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SUMMARY:Sex and Gender Complexity in Scientific Research
DESCRIPTION:Researchers across disciplines  increasingly recognize the importance of accounting for the intersectional complexity of sex and gender. There is undeniable evidence that sex-related biological variables (such as chromosomes\, hormones\, external genitalia and internal reproductive structures) develop in ways that cannot be easily sorted to stereotypical binary categories. To further complicate the picture\, gender-related social variables (like roles\, identities\, and behaviors) are temporally and culturally specific\, and can shape sex differences. Oversimplified accounts of sex and gender detract from research quality in ways that can harm those the research takes up\, or fails to take up. This panel will discuss the importance of\, and the challenges posed by accounting for sex and gender complexity in empirical research\, as well as the tight relationship between rigor and equity where investigating sex and gender differences is concerned. \nFor the event\, please register here. \nPanelists:\n-Mia Miyagi\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Center for Computational Molecular Biology and the Data Science Institute\, Brown University\n-Agustín Fuentes\, Professor\, Anthropology\, Princeton University\n-Catherine Clune-Taylor\, Assistant Professor\, Program in Gender and Sexuality\, Princeton University \nPresented by the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies\nOrganized by Catherine Clune-Taylor
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/sex-and-gender-complexity-in-scientific-research/
LOCATION:100 Arthur Lewis Auditorium\, Robertson Hall
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SUMMARY:China: From a Nationless State to a Nation Defined by State
DESCRIPTION:Reading a pre-modern concept into the modern era rather than reading modern notions back into the past\, “China: From a Nationless State to a Nation Defined by State” explores how China and Chinese nationalism have been shaped by the multifaceted concept “guo.” A word for dynastic state in classical Chinese\, this term came to be used for the modern nation-state since the 19th century through translation of international law and introduction of nationalism to China as mediated by Chinese overseas and transnational intellectuals. But “guo’s” lingering meaning of “regime”—or political dynasty as broadly defined—continued to undermine both the ethnic and civic aspects of nation-building in China’s Qing-to-Republic transition. The strong connotation of the state over the people and the regime above institutions of governance within the triple-faced “guo” (nation-state-regime) fully revived after 1949\, influencing class politics under Mao and rising state patriotism in contemporary China.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/china-from-a-nationless-state-to-a-nation-defined-by-state/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall
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SUMMARY:A Conversation on Literature and the Climate Crisis with Pierre Ducrozet
DESCRIPTION:A Conversation with French writer Pierre Ducrozet\, the author of Le Grand Vertige\, in discussion with Göran Blix (in English). \nThis conversation on the climate crisis will take its cue from Pierre Ducrozet’s recent eco-thriller—Le grand vertige (2020)—a global road novel\, absurdist adventure story\, speculative fiction about the paths and pitfalls on the road to change\, generational portrait\, and dizzying tableau of a burning planet betrayed by its short-sighted leaders. In this novel\, we follow a colorful cast of youthful characters (by turns comic\, heroic\, absurd\, and inspiring)\, who set out on a global odyssey to look for solutions and identify new ways to inhabit our bodies and planet to avert the coming crisis. Are they on the right track? Do their actions help trigger any meaningful change? How far is it legitimate to go? And how should writing itself best try to address this dilemma? With Pierre\, we will discuss how modern literature\, especially Le grand vertige\, looks for new ways to confront the climate crisis and incites readers to reflect. We will also have occasion to ask Pierre about his collaboration with director Cyril Dion (Demain; Animal) on the forthcoming film version of the novel.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/a-conversation-on-literature-and-the-climate-crisis-with-pierre-ducrozet/
LOCATION:100 Jones Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kelly Eggers":MAILTO:keggers@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Information structure insights from sign language anaphora
DESCRIPTION:Notions of topic and focus have been well-studied in sign languages\, which – like many spoken languages –  tend to have word orders highly influenced by information structural considerations\, along with perhaps some modality-specific considerations provided by suprasegmental nonmanuals\, the tight integration of iconic gestures into the grammatical structure\, etc. The use of signing space/”loci” for anaphora is often considered to be another modality-specific feature\, bearing on questions about semantic analyses of anaphora generally and how anaphoricity relates to other notions like definiteness\, givenness\, and contrast. This talk will provide both experimental and theoretical arguments for how the use of sign language anaphora relates to information structure in sign languages and\, by extension\, some existing questions in spoken languages regarding the relationship between anaphoricity and information structure. \n  \n  \nKathryn Davidson (BA University of Pennsylvania\, PhD University of California\, San Diego) is a Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University\, where she directs the Meaning and Modality lab and is a member of the Mind\, Brain\, and Behavior program. She previously had postdoctoral positions at the University of Connecticut and Yale University. Her research interests include formal semantics and pragmatics\, language acquisition\, and experimental semantics/pragmatics and connections between semantics and cognitive science\, and she frequently asks questions from the perspective of language in the visual modality\, both full sign languages like ASL as well as the visual/gestural aspects of spoken languages.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/information-structure-insights-from-sign-language-anaphora/
LOCATION:1-S-5 Green Hall\, 1-S-5 Green Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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SUMMARY:2023-24 Old Dominion Public Lecture Series - Women’s Property and the Downward Spiral into Fraud: Questioning the Persistent Narrative of Progress in Women’s Legal Status
DESCRIPTION:The assumption that women’s legal status has steadily improved over time is so entrenched that it is now difficult to imagine otherwise.  That narrative of progress\, however\, ignores dramatic legal changes in the nineteenth century that worked in the opposite direction\, undermining traditional claims that women had to property and\, increasingly\, linking women’s control of property to fraud.  Ultimately\, the specter of fraud compromised all women’s legal ability to own and manage property\, with results that are still with us today. \nRECEPTION TO FOLLOW. \nLaura F. Edwards is the Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty.  She focuses on the legal history of the nineteenth-century United States\, with an emphasis on people’s interactions with law and the legal system. Her most recent book\, “Only the Clothes on Her Back:  Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States\,” received the Merle Curti award for the best book in social history from the Organization of American Historians. As an Old Dominion Research Professor\, Edwards will focus on her book project\, “No Account:  Credit\, Property\, and Women’s Lives in the United States\,” which traces the material consequences of the shift from unwritten to written forms of law in the lives of women in the nineteenth century United States. \n\nOld Dominion Research Professors contribute to the Council’s programs and events and engage the campus community in sustained discussions about their research. This cohort of senior faculty join a yearlong program designed to provide additional research time and to enhance the humanities community more broadly. They also serve as faculty fellows in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. Old Dominion Professors are full professors in the humanities and humanistic social sciences.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/2023-24-old-dominion-public-lecture-series-2/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Readings from The Princeton Comics Notebook
DESCRIPTION:Students in E.S. Glenn’s fall Princeton Atelier course\, “How to Write a Graphic Novel\,” read from The Princeton Comics Notebook\, an anthology of stories created over the course of the semester combining drawings and text. Glenn is a regular cartoonist for The New Yorker and creator of the graphic novels Unsmooth #1 (2020) and its prequel Unsmooth #2: BUM (2021). All audiences attending will receive a published copy of the graphic anthology. \nAdmission: Free and open to the public; no tickets required.\nAccessibility: Labyrinth Books 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/readings-from-the-princeton-comics-notebook/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:Medieval Faculty Colloquium: “Engaging the Sensoria in Premodern Qur’an Commentary"
DESCRIPTION:The Program in Medieval Studies is pleased to offer the Faculty Colloquium series for Fall 2023. Tehseen Thaver (Religion) will present this lunchtime talk on Wednesday\, December 6. \nWhat is the relationship between Qur’an exegesis\, ritual practice\, and the formations of religious identities and communities? This is the central question this presentation will address by focusing on the first complete and extant Persian Qur’an commentary to have been composed by a Twelver Shi‘i scholar\, Shaykh Abu al-Futuh Razi (d. 1157)\, titled The Cool Breeze of Paradise and Breath for the Soul. Through a close reading of Razi’s exegesis I show the interaction of Qur’an exegesis\, Shi’i rituals of remembrance and the cultivation of distinct sensorial reactions and capacities – an important medium for the narration\, transmission\, and indeed determination of religious identities. I argue that Razi’s commentary served the dual role of “explanatory written text” and “oral ritual telling\,” while establishing its authority in each of these contexts. \nPlease RSVP Here. Lunch will be provided.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/medieval-faculty-colloquium-engaging-the-sensoria-in-premodern-quran-commentary-5/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:L’Avant-Scène presents Fragments XXIII
DESCRIPTION:L’Avant-Scène presents Fragments XXIII performed by students enrolled in FRE-THR 211 and directed by Florent Masse. \nThe presentation will feature scenes from Dom Juan\, Le Tartuffe\, and Le Malade imaginaire by Molière\, Andromaque and Britannicus by Racine\, and excerpts from Ionesco\, Koltès and Lagarce as well as Baptiste Amann\, Penda Diouf\, and Mohamed El Khatib. \nIn French\, the approximate running time is 90 minutes. Registration advised.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lavant-scene-presents-fragments-xxiii/
LOCATION:Godfrey Kerr Theater Studio\, Lewis Arts complex\, 122 ALEXANDER STREET\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kelly Eggers":MAILTO:keggers@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:PISC Paper nº3: "Ripple Effects of Arabization. Coptic History and Memory in late-medieval Egypt"
DESCRIPTION:“This paper\, part of my book project which traces the cultural consequences of Arabization in late-medieval Egypt\, wrestles with the tidal changes in Coptic historical writing\, from its initial Arabization\, 11th–14th centuries. First\, I consider the new features and rhetorical styles of the original Arabic sections of the History of the Patriarchs. I briefly situate these trends vis-à-vis contemporary developments in Islamic (Arabic and Persian) and Syriac Christian historical writing. Second\, I discuss the Arabic chronicle by the lay Coptic bureaucrat al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Abī l-Faḍāʾil (d. 1358)\, specifically its coverage of the Damascus fire of 1340\, when Syrian Christians were charged with arson. This chronicle marks the end of Coptic chronicles. In the final section\, I consider the setting and possible reasons for this abrupt end of an erstwhile thriving genre. With this eclipse of prose historical writing\, martyrology and hagiography become the primary modes of addressing the Coptic past\, the vehicles of social memory and communal identity.” \nThe Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium (PISC) is a forum at Princeton University for workshopping students’ and guest scholars’ works-in-progress in Islamic Studies and related fields. Co-sponsored by the Center for Collaborative History\, the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity\, and the Humanities Council. \nThe paper as well as a Zoom link will be provided upon registration to the event: https://tinyurl.com/pisc2023
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/pisc-paper-no3-ripple-effects-of-arabization-coptic-history-and-memory-in-late-medieval-egypt/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Athina Pfeiffer":MAILTO:apfeiffer@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:The Buddhist and the Ethicist: Conversations on Effective Altruism\, Engaged Buddhism\, and More
DESCRIPTION:In their eye-opening new book\, an unlikely duo – the preeminent philosopher and professor of bioethics Peter Singer\, and Venerable Shih Chao-Hwei\, a Taiwanese Buddhist monastic and social activist—join forces to talk ethics in lively conversations that cross oceans\, overcome language barriers\, and bridge philosophies. Peter Singer will discuss their shared insights; please join us. \nThe dialogues collected in The Buddhist and the Ethicist share unique perspectives on contemporary issues like animal welfare\, gender equality\, the death penalty\, and more. Together\, these two deep thinkers explore the foundation of ethics and key Buddhist concepts\, and ultimately reveal how we can all move toward making the world a better place. \nPeter Singer is Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He is best known for Animal Liberation\, first published in 1975 and widely considered to be the founding statement of the animal rights movement; and for The Life You Can Save\, which led him to found the charity of the same name. His other books include Practical Ethics and The Most Good You Can Do. In 2005\, Time magazine named him one of the World’s 100 Most Influential People. Robert Wright is the author of Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment. His other books include The Evolution of God\, which was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize\, The Moral Animal and Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny. In 2009 Wright was named by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the top 100 global thinkers. \nCosponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council\, the University Center for Human Values\, Religion Department\, and Office of the Dean of Religious Life.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-buddhist-and-the-ethicist-conversations-on-effective-altruism-engaged-buddhism-and-more/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:Writing in Good Faith for Reading in Bad Faith\, Or: Making Literature in the Age of Haters
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Comparative Literature Lecture Series. Co-Sponsored by the Department of German\, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese\, and the Humanities Council.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/writing-in-good-faith-for-reading-in-bad-faith-or-making-literature-in-the-age-of-haters/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Valerie Kanka":MAILTO:vjkanka@priceton.edu
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SUMMARY:Kwartler Family Lecture – How did Helena of Adiabene Become Queen of Jerusalem?
DESCRIPTION:Join the Program in Judaic Studies for this year’s Kwartler Family Lecture with Sarit Kattan Gribetz on Tuesday\, December 5. \nAbstract\nAccording to the first-century historian Josephus Flavius\, Queen Helena of Adiabene traveled from northern Mesopotamia to Jerusalem because she loved the Jewish God and wished to worship in the temple. Helena became a beloved patron of Jerusalem\, feeding its residents during famine and erecting monumental buildings\, including a palace and a mausoleum. Late antique rabbinic and Christian writings continued to tell her story. But by the medieval period\, she was remembered as queen of Jerusalem during the life of Jesus and the adjudicator between Judaism and Christianity. How did Helena of Adiabene become queen of Jerusalem – and why? This talk will explore the complex interplay of texts\, landscape\, and embodied practices in the transmission of traditions\, the construction of memory\, and interreligious relations and polemics. \nOpen to the public. Refreshments will be available. \nMore about Sarit Kattan Gribetz \nSarit Kattan Gribetz is Associate Professor of Classical Judaism at Fordham University and the Co-Director of Fordham’s Center for Jewish Studies. Her book Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism (Princeton UP\, 2020) received a National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship and a Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies. She is currently writing her next book\, A Queen in Jerusalem: Helena of Adiabene through the Ages\, under contract with Princeton University Press. She received her A.B. and Ph.D. from the Religion Department at Princeton University.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/kwartler-family-lecture-how-did-helena-of-adiabene-become-queen-of-jerusalem/
LOCATION:A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building\, Washington Road\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544
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ORGANIZER;CN="Margo Bresnen":MAILTO:mbresnen@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:PHS & LLL Present - Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City
DESCRIPTION:Labyrinth\, Princeton High School\, and partners present James Beard Award–winning author Kim Foster. Her book is a new portrait of hunger and humanity in America and has been woven into the curriculum of several classes at the high school this fall. \nFood is a conduit for connection; we envision smiling families gathered around a table—eating\, happy\, content. But what happens when poverty\, mental illness\, homelessness\, and addiction claim a seat at that table? In The Meth Lunches\, Kim Foster peers behind the polished visions of perfectly curated dinners and charming families to reveal the complex reality when poverty and food intersect. \nWhether it’s heirloom vegetables or a block of government cheese\, food is both a basic necessity and a nuanced litmus test: what and how we eat reflects our communities\, our cultures\, and our place in the world. The Meth Lunches gives a glimpse into the lives of people living in Foster’s Las Vegas community—the grocery store cashier who feels safer surrounded by food after surviving a childhood of hunger; the inmate baking a birthday cake with coffee creamer and Sprite; the unhoused woman growing scallions in the slice of sunlight on her passenger seat. \nThe Meth Lunches reveals stories of difficulty intertwined with hope\, of the insurmountable obstacles and fierce determination all playing out on the plates of ordinary Americans. It’s a bold invitation to pull up a chair and reconsider our responsibilities to the most vulnerable among us. \nKim Foster is a James Beard Award-winning food writer. \nThis event is co-presented by Labyrinth Books\, the Princeton High School\, and the Princeton Public Library and co-sponsored by the Princeton Food Project: A Humanities Council Magic Project. 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/phs-lll-present-meth-lunches-food-and-longing-in-an-american-city/
LOCATION:Princeton High School Auditorium
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SUMMARY:Fall Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Selected students from fall courses in Creative Writing read from their work in fiction\, poetry\, screenwriting and literary translation as part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series\, presented by the Program in Creative Writing. \nAdmission: Free and open to the public; no tickets required. \nAccessibility: Chancellor Green Rotunda is an accessible venue via the elevator in East Pyne. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at least one week in advance at lewiscenter@princeton.edu\nFor more information: https://arts.princeton.edu/events/fall-2023-student-reading/
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/fall-student-reading/
LOCATION:Chancellor Green Rotunda\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Lewis Center":MAILTO:lewiscenter@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Photo History’s Futures: Aglaya Glebova
DESCRIPTION:2021 marked 50 years of photography at Princeton\, sparking both a reflection on the medium’s history and projection toward its future. As part of the Photo History’s Futures lecture series highlighting exciting voices in the field\, the Department of Art and Archaeology and the Princeton University Art Museum welcome Aglaya Glebova to speak about her recent book\, Aleksandr Rodchenko: Photography in the Time of Stalin\, with its emphasis on revolutionary modernity and a well-known artist’s “shadow oeuvre.” Glebova is associate professor in the History of Art Department at the University of California\, Berkeley.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/photo-historys-futures-aglaya-glebova/
LOCATION:101 Friend Center
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mo Chen":MAILTO:mochen@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T180000
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SUMMARY:Political Imaginaries Unmoored: Beyond the Universal and Particular
DESCRIPTION:This talk uses a series of images to evoke a form of diagrammatic reasoning which lies beyond the stranglehold of western dialectics of the universal and particular\, the general and the individual\, the abstract and the concrete\, structure and event. \nElizabeth A. Povinelli is Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University\, Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities\, and a founding member of the Karrabing Film Collective. Over eight books\, numerous essays\, as well as eight films with the Karrabing Film Collective\, Povinelli has examined the logics\, strategies and tactics of late settler liberalism and its otherwise. \nCo-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/political-imaginaries-unmoored-beyond-the-universal-and-particular/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Barbara Leavey":MAILTO:blleavey@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T173000
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SUMMARY:Reading by award-winning writer Caoilinn Hughes
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning writer Caoilinn Hughes (The Wild Laughter) reads from her work\, including an excerpt from her forthcoming novel\, The Alternatives (Riverhead\, April 2024). An unforgettable family portrait\, The Alternatives follows four Irish sisters who were plunged prematurely into adulthood when their parents died in tragic circumstances. Now in their thirties and living disparate lives\, three are brought unexpectedly together in search of one sister who doesn’t want to be found. Introduced by Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’52 Professor in Irish Letters Fintan O’Toole.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/reading-by-award-winning-writer-caoilinn-hughes/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Lewis Center":MAILTO:lewiscenter@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231203T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231203T123000
DTSTAMP:20260430T152204
CREATED:20230727T160808Z
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SUMMARY:LLL Presents Mihret Sibhat & Wendy Belcher - "The History of a Difficult Child: a Novel"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Sunday book brunch: a reading from and conversation about a breathtaking\, tragicomic debut novel about the indomitable child of a scorned\, formerly land-owning family who must grow up in the wake of Ethiopia’s socialist revolution. The History of a Difficult Child is about what happens when mother\, God\, and country are at odds\, and how one difficult child finds her voice. \nWisecracking\, inquisitive\, and bombastic\, Selam Asmelash is the youngest child in her large family. Even before she is born\, she has a wry\, bewitching omniscience that animates life in her small town in southwestern Ethiopia in the 1980s. Selam and her father listen to the radio in secret as the socialist military junta that recently overthrew the government seizes properties and wages civil war in the North. The Asmelashes\, once an enterprising\, land-owning family\, are ostracized under the new regime. \nAs Selam’s mother\, the powerful and relentlessly dignified Degitu\, grows ill\, she embraces a persecuted\, Pentecostal God and insists her family convert alongside her. The Asmelashes stand solidly in opposition to the times\, and Selam grows up seeking revenge on despotic comrades\, neighborhood bullies\, and a ruthless God. Wise beyond her years yet thoroughly naive\, she contends with an inner fury\, a profound sadness\, and a throbbing\, unstoppable pursuit of education\, freedom\, and love.\n \nMihret Sibhat was born and raised in a small town in western Ethiopia before moving to California when she was seventeen. She was a 2019 A Public Space Fellow and a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grantee. In a previous life\, she was a waitress\, a nanny\, an occasional shoe shiner\, a propagandist\, and a terrible gospel singer. Wendy Belcher is professor in Comparative Literature and African American Studies at Princeton University and the author of Abyssinia’s Samuel Johnson: Ethiopian Thought in the Making of an English Author\, and of the translation with Michael Kleiner of The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman. \nThis event is co-presented by Labyrinth and the Princeton Public Library and cosponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council\, Comparative Literature Department\, and Program in African Studies.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lll-presents-mihret-sibhat-wendy-belcher-the-history-of-a-difficult-child-a-novel/
LOCATION:Princeton Public Library
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231202T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231202T160000
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SUMMARY:Journalism and Democracy: 2023 Public Humanities Forum
DESCRIPTION:A keynote speaker and two panels of experts\, featuring historians and journalists\, will discuss the history of democracy\, active citizenship\, and participatory journalism. Registration requested. \nThe 2023 Public Humanities Forum explores the relationship between democracy and journalism through two panel discussions and a public lecture. \nHere is the program of the day’s activities: \n10 a.m. – Check-in and Coffee \n10:30 a.m. to noon – First Panel: “Democracy\, Citizenship\, and the Power of the Powerless” \nNoon to 1:15 p.m. – Lunch (complimentary to registered guests) \n1:15 to 2:45 p.m. – Second Panel: “Democratic Societies and Participatory Journalism” \n2:45 p.m. to 3 p.m. – Coffee Break \n3 p.m. to 4 p.m. – Public Lecture on Democracy and Journalism: Title TBA \nJan-Werner Müller (Politics) is the keynote speaker. Panelists include: Dan-El Padilla Peralta (Classics)\, Rachel Devlin (Rutgers University)\, Stanley Katz (SPIA)\, Christopher Fisher (College of New Jersey)\, Jane Ferguson (Journalism)\, Tennyson Donyéa (journalist)\, Andrew Rodriguez Calderón (The Marshall Project)\, Anastasia Mann (SPIA in NJ). \nCo-sponsored by the Princeton University Humanities Council and the Princeton University Program in Journalism and presented 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/journalism-and-democracy-2023-public-humanities-forum/
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":MAILTO:Robinson
GEO:40.3572976;-74.6672226
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231201T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231201T132000
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SUMMARY:"How did Byzantines Read Herodotus? The Case of Marginalia in Verse"
DESCRIPTION:The Histories’ textual transmission provides an important source of information for the multilayered reception of Herodotus in the Greek Middle Ages. Byzantine manuscripts are often studied not as Byzantine artifacts but as a means to reconstruct ancient texts. However\, Byzantine readers also made creative use of the Histories while copying it. In this lecture\, I will focus on the marginal annotations written in verse in Herodotus’ manuscripts. Byzantines annotated these texts in a variety of contemporary literary genres\, including didactic\, polemic\, and paraenetic poetry\, to express distinctive ideological agendas. I argue that these finely crafted marginalia should be studied as literature in their own right\, not merely as subsidiary commentaries or records of the afterlife of Herodotus.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/how-did-byzantines-read-herodotus-the-case-of-marginalia-in-verse/
LOCATION:103 Scheide Caldwell
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eleni Banis":MAILTO:hbanis@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T152204
CREATED:20231117T201642Z
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SUMMARY:The Priest Nichiren’s Miraculous Escape from Death and Its Modern Skeptics: Negotiating History and Myth in a Japanese Buddhist Tradition
DESCRIPTION:The Danforth Lecture in the Study of Religion \nThe Priest Nichiren’s Miraculous Escape from Death and Its Modern Skeptics:\nNegotiating History and Myth in a Japanese Buddhist Tradition \nJacqueline I. Stone \nIn the year 1271\, the dissident Buddhist teacher Nichiren was arrested by officials of Japan’s warrior government and taken under cover of night to the execution grounds. Tradition holds that his attempted beheading was foiled when a luminous object suddenly shot across the sky\, terrifying his would-be executioners. For more than seven hundred years\, this dramatic episode has been celebrated in hagiographies\, paintings\, kabuki plays\, woodblock prints\, novels\, and manga. In recent times\, however\, its historicity has been questioned; naturalistic explanations for the “luminous object” have also been proposed. These responses invite reflection on the hermeneutic shifts that occur when religious accounts of miraculous events are assessed by modern critical and scientific standards. They also raise challenging questions about what responsibility the historian of religion bears in analyzing a tradition’s foundational narratives. \nRegister here.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-priest-nichirens-miraculous-escape-from-death-and-its-modern-skeptics-negotiating-history-and-myth-in-a-japanese-buddhist-tradition/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231130T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231130T180000
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SUMMARY:The Ovide moralisé: The Divine Comedy of Medieval France?
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: \nMatthieu Boyd (’03)\, Professor of Literature and Chair of the School of the Humanities\, Fairleigh Dickinson University \nSarah-Jane Murray (*03)\, Associate Professor of Great Texts & Creative Writing\, Honors College\, Baylor University \nThe anonymous fourteenth-century Ovide moralisé (“Moralized Ovid”) is a translation into French of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and much of the accumulated mythographical commentary in Latin. It gathers many sources and adds to them\, forming a massive and coherent\, if not seamless\, whole that invites comparison with Dante’s masterwork in various ways: its scope (the OM is actually five time longer)\, its use of the vernacular\, its creative relationship to the Classics (the OM is guided by Ovid as Dante is by Virgil)\, and its Christian mission. Beyond that\, without necessarily claiming that the OM matches Dante in poetic elegance\, the comparison provokes us to reassess the OM’s place in French and medieval literary history\, which has not been properly appreciated since the text could not be read by almost any modern audiences – until now. This presentation is associated with the first-ever modern translation of the Ovide moralisé (Boydell & Brewer\, 2023)\, the result of a collaboration that had its genesis at Princeton. We include discussion of the manuscripts\, some of which have now been fully digitized and permit extended study of text-image relations\, and the OM’s strategies of translation and interpretation. \n\nThis event is sponsored by the Department of French & Italian and the Program in Medieval Studies.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-ovide-moralise-the-divine-comedy-of-medieval-france-4/
LOCATION:Robertson Hall\, Room 002
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T152204
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231121T184611Z
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SUMMARY:When Pages Breathe: Adaptation of Modern Classics with Pulitzer Prize-winning Hodder Fellow Martyna Majok
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a deep dive into the art of adaptation with Pulitzer Prize winner and 2018-19 Princeton Hodder Fellow Martyna Majok and Lecturer in Theater Chesney Snow. Discover the secrets to transforming The Great Gatsby into a theatrical treasure for the stage. Majok wrote the book for a new musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s legendary novel with a score by international rock star Florence Welch of Florence + The Machine and Oscar and Grammy Award nominee Thomas Bartlett that will have its world premiere in May 2024. A must-see event for literature and theater lovers alike! See student performances alongside unprecedented insight into the mind of one of today’s most prolific theater artists. Don’t miss this community discussion that uncovers the craft of bringing pages to life. Hosted by Snow in conjunction with his fall course\, “The Oral Interpretation of Toni and William\,” and in collaboration with Princeton University Library’s special collections exhibition\, In the Company of Good Books: Shakespeare to Morrison
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/when-pages-breathe-adaptation-of-modern-classics-with-pulitzer-prize-winning-hodder-fellow-martyna-majok/
LOCATION:CoLab Gallery\, Lewis Arts Complex
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Lewis Center for the Arts":MAILTO:lewiscenter@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T132000
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SUMMARY:“Belonging to a 'Lost' Island: Sovereignty\, Memory\, and Landscape on Imbros”
DESCRIPTION:The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne established the present borders between Greece and Turkey and led to a compulsory population exchange that transformed all aspects of life in the region. The Orthodox Greeks of Istanbul and the Aegean islands of Imbros and Tenedos\, and the Muslims of Western Thrace were exempted from the compulsory expulsion. My research covers the experiences of those who stayed on Imbros and those who were displaced after 1923. This workshop explores forgotten and remembered aspects of the past by tracing the shifting topography of the landscape. I will focus on state practices of dispossession and on local resistance to dominant narratives and policies. My research incorporates ethnographic fieldwork on Imbros and in Athens from 2022-23.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/belonging-to-a-lost-island-sovereignty-memory-and-landscape-on-imbros/
LOCATION:203 Scheide Caldwell House
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eleni Banis":MAILTO:hbanis@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T152204
CREATED:20231124T201729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231127T213615Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: "Goodbye Julia"
DESCRIPTION:Goodbye Julia is a 2023 Sudanese drama and the first feature film directed by Mohamed Kordofani. It is the first film from Sudan ever to be presented in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival\, when it went on to win that section’s Prix de Liberté (Freedom Prize). \nWracked by guilt after covering up a murder\, Mona a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow\, Julia\, and her son\, Daniel\, into her home. Unable to confess her transgressions to Julia\, Mona decides to leave the past behind and adjust to a new status quo\, unaware that the country’s turmoil may find its way into her home and put her face to face with her sins.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/film-screening-goodbye-julia/
LOCATION:101 Friend Center
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ORGANIZER;CN="Deena Abdel-Latif":MAILTO:Deenaa@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T193000
DTSTAMP:20260430T152204
CREATED:20230727T160549Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231017T174213Z
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SUMMARY:"Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political"
DESCRIPTION:Plato famously defends the rule of knowledge. Knowledge\, for him\, is of the good. But what is rule? In her new study\, which she will present and discuss with her colleague in Classics\, Melissa Lane shows Plato to have been deeply concerned with the roles and relationships between rulers and ruled. \nLane reveals how political office and rule were woven together in Greek vocabulary and practices that both connected and distinguished between rule in general and office as a constitutionally limited kind of rule in particular. Adopting a longstanding Greek expectation that a ruler should serve the good of the ruled\, Plato’s major political dialogues—the Republic\, the Statesman\, and Laws—explore how different kinds of rule might best serve that good. With this book\, Lane offers the first account of the clearly marked vocabulary of offices at the heart of all three of these dialogues\, explaining how such offices fit within the broader organization and theorizing of rule. \nTaking Plato’s interest in rule and office seriously reveals tyranny as ultimately a kind of anarchy\, lacking the order as well as the purpose of rule. When we think of tyranny in this way\, we see how Plato invokes rule and office as underpinning freedom and friendship as political values\, and how Greek slavery shaped Plato’s account of freedom. Reading Plato both in the Greek context and in dialogue with contemporary thinkers\, Lane argues that rule and office belong at the center of Platonic\, Greek\, and contemporary political thought. \nMelissa Lane is Professor of Politics and a faculty member of the Program in Classical Philosophy at Princeton University. Her books include Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics\, Virtue\, and Sustainable Living and The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter. Benjamin Morison is Professor of Philosophy at Princeton. He is the author of On Location: Aristotle’s Concept of Place. \nThis event is cosponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council and Politics\, Philosophy\, and Classics Departments.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/melissa-lane-benjamin-morison-of-rule-and-office-platos-ideas-of-the-political/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
GEO:40.3502494;-74.6588981
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T152204
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SUMMARY:Xiaoshuo as China's Fourth Religion:  Pitfalls and Potentials of Vernacular Literature in the late Qing (1644-1911 CE)
DESCRIPTION:This talk\, based on the first chapter of my forthcoming book\, focuses on how Yu Zhi (1809-1874)\, a firm believer in the socio-moral harm caused by vernacular literature\, also built a strong case for how vernacular literature was also the most powerful tool available to further the Confucian civilizing mission of jiaohua 教化 (teaching and transformation) in the midst of empire-shattering crisis. In attempting to convince his peers and superiors of this radical claim\, Yu drew attention to the historical failures of jiaohua\, especially due to its inability to compete with xiaoshuo. Yu adopted a framework developed by mid-Qing scholar official Qian Daxin in which\, since the Ming\, China’s traditional three jiao have been supplanted by a fourth jiao\, xiaoshuo\, to convince his elite readers that its moral dangers were even worse than they may have thought\, and its successes were due to their failures to apprehend its. Though literary censorship and inquisitions were common approaches to combating objectionable literature throughout the Qing\, and Yu wholeheartedly supported such efforts\, he also believed they were fundamentally flawed tools that did not go far enough to address the underlying causes and conditions in which popular literature spread socially-destabilizing immorality. In the hyper-literate world of late imperial literati\, it may have been difficult for them to seriously consider alternatives to transforming society beyond centuries-old institutions and millennia-old Classical texts. Even so\, Yu emphasized that in competition with powerful\, dangerous enemies – popular drama and vernacular fiction – jiaohua as it was traditionally enacted lost out every time. It was time to let popular culture transform Confucians just enough that they might become the teachers that such dark times called for.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/xiaoshuo-as-chinas-fourth-religion-pitfalls-and-potentials-of-vernacular-literature-in-the-late-qing-1644-1911-ce/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chao-Hui Jenny Liu":MAILTO:chaoliu@princeton.edu
GEO:40.7228732;-74.0621867
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T180000
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SUMMARY:"'The Syriac Dots:' Oral Reading Traditions Recorded in Ink"
DESCRIPTION:In the 5th century Syriac scribes began to use dots in order to document the oral reading traditions of the Bible. Some dots were used to vocalise words and differentiate between otherwise identical words. Another set of dots is the topic of this lecture. These dots\, often called accents\, were used to mark rising and falling tones\, as well as different types of pauses. How and why were these dots used? Did Syriac scribes invent the earliest question mark in the history of writing? How did the native Syriac grammarians describe this system? These are some of the questions we will explore in this lecture.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-syriac-dots-oral-reading-traditions-recorded-in-ink/
LOCATION:103 Scheide Caldwell
ORGANIZER;CN="Eleni Banis":MAILTO:hbanis@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T152204
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SUMMARY:HOS Colloquia: Listening to Albert the Great on the Art of Becoming a Natural Scientist
DESCRIPTION:Katja Krause is a historian of science and medicine\, and a philosopher specializing in medieval thought and beyond. She received her PhD in 2014 from King’s College London for her dissertation entitled “Aquinas’ Philosophy of the Beatific Vision: A Textual Analysis of his Commentary on the Sentences in Light of Its Greek\, Arabic\, and Latin Sources.” After her doctorate\, Krause was awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science\, where she worked on a series of articles examining the empirical turn of the thirteenth century that emerged from the appropriation of Averroes’ commentaries on the corpus Aristotelicum. In 2016/17 she served as Assistant Professor in Medieval Thought at Durham University\, UK\, and in 2017/18 was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Divinity School\, supported by the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften. Krause is currently Leader of the Max Planck Research Group “Experience in the Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body\, ca. 800–1650\,” jointly with a professorship at the Technische Universität Berlin. \nKatja Krause has recently completed the edited volume Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation (edited with Maria Auxent and Dror Weil\, Routledge 2023); the volume Contextualizing Premodern Philosophy: Explorations of the Greek\, Hebrew\, Arabic\, and Latin Traditions (edited with Luis Xavier López-Farjeat and Nicholas Oschman) is in press. Her translation of Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on Peter Lombard’s Sentences IV.49.2\, with introductions and notes\, appeared in autumn 2020 with Marquette University Press. \n\nThis event is sponsored by the Program in the History of Science and the Program in Medieval Studies
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/hos-colloquia-listening-to-albert-the-great-on-the-art-of-becoming-a-natural-scientist-2/
LOCATION:211 Dickinson Hall
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SUMMARY:Sinews of the Soul: Comparing Christian Baptism and Indigenous Adoption
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reception following the lecture. \nThis event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP Here. \nFor all of the real and important contrasts between them\, the Indigenous peoples and French Catholic colonists who encountered one another in seventeenth-century New France were both convinced that spiritual change was possible across cultural\, linguistic\, and ethnic lines.  Both saw religious belonging and cultural identity as being essentially behavioral – and thus volitional – rather than as an immutable ethnic given.  Both boasted powerful rituals that could effectively transform strangers into kin: positing a kind of symbolic rebirth or soul shift involving the reception of a new name and identity that literally and objectively re-made the individual concerned from “one of them” into “one of us.”  For Indigenous people\, this ritual was adoption.  For Catholics\, it was baptism.  This presentation will explore the many fascinating parallels between Indigenous adoption and Catholic baptism in seventeenth century New France\, and chart how these ceremonies of transformative incorporation were themselves transformed with the imposition of foreign blood quantum measurements as an index of Indigenous identity in the late nineteenth century. \n\n \nEmma Anderson graduated with a Ph.D. in American Religious History from Harvard University in 2005\, and has taught at the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa ever since.  An expert on the religious encounter between Catholic missionaries and Indigenous peoples in colonial North America\, she is the author of two award-winning books published by Harvard University Press. Her first book\, The Betrayal of Faith: The Tragic Journey of a Colonial Native Convert explores the momentous transatlantic transformation of an Indigenous boy\, Pierre-Antoine Pastedechouan.  Her second work\, The Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs critically re-examines the lives and deaths of eight slain Jesuits in the 1640s\, and probes the ongoing consequences of their veneration for Indigenous peoples. \nAs Pathy Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies\, Prof. Anderson teaches the Program in Humanistic Studies course\, Indigenous Peoples and Christianity\, and continues to write her current monograph-in-progress\, Dawn in the West: How the Thought of Indigenous People Ushered in Modernity\, which delineates the seminal impact of Indigenous perspectives upon Enlightenment philosophes. To read more about Anderson’s teaching\, publications\, and current projects\, please visit her website at www.emmajaneanderson.com.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/sinews-of-the-soul-comparing-christian-baptism-and-indigenous-adoption-as-mechanism-of-incorporation-in-early-modern-new-france-8/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium\,  School of Architecture\, Betts Auditorium\, School of Architecture\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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