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SUMMARY:REPORTING FROM BEIJING with Jonathan Cheng '05
DESCRIPTION:It has become a cliché that the U.S.-China relationship is the world’s most important bilateral relationship. But how does it feel on the ground\, and what tools do Western journalists have in reporting on one of the world’s most important — and most difficult-to-cover — countries? Jonathan Cheng ’05\, who has spent the last seven years in Beijing leading The Wall Street Journal\, including through the long COVID-19 years\, shares how the country and the reporting environment have changed during that time. \nJonathan Cheng is the China bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal\, overseeing the Journal’s coverage of the world’s second-largest economy across a range of areas including politics\, economics\, business\, technology\, and society. He oversees a team of more than two dozen correspondents and researchers in Beijing\, Shanghai\, Hong Kong\, Taipei\, Singapore\, and New York with responsibility for the Chinese mainland and Taiwan.  Previously\, Jonathan was the Seoul bureau chief for the Journal\, running coverage of the Korean peninsula\, including North Korea and South Korean politics and business. He began his career as an intern in the Journal’s Hong Kong bureau\, and has also worked as a markets reporter in the Journal’s New York office.  Jonathan speaks English\, Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese\, French\, and Korean. A native of Toronto\, Canada. He graduated from Princeton University with a degree in history. He lives in Beijing and has traveled to North Korea twice. \n\n\n\nSponsors\n\nEast Asian Studies Program\nCenter on Contemporary China\nProgram in Journalism
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/reporting-from-beijing-with-jonathan-cheng-05/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Seniors Reading: Fiction & Creative Nonfiction
DESCRIPTION:Seniors in Princeton’s renowned Program in Creative Writing read from the novels and collections of short stories or creative nonfiction written as their senior independent work under mentorship of professional writers on the faculty. \nAdmission: Free and open to the public\nAccessibility: Chancellor Green Rotunda 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/creative-writing-seniors-reading-fiction-creative-nonfiction-2/
LOCATION:Chancellor Green Rotunda\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Regulatory Landscapes at the Whitney Biennial 2026
DESCRIPTION:Emilio Martínez Poppe is an artist who is concerned with the right to the city and the struggle of public memory. Through a social and research-led practice spanning photography\, sculpture\, text\, and installations\, he explores the spatial mechanisms and ideological conditions that reproduce state and capital infrastructures. His current work explores the potentials of cultural organizing within the public sector as in his public art commission “Civic Views” in Philadelphia and his role managing the Public Artists in Residence Program in New York. Recent commissions and exhibitions include the Whitney Museum of American Art\, the Museum of the City of New York\, Queens Museum\, Abrons Art Center\, New York; Mural Arts\, Icebox Project Space\, Tiger Strikes Asteroid\, Philadelphia; Petrine\, Paris; and De Brakke Grond\, Amsterdam. \nDavid L. Johnson is an artist and educator based in New York City. Johnson makes work attuned to the streets of the city\, pinpointing moments of slippage between public and private property. His practice utilizes photography\, video\, found and stolen objects\, and installation to consider the politics\, histories\, aesthetics\, and forms of use that define contemporary urban space. Johnson received a BFA from the Cooper Union in 2015 and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020. He is an alumnus of the Whitney Independent Study Program and is a part-time faculty member in the Fine Arts MFA program at the Parsons School of Design. \nIgnacio Gatica lives and works between Santiago\, Chile and Brooklyn\, NY. Gatica deploys drawing\, installation\, sculpture\, video\, and text to reveal unsuspected connections between signs and signifiers of economic and social structures. Gatica pays special attention to the languages of currency\, finance\, retail culture\, and the global technologies and systems that shape our cities. Through various media\, Gatica’s research is articulated through responses to the mechanisms that dictate the civic and economic infrastructures. Gatica’s recent exhibitions include The Whitney Biennial 2026\, Playa Privada at Galería Patricia Ready in Santiago\, Chile (2025); Sujeto Cuantificado at Von Ammon Co. in Washington\, D.C. (2023). His work has been featured in group exhibitions at institutions such as SculptureCenter in New York City (2022)\, the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College in Annandale-On-Hudson\, New York (2022)\, and El Museo del Barrio in New York\, NY (2017). \nMODERATOR \nRubén Gallo\, Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor in Language\, Literature and Civilization of Spain\, Princeton University
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/regulatory-landscapes-at-the-whitney-biennial-2026/
LOCATION:216 Aaron Burr Hall\, United States
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SUMMARY:On Journalism and Scholarship: Kevin Sack in Conversation with Avram Alpert about "Mother Emanuel"
DESCRIPTION:Sack will present his book Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race\, Resistance\, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church\, a sweeping history of one of the nation’s most important African American churches and a profound story of courage and grace amid the fight for racial justice. Sack and Alpert will then talk about the importance of scholarship for Sack’s public writing\, and what scholars and journalists can learn from each other in terms of presenting research to general readers. \nPart of the Writing Program’s Public Scholarship Initiative\, in collaboration with Labyrinth Books. Co-sponsored by the Program in Journalism. \n\nFrom Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Kevin Sack\, Mother Emanuel is a sweeping history of one of the nation’s most important African American churches and a profound story of courage and grace amid the fight for racial justice.\n\nFew people beyond South Carolina’s Lowcountry knew of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston—Mother Emanuel—before the night of June 17\, 2015\, when a twenty-one-year-old white supremacist walked into Bible study and slaughtered the church’s charismatic pastor and eight other worshippers. Although the shooter had targeted Mother Emanuel—the first A.M.E. church in the South—to agitate racial strife\, he did not anticipate the aftermath: an outpouring of forgiveness from the victims’ families and a reckoning with the divisions of caste that have afflicted Charleston and the South since the earliest days of European settlement. \nMother Emanuel explores the fascinating history that brought the church to that moment and the depth of the desecration committed in its fellowship hall. It reveals how African Methodism was cultivated from the harshest American soil\, and how Black suffering shaped forgiveness into both a religious practice and a survival tool. Kevin Sack\, who has written about race in his native South for more than four decades\, uses the church to trace the long arc of Black life in the city where nearly half of enslaved Africans disembarked in North America and where the Civil War began. Through the microcosm of one congregation\, he explores the development of a unique practice of Christianity\, from its daring breakaway from white churches in 1817\, through the traumas of Civil War and Reconstruction\, to its critical role in the Civil Rights Movement and beyond. \nAt its core\, Mother Emanuel is an epic tale of perseverance\, not just of a congregation but of a people who withstood enslavement\, Jim Crow\, and all manner of violence with an unbending faith. \nKevin Sack is a veteran journalist who has written about national affairs for more than four decades and has been part of three Pulitzer Prize–winning teams. A native of Jacksonville\, Florida\, and a graduate of Duke University\, he spent thirty years on the staff of The New York Times\, where he specialized in writing long-form narrative and investigative reports\, often related to race. He has also written for the Los Angeles Times and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution\, and his work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine. He was previously an Emerson Collective Fellow at New America and teaches journalism at Princeton University. \nAvram Alpert is a generalist in the humanities. He works to understand what values we should live by in our connected\, chaotic\, and potentially catastrophic times. His writing has appeared in Aeon\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and elsewhere. His most recent book is The Good-Enough Life.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/on-journalism-and-scholarship-kevin-sack-in-conversation-with-avram-alpert-about-mother-emanuel/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:L'Avant-Scène presents "Juste la fin du monde" by Jean-Luc Lagarce
DESCRIPTION:The Department of French and Italian and L’Avant-Scène\, the French Theater Workshop\, present “Juste la fin du monde” by Jean-Luc Lagarce\, directed by Florent Masse and performed by L’Avant-Scène students. “Juste la fin du monde” is a contemporary classic written by Lagarce in 1990 and popularized in 2016 by the film directed by Xavier Dolan. The play depicts the return of Louis\, a 34-year-old man who returns home to tell his family that he is dying. Throughout the tense visit\, we see a family fractured by lack of communication and insecurities\, each member struggling to be heard and understood by the others. “Juste la fin du monde” will feature advanced L’Avant-Scène students : Jordan Coty Eloundou Ndongo GS\, Alex Pereyra `28\, Cécile Raas GS\, Louisa Joy `29\, and Blandine Guerrand. \nRegistration required.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lavant-scene-presents-juste-la-fin-du-monde-by-jean-luc-lagarce/
LOCATION:Rocky-Mathey Theater\, Rockefeller College\, 203 Madison Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:L'Avant-Scène presents "Juste la fin du monde" by Jean-Luc Lagarce
DESCRIPTION:The Department of French and Italian and L’Avant-Scène\, the French Theater Workshop\, present “Juste la fin du monde” by Jean-Luc Lagarce\, directed by Florent Masse and performed by L’Avant-Scène students. “Juste la fin du monde” is a contemporary classic written by Lagarce in 1990 and popularized in 2016 by the film directed by Xavier Dolan. The play depicts the return of Louis\, a 34-year-old man who returns home to tell his family that he is dying. Throughout the tense visit\, we see a family fractured by lack of communication and insecurities\, each member struggling to be heard and understood by the others. “Juste la fin du monde” will feature advanced L’Avant-Scène students : Jordan Coty Eloundou Ndongo GS\, Alex Pereyra `28\, Cécile Raas GS\, Louisa Joy `29\, and Blandine Guerrand. \nRegistration required.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lavant-scene-presents-juste-la-fin-du-monde-by-jean-luc-lagarce-2/
LOCATION:Rocky-Mathey Theater\, Rockefeller College\, 203 Madison Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:KOREAN MESSIAH: Kim Il Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea's Personality Cult
DESCRIPTION:North Korea remains one of the most confounding geopolitical challenges that the world faces—and at its heart is a system that is deeply misunderstood. North Korea is a country\, yes\, but it is perhaps more properly understood as a religious society—or\, if one prefers\, a cult. North Korea has a flag\, an army\, an anthem\, and a seat at the United Nations. But it is also a society of 25 million people\, almost entirely cut off from the outside world\, inculcated for eighty years with the belief that its founding god-king\, Kim Il Sung\, can offer a measure of immortality through faith in his teachings. Drawing on a raft of historical sources\, and an interest stretching back to his Princeton history senior thesis\, Jonathan Cheng unpacks the story behind his first book\, KOREAN MESSIAH (Alfred A. Knopf). \nJonathan Cheng is the China bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal\, overseeing the Journal’s coverage of the world’s second-largest economy across a range of areas including politics\, economics\, business\, technology\, and society. He oversees a team of more than two dozen correspondents and researchers in Beijing\, Shanghai\, Hong Kong\, Taipei\, Singapore\, and New York with responsibility for the Chinese mainland and Taiwan. Previously\, Jonathan was the Seoul bureau chief for the Journal\, running coverage of the Korean peninsula\, including North Korea and South Korean politics and business. He began his career as an intern in the Journal’s Hong Kong bureau\, and has also worked as a markets reporter in the Journal’s New York office. Jonathan speaks English\, Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese\, French\, and Korean. A native of Toronto\, Canada. He graduated from Princeton University with a degree in history. He lives in Beijing and has traveled to North Korea twice.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/korean-messiah-kim-il-sung-and-the-christian-roots-of-north-koreas-personality-cult/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall
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SUMMARY:Charlotte Beradt’s Third Reich of Dreams
DESCRIPTION:A Panel Discussion \nSpeakers \n\nKelly Bulkeley (Independent Scholar)\nDagmar Herzog (CUNY Graduate Center)\nJan-Werner Müller (Princeton)\nMichael Wood (Princeton)\nmoderated by Brigid Doherty (Princeton)\n\nFree and open to the public. \nCo-Sponsors: German Department\, Labyrinth Books
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/charlotte-beradts-third-reich-of-dreams/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
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SUMMARY:Walking with Stories: Palestine\, Memory and Practices of Ongoing Return
DESCRIPTION:Grounded in the land and people of Palestine\, Ongoing Return: Mapping Memory and Storytelling in Palestine (2026) centers Lifta\, a village of Jerusalem\, as the starting point for stories of the Nakba War (1947-1949) and practices of ongoing return\, recounted through a methodology I call “walking with stories.” I first take on the “specter of the Red Indian\,” the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) and complexities of the Indigenous comparison with the question of Palestine through analysis of writings of Yasser Arafat\, Edward Said and Mahmud Darwish. Drawing on stories\, court cases\, archival materials\, and techniques of preservation/erasure\, Ongoing Return then sheds light on museumification as a way of turning Palestine into a “biblical landscape” during the colonial mandate period; memories and stories of the Nakba War 1947/48; the horror of forced expulsion – all through the lens of a  from the politics of recognition and representation in 1968 to the devastation of war in Beirut 1981/82 and through the second Intifada in 2002. Palestinian commitment to ongoing return. Across five chapters\, the book gathers and reframes stories of the past to present ongoing return as a practice and a mode of being. \nRana Barakat is an associate professor of history and the Director of Birzeit University Museum in Palestine. Her research interests include the history and historiography of colonialism\, nationalism\, and cultures of resistance. She earned her PhD in history from the University of Chicago and has published in notable venues including the Journal of Palestine Studies\, Jerusalem Quarterly\, Settler Colonial Studies\, and Native American and Indigenous Studies. Her forthcoming book\, Ongoing Return: Storytelling as a Map of Return to Lifta and Palestine (UNC Press)\, advances an Indigenous understanding of time\, space\, and memory in Palestine by focusing on the details of the people and place of Lifta village over time. She is currently working on her next book\, “The Buraq Revolt: Constructing a History of Resistance in Palestine\,” which argues that this 1929 revolt was the first sign in the Mandate period of sustained mass resistance to the settler-colonial project\, including direct and rhetorical actions against both political Zionism and British imperialism\, planting seeds of mass political mobilization.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/walking-with-stories-palestine-memory-and-practices-of-ongoing-return/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall
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SUMMARY:"Filling in the Blanks: Increasing the Representation of Late Antique and Early Medieval Coin Finds from Greece and Türkiye"
DESCRIPTION:FLAME (Framing the Late Antique and Medieval Economy) is a digital numismatic project\, based in Princeton University’s Firestone Library\, which brings together an international team of scholars working on the minting and circulation of coinage in the period 325-750 CE in Afro-Eurasia. This workshop represents the culmination of its Heartlands Project\, funded by a Humanities Council Magic Grant. It brings together four PhD students from Greece and Türkiye\, who have spent the past year attempting to discover and digitize published and unpublished coin finds from their respective countries. The workshop is meant to expose the Princeton community to the challenges and opportunities for the discovery\, digitization\, and use of numismatic data for further understanding the economic transition between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. \nThis workshop\, as well as the entirety of the FLAME Heartland Project\, was sponsored through the generous support of a Magic Grant from Princeton University’s Humanities Council. Magic Grants support new faculty-led projects that reimagine how the humanities are conceived or taught. They encourage bold\, status-quo-defying intellectual work in the humanities that foster interdisciplinary collaborations and team-teaching\, expand the curriculum with new modes of thought\, and provide unique educational experiences to students. \nA light reception will be offered following the workshop \nImage: Mapping of distribution of Byzantine-era coin finds containing 40-nummi coins of Justinian I (527-565)\, FLAME Project Circulation Module
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/filling-in-the-blanks-increasing-the-representation-of-late-antique-and-early-medieval-coin-finds-from-greece-and-turkiye/
LOCATION:103 Scheide Caldwell House\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:'Revolution Up Close' Public Lecture Series | The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Told through the lives of three remarkable artists devoted to the pursuit of liberty\, an illuminating new history of the ideals that fired the American Revolution. \nThe war that we now call the American Revolution was not only fought in the colonies with muskets and bayonets. On both sides of the Atlantic\, artists armed with paint\, canvas\, and wax played an integral role in forging revolutionary ideals. Zara Anishanslin charts the intertwined lives of three such figures who dared to defy the British monarchy: Robert Edge Pine\, Prince Demah\, and Patience Wright. From London to Boston\, from Jamaica to Paris\, from Bath to Philadelphia\, these largely forgotten patriots boldly risked their reputations and their lives to declare independence. \nMostly excluded from formal political or military power\, these artists and their circles fired salvos against the king on the walls of the Royal Academy as well as on the battlefields of North America. They used their talents to inspire rebellion\, define American patriotism\, and fashion a new political culture\, often alongside more familiar revolutionary figures such as Benjamin Franklin and Phillis Wheatley. Pine\, an award-winning British artist rumored to be of African descent\, infused massive history paintings with politics and eventually emigrated to the young United States. Demah\, the first identifiable enslaved portrait painter in America\, was Pine’s pupil in London before self-emancipating and enlisting to fight for the Patriot cause. And Wright\, a Long Island–born wax sculptor who became a sensation in London\, loudly advocated for revolution while acting as an informal patriot spy. \nIlluminating a transatlantic and cosmopolitan world of revolutionary fervor\, The Painter’s Fire reveals an extraordinary cohort whose experiences testify to both the promise and the limits of liberty in the founding era. \nAuthor\nZara Anishanslin is Associate Professor of History and Art History at the University of Delaware. She is the author of the award-winning Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World and has served as a historical consultant for the Philadelphia Museum of Art as well as “Hamilton: The Exhibition.” \nRevolution Up Close: A Public Lecture Series\nThis lecture series is presented in connection with Nursery of Rebellion: Princeton and the American Revolution\, an exhibit at the Princeton University Library which runs from April 15 to July 12\, 2026. Four recent authors offer new perspectives on the American Revolution by zooming in on an individual life\, a close-knit community\, or a single document. \nFree and open to all\nBooks for sale by Labyrinth Books \nSupported by a Special Grant from the Humanities Council’s Ruth and Sid Lapidus ’59 Research Fellowships Fund
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/revolution-up-close-public-lecture-series-the-painters-fire-a-forgotten-history-of-the-artists-who-championed-the-american-revolution/
LOCATION:100 Arthur Lewis Auditorium\, Robertson Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260426T150000
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SUMMARY:The Jefferson Paradox: Race\, Slavery and the Promise of America
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE REGISTER HERE.  \nPulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed\, joined by Eddie Glaude\, discusses her book “Jefferson on Race\,” examining his ideals of equality and his contradictory life as a slaveholder. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn her new book “Jefferson on Race\,” Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed invites readers to confront one of the most enduring contradictions in American history. \nAmong the nation’s founders\, Thomas Jefferson was perhaps the most deeply and personally entangled with the issue of race and slavery. The author of the United States Declaration of Independence\, who famously wrote that “all men are created equal\,” enslaved more than 600 people over the course of his life while also condemning slavery in his writings. How can we understand this profound contradiction? \nDrawing from Jefferson’s letters\, public writings\, plantation records\, and accounts from those who lived at Monticello\, including his son Madison Hemings\, Gordon-Reed invites readers to examine Jefferson’s own words about African Americans\, slavery\, and Native Americans. The result is a revealing portrait of a founding figure grappling with the realities of a multiracial slave society while professing ideals of liberty and equality. \nAs the nation approaches the United States Semiquincentennial\, this timely conversation offers an opportunity to reconsider Jefferson’s legacy and the enduring questions about race\, freedom\, and democracy that continue to shape the American story. \n“Jefferson on Race” is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand Jefferson’s conflicted attitudes—and the impact of race and slavery on American history. \nAbout the Editor: \nAnnette Gordon-Reed is a New York Times–bestselling historian and the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. Her books include “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family\,” which won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award\, “Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy\,” and (with Peter S. Onuf) “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination.” \nAbout the Moderator: \nEddie S. Glaude Jr.\, is an educator\, author\, political commentator and public intellectual who examines the complex dynamics of the American experience. His writings\, including “Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul\,” “In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America\,” The New York Times bestseller\, “Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for our Own\,” take an exhaustive look at Black communities\, the difficulties of race in the United States\, and the challenges we face as a democracy. His latest book\, “We Are The Leaders We Have Been Looking For\,”  was released in May 2024. Glaude is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in African American Studies at Princeton University. He is also on the Morehouse College Board of Trustees. He frequently appears in the media as an MSNBC contributor on programs including “Morning Joe” and “Deadline Whitehouse with Nicolle Wallace.” Glaude is a native of Moss Point\, Mississippi. \nPresenting Partners: Princeton Public Library\, Princeton University Press\, Nassau Presbyterian Church and Labyrinth Books.\n\nCampus and Community Partners: Princeton University Humanities Council\, Princeton Theological Seminary\, Historical Society of Princeton\, Morven Museum & Garden\, Paul Robeson House of Princeton\, Department of African American Studies and GradFutures Professional Development Program. \nPublic Humanities programs are 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/the-jefferson-paradox-race-slavery-and-the-promise-of-america/
LOCATION:Nassau Presbyterian Church\, Nassau Presbyterian Church\, 61 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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SUMMARY:Film Screening of "Nuestra Tierra (Landmarks)" and Q&A with Filmmaker Lucrecia Martel
DESCRIPTION:In a prolific year of narratives and documentaries reckoning the profound lasting effects colonialism has had on generations of indigenous people\, Lucrecia Martel’s latest Nuestra Tierra/Landmarks might be the most brazen condemnation. Martel—having already proven her mastery of deflating the European-linked bourgeoises in Argentina through her narrative films—sets her sights on the three men accused of murdering Chuschagasta leader Javier Chocobar in 2009. Through eye witness accounts\, police records\, and grainy video\, Martel exposes the arrogance on display when wealthy landowners\, Dario Luis Amín and ex-police officers Luis Humberto Gómez and José Valdiviesoare approached by a small group of Chuschagasta residents. Words are exchanged\, and a gun is fired—multiple times. Still reeling from the murder\, Chuschagasta residents are interviewed and given a chance to finally share their story rather than be sidelined in the margins. It all comes to a head in an enraging\, if not utterly fascinating\, courtroom proceedings where tone cuts as much as a bullet to the gut. A film that all should see\, Nuestra Tierra is a more than worthy addition to a magnificent filmography.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/film-screening-of-nuestra-tierra-landmarks-and-qa-with-filmmaker-lucrecia-martel/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne
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SUMMARY:Un Destino Común: A Conversation with Filmmaker Lucrecia Martel
DESCRIPTION:Critically acclaimed filmmaker Lucrecia Martel (1966\, Argentina) is considered one of the leading auteurs of Latin American cinema. Mostly self-taught\, Martel started making animated short films in her early twenties before receiving international renown with her first feature La ciénaga (2001). It won numerous international awards including the Alfred Bauer Prize at Berlin. Her subsequent features further consolidated her reputation in world cinema. La niña santa (2004) and La mujer sin cabeza (2008) were both nominated for a Palme d’Or and Zama (2017) was chosen to represent Argentina in the Oscar and Goya Awards. Supported by the Hubert Bals Fund three times\, HBF Development in 2019\, NFF+HBF 2020 and Dutch Post-production Award 2021\, her latest film Nuestra Tierra / Landmarks (2025)\, about colonial violence and the struggle of Indigenous communities for justice\, had its premiere in the Venice Film Festival.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/un-destino-comun-a-conversation-with-filmmaker-lucrecia-martel/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne
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SUMMARY:Poetry in a Burning World: Works by Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris
DESCRIPTION:Join award-winning poets Katie Farris (Lewis Center for the Arts) and Ilya Kaminsky (Lewis Center for the Arts) for this collaborative presentation of their works on deafness\, the challenges of facing cancer\, and the war in Ukraine. Blending performance with conversation\, they will explore how poetry can make meaning out of tragedy and steady us through hardship. \nRegistration requested.  \nThis event is part of the Being Human (US) Festival. Organized by the Princeton University Humanities Council in partnership with the Princeton Public Library. Co-sponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts. \nTitle inspiration: Verse Daily: Why Write Love Poetry in a Burning World by Katie Farris
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/poetry-in-a-burning-world-works-by-ilya-kaminsky-and-katie-farris/
LOCATION:Princeton Public Library (Community Room)\, NJ\, United States
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SUMMARY:Experiential Learning through Community-Engaged Teaching
DESCRIPTION:The Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES) Faculty Advisory Board invites you to a discussion about incorporating community-engaged pedagogies into your teaching. The program will begin with a panel discussion featuring faculty who have taught ProCES courses followed by time for participants to connect\, exchange ideas\, learn about mechanisms of support from ProCES and McGraw\, and share light refreshments. Faculty of all ranks and disciplines are warmly encouraged to attend and contribute to the conversation whether they have experience teaching community-engaged courses or want to explore possibilities for future curriculum development. Tara Carr-Lemke\, Associate Director of the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship\, will moderate the panel\, which will feature Sandie Blaise\, Lecturer\, Department of French and Italian; Ryan Kingsbury\, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment; Rosina Lozano\, Associate Professor of History; and Christine Sagnier\, University Lecturer\, Department of French and Italian. \nPlease register here. \nPhoto caption: Professor John Higgins\, GEO 360 students\, and JRN 314 students participate in lead education and listening session at East Trenton Collaborative on 2/27/26.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/experiential-learning-through-community-engaged-teaching/
LOCATION:330 Frist\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260428T132000
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SUMMARY:When Literature Takes a Strange Turn...
DESCRIPTION:Some books do not follow common sense. A pangolin may talk or a dolphin get bullied. Perhaps there’s a settlement of people in outer space who live according to new myths\, in an invented language\, by unfamiliar rules. Or maybe a tree suffers from depression and a pick-up truck waxes sweet and nostalgic. As readers\, we can let the experience wash over us. But how do we\, as translators\, approach a text that seeks to estrange us\, when translation is the most intimate act of reading? Julia Sanches will explore this question through recent translations of contemporary literature from Spain and Brazil.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/when-literature-takes-a-strange-turn/
LOCATION:144 Louis A. Simpson Building
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260428T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260428T190000
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SUMMARY:"Travaux d'Acteurs" performed by students enrolled in FRE 311-THR 312
DESCRIPTION:The Department of French and Italian and L’Avant-Scène\, the French Theater Workshop\, presents “Travaux d’Acteurs” performed by students enrolled in FRE 311-THR 312. Directed by Florent Masse.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/travaux-dacteurs-performed-by-students-enrolled-in-fre-311-thr-312/
LOCATION:Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260428T190000
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SUMMARY:"Bramble"
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed poet Susan Stewart discusses her new poetry collection with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and poet Eliza Griswold.  Bramble is a meditation on difficulty and the powers of nature. \nIn the Biblical book of Judges\, the bramble is a figure of destructive leadership\, thwarting the lives of trees. In ballads and fairy tales\, roses grow “‘round the briar” in tragic contrast to heroines who are enveloped by the thorns. One of the oldest English words and an even older symbol\, “bramble” reminds us of the entangled and unending struggle that comes with living in time and searching beyond appearances. The rough thicket presents impediments\, yet it also bears fruit and delicate flowers. With Bramble\, Susan Stewart has composed a book of many forms\, including satires\, elegies\, meditations\, and songs. Bramble is also an exploration of the act of making such forms. The book’s three sections— \n“Mirror\,” “Briar\,” and “Channel”—link lyric time to our lives as they are situated in history and nature. Reflecting upon illness\, grief\, and change\, the poems follow the progress of day and night\, the movement of the seasons\, and the path of water from springs to the sea. \nSusan Stewart is a poet\, critic\, and translator. Her previous books of poetry include Columbarium\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and Cinder: New and Selected Poems. A MacArthur Fellow and a former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets\, she is also a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her most recent prose books are Poetry’s Nature and The Ruins Lesson. \n Eliza Griswold\, a poet\, a translator\, and a contributing writer covering religion\, politics\, and the environment\, has been writing for The New Yorker since 2003. Her books include Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love\, Power\, and Justice in an American Church and Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America\, which won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction. She is a Ferris Professor at Princeton University\, where she directs the Program in Journalism. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts\, the Humanities Council\, and Labyrinth Books.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/bramble/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:"A Kingdom and a Village: A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow"
DESCRIPTION:Simon Morrison discusses his new book with Renata Kapilevich. A Kingdom and a Village is an erudite and entertaining history of Moscow\, a city defined by its survival and reinvention\, and whose rich history offers crucial insight into contemporary global politics\n\nThe city of Moscow stands at the center of a nation comprising eleven percent of the globe’s landmass\, 11 time zones\, and nearly 150 million people\, some 13 million of whom live in the capital. In A Kingdom and a Village\, acclaimed historian Simon Morrison offers a vividly rendered history of Russia’s heart and soul\, tracing its transformation from a “big village”—the demeaning nickname the St. Peterburg nobility gave to its provincial neighbor—into a spectacular metropolis of vast geopolitical import. \nThat arc is the stuff of dramatic\, violent\, stranger-than-fiction historical narrative: the last century alone has featured invasions and costly battles\, the destruction (and reconstruction) of sacred cultural and religious landmarks\, and the collapse of the Soviet republic—not to mention the rise of an authoritarian leader who is a keen student of Russian history.  Drawing on a rich array of archival materials\, from the birchbark scrawls that record the oldest layer of Russian civilization to the articles in European newspapers heralding the opening of the magnificent Bolshoi Theater\, Morrison brings to life the bloody power struggles; cultural marvels; excruciating famines\, droughts\, storms\, and fires that have shaped and reshaped the city and reinforced its essential character. \nWith A Kingdom and a Village\, Morrison makes a persuasive\, even impassioned case that to understand Moscow is not only to unlock the mysteries of Russia’s past but also\, critically\, to grasp the grim logic of its present. It is a magisterial biography of a place and an essential guide to a people and a nation. \n  \nSimon Morrison is a professor of music and Slavic languages and literatures at Princeton University. He is a regular contributor to The Times Literary Supplement and London Review of Books and has written for Time\, The New York Review of Books\, and The New York Times. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and holds a PhD from Princeton University. \nRenata Kapilevich is a classically trained vocalist\, arts educator\, and communications strategist who brings a performer’s perspective to arts leadership and storytelling. She holds a degree in Vocal Performance from Westminster Choir College and a Master’s degree in Vocal Pedagogy from Boston Conservatory at Berklee. As a singer\, she has performed on stages including Carnegie Hall\, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts\, David Geffen Hall\, and Madison Square Garden. \nRenata’s career spans performance\, arts education\, and communications at leading cultural institutions. At the Metropolitan Opera\, she served as Press Officer\, managing media relations and developing press coverage for productions\, artists\, and major initiatives including the Met’s Live in HD broadcasts and education programs. She currently serves as Engagement Manager for the Princeton University Department of Music\, where she leads the department’s marketing and communications strategy. In this role\, she oversees digital and print initiatives\, promotes the department’s academic and performance programs\, and develops new projects that strengthen connections between students\, faculty\, alumni\, and the broader community.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/a-kingdom-and-a-village-a-one-thousand-year-history-of-moscow/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:“Choreographing Velocity: Contemporary Performance Emerging from the African Continent”
DESCRIPTION:Princeton Humanities Council Belknap Fellow Jay Pather shares some thoughts on contemporary performance emerging from the African continent in conversation with Lewis Center Chair Judith Hamera. \nIn Writing the World from an African Metropolis\, Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall wrote: \nThe conceptual categories with which to account for social velocity\, the power of the unforeseen and of the unfolding\, are in need of refinement. So too is the language with which to describe people’s relentless determination to negotiate conditions of turbulence and to introduce order and predictability into their lives.\n— (Mbembe and Nuttall\, 2008) \nIncreasingly\, social velocity has characterized contemporary societies the world over. African societies also deal with the continued turbulence and the aftershocks of colonialism\, from the colonial residue that remains in economies of extraction and structures of modernity and the inter-generational trauma that is visited on bodies and psyches. \nThese disturbances have also produced some of the world’s most vivid performance artists: searching\, passionate\, sometimes seeming nihilistic\, yet–and in answer to the need for a language to hold this – working deeply with the imperative to give form\, shape and articulation to the intangible and the deeply felt. This recalls Martinique philosopher Edouard Glissant’s notion of tremblement (trembling). \nTremblement is neither incertitude nor fear. It is not what paralyzes us. Trembling thinking is the instinctual feeling that we must refuse all categories of fixed and imperial thought…in which we can counter all the systems of terror\, domination\, and imperialism with the poetics of trembling—it allows us to be in real contact with the world and with the peoples of the world. \nIn these artists’ unceasing attention to the truth of the representation\, simply aesthetically satisfying form and structure are abandoned. In its place\, they offer a mixture of unexpected disruption of narrative\, deeply subjective opacity and blindingly illuminating image\, in Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula’s words\, a cocktail of truth and poetry. \nJay Pather’s talk probes some of the underpinnings of such work\, reflecting on contemporary artists from Ghana\, Nigeria\, Senegal\, South Africa\, Zimbabwe\, and the Cameroon in this audio visual presentation and open discussion. \nCosponsored by the Department of Art & Archaeology. \n\nJay Pather is a Belknap Long-Term Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Lewis Center for the Arts for spring 2026. He is a curator\, choreographer\, academic\, and a professor emeritus at the University of Cape Town where he directed the Institute for Creative Arts. He curates the Infecting the City Public Art Festival and the ICA Live Art Festival in Cape Town\, as well as for the Afrovibes Festival in Amsterdam. Publications include Acts of Transgressions\, Live Art in South Africa (2019) and Restless Infections\, Public Art for a Transforming City (2025). Pather served as juror for the International Award for Public Art and was appointed Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/choreographing-velocity-contemporary-performance-emerging-from-the-african-continent/
LOCATION:Godfrey Kerr Theater Studio\, Lewis Arts complex\, 122 ALEXANDER STREET\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Medieval Matters: Manuscript Culture and the Five Senses in the Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:Medieval Matters: Manuscript Culture and the Five Senses in the Middle Ages\, a full day roundtable\, brings together senior and junior faculty from leading East and West Coast institutions to present and discuss current research and methodologies in Old French studies. The roundtable will include a response by Ardis Butterfield (Yale)\, as well as presentations by Eliza Zingesser (Columbia)\, Mary Channen Caldwell (Penn)\, Henry Ravenhall (Berkeley)\, Ariane Bottex-Ferragne (NYU)\, Fay Slakey (Princeton)\, and Julien Stout (Princeton). \nThe title of the roundtable plays on the verb to matter\, the medieval French term matiere—used to designate thematic cycles (matiere de Rome\, de Bretagne\, etc.)—and the modern concept of materiality. The theme foregrounds the physicality of manuscripts\, textual fragments\, and amulets—objects produced\, circulated\, and handled in the Middle Ages—while also approaching poetry and literature as forms of “matter” that resist reduction to mere metaphor. The roundtable aims to explore how literary and poetic forms invite multisensory engagement\, often simultaneously. \nGuiding questions include: \n\nHow does a song\, narrative\, or idea move in and out of different forms of materiality in medieval French manuscript culture?\nHow does this (im)materiality interact with the senses in the production\, transmission\, and reception of medieval French culture?\nWhat happens when\, within a poem\, some senses stand in for others\, or when they converge into “multisensory nodes” that create an intermedial space—perhaps echoing an abstract or “vertical” realm?\nHow are (im)material or (non-)corporeal beings—or parts of beings—involved in the experience of manuscript culture?\n\nThe event will conclude with this year’s Medieval Studies Faber Lecture presented by Marisa Galvez (Stanford University). \nPresented by the Department of French and Italian. Co-sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/medieval-matters-manuscript-culture-and-the-five-senses-in-the-middle-ages/
LOCATION:NJ
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SUMMARY:Did Saint Paul Eat Kosher?
DESCRIPTION:“Did Saint Paul Eat Kosher? Theological Implications of a Torah-Observant Paul for Scripture\, Church\, and Tradition”\n\nBrad East (PhD\, Yale University) is an associate professor of theology at Abilene Christian University in Abilene\, Texas. He is the author or editor of six books\, including The Doctrine of Scripture (Cascade\, 2021) and The Church’s Book: Theology of Scripture in Ecclesial Context (Eerdmans\, 2022). His essays and reviews have appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education\, The Point\, The New Atlantis\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, The Lamp\, Commonweal\, and The Hedgehog Review.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/did-saint-paul-eat-kosher/
LOCATION:1879 Hall – Room 140\, 1879 Hall - Room 140\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T170000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Faber Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Marisa Galvez\, Professor of French and Italian at Stanford University\, will present this year’s Medieval Studies Faber Lecture. \nThis lecture serves as the keynote for “Medieval Matters: Manuscript Culture and the Five Senses in the Middle Ages\,” a full day roundtable which will bring together senior and junior faculty from leading East and West Coast institutions to present and discuss current research and methodologies in Old French studies. \nA reception to follow the lecture.\nThis event is free and open to the public. \nMore information will be provided shortly. \nPresented by the Program in Medieval Studies with support from the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council. Co-sponsored by the Department of French and Italian.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-faber-lecture/
LOCATION:NJ
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T190000
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SUMMARY:‘Revolution Up Close’ Public Lecture Series | The Boston Massacre: A Family History
DESCRIPTION:A dramatic\, untold “people’s history” of the storied event that helped trigger the American Revolution. \nThe story of the Boston Massacre—when on a late winter evening in 1770\, British soldiers shot five local men to death—is familiar to generations. But from the very beginning\, many accounts have obscured a fascinating truth: the Massacre arose from conflicts that were as personal as they were political. \nProfessor Serena Zabin draws on original sources and lively stories to follow British troops as they are dispatched from Ireland to Boston in 1768 to subdue the increasingly rebellious colonists. And she reveals a forgotten world hidden in plain sight: the many regimental wives and children who accompanied these armies. We see these families jostling with Bostonians for living space\, finding common cause in the search for a lost child\, trading barbs\, and sharing baptisms. Becoming\, in other words\, neighbors. When soldiers shot unarmed citizens in the street\, it was these intensely human\, now broken bonds that fueled what quickly became a bitterly fought American Revolution. \nSerena Zabin’s The Boston Massacre delivers an indelible new slant on iconic American Revolutionary history. \nAuthor\nSerena Zabin is the Stephen R. Lewis\, Jr. Professor of History and the Liberal Arts at Carleton College. She is the author of Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York and The New York Conspiracy Trials of 1741: Daniel Horsmanden’s Journal of the Proceedings. She is also the codesigner of a serious video game about the Boston Massacre\, Witness to the Revolution. \nRevolution Up Close: A Public Lecture Series\nThis lecture series is presented in connection with Nursery of Rebellion: Princeton and the American Revolution\, an exhibit at the Princeton University Library which runs from April 15 to July 12\, 2026. Four recent authors offer new perspectives on the American Revolution by zooming in on an individual life\, a close-knit community\, or a single document. \nFree and open to all\nBooks for sale by Labyrinth Books \nSupported by a Special Grant from the Humanities Council’s Ruth and Sid Lapidus ’59 Research Fellowships Fund
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/revolution-up-close-public-lecture-series-the-boston-massacre-a-family-history/
LOCATION:100 Arthur Lewis Auditorium\, Robertson Hall
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SUMMARY:"Transported: The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams"
DESCRIPTION:Join us as Elizabeth Margulis discusses her new book with Tania Lombrozo.  Transported explores the phenomenon of musical daydreams—the vivid\, spontaneous\, emotionally charged images\, stories\, and memories we lapse into while listening to music—and argues that these everyday reveries offer a powerful and underappreciated window into how we think\, feel\, and connect.\n \nA song comes on and suddenly you’re somewhere else: Reliving past heartbreak. Picturing a serene future. Imagining a fantastical scene. Across genres\, music has an uncanny ability to carry us into distinct inner worlds. \nIn Transported\, acclaimed music cognition researcher Elizabeth Margulis explores the phenomenon of musical daydreams—the vivid\, spontaneous\, emotionally charged images\, stories\, and memories we lapse into while listening to music—and argues that these everyday reveries offer a powerful and underappreciated window into how we think\, feel\, and connect. \nCombining cutting-edge neuroscience\, psychology\, ethnography\, and revelations from her own teaching and pathbreaking research\, Margulis shows not only that musical imaginings are widespread and meaningful—but also that daydreams which seem deeply personal are often widely shared. Music can alleviate anxiety\, ignite creativity\, and foster connection in our increasingly fragmented era. \nAt a time when attention is perpetually under siege\, Transported makes a powerful case for music as one of the last spaces where the mind is still free to wander—and reminds us that these wanderings are more meaningful and more important to our individual and collective well-being than we’ve ever realized. \nElizabeth Margulis is a researcher in music cognition and a trained classical pianist. She is Professor and Acting Chair of the Department of Music at Princeton University\, where she directs the Music Cognition Lab. Transported is her first book for general audiences. \nTania Lombrozo is the Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Psychology at Princeton University\, where she directs the Program in Cognitive Science. Her research aims to address foundational questions about cognition using the empirical tools of cognitive psychology and the conceptual tools of analytic philosophy. Her book\, Why We Ask Why: The Science of Explanation and The Human Drive to Understand\, will be released in October. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Princeton University’s Department of Music.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/transported-the-everyday-magic-of-musical-daydreams/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:‘Revolution Up Close’ Public Lecture Series | The Tory’s Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America
DESCRIPTION:The Spurgin family of North Carolina experienced the cataclysm of the American Revolution in the most dramatic ways—and from different sides. This engrossing book tells the story of Jane Welborn Spurgin\, a patriot who welcomed General Nathanael Greene to her home and aided Continental forces while her loyalist husband was fighting for the king as an officer in the Tory militia. By focusing on the wife of a middling backcountry farmer\, esteemed historian Cynthia Kierner shows how the Revolution not only toppled long-established political hierarchies but also strained family ties and drew women into the public sphere to claim both citizenship and rights—as Jane Spurgin did with a dramatic series of petitions to the North Carolina state legislature when she fought to reclaim her family’s lost property after the war was over. \nWhile providing readers with stories of battles\, horse-stealing\, bigamy\, and exile that bring the Revolutionary era vividly to life\, this book also serves as an invaluable examination of the potentially transformative effects of war and revolution\, both personally and politically. \nAuthor\nCynthia A. Kierner is Professor of History at George Mason University and the author of Scandal at Bizarre: Rumor and Reputation in Jefferson’s America. \nRevolution Up Close: A Public Lecture Series\nThis lecture series is presented in connection with Nursery of Rebellion: Princeton and the American Revolution\, an exhibit at the Princeton University Library which runs from April 15 to July 12\, 2026. Four recent authors offer new perspectives on the American Revolution by zooming in on an individual life\, a close-knit community\, or a single document. \nFree and open to all\nBooks for sale by Labyrinth Books \nSupported by a Special Grant from the Humanities Council’s Ruth and Sid Lapidus ’59 Research Fellowships Fund
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/revolution-up-close-public-lecture-series-the-torys-wife-a-woman-and-her-family-in-revolutionary-america/
LOCATION:100 Arthur Lewis Auditorium\, Robertson Hall
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SUMMARY:‘Revolution Up Close’ Public Lecture Series | Tyrants and Rogues: Understanding the Declaration of Independence
DESCRIPTION:From an acclaimed historian\, a revelatory account of the Declaration of Independence\, centered not on the lofty preamble but on the specific grievances that make up the bulk of the document and that offer an entirely new view into the Revolutionary era. \nWe think of the Declaration of Independence as timeless. We know the sacred phrases: “all men are created equal\,” “life\, liberty\, and the pursuit of happiness\,” “self-evident truths\,” “certain inalienable rights.” These are some of the most important words human beings have ever written. And they are all from the Declaration’s preamble\, which has inspired people for centuries\, including generations of revolutionaries all over the world. \nBut as historian Robert G. Parkinson points out\, the Declaration was not written as a timeless statement of political philosophy. It was\, rather\, produced in the heat of a confusing\, bloody\, and desperate war. And in that moment\, it wasn’t high ideals alone that drove the patriots forward. Parkinson’s great innovation is to allow us\, 250 years on\, to see the Declaration as its authors did. For them\, the opening paragraphs were not the main event. It was the body of the Declaration—the twenty-seven grievances against King George—that formed the essential part. Even Thomas Jefferson would have been puzzled by history’s fixation on his opening sentences. \nParkinson takes us into the grievances\, giving us stories of the Revolutionary era that are little known today but loomed large for the patriots. As the leaders of the Revolution saw it\, they had been pushed to the breaking point by British officials who undermined colonial legislatures and courts\, corrupted the judiciary\, turned military power against civilians\, inflamed slave revolts\, forced colonists to fight one another—ultimately\, waging war on their own people. \nIn his brilliantly original reading of the Declaration\, Parkinson asks fundamental questions that have too often been overlooked: Why did the colonies declare independence when they did? What were their nonnegotiable demands? Who were the individuals whose actions made reconciliation impossible? By recovering the people and conflicts behind the Declaration’s grievances\, Parkinson offers a strikingly new account of the American Revolution—and shows that the issues that most alarmed colonists in 1776 are urgent once again today. \nAuthor\nRobert G. Parkinson is professor of history at Binghamton University. He is the author of The Common Cause\, Thirteen Clocks\, and Heart of American Darkness. He lives in Charles Town\, West Virginia. \nRevolution Up Close: A Public Lecture Series\nThis lecture series is presented in connection with Nursery of Rebellion: Princeton and the American Revolution\, an exhibit at the Princeton University Library which runs from April 15 to July 12\, 2026. Four recent authors offer new perspectives on the American Revolution by zooming in on an individual life\, a close-knit community\, or a single document. \nFree and open to all\nBooks for sale by Labyrinth Books \nSupported by a Special Grant from the Humanities Council’s Ruth and Sid Lapidus ’59 Research Fellowships Fund
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/revolution-up-close-public-lecture-series-tyrants-and-rogues-understanding-the-declaration-of-independence/
LOCATION:100 Arthur Lewis Auditorium\, Robertson Hall
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SUMMARY:20th Annual Humanities Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Join the Humanities Council at Princeton University for a kick-off event featuring a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary conversation about central issues in our research\, teaching\, and intellectual life. \nDetails to follow. To see past events\, please visit the Humanities Colloquium page on our website.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/20th-annual-humanities-colloquium/
LOCATION:Chancellor Green Rotunda\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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