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SUMMARY:Medieval Matters: Manuscript Culture and the Five Senses in the Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:Medieval Matters: Manuscript Culture and the Five Senses in the Middle Ages\, a full day roundtable\, brings together senior and junior faculty from leading East and West Coast institutions to present and discuss current research and methodologies in Old French studies. The roundtable will include a response by Ardis Butterfield (Yale)\, as well as presentations by Eliza Zingesser (Columbia)\, Mary Channen Caldwell (Penn)\, Henry Ravenhall (Berkeley)\, Ariane Bottex-Ferragne (NYU)\, Fay Slakey (Princeton)\, and Julien Stout (Princeton). \nThe title of the roundtable plays on the verb to matter\, the medieval French term matiere—used to designate thematic cycles (matiere de Rome\, de Bretagne\, etc.)—and the modern concept of materiality. The theme foregrounds the physicality of manuscripts\, textual fragments\, and amulets—objects produced\, circulated\, and handled in the Middle Ages—while also approaching poetry and literature as forms of “matter” that resist reduction to mere metaphor. The roundtable aims to explore how literary and poetic forms invite multisensory engagement\, often simultaneously. \nGuiding questions include: \n\nHow does a song\, narrative\, or idea move in and out of different forms of materiality in medieval French manuscript culture?\nHow does this (im)materiality interact with the senses in the production\, transmission\, and reception of medieval French culture?\nWhat happens when\, within a poem\, some senses stand in for others\, or when they converge into “multisensory nodes” that create an intermedial space—perhaps echoing an abstract or “vertical” realm?\nHow are (im)material or (non-)corporeal beings—or parts of beings—involved in the experience of manuscript culture?\n\nThe event will conclude with this year’s Medieval Studies Faber Lecture presented by Marisa Galvez (Stanford University). \nPresented by the Department of French and Italian. Co-sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/medieval-matters-manuscript-culture-and-the-five-senses-in-the-middle-ages/
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SUMMARY:“Choreographing Velocity: Contemporary Performance Emerging from the African Continent”
DESCRIPTION:Princeton Humanities Council Belknap Fellow Jay Pather shares some thoughts on contemporary performance emerging from the African continent in conversation with Lewis Center Chair Judith Hamera. \nIn Writing the World from an African Metropolis\, Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall wrote: \nThe conceptual categories with which to account for social velocity\, the power of the unforeseen and of the unfolding\, are in need of refinement. So too is the language with which to describe people’s relentless determination to negotiate conditions of turbulence and to introduce order and predictability into their lives.\n— (Mbembe and Nuttall\, 2008) \nIncreasingly\, social velocity has characterized contemporary societies the world over. African societies also deal with the continued turbulence and the aftershocks of colonialism\, from the colonial residue that remains in economies of extraction and structures of modernity and the inter-generational trauma that is visited on bodies and psyches. \nThese disturbances have also produced some of the world’s most vivid performance artists: searching\, passionate\, sometimes seeming nihilistic\, yet–and in answer to the need for a language to hold this – working deeply with the imperative to give form\, shape and articulation to the intangible and the deeply felt. This recalls Martinique philosopher Edouard Glissant’s notion of tremblement (trembling). \nTremblement is neither incertitude nor fear. It is not what paralyzes us. Trembling thinking is the instinctual feeling that we must refuse all categories of fixed and imperial thought…in which we can counter all the systems of terror\, domination\, and imperialism with the poetics of trembling—it allows us to be in real contact with the world and with the peoples of the world. \nIn these artists’ unceasing attention to the truth of the representation\, simply aesthetically satisfying form and structure are abandoned. In its place\, they offer a mixture of unexpected disruption of narrative\, deeply subjective opacity and blindingly illuminating image\, in Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula’s words\, a cocktail of truth and poetry. \nJay Pather’s talk probes some of the underpinnings of such work\, reflecting on contemporary artists from Ghana\, Nigeria\, Senegal\, South Africa\, Zimbabwe\, and the Cameroon in this audio visual presentation and open discussion. \nCosponsored by the Department of Art & Archaeology. \n\nJay Pather is a Belknap Long-Term Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Lewis Center for the Arts for spring 2026. He is a curator\, choreographer\, academic\, and a professor emeritus at the University of Cape Town where he directed the Institute for Creative Arts. He curates the Infecting the City Public Art Festival and the ICA Live Art Festival in Cape Town\, as well as for the Afrovibes Festival in Amsterdam. Publications include Acts of Transgressions\, Live Art in South Africa (2019) and Restless Infections\, Public Art for a Transforming City (2025). Pather served as juror for the International Award for Public Art and was appointed Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/choreographing-velocity-contemporary-performance-emerging-from-the-african-continent/
LOCATION:Godfrey Kerr Theater Studio\, Lewis Arts complex\, 122 ALEXANDER STREET\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Designing the Future of Palestine-Israel
DESCRIPTION:Omar M. Dajani is the Carol Olson Professor of International Law at McGeorge School of Law\, University of the Pacific. Previously\, he served as legal adviser to the Palestinian negotiating team in peace talks with Israel\, participating in the summits at Camp David and Taba\, and as a political adviser in the office of the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process. He currently serves on (and was inaugural co-chair of) the joint board of A Land for All. He is also Nonresident Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute and Co-Principal Investigator (with Haim Yacobi) of The Shared Homeland Paradigm: Reimagining Space\, Rights\, and Partnership in Palestine-Israel. His recent book\, Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa (co-edited with Aslı Bâli) explores institutional responses to identity conflict and authoritarianism. He received his B.A. from Northwestern University and his J.D. from Yale Law School. \nIn this lecture\, Omar Dajani will explore the relationship between political imagination and institutional design\, arguing that meaningful transformation in Palestine-Israel requires envisioning the “far side of the bridge” even amid mass violence and devastation. He will introduce the Shared Homeland Paradigm\, a three-year research and policy advocacy project he co-leads\, as a framework for rethinking rights\, space and partnership in a shared homeland.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/designing-the-future-of-palestine-israel/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall
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SUMMARY:Symposium: Learning Through Photography
DESCRIPTION:Keynote Address\nIf Emmett Till Lived: Photographs and Monuments\nSarah Lewis\, Harvard University\nThursday\, April 30\n5:30–6:30 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\nFull schedule and registration information on the Princeton University Art Museum website.  \nIn conjunction with the exhibition Photography as a Way of Life: Minor White\, Aaron Siskind\, and Harry Callahan\, at the Princeton University Art Museum\, the symposium Learning Through Photography will bring together scholars and practitioners to think outward from central themes of the exhibition – including creativity\, institutions\, and attention – toward our current moment. The gathering will be framed by two events: an opening keynote that will reflect on twentieth and twenty-first century ways of learning through and about photography\, and a closing conversation with students of Emmet Gowin – thus linking Princeton’s long stewardship of the Minor White Archive with the celebrated new acquisition of the Emmet Gowin archive. Between the keynote and the closing conversations\, three thematic panels will combine provocations from invited speakers with moderated discussion. \nThe exhibition Photography as a Way of Life explores disciplinary origins; it traces the definition of a field for fine art photography in the postwar United States. The symposium aims to throw that process into sharper relief\, to explore its blind spots and limits\, to think through its legacies\, its effects in the present\, and its untapped potentials. The symposium is organized by Monica Bravo\, Princeton Department of Art & Archaeology\, Kate Bussard\, Princeton University Art Museum\, and Brendan Fay\, the guest curator of Photography as a Way of Life.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/symposium-learning-through-photography/
LOCATION:Grand Hall\, Art Museum
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SUMMARY:Hear Our Poetry: A Multilingual Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Registration is requested\, but not required\, for this event. To apply to be a reader\, visit the Application to Read. \nThis program is a multilingual poetry reading in which readers are invited to read a poem in any language of their choosing followed by an English translation of that poem—done by them or by another writer. This multilingual poetry reading will help bring together a vast network of non-native English speakers across the Princeton area and invite them to share in their own languages. Sharing poetry in one’s own language allows reading participants to invite other community members into their experiences and their ways of moving through the world in another language. \nIn addition\, the program invites audience members to engage with poetry in a number of different ways—sometimes through linguistic comprehension\, but at other moments by allowing themselves to be immersed in a language and sounds that are unfamiliar to them. \nListening to poetry for comprehension is one way of engaging with poetry\, but being exposed to a poetry reading where comprehension is not always possible\, audience members might be more able to hear the other formal methods of poetry—rhythm\, alliteration\, pauses\, silences\, and beats. \nBy moving between languages\, “Hear Our Poetry\,” allows reading participants to share about their languages more deeply\, and allows audience participants to engage with poetry in a new way. \nFor more poetry programming\, see the digital brochure for “Verse and Voice: A Festival of Poetry” taking place from April 18-May 4 at the library.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/hear-our-poetry-a-multilingual-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Princeton Public Library (2nd Floor Newsroom)
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SUMMARY:"A Kingdom and a Village: A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow"
DESCRIPTION:Simon Morrison discusses his new book with Renata Kapilevich. A Kingdom and a Village is an erudite and entertaining history of Moscow\, a city defined by its survival and reinvention\, and whose rich history offers crucial insight into contemporary global politics\n\nThe city of Moscow stands at the center of a nation comprising eleven percent of the globe’s landmass\, 11 time zones\, and nearly 150 million people\, some 13 million of whom live in the capital. In A Kingdom and a Village\, acclaimed historian Simon Morrison offers a vividly rendered history of Russia’s heart and soul\, tracing its transformation from a “big village”—the demeaning nickname the St. Peterburg nobility gave to its provincial neighbor—into a spectacular metropolis of vast geopolitical import. \nThat arc is the stuff of dramatic\, violent\, stranger-than-fiction historical narrative: the last century alone has featured invasions and costly battles\, the destruction (and reconstruction) of sacred cultural and religious landmarks\, and the collapse of the Soviet republic—not to mention the rise of an authoritarian leader who is a keen student of Russian history.  Drawing on a rich array of archival materials\, from the birchbark scrawls that record the oldest layer of Russian civilization to the articles in European newspapers heralding the opening of the magnificent Bolshoi Theater\, Morrison brings to life the bloody power struggles; cultural marvels; excruciating famines\, droughts\, storms\, and fires that have shaped and reshaped the city and reinforced its essential character. \nWith A Kingdom and a Village\, Morrison makes a persuasive\, even impassioned case that to understand Moscow is not only to unlock the mysteries of Russia’s past but also\, critically\, to grasp the grim logic of its present. It is a magisterial biography of a place and an essential guide to a people and a nation. \n  \nSimon Morrison is a professor of music and Slavic languages and literatures at Princeton University. He is a regular contributor to The Times Literary Supplement and London Review of Books and has written for Time\, The New York Review of Books\, and The New York Times. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and holds a PhD from Princeton University. \nRenata Kapilevich is a classically trained vocalist\, arts educator\, and communications strategist who brings a performer’s perspective to arts leadership and storytelling. She holds a degree in Vocal Performance from Westminster Choir College and a Master’s degree in Vocal Pedagogy from Boston Conservatory at Berklee. As a singer\, she has performed on stages including Carnegie Hall\, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts\, David Geffen Hall\, and Madison Square Garden. \nRenata’s career spans performance\, arts education\, and communications at leading cultural institutions. At the Metropolitan Opera\, she served as Press Officer\, managing media relations and developing press coverage for productions\, artists\, and major initiatives including the Met’s Live in HD broadcasts and education programs. She currently serves as Engagement Manager for the Princeton University Department of Music\, where she leads the department’s marketing and communications strategy. In this role\, she oversees digital and print initiatives\, promotes the department’s academic and performance programs\, and develops new projects that strengthen connections between students\, faculty\, alumni\, and the broader community.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/a-kingdom-and-a-village-a-one-thousand-year-history-of-moscow/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:"Bramble"
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed poet Susan Stewart discusses her new poetry collection with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and poet Eliza Griswold.  Bramble is a meditation on difficulty and the powers of nature. \nIn the Biblical book of Judges\, the bramble is a figure of destructive leadership\, thwarting the lives of trees. In ballads and fairy tales\, roses grow “‘round the briar” in tragic contrast to heroines who are enveloped by the thorns. One of the oldest English words and an even older symbol\, “bramble” reminds us of the entangled and unending struggle that comes with living in time and searching beyond appearances. The rough thicket presents impediments\, yet it also bears fruit and delicate flowers. With Bramble\, Susan Stewart has composed a book of many forms\, including satires\, elegies\, meditations\, and songs. Bramble is also an exploration of the act of making such forms. The book’s three sections— \n“Mirror\,” “Briar\,” and “Channel”—link lyric time to our lives as they are situated in history and nature. Reflecting upon illness\, grief\, and change\, the poems follow the progress of day and night\, the movement of the seasons\, and the path of water from springs to the sea. \nSusan Stewart is a poet\, critic\, and translator. Her previous books of poetry include Columbarium\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and Cinder: New and Selected Poems. A MacArthur Fellow and a former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets\, she is also a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her most recent prose books are Poetry’s Nature and The Ruins Lesson. \n Eliza Griswold\, a poet\, a translator\, and a contributing writer covering religion\, politics\, and the environment\, has been writing for The New Yorker since 2003. Her books include Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love\, Power\, and Justice in an American Church and Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America\, which won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction. She is a Ferris Professor at Princeton University\, where she directs the Program in Journalism. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Chicago University Press\, Princeton University’s Department of English\, the Humanities Council\, the Program in Journalism\, the Lewis Center for the Arts\, and Labyrinth Books.  
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/bramble/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:"Travaux d'Acteurs" performed by students enrolled in FRE 311-THR 312
DESCRIPTION:The Department of French and Italian and L’Avant-Scène\, the French Theater Workshop\, presents “Travaux d’Acteurs” performed by students enrolled in FRE 311-THR 312. Directed by Florent Masse.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/travaux-dacteurs-performed-by-students-enrolled-in-fre-311-thr-312/
LOCATION:Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center
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SUMMARY:When Literature Takes a Strange Turn...
DESCRIPTION:Some books do not follow common sense. A pangolin may talk or a dolphin get bullied. Perhaps there’s a settlement of people in outer space who live according to new myths\, in an invented language\, by unfamiliar rules. Or maybe a tree suffers from depression and a pick-up truck waxes sweet and nostalgic. As readers\, we can let the experience wash over us. But how do we\, as translators\, approach a text that seeks to estrange us\, when translation is the most intimate act of reading? Julia Sanches will explore this question through recent translations of contemporary literature from Spain and Brazil.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/when-literature-takes-a-strange-turn/
LOCATION:144 Louis A. Simpson Building
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SUMMARY:Experiential Learning through Community-Engaged Teaching
DESCRIPTION:The Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES) Faculty Advisory Board invites you to a discussion about incorporating community-engaged pedagogies into your teaching. The program will begin with a panel discussion featuring faculty who have taught ProCES courses followed by time for participants to connect\, exchange ideas\, learn about mechanisms of support from ProCES and McGraw\, and share light refreshments. Faculty of all ranks and disciplines are warmly encouraged to attend and contribute to the conversation whether they have experience teaching community-engaged courses or want to explore possibilities for future curriculum development. Tara Carr-Lemke\, Associate Director of the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship\, will moderate the panel\, which will feature Sandie Blaise\, Lecturer\, Department of French and Italian; Ryan Kingsbury\, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment; Rosina Lozano\, Associate Professor of History; and Christine Sagnier\, University Lecturer\, Department of French and Italian. \nPlease register here. \nPhoto caption: Professor John Higgins\, GEO 360 students\, and JRN 314 students participate in lead education and listening session at East Trenton Collaborative on 2/27/26.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/experiential-learning-through-community-engaged-teaching/
LOCATION:330 Frist\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry in a Burning World: Works by Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris
DESCRIPTION:Join award-winning poets Katie Farris (Lewis Center for the Arts) and Ilya Kaminsky (Lewis Center for the Arts) for this collaborative presentation of their works on deafness\, the challenges of facing cancer\, and the war in Ukraine. Blending performance with conversation\, they will explore how poetry can make meaning out of tragedy and steady us through hardship. \nRegistration requested.  \nIntroduction by Kathleen Crown\, Executive Director of the Humanities Council. This event is part of the Being Human (US) Festival. Organized by the Princeton University Humanities Council in partnership with the Princeton Public Library. Co-sponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts. \nTitle inspiration: Verse Daily: Why Write Love Poetry in a Burning World by Katie Farris
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/poetry-in-a-burning-world-works-by-ilya-kaminsky-and-katie-farris/
LOCATION:Princeton Public Library (Community Room)\, NJ\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hidden in Plain Sight: Reworked Priestly-Sectarian Traditions in Rabbinic Literature
DESCRIPTION:46th Annual Carolyn L. Drucker Memorial Lecture \nAs a new Jewish culture\, the rabbinic edifice conspicuously differs in content and scope from the preceding postbiblical Jewish library. Indeed\, the rabbis almost entirely ignored\, and consistently silenced\, the extensive Second Temple-period literature created in the land of Israel and the Diaspora. On the other hand\, no set of values\, nor any literary work\, emerges in a vacuum. Like religious civilizations in general\, rabbinic literature shares overt and covert connections with previous traditions. Using several examples of pre- and non-rabbinic concepts and texts that infiltrated rabbinic literature\, including material from the Dead Sea Scrolls\, this lecture shows how priestly-sectarian traditions were censored\, adapted\, and “rabbinized” in their new ideological context. \nVered Noam is full professor of Talmud at the Department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud at Tel Aviv University\, and since 2025\, the Senior Academic Advisor of the National Library of Israel. \nNoam received her PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She served as the chair of the Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies and Archaeology\, as a member of the Board of Directors\, and currently as a member of the Senior Appointments Committee\, Tel Aviv University. She won The Michael Bruno Memorial Award\, the Rothschild Foundation\, in 2010\, and was the recipient of the Israel Prize in Talmud in 2020. \nNoam studies rabbinic literature and the writings of the Second Temple period\, focusing in particular on the development of halakhic and aggadic traditions as they moved from Second Temple sources into the rabbinic corpus. Her work pays special attention to religious law in the Dead Sea Scrolls and its tannaitic parallels\, as well as to parallel traditions preserved in the works of Flavius Josephus and in rabbinic literature. In addition\, she investigates questions concerning textual variants of the Babylonian Talmud and teaches Talmud both at the university and in broader nonacademic settings.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/hidden-in-plain-sight-reworked-priestly-sectarian-traditions-in-rabbinic-literature/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall
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SUMMARY:Must we choose between militancy and repair? The example of Bouba Touré
DESCRIPTION:Bouba Touré (ca. 1948-2021) was a photographer\, filmmaker\, projectionist\, writer\, and militant committed to the struggles of immigrant workers in France. Born in Tafacirga\, Mali\, in the Kayes region\, Bouba arrived in France in 1965 and obtained a bed in the Pinel foyer (a type of lodging created specifically for African immigrant workers by the French state) in Saint-Denis. From 1965 to 1970\, he worked in the Chausson metallurgical factory and participated in the labor strikes of 1968. During these same years\, he began photographing the lives of West African immigrant workers in the Paris region. Starting in 1977\, he also used his cameras (still and Super 8) to document the life of the Somankidi Coura agricultural cooperative in rural Mali and the comrades (thirteen other West African immigrant workers he had met in the Parisian foyers) with whom he co-founded it. For the next 50 years he produced tens of thousands of images\, many of which he hand-carried between France and Mali\, Mali and France. \nBouba left us a multifaceted and militant legacy. His images resound with polyglot stories\, instantiate transnational and cosmopolitan commitments\, and meticulously plot counter-cartographies of both West Africa and France. Bouba’s work also models for us a kind of lush attunement to aesthetic dimensions of immigrant experience\, challenging conventional archival and research protocols. As part of a collective of researchers\, artists\, and activists with close ties to Bouba (my collaborators are Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye\, Raphaël Grisey\, and Soso Soumaré)\, I am developing collaborative research and practice in his archive in hopes of receiving this legacy. \nIn this talk\, which presents Bouba’s photographs to a U.S.-based audience for the first time\, I will trace the militant photo-geographies that Bouba himself devised\, in part through the relentless circulation of his images. I will also touch on new questions that are arising as his photographs undergo digitization by the Archives départementales de la Seine-Saint-Denis\, a public departmental archive located in Bobigny\, on the northern border of Paris. Ultimately\, I will ask whether we must sometimes choose between militancy and repair. \n\nJennifer Bajorek is a professor of comparative literature and visual studies at Hampshire College and a senior research associate at the University of Johannesburg. She is an interdisciplinary scholar specializing in photography\, art\, and literature. Her work includes 20 years of collaborations in West African collections encompassing research\, policy work\, and conservation and restitution initiatives\, and has been supported or recognized by numerous grants and awards\, including a 2024 Arthur Rubin Outstanding Publication Award\, for Unfixed (2020). \nBajorek is a Belknap Long-Term Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of English in Spring 2026. At Princeton\, she will complete a manuscript on the materiality of photography in Africa and teach a course on photography\, race\, and restitution.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/must-we-choose-between-militancy-and-repair-the-example-of-bouba-toure/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne
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SUMMARY:Un Destino Común: A Conversation with Filmmaker Lucrecia Martel
DESCRIPTION:Critically acclaimed filmmaker Lucrecia Martel (1966\, Argentina) is considered one of the leading auteurs of Latin American cinema. Mostly self-taught\, Martel started making animated short films in her early twenties before receiving international renown with her first feature La ciénaga (2001). It won numerous international awards including the Alfred Bauer Prize at Berlin. Her subsequent features further consolidated her reputation in world cinema. La niña santa (2004) and La mujer sin cabeza (2008) were both nominated for a Palme d’Or and Zama (2017) was chosen to represent Argentina in the Oscar and Goya Awards. Supported by the Hubert Bals Fund three times\, HBF Development in 2019\, NFF+HBF 2020 and Dutch Post-production Award 2021\, her latest film Nuestra Tierra / Landmarks (2025)\, about colonial violence and the struggle of Indigenous communities for justice\, had its premiere in the Venice Film Festival.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/un-destino-comun-a-conversation-with-filmmaker-lucrecia-martel/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne
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SUMMARY:Film Screening of "Nuestra Tierra (Landmarks)" and Q&A with Filmmaker Lucrecia Martel
DESCRIPTION:In a prolific year of narratives and documentaries reckoning the profound lasting effects colonialism has had on generations of indigenous people\, Lucrecia Martel’s latest Nuestra Tierra/Landmarks might be the most brazen condemnation. Martel—having already proven her mastery of deflating the European-linked bourgeoises in Argentina through her narrative films—sets her sights on the three men accused of murdering Chuschagasta leader Javier Chocobar in 2009. Through eye witness accounts\, police records\, and grainy video\, Martel exposes the arrogance on display when wealthy landowners\, Dario Luis Amín and ex-police officers Luis Humberto Gómez and José Valdiviesoare approached by a small group of Chuschagasta residents. Words are exchanged\, and a gun is fired—multiple times. Still reeling from the murder\, Chuschagasta residents are interviewed and given a chance to finally share their story rather than be sidelined in the margins. It all comes to a head in an enraging\, if not utterly fascinating\, courtroom proceedings where tone cuts as much as a bullet to the gut. A film that all should see\, Nuestra Tierra is a more than worthy addition to a magnificent filmography.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/film-screening-of-nuestra-tierra-landmarks-and-qa-with-filmmaker-lucrecia-martel/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne
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SUMMARY:The Jefferson Paradox: Race\, Slavery and the Promise of America
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE REGISTER HERE.  \nPulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed\, joined by Eddie Glaude\, discusses her book “Jefferson on Race\,” examining his ideals of equality and his contradictory life as a slaveholder. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn her new book “Jefferson on Race\,” Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed invites readers to confront one of the most enduring contradictions in American history. \nAmong the nation’s founders\, Thomas Jefferson was perhaps the most deeply and personally entangled with the issue of race and slavery. The author of the United States Declaration of Independence\, who famously wrote that “all men are created equal\,” enslaved more than 600 people over the course of his life while also condemning slavery in his writings. How can we understand this profound contradiction? \nDrawing from Jefferson’s letters\, public writings\, plantation records\, and accounts from those who lived at Monticello\, including his son Madison Hemings\, Gordon-Reed invites readers to examine Jefferson’s own words about African Americans\, slavery\, and Native Americans. The result is a revealing portrait of a founding figure grappling with the realities of a multiracial slave society while professing ideals of liberty and equality. \nAs the nation approaches the United States Semiquincentennial\, this timely conversation offers an opportunity to reconsider Jefferson’s legacy and the enduring questions about race\, freedom\, and democracy that continue to shape the American story. \n“Jefferson on Race” is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand Jefferson’s conflicted attitudes—and the impact of race and slavery on American history. \nAbout the Editor: \nAnnette Gordon-Reed is a New York Times–bestselling historian and the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. Her books include “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family\,” which won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award\, “Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy\,” and (with Peter S. Onuf) “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination.” \nAbout the Moderator: \nEddie S. Glaude Jr.\, is an educator\, author\, political commentator and public intellectual who examines the complex dynamics of the American experience. His writings\, including “Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul\,” “In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America\,” The New York Times bestseller\, “Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for our Own\,” take an exhaustive look at Black communities\, the difficulties of race in the United States\, and the challenges we face as a democracy. His latest book\, “We Are The Leaders We Have Been Looking For\,”  was released in May 2024. Glaude is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in African American Studies at Princeton University. He is also on the Morehouse College Board of Trustees. He frequently appears in the media as an MSNBC contributor on programs including “Morning Joe” and “Deadline Whitehouse with Nicolle Wallace.” Glaude is a native of Moss Point\, Mississippi. \nPresenting Partners: Princeton Public Library\, Princeton University Press\, Nassau Presbyterian Church and Labyrinth Books.\n\nCampus and Community Partners: Princeton University Humanities Council\, Princeton Theological Seminary\, Historical Society of Princeton\, Morven Museum & Garden\, Paul Robeson House of Princeton\, Department of African American Studies and GradFutures Professional Development Program. \nPublic Humanities programs are presented with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Any views\, findings\, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this programming do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-jefferson-paradox-race-slavery-and-the-promise-of-america/
LOCATION:Nassau Presbyterian Church\, Nassau Presbyterian Church\, 61 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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SUMMARY:French Film Festival | Screening of "Dilili in Paris" (2018) + Q&A with filmmaker Michel Ocelot
DESCRIPTION:A Kanak girl investigating a mystery in Paris in the Belle Époque. \nFor the closing night of the fourth edition of the Princeton French Film Festival\, you are invited to the special screening of Dilili in Paris (2018)\, followed by a Q&A with multi-award-winning filmmaker Michel Ocelot who is celebrating 50 years in animation this year. \n🏆 Winner of the 2019 Cesar for Best Animated Film. \nLogistics: In French with English subtitles. Open to everyone upon registration. \nSynopsis: With the help of her delivery-boy friend\, Dilili\, a young Kanak\, investigates a spate of mysterious kidnappings of young girls that is plaguing Belle Epoque Paris. In the course of her investigation she encounters a series of extraordinary characters\, each of whom provides her with clues that will help her in her quest… After Kirikou and Azur & Asmar\, Michel Ocelot returns with an enchanting new tale of brave young heroes\, mysteries and discoveries\, kidnappings and ordeals\, extraordinary places and magical encounters\, in which good must challenge dark forces and triumph. \nOrganized by the Princeton University’s Princeton Film Festival organization. We thank our sponsors and partners for their support (complete list here). Open to everyone regardless of identity. All rooms are wheelchair-friendly and attendees can contact us at filmfestival@princeton.edu for special accommodations (preferably 48 hours before the scheduled event). Please be aware that pictures might be taken before\, during\, and after the event.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/french-film-festival-screening-of-dilili-in-paris-2018-qa-with-filmmaker-michel-ocelot/
LOCATION:10 McCosh
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SUMMARY:'Revolution Up Close' Public Lecture Series | The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Told through the lives of three remarkable artists devoted to the pursuit of liberty\, an illuminating new history of the ideals that fired the American Revolution. \nThe war that we now call the American Revolution was not only fought in the colonies with muskets and bayonets. On both sides of the Atlantic\, artists armed with paint\, canvas\, and wax played an integral role in forging revolutionary ideals. Zara Anishanslin charts the intertwined lives of three such figures who dared to defy the British monarchy: Robert Edge Pine\, Prince Demah\, and Patience Wright. From London to Boston\, from Jamaica to Paris\, from Bath to Philadelphia\, these largely forgotten patriots boldly risked their reputations and their lives to declare independence. \nMostly excluded from formal political or military power\, these artists and their circles fired salvos against the king on the walls of the Royal Academy as well as on the battlefields of North America. They used their talents to inspire rebellion\, define American patriotism\, and fashion a new political culture\, often alongside more familiar revolutionary figures such as Benjamin Franklin and Phillis Wheatley. Pine\, an award-winning British artist rumored to be of African descent\, infused massive history paintings with politics and eventually emigrated to the young United States. Demah\, the first identifiable enslaved portrait painter in America\, was Pine’s pupil in London before self-emancipating and enlisting to fight for the Patriot cause. And Wright\, a Long Island–born wax sculptor who became a sensation in London\, loudly advocated for revolution while acting as an informal patriot spy. \nIlluminating a transatlantic and cosmopolitan world of revolutionary fervor\, The Painter’s Fire reveals an extraordinary cohort whose experiences testify to both the promise and the limits of liberty in the founding era. \nAuthor\nZara Anishanslin is Associate Professor of History and Art History at the University of Delaware. She is the author of the award-winning Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World and has served as a historical consultant for the Philadelphia Museum of Art as well as “Hamilton: The Exhibition.” \nRevolution Up Close: A Public Lecture Series\nThis lecture series is presented in connection with Nursery of Rebellion: Princeton and the American Revolution\, an exhibit at the Princeton University Library which runs from April 15 to July 12\, 2026. Four recent authors offer new perspectives on the American Revolution by zooming in on an individual life\, a close-knit community\, or a single document. \nFree and open to all\nBooks for sale by Labyrinth Books \nSupported by a Special Grant from the Humanities Council’s Ruth and Sid Lapidus ’59 Research Fellowships Fund
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/revolution-up-close-public-lecture-series-the-painters-fire-a-forgotten-history-of-the-artists-who-championed-the-american-revolution/
LOCATION:100 Arthur Lewis Auditorium\, Robertson Hall
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SUMMARY:Verse and Voice Poetry Festival Keynote: Robert Pinsky
DESCRIPTION:Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky presents and discusses “Robert Pinsky: The First Two Books of Poems” and “On Poetry\, Democracy\, and Culture” with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eliza Griswold. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout “Robert Pinsky: The First Two Books of Poems:” \nAward-winning poet Robert Pinsky’s first two collections—”Sadness And Happiness” and “An Explanation of America”—announced the arrival of a major new voice in American poetry. Now\, these acclaimed books are presented together in a single volume featuring a new preface by the author\, introducing a new generation of readers to the groundbreaking early work of a beloved poet. “Sadness And Happiness” explores everyday subjects such as the streets and oceanfront of Pinsky’s hometown of Long Branch\, New Jersey\, while the long title poem of “An Explanation of America” examines personal and national myths as it transports readers across the country. \nAbout “On Poetry\, Democracy\, and Culture:” \nFor Robert Pinsky\, poetry’s individual\, human scale as a fundamentally vocal medium—with poems brought to life by one person at a time—gives poetry a unique importance in American and democratic culture and society. This book brings together two compelling works of criticism by the former poet laureate—”The Situation of Poetry” and “Democracy\, Culture and the Voice of Poetry\,” in which he makes a passionate and eloquent case for the vital role of poetry in a democracy. \nAbout the Author: \nRobert Pinsky is an award-winning American poet\, essayist\, and translator. He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. He served for three terms as the U.S. Poet Laureate\, during which time he founded the Favorite Poem Project. His many books include “On Poetry\, Culture\, and Democracy” (Princeton)\, the memoir “Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet\,” and the poetry collections “Proverbs of Limbo\, At the Foundling Hospital\, and Selected Poems.” His bestselling translation of Dante’s “Inferno” won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Among his other awards and honors are the William Carlos Williams Award\, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize\, the PEN/Voelcker Award\, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the PEN American Center. He is distinguished professor emeritus of English and creative writing at Boston University. \nIn Conversation: \nPulitzer Prize-winning journalist\, translator\, and poet Eliza Griswold\, director of the Princeton University Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism\, has been a contributing writer for The New Yorker for more than two decades\, where she has extensively covered religion\, politics\, and the environment. Since 2016\, she has served as a distinguished writer in residence at New York University. Griswold has written and translated several books of nonfiction and poetry\, including “Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America\,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 2019; “I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan\,” which she translated to English from Pashto; and a recent book of poems\, “If Men\, Then.” Her most recent book\, “Circle of Hope:  A Reckoning with Love\, Power\, and Justice in an American Church\,” builds on years of Griswold’s immersive reporting to tell the story of a Philadelphia church and a community in crisis. \nFor more poetry programming\, see the digital brochure for “Verse and Voice: A Festival of Poetry” taking place from April 18-May 4 at the library.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/verse-and-voice-poetry-festival-keynote-robert-pinsky/
LOCATION:Princeton Public Library (Community Room)\, NJ\, United States
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SUMMARY:French Film Festival | Dinner conversation with award-winning animation filmmaker Michel Ocelot
DESCRIPTION:As part of the 4th edition of the Princeton French Film Festival\, join us for an informal dinner conversation with multi-award-winning filmmaker Michel Ocelot\, a major figure in animation in France and the world (his films include many classics\, including “Kirikou”\, “Azur & Asmar”\, and “Dilili in Paris”). \nTopics will include Michel Ocelot’s personal and artistic trajectory\, especially as he will be celebrating 50 years in animation. This event is part of the closing night of the Princeton French Film Festival and will be followed by a special screening of “Dilili in Paris” in McCosh 10 starting at 7:30 PM (tickets must be reserved on the Princeton French Film Festival’s website). \nSwipes to Rocky College Dining Hall will be offered to attendees. Register here. \nPhoto credit: Max PPP.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/french-film-festival-dinner-conversation-with-award-winning-animation-filmmaker-michel-ocelot/
LOCATION:Rockefeller College Private Dining Room
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SUMMARY:"Filling in the Blanks: Increasing the Representation of Late Antique and Early Medieval Coin Finds from Greece and Türkiye"
DESCRIPTION:FLAME (Framing the Late Antique and Medieval Economy) is a digital numismatic project\, based in Princeton University’s Firestone Library\, which brings together an international team of scholars working on the minting and circulation of coinage in the period 325-750 CE in Afro-Eurasia. This workshop represents the culmination of its Heartlands Project\, funded by a Humanities Council Magic Grant. It brings together four PhD students from Greece and Türkiye\, who have spent the past year attempting to discover and digitize published and unpublished coin finds from their respective countries. The workshop is meant to expose the Princeton community to the challenges and opportunities for the discovery\, digitization\, and use of numismatic data for further understanding the economic transition between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. \nThis workshop\, as well as the entirety of the FLAME Heartland Project\, was sponsored through the generous support of a Magic Grant from Princeton University’s Humanities Council. Magic Grants support new faculty-led projects that reimagine how the humanities are conceived or taught. They encourage bold\, status-quo-defying intellectual work in the humanities that foster interdisciplinary collaborations and team-teaching\, expand the curriculum with new modes of thought\, and provide unique educational experiences to students. \nA light reception will be offered following the workshop \nImage: Mapping of distribution of Byzantine-era coin finds containing 40-nummi coins of Justinian I (527-565)\, FLAME Project Circulation Module
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/filling-in-the-blanks-increasing-the-representation-of-late-antique-and-early-medieval-coin-finds-from-greece-and-turkiye/
LOCATION:103 Scheide Caldwell House\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Walking with Stories: Palestine\, Memory and Practices of Ongoing Return
DESCRIPTION:Grounded in the land and people of Palestine\, Ongoing Return: Mapping Memory and Storytelling in Palestine (2026) centers Lifta\, a village of Jerusalem\, as the starting point for stories of the Nakba War (1947-1949) and practices of ongoing return\, recounted through a methodology I call “walking with stories.” I first take on the “specter of the Red Indian\,” the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) and complexities of the Indigenous comparison with the question of Palestine through analysis of writings of Yasser Arafat\, Edward Said and Mahmud Darwish. Drawing on stories\, court cases\, archival materials\, and techniques of preservation/erasure\, Ongoing Return then sheds light on museumification as a way of turning Palestine into a “biblical landscape” during the colonial mandate period; memories and stories of the Nakba War 1947/48; the horror of forced expulsion – all through the lens of a  from the politics of recognition and representation in 1968 to the devastation of war in Beirut 1981/82 and through the second Intifada in 2002. Palestinian commitment to ongoing return. Across five chapters\, the book gathers and reframes stories of the past to present ongoing return as a practice and a mode of being. \nRana Barakat is an associate professor of history and the Director of Birzeit University Museum in Palestine. Her research interests include the history and historiography of colonialism\, nationalism\, and cultures of resistance. She earned her PhD in history from the University of Chicago and has published in notable venues including the Journal of Palestine Studies\, Jerusalem Quarterly\, Settler Colonial Studies\, and Native American and Indigenous Studies. Her forthcoming book\, Ongoing Return: Storytelling as a Map of Return to Lifta and Palestine (UNC Press)\, advances an Indigenous understanding of time\, space\, and memory in Palestine by focusing on the details of the people and place of Lifta village over time. She is currently working on her next book\, “The Buraq Revolt: Constructing a History of Resistance in Palestine\,” which argues that this 1929 revolt was the first sign in the Mandate period of sustained mass resistance to the settler-colonial project\, including direct and rhetorical actions against both political Zionism and British imperialism\, planting seeds of mass political mobilization.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/walking-with-stories-palestine-memory-and-practices-of-ongoing-return/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall
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SUMMARY:French Film Festival | Screening of "Little Amelie\, or the Character of the Rain" (2025) + Q&A with filmmaker Mailys Valladé
DESCRIPTION:Amélie\, a Belgian child in Japan\, explores life with her companion Nishio-san. Her third birthday becomes a turning point… \nAs part of the fourth edition of the Princeton French Film Festival\, you are invited to the exceptional screening of Amelie\, or the Character of the Rain (2025)\, followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Mailys Valladé who was nominated in all the major ceremonies this year\, including the Cesars\, Oscars\, BAFTAs\, and many more. \nSynopsis: Adapted from Belgian author Amélie Nothomb’s novel Métaphysique des tubes (2000). The world is a perplexing\, peaceful mystery to Amélie until a miraculous encounter with chocolate ignites her wild sense of curiosity. As she develops a deep attachment to her family’s housekeeper\, Nishio-san\, Amélie discovers the wonders of nature as well as the emotional truths hidden beneath the surface of her family’s idyllic life as foreigners in post-war Japan. Adapted from the autobiographical novel by Amélie Nothomb and brought to life in the completely original animated style of directors Mailys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han\, Little Amélie tells a tender\, poignant and visually stunning story about the healing power of human connection. \nOrganized by the Princeton University’s Princeton Film Festival organization. We thank our sponsors and partners for their support (complete list on the website below). Open to everyone regardless of identity. All rooms are wheelchair-friendly and attendees can contact us at filmfestival@princeton.edu for special accommodations (preferably 48 hours before the scheduled event). Please be aware that pictures might be taken before\, during\, and after the event. \nhttps://frenchfilmfestival.gradlife.princeton.edu/festivalschedule
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/french-film-festival-screening-of-little-amelie-or-the-character-of-the-rain-2025-qa-with-filmmaker-mailys-vallade/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
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SUMMARY:Charlotte Beradt’s Third Reich of Dreams
DESCRIPTION:A Panel Discussion \nSpeakers \n\nKelly Bulkeley (Independent Scholar)\nDagmar Herzog (CUNY Graduate Center)\nJan-Werner Müller (Princeton)\nMichael Wood (Princeton)\nmoderated by Brigid Doherty (Princeton)\n\nFree and open to the public. \nCo-Sponsors: German Department\, Labyrinth Books
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/charlotte-beradts-third-reich-of-dreams/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
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SUMMARY:KOREAN MESSIAH: Kim Il Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea's Personality Cult
DESCRIPTION:North Korea remains one of the most confounding geopolitical challenges that the world faces—and at its heart is a system that is deeply misunderstood. North Korea is a country\, yes\, but it is perhaps more properly understood as a religious society—or\, if one prefers\, a cult. North Korea has a flag\, an army\, an anthem\, and a seat at the United Nations. But it is also a society of 25 million people\, almost entirely cut off from the outside world\, inculcated for eighty years with the belief that its founding god-king\, Kim Il Sung\, can offer a measure of immortality through faith in his teachings. Drawing on a raft of historical sources\, and an interest stretching back to his Princeton history senior thesis\, Jonathan Cheng unpacks the story behind his first book\, KOREAN MESSIAH (Alfred A. Knopf). \nJonathan Cheng is the China bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal\, overseeing the Journal’s coverage of the world’s second-largest economy across a range of areas including politics\, economics\, business\, technology\, and society. He oversees a team of more than two dozen correspondents and researchers in Beijing\, Shanghai\, Hong Kong\, Taipei\, Singapore\, and New York with responsibility for the Chinese mainland and Taiwan. Previously\, Jonathan was the Seoul bureau chief for the Journal\, running coverage of the Korean peninsula\, including North Korea and South Korean politics and business. He began his career as an intern in the Journal’s Hong Kong bureau\, and has also worked as a markets reporter in the Journal’s New York office. Jonathan speaks English\, Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese\, French\, and Korean. A native of Toronto\, Canada. He graduated from Princeton University with a degree in history. He lives in Beijing and has traveled to North Korea twice.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/korean-messiah-kim-il-sung-and-the-christian-roots-of-north-koreas-personality-cult/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall
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SUMMARY:L'Avant-Scène presents "Juste la fin du monde" by Jean-Luc Lagarce
DESCRIPTION:The Department of French and Italian and L’Avant-Scène\, the French Theater Workshop\, present “Juste la fin du monde” by Jean-Luc Lagarce\, directed by Florent Masse and performed by L’Avant-Scène students. “Juste la fin du monde” is a contemporary classic written by Lagarce in 1990 and popularized in 2016 by the film directed by Xavier Dolan. The play depicts the return of Louis\, a 34-year-old man who returns home to tell his family that he is dying. Throughout the tense visit\, we see a family fractured by lack of communication and insecurities\, each member struggling to be heard and understood by the others. “Juste la fin du monde” will feature advanced L’Avant-Scène students : Jordan Coty Eloundou Ndongo GS\, Alex Pereyra `28\, Cécile Raas GS\, Louisa Joy `29\, and Blandine Guerrand. \nRegistration required.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lavant-scene-presents-juste-la-fin-du-monde-by-jean-luc-lagarce-2/
LOCATION:Rocky-Mathey Theater\, Rockefeller College\, 203 Madison Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:L'Avant-Scène presents "Juste la fin du monde" by Jean-Luc Lagarce
DESCRIPTION:The Department of French and Italian and L’Avant-Scène\, the French Theater Workshop\, present “Juste la fin du monde” by Jean-Luc Lagarce\, directed by Florent Masse and performed by L’Avant-Scène students. “Juste la fin du monde” is a contemporary classic written by Lagarce in 1990 and popularized in 2016 by the film directed by Xavier Dolan. The play depicts the return of Louis\, a 34-year-old man who returns home to tell his family that he is dying. Throughout the tense visit\, we see a family fractured by lack of communication and insecurities\, each member struggling to be heard and understood by the others. “Juste la fin du monde” will feature advanced L’Avant-Scène students : Jordan Coty Eloundou Ndongo GS\, Alex Pereyra `28\, Cécile Raas GS\, Louisa Joy `29\, and Blandine Guerrand. \nRegistration required.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lavant-scene-presents-juste-la-fin-du-monde-by-jean-luc-lagarce/
LOCATION:Rocky-Mathey Theater\, Rockefeller College\, 203 Madison Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:On Journalism and Scholarship: Kevin Sack in Conversation with Avram Alpert about "Mother Emanuel"
DESCRIPTION:Sack will present his book Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race\, Resistance\, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church\, a sweeping history of one of the nation’s most important African American churches and a profound story of courage and grace amid the fight for racial justice. Sack and Alpert will then talk about the importance of scholarship for Sack’s public writing\, and what scholars and journalists can learn from each other in terms of presenting research to general readers. \nPart of the Writing Program’s Public Scholarship Initiative\, in collaboration with Labyrinth Books. Co-sponsored by the Program in Journalism. \n\nFrom Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Kevin Sack\, Mother Emanuel is a sweeping history of one of the nation’s most important African American churches and a profound story of courage and grace amid the fight for racial justice.\n\nFew people beyond South Carolina’s Lowcountry knew of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston—Mother Emanuel—before the night of June 17\, 2015\, when a twenty-one-year-old white supremacist walked into Bible study and slaughtered the church’s charismatic pastor and eight other worshippers. Although the shooter had targeted Mother Emanuel—the first A.M.E. church in the South—to agitate racial strife\, he did not anticipate the aftermath: an outpouring of forgiveness from the victims’ families and a reckoning with the divisions of caste that have afflicted Charleston and the South since the earliest days of European settlement. \nMother Emanuel explores the fascinating history that brought the church to that moment and the depth of the desecration committed in its fellowship hall. It reveals how African Methodism was cultivated from the harshest American soil\, and how Black suffering shaped forgiveness into both a religious practice and a survival tool. Kevin Sack\, who has written about race in his native South for more than four decades\, uses the church to trace the long arc of Black life in the city where nearly half of enslaved Africans disembarked in North America and where the Civil War began. Through the microcosm of one congregation\, he explores the development of a unique practice of Christianity\, from its daring breakaway from white churches in 1817\, through the traumas of Civil War and Reconstruction\, to its critical role in the Civil Rights Movement and beyond. \nAt its core\, Mother Emanuel is an epic tale of perseverance\, not just of a congregation but of a people who withstood enslavement\, Jim Crow\, and all manner of violence with an unbending faith. \nKevin Sack is a veteran journalist who has written about national affairs for more than four decades and has been part of three Pulitzer Prize–winning teams. A native of Jacksonville\, Florida\, and a graduate of Duke University\, he spent thirty years on the staff of The New York Times\, where he specialized in writing long-form narrative and investigative reports\, often related to race. He has also written for the Los Angeles Times and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution\, and his work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine. He was previously an Emerson Collective Fellow at New America and teaches journalism at Princeton University. \nAvram Alpert is a generalist in the humanities. He works to understand what values we should live by in our connected\, chaotic\, and potentially catastrophic times. His writing has appeared in Aeon\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and elsewhere. His most recent book is The Good-Enough Life.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/on-journalism-and-scholarship-kevin-sack-in-conversation-with-avram-alpert-about-mother-emanuel/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:Regulatory Landscapes at the Whitney Biennial 2026
DESCRIPTION:Please note that this event location has changed and will now be held in N107\, School of Architecture. \nEmilio Martínez Poppe is an artist who is concerned with the right to the city and the struggle of public memory. Through a social and research-led practice spanning photography\, sculpture\, text\, and installations\, he explores the spatial mechanisms and ideological conditions that reproduce state and capital infrastructures. His current work explores the potentials of cultural organizing within the public sector as in his public art commission “Civic Views” in Philadelphia and his role managing the Public Artists in Residence Program in New York. Recent commissions and exhibitions include the Whitney Museum of American Art\, the Museum of the City of New York\, Queens Museum\, Abrons Art Center\, New York; Mural Arts\, Icebox Project Space\, Tiger Strikes Asteroid\, Philadelphia; Petrine\, Paris; and De Brakke Grond\, Amsterdam. \nDavid L. Johnson is an artist and educator based in New York City. Johnson makes work attuned to the streets of the city\, pinpointing moments of slippage between public and private property. His practice utilizes photography\, video\, found and stolen objects\, and installation to consider the politics\, histories\, aesthetics\, and forms of use that define contemporary urban space. Johnson received a BFA from the Cooper Union in 2015 and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020. He is an alumnus of the Whitney Independent Study Program and is a part-time faculty member in the Fine Arts MFA program at the Parsons School of Design. \nIgnacio Gatica lives and works between Santiago\, Chile and Brooklyn\, NY. Gatica deploys drawing\, installation\, sculpture\, video\, and text to reveal unsuspected connections between signs and signifiers of economic and social structures. Gatica pays special attention to the languages of currency\, finance\, retail culture\, and the global technologies and systems that shape our cities. Through various media\, Gatica’s research is articulated through responses to the mechanisms that dictate the civic and economic infrastructures. Gatica’s recent exhibitions include The Whitney Biennial 2026\, Playa Privada at Galería Patricia Ready in Santiago\, Chile (2025); Sujeto Cuantificado at Von Ammon Co. in Washington\, D.C. (2023). His work has been featured in group exhibitions at institutions such as SculptureCenter in New York City (2022)\, the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College in Annandale-On-Hudson\, New York (2022)\, and El Museo del Barrio in New York\, NY (2017). \nMODERATOR \nRubén Gallo\, Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor in Language\, Literature and Civilization of Spain\, Princeton University
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/regulatory-landscapes-at-the-whitney-biennial-2026/
LOCATION:Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lacan\, Althusser and the ‘Very Pretty Dream’ of Interdisciplinarity
DESCRIPTION:This talk will discuss how a shared critique of interdisciplinarity and the “conjectural sciences” shaped the alliance between French psychoanalysts and Marxists in the run-up to May ’68\, from its formation to its dissolution. \nKobe Keymeulen is a philosopher interested in the tension between the history of ideas and “anti-historicist” theoretical problems. \nKeymeulen largely specializes in continental philosophy from late modernity to the present (Kant\, Hegel\, Adorno\, Lacan\, Althusser\, Badiou\, Foucault\,…).  Following his doctoral dissertation\, Drawing the Line – Contemporary Continental Philosophy and the Concern of (Inter)Disciplinarity (2025)\, he continues to pursue the tricky conceptualization of what “a discipline” is (a science or an art\, contra Science or Art) according to these theoretical frameworks. \nAt Princeton\, he is working as a Fulbright Scholar on a project investigating the ongoing relationship between American literary theory and contemporary continental philosophy. His main focus is the influence of an ontological or materialist turn in 21st-century philosophies on approaches to critical theory in the United States\, pursuing shared points of reference (drawn from Marxism\, psychoanalysis\, et al) and methodological differences.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lacan-althusser-and-the-very-pretty-dream-of-interdisciplinarity/
LOCATION:40 McCosh\, 40 McCosh\, Princeton \, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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