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SUMMARY:Black Holes Ain't So Black
DESCRIPTION:Mario Gooden is Professor of Professional Practice\, Director of the Master of Architecture Program\, Sequence Director for Advanced Architecture Studios\, and Co-Director of the Global Africa Lab at Columbia GSAPP. He is also the Director of Mario Gooden Studio: Architecture + Design\, a transdisciplinary practice dedicated to the design and exploration of architecture and its relationships to culture and knowledge. His practice merges architectural design with landscape\, urbanism\, history\, cultural production\, and performance. \nA recipient of numerous design awards\, citations\, and recognitions\, Gooden is a 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow\, a MacDowell Fellow\, and a 2019 recipient of a National Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at the Venice Biennale\, Architekturmuseum der TU Mūnchen\, the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi)\, Storefront for Art and Architecture\, the National Building Museum\, the Municipal Arts Society\, and the Museum of Modern Art. He has been featured in journals and magazines such as ARTFORUM International Magazine\, Architect Magazine\, Architectural Record\, Metropolis\, Wallpaper\, Architecture & Urbanism (A+U)\, and The New York Times. Gooden is also the author of Dark Space: Architecture Representation Black Identity (Columbia University Press\, 2016). \nIn addition to his roles at Columbia GSAPP\, Gooden is a Research Associate at the Visual Identities in Art and Design (VIAD) at the University of Johannesburg and a founding member of the Black Reconstruction Collective (BRC). Gooden received his Bachelor of Science in Design from Clemson University and his Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/black-holes-aint-so-black/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
ORGANIZER;CN="Gabrielle Langholtz":MAILTO:gml@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Is Ise Circular?
DESCRIPTION:The Ise Shrine (Jingū)\, in Mie Prefecture\, Japan\, is a complex of Shinto shrines and buildings that are rebuilt every 20 years. The last construction in 2013 is the 62nd iteration. With a few interruptions for wars the rebuilding has been carried on for over 1300+ years. There have been a few changes over the centuries but overall the building follows a strict design that is mostly in the minds and hands of master carpenters. This knowledge is passed on as 3 or 4 generations work together. We are now halfway through the cycle to 2033. \nThe Princeton School of Architecture together with the Global Japan Lab is hosting a symposium at Princeton 13 and 14 September on the topic of circularity and the Ise Shrines from both a materials and construction perspective and the broader questions of the cultural and social role of the shrines in Japanese history. The symposium will include informal lectures on Friday afternoon and a series of four roundtables on Saturday morning and early afternoon. \nRegistration is Required. Register here.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/is-ise-circular/
LOCATION:Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Mana Winters":MAILTO:manaw@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240916T120000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Dance\, Madness\, Ecstasy: A Workshop
DESCRIPTION:LUDUS Workshop \nMary Channen Caldwell (University of Pennsylvania) \nWhen does movement spill over from something we recognize as dance as an artistic and social form to something else? Something potentially otherworldly\, whether ecstatic or demonic? This workshop explores medieval dance practices that went outside conventional and socially accepted frameworks\, playing with the many meanings of bodily movement (and sometimes also sound) in the premodern period.  \nRSVP Here.\n \nLunch will be provided. 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/medieval-dance-madness-ecstasy-a-workshop/
LOCATION:Woolworth 102
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240916T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240916T133000
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Layal Liverpool
DESCRIPTION:Black and white women are just as likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States\, but black women are 41 per cent more likely to die from it. Meanwhile\, the lion’s share of recent studies on racism and health were conducted in the US. How do we make sense of these facts? What do we know\, and where should we be looking for more information? \nJoin Layal Liverpool\, author of Systemic: How Racism is Making Us Sick for a wide-ranging conversation about biopolitics\, racial inequity and medical research with Princeton graduate student Aliya Ram. Liverpool is a science journalist with a PhD from Oxford on viral immunology. The conversation is supported by Art Hx\, a project directed by Professor Anna Arabindan-Kesson\, that explores the legacies of medical colonialism and racism in contemporary visual and museum cultures. The first twenty people to register for the Zoom talk will receive a complimentary copy of Dr. Liverpool’s book. \nRegister: www.tinyurl.com/LayalLiverpool
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/a-conversation-with-layal-liverpool/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Aliya Ram":MAILTO:aliyar@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240916T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240916T180000
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SUMMARY:Ayahuasca Spirituality: Religion and the Public Conversation
DESCRIPTION:The Santo Daime is a syncretic religion that arose in the Amazon region of Brazil in the middle of the twentieth century and now has churches throughout the world. Its spiritual practice is based around the sacramental use of ayahuasca\, a psychedelic brew consumed only within regular ceremonies. In this conversation\, William Barnard—an initiate of the religion and a scholar of religious studies—will discuss the religious practice and transformative inner experiences of the Santo Daime community with Rachel Carbonara. \nThis event is part of the Religion and the Public Conversation series. This year’s theme is Religion\, Medicine and Healing. \nCan’t attend in person? Register(Link is external) for the webinar.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/ayahuasca-spirituality-religion-and-the-public-conversation/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jenny Legath":MAILTO:jlegath@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240916T170000
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SUMMARY:Power and Resistance in the Americas: Transdisciplinary Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Against different forms of violence\, women are often at the forefront of movements resisting oppression and defending rights. In their search for justice in war crimes trials\, women’s voices and narration are a critical part of the healing process for them as individuals but also for their communities\, while also contributing to rewriting difficult pasts. Women are also at the forefront of movements that seek to defend collective and community rights\, which are under threat by extractivist industries and illicit economies with the implicit and sometimes explicit support of the state. Caring and caring practices\, usually associated with women and their domestic worlds\, thus assume a public dimension\, as women become protagonists of movements to defend human rights\, communities\, and territories. With cases from Guatemala\, Peru\, Colombia\, and other Latin American countries\, this is an invitation to think together from different disciplinary perspectives on issues related to resistance and power\, women and territories\, displacements and politics. \nABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKERS \nJo-Marie Burt is Associate Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. At Mason\, she has served as director of Latin American studies\, co-director of the Center for Global Studies\, and associate chair for undergraduate studies. She is an affiliate faculty in global affairs\, Latin American studies\, conflict analysis and resolution\, and women and gender studies. Burt is also a senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)\, a leading human rights research and advocacy organization. Most recently she served as the President of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). \nMaría Eugenia Ulfe is senior professor and researcher in Anthropology at the department of Social Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). She is Honorary Visiting Professor at the Universidad Nacional de San Cristóbal de Huamanga and Honorary Professor in the School of Arts\, Media\, and American Studies at the University of East Anglia (2022-2027). She is a member of the Interdisciplinary Research Group Memory and Democracy at PUCP. She was Program Co-Chair of LASA Congress in Bogotá\, Colombia\, in June 2024\, and leading organizer of the VIII Congress Memories in Transit of the Memory Studies Association (MSA) at PUCP in July 2024. With Ximena Málaga Sabogal\, she published the book Reparando Mundos: Víctimas y Estado en los Andes peruanos (PUCP\, 2021)\, which received an honorary mentioned by the Peru Section of LASA Book Price Flora Tristán (2022). \nMODERATOR \nJavier Guerrero\, Professor\, Princeton University and President of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) \nThis event is open to the public.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/power-and-resistance-in-the-americas-transdisciplinary-perspective/
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:20240916T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240916T193000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Opening - Drawing on Ideas
DESCRIPTION:DRAWING ON IDEAS—Architectural representation is often misunderstood as a precursor to building: images that illustrate the architect’s ideas before they are given physical manifestation or merely as a roadmap for the production of architecture. The 77 drawings\, collages\, prints\, and paintings from the collection of Cynthia Davidson and Peter Eisenman\, included in this exhibition\, use various media to pursue\, work out\, and construct ideas independent of the material reality of buildings. The collection gathers ideas that both transcend time—from Piranesi to today—and once brought together a group of architects at a particular moment around the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. \nOpening at the Princeton University School of Architecture on Monday\, September 16\, and on view through December 16.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/exhibition-opening-drawing-on-ideas/
LOCATION:North Gallery\, School of Architecture\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Gabrielle Langholtz":MAILTO:gml@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T132000
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SUMMARY:Who Am I to Judge? On Reviewing Works in Translation
DESCRIPTION:Many American critics shy from reviewing translations. Sometimes\, this is a manifestation of self-doubt; others\, of doubt that a translator can really create a work worth writing about. Of course\, the latter is pernicious\, but it has the same result as the former: less attention\, less critique\, and less respect for translated literature. \nFor the past nine years\, I have tried to resist this impulse—in book culture and in myself. I write regularly about translations\, which is so rare that\, although I have never had a staff reviewing job and have rarely been a full-time critic\, I am\, by default\, one of the country’s most prolific translation critics. I want this to stop being true! My hope is to have much more competition on my beat in three years than I do now. “Who Am I to Judge” will explore my strategies for reviewing books originally written in languages I don’t speak while also making a case that the U.S. needs more translation critics for the health of not just our literary ecosystem\, but our minds.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/who-am-i-to-judge-on-reviewing-works-in-translation/
LOCATION:144 Louis A. Simpson Building
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240917T180000
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CREATED:20240827T190905Z
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SUMMARY:What’s the Ancient Greek for “Picnic”?: Adventures in Translating the Odyssey
DESCRIPTION:THE ROBERT FAGLES LECTURE FOR CLASSICS IN THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS \nIn this lecture\, author\, critic\, classicist\, and translator Daniel Mendelsohn (*89\, *94)\, whose new translation of Homer’s Odyssey will be published next April\, takes his audience into the heart of the process of translating. Beginning with the dauntingly enigmatic adjective that Homer uses to describe his hero in the first line of the poem—polytropos\, “of many turns\,” about which no two translators have ever agreed—Mendelsohn will present a series of case studies in translation culled from his own experience during the past six years working on his Odyssey. In so doing\, he allows the audience to watch the translator at work as he grapples with the distinctive technical challenges posed by Homer’s verse: its meter and rhythms\, diction and tone\, the poet’s use of line-breaks\, alliteration\, and assonance\, and the real meaning of famous phrases such as “gray-eyed Athena” and “wingèd words.” (Hint: they don’t have wings.) \nDaniel Mendelsohn was born in New York in 1960 and educated at the University of Virginia\, where he received his BA in Classics in 1982\, and at Princeton\, where he received his PhD in Classics in 1994. His 11 books include the international bestsellers An Odyssey: A Father\, a Son\, and an Epic (2017) and The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (2006); a translation\, with commentary\, of the Modern Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (2009); and three collections of essays and criticism\, most recently Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones (2018). \nSupport for this project is provided in part by Princeton’s Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature\, Humanities Council\, Lewis Center for the Arts\, Princeton University Public Lectures Committee\, Program in Humanistic Studies\, and the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/whats-the-ancient-greek-for-picnic-adventures-in-translating-the-odyssey/
LOCATION:101 Friend Center and Livestream\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T131500
DTSTAMP:20260415T022259
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SUMMARY:Mellon Forum // South Africa’s Food Apartheid: Infrastructure and Everyday Urbanism in the Post-Colonial African City
DESCRIPTION:Over 2.6 million South African households have inadequate access to food\, and 1.1 million households face a severe food shortage. This problem is particularly acute in major metro areas. Building off a multimodal study in and around the city of Johannesburg\, this talk will argue that achieving spatial justice\, food justice and sustainable food security in the context of urban inequality and increasing climate variability are some of the most pressing challenges for the contemporary South African city.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/mellon-forum-south-africas-food-apartheid-infrastructure-and-everyday-urbanism-in-the-post-colonial-african-city/
LOCATION:School of Architecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T133000
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SUMMARY:Communicating your Research through the Senses: Toolkit Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The senses are tied to memory. We all want our research to be memorable. This workshop provides tips for incorporating the senses into your research and your communications about it\, whether to students in the classroom\, other scholars\, or the general public. \nLunch will be served. Space is limited\, with priority given to CCSR affiliates. RSVP to ccsr@princeton.edu by 9/16/24.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/communicating-your-research-through-the-senses-toolkit-workshop/
LOCATION:Green Hall 3-C-3
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jenny Legath":MAILTO:jlegath@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T180000
DTSTAMP:20260415T022259
CREATED:20240822T143818Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240826T132832Z
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SUMMARY:"Divine Grace\, Free Will\, and ‘Unavoidable’ Sex: Women in Service in the Late Antique West"
DESCRIPTION:This talk grapples with the impact of Christian ideas about grace and free will on the sexual exploitation and experiences of women in service in the late antique West. Theological debates in this period shaped how Christians thought about both freedom and sexual consent. What were the implications for women in service\, who were sometimes faced with ‘unavoidable’ sex?
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/divine-grace-free-will-and-unavoidable-sex-women-in-service-in-the-late-antique-west/
LOCATION:103 Scheide Caldwell
ORGANIZER;CN="Eleni Banis":MAILTO:hbanis@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T180000
DTSTAMP:20260415T022259
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240826T132722Z
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SUMMARY:James A. Moffett '29 Lectures in Ethics: “J’Accuse: A Critical Theory of Radical Legal Praxis”
DESCRIPTION:In a landmark essay published in 1990\, “The Role of Law in Progressive Politics\,” Professor Cornel West proposed that radical lawyers have a crucial but secondary role to play in social movement work. On West’s account\, movement lawyering is primarily defensive work that serves to backstop and support political action. Building on West’s groundbreaking work\, Bernard E. Harcourt develops a more ambitious political and ethical theory of legal praxis as an offensive practice that seeks to stand on its head and reverse the tables on the usual defensive posture. This theory conceives of radical lawyering as a political and ethical practice that positively aims to identify\, challenge\, and replace the dominant oppressive structures of society. In this lecture\, Harcourt will present the contours of a critical theory of radical legal praxis.” \nBernard E. Harcourt is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and a chaired professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. He is the founding director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought(Link is external) (CCCCT). His most recent books\, Cooperation: A Political\, Economic\, and Social Theory(Link is external) (2023) and Critique & Praxis: A Critical Philosophy of Illusions\, Values\, and Action(Link is external) (2020) attempt to reconstruct critical philosophy as a transformative political praxis. He has edited lectures and writings by Michel Foucault in French and English. Harcourt began his career representing men on Alabama’s death row\, working with Bryan Stevenson at what is now the Equal Justice Initiative\, in Montgomery\, Alabama. In 2019\, Harcourt was awarded the New York City Bar Association Norman J. Redlich Capital Defense Distinguished Service Award(Link is external)\, a lifetime achievement award for his work on behalf of individuals on death row. \nThe Moffett Lecture Series aims to foster reflection about moral issues in public life\, broadly construed\, at either a theoretical or a practical level\, and in the history of thought about these issues. The series is made possible by a gift from the Whitehall Foundation in honor of James A. Moffett ’29.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/james-a-moffett-29-lectures-in-ethics-jaccuse-a-critical-theory-of-radical-legal-praxis/
LOCATION:Computer Science Building\, Room 104\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Tammy Hojeibane":MAILTO:tammyh@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T180000
DTSTAMP:20260415T022259
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SUMMARY:Excited Delirium: A Conversation on Race\, Police Violence\, and the Invention of a Disease
DESCRIPTION:Henry Louis Gates\, Jr. in conversation with author Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús \nThursday\, September 19\, 2024\, at 4:30pm \nTheatre Intime at Murray Dodge Hall \nTicket are required and are available here: Effron Center presents: Excited Delirium
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/excited-delirium-a-conversation-on-race-police-violence-and-the-invention-of-a-disease/
LOCATION:Theatre Intime at Murray Dodge Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T180000
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SUMMARY:A New Agenda for African Languages x AI: Everything\, Everywhere\, All At Once
DESCRIPTION:Vukosi Marivate is an Associate Professor at the University of Pretoria (South Africa)\, where he also holds the prestigious ABSA UP Chair of Data Science. His expertise lies in the fields of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)\, with a particular focus on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and the development of solutions for local or low-resource languages. As the leader of the Data Science for Social Impact group\, Professor Marivate spearheads impactful projects across diverse sectors such as energy and public safety\, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to address pressing societal challenges. \nProfessor Marivate is also an entrepreneur and innovator in the field of AI. He co-founded Lelapa AI\, a pioneering startup dedicated to advancing AI technologies for the African continent. He is a co-founder of the Masakhane NLP research foundation\, which is dedicated to promoting NLP research and development in African languages. Professor Marivate is also a co-founder of the esteemed Deep Learning Indaba\, a transformative initiative aimed at fostering collaboration and skill development in the field of deep learning across the African continent and beyond. \nIn his talk\, Professor Marivate will discuss the crucial role of community building in developing technologies for African languages in the age of AI. He will touch upon the unique challenges and opportunities in fostering collaboration for African languages\, developing technologies that respects and empowers communities\, and his vision for the future of technology and community engagements in African languages. \nSimon Gikandi\, Chair of Princeton’s Department of English\, will serve as a respondent and moderate the Q&A. \nThis event will be held in-person at Princeton University\, and is free and open to the public. A recording will be posted shortly after the event.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/a-new-agenda-for-african-languages-x-ai-everything-everywhere-all-at-once/
LOCATION:006 Friend Center\, 006 Friend Center\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Carrie Ruddick":MAILTO:cruddick@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240919T180000
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SUMMARY:The mechanics of reciprocal shift
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I will present ongoing work that I am conducting on the structure of complex reciprocals (e.g.\, English’s each other) cross-linguistically. I will show that in many languages the complex reciprocal can be split apart by adpositions in PPs and also by possessums in possessive structures. This word order is also strongly correlated with case agreement between part of the reciprocal and its antecedent. I present an analysis in terms of movement of part of the reciprocal and couple that with a syntactic case transmission mechanism. This analysis will have consequences for the domain of agreement operations\, linearization\, and the binding of reflexive anaphors and reciprocals inside PPs and DPs. \nTroy Messick is an assistant professor in the department of linguistics at Rutgers\, The State University of New Jersey. He holds a PhD in linguistics from the University of Connecticut. His specialization is in generative syntactic theory. He has worked on a wide variety of topics in the field of syntax and its interfaces including ellipsis\, complementation\, semantic agreement\, the morphosyntactic representation of gender features\, and the structure of complex reflexives and reciprocals. He has published his work in journals such as Linguistic Inquiry\, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory\, Journal of Linguistics\, Syntax and Glossa.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-mechanics-of-reciprocal-shift/
LOCATION:1-S-5 Green Hall\, 1-S-5 Green Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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SUMMARY:LLL Presents - Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love\, Power\, and Justice in an American Church
DESCRIPTION:From the Pulitzer Prize winner Eliza Griswold\, Circle of Hope is an intimate portrait of a church\, its radical mission\, and its riveting crisis.“The revolution I wanted to be part of was in the church.”\nAmericans have been leaving their churches. Some drift away. Some stay home. And some have been searching for—and finding—more authentic ways to find and follow Jesus.This is the story of one such “radical outpost of Jesus followers” dedicated to service\, the Sermon on the Mount\, and working toward justice for all in this life\, not just salvation for some in the next. Part of a little-known yet influential movement at the edge of American evangelicalism\, Philadelphia’s Circle of Hope grew for forty years\, planted four congregations\, and then found itself in crisis. \nThe story that follows is an American allegory full of questions with urgent relevance for so many of us\, not just the faithful: How do we commit to one another and our better selves in a fracturing world? Where does power live? Can it be shared? How do we make “the least of these” welcome? \nBuilding on years of deep reporting\, the Pulitzer Prize winner Eliza Griswold has crafted an intimate\, immersive\, tenderhearted portrait of a community\, as well as a riveting chronicle of its transformation\, bearing witness to the ways a deeply committed membership and their team of devoted pastors are striving toward change that might help their church survive. Through generational rifts\, an increasingly politicized religious landscape\, a pandemic that prevented gathering to worship\, and a rise in foundation-shaking activism\, Circle of Hope tells a propulsive\, layered story of what we do to stay true to our beliefs. It is a soaring\, searing examination of what it means for us to love\, to grow\, and to disagree. \nEliza Griswold is the author of six books of poetry and nonfiction\, all published by Farrar\, Straus and Giroux. Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. She writes for The New Yorker\, is the Ferris Professor and Director of the Program in Journalism at Princeton University. Judith Weisenfeld is Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor in the Department of Religion at Princeton University. She is the author of New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration\, African American Women and Christian Activism: New York’s Black YWCA\, 1905-1945 and the coeditor of This Far By Faith: Readings in African American Women’s Religious Biography. \nThis event is cosponsored by Labyrinth Books\, The Princeton Public Library\, Princeton University’s Humanities Council\, The School of International & Public Affairs in NJ\, and Princeton’s Department of English\, Department of African American Studies\, and Department of Religion.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lll-presents-circle-of-hope-a-reckoning-with-love-power-and-justice-in-an-american-church/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:BorderLens: Screening of 'And Then We Danced'
DESCRIPTION:Screening of “And Then We Danced” (2019) Directed by Levan Akin. Sweden and Georgia \nMerab is a dedicated young dancer at the Georgian National Ensemble in Tbilisi. His personal and artistic life follow the gender norms for young men in Georgian society\, although he struggles to conform to the standard performance of masculinity in traditional dance roles. One day\, the dance group is joined by Irakli. Irakli’s talent and exuberance will have him replace Merab in the choreography. After a short initial animosity\, Merab and Irakli will start getting closer and closer as the rehearsals go on. Their bond will evolve in surprising ways leading them to nurture and invent new vocabularies of intimacy and artistic forms of expression.\nDirected by Levan Akin\, a Georgian-born director from Sweden\, the film makes a statement in support of the 2013 anti-homophobic rallies against the Georgian Orthodox Church in Tbilisi. Its screenings themselves \n\nBorderLens\nQueer outlines of Geography and Gender \nThe Fall 2024 edition of the Slavic film series explores geographic displacement and queer identities. Shot by directors from Georgia\, former Yugoslavia\, Kazakhstan\, Hungary\, Russia\, and Ukraine\, the films show how bodies and borders subvert the fictious seamlessness of power structures. Ranging from 1982 to yet unreleased films\, the series shines a spotlight on how geography\, just like gender\, is performed. \nPresented by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Program in Russian\, East European and Eurasian Studies. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Council and the Program on Gender and Sexuality Studies. \nMore information can be found on the Slavic Languages and Literatures website.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/borderlens/
LOCATION:100 Jones Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sofia Guerra":MAILTO:sg8780@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240920T190000
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SUMMARY:Modernist Writing and the Ottoman Empire
DESCRIPTION:“Modernist Writing and the Ottoman Empire” gathers scholarly works that delve into modernist narrative discourses concerning the Ottoman Empire during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By underscoring the often-overlooked nexus between modernism and the Ottoman Empire and emphasizing Turkey’s contributions to modernist thought\, the symposium will foster discussions on how modernist narratives and practices engage with themes of “otherness\,” the Orient\, and the Ottoman Empire. \nPresentations by Ceyhun Arslan (Comparative Literature\, Koç University)\, Katharina Herold-Zanker (English\, Durham University)\, Demet Karabulut Dede (English\, Princeton University; American Culture and Literature\, Haliç University)\, Barry McCrea (novelist; Comparative and Irish Studies\, University of Notre Dame)\, Douglas Mao (English\, John Hopkins University)\, Kaitlin Staudt (English\, Union College). \nKeynote by Zeynep Çelik\n(History\, Columbia University). Respondent: M. Christine Boyer (Architecture\, Princeton University). \nSponsored by the departments of English\, comparative literature\, and Near Eastern studies\, with the added support of the Humanities Council. \nImage credit: Erol Akyavas. The Glory of the Kings. 1959(?). Oil on canvas. 48″ x 7′ 1/4″ (121.8 x 214 cm). The Museum of Modern Art. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Angeleski.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/modernist-writing-and-the-ottoman-empire/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Malone":MAILTO:sarah.k.malone@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240923T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240923T180000
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SUMMARY:Classics\, Love\, Revolution: The Legacies of Luigi Settembrini
DESCRIPTION:In Classics\, Love\, Revolution: The Legacies of Luigi Settembrini\, Barbara Graziosi and Andrea Capra intervene in current debates about classics and its relation to revolutionary ruptures\, nationalist movements\, and identity politics today. They begin with The Neoplatonists\, an explicit love story posing as the work of an imaginary ancient Greek author\, but actually written by the Neapolitan revolutionary and classical scholar Luigi Settembrini (1813–1876). \nOffering the first English translation of the tale—which\, because of its celebration of homosexuality\, long remained censored and unpublished—they read it in the context of Settembrini’s life\, scholarship\, and revolutionary politics. Drawing strength from his legacies\, Capra and Graziosi go on to tackle the nostalgias of post-truth politics today\, demonstrating the queer\, reparative potential of various strands of classical scholarship. On the basis of archival research\, combined with literary and philosophical analysis\, they argue that a commitment to social justice and an investment in the study of Greco-Roman antiquity can—and even should—be rooted in egalitarian\, embodied\, and joyous forms of love. \nClassics\, Love\, Revolution: The Legacies of Luigi Settembrini offers a reassessment of Italian homosexuality\, insurgence\, and scholarship\, while telling a moving story of love and resilience along the way.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/classics-love-revolution-the-legacies-of-luigi-settembrini/
LOCATION:161 East Pyne\, 161 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Luke Soucy":MAILTO:lsoucy@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:CDH Open House
DESCRIPTION:CDH is TEN! Join the center for their annual Open House for refreshments and a toast celebrating our anniversary and theme for the year ahead\, “Humanities for AI.”
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/cdh-open-house/
LOCATION:Firestone Library\, Floor B
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ORGANIZER;CN="Carrie Ruddick":MAILTO:cruddick@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240924T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240924T180000
DTSTAMP:20260415T022259
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SUMMARY:The Prehistoric Front of the Cold War: Soviet Debates on the Origins of Art and the Human
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Series | Overcoming Bipolarity: New Approaches to the Cold War \nMichael Kunichika teaches at Amherst College\, where he is professor and chair of Russian. He also serves as the director of the College’s Center for Humanistic Inquiry. His publications include his award-winning monograph “Our Native Antiquity”: Archaeology and Aesthetics in Russian Modernism (2015). Having recently completed another book Specters of Empire: Race and Revolution in Early Soviet Cinema\, he is now at work on a monograph on prehistoric archaeology and the culture of late socialism from which his talk will be drawn. His scholarship has been supported by the Davis Center for Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies at Harvard\, where he was a senior fellow\, and the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton\, NJ)\, where he was Willis F. Doney Member in the School for Historical Studies. \nSponsored by the Program in Russian\, East European and Eurasian Studies and the Humanities Council. Co-sponsored by the University Center for Human Values.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-prehistoric-front-of-the-cold-war-soviet-debates-on-the-origins-of-art-and-the-human/
LOCATION:A71 Louis A. Simpson Building
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ORGANIZER;CN="Carole Dopp":MAILTO:frantzen@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240924T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240924T183000
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SUMMARY:Only (A) God Can Save Us
DESCRIPTION:In most philosophical discussions about the “death of God” that may take place within Westernized universities\, there is often a curious absence of consideration for how this passing of divinity might impact nomoi beyond those of particular forms of Christian or post-Christian societies and cultures. Confronted with this absence\, there is a temptation to try and decolonise the “death of God\,” but such an undertaking would only involve inserting the Rest into the time that unfolds between the advent of a Palestinian and his return or moving beyond Palestine as the site of the final battle where the world comes to a rapturous end. Rather than decolonise or globalise the “death of God\,” there are those who would consider the present to be defined by la revanche de Dieu. God may have died among the well-heeled and well-read\, but remains alive and well among the dispossessed of the world. In the world today\, a world constituted by secularity that emanates from the “death of God\,” Muslimness has become the symbol of radical dispossession. In a world like this\, Islam is a scandal—not only because of the institution of Islamophobia as the grammar of the international order but also because its persistence is uncanny. In this talk\, I want to experiment with Critical Muslim Studies and investigate the relationship between Muslimness and the political in the space between the revenge of God and the “death of God.” \nSalman Sayyid reads world history and writes political theory. He is based at the University of Leeds\, where he holds a Chair in Decolonial Thought and Social Theory. Sayyid has held academic positions in London\, Manchester\, and Adelaide. His work has been translated into over a dozen languages. Some of his major publications include A Fundamental Fear (a book that\, despite being banned by the Malaysian government\, is now in its third edition)\, Thinking Through Islamophobia (co-edited with Abdoolkarim Vakil)\, and Recalling The Caliphate. Sayyid leads the interdisciplinary research programme of Critical Muslim Studies. He is the founding editor of the academic journal ReOrient and produces the Radio ReOrient podcasts.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/only-a-god-can-save-us/
LOCATION:1879 Hall\, Room 140
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mary Kay Bodnar":MAILTO:mbodnar@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240924T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240924T190000
DTSTAMP:20260415T022259
CREATED:20240921T042721Z
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SUMMARY:Film Studies Lecture: Double Feature at the Sunset Drive-In
DESCRIPTION:A talk/presentation by artist Kevin Jerome Everson focusing on his influences and methodology. Trained in photography and engaged in printmaking and sculpture\, Everson began working in the medium of analog film in the late 1990’s\, and to date has made 12 features and over 250 solo and collaborative works. Here he will discuss the processes\, procedures and materials\, as well as the recurring subjects\, locations\, themes and formal strategies represented in his artistic practice over the past two decades. \nKevin Jerome Everson (b.1965\, Mansfield\, Ohio\, lives and works in Charlottesville\, Virginia) is the Commonwealth and Ruffin Foundation Distinguished Professor of Studio Art and Director of Studio Arts at the University of Virginia. Everson’s art practice encompasses photography\, printmaking\, sculpture and film. Recipient of the Guggenheim; the Berlin Prize; the Heinz Award in Arts & Humanities; the Alpert Award for Film/Video and the Rome Prize\, his work has been the subject of retrospectives and solo exhibitions at The Whitney Museum of American Art\, Tate Modern/Film\, Highline\, NYC\, Centre Pompidou\, Halle fur Kunst Steiermark\, Graz\, Andrew Kreps Gallery\, Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art Seoul\, National Museum of African American History and Culture\, and the Harvard Film Archive. His moving image work has been featured at the Whitney Biennial (2008\, 2012\, 2017)\, the 2013 Sharjah Biennial\, the 2018 Carnegie International\, the 2023 Contour Biennial\, Mechelen\, Belgium and the 2024 Thailand Biennial. \nThis lecture is part of a three-day event that will include screenings of Kevin Everson’s films: \nWed\, 9/25 · 7:00 pm—9:00 pm\nJames Stewart Theater 185\, Nassau Street\nFilm Screening: Kevin Everson’s Lago Gatún \nThu\, 9/26 · 7:00 pm—9:00 pm\nJames Stewart Theater 185\, Nassau Street\nFilm Screening: Selected Short Films by Kevin Everson
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/film-studies-lecture-double-feature-at-the-sunset-drive-in-2/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240924T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240924T180000
DTSTAMP:20260415T022259
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SUMMARY:Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People and the Fight to Resist It
DESCRIPTION:Ari Berman’s Minority Rule is a riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy and entrench their power—and the movement to stop them. \nThe mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6\, 2021 represented an extreme form of the central danger facing American democracy today: a blatant disregard for the will of the majority. But this crisis didn’t begin or end with Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Through voter suppression\, election subversion\, gerrymandering\, dark money\, the takeover of the courts\, and the whitewashing of history\, reactionary white conservatives have strategically entrenched power in the face of a massive demographic and political shift. Berman charts these efforts with sweeping historical research and incisive on-the-ground reporting\, chronicling how a wide range of antidemocratic tactics interact with profound structural inequalities in institutions like the Electoral College\, the Senate\, and the Supreme Court to threaten the survival of representative government in America. \nChilling and revelatory\, Minority Rule exposes the long history of the conflict between white supremacy and multiracial democracy that has reached a fever pitch today—while also telling the inspiring story of resistance to these regressive efforts. \nAri Berman is the national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones and a reporting fellow at Type Media Center. He’s the author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America (finalist\, National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction) and Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times\, the Washington Post and Rolling Stone\, and he is a frequent commentator on MSNBC and NPR. He won the Sidney Hillman Foundation Prize for Magazine Journalism and an Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media. Kevin Kruse is a Professor of History at Princeton University. He specializes in the political\, social\, and urban/suburban history of twentieth-century America\, with a particular interest in conflicts over race\, rights and religion and the making of modern conservatism. He is the author of Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974\, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America\, and Fog of War: The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement. \n This event is cosponsored by Labyrinth Books\, Princeton University’s Humanities Council\, The School of International & Public Affairs in NJ\, and Princeton University’s Department of History\, Department of African American Studies\, and Electoral Innovation Lab.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/minority-rule-the-right-wing-attack-on-the-will-of-the-people-and-the-fight-to-resist-it/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240924T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240924T213000
DTSTAMP:20260415T022259
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SUMMARY:Le Dernier amour de Fauré
DESCRIPTION:Le Dernier amour de Fauré\nThe Last Love of Fauré \nFrench composer Gabriel Fauré’s love affair with Marguerite Hasselmans\, witness to the last twenty-four years of the composer’s life\, inspires pianist Aline Piboule and writer Pascal Quignard to engage in an intimate conversation on literature and music. \nPascal Quignard will read his text in French\, with a written translation provided. \nAline Piboule will play the following pieces by Fauré: Improvisation (extrait des Huit Pièces brèves Op84)\, Barcarolle no 13\, Thème et variations – variations nos 6 et 9\, Nocturne no 11\, Nocturne no 12\, Barcarolle no 9\, Barcarolle no 10\, Thème et variations – variation no 8\, Barcarolle no 12\, Nocturne no 13. \nIn partnership with NYU and Duke University.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/le-dernier-amour-de-faure/
LOCATION:Whitman College Class of 1970 Theater
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kelly Eggers":MAILTO:keggers@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T180000
DTSTAMP:20260415T022259
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SUMMARY:Fertility vs. Equality: How Taiwan’s Battle Against Low Fertility Rates Creates a Feminist Dilemma
DESCRIPTION:The first talk in the Island at the Crossroads: New Directions in Taiwan Studies series. \nRepublican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance’s resurfaced remarks on “childless cat ladies” and the “civilization crisis” have sparked criticism of singlism and reignited debates on pronatalism. Meanwhile\, across the Pacific\, Taiwan – a country whose first female president and incumbent vice president are both never-married women without children who love cats – has been addressing low fertility as a national security crisis by adopting pro-marriage and pro-family policies to promote childbirth. However\, the fact that “childless cat ladies” are among Taiwan’s top political leaders is less a testament to Taiwan being a gender-equal country free of discrimination against single and childfree women and more of a paradox. Taiwan’s national consensus on pronatalist population policies has created political opportunities for feminists to push for family-friendly policies. However\, these opportunities come at the cost of undermining reproductive justice by framing women primarily as bearers of the nation\, thus presenting a feminist dilemma. This raises critical questions about how Taiwan’s feminist movement should engage with population politics in its pursuit of legal and social change. \nThis lecture draws on the insights of feminist legal history and explores the historical intertwining of feminist legal mobilization and population control policies. It illuminates both the gains and losses of feminists operating within such frameworks under martial law. Furthermore\, it critically examines the risks and benefits of employing pronatalist frameworks to advance gender equality after Taiwan’s democratization. The lecture will demonstrate how population control policies contributed to the legalization of abortion and granted women some limited rights to name their children under authoritarian rule. Additionally\, it will explore how pro-marriage\, pronatalist policies have served as strange bedfellows for feminists in recent decades. In conclusion\, it will be proposed that the feminist movement should disentangle itself from these paradoxical alliances to pursue gender equality on its own terms. \nChao-ju Chen is a distinguished professor and director of the Center for Human Rights and Jurisprudence at National Taiwan University College of Law. She was Hauser Global Professor at New York University School of Law in 2022. She received her S.J.D. and LL. M. degrees from the University of Michigan Law School and LL.B. and LL.M. degrees from National Taiwan University. Her research centers at the intersection of equality\, feminism\, legal history\, and legal mobilization. A prolific writer on motherhood\, marriage\, family\, sexual abuse\, citizenship\, indigenous identity\, constitutional equality\, feminist legal theory\, and multiculturalism\, she has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and books\, as well as in popular media. \nThis project is supported by a David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Grant from the Humanities Council\, as well as the Department of East Asian Studies and the Program in East Asian Studies.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/fertility-vs-equality-how-taiwans-battle-against-low-fertility-rates-creates-a-feminist-dilemma/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jeff Heller":MAILTO:jh43@princeton.edu
GEO:40.7228732;-74.0621867
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240925T180000
DTSTAMP:20260415T022259
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SUMMARY:E. Franklin Robbins/UJA-Federation Lecture: On How the West Became Antisemitic
DESCRIPTION:Join the Program in Judaic Studies and the Humanities Council’s Program in Medieval Studies for an E. Franklin Robbins/UJA-Federation Lecture with Ivan G. Marcus on Wednesday\, September 25. This event is part of Judaic Studies’ 2024-25 Lecture Series on Antisemitism. \nContrary to the widely accepted picture of Jewish history\, medieval Jews were assertive agents. The Jews of the Middle Ages were convinced of their chosenness\, and Christian rulers inadvertently reinforced Jewish solidarity by recognizing Jews as legal\, self-governing communities\, not just as individuals\, if only to tax them better. This talk reexamines not only how the Christian majority understandably affected the Jewish minority but surprisingly how the Jews – real and imagined – so challenged the Christian majority that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in new ways between 800 and 1500. That new self-understanding remained part of European cultural identity down to the time of the Holocaust and beyond. \nOpen to the public. Refreshments will be available. \nMore about Ivan G. Marcus \nIvan G. Marcus is the Frederick P. Rose Professor of Jewish History\, Professor of History and of Religious Studies at Yale University. He received his BA from Yale University\, his MA from Columbia University\, and his MHL and PhD from The Jewish Theological Seminary of America. \nBefore joining the Yale faculty\, he was Professor of Jewish History at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America\, where he was Provost from 1991 to 1994. He has also taught at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Princeton\, where he has served on the Advisory Council of the Department of Religion. \nHe has written Piety and Society: The Jewish Pietists of Medieval Germany (E. J. Brill\, 1981)\, which was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award\, Rituals of Childhood: Jewish Culture and Acculturation in Medieval Europe\, which was published by Yale University Press in 1996; The Jewish Life Cycle: Rites of Passage from Biblical to Modern Times (University of Washington Press\, 2004) based on the 1998 Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures. His book Sefer Hasidim and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe (UPenn\, 2018) is a chapter in the history of the book in medieval Europe. His most recent book is\, How the West Became Antisemitic (Princeton\, 2024). \nHe has received numerous fellowships including a research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/e-franklin-robbins-uja-federation-lecture-on-how-the-west-became-antisemitic/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall
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SUMMARY:Rage and Other Cages: A Selection of Short Stories
DESCRIPTION:In her award-winning collection of short stories\, Rage and Other Cages\, Aimee LaBrie offers lessons on grief\, loneliness\, and relationships that examine what it means to be female in today’s America. \nThe characters range from a former child actress turned real estate agent who yearns for her past\, to a nurse who must convince a murderer to donate his girlfriend’s organs\, to a bartender at Ray’s Happy Birthday Bar who is kidnapped by a customer searching for a mysterious key. Bad dates\, bad jobs\, and bad situations force these characters to use their wits and wiles to survive. In her memorable\, raw voice akin to Lorrie Moore meets Mary Gaitskill\, LaBrie has her readers laughing on one page and raging on another. \nJoyce Carol Oates calls LaBrie’s writing “Mordantly funny\, eerily discomforting\, & unexpectedly wise — an audacious gathering of stories mirroring our contemporary world.” \nAimee LaBrie’s short stories have appeared in the Minnesota Review\, Iron Horse Literary Review\, StoryQuarterly\, Cimarron Review\, Pleiades\, Beloit Fiction Journal\, Permafrost Magazine\, and others. In 2020\, her short story “Rage” won first place in Solstice Literary Magazine’s Annual Literary Contest and her novel in progress won the Key West Literary Seminar Emerging Writer Award. Her short fiction has been nominated four times for Pushcart Prizes. In 2012 she won first place in the Zoetrope: All-Story’s Short Fiction Competition. Aimee teaches creative writing at Rutgers and works as the senior program administrator for Writers House.  Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, the Jerusalem Prize for Lifetime Achievement\, the Prix Femina\, and the Cino Del Duca World Prize. She has been nominated several times for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time\, including the national best sellers We Were the Mulvaneys\, Blonde\, and the New York Times best seller The Falls. She is the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Emerita at Princeton University. \nThis event is cosponsored by Labyrinth Books\,  Princeton University Humanities Council\, The Lewis Center for the Arts\, Rutgers University’s Department of English\, and the Writers House at Rutgers. \n  \n 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/rage-and-other-cages-a-selection-of-short-stories/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Kevin Everson’s Lago Gatún
DESCRIPTION:Lago Gatún is a journey traveling south to north through the Panama Canal. (Kevin Jerome Everson\, US\, 2021\, 59 minutes\, 16mm transferred to digital\, b&w\, sound\, no dialogue) \nKevin Jerome Everson (b.1965\, Mansfield\, Ohio\, lives and works in Charlottesville\, Virginia) is the Commonwealth and Ruffin Foundation Distinguished Professor of Studio Art and Director of Studio Arts at the University of Virginia. Everson’s art practice encompasses photography\, printmaking\, sculpture and film. Recipient of the Guggenheim; the Berlin Prize; the Heinz Award in Arts & Humanities; the Alpert Award for Film/Video and the Rome Prize\, his work has been the subject of retrospectives and solo exhibitions at The Whitney Museum of American Art\, Tate Modern/Film\, Highline\, NYC\, Centre Pompidou\, Halle fur Kunst Steiermark\, Graz\, Andrew Kreps Gallery\, Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art Seoul\, National Museum of African American History and Culture\, and the Harvard Film Archive. His moving image work has been featured at the Whitney Biennial (2008\, 2012\, 2017)\, the 2013 Sharjah Biennial\, the 2018 Carnegie International\, the 2023 Contour Biennial\, Mechelen\, Belgium and the 2024 Thailand Biennial.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/film-screening-kevin-eversons-lago-gatun-2/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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