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SUMMARY:Winckelmann’s Epistolary Art
DESCRIPTION:Over the two and half centuries since he met his violent end in Trieste\, the correspondence of Johann Joachim Winckelmann\, the traditional ‘founder’ of classical archaeology\, has grown as important to the formation of his legend as his published writings on art. His letters\, and the life story to which they promise access\, were crucial to his canonisation as a figure of emulation for students of classics in Germany; they also played a central role in the quest for ‘Uranian’ ancestors among activists in the burgeoning European homosexual emancipation movement of the 1890s. In this talk I will respectfully interrogate these traditions\, seeking to do justice to their importance while also criticising the ways in which they have establish a sharp (and anachronistic) divide between ‘private’ and ‘public’ categories of Winckelmann’s literary production. Turning to the educational contexts of Winckelmann’s childhood and youth and the rich evidence his manuscripts provide of his reading in Latin and vernacular authors\, I shall argue that Winckelmann practised an epistolary art grounded in classical and early modern epistolary convention. Viewed in this perspective\, his letters construct a set of queerly desiring personae more varied and interesting than traditional readings have revealed.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/winckelmanns-epistolary-art/
LOCATION:East Pyne 010 and Zoom\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eileen Robinson":MAILTO:eileenrobinson@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Aimer en français: exil\, identité(s)\, écriture (in French)
DESCRIPTION:Kim Thúy will present the lecture Aimer en français: exil\, identité(s)\, écriture (in French)\, followed by a reception. Registration required. \nThese events were made possible thanks to the generous support of: The 250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education\, The Délégation Générale du Québec à New York\, The Department of French and Italian\, Canadian Studies\, The Humanities Council\, The Lewis Center for the Arts\, The Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie\, The Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES) \, The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/aimer-en-francais-exil-identites-ecriture-in-french/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall
ORGANIZER;CN="Kelly Eggers":MAILTO:keggers@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:"Nightmare Landscapes\, Ambient Splendor\, and the End(s) of Art"
DESCRIPTION:Neferti X. M. Tadiar\n“Nightmare Landscapes\, Ambient Splendor\, and the End(s) of Art”\n[Response: Paul Nadal]\nTuesday\, March 28\, 2023 @5pm ET\nN107 (School of Architecture) \nIn this talk\, Neferti Tadiar shares readings of contemporary Philippine art in the context of catastrophe from her book Remaindered Life. She reads the work of Kiri Dalena\, Lyra Garcellano\, and others in intricate\, expressive relation to the nightmare landscapes proffered by a global fantasy of city everywhere\, an uber-urban world built on unimpeded value-productive movement\, connection\, and circulation\, which demands and depends on relentless violent life-expenditures through war. Dwelling on these works’ affective sensibility of the life of the dispossessed imprinted within these very landscapes\, their rendering of the ambient splendor of remaindered life\, Tadiar asks what in this context might be the end(s) of art. \nNeferti X. M. Tadiar is Professor of Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College\, Columbia University. She is the author of Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization; Fantasy-Production: Sexual Economies and Other Philippine Consequences for the New World Order; and most recently\, Remaindered Life. \nPaul Nadal is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Princeton University. An interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of literature and economy\, he is completing a book on novels and remittances in the Philippine diaspora\, a chapter of which appeared in American Quarterly and won the Best Essay Prize from the American Literature Society.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/nightmare-landscapes-ambient-splendor-and-the-ends-of-art/
LOCATION:Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Iason Stathatos":MAILTO:iasons@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Toni Morrison Lectures | Dear Toni: Morrison Edits a Generation of Black Men
DESCRIPTION:Held over three days March 28 – March 30th\, the Toni Morrison Lectures are held bi-annually and spotlight the new and exciting work of scholars and writers who have risen to positions of prominence both in academe and in the broader world of letters. \nThe lectures are published to celebrate the expansive literary imagination\, intellectual adventurousness and political insightfulness that characterize the writing of Toni Morrison. Morrison taught creative writing at Princeton for many years. In 2014 she donated a major portion of her papers to the Princeton University Library. As of spring of 2016\, the papers are available for all scholars to visit and study. \nFarah Jasmine Griffin is the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American Studies at Columbia University\, where she also served as the inaugural Chair of the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department. Professor Griffin received her B.A. in History & Literature from Harvard and her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale. She is the author or editor of eight books including Who Set You Flowin?: The African American Migration Narrative (Oxford\, 1995)\, If You Can’t Be Free\, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday (Free Press\, 2001)\, and Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II (Basic Books\, 2013). \nGriffin collaborated with composer\, pianist\, Geri Allen and director\, actor S. Epatha Merkerson on two theatrical projects\, for which she wrote the book: The first\, “Geri Allen and Friends Celebrate the Great Jazz Women of the Apollo\,” with Lizz Wright\, Dianne Reeves\, Teri Lyne Carrington and others\, premiered on the main stage of the Apollo Theater in May of 2013. The second\, “A  Conversation with Mary Lou” featuring vocalist Carmen Lundy\, premiered at Harlem Stage in March 2014 and was performed at The John F. Kennedy Center in May of 2016. Her most recent book\, Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature was published by W.W. Norton in September 2021. Griffin is a 2021-22 Guggenheim Fellow and Mellon Foundation Fellow in Residence.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/toni-morrison-lectures-dear-toni-morrison-edits-a-generation-of-black-men/
LOCATION:10 McCosh
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SUMMARY:Reading by Emma Cline & A. Van Jordan
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning poet A. Van Jordan\, author of five poetry collections including M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A and the forthcoming When I Waked\, I Cried to Dream Again (W.W. Norton\, 2023)\, and novelist Emma Cline\, author of The Girls and the forthcoming book The Guest (May 2023)\, read from their work as part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series. \nAdmission: Free and open to the public. All visitors to Princeton University are expected to be either fully vaccinated\, have recently received and be prepared to show proof of a negative COVID test (via PCR within 72 hours or via rapid antigen within 8 hours of the scheduled visit)\, or agree to wear a face covering when indoors and around others. \nAccessibility: The Stewart Theater is an accessible venue. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at least one week in advance at lewiscenter@princeton.edu
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/reading-by-emma-cline-a-van-jordan/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Steve Runk":MAILTO:LewisCenter@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Medieval Faculty Colloquium | Making Things Up: Improvisation in the Illustrated 'Cantigas de Santa María'
DESCRIPTION:The Program in Medieval Studies is pleased to offer the Faculty Colloquium series for Spring 2023. Pamela Patton (Art and Archaeology) will present this lunchtime talk on Wednesday\, March 29. \nPatton’s project-in-progress examines artistic improvisation in the two illustrated Cantigas de Santa María manuscripts now in the Escorial (RBME\, MS T-I-1) and Florence (Bib. Naz. MS b.r. 20). The creativity of these visual narratives\, made to accompany the text and music of the Cantigas when they were set down in a pair of deluxe codices around 1280 at the Sevillian court of their patron\, King Alfonso X of Castile\, has been widely recognized. Yet the degree to which the illustrations diverge from their companion texts—embroidering\, revising\, even subverting the details of the written/sung narratives—suggests an autonomy and even haphazardness that stands at odds with the modern vision of a well-ordered royal scriptorium. Patton’s project postulates that the rampant improvisations of the Cantigas illustrations reflect both the freedom enjoyed and the pressure endured by an atelier struggling to satisfy a prolific royal patron under challenging conditions. \nPlease RSVP for this event here.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/medieval-faculty-colloquium-making-things-up-improvisation-in-the-illustrated-cantigas-de-santa-maria/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell
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SUMMARY:Book Talk "The Face of Peace: Government Pedagogy amid Disinformation in Colombia"
DESCRIPTION:Colombia’s 2016 peace agreement with the FARC guerrillas sought to end fifty years of war and won President Juan Manuel Santos the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet Colombian society rejected it in a polarizing referendum\, amid an emotive disinformation campaign. Gwen Burnyeat joined the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace\, the government institution responsible for peace negotiations\, to observe and participate in an innovative “peace pedagogy” strategy to explain the agreement to Colombian society. Burnyeat’s multi-scale ethnography reveals the challenges government officials experienced communicating with skeptical audiences and translating the peace process for public opinion. She argues that the fatal flaw in the peace process lay in government-society relations\, enmeshed in culturally liberal logics and shaped by the politics of international donors. The Face of Peace offers the Colombian case as a mirror to the global crisis of liberalism\, shattering the fantasy of rationality that haunts liberal responses to “post-truth” politics. \nABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER \nGwen Burnyeat is a Junior Research Fellow in Anthropology\, Merton College\, University of Oxford. She is also a winner of the 2023 Public Anthropologist Award. \nDISCUSSANT \nCatalina Muñoz\, History\, Universidad de los Andes\, Colombia; PLAS Visiting Research Scholar \nOpen to students\, faculty\, visiting scholars\, staff and specially invited guests. A boxed lunch will be provided while supplies last.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/book-talk-the-face-of-peace-government-pedagogy-amid-disinformation-in-colombia/
LOCATION:216 Aaron Burr Hall\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Damaris Zayas":MAILTO:damaris@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Towards a New Understanding of the Late Imperial Corpora or How to Read An Anatomy of Lenses (Jingshi 鏡史)\, 1681
DESCRIPTION:A talk from Tina Lu\, Yale University. \nABSTRACT: \nAlthough it is mentioned in other seventeenth-century texts and strongly associated with Sun Yunqiu (~1630-1662)\, Jingshi (compiled sometime after 1681) was only rediscovered in 2015 as one of a handful of seventeenth-century Chinese texts that allude to a Chinese-made telescope. In both halves of my project—what Jingshi isn’t and what Jingshi is—I pose the same question: what did “Sun Yunqiu” do? A version of his life that originates from the Gazetteer of Tiger Hill (Hufu zhi 虎阜志) has become commonplace: he was an inventor\, and that he “spurred all the workshops of the city to fabricate glasses according to his methods and that they then spread everywhere.” I trace his contributions in both the lens-making workshop and in the book-making one. Both of these were collective ventures\, depending on multiple forms of expertise. In my presentation at Princeton\, I will be focusing on the second half: how a close look at Jingshi can show us what being an editor meant\, an understanding of books not just as political relics but as political organisms\, and the place of carvers in bookmaking.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/towards-a-new-understanding-of-the-late-imperial-corpora-or-how-to-read-an-anatomy-of-lenses-jingshi-%e9%8f%a1%e5%8f%b2-1681/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chao-Hui Jenny Liu":MAILTO:chaoliu@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:The Background Fantastic: Ambient Fantasy from YouTube to the Metaverse
DESCRIPTION:Join the Committee for Film Studies for the first lecture in our spring 2023 series that brings prominent film scholars into conversation with members of the Princeton community. This event features Paul Roquet\, associate professor of media studies and Japan studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. \nTalk title\n“The Background Fantastic: Ambient Fantasy from YouTube to the Metaverse” \nAbstract\nWhat happens when the heightened emotional environments of fantasy fiction and role-playing games are recruited as backdrops for the completion of everyday tasks? This talk examines the prominent role of fantasy settings in the spread of YouTube ‘ambience’ and ‘study with me’ videos\, as well as the fantasy backdrops so central to life in social VR. Situating ambient fantasy within the broader turn to magical thinking in twenty-first century American and Japanese popular culture\, I consider what it means to recruit the fantastic as an atmospheric resource for everyday mood regulation\, and what happens when these ambient horizons are enclosed within the algorithmic logic of commercial media platforms.​ \nPaul Roquet is associate professor of media studies and Japan studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Ambient Media: Japanese Atmospheres of Self (Minnesota\, 2016) and The Immersive Enclosure: Virtual Reality in Japan (Columbia\, 2022). \nThis event is free and open to the public. \nThe spring 2023 lecture series is sponsored by the Humanities Council’s Committee for Film Studies. \nPlease email program manager Margo Bresnen at mbresnen@princeton.edu with any questions.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/cfs-lecture-paul-roquet/
LOCATION:100 Jones Hall
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SUMMARY:Bhimrao Ambedkar\, John Dewey\, and the Evolution of Navayana Buddhism: Buddhist Studies Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Bhimrao Ambedkar is well known for his roles in anti-caste activism in India and his work in orchestrating vital parts of India’s democratic constitution. He was also famous at the end of his life for proffering a controversial new vision of Buddhism that was designed to create democratic communities and resist caste oppression. Uniting these concerns was a lifelong interest in themes\, methods\, and ideals from one of Ambedkar’s most important teachers\, John Dewey. In this talk\, Scott R. Stroud discusses some of the themes in his book\, The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar\, Dewey\, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction (University of Chicago\, 2023)\, and illustrates the extensive influence of American pragmatism on Ambedkar’s development\, along with his creative appropriation and rejection of parts of Dewey’s thought to rethink Buddhism’s social potentials. \nDr. Scott R. Stroud is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He writes on various topics in ethics\, rhetoric\, and philosophy. He is the author of two academic books\, John Dewey and the Artful Life and Kant and the Promise of Rhetoric. He is the co-founder of the first “Center for John Dewey Studies” in India at Savitribai Phule Pune University. His recent book\, The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar\, Dewey\, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction (University of Chicago/HarperCollins India\, 2023)\, is the most comprehensive account to date of Bhimrao Ambedkar’s encounter with Deweyan pragmatism at Columbia University during 1913-1916 and the ways it shaped his innovative pursuit of social justice in India.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/bhimrao-ambedkar-john-dewey-and-the-evolution-of-navayana-buddhism-buddhist-studies-workshop/
LOCATION:1879 Hall\, Room 137
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jenny Legath":MAILTO:jlegath@princeton.edu
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230329T183000
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SUMMARY:Toni Morrison Lectures | Here Stands a Man: Morrison's (Feminist?) Molding of Black Masculinity
DESCRIPTION:Held over three days March 28 – March 30th\, the Toni Morrison Lectures are held bi-annually and spotlight the new and exciting work of scholars and writers who have risen to positions of prominence both in academe and in the broader world of letters. \nThe lectures are published to celebrate the expansive literary imagination\, intellectual adventurousness and political insightfulness that characterize the writing of Toni Morrison. Morrison taught creative writing at Princeton for many years. In 2014 she donated a major portion of her papers to the Princeton University Library. As of spring of 2016\, the papers are available for all scholars to visit and study. \nFarah Jasmine Griffin is the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American Studies at Columbia University\, where she also served as the inaugural Chair of the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department. Professor Griffin received her B.A. in History & Literature from Harvard and her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale. She is the author or editor of eight books including Who Set You Flowin?: The African American Migration Narrative (Oxford\, 1995)\, If You Can’t Be Free\, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday (Free Press\, 2001)\, and Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II (Basic Books\, 2013). \nGriffin collaborated with composer\, pianist\, Geri Allen and director\, actor S. Epatha Merkerson on two theatrical projects\, for which she wrote the book: The first\, “Geri Allen and Friends Celebrate the Great Jazz Women of the Apollo\,” with Lizz Wright\, Dianne Reeves\, Teri Lyne Carrington and others\, premiered on the main stage of the Apollo Theater in May of 2013. The second\, “A  Conversation with Mary Lou” featuring vocalist Carmen Lundy\, premiered at Harlem Stage in March 2014 and was performed at The John F. Kennedy Center in May of 2016. Her most recent book\, Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature was published by W.W. Norton in September 2021. Griffin is a 2021-22 Guggenheim Fellow and Mellon Foundation Fellow in Residence.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/toni-morrison-lectures-here-stands-a-man-morrisons-feminist-molding-of-black-masculinity/
LOCATION:10 McCosh
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T193000
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SUMMARY:LLL Presents | Take What You Need: A Novel
DESCRIPTION:In her new novel\, Idra Novey zeroes in on the joys and difficulty of family\, the ease with which we let distance mute conflict\, and the power we can draw from creative pursuits. Please join us for a conversation between the author and fellow novelist Yiiyun Li. \nIdra Novey is also the author of the acclaimed novels Those Who Knew Her and Ways to Disappear. Her poetry collections include Exit\, Cvilian; The Next Country; and Clarice: The Visitor. Her works as a translator include Clarice Lispector’s novel The Passion According to G.H. and a co-translation with Ahmad Nadalizadeh of Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian\, Lean Against This Late Hour. She teaches fiction at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts. Yiyun Li’s most recent book is The Book of Goose. Her previous novels are Must I Go; Where Reasons End; Kinder Than Solitude; A Thousand Years of Good Prayers; The Vagrants; and Gold Boy\, Emerald Girl; and the memoir Dear Friend\, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. Like Novey\, she teaches creative writing at Princeton. \nThis event is co-presented by Labyrinth Books and the Princeton Public Library and cosponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council and Lewis Center for the Arts.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lll-presents-take-what-you-need-a-novel/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books and Livestream\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:Oceanography Otherwise: Marine Methods in the Environmental Humanities
DESCRIPTION:In The Physical Geography of the Sea and its Meteorology (1855)\, Matthew Fontaine Maury blames a major ocean current for the commercial decline of the U.S. South. “The Gulf Stream\, the water-thermometer\, and the improvements in navigation\,” he writes\, “changed the [status] of Charleston — the great Southern emporium of the times — removing it from its position as a half-way house and placing it in the category of an outside station” (79-80). Although this claim might seem counterintuitive coming from the pioneering scientist who introduced the word “oceanography” into the scientific lexicon in 1859\, Maury’s biography renders it unsurprising. In 1861\, at the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War\, this “pathfinder of the seas” and “father of oceanography” would resign his commission as superintendent of the U.S. Naval Observatory and Hydrographic Office and join the Confederate navy (Grady 2015; Hardy and Rozwadowski 2020). \nToday\, the ocean’s thermohaline circulation\, a heat exchange system in which Maury’s much-maligned Gulf Stream plays an important role\, is destabilizing due to climate change. Scientists and humanists alike are fathoming the ocean’s centrality to the historical structures of oppression whose legacies now contribute to its biophysical degradation. But oceanography — a portmanteau of the Greek words for ocean and writing — remains “a discipline rarely engaged by humanities scholars” (Steinberg 2013). My talk asks why. \nFirst\, I follow the long wakes of imperial voyagers including early modern Portuguese mariners and Maury himself through scientific and cultural understandings of the ocean. This wake extends to the oceanic turn\, a scholarly current in the humanities whose very name is a near-literal\, if inadvertent translation of the Portuguese imperial volta do mar. From here\, I consider the “Afrofuturist marine biology” (Jue) of Nnedi Okorafor’s novel Lagoon (2015) alongside the civic practices of contemporary marine biologists and archaeologists who are transforming science communication and fieldwork in light of racial justice. By bringing literary studies into conversation with the multidisciplinary scientific study of the global ocean\, I hope to prompt a conversation on method in environmental humanities that will help us all\, whatever our home fields happen to be\, imagine and inhabit more just ocean worlds “otherwise.” \nAli Glassie is a lecturer on history and literature at Harvard University\, working at the intersection of comparative literature\, environmental humanities\, and ocean history. Her current book project\, Atlantic Shapeshifters: Sea Literature’s Fluid Forms\, uses 20th century and contemporary literature in English\, Spanish\, and Portuguese to recover and center gendered and racialized experiences with the ocean. In doing so\, the book draws on her training in marine affairs and her professional experience at sea. Ali’s writing appears in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment; Novel: A Forum on Fiction; Coriolis\, and sx/salon\, a literary platform of Small Axe. She has also published collaborative work on water justice in Bioscience and covered transatlantic yacht racing for Blue Water Sailing. \nCo-sponsored by the Effron Center for the Study of America\, High Meadows Environmental Institute\, and the English Department.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/oceanography-otherwise-marine-methods-in-the-environmental-humanities/
LOCATION:Room 002\, Robertson Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Malone":MAILTO:sarah.k.malone@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:“Why were masks so essential for Greek tragedy?”
DESCRIPTION:Lunch Talk\nTo attend in person please RSVP by Monday\, March 27th to Eileen Robinson\, eileenrobinson@princeton.edu \nClick here for the Zoom registration link 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/why-were-masks-so-essential-for-greek-tragedy/
LOCATION:161 East Pyne and Zoom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eileen Robinson":MAILTO:eileenrobinson@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230330T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230330T173000
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SUMMARY:Judge Zahid Quraishi in Conversation with Professor Udi Ofer
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the next FOCUS Speaker Series event in Robertson Hall\, Arthur Lewis Auditorium at 4:00 pm on Thursday\, March 30\, 2023. In collaboration with the School of Public and International Affairs\, ODUS will feature Judge Zahid Nisar Quraishi in conversation with Professor Udi Ofer of the SPIA department. \nFOCUS is an interdisciplinary initiative sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students designed to bring anti-racist scholarship\, thought\, and action to every part of university life. The name and mission of FOCUS were inspired by the words of Toni Morrison\, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities\, Emeritus\, and the recipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/judge-zahid-quraishi-in-conversation-with-professor-udi-ofer/
LOCATION:Arthur Lewis Auditorium\, Robertson Hall\, Arthur Lewis Auditorium\, Robertson Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230330T180000
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SUMMARY:Ut ekphrasis pictura: When Words Take Shape in Sir John Chardin’s Drawings of Muhammad’s Tomb in Mecca
DESCRIPTION:Violence might involve the fixation of our memorized images in words\, because\, as Italo Calvino says in his book Invisible Cities\, “memory’s images\, once they are fixed in words\, are erased”. Yet\, the continuing defamation of the imagined image of the prophet Muhammad in the West\, and the imagined descriptions of holy spaces strongly associated with Him\, like the Haram in Mecca and His tomb in Medina\, became topoi. Unlike Calvino’s memory images\, when fixed in words\, these images were not erased. In fact\, they function as tools and strategies of rhetoric. Legendary descriptions of the city of Lamech (Mecca) related by Christian travelers turned into common popular knowledge\, and\, like formulas\, were repeated\, thus gaining presence and certainty. \nAt the focus of this study are two drawings from the ex-collection of the Londoner writer and gardener (and perhaps one of the early modern environmentalist) John Evelyn (1620-1706). They display the earliest European renditions of the imaginary space of Mecca’s sacred enclosure. I would like to deepen into Calvino’s sense of violence of erasure that involves representations\, namely into the specific process when the object of our imagined or memorized image is made visible\, either by words or by drawings. I would like to contemplate on representation as a site\, in which the memory of images is lost and a new entity appears\, which acts as a barrier between the beholder and her or his memorized image.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/ut-ekphrasis-pictura-when-words-take-shape-in-sir-john-chardins-drawings-of-muhammads-tomb-in-mecca/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mo Chen":MAILTO:mochen@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230330T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230330T180000
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CREATED:20230320T134852Z
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SUMMARY:Flaubert Blues
DESCRIPTION:Aymeric Glacet\, Professor of French and French Studies\, Sewanee: The University of the South\, will present the lecture Flaubert Blues.\nRegistration required.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/flaubert-blues/
LOCATION:105 Chancellor Green
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kelly Eggers":MAILTO:keggers@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230330T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230330T183000
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CREATED:20230321T192400Z
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SUMMARY:Toni Morrison Lectures | On the Far Side: Globalization in Morrison's World
DESCRIPTION:Held over three days March 28 – March 30th\, the Toni Morrison Lectures are held bi-annually and spotlight the new and exciting work of scholars and writers who have risen to positions of prominence both in academe and in the broader world of letters. \nThe lectures are published to celebrate the expansive literary imagination\, intellectual adventurousness and political insightfulness that characterize the writing of Toni Morrison. Morrison taught creative writing at Princeton for many years. In 2014 she donated a major portion of her papers to the Princeton University Library. As of spring of 2016\, the papers are available for all scholars to visit and study. \nFarah Jasmine Griffin is the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American Studies at Columbia University\, where she also served as the inaugural Chair of the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department. Professor Griffin received her B.A. in History & Literature from Harvard and her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale. She is the author or editor of eight books including Who Set You Flowin?: The African American Migration Narrative (Oxford\, 1995)\, If You Can’t Be Free\, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday (Free Press\, 2001)\, and Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II (Basic Books\, 2013). \nGriffin collaborated with composer\, pianist\, Geri Allen and director\, actor S. Epatha Merkerson on two theatrical projects\, for which she wrote the book: The first\, “Geri Allen and Friends Celebrate the Great Jazz Women of the Apollo\,” with Lizz Wright\, Dianne Reeves\, Teri Lyne Carrington and others\, premiered on the main stage of the Apollo Theater in May of 2013. The second\, “A  Conversation with Mary Lou” featuring vocalist Carmen Lundy\, premiered at Harlem Stage in March 2014 and was performed at The John F. Kennedy Center in May of 2016. Her most recent book\, Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature was published by W.W. Norton in September 2021. Griffin is a 2021-22 Guggenheim Fellow and Mellon Foundation Fellow in Residence.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/toni-morrison-lectures-on-the-far-side-globalization-in-morrisons-world/
LOCATION:10 McCosh
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230330T203000
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SUMMARY:TigerTalks in the City: Innovations in Arts Accessibility
DESCRIPTION:This extraordinary panel of Princetonians committed to disability justice and enhancing accessibility in the arts will explore the advances to which our community has contributed. \nKay Gayner ’86\, is the Artistic Director of National Dance Institute. She began teaching for National Dance Institute in 2000 and is responsible for the direction of NDI’s In-School Program\, which currently serves approximately 6\,500 children in New York City public schools. She has served as Co-Creator and Co-Founder of the NDI DREAM Project since 2014\, an inclusive program that provides children with disabilities the opportunity to dance and perform alongside a group of age-matched peers. \nChristopher “Unpezverde” Nunez is a Visually Impaired choreographer and Disability advocate based in NYC. Núñez is a Princeton University Arts Fellow 2022-2024\, a Dance/USA Fellow 2022\, a Jerome Hill Fellow 2022-2024 and a Mellon Foundation Grantee 2023-2024. His work has been presented by The Joyce Theater\, The Brooklyn Museum\, The Kitchen\, Danspace Project\, among others. He has held residencies at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)\, The Kitchen\, Movement Research\, Center for Performance Research\, and Abrons Arts Center. In 2020\, Núñez was invited by the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs to share his story as a disabled and formally undocumented choreographer during Immigrant Heritage Week. Núñez received his green card in 2018 and continues to be an advocate for the rights of undocumented disabled immigrants. \nIn his course Introduction to Radical Access: Disability Justice in the Arts\, Núñez invites all artists\, from choreographers to theater makers\, film makers\, visual artists\, writers and composers to immerse in a highly collaborative\, improvisational\, experimental and inclusive community to explore Disability Justice as a framework for creative\, dramaturgical and curatorial practices. \nMaysoon Zayid\, is a comedian\, actress\, writer\, and disability advocate. She is a graduate of Arizona State University and a Princeton Fellow. Maysoon is the co-founder/co-executive producer of the New York Arab American Comedy Festival and The Muslim Funny Fest. She was a full-time On Air Contributor to Countdown with Keith Olbermann and a columnist for The Daily Beast. She has appeared on 60 Minutes\, CNN\, ABC News\, and Oprah Winfrey Networks. Maysoon had the most viewed TED Talk of 2014 and was thrilled to collaborate with Huda Beauty. \nAs a professional comedian\, Maysoon has sold out top New York clubs and has toured extensively at home and abroad. She was a headliner on the Arabs Gone Wild Comedy Tour and The Together Live Tour. Maysoon appeared alongside Adam Sandler in You Don’t Mess With the Zohan and has written for Glamour magazine. She limped in New York Fashion Week and is a recurring character on General Hospital. She is the author of the best-selling memoir Find Another Dream and is collaborating with Scholastic on her debut comic book Shiny Misfits. \nMichael Zhang\, Ph.D. candidate in Princeton’s Department of Art and Archaeology specializing in African art history\, is a co-founder of Museumverse\, a startup using VR and digital technologies to bring new dimensions of museum experiences and exhibitions and to strengthen community engagement. \nA special thanks to Nassau Street Ventures for providing the venue at its Alumni Ventures Group NYC offices for this TigerTalks event. \nWe would love to have you attend in person\, particularly if you are in the NYC area\, but a live stream option will be available for those who cannot join us. \n\n\n\n\nAccessibility: \nEvent will include open/live and closed captioning and ASL interpretation. Guests needing additional accommodations will be able to request them when reserving their spot\, and we will do our best to provide them. Guests can also contact pecinfo@princeton.edu for more information.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/tigertalks-in-the-city-innovations-in-arts-accessibility/
LOCATION:Alumni Ventures Group\, 183 Madison Avenue #18th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230331T170000
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SUMMARY:Women in Classics & Ancient Studies: Careers and Choices
DESCRIPTION:The Women in Classics group are planning a one-day workshop titled Women in Classics and Ancient Studies: Careers and Choices\, to take place on March 31. We are inviting as speakers a number of women (including several Princeton alumnae) at various stages of different ancient studies careers including faculty\, publishing\, and curator positions\, and those interested in any aspect of the field are invited. We are planning a series of brief presentations from each speaker followed by a roundtable discussion with attendees\, including lunch.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/women-in-classics-ancient-studies-careers-and-choices/
LOCATION:161 East Pyne
ORGANIZER;CN="Jamie Wheeler%2C Chiara Battisti":MAILTO:jamiekw@princeton.edu, battisti@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230331T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230331T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T015044
CREATED:20230314T090106Z
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SUMMARY:Dear Philosopher: A Conversation About Philosophical Advice Columns
DESCRIPTION:Barry Lam (Hi-Phi Nation) will lead a discussion with the two most famous philosophical agony aunts and uncles about their advice columns in The New York Times and The Guardian\, including how they started\, how they select letters\, their most memorable advice\, and the role of philosophy in thinking about the moral challenges of everyday life. \nKwame Anthony Appiah\, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor Of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values Emeritus (Princeton University)\, is currently Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University. He has been answering readers’ questions about their ethical quandaries as writer of “The Ethicist ” weekly column in the Sunday New York Times Magazine since 2015. \nEleanor Gordon-Smith is a graduate student in the Department of Philosophy and a current Harold W. Dodds Fellow. She has been penning the “Leading Questions” weekly advice column in The Guardian since 2019\, where she takes “an inquisitive approach to life’s puzzles and grey areas.” \nBarry Lam is currently a visiting faculty member in the Department of Philosophy\, where he is teaching an undergraduate course in podcast production and piloting a graduate course on creating philosophy for a public audience in print and other media. He has been writing and producing the Hi-Phi Nation podcast since 2017 and will take up a position as Professor of Philosophy at UC-Riverside in the fall of 2023. \nPlease note:  This is an in-person event only and will not be livestreamed or recorded.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/dear-philosopher-a-conversation-about-philosophical-advice-columns/
LOCATION:50 McCosh Hall\, 50 McCosh Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Nancy Groll":MAILTO:ngroll@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230331T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230331T180000
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SUMMARY:“Uneasy Peace: The Good Friday Agreement 25 Years On"
DESCRIPTION:Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’52 Professor in Irish Letter Fintan O’Toole delivers the Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture\, “Uneasy Peace: The Good Friday Agreement 25 Years On.” O’Toole examines Ireland since the Good Friday Agreement was signed in April 1998\, a political deal designed to bring an end to 30 years of violent conflict in Northern Ireland\, known as the Troubles. \nAdmission: Free and open to the public. All visitors to Princeton University are expected to be either fully vaccinated\, have recently received and be prepared to show proof of a negative COVID test (via PCR within 72 hours or via rapid antigen within 8 hours of the scheduled visit)\, or agree to wear a face covering when indoors and around others. \nAccessibility: The Stewart Theater is an accessible venue. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at least one week in advance at lewiscenter@princeton.edu
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/uneasy-peace-the-good-friday-agreement-25-years-on/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Steve Runk":MAILTO:LewisCenter@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230331T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230331T200000
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception for F(r)iction: Post-Professional M.Arch Thesis Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:In the face of crisis\, architecture has traditionally sought radical solutions. However\, as a state of perpetual crisis becomes the status-quo\, architecture must reevaluate its myopic narrative. The collective work of F(r)iction acts as transgressor rather than heroine. In responding to a myriad of environmental\, sociological\, and material issues\, these projects strive to produce architectural fictions that argue for a nuanced form of spatialized agency. Their optimistic mode of working notwithstanding\, these works also produce friction in our conventional cultural understandings. The work of F(r)iction proposes that architecture is the mediator situating us among the eddies of calamitous trajectories. \nThe eight projects exhibited are conducted in the context of the Post-Professional M.Arch program at Princeton University School of Architecture where there is a unique opportunity for professionally trained architects to return to the university to pursue a two-year program culminating in a year-long thesis. The 2023 Post-Professional M.Arch Thesis class is coordinated by Professor Jesse Reiser. \nProject Previews \nThe Public Acclimation Station – Glendale\nNancy Ai\nAdvisor: Erin Besler \n“Welcome to your Public Acclimation Station! We are a nation-wide network of stations dedicated to supporting your preparations amid the wildfire crisis.” \nWorking Interiors\nShirley Chen\nAdvisors: Stan Allen\, Cameron Wu \nArchitecture participates in the construction of technology and its hidden interiors. By inventorying and reassembling the post-vacancy tech office\, this thesis imagines the gig workers\, who have been excluded from the tech work space\, as its new occupants. \nA Seam(less) Construct\nXinyu Chen\nAdvisors: Stan Allen\, M. Christine Boyer \nSeamless is a fusion of programs\, a softening of the edge\, an embracement of the advent of the hyper-real\, and an exploration of technologically enhanced uncanniness to construct domesticity in a world with increasingly loose boundaries. This thesis proposes to investigate the instrumentality of images\, to extend montage techniques from two-dimensional visuality into three-dimensional space-making. It uses meta-montage to understand culture\, to storyboard\, and to define a new way of living. \nShape within Shape. Rewilding Brooklyn\nAndy Kim\nAdvisor: Michael Meredith \nIf the limitation of building mass through volume and density promised the infinite expansion of urbanism\, then the limitation of urban green space must be designed to ensure its pervasive future. This thesis examines the proposition ‘shape within shape\,’ a logic that holds true of both the existence of the building and wildlife\, where poetic imagination\, ‘promise’ can be conceptualized for the diminishing urban ecology. \nThree Corners\nDanial Mahfoud\nAdvisors: Paul Lewis\, Cameron Wu \nContemporary timber construction prioritizes the economy of mass production and the structural capacity of engineered timber\, while maintaining a tenuous correlation to wood’s innate expressive and mechanical capacity\, as well as its tectonic\, spatial\, and functional potential. By appropriating traditional interlocking wood joinery techniques in conjunction with the logic of massly produced sheet timber\, it is possible to adapt a character of wood that conceives of a spatial and functional organization coincident with an expressive tectonic assembly. \nRefuse Grotto\nAna Morris\nAdvisor: Jesse Reiser \nThe refuse grotto is an act of retroactive monumentality. It is a deviant architecture that requires confrontation with the sheer mass of wastes that are accumulated in landfills and cast to the peripheries of cities. \nClimate-Calendar Disconnection; The Perpetual Radiator and the Star\nAli Berk Senbas\nAdvisors: Elizabeth Diller\, Forrest Meggers \nDeparting from observation regarding seasonal changes\, this thesis invents a new paradoxical condition for architecture – sheltering exterior\, and searches for a solution to this paradox: the perpetual campfire (cooler). \nWarm Cloud\nGuanglei Zhang\nAdvisor: Jesse Reiser \nWarm Cloud imagines a hybrid tactic to Dutch land reclamation through the harmonization of aeroponic farming and data hub’s organizational framework. The proposed aquatic infrastructure endeavors to infiltrate among the more-than-human agents and bond them into an open-ended distributed network\, both geopolitically and informationally\, serving as an artificial ground that integrates the fluid posthuman bodies into a synergistic whole.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/opening-reception-for-friction-post-professional-m-arch-thesis-exhibition/
LOCATION:a83 gallery\, NYC\, 83 Grand Street\, New York\, 10013\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Carrie Ruddick":MAILTO:cruddick@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230403T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230403T130000
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SUMMARY:One Book\, Five Writers: Translating Jaguars' Tomb
DESCRIPTION:Angélica Gorodischer’s novel Jaguars’ Tomb (Tumba de jaguares) is made up of three linked sections\, each credited to a different fictional author. The protagonist of one section becomes the author of the next. Among Gorodischer’s many novels\, it is the one that most directly addresses the abductions and disappearances that occurred under the military dictatorship of 1976-83. Each of the three parts repeats images from the others\, in particular the octagonal room that is in turn the jaguars’ tomb\, the central space of the torture center\, the heart of an abandoned house that hides an adulterous affair. Gorodischer’s novel is both an intriguing puzzle and a meditation on how to write about\, or through\, violence\, injustice\, and loss. The novel plays with the repetitive possibilities of words and images\, and raises questions about representation and writing\, about whether art can offer refuge or resolution\, and about the extent to which a writer’s authority must derive from experience rather than imagination. \nAmalia Gladhart’s published translations include two novels by Alicia Yánez Cossío (Ecuador)\, The Potbellied Virgin and Beyond the Islands\, and two by Angélica Gorodischer (Argentina)\, Trafalgar and Jaguars’ Tomb. Her translation of Jaguars’ Tomb\, supported by a Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, was awarded the 2022 Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize. Her short fiction appears in journals including The Common\, Cordella Magazine\, Saranac Review\, and Portland Review. Detours\, a sequence of prose poems\, was published by Burnside Review Press. Best Laid Plans\, a comic novella set at Flagship U\, can be found online at The Fantasist. She is Professor of Spanish at the University of Oregon.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/one-book-five-writers-translating-jaguars-tomb/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Yolanda Sullivan":MAILTO:chrissullivan@comcast.net
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230403T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230403T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T015044
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature
DESCRIPTION:The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature unearths a buried African archive within widely-read Latinx writers of the last 50 years. It challenges dominant narratives in world literature and transatlantic studies that ignore Africa’s impact in broader Latin American culture. Sarah Quesada argues that these canonical works evoke textual memorials of African memory. She shows how the African Atlantic haunts modern Latinx and Caribbean writing\, and examines the disavowal or distortion of the African subject in the constructions of national\, racial\, sexual\, and spiritual Latinx identity. Quesada shows how themes such as the 19th century ‘scramble for Africa\,’ the decolonizing wars\, Black internationalism\, and the neoliberal turn are embedded in key narratives. Drawing from multilingual archives about West and Central Africa\, she examines how the legacies of colonial French\, Iberian\, British and U.S. imperialisms have impacted on the relationships between African and Latinx identities. This is the first book-length project to address the African colonial and imperial inheritance of Latinx literature. \nSarah Margarita Quesada is an assistant professor in the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University. Her main interests are literatures of the Global South\, specifically Latinx\, Latin American and African literatures. She works at the intersection of Atlantic world studies\, African diaspora studies\, and World Literature. Her book The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature \n(Cambridge Studies in World Literature and Culture\, Cambridge University Press\, 2022) examines the engagement of the most widely read Latinx and Latin American authors of the last 50 years with Franco/Anglo/Lusophone African writers and historiography in order to identify the African derived causes of a “Latin” excision from Africa. The book examines the era of slave trade\, 19th century imperialism\, Black internationalism\, and the rise of UNESCO heritage tourism. Her research has appeared in Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism\, The Oxford Handbook of Latino Studies\, the Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination (Duke University Press 2016)\, Latino Studies\, Afro-Hispanic Review\, Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies\, the Journal of Haitian Studies\, among other places. She is a former co-chair representative for Latino Studies in the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). In 2021\, she joined the editorial board of Meridians: feminism\, race\, transnationalism journal published with Duke University Press. \nHer second book project is focused on Greater Mexico region and its connections to African writing and decolonization movements. Quesada’s comparative focus is also devoted to archival and fieldwork research. She has spent time in France and its départements d’outre mer\, specifically in French Guiana\, as well as Brazil\, Benin\, Senegal\, Cuba\, and the Dominican Republic. Her research has involved “human subject” interviews mainly along the UNESCO Slave Route in Africa\, or colonial archive consultation across the Atlantic world. \nBefore joining Duke\, Quesada was an assistant professor of English and Latinx studies at the University of Notre Dame\, a postdoctoral research fellow in Latina/Latino studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and an Andrew Mellon ACLS fellow. \nPresented by the Effron Center for the Study of America. Cosponsored by the Program in Latino Studies\, Program in Latin American Studies\, and Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/book-talk-the-african-heritage-of-latinx-and-caribbean-literature/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Malone":MAILTO:sarah.k.malone@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:“Labor\, Love and Loss: Black Women and Care-Work during the Civil War”
DESCRIPTION:LaKisha Michelle Simmons is a historian of African American gender history specializing in Black girlhood\, history of the family\, history of sexuality and southern history in the 19th and 20th centuries. \nThe Modern America Workshop (MAW) is a workshop series for those interested in the study of modern U.S. history. The series brings together Americanists (both current Princeton University graduate students and outside scholars) to present their research and discuss problems and trends in American history.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/labor-love-and-loss-black-women-and-care-work-during-the-civil-war/
LOCATION:211 Dickinson Hall or Zoom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Loessy":MAILTO:jloessy@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230403T190000
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SUMMARY:Theravada Buddhist responses to colonialism and their modern implications: Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture in Buddhism
DESCRIPTION:The warfare\, disease and disruption to the status quo that came with European colonialism to the countries of Theravada Buddhism seemed to fulfill ancient predictions of the calamities that would attend the decline of the Buddhist religion. In their responses to the practical and conceptual challenges of colonialism\, Buddhists took inspiration from the canonical and commentarial texts that contained both such predictions and potential counter measures. These texts thus inspired both adaptive and conservative responses aimed at preserving the Buddha’s teaching and maintaining the availability of spiritual progress. Despite finding inspiration in the same texts\, the resulting forms of Buddhism have often taken markedly opposite directions\, ranging from secularised and modernist approaches on the one hand\, to the reactionary and fundamentalist approaches on the other. Examples of adaptive responses include modern Mindfulness\, the dismissal or reinterpretation of traditional cosmology and rebirth from Theosophy onwards\, and ‘common-sense’ interpretations of Buddhist ritual or monastic rules. In contrast\, all of these types of response have been the subject of non-Dharma/non-Vinaya\, or ‘heresy and malpractice’\, trials in modern Myanmar\, with defendants being found guilty for straying from the detailed teachings on these subjects found in the Pali canon\, commentaries and Abhidhamma. This talk will illustrate the different directions taken to protect Buddhism from colonialism in different Theravada countries and the ramifications for both Theravada and global Buddhism today. \nKate Crosby joined the University of Oxford as the Numata Professor of Buddhist Studies in 2022. She had previously been Professor of Buddhist Studies at King’s College\, London\, following posts at the universities of Edinburgh\, Lancaster\, Cardiff and SOAS. She studied Sanskrit\, Pali and Tibetan\, South Asian religions and Buddhism at Oxford (MA and DPhil). She also studied at the universities of Hamburg and Kelaniya\, as well as with traditional teachers in Pune\, Varanasi and Kathmandu. She works on Sanskrit\, Pali\, and Pali-vernacular literature and on Theravada practice in the pre-modern and modern periods\, including on the pre-modern meditation and its relationship to temporal technologies. She has conducted fieldwork in most countries with a substantial Theravada population. She was recently a member of the ICRC project on the Interface between Buddhism and International Humanitarian Law (the Law of War). Her publications include a translation and study of Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra (with co-author Andrew Skilton\, 1994); Mahābhārata: The Women and the Dead of Night (2009); Traditional Theravada and its Modern-Era Suppression (2013); Theravada Buddhism: Continuity\, Identity\, Diversity (2014); and Esoteric Theravada: The Story of the Forgotten Meditation Tradition of Southeast Asia (2020). \nAlicia Turner will offer a response. She is Associate Professor of Humanities and Religious Studies at York University. Her research examines the intersections of religion\, colonialism\, secularism and nationalism in Southeast Asia\, with a particular focus on Buddhism in Burma (Myanmar) over the past 150 years. Her first book Saving Buddhism: The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma (Hawai’i 2014) explores the fluid nature of the concepts of sāsana\, identity and religion through a study of Buddhist lay associations in colonial Burma. She recently published The Irish Buddhist (OUP 2020) with Laurence Cox and Brian Bocking\, a biography of an Irish sailor and agitator turned Buddhist monk. Her current project is a book on the genealogy of religious difference and violence in Burma Myanmar. \nThis event is part of the Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series in Buddhist Studies. \nLaunched in September 2021\, the Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series (印證佛學傑出學術系列講座) is a collaborative\, multi-university partnership between Peking University\, University of Oxford\, University of Cambridge\, Inalco (Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales)\, Princeton University\, Harvard University\, and the University of British Columbia.The Lecture Series is established in honor of Venerable Cheng-yen 證嚴\, founder of Tzu Chi\, and her mentor Yinshun 印順 (1906–2005)\, with the goal of promoting topics in Buddhist studies. \nFree and open to the public. The webinar will also be live-streamed via YouTube with simultaneous English and Mandarin channels.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/theravada-buddhist-responses-to-colonialism-and-their-modern-implications-yin-cheng-distinguished-lecture-in-buddhism/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jenny Legath":MAILTO:jlegath@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Mellon Forum: Cüirtopia
DESCRIPTION:“Cüirtopia” is a Caribbean mapping project of LGBTQ buildings and territories\, by Dr. Regner Ramos at the University of Puerto Rico. By playing with fact and fiction; history and storytelling; legitimacy and conspiracy; documentation and blunders\, “Cüirtopia” reimagines how Caribbean territories\, spaces\, and buildings can be represented\, through a postcolonial\, queer lens. The project exists across a series of sites and platforms: a web-based interactive map of LGBTQ+ spaces in Puerto Rico; a show and podcast in Radio Universidad; architecture courses at the Universidad de Puerto Rico; a film at the MAXXI Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome; a fictional story published on Instagram in real-time; and an exhibition at the Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art. By acknowledging the role of maps in processes of colonization\, the project looks to archipelagic thinking\, queer methods of documenting architecture\, and boundary-pushing cartographic representations to bring their untold queer architectural histories to light.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/mellon-forum-cuirtopia/
LOCATION:School of Architecture and Zoom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jacquelyn Walsh":MAILTO:jw42@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:American Classical Scholarship\, Comedy\, and Disorientation
DESCRIPTION:In its institutional genesis\, classical scholarship in America looked to Europe as a point of reference\, creating a complex triangulation between modern America\, contemporary Europe\, and the ancient world. Aristophanic Old Comedy – its tropes and its study – is an excellent paradigm with which to think through the dialectic and symbiotic relationships that marked American perception vis-à-vis Europe in disciplinary terms. Realism and fantasy\, literal and figurative language\, innovation and conservatism\, the fear of ridicule and the power of mockery\, violence and play\, restraint and exaggeration\, freedom and unfreedom\, being reactive and creative\, coming after and coming first\, subversion and affirmation\, and superiority and abjection — those are features of Old Comedy\, but they are also suggestive categories to consider the situation of American classical scholarship\, its disciplining\, and its disorientations.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/american-classical-scholarship-comedy-and-disorientation/
LOCATION:East Pyne 010 and Zoom\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eileen Robinson":MAILTO:eileenrobinson@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:"Revolving Closets\, Open Undergrounds”
DESCRIPTION:Mehammed Mack\n“Revolving Closets\, Open Undergrounds: Clandestine Homosexualities in the French banlieues”\n[Response: S.E. Eisterer]\nTuesday\, April 04\, 2023 @5pm ET\nN107 (School of Architecture) \nWhen writing the recent history of gay liberation in the “Western” world\, we have tended to hold interiors in inferior esteem\, as compared with exteriors. Gay self-expression that occurred privately in clandestine clubs\, bars\, and undergrounds — no matter how emphatic and celebratory — was always going to be mere pre-history\, compared to the telos of “coming out” and public acceptance.\nIn this presentation\, I aim to alter this historical script by weaving in the voices of queers of color and immigrants in France: I identify clandestinity and interiors as productive sites for the emergence of queer ethnic minority subcultures. \nMehammed Amadeus Mack is an associate professor of French Studies and the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College. He is the author of Sexagon: Muslims\, France\, and the Sexualization of National Culture (Fordham University Press\, 2017) and the forthcoming Eurabia: Reverse Crusades and Counter-colonization in European Culture. \nS.E. Eisterer is Assistant Professor for Architectural History and Theory at the School of Architecture at Princeton University and a Senior Fellow with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. \nImage: Still from the music video “Virile” by the Blaze.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/revolving-closets-open-undergrounds/
LOCATION:Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Iason Stathatos":MAILTO:iasons@princeton.edu
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