who Stole My Heart
DESCRIPTION:This talk commences by introducing the audience to the sacred bronzes created by a master sculptor around the year 1000\, and suggests that his inspiration may well have been child-saint Sambandar’s opening hymn that hails god Shiva as “the thief who stole my heart.” Vidya Dehejia then moves beyond this sensuous imagery to ask questions of this material that have not been asked before\, treating the bronzes as material objects that interacted in meaningful ways with human activities\, and with socioeconomic and religious practices. Where did the Cholas acquire the copper required to cast the many temple bronzes that are solid and heavy pieces of metal? Why were the Cholas obsessed with island Sri Lanka? What were the circumstances that permitted the creation of so many temples and such large numbers of exquisite bronzes despite the constant warfare that the Chola monarchs undertook to retain and expand their empire? What was the source of the pearls\, and also of coral\, rubies and diamonds\, that were embedded in gold jewelry gifted to adorn temple bronzes? Why did the Cholas cover the walls of their temple walls with inscriptions– some 13\,000 in total – using them the walls almost as if they were the public records office?
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-thief-who-stole-my-heart/
LOCATION:A71 Louis A. Simpson Building
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mo Chen":MAILTO:mochen@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230928T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230928T160000
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SUMMARY:Pond Music: Interspecies Improvisation
DESCRIPTION:David Rothenberg will drop a hydrophone in the Institute pond\, which will then be transmitted to speakers above ground. He will then improvise with the sounds of plants and insects in the pond. \n\n\n\n\n\nA concert by the Animal Song Collective\, a Humanities Council Magic Project
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/pond-music-interspecies-improvisation/
LOCATION:Institute for Advanced Study
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T140000
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SUMMARY:Walking in Place: A Tour of Princeton and Vicinity\, Organized by Robert Sullivan
DESCRIPTION:Join Robert Sullivan for a lunchtime walk and talk that can be visited\, too\, in the online modes suggested in the signup form. This will be a tour-walk where we talk and think in heads-together moments. You might walk the walk or be at home\, or elsewhere. You could do a little of the walk\, or walk to the end\, which is hoped to be the Mercer Oak site on the Princeton Battlefield. \nTo walk with us\, register so we know to look for you\, and meet us by Maclean House\, by the American sycamores\, at noon. \nCosponsored by the Humanities Council and High Meadows Environmental Institute. \nImage: Detail of topographical map of New Jersey. U.S. Geological Survey. 1894.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/walking-in-place-a-tour-of-princeton-and-vicinity-organized-by-robert-sullivan/
LOCATION:Maclean House\, Maclean House\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Malone":MAILTO:sarah.k.malone@princeton.eu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T132000
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SUMMARY:McGraw Center Faculty Presentation: The Power of Checking In - Mid-Semester Course Feedback
DESCRIPTION:The purpose of this session is to present faculty with approaches to conducting midterm course evaluations for course improvement and advancement of their teaching. Faculty will be presented with compelling evidence from the literature on the benefits of conducting such activities\, as well as multiple approaches and strategies that could be taken\, including short survey development. Workshop will cover example approaches\, resources available\, action based on analysis\, and general discussion of utilizing student feedback for the improvement of teaching and support of learning.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/mcgraw-center-faculty-presentation-the-power-of-checking-in-mid-semester-course-feedback/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ruthie Boyce":MAILTO:ruthieb@princeton.edu
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T120000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230913T154724Z
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SUMMARY:"Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meetings to Wall Street" with Jackson Lears & Graham Burnett
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of Jackson Lears’s new book\, in which he retrieves the spiritual visions and vitalisms that animate American life and the possibilities they offer today. \nAnimal Spirits explores an alternative American cultural history by tracking the thinkers who championed the individual’s spontaneous energies and the idea of a living universe against the strictures of conventional religion\, business\, and politics. From Puritan times to today\, Lears traces ideas and fads such as hypnosis and faith healing from the pulpit and stock exchange to the streets and the betting table. We meet the great prophets of American vitality\, from Walt Whitman and William James to Andrew Jackson Davis (the “Poughkeepsie Seer”) and the “New Thought” pioneer Helen Wilmans\, who spoke of the “god within—rendering us diseaseless incarnations of the great I Am.” \nWell before John Maynard Keynes stressed the reliance of capitalism on investors’ “animal spirits\,” these vernacular vitalists established an American religion of embodied mind that also suited the needs of the marketplace. In the twentieth century\, the vitalist impulse would be enlisted in projects of violent and racially charged national regeneration by Theodore Roosevelt and his legatees\, even as African American writers confronted the paradoxes of primitivism and the 1960s counterculture imagined new ways of inspiriting the universe. Today\, scientists are rediscovering the best features of the vitalist tradition—permitting us to reclaim the role of chance and spontaneity in the conduct of our lives and our understanding of the cosmos. \n“Jackson Lears is the preeminent cultural historian of the American empire. This book is another masterpiece in his magisterial corpus.’’ —Cornel West \nJ. Jackson Lears is Professor of History at Rutgers University and the author of many acclaimed books\, including Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America\, 1877–1920and Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America.D. Graham Burnett is a Professor of History at Princeton University who works at the intersection of historical inquiry and artistic practice with a particular interest in the history of attention. His books include Trying Leviathan: the 19th century NY Court Case that Put the Whale on Tiral and Challenged the Order of Nature and\, most recently\, the work of speculative historiography In Search of the Third Bird.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/animal-spirits-the-american-pursuit-of-vitality-from-camp-meetings-to-wall-street-with-jackson-lears-graham-burnett/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:Film Screening & Discussion: "Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb"
DESCRIPTION:Turn Every Page  follows the iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Caro and his editor\, the literary giant Robert Gottlieb\, in this chronicle of a unique 50-year professional relationship. The film screening will be followed by a conversation with filmmaker\, Lizzie Gottlieb\, and Julian Zelizer\, Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University. \nTickets are available for purchase from the Princeton Garden Theatre. Elizabeth “Lizzie” Alice Gottlieb is an American film and theater director best known for her documentaries Turn Every Page\, Today’s Man\, and Romeo Romeo. Currently\, Gottlieb is teaching documentary filmmaking at the New York Film Academy. Robert A. Caro is an American journalist and author known for his celebrated biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. After working for many years as a reporter\, Caro wrote The Power Broker (1974)\, a biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses\, which was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. He has since written four of a planned five volumes of The Years of Lyndon Johnson (1982\, 1990\, 2002\, 2012)\, a biography of the former president. For his biographies\, he has won two Pulitzer Prizes in Biography\, the National Book Award\, the Francis Parkman Prize (awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that “best exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist”)\, two National Book Critics Circle Awards\, the H.L. Mencken Award\, the Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Letters\, the D.B. Hardeman Prize\, and a Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/film-screening-discussion-turn-every-page-the-adventures-of-robert-caro-and-robert-gottlieb/
LOCATION:Princeton Garden Theatre\, 160 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature with Florian Fuchs & Daniel Heller Roazen
DESCRIPTION:We invite you for a conversation about the deep history of storytelling as civic agency\, recalibrating literature’s political role for the twenty-first century. \nWhy did short narrative forms like the novella\, fable\, and fairy tale suddenly emerge around 1800 as genres symptomatic of literature’s role in life and society? In order to explain their rapid ascent to such importance\, Florian Fuchs identifies an essential role of literature\, a role traditionally performed within classical civic discourse of storytelling\, by looking at new or updated forms of this civic practice in modernity. \nFuchs’s focus in this groundbreaking book is on the fate of topical speech\, on what is exchanged between participants in argument or conversation as opposed to rhetorical speech\, which emanates from and ensures political authority. His book outlines a genealogy of various literary short forms—from fable\, fairy tale\, and novella to twenty-first century video storytelling—that attempted on both “high” and “low” levels of culture to exercise again the social function of topical speech. Some of the specific texts analyzed include the novellas of Theodor Storm and the novella-like lettre de cachet\, proverbial fictions of Gustave Flaubert and Gottfried Keller\, the fairy tale as rediscovered by Vladimir Propp and Walter Benjamin\, the epiphanies of James Joyce\, and the video narratives of Hito Steyerl. \nFlorian Fuchs is currently a visiting Postdoc in the SFB 980 “Episteme in Bewegung” at Freie Universität Berlin. His book prior to Civic Storytelling is  the co-edited and co-translated History\, Metaphors\, Fables: A Hans Blumenberg Reader. Daniel Heller-Roazen is Professor of Comparative Literature and the Council of the Humanities. He is the author of eight books the most recently of which are Absentees: On Variously Missing Persons; No One’s Ways: An Essay on Infinite Naming; and Dark Tongues: the Art of Rogues and Riddlers.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/civic-storytelling-the-rise-of-short-forms-and-the-agency-of-literature-with-florian-fuchs-daniel-heller-roazen/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:On the Translation and Adaptation of The Vocabulario da lingoa de Iapam
DESCRIPTION:The current translation project has sprung forth from an enduring fascination with the Vocabulario da lingoa de Iapam\, the monumental Japanese-Portuguese dictionary produced by the Jesuit mission in Nagasaki in 1603 and 1604. The Vocabulario is the oldest and first dictionary of the Japanese classical language\, written by people who lived there. My hope for this dictionary is to achieve\, especially outside Japan and a small circle of linguistic experts\, a broader recognition and wider usage as an unparalleled\, lexicographical tool for the study of the Japanese language of the late medieval period—known among specialists as Late Middle Japanese—and its social context. As part of the translation\, a number of modifications to the original are made\, both in structure and its presentation\, in order to enhance the usability. The romanization system has been changed to modified Hepburn; Japanese script has been added for all expressions in that language; and all Portuguese has been translated into English. \nThis translation-cum-adaptation\, then\, aims to produce the first-ever dictionary of premodern Japanese to English\, based on the original Japanese-Portuguese text of the Vocabulario. In addition\, its purpose is to study the original dictionary from three different angles: 1) The formative process and origination of the Vocabulario\, most prominently the role of Japanese collaborators at the entry level; 2) The mosaic of everyday life in late sixteenth-century Japan that can be analyzed and described\, both quantitively as well as qualitatively\, on the basis of the Vocabulario’s entries; and 3) The perceptions and biases\, or lack thereof\, of the Jesuit missionaries regarding their Japanese living and working environment. Of special interest are their attitudes towards local religious practices and the extent to which they adaptated local terms for their own missionary purposes. \nJeroen Lamers is the author of Japonius Tyrannus: The Japanese Warlord Oda Nobunaga Reconsidered (Japonic Neerlandica\, 2001)\, Treatise on Epistolary Style: João Rodriguez on the Noble Art of Writing Japanese Letters (Volume 39) (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies\, 2002)\, and The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga (Brill\, 2011)\, translated with Jurgis Elisonas. \nRegister for this Zoom talk.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/on-the-translation-and-adaptation-of-the-vocabulario-da-lingoa-de-iapam/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chao-Hui Jenny Liu":MAILTO:chaoliu@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:“Into the Forever and Beautiful Sky”: Confronting Animal Brutality in a Galaxy of Limitless Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Andrea Jain asks\, What happens when we show a film that pays worshipful attention to animal welfare to a Marvel Studios-sized audience? How does capitalism colonize the popular imagination\, religious and otherwise? Lifting up the Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 as her primary artifact\, Jain uses the film to illustrate how capitalists sell animal ethics and why consumers buy it\, arguing that confrontations with animal brutality get contained within and subsumed by capitalist realism\, that is\, a framework in which capitalism is deemed limitless and without viable alternatives\, and gun capitalism\, that is\, the material and cultural condition of being flooded with guns\, which are mass produced and sold as consumer products. \nThe Doll Lecture on Religion and Money was established in 2007 by Henry C. Doll ’58 and his family. It reflects the family’s longstanding interest in the subject of philanthropy and its relationship with religion.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/into-the-forever-and-beautiful-sky-confronting-animal-brutality-in-a-galaxy-of-limitless-capitalism/
LOCATION:A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building\, Washington Road\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jenny Legath":MAILTO:jlegath@princeton.edu
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