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SUMMARY:Friends of Princeton University Library Small Talk: "When Books Went to War"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Molly Guptill Manning\, author of “When Books Went to War” and curator of “The Best-Read Army in the World\,” recently on display at The Grolier Club\, joins the Friends of PUL on Wednesday. Feb. 28 to discuss the fascinating story of the “Armed Services Editions” books – pocket-sized editions that were sent to American troops during World War II to provide soldiers with not only a pastime\, but also a reminder of their fight for democracy.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/friends-of-princeton-university-library-small-talk-when-books-went-to-war/
LOCATION:Center for Modern Aging Princeton\, 101 Poor Farm Road
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stephanie Oster":MAILTO:soster@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:2023-24 Old Dominion Public Lecture Series - Reading (like a translator?): The War-time Poetry of René Char
DESCRIPTION:Feuillets d’Hypnos (Leaves of Hypnos) was written by the poet René Char during the French Resistance.  It reflects particularly on his years as a leader on the Maquis. The text won immediate praise from critics\, from philosophers such as Albert Camus\, Martin Heidegger\, and Hannah Arendt\, from painters such as Georges Braque\, Henri Matisse\, and Pablo Picasso.  Though often considered a particularly difficult text in French\, it was soon translated into some thirty languages\, and several artistic forms–and is currently the subject of a collaborative scholarly project.  Drawing on Princeton’s “Char archives\,” as well as recent translation theory\, we ask:  How might we better understand Char’s poetry of resistance and its cultural diffusion?  What new insights might these offer about translation\, resistance\, and the reading of poetry? \nSandra L. Bermann is Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Comparative Literature.  She served as Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature (1998-2010) and co-founded the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication (2007). During her career at Princeton\, Bermann served in various university capacities\, including Head of Whitman College (2011-19).  Above all\, she has contributed to international learning within the university\, as Chair of the President’s Bridge Year Program planning group (2008)\, as Founder and Director of the PIIRS Migration Research Community (2016-19); and Director of the Fung Global Fellows Program (2020-21).  Within the field of comparative literature\, she has pursued these goals as President of the American Comparative Literature Association (2007-09) and later\, as President of the International Comparative Literature Association (2019-2022).  In addition to numerous essays in the fields of lyric poetry\, history and theory of literature\, as well as in translation studies\, her books include The Sonnet Over Time: A Study in the Sonnets of Petrarch\, Shakespeare and Baudelaire\, (1988); Manzoni’s ‘On the Historical Novel\,’ A Translation and Critical Introduction\, (1984; 1996); Nation\, Language\, and the Ethics of Translation\, co-edited with Michael Wood (2005); and The Wiley -Blackwell Companion to Translation Studies\, co-edited with Catherine Porter (2014). \nOld Dominion Research Professors contribute to the Council’s programs and events and engage the campus community in sustained discussions about their research. This cohort of senior faculty join a yearlong program designed to provide additional research time and to enhance the humanities community more broadly. They also serve as faculty fellows in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. Old Dominion Professors are full professors in the humanities and humanistic social sciences.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/2023-24-old-dominion-public-lecture-series-4/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:“Trading Goods and Exchanging Faiths in the Late Antique Red Sea”
DESCRIPTION:Beginning with an introduction to early global trade\, my paper traces the arrival of monotheism in the Red Sea region through a comparative approach taking into account other nodal first-millennium regions (e.g.\, Central Asia) to reframe the complex interweaving of faith\, identity\, and economic activity during Late Antiquity.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/trading-goods-and-exchanging-faiths-in-the-late-antique-red-sea/
LOCATION:103 Scheide Caldwell
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eleni Banis":MAILTO:hbanis@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Into the Forever and Beautiful Sky: Animal Brutality in a Galaxy of Limitless Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Andrea Jain asks\, What happens when we show a film that pays worshipful attention to animal welfare to a Marvel Studios-sized audience? How does capitalism colonize the popular imagination\, religious and otherwise? Lifting up the Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 as her primary artifact\, Jain uses the film to illustrate how capitalists sell animal ethics and why consumers buy it\, arguing that confrontations with animal brutality get contained within and subsumed by capitalist realism\, that is\, a framework in which capitalism is deemed limitless and without viable alternatives\, and gun capitalism\, that is\, the material and cultural condition of being flooded with guns\, which are mass produced and sold as consumer products. \nThe Doll Lecture on Religion and Money was established in 2007 by Henry C. Doll ’58 and his family. It reflects the family’s longstanding interest in the subject of philanthropy and its relationship with religion. \nThis event is free and open to the public. If you cannot attend in person\, register to watch the livestream webinar.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/into-the-forever-and-beautiful-sky-animal-brutality-in-a-galaxy-of-limitless-capitalism/
LOCATION:A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building\, Washington Road\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jenny Legath":MAILTO:jlegath@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:PISC no.5: "The Poet of Islam": The Reception of Muhammad Iqbal in Egypt
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: “This paper reconstructs the largely untold history of how Indian- Muslim poet Muhammad Iqbal’s works arrived in the Arab world through the Egyptian poet ‘Abd al-Wahhab ‘Azzam. His interpretation of Iqbal set the terms of Najib al-Kilani’s—the Arab world’s most influential advocate for a new genre of literature termed al-adab al-islami—own engagement with the poet\, as he both accepted Azzam’s reading of Iqbal and evolved its latent potentials. In the case of both ‘Azzam and al-Kilani\, however\, it is Iqbal’s complicated Sufism—read through the Romantic orientation of Egypt’s literary culture in the early twentieth century—which generated the discursive terrain upon which Iqbal’s poetry could be codified as a metric of literary “Islamness\,” one concrete and consistent enough to anchor a new canon of “Islamic” literature. The paradoxical process of reifying Iqbal’s philosophy of process echoes in al-Kilani’s later thought as an enduring set of tensions if not contradictions. It was thus his early Iqbalian encounter\, and its stubborn irresolvability\, which lent al-Kilani’s lifelong project of Islamic literature both its ideological conservatism and its subversive edge.” \nThe Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium is a forum to discuss work-in-progress of grad students and confirmed scholars. \nWe look forward to hosting you (in person and on Zoom)— sign up here to attend and receive the paper: tinyurl.com/pisc2024
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/pisc-no-5-the-poet-of-islam-the-reception-of-muhammad-iqbal-in-egypt/
LOCATION:102 Jones Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Athina Pfeiffer":MAILTO:apfeiffer@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Movies For Your Mind: Translating Research into Artful Audio Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:We’ve all been there. After weeks and weeks of digging into the archives\, conducting interviews\, and reading countless pages\, you find yourself staring at a mountain of information\, wondering: how can I possibly synthesize all of this into something not only understandable but engaging. That is the challenge we face at Throughline as well. In each episode of this audio documentary history podcast\, we convert that mountain of information into something someone with no knowledge of a complex topic can absorb\, digest\, and truly connect with (in 50 minutes). Our goal is to create an entertaining experience that guides you through the information… a movie for your mind. In this session\, I’ll share some of the techniques we’ve developed to translate great research into great audio storytelling. \nRund Abdelfatah\, co-creator of NPR’s Peabody-Award-winning show Throughline. \nPlease RSVP for this event; space is limited. Open to University faculty\, students\, and staff. \n  \n 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/movies-for-your-mind-translating-research-into-artful-audio-storytelling-4/
LOCATION:16 Joseph Henry House
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SUMMARY:Screening event: PBS American Experience "Freedom Riders"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special screening of PBS’s “American Experience: Freedom Riders\,” an inspirational 2010 documentary by veteran filmmaker Stanley Nelson. \nThe 1961 Freedom Rides are a focus of the current exhibition at Seeley Mudd Manuscript Library\, “Nobody Turn Us Around: The Freedom Rides and Selma to Montgomery Marches– Selections from the John Doar Papers.” The Freedom Riders–members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)\, the Nashville Student Movement\, and many others–risked their lives to ride buses together in interracial groups through the Deep South\, challenging segregation in terminal waiting rooms and facilities. In the process\, these activists managed to bring the president and the entire American public face to face with the challenge of correcting civil rights inequities that plagued the nation. Interviewing influential figures on both sides of the issue\, Nelson chronicles a chapter of American civil rights history that stands as an astonishing testament to the incredible combination of personal conviction and the courage to organize against all odds. \nThe screening will be followed by a private viewing of the exhibition at Mudd Manuscript Library with exhibition curators Will Clements and Phoebe Nobles\, along with refreshments and a special pop-up exhibit featuring original archival materials related to the Freedom Riders that are not featured in the main exhibit.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/screening-event-pbs-american-experience-freedom-riders/
LOCATION:113 Friend Center
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stephanie Oster":MAILTO:soster@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Empires of galanterie: The Transformations of the Imperial Imagination in Eighteenth-century France
DESCRIPTION:In 1763\, an engraving was published in Paris to advertise French colonization in Guyana. Depicting a wealthy land\, rich in promises\, and couples engaged in gallant conversations\, the image promoted a peaceful colonization. It ephemerally reenacted a gallant aesthetic born in Louis XIV’s reign which contributed to frame the imaginary of French empire and colonies until the Regency years. How did this imaginary take form around 1700? How was it articulated to the gallant aesthetics of Louis XIV? From the islands of love to the fêtes galantes and the rise of gallant myths and epics\, this lecture will explore gallantry as an ideal of civilization and commerce between sexes and nations and how it contributed to shape French imperial imagination and its transformation into an irenic trope of colonization.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/empires-of-galanterie-the-transformations-of-the-imperial-imagination-in-eighteenth-century-france/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mo Chen":MAILTO:mochen@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Stewart Lecture in Religion - Simone Weil and Etty Hillesum: Saints? Masochists? Both? Neither?
DESCRIPTION:Timothy P. Jackson is Bishop Mack B. and Rose Stokes Professor of Theological Ethics at The Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta\, Georgia. Professor Jackson has previously held teaching posts at Rhodes College\, Yale University\, Stanford University\, and the University of Notre Dame. He has been a Visiting Fellow at The Center of Theological Inquiry\, The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale\, The Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton\, and The Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard. A native of Louisville\, Kentucky\, Jackson received his B.A. in Philosophy from Princeton and his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Religious Studies from Yale. He is the author of Love Disconsoled; Meditations on Christian Charity (Cambridge 1999)\, The Priority of Love; Christian Charity and Social Justice (Princeton 2003)\, Political Agape; Christian Love and Liberal Democracy (Eerdmans 2015)\, and Mordecai Would Not Bow Down; Anti-Semitism\, the Holocaust\, and Christian Supersessionism (Oxford 2021). He is currently working on a book entitled Faith in Science?; How Three Scientific Revolutions Help to Reconcile Theology and Empirical Inquiry. In 2020\, Professor Jackson received Emory’s Crystal Apple Teaching Award for “Excellence in Professional School Education.”
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/stewart-lecture-in-religion-simone-weil-and-etty-hillesum-saints-masochists-both-neither/
LOCATION:001 Robertson Hall
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SUMMARY:"State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain"
DESCRIPTION:This book talk will present and discuss the unique three volume collection “State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain”\, published by Cambridge University Press in 2013\, 2019 and 2023. The collection is the result of a long-term research project coordinated by the editors of the three volumes\, Miguel A. Centeno (Princeton University) and Agustin E. Ferraro (University of Salamanca)\, with contributions by leading international scholars. \nThe collection represents a major intellectual achievement. One of many enthusiastic reviews described it as “among the most integrated edited collections I have read\, and it ranks with the very top collections on nation-state making\, bar none.” (David Cook-Martin\, Contemporary Sociology 44 (5): 642-644). \nDeficiencies or weaknesses of state institutions are associated with—or directly responsible for—many of the current social troubles in Latin American countries. These adversities include from poverty to outright destitution\, from lack of public security to gender violence and other forms of social discrimination\, from anemic economic growth to lack of opportunities and life perspectives. “State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain” offers a vast historical panorama of state building and the formation of national identities\, since the beginning of the nineteenth century in the regions under study. At the same time\, the collection contributes to the development of a new\, original perspective and methodology of research on the state in Latin America and Spain. \nABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKERS \nMiguel A. Centeno is the Musgrave Professor of Sociology and Executive Vice-Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA; on leave) at Princeton University. His latest publications are “War and Society (Polity 2016)\, Global Capitalism” (Polity 2010)\, “States in the Developing World” (Cambridge UP\, 2017) and “State and Nation Making in the Iberian World” (Cambridge UP \, Vol 1\, 2013; Vol. II 2018\, Vol III\, 2023)\, and “When Worlds Collapse” (Routledge\, 2023). He is the founder of the Research Community on Global Systemic Risk and is also working a new book project on the sociology of discipline. In 2000\, he founded the Princeton University Preparatory Program\, which provides intensive supplemental training for lower income students in local high schools. From 2003 to 2007\, he served as the founding Director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. From 1997-2004 he also served as Head of Wilson College at Princeton. From 2012 to 2017\, he served as Chair of the Sociology Department. \nAgustin E. Ferraro is a Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Salamanca in Spain. Born in Buenos Aires\, Argentina\, from 1994 to 1996 he was a fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the University of Frankfurt to complete his Ph.D. dissertation. From 2001 to 2003\, he was Alexander von Humboldt scholar in Hamburg and London. In 2009\, he won the prestigious national award of the National Institute for Public Administration in Spain\, for original research on Latin American state institutions. Ferraro was Visiting Professor at Princeton University for six months during the Spring Term 2011. He has published books\, journal articles and book chapters in Spanish\, English\, German\, and Portuguese. \nThis event has been co-organized with the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS). \nThis event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/state-and-nation-making-in-latin-america-and-spain/
LOCATION:A71 Louis A. Simpson Building
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ORGANIZER;CN="Damaris Zayas":MAILTO:damaris@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Ancient\, Indigenous\, and Modern Plays from Africa and the Diaspora
DESCRIPTION:The power of theatrical performance is universal\, but the style and concerns of theatre are specific to individual cultures. Join us as we celebrate and discuss a new volume in the Global Theatre Perspectives series\, which presents a reconstructed ancient performance text\, four one-act indigenous African plays and five modern dramas from various regions of Africa and the Caribbean Diaspora. \nBecause these plays span centuries and are the work of artists from diverse cultures\, readers can see elements that occur across time and space. Physicalized ritual\, direct interaction with spectators\, improvisation\, music\, drumming\, and metaphorical animal characters help create the theatrical forms in multiple plays. Recurring themes include the establishment or challenging of political authority\, the oppression or corruption of government\, societal expectations based on gender\, the complex and transformational nature of identity\, and the power of dreams. \nAmong the creators of the pieces are two Nobel Laureates\, those who have been exiled or jailed for the political nature of their work\, and the author of his country’s first constitution. The global perspectives approach\, letting works from ancient\, indigenous\, and modern times resonate with each other\, encourages thinking across boundaries and connective human understanding. \nSimon Gikandi is Professor and Chair of English at Princeton University\, where he is also affiliated with the Departments of Comp Lit\, African Americna Studies and the Program in African Studies. His many books include Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature; and Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism. He is the coauthor of The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English since 1945. R. N. Sandberg is a lecturer at the Lewis Center for the Arts and Department of English\, Princeton University. Though retired in 2021\, he has continued to be affiliated with the Program in Theater\, advising and directing student theses. Stacy Wolf is Professor of Theater\, Director of Fellowships\, and Director of the Program in Music Theater at Princeton University. She is the author of Changed for Good: A Feminist History of Broadway Musical; A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical; and most recently of Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of the American Musical. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council\, the Lewis Center for the Arts\, the African American Studies Department and the Program in African Studies.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/ancient-indigenous-and-modern-plays-from-africa-and-the-diaspora/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:2024 Womxn in Design and Architecture Conference: Alero Olympio: Activated Matter
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Womxn in Design and Architecture (WDA\, @princetonwda)\, a graduate student group formed in 2014 at Princeton University School of Architecture\, this annual conference celebrates the work and memory of a pivotal architect or designer with contributions from international historians and scholars\, in addition to artists\, musicians\, curators\, and practitioners. The eighth Womxn in Design Conference at the Princeton School of Architecture honors the life and work of Alero Olympio. \nAlero Olympio was an architect and builder of radical ecologies. Born in Ghana and working extensively between Scotland and her homeland\, Olympio theorized and exercised a rigorous dedication to social and environmental sustainability at all scales. She envisioned building methods and materials as emergent sites of potential\, rejecting industrialized products in favor of inherited\, place-specific knowledge systems. Locally sourced Laterite clay and African hardwood were essential materials in her new architectural language\, as she championed the ongoing protection of West African timber resources and delicate forest ecosystems. Olympio’s work codified an intimately ecological approach to architecture\, one embedded within the specific material and social conditions of its place\, and an innovative and distinctly African mode of practice. \nDynamic and inspired\, Olympio challenged the conventional architect archetype. She pursued entrepreneurial endeavors that pushed far beyond the building realm\, from furniture to care products to a children’s book. Her built projects in Ghana and Scotland–including the Kokrobitey Institute\, the visitor trail at Kakum National Park\, and many private residential homes–stand as a testament to the coherence of her methods and the persistence\, integrity\, and longevity of her vision. These projects\, many of which she constructed of local materials\, proposed an affordable\, sustainable\, and site-specific infrastructure that acknowledged Ghanaian social mobility within a post-independence context. Flourishing and developing their own networks of care and mutuality\, the cross-continental communities living within her designs embody Olympio’s enduring legacy. \nThe 2023-24 conference proceedings will call on the discipline with timely topics and inquiries\, such as the wide-reaching sustainable potential of local building materials and place-specific methods\, the role of the architect in forging cross-cultural exchange\, and the impact of architecture as a site for community-building and cultural transformation. Olympio’s work exists at a nexus that continues to be central to contemporary architectural discourse: intertwining biogenic materiality and social resiliency. \nConference participants include Joe Osae-Addo\, Nana Biamah-Ofosu\, Erandi de Silva\, Prof. Lesley Lokko\, Baerbel Mueller\, Renee C. Neblett\, and DK Osseo-Asare\, among others. \nConcurrent with the conference will be a pop-up exhibition celebrating the Ghanaian craft and culture from which Alero Olympio drew much of her inspiration and design methodology. Housed in a building designed by Olympio and informed by her legacy\, the Kokrobitey Institute in Accra\, Ghana\, is an artist residency and community education center. With deep regional roots and cross-global connections\, the Kokrobitey Institute is a site of sustainable making\, providing space for slow craftsmanship and active experimentation. The exhibition features archival images of Olympio’s projects and process\, along with one-of-a-kind garments handmade by Accra-based designers at the Kokrobitey Institute with recycled materials from local fast-fashion landfills. \nWDA conferences are made possible by the Jean Labatut Memorial Lectures in Architecture and Urban Planning Fund at Princeton University. Free and open to the public\, additional details and speakers to be announced.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/2024-womxn-in-design-and-architecture-conference-alero-olympio-activated-matter/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
ORGANIZER;CN="Kyara Robinson":MAILTO:kr9710@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:McGraw Center Faculty Workshop: Flipping the Classroom
DESCRIPTION:Increasingly\, instructors are embracing the flipped classroom as a way to encourage active learning. In a flipped classroom\, students engage with course content outside of class (often via short\, recorded lecture segments) and then complete higher-level\, more challenging activities during class\, often with their peers. In this “How to/Why to” session\, we will discuss the pedagogy of flipped classrooms\, look at some Princeton-specific examples\, and share McGraw’s resources to support these active learning strategies. \nRegister here.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/mcgraw-center-faculty-workshop-flipping-the-classroom-2/
LOCATION:Digital Learning Lab\, 130 Lewis Science Library
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ruthie Boyce":MAILTO:rb4236@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:A Poetics of Postmourning: Elegy and the Caribbean
DESCRIPTION:Whereas the historical trauma of the Middle Passage and enslavement has been a prominent subject of Caribbeanist scholarship\, there is surprisingly little sustained consideration of how poems and other imaginative works mourn this violent past\, even though melancholic grief is a crucial component of the literary response to it. Building on the concept of “postmemory” for the transgenerational aftereffects of trauma\, this talk proposes the overlapping concept of postmourning for the grief transferred to later generations and enacted in their creative work\, such as elegies for the historical losses of transatlantic slavery and more intimate losses shadowed by this primordial\, collective grief. \nJahan Ramazani is University Professor and the Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. His books include Poetry in a Global Age (2020)\, Poetry and Its Others: News\, Prayer\, Song\, and the Dialogue of Genres (2014)\, A Transnational Poetics (2009)\, winner of the Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association\, and Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney (1994)\, all from the University of Chicago Press. He is editor of The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry (2017)\, coeditor of the most recent editions of The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry (2003) and The Norton Anthology of English Literature (2006\, 2012\, 2018\, 2024)\, and associate editor of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (2012). Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016 and the American Philosophical Society in 2022\, he is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, an NEH Fellowship\, a Rhodes Scholarship\, the William Riley Parker Prize of the MLA\, and an honorary doctorate from Aalborg University\, Denmark. \nCo-sponsored by the Department of English\, Bain Swiggett Fund\, University Center for Human Values\, the Humanities Council\, Department of Comparative Literature\, Department of African American Studies\, and IHUM.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/a-poetics-of-postmourning-elegy-and-the-caribbean/
LOCATION:105 Chancellor Green
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jessica Brofsky":MAILTO:jbrofsky@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Free Screening of "The Rapture" (2023) + Q&A with Director Iris Kaltenbäck
DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to an exceptional free screening of award-winning “The Rapture” (French: “Le ravissement”) (2023)\, a moving debut following Lydia (Hafsia Herzi)\, a Parisian midwife highly invested in her career who has completely lost control of her life. Was it due to heartbreak\, her best friend Salomé’s pregnancy\, or meeting Milos\, with whom she could have a potential new relationship? Lydia gets stuck in a spiral of lies where everyone’s life is turned upside down. The screening will be followed by an in-person Q&A with Director Iris Kaltenbäck who won the SACD Award at the 2023 Festival de Cannes for this remarkable feature. \nMore information can be found in the registration link. \nSponsors & Partners \nOrganized by the Princeton Film Festival Society in collaboration with 1)GradFUTURES\, 2)Unifrance USA\, 3)Albertine Cinemathèque\, a program of FACE Foundation and Villa Albertine (New York)\, with support from the CNC / Centre National du Cinema\, and SACEM / Fonds Culturel Franco-Américain.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/free-screening-of-the-rapture-2023-qa-with-director-iris-kaltenback/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
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ORGANIZER;CN="Yassine Ait Ali":MAILTO:yali@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240304T163000
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SUMMARY:"Galoot" Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Join the Program in Judaic Studies and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim for a screening of Asher Tlalim’s 2003 personal documentary “Galoot” on Monday\, March 4. \nIn “Galoot” (“Exile” in Hebrew\, 2003) Moroccan-Israeli filmmaker Asher Tlalim finds himself in London. Away from home\, he reflects on Israel/Palestine anew. An intimate saga told through compassionate portraits of his loved ones – his wife\, his children\, and Israeli\, Palestinian and British friends in London. “Galoot” touches the seeds of the pain\, and the heart of the tragedies that have been\, and continue to play out on the political stage. An epic yet intimate journey that goes to Poland\, Palestine\, Morocco and England\, “Galoot” considers the condition of exile\, and asks: What are its heartbreaks? What are its insights? \nRead a review of “Galoot” in Variety\, and learn about Tlalim’s life in The Guardian. \nOpen to the public. \nRonit Yoeli-Tlalim is a Reader in the Department of History at Goldsmiths\, University of London. Currently the Willis F. Doney Member of the Institute for Advanced Study\, she is at work on the Hebrew Book of Asaf (a.k.a. Sefer Re’fuot\, Book of Medicines)\, an important piece in the great puzzle of Eurasian history of medicine\, and history of science more broadly. She is the widow of filmmaker Asher Tlalim.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/galoot-film-screening/
LOCATION:Arthur Lewis Auditorium\, Robertson Hall\, NJ
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ORGANIZER;CN="Margo Bresnen":MAILTO:mbresnen@princeton.edu
GEO:40.0583238;-74.4056612
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T132000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Faculty Colloquium: “Burial Archaeology and the Justinianic Plague”
DESCRIPTION:Medieval Studies is pleased to offer the Faculty Colloquium Series for the 2022-23 academic year: \nJanet Kay (Art & Archaeology) will present the lunchtime talk\, “Burial Archaeology and the Justinianic Plague.” The Justinianic Plague (541-544 CE)\, as the beginning of the sixth- to eighth-century First Plague Pandemic of Yersinia pestis\, has recently been at the center of a small but fervent debate among scholars with different methodological approaches. Kay will present models of how future research on the Justinianic Plague can more effectively use evidence from burial archaeology to understand its biological and social impact–whether that research is led by archaeologists or within interdisciplinary teams that include archaeologists in their project design. \nPlease RSVP Here. \n\nNext Medieval Faculty Colloquium for Spring 2024 \nTues\, April 9 at 12:00 pm: Stephen Teiser (Religion)
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-faculty-colloquium-burial-archaeology-and-the-justinianic-plague/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Long Night with Fidel Castro: Intellectuals Discuss the Cuban Revolution
DESCRIPTION:On January 8\, 1967\, a group of prominent foreign and Cuban intellectuals gathered for dinner at the Museo de Artes Decorativas in Havana. Most of them were members of the advisory board of the journal Casa de las Américas who had been convened for their first meeting ever. Sometime between 10 and 11 pm\, and without advance notice\, Fidel Castro showed up and announced that he had come to dialogue with the group and answer any questions and criticisms they may have. Recent developments in Cuba had generated concerns about the path of the Revolution\, and Castro wanted to confront them head-on\, particularly foreign friends of the Revolution like Mario Benedetti\, Julio Cortázar\, Ángel Rama\, Mario Vargas Llosa\, and others. The meeting lasted until about 7 am and\, in typical fashion\, included long soliloquies by Castro\, who talked about the treatment of homosexuals in Cuba\, Che Guevara and the future of Latin American guerrillas\, the Cuban exile\, censorship in Cuba and the Soviet Union\, and many other topics. In some cases\, he admitted mistakes and promised rectifications. This presentation will analyze the reasons behind Castro’s decision to meet with intellectuals\, the performative nature of the encounter\, the testimonies left by several participants\, and whether the meeting actually led to the changes Castro announced. \nABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER \nCarlos Aguirre (Ph.D.\, University of Minnesota)\, a professor of history at the University of Oregon\, is a Visiting Research Fellow at PLAS. He is the author or editor of several books on the history of slavery\, prisons\, intellectuals\, and print culture\, including\, most recently\, Cinco días en Moscú. Mario Vargas Llosa y el socialismo soviético\, with Kristina Buynova (2024)\, Las cartas del Boom (2023)\, Alberto Flores Galindo. Utopía\, historia y revolución\, with Charles Walker (2020)\, and The Peculiar Revolution. Rethinking the Peruvian Experiment Under Military Rule (2017). Professor Aguirre has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships\, including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the Faculty Excellence Award at the University of Oregon. He is currently at work on a book about Latin American intellectuals and the Cuban revolution between 1959 and 1975. During his stay at Princeton\, he is teaching a seminar on “The Long 1960s in Latin America: Utopian Dreams\, Harsh Realities.” \nDiscussant: Jocelyn Olcott\, Historian\, Duke University; Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) \nThis event is open to students\, faculty\, visiting scholars and staff. Lunch provided while supplies last.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/long-night-with-fidel-castro-intellectuals-discuss-the-cuban-revolution/
LOCATION:216 Aaron Burr Hall\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Damaris Zayas":MAILTO:damaris@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T180000
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SUMMARY:Nat Turner and the Late Emancipation Novel
DESCRIPTION:A public lecture in connection with the graduate seminar\, “Postwar New York\,” organized by Joshua Kotin and sponsored by Postwar New York: Workshops\, a Humanities Council Magic Grant for Innovation\, and the Department of English. \nChristopher Freeburg is an award-winning author of three scholarly books: Melville in the Idea of Blackness(Cambridge UP\, 2012)\, Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life(University of Virginia Press\, 2017)\, and Counterlife: Slavery after Resistance and Social Death (Duke UP\, 2021). He has just finished his first trade book\, Soul: A Brief History of Black Cultural Life\, which will be published by Yale University Press next year.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/nat-turner-and-the-late-emancipation-novel/
LOCATION:40 McCosh\, 40 McCosh\, Princeton \, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Malone":MAILTO:sarah.k.malone@princeton.edu
GEO:40.3456905;-74.6375998
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T180000
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SUMMARY:[POSTPONED] Trans Talmud: Religion and the Public Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Please note this event has been postponed. Please visit the CSR website for more information. \nMax Strassfeld is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature\, published in 2022 with the University of California Press\, and a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Trans Talmud places eunuchs and androgynes at the center of rabbinic literature and asks what we can learn from them about Judaism and the project of transgender history. Rather than treating these figures as anomalies to be justified or explained away\, Max K. Strassfeld argues that they profoundly shaped ideas about law\, as the rabbis constructed intricate taxonomies of gender across dozens of texts to understand an array of cultural tensions. Showing how rabbis employed eunuchs and androgynes to define proper forms of masculinity\, Strassfeld emphasizes the unique potential of these figures to not only establish the boundary of law but exceed and transform it. Trans Talmud challenges how we understand gender in Judaism and demonstrates that acknowledging nonbinary gender prompts a reassessment of Jewish literature and law.\nCCSR Graduate Research Fellow Eliav Grossman will be in conversation with Dr. Strassfeld. \nThis event is part of the Religion and the Public Conversation series. The 2023-2024 theme for the series is “Bodies and Embodiment.”
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/trans-talmud-religion-and-the-public-conversation/
LOCATION:008 Friend Center
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jenny Legath":MAILTO:jlegath@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T183000
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SUMMARY:Literary Theory for Robots
DESCRIPTION:::Event co-sponsored by the Center for Digital Humanities:: \nLiterary Theory for Robots (W.W. Norton\, 2024) reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence\, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language\, past Hollywood fiction factories and missile defense systems trained on Russian folktales. In this talk\, we will discuss the past and future of literary technologies: the necessity of research into the material conditions of textual production\, and the surprising afterlife of Structuralist thought. A case study from the book will conclude the conversation. \nDennis Yi Tenen is an associate professor of English at Columbia University\, where he also co-directs the Center for Comparative Media. His research happens at the intersection of people\, text\, and technology. A long-time affiliate of Columbia’s Data Science Institute\, formerly a Microsoft engineer in the Windows group and fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society\, his code runs on millions of personal computers worldwide.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/literary-theory-for-robots/
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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T190000
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SUMMARY:Sovereign Materials: Tragedy\, Extraction\, and the Settler Colonial Mindset
DESCRIPTION:This salon will stage an interactive dialogue between contemporary Amazonia and Greek tragedy. We will use some of the tools in Makerspace to foreground the material and productive practices implicated in our projects\, dwelling on points of connection\, including political sovereignty\, narrative\, and loss. Some of our guiding questions include: What is sovereignty made of? Under what circumstances is “making” a destructive process? What\, if anything\, does death produce? \nIHUM graduate students presenting: Paul Eberwine (Classics) & Lucas Prates (Anthropology)
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/sovereign-materials-tragedy-extraction-and-the-settler-colonial-mindset/
LOCATION:PUL Makerspace\, A Level of Lewis Science Library
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ORGANIZER;CN="Barbara Leavey":MAILTO:blleavey@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T200000
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SUMMARY:Reading Symptoms and Enjoyments | A lecture from K Michael Hays
DESCRIPTION:K. Michael Hays is the Eliot Noyes Professor of Architecture Theory and Co-Director of the Master in Design Studies Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD)\, where he has taught since 1988. In addition to teaching\, he advises doctoral students on the history and theory of architecture. Prior to the GSD\, Hays held academic appointments at numerous institutions including Princeton University\, along with Columbia University\, Cornell University\, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)\, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)\, among others. \nHis research and scholarship focus on critical theory\, modernism\, and the legacy of poststructuralism in architecture. Hays has played a pivotal role in the development of architectural theory. He was founding editor of the journal Assemblage and the first Adjunct Curator of Architecture at the Whitney Museum. His notable publications include Modernism and the Posthumanist Subject (MIT Press\, 1992)\, Architecture Theory since 1968 (MIT Press\, 1998)\, Architecture’s Desire (MIT Press\, 2009)\, and\, most recently with Andrew Holder\, Inscriptions (Harvard University Press\, 2022). \nHays received his Master of Architecture degree and his Ph.D. in the History\, Theory\, and Criticism of Architecture and Art from MIT. \n​Lectures made possible by the Jean Labatut Memorial Lectures in Architecture and Urban Planning Fund.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/reading-symptoms-and-enjoyments-a-lecture-from-k-michael-hays/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
ORGANIZER;CN="Kyara Robinson":MAILTO:kr9710@princeton.edu
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T132000
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SUMMARY:'Rhyming Back Into the Canon': An Anthology of Queer Roman Verse
DESCRIPTION:This project brings together\, for the first time\, a representative selection of queer poetry from ancient Rome in line-for-line verse translations both amusing and accessible to the non-specialist. Nearly all the most famous Latin poets dealt with same-sex subjects — in lyric poetry (Catullus\, Horace)\, elegy (Propertius\, Tibullus)\, and epic (Virgil\, Ovid) — yet a tradition of homophobic scholarship and translation means that a book of this kind has only recently become conceivable. Using a variety of formal idioms inspired by the poems’ metrical and generic diversity\, this anthology aims to give the reader a sense of what collections of classical poetry in translation might have been like had these works not been suppressed for centuries.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/rhyming-back-into-the-canon-an-anthology-of-queer-roman-verse/
LOCATION:144 Louis A. Simpson Building
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T133000
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SUMMARY:Teaching in the Kitchen: Hands-on Workshop by Spatula&Barcode
DESCRIPTION:Join Princeton Food Project and visiting fellows Laurie Beth Clark and Michael Peterson for a hands-on workshop on cooking and pedagogy.  Clark and Peterson\, also known as Spatula&Barcode\, will discuss their artistic collaborations that involve food and share their experiences teaching and making art together in the kitchen.  Read more about their work here (https://www.spatulaandbarcode.art/) and then meet us in the New College West Community Kitchen (C031) to make lunch together and discuss teaching.   \nRSVP to foodproject@princeton.edu\n(We’ll be sure to reply with directions to the venue.) \nThe Princeton Food Project is funded by a Humanities Council Magic Grant for Innovation.  
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/teaching-in-the-kitchen-hands-on-workshop-by-spatulabarcode/
LOCATION:New College West Commuity Kitchen
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T133000
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SUMMARY:Scholarly panel: Ulises Carrión: Bookworks and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Ulises Carrión (1941–1989) was one of the most remarkable artists and writers of the second half of the twentieth century. Part of a generation of artists that challenged the boundaries separating visual arts\, literature\, music\, and performance\, Carrión worked in a wide range of media: artists’ books\, sound poetry\, performance art\, mail art\, video art\, theoretical writing\, and exhibitions. Beyond publishing his own innovative artists’ books\, Carrión fostered collaboration amongst experimental artists through operating his own bookstore-gallery and engaging deeply with the international mail art network. Carrión’s work is the focus of a new exhibition at Milberg Gallery in Firestone Library\, “Ulises Carrión: Bookworks and Beyond\,” as well as an accompanying exhibition catalog. \nThe panelists represent the exhibition’s curatorial team and two contributors to the catalog. In celebration of the release of the “Ulises Carrión: Bookworks and Beyond” catalog\, the panelists will share insights from their research\, which draws on art history\, media studies\, poetics\, and archival studies to place Carrión’s work in a new light. \nLunch will be provided.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/scholarly-panel-ulises-carrion-bookworks-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Chancellor Green Rotunda\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stephanie Oster":MAILTO:soster@princeton.edu
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T180000
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SUMMARY:[POSTPONED] Vajrasattva and the Wheel: Investigating a mysterious object from Dunhuang Cave 17
DESCRIPTION:Please note this event has been postponed. Please visit the CSR website for more information. \nA mysterious object from the “library cave” at Dunhuang\, now in the British Library\, has puzzled scholars for over a century – an octagonal miniature painting on paper\, which is mounted onto a pointed wooden stick. Each side bears a different motif: on one side\, a figure which is probably the deity Vajrasattva\, and on the other\, a wheel. This unique object is an example of the cross-fertilization between various visual traditions seen in Dunhuang during this period\, and was probably used in Buddhist ritual practices before being deposited in the cave in the tenth century. Trying to understand the culture and practices that surrounded the creation and use of this unique object has led us to use and integrate a variety of different approaches. In this talk we investigate the object from five different angles: (i) the nature of the find site\, (ii) the physical object as a museum collection item\, (iii) the painted images\, and their place in the artistic traditions of China\, Tibet and Central Asia\, (iv) the literary context in tantric Buddhist ritual texts also found in the cave\, and (v) the social context\, a living tradition with links to Buddhist practices of the present day. \nMélodie Doumy is Curator of Chinese collections\, with a specific focus on the Stein Collection and the International Dunhuang Project (IDP) at the British Library. Her interests include the material cultures of China and the Eastern Silk Road\, Buddhism\, the history of Collections\, and cultural diplomacy. Her research and publications have focused on the materiality of the Dunhuang manuscripts and the social and religious practices associated with them. Her recent publications include “The Diamond Sutra” in The Book by Design\, edited by Philippa Marks (British Library Publishing\, 2023); “Dunhuang Texts” in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion (Oxford University Press\, 2021); and “The Curious Case of a Miniature Painting at the British Library: A Tantric Ritual Implement for Empowerment” (Arts of Asia\, 2020). \nSam van Schaik is Head of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library\, having previously worked for many years at the Library in the International Dunhuang Project (1999-2019). His main area of research is Tibetan Tantric Buddhism and early Tibetan history\, with a focus on the Dunhuang manuscript sources. His interests include Buddhist ritual practice\, manuscript paleography and codicology\, and the history of Tibet and Central Asia. His publications include the books Tibet: A History (Yale\, 2012)\, Tibetan Zen: Discovering a Lost Tradition (Snow Lion\, 2015)\, and Buddhist Magic: Divination\, Healing and Enchantment Through the Ages (Shambhala\, 2020). He is also the co-author of the catalogues Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts from Dunhuang (Brill\, 2008) and Old Tibetan Texts in the Stein Collection Or.8210 (Toyo Bunko\, 2012). \nRegistration required.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/vajrasattva-and-the-wheel-investigating-a-mysterious-object-from-dunhuang-cave-17/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall
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SUMMARY:The Donald S. Bernstein '75 Lectures Present "AI and the Law"
DESCRIPTION:“AI and the Law” by Tim Wu. Professor Wu (Columbia Law School) is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. He is best known for his work on Net Neutrality theory. He is author of the books The Master Switch\, and The Attention Merchants\, along with Network Neutrality\, Broadband Discrimination\, and other works. In 2013 he was named one of America’s 100 Most Influential Lawyers\, and in 2017 he was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-donald-s-bernstein-75-lectures-present-ai-and-the-law/
LOCATION:Arthur Lewis Auditorium\, Robertson Hall\, NJ
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SUMMARY:Gauss Seminars in Criticism: Denise Ferreira da Silva
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Council’s Spring 2024 Gauss Seminars in Criticism will be presented by Denise Ferreira da Silva\, Samuel Rudin Professor in the Humanities Department of Spanish & Portuguese\, Co-Director of Critical Racial & AntiColonial Study-CRACS Co-Lab\, New York University. Her visit\, under the general title\, “On Sensibility\, “ will comprise a public lecture on Wednesday\, March 6 and a seminar on Thursday\, March 7. \nAn academic and an artist\, Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva writes on crucial global issues\, which she approaches from an anticolonial black feminist perspective. She is the author of the field-changing books Toward a Global Idea of Race and Unpayable Debt\, as well as numerous articles. Her several articles have been published in leading interdisciplinary journals and she has exhibited and lectured at major art venues\, such as the Pompidou Center (Paris)\, Whitechapel Gallery (London\, MASP (Sāo Paulo)\, Reina Sofia (Madrid)\, The Belkin (Vancouver)\, Guggenheim (New York)\, MACBA (Barcelona)\, and MoMa (New York) as well as 10th Berlin Biennial\, Document14\, 2022 Singapore Biennial. \nWednesday\,  March 6 at 5:00 PM in Betts Auditorium \nPublic Lecture: “Annotations on Black Art: On Authority at the Threshold of Representation” \n“If you don’t know …\, if you’ve never …\, if you thought …  you can’t\,” the artist tells critics\, who insist on ignoring interventions both theoretical and aesthetical\, do not even bother\, for the work\, my work\, this work does not address you.⁠  Not because of any distinctive\, unique feature of the work itself\, but because the knowledge apparatus shared by critics and the public (and questioned by the artist and the intellectual tradition of which she is part) does not comprehend her work and their critique among that which is properly and immediately taken as artistic.  Thinking with Simone Leigh’s\, Zinzi Minott’s\, and Iagor Peres’s artworks\, in this talk I consider their questioning of the aesthetic\, which I gather in how they confront the colonial\, racial\, and cisheteropatriarchal matrix. The guiding concern\, I find and share with these artists\, in their work is not about the whether and how of their inclusion but the whether and how their existence already occasions an implosion at/of the core (as they expose the very intrastructure) of the aesthetic field. \nThursday\, March 7 at 12:00 PM — Location TBA \nSeminar: “On Interiority” \nIf every concept\, like any other modern tool for thinking\, cannot but presuppose interiority as its domain of operation\, how can the latter be brought under interrogation – how can interiority itself become available to its own (our mental) tools? In this seminar we consider whether the tools of raciality (that is\, racial difference and cultural difference)\, which is the symbolic arsenal that plays in both the ethic-economic and an ethic-juridic corner of the liberal political architecture\, can guide an analysis of interiority able to expose how it has operated in the accumulation of capital in the past two hundred years or so. The core formulation of interiority engaged here is the one presented in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and Critique of Power of Judgement\, namely the formal thing or “unity of apperception\,” which is the subject of determinative and reflective judgement.  Both books will be read with theoretical contributions that frame raciality as a political concept\, such as Gayatri C. Spivak’s\, David C. Lloyd’s\, Sylvia Wynter’s\, Judith Butler’s\, Frantz Fanon’s\, C.L.R. James’s\, Édouard Glissant’s\, among others. Through these interventions we will read re-presentations of the Kantian Formal thing\, the thing of interiority (the subject\, subjectivity\, or the first-person singular) — such as Husserl’s\, Heidegger’s\, Lacan’s\, Foucault’s\, Deleuze & Guattari’s — that render it a crucial aspect of the liberal political entity. \nRSVP required for this lunch seminar\, which is open only to members of the Princeton University community. To reserve a spot\, please email both Brooke Holmes and Jeannine Matt Pitarresi. The location will be communicated to all registrants several days before the seminar.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/gauss-seminars-in-criticism-denise-ferreira-da-silva/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium\, Betts Auditorium\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Notes on a Critical Theory out of Schelling
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature and co-Sponsored by the Department of German\, and the Humanities Council.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/notes-on-a-critical-theory-out-of-schelling/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne
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