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SUMMARY:What's in Universal Grammar?  On participles and the inventory of grammatical primitives
DESCRIPTION:One of the goals of syntactic theory is to account for the distributional properties of grammatical units. My central question is whether the lexical categori(zer)s like n(oun)\, v(erb)\, and a(adjective)\, which are partially responsible for determining distribution\, are associated with any intrinsic semantic content. I examine this question through the lens of participles. Based on a number of distributional diagnostics\, I argue that participles are a derived category\, and that they should therefore not be considered primitives of the grammar. Specifically\, I argue that both eventive and stative participles in a number of related and unrelated languages are deverbal adjectives. This challenges the consensus in the generative literature\, which has converged on the conclusion that eventive participles are verbal\, while stative participles are adjectival. Based on this case study of participles\, as well as evidence from (deverbal) nominals\, I argue that there is no one-to-one mapping between syntactic categori(zer)s and semantic content (contra e.g.\, Baker 2003\, Panagiotidis 2015). Returning to the issue of grammatical primitives\, I then claim that there has so far been no uncontroversial evidence (syntactic or semantic) that the lexical categori(zer)s from more familiar languages are universal. I finish by considering the consequences of this conclusion for language acquisition and the contents of Universal Grammar.  \n  \nMaša Bešlin is a PhD candidate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland. She works in the subfields traditionally called syntax and morphology\, with an empirical focus on Slavic and Mayan languages. Her research has investigated such topics as the status of participles as a lexical category\, locality constraints above and below the ‘word’ level\, raising constructions\, bare-NP adverbials\, case\, and ellipsis.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/whats-in-universal-grammar-on-participles-and-the-inventory-of-grammatical-primitives/
LOCATION:1-S-5 Green Hall\, 1-S-5 Green Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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SUMMARY:Displaced Decoration: Ethnographic Photography\, Indigenous Portraiture\, and the Rookwood Pottery Company
DESCRIPTION:With their distinct markets\, institutions\, and specialists\, the realms of fine art and craft today largely exist as parallel\, specialized industries. When they do intersect\, practitioners and observers typically offer two syntheses: craft “rises” to the institutional and aesthetic condition of art or supplements its exclusivity as a model of unalienated production. Yet fine artists since the early modern period have\, at key moments\, called upon “craft\,” in its many valences\, to engage\, rather than negate\, the movements of history that conditioned their work. Focusing on such moments\, the participants in this series will assess the stakes and the meanings of art’s craft in settings ranging from the Italian Renaissance\, to eighteenth-century India\, to the contemporary Andes. \nOver six workshops scheduled throughout the 2023–24 academic year and taking place on Princeton’s campus\, Know How: Workshops on the Histories of Art and Craft aims to develop responses to the following questions: Under what social\, material\, and art-historical conditions does craft appear? How do the motivations and manifestations of such appearances compare across geographies and periods? As art historians\, what methods are at our disposal to follow artists and objects as they bridge the systems of value that separate their circulation?
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/displaced-decoration-ethnographic-photography-indigenous-portraiture-and-the-rookwood-pottery-company/
LOCATION:Green Hall 3-S-15
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ORGANIZER;CN="Joe Bucciero":MAILTO:bucciero@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240207T163000
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SUMMARY:Paper Exhibitions: From Magazine to Museum in France and the Americas
DESCRIPTION:“What do you think of the creation of a French museum of modern art?” the magazine L’Art Vivant asked in an enquête it issued in 1925. A year later\, across the Atlantic\, Forma\, a journal based in Mexico City\, announced the need for a “museum of modern American art\,” which it enacted in its pages. As these examples suggest\, in the early twentieth century\, magazines became sites for reimagining what museums could be or serving as counter-institutions themselves. In this talk\, Lori Cole will consider how magazines instantiated sites of exhibition for modern art in France and the Americas. For instance\, the journal Cahiers de la république des lettres des sciences et des arts called the twentieth century the “century of museums\,” and in 1931 urged France to reorganize its public collections of art. In addition to serving as sites for debate\, magazines functioned as extensions of galleries\, as in the case of Bulletin de l’Effort Moderne. Some editors took on the role of curators\, organizing physical exhibitions supported by their publications\, while others were artists who used the magazine as a site of experimentation. Such strategies to supplement or supplant exhibitions in print prefigured the way artists in the 1960s onward used the magazine to circumvent an increasingly commercial art world and as an artistic medium itself. Cole plans to both historicize these practices in the modern period and to demonstrate their persistence today\, as publications remain a rich site for artistic practice and formidable art institutions themselves.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/paper-exhibitions-from-magazine-to-museum-in-france-and-the-americas/
LOCATION:105 Chancellor Green
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kelly Eggers":MAILTO:keggers@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240208T163000
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SUMMARY:Computational sociolinguistics: How lexical meaning is dynamically constructed across partners and communities
DESCRIPTION:Why do we use language differently with different partners? In this talk\, I will argue for a computational approach to sociolinguistics\, which formalizes the obstacles standing in the way of effective communication and explains how people construct shared meaning to achieve their communicative goals with different audiences. Specifically\, I’ll present a computational model of partner-specific coordination and convention via hierarchical Bayesian inference — using feedback from a partner to update one’s beliefs about what is meaningful to them. I test predictions of the model in two natural-language communication experiments where participants are grouped into small communities for a referential communication task. Finally\, I’ll discuss ongoing work exploring broader implications across four areas: (1) code-switching and the relationship between language and social identity\, (2) neural mechanisms of common ground in a hyper scanning study\, (3) developmental trajectories of sociolinguistic competence\, and (4) artificial agents that can flexibly construct meaning with human partners. \n  \nRobert Hawkins is an Assistant Professor of Psychology & Language Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his PhD in Psychology from Stanford University in 2019\, and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute before starting his own lab. His work has received multiple awards in cognitive science and computational linguistics\, including Best Paper awards at EMNLP and NeurIPS in 2022 and the Cognitive Science Society Prize for Computational Modeling in Language in 2020.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/computational-sociolinguistics-how-lexical-meaning-is-dynamically-constructed-across-partners-and-communities/
LOCATION:Louis A. Simpson International Building room A71
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SUMMARY:"Was There a Syriac Lectio Divina? The Development of Contemplative Reading in the Monasteries of the Church of the East (400-700 C.E.)"
DESCRIPTION:Contemplative reading is a spiritual practice developed by Christian monks in the early Middle Ages. This talk traces the history of monastic reading in sixth- and seventh-century Mesopotamia. Ascetics belonging to the Church of the East pursued a form of contemplation which moved from reading\, to meditation\, to prayer\, to the ecstasy of divine vision. The development of this Syriac tradition can be seen through three phases: its establishment as an ascetic practice\, the articulation of its theology based upon “Egyptian” sources\, and its maturation and spread beyond Mesopotamia to other regions of Eastern Christianity.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/was-there-a-syriac-lectio-divina-the-development-of-contemplative-reading-in-the-monasteries-of-the-church-of-the-east-400-700-c-e/
LOCATION:103 Scheide Caldwell
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eleni Banis":MAILTO:hbanis@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240208T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240208T215000
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SUMMARY:L'Avant-Scène presents Andromaque by Jean Racine
DESCRIPTION:L’Avant-Scène presents Andromaque by Jean Racine\nDirected by Florent Masse and Performed by the L’Avant-Scène Troupe (Lana Gaige `24\, Mikaela Avakian `24\, Clément Herman GS\, Madeleine Iselin `25\, John Patrick `24\, Gil Joseph `25\, Flora Champy\, FIT\, & Florent Masse\, FIT)\nFree and open to the public. Tickets required.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lavant-scene-presents-andromaque-by-jean-racine/
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:20240209T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240209T215000
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SUMMARY:L'Avant-Scène presents Andromaque by Jean Racine
DESCRIPTION:L’Avant-Scène presents Andromaque by Jean Racine\nDirected by Florent Masse and Performed by the L’Avant-Scène Troupe (Lana Gaige `24\, Mikaela Avakian `24\, Clément Herman GS\, Madeleine Iselin `25\, John Patrick `24\, Gil Joseph `25\, Flora Champy\, FIT\, & Florent Masse\, FIT)\nFree and open to the public. Tickets required.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lavant-scene-presents-andromaque-by-jean-racine-2/
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:20240210T200000
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SUMMARY:L'Avant-Scène presents Andromaque by Jean Racine
DESCRIPTION:L’Avant-Scène presents Andromaque by Jean Racine\nDirected by Florent Masse and Performed by the L’Avant-Scène Troupe (Lana Gaige `24\, Mikaela Avakian `24\, Clément Herman GS\, Madeleine Iselin `25\, John Patrick `24\, Gil Joseph `25\, Flora Champy\, FIT\, & Florent Masse\, FIT)\nFree and open to the public. Tickets required.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lavant-scene-presents-andromaque-by-jean-racine-3/
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:20240211T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240211T150000
DTSTAMP:20260425T051342
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SUMMARY:National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine & Post-Concert Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Founded in 1918 as Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra\, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine is one of the country’s principal symphonies and the most-recorded orchestra in any former Soviet territory. Now\, with their compatriots defending their homeland against a Russian invasion\, the orchestra steps out of Russia’s shadow. For their return to McCarter Theatre the symphony brings some of Ukraine’s most talented and renowned musicians to showcase the country’s rich musical history.  \nConcert sponsors: PU Alumni Lydia Zaininger\, George & Ellen Casey\, Steve & Linda Gecha\, The Olsen Foundation\, the Ukrainian Institute of America and the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University. \nInfo & Tickets www.McCarter.org. PU students can attend for FREE with Passport to the Arts using code PUTIGER (while supplies last). Faculty & Staff can access 20% off with code PRINCETON24. Limited Avail. More on student ticketing: www.McCarter.org/tigertix \n\nAfter the show\, join Artists in Wartime: a special conversation on stage following the concert with Symphony Director Alexander Hornostai and Princeton University visiting scholar Iuliia Skubytska. The conversation is presented by Arts & Ideas\, which connects Princeton University and community partners to the work on McCarter’s stage. The initiative is co-sponsored by the Humanities Council.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/national-symphony-orchestra-of-ukraine-post-concert-conversation/
LOCATION:Matthews Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240211T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240211T210000
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SUMMARY:Free Screening of "Return to Seoul" + Q&A with Director Davy Chou
DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to an exceptional free screening of multi-award-winning “Return to Seoul” (2022)\, an “absorbing and emotional Korean drama about adoption”. Freddie (Park Ji-Min)\, a twenty-five-year-old French woman returns to South-Korea\, the country she was born in before being adopted by a French couple\, for the very first time. She decides to track down her biological parents\, but her journey takes a surprising turn… The screening will be followed by an in-person Q&A with director and screenwriter Davy Chou. Rated 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. \nIn English\, French\, and Korean with English subtitles\, the screening will start at 6:00 PM on Sunday\, February 11\, 2024\, and will last about 120 minutes. Followed by Q&A from 8:00 PM to 8:30 PM. Doors open at 5:45 PM. \nOpen to the public. Tickets are free but registration is required. The room is wheelchair-friendly. \nMore information on parking areas and directions to the screening room will be sent to ticket holders via email. \nOrganized by the Princeton Film Festival Society with support from 1) GradFUTURES (Princeton University)\, 2) Princeton University’s Department of East Asian Studies\, and 3)Albertine Cinemathèque\, a program of FACE Foundation and Villa Albertine (New York)\, including support from the CNC / Centre National du Cinema\, and SACEM / Fonds Culturel Franco-Américain.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/free-screening-of-return-to-seoul-qa-with-director-davy-chou/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
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ORGANIZER;CN="Yassine Ait Ali":MAILTO:yali@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240212T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240212T131500
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SUMMARY:Mellon Forum // Soil Forensics: Property and the Buried Truth in Medellín
DESCRIPTION:As Colombia attempted to achieve peace\, the city of Medellín aimed to move beyond its violent past\, breaking ground on ambitious green development projects to bring parks and infrastructure to the city’s most peripheral neighborhoods. But these projects threatened to evict local residents\, as city planners deployed maps of soils at risk of landslide as the basis for their removal. In debating removals\, both city officials and residents turned to soil as a forensic site\, using soil’s qualities as evidence of conflicting accounts of a 1987 landslide to support their arguments about property. While forensics in transitional justice generally centers exhumations as a source of truth about crime during conflict\, it was not corpses exhumed from the soil\, but soil itself that became an object of forensic inquiry. This challenged official narratives of transition and reconfigured both property and territorial relations\, in turn shaping the possibilities for war and peace. \n\nThe Mellon Forum is the core event series of interdisciplinary dialogs organized by the Fellows of the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture\, Urbanism\, and the Humanities. \nThe Spring 2024 Mellon Forum interrogates the political economy of land to understand how the built environment comes into being. We invite scholars to consider how land in its multi-dimensional forms— e.g. property\, territory\, infrastructure\, etc.— is made and remade\, and what these contestations might reveal. \nThe Spring 2024 Mellon Forum is sponsored by the Mellon Foundation and the Princeton University Humanities Council\, Center for Collaborative History\, HMEI\, PIIRS\, PLAS\, SPIA\, the Departments of Art & Archaeology. English\, and Politics\, and the School of Architecture.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/mellon-forum-soil-forensics-property-and-the-buried-truth-in-medellin/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium and Zoom\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jacquelyn Walsh":MAILTO:jw42@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240212T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240212T180000
DTSTAMP:20260425T051342
CREATED:20240110T144210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240211T030332Z
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SUMMARY:“El Greco's Synagonism: Art Theory and Practice“
DESCRIPTION:Apparently\, as suggested in the account of Francisco Pacheco\, or in his own notes on Vitruvius and Vasari\, Domenikos Theotokopoulos took a clear position in the paragone debate. But this position becomes more complex\, even contradictory if one takes a look at El Greco´s own artistic production. The medium in question is often situated from the vantage point of the other (for instance sculpture from painting or painting from sculpture)\, thus high-lighting issues of two dimensionality and three dimensionality. Through a veritable synagonism\, meaning a productive “agon” of the media\, they mutually enhance each other. This fruitful dialectic also clarifies El Greco´s theory and practice. In my talk I will look at concrete examples from his oeuvre including drawing\, painting\, and sculpture as well as his retablos\, his works as an architect. They may lead to a re-reading of his comments on art theory reframing the problem of paragone.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/el-grecos-synagonism-art-theory-and-practice/
LOCATION:103 Scheide Caldwell
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eleni Banis":MAILTO:hbanis@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240212T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240212T180000
DTSTAMP:20260425T051342
CREATED:20240119T204315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240211T030414Z
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SUMMARY:People on Sunday: A Conversation about Music and Film
DESCRIPTION:Live original music by Andrew Lovett (classical music-inspired) and Jacob Khawaja (jazz-inspired) will accompany a screening of the experimental German silent film “People on Sunday” (Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer\, 1930)\, along with a conversation about their respective musical choices and how each approached playing live to accompany the film. \nThis lecture is part of the Music and Film Series\, supported by the Humanities Council’s Edward T. Cone ’39 *42 Fund\, and co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy\, the Department of Music\, and the University Center for Human Values.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/people-on-sunday-a-conversation-about-music-and-film/
LOCATION:Taplin Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240213T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240213T131500
DTSTAMP:20260425T051342
CREATED:20240125T153034Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240211T030507Z
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SUMMARY:Open Secrets: Using Google to Uncover Global Crimes
DESCRIPTION:From bystander videos of police violence in the U.S. to satellite images revealing potential mass graves in Sudan\, there is an unprecedented amount of information available to anyone with an internet connection. Online open source investigation is becoming mainstream and\, combined with traditional journalistic methods\, can be a powerful new form of accountability and explanatory journalism. In this lunch talk\, Christiaan Triebert will delve into various case studies from the past year\, which include ones where emerging technologies like A.I. have served as another valuable tool in the investigator’s toolkit. \nChristiaan Triebert\, is a journalist for The New York Times’ Visual Investigations team. Discussant Arvind Narayanan\, Professor of Computer Science\, Director\, Center for Information Technology Policy. \nPlease RSVP for this event; space is limited. Open to University faculty\, students\, and staff.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/open-secrets-using-google-to-uncover-global-crimes-8/
LOCATION:16 Joseph Henry House
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240213T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240213T163000
DTSTAMP:20260425T051342
CREATED:20240110T145324Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240211T030550Z
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR)
DESCRIPTION:In this session participants will learn the tools and workflows that make the automatic text recognition of manuscripts and other historical documents possible. Participants will be introduced to the technology and will have the opportunity to practice with digitized Special Collections materials in a hands-on workshop. \nRegistration is required. \nThis workshop is being offered as part of Princeton University Library’s participation in International Love Data Week 2024.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/introduction-to-handwritten-text-recognition-htr/
LOCATION:Firestone Library\, Floor B
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240213T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240213T190000
DTSTAMP:20260425T051342
CREATED:20240110T150053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240213T162605Z
UID:58084-1707843600-1707850800@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Scenario for a Past Future and Avant-Garde Immersive Worlds\, a panel discussion
DESCRIPTION:This panel discussion will take place within the virtual space of the exhibition\, Scenario for a Past Future. In conversation with architect Hani Rashid and architectural historian Daniela Fabricius\, artist Josephine Meckseper\, former Belknap Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton\, will discuss the modernist models for immersive architecture with which she engages critically in her work\, including Lilly Reich’s and Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion (1929) and Bruno Taut’s Alpine architecture (1917)\, while also addressing the possibilities and limitations of contemporary digital architecture and the cultural implications of inhabiting digital environments. \nThe panel discussion will take place in the Hurley Gallery and virtually via Zoom Webinar. The talk and related exhibition are free and open to the public. More information about registration can be found on the Lewis Center for the Arts website. \nRegister to join the talk on Zoom Webinar \nThis event is presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Visual Art and the Department of Art & Archaeology\, with technical support from Jacqueline Sischy and Sam Hillmer of DMINTI. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Council\, Center for Digital Humanities\, and the Program in Media + Modernity.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/scenario-for-a-past-future-and-avant-garde-immersive-worlds-a-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Hurley Gallery\, Lewis Arts complex
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brigid Doherty":MAILTO:bdoherty@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240213T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240213T190000
DTSTAMP:20260425T051342
CREATED:20240203T032613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240211T031014Z
UID:58791-1707843600-1707850800@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:PISC nº4: "Suret-i hall ve fasl: The Ottoman Central Government’s Quest for a General 'Way of Solution' to Land Question"
DESCRIPTION:The Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium is a forum at Princeton University for workshopping students’ and guest scholars’ works-in-progress in Islamic Studies and related fields. \nAbstract: This chapter\, which is a part of an ongoing research project\, examines the Ottoman central government’s policies regarding the “land question” in the “Six Provinces” (Vilayat-ı Sitte) during the period from 1908 to 1911. The term “land question” refers to conflicts over rights of lands between different classes and ethno-religious groups\, especially between Kurdish tribal heads and Armenian peasants. After the Young Turk Revolution in 1908\, Armenian peasants started a new campaign to assert their claims to lands usurped by the Kurdish tribal heads or occupied by Caucasus immigrants during the previous Hamidian era. This development brought the land question to the forefront attention. Based on Ottoman\, British and French archives\, this chapter primarily explores the policies implemented by the Ottoman central government\, assesses the impacts of these policies\, and analyzes the reasons behind their failure to effectively resolve the land question. \nThe paper and a Zoom link will be provided upon registration. \nThis event is presented by the Near Eastern Studies Department and co-sponsored by the Department of Religion\, Near Eastern Studies Program\, Center for Culture\, Society and Religion\, and the Humanities Council with support from the Stewart Fund for Religion
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/pisc-no4-suret-i-hall-ve-fasl-the-ottoman-central-governments-quest-for-a-general-way-of-solution-to-land-question/
LOCATION:102 Jones Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/70059_9.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Athina Pfeiffer":MAILTO:apfeiffer@princeton.edu
GEO:40.3815302;-74.651754
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240214T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240214T132000
DTSTAMP:20260425T051342
CREATED:20240205T153553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240211T031233Z
UID:58814-1707912000-1707916800@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:“They Opened Our Eyes”: Armed Groups’ Influence on Civilian Political Beliefs in Rural Antioquia\, Colombia
DESCRIPTION:What are the effects of armed group governance on civilian political beliefs? How does long-term interaction with armed groups that challenge the prevailing political order change the ways that civilians understand the political world? To address these questions\, Daniel Hirschel-Burns’ paper draws ethnographic evidence from four months of on-site fieldwork in an Antioquian municipality that experienced decades of presence by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Methodologically\, he uses interviews\, oral histories\, participant observation\, and voting data to gather information about FARC socialization\, governance practices\, and civilians’ political beliefs. Daniel finds that inhabitants of former FARC zones exhibit political beliefs more in line with the FARC’s ideology than non-FARC zones\, and these differences are even more pronounced in areas that experienced participatory FARC governance. His findings stress that even for armed groups unable to capture the state\, under certain conditions they may induce long-term ideational change in civilians that alter political beliefs and expectations of government. \nABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER\nDaniel Hirschel-Burns (Ph.D. Yale University) is a political scientist whose research focuses on comparative politics\, civil war\, ideology\, and qualitative methods. He was a United State Institute of Peace Peace Scholar in the 2022-2023 academic year. At Princeton\, he is developing his book project\, provisionally titled “The Ideological Socialization of Civilians During Civil War”\, which examines under what conditions the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) succeeded in changing civilians’ political beliefs during the Colombian Civil War. He is also working on a co-authored project documenting and theorizing governing violence committed by armed groups\, the first paper of which was published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution. Separately\, he is working on co-authored paper about the relationship between political film in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the political beliefs of viewers. \nDISCUSSANT\nJuan C. Ferre\, Global Health\, M.D.\, Ph.D.\, CUNY Graduate Center; PLAS Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer \nThis event is open to students\, faculty\, visiting scholars and staff. Lunch will be provided while supplies last.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/they-opened-our-eyes-armed-groups-influence-on-civilian-political-beliefs-in-rural-antioquia-colombia/
LOCATION:3rd Floor Atrium\, Aaron Burr\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Danny-Hirschel-Photo.jpeg
ORGANIZER;CN="Damaris Zayas":MAILTO:damaris@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240214T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240214T180000
DTSTAMP:20260425T051343
CREATED:20240206T161041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240211T031312Z
UID:58833-1707928200-1707933600@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Technocracy and Porcelain Manufacture at Early to Mid Qing Court (1720s-1750s)
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Dr. Kai Jun Chen\, will examine the imperial control of technological expertise in the Qing Dynasty. Through a detailed study of porcelain manufacture during the mid-eighteenth century\, the project rethinks early modern industrial planning in China in dialog with the studies of expert culture in the early modern world. By examining the innovation and hindrance in ceramic production in the realpolitik of the Manchu court\, he scrutinizes the crucial roles that multiethnic technocrats played in codifying technological knowledge and in creating distinctive artistic forms that were essential to the cultural policies of the Qing court. Tang Ying (1682-1756)\, the polymath supervisor of the imperial porcelain manufacture will be our local guide to the porcelain industry\, and introduce the community of technocrats\, who served as the emperors’ private attendants\, acted as hands-on mediators at the center of Eurasian cultural exchange. The project also analyzes the court’s ceramic styles that emulate European wares and imitate ancient ritual wares\, as well as the propagandistic rhetoric in ceramic treatises. The ceramic industry centered at the court showcases a technocratic culture that championed empiricism\, material experimentalism\, and conservative loyalism in art and knowledge production.\nOrganized by the East Asian Studies Program\nCosponsored by the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/technocracy-and-porcelain-manufacture-at-early-to-mid-qing-court-1720s-1750s/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/tao-ye-tu.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Chao-Hui Jenny Liu":MAILTO:chaoliu@princeton.edu
GEO:40.7228732;-74.0621867
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240214T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240214T183000
DTSTAMP:20260425T051343
CREATED:20240130T144620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240214T143712Z
UID:58656-1707930000-1707935400@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:[RESCHEDULED for 2/14] Performance\, Policy\, and Pedagogy: A Conversation About Arts Education
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate the fifth anniversary of Trenton Arts at Princeton\, we are convening four thought leaders for a wide-ranging conversation about the state of arts education: Anne Fitzgibbon *98\, founder and executive director of the Harmony Program; Baffour Osei\, manager of Princeton’s robotics lab; Anna Yu Wang\, assistant professor of music at Princeton; and Elizabeth Zwierzynski\, acting supervisor of visual and performing arts and partnerships for the Trenton Public Schools. \nIn recognition of the multidisciplinary promise of arts education\, this event is sponsored by 18 campus partners\, ranging from McCarter Theatre to the School for Engineering and Applied Science (full list below). We are grateful to them for their support for TAP and arts education more broadly. \nSPONSORS\nCenter for Career Development\nDepartment of Music\nGradFUTURES\nKeller Center\nLewis Center for the Arts\nMcCarter Theatre\nMusic Mentoring Program\nOffice of the Dean of Undergraduate Students\nPace Center for Civic Engagement\nPrinceton Arts Alumni\nPrinceton Entrepreneurship Council\nPrinceton Innovation\nPrinceton University Art Museum\nPrinceton University Concerts\nProgram for Community-Engaged Scholarship\nProgram in Teacher Preparation\nSchool of Engineering and Applied Science\nSchool of Public and International Affairs
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/performance-policy-and-pedagogy-a-conversation-about-arts-education/
LOCATION:Taplin Auditorium\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/TAP-image.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Lou Chen":MAILTO:lychen@princeton.edu
GEO:40.3467174;-74.6568772
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T180000
DTSTAMP:20260425T051343
CREATED:20240123T204351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240211T031351Z
UID:58856-1708014600-1708020000@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:On two types of resumptive Ā-dependencies and feature-driven syntax
DESCRIPTION:Previous investigations into Ā-dependencies terminating in resumptive pronouns (i.e. resumptive Ā-dependencies) have reached different and often contradictory conclusions regarding the nature of resumption: some contend that resumptive Ā-dependencies are derived via movement\, while others argue that they are not. This talk contributes to the ongoing debate and resolves the apparent paradox by arguing—both from novel data and from a broad survey of the prior literature—that two types of resumptive Ā-dependencies must be differentiated cross-linguistically (building on proposals in e.g. Borer 1981\, Koopman 1984\, and Engdahl 1985). One type is base-generated without Ā-movement (e.g. in Iraqi\, Syrian\, and Tunisian Arabic; pace prior movement-based analyses of Arabic resumption\, cf. Aoun et al. 2001)\, whereas the other co-occurs with Ā-movement (e.g. in Spanish). The basis for this distinction is a critical reassessment of what diagnoses (Ā-)movement and why. The diagnostics\, which march in lockstep cross-linguistically to reliably distinguish the two types of resumptives\, are overt morphophonological reflexes of movement\, island-sensitivity\, parasitic gap licensing\, exactly stranding\, and case-connectivity. The result is the most empirically successful account of cross-linguistic patterns of resumption to date. \nFurthermore\, I argue that the correct analysis of resumption sheds light on the driving force of syntactic operations. A key corollary of my analysis of resumption is that natural language syntax must be able to differentiate between (external) Merge and Move (qua internal Merge). To account for this distinction\, I argue that Merge must be feature-driven (i.e. driven by features of lexical items; see Adger 2003; Müller 2011; and Merchant 2019)\, as opposed to being free (or untriggered; see Chomsky 2015; Collins 2017; Safir 2019). I adduce novel evidence in support of the feature-driven approach coming from variation in the construction of long-distance dependencies which interleave movement and base-generation (i.e. mixed chains\, see McCloskey 2002). \nMatt Hewett graduated with a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Chicago in 2023 and he is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Syntax in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. His research reevaluates the nature of syntactic and morphological dependencies\, with a particular focus on resumptivity and Ā-dependencies\, (l-)selection\, (pseudo)passives\, intervention effects\, discontinuous agreement\, and Semitic languages. His research has been published in (or accepted by) Linguistic Inquiry\, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory\, and Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/on-two-types-of-resumptive-a-dependencies-and-feature-driven-syntax/
LOCATION:1-S-5 Green Hall\, 1-S-5 Green Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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GEO:40.3524818;-74.6613275
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1-S-5 Green Hall 1-S-5 Green Hall Princeton NJ 08540 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1-S-5 Green Hall:geo:-74.6613275,40.3524818
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T180000
DTSTAMP:20260425T051343
CREATED:20240205T153800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240211T031428Z
UID:58811-1708014600-1708020000@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Althusser in Yugoslavia: On the Pre-History of the Ljubljana School of Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Before Slavoj Žižek published The Sublime Object of Ideology in 1989—a work that marks his rise to international recognition—he was locally an already accomplished author of many books in the languages of Yugoslavia. This talk will discuss the wider context of social thought in Socialist Yugoslavia (1945-1991)\, beginning with the formation of a dissident\, critical Marxist group gathered around the journal Praxis. The list of contributors to the journal reads as a Who’s Who in contemporary radical thought. However\, there is one important omission: a text on ideology submitted by Louis Althusser was forcefully rejected by the journal editors. Why was Althusser’s theory of ideology so unbearable to the independent Marxist group Praxis as well as to the Party bureaucrats\, not to mention the conservative circles pursuing Heideggerian phenomenology? It turns out that Althusser’s structuralist Marxism was properly studied and appreciated only in the emerging intellectual milieu of Ljubljana.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/althusser-in-yugoslavia-on-the-pre-history-of-the-ljubljana-school-of-philosophy/
LOCATION:111 East Pyne\, 111 East Pyne
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ORGANIZER;CN="Andrew Cole":MAILTO:acole@princeton.edu
GEO:33.0358779;-85.122145
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=111 East Pyne 111 East Pyne;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=111 East Pyne:geo:-85.122145,33.0358779
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T180000
DTSTAMP:20260425T051343
CREATED:20240209T135035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240211T031510Z
UID:58915-1708014600-1708020000@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Buddhist Practice Theory and Animal Ethics
DESCRIPTION:In this talk on Buddhism and animals I depart from the approach taken in the recent book Unfortunate Destiny on animals in Buddhism. I am not going to be analyzing ideological and cosmological depictions of animals in Buddhist story literature. Rather\, this talk will have real live animals today as its touchstone. It will zero in on one part of my current book project on contemporary animal ethics. The section I will focus on has to do with practical resources from Buddhist traditions that I am seeking to mobilize\, as part of the quest to end the current holocaust being visited upon farmed animals by humans today. \nThe talk will consider three main threads from Buddhist practice theory that are informing in my work: The first\, unsurprisingly\, has to do with the Buddhist virtue of compassion\, in particular how it is activated by humans towards animals. The second considers what I am calling an aleatory life style. I think that animals excel at living life largely through the arts of happenstance and serendipity. What might be ethical about that? Here I will explore the notions in Buddhist tradition of interdependence\, or pratityasamutapada (especially in the pertinent colloquial Tibetan usage of the term rten ‘brel) and of auspiciousness\, or mangalam\, which has to do with making goodness. The third thread draws on some technical distinctions in Buddhist meditation theory. It is part of my effort to think through types of moral cultivation practices which people can use to train themselves to be animal advocates. How might we develop our moral conscience\, as well as our intelligence\, discernment and commitment to help animals effectively? The talk will cite Buddhist theorists Vasubandhu and Santideva among others\, accompanied by my own musings. \nBrook Ziporyn will offer a response. \nThis event is part of the Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series in Buddhist Studies. \nFree and open to the public. The event will also be livestreamed as a webinar.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/buddhist-practice-theory-and-animal-ethics/
LOCATION:008 Friend Center
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jenny Legath":MAILTO:jlegath@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T193000
DTSTAMP:20260425T051343
CREATED:20240201T145214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240211T031551Z
UID:58755-1708020000-1708025400@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:SoA | Brazil / Pertenencia & Pertinencia
DESCRIPTION:LIVESTREAM: 4×4 = 16 | South American Women in Architecture \nThe AIA DC’s Design Excellence Committee presents “Brazil / Pertenencia & Pertinencia” part four-of-four in their year-long series\, 4×4 = 16 | South American Women Architects\, which provides exposure and representation of unseen architecture\, such as the agricultural pampas\, the desert pacific beaches and the Amazon jungle\, all seen from the eyes of local women architects. \nThis program showcases the work of architects Gloria Cabral\, Marta Moreira\, Mariana Simas\, and Cláudia Sales de Alcântara and will examine: \nemerging man-made materials and experimentation techniques that can be a conduct to allow social experiences and collaboration in low-income societies.\nthe design of public sector service architecture related to cultural\, educational and academic buildings in the megalopolis of Sao Paulo.\nequity and inclusion in the north of Brazil\, including such themes as Collective Black Land\, Discourse and Territory and Transatlantic Cities and Racial Thought.\nthe approach to rethink and give continuity to the iconic Brazilian Modern Architecture movement.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/soa-brazil-pertenencia-pertinencia/
LOCATION:Livestream in Betts Auditorium
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kyara Robinson":MAILTO:kr9710@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240216T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240217T160000
DTSTAMP:20260425T051343
CREATED:20240214T145236Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240214T145236Z
UID:59020-1708108200-1708185600@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Thomas Edison Film Festival Premiere Screening
DESCRIPTION:The 43rd season of the renowned Thomas Edison Film Festival (TEFF) will premiere with a screening\, a virtual discussion with filmmakers\, and films available to view on-demand\, presented in collaboration with Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts. TEFF’s in-person premiere opens at the James Stewart Film Theater at Princeton on February 16 at 6:30 p.m. with a reception\, screening of seven award-winning films\, and an audience Q&A. On February 17\, a live-streamed discussion with filmmakers will be hosted at 4:00 p.m. by Festival Director Jane Steuerwald\, Festival Associate and juror Henry Baker\, and Curator\, Emerita\, of the National Gallery of Art Margaret Parsons. The seven films\, representing experimental\, animation\, documentary\, screen dance and narrative genres by filmmakers from the U.S.\, France\, Australia\, and Armenia\, will also be available to view on-demand February 16-23 at www.tefilmfest.org – click on “Watch the premiere on-demand.”\nAdmission: Free and open to the public\, no tickets or registration required.\nAccessibility: The Stewart Theater is an accessible venue. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at least one week in advance at LewisCenter@princeton.edu
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/thomas-edison-film-festival-premiere-screening/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Lewis Center":MAILTO:sw6303@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240217T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240217T170000
DTSTAMP:20260425T051343
CREATED:20240212T155053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240212T155053Z
UID:58947-1708160400-1708189200@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Mediated Spiritualities: A Colloquium Exploring Global Enclosures\, Disclosures\, Possibilities\, Limitations
DESCRIPTION:This colloquium explores textual and spatial sites of spiritual mediation across a variety of religious\, institutional\, geographical\, and cultural boundaries. We will discuss how spiritual writers disclose rhetorical modes of escape as they enclose corporeal and spiritual experiences into mediated texts—often from cloistered environments. When considered across diverse contexts\, spiritual texts promote insight into many aspects of culture\, including gender\, writing\, theology\, spirituality\, sexuality\, and politics. What is the relationship between spiritual writers and their communities? What social conditions\, identities\, spaces\, and texts enable and constrain spiritual activity? How do these conditions evolve across geography\, temporality\, culture? What types of comparative approaches can we offer to our classrooms and scholarship in thinking about spiritual texts in various religious traditions? Finally\, how might a broader awareness of global expressions of spirituality shape future research in the humanities? \nAll are welcome. Breakfast and boxed lunches will be served. Reception with light refreshments to follow. \nAdvance registration is required. RSVP to: cw2772@princeton.edu.  \nThis event is sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature (Princeton)\, the Humanities Council (Princeton)\, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (University of Pennsylvania)\, the Department of Spanish & Portuguese (Princeton)\, the Program in Latin American Studies (Princeton)\, the Department of Religion (Princeton)\, and the Department of English (Princeton).
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/mediated-spiritualities-a-colloquium-exploring-global-enclosures-disclosures-possibilities-limitations/
LOCATION:103 Chancellor Green
ORGANIZER;CN="Chloe Wheeler":MAILTO:cw2772@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240219T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240219T131500
DTSTAMP:20260425T051343
CREATED:20240211T025741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T142702Z
UID:58848-1708344000-1708348500@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Mellon Forum // Against the Rule of Property: Violence\, Land Reclamation\, and Decolonization
DESCRIPTION:This talk considers the significance of revolutionary land reform to the decolonization of world order. It does so by examining the implications of two distinct anti-colonial land reform trajectories: an armed peasant-led path (in China) and a “non-violent” bourgeois/landlord-led path (in India). Historically\, the armed peasant-led revolutionary path advanced\, insofar as it fundamentally overturned the colonial/imperial landed order\, a more substantive decolonization than the “non-violent” path which functioned to protect the landed order instituted by the colonial state. Nevertheless\, as post-apartheid South Africa and the Oslo Peace Process in Palestine illustrate\, the armed peasant-led trajectory would come to be largely abandoned in the post-Cold War and neoliberal context. It is within such a context\, I argue\, that the return of anti-colonial land reclamation in Zimbabwe and Palestine in the early twenty-first century assumes world-historical significance\, interrupting the liberal “end of history” thesis of the “rule of property” with the ontological re-emergence of those dispossessed by colonial property regimes.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/mellon-forum-against-the-rule-of-property-violence-land-reclamation-and-decolonization/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium and Zoom\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jacquelyn Walsh":MAILTO:jw42@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240219T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240219T132000
DTSTAMP:20260425T051343
CREATED:20240206T165610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240211T031748Z
UID:58836-1708344000-1708348800@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Dhwani and the Art of Non-Binary Translation
DESCRIPTION:Daisy Rockwell will explore the notion of translation as occupying a space on a continuum between two languages\, rather than a transfer between language A and language B. The art of translating South Asian literature into English with an emphasis on the role of English in South Asia over time will be discussed. Rockwell will also examine how various South Asian aesthetic principles and forms of literary ornamentation\, such as dhwani\, has informed her thinking about translation.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/dhwani-and-the-art-of-non-binary-translation/
LOCATION:144 Louis A. Simpson Building
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ORGANIZER;CN="Yolanda Sullivan":MAILTO:syolanda@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240219T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240219T180000
DTSTAMP:20260425T051343
CREATED:20240213T185819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240213T191530Z
UID:58985-1708360200-1708365600@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Hergé et l'art de la bande dessinée
DESCRIPTION:A talk with writer\, Benoît Peeters.\nBenoît Peeters is a writer and scriptwriter acclaimed internationally for his work on Hergé\, the father of the legendary Franco-Belgian graphic novel series Tintin. A professor at the Collège de France in Paris where he taught the poetics of graphic novels\, he is the author of Tintin and the World of Hergé\, Hergé\, Son of Tintin\, and Lire Tintin. Les Bijoux ravis. He is also an expert of other graphic artists\, such as Töpffer\, Winsor McCay\, Jirô Taniguchi and Chris Ware. Peeters has co-created the series Les Cités obscures with François Schuiten\, the curator of many exhibitions\, and a film director as well as the biographer of Jacques Derrida\, Paul Valéry\, Sandor Ferenczi and Alain Robbe-Grillet.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/herge-et-lart-de-la-bande-dessinee/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kelly Eggers":MAILTO:keggers@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:‘The Hot Center’: The Literary Establishment\, circa 1963
DESCRIPTION:A public lecture in connection with the graduate seminar “Postwar New York\,” organized by Joshua Kotin and sponsored by Postwar New York: Workshops\, a Humanities Council Magic Grant for Innovation\, and the Department of English. \nLaura B. McGrath specializes in computational literary criticism and contemporary American literature. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Michigan State University. Prior to joining the faculty at Temple\, she was associate director of the Literary Lab at Stanford University. Her research and teaching focus on American literature post-1945\, digital humanities and cultural analytics\, literary sociology\, and contemporary literary production. \nShe is at work on a book called Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of Contemporary American Literature\, under contract with Princeton UP\, and supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. She draws on a range of methods — data analysis\, close reading\, literary ethnography — to reveal the literary agent’s centrality in the development of American literature\, post-1965. \nHer work has been published or is forthcoming in New Literary History\, American Literary History\, Post45\, CA: The Journal of Cultural Analytics\, and the Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction\, 1980 2020. She is the recipient of the 1921 Prize in American Literature\, awarded to the best essay by an untenured scholar in 2021\, for her essay “Literary Agency\,” published in ALH. Her public writing has appeared The Atlantic\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Public Books\, and Post45:Contemporaries. She is one of the founding co-editors of the Post45 Data Collective. \nShe has held fellowships with the Price Lab for Digital Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania and the Smithsonian Institute of American History. Her work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation and the Big Ten. \nPhoto credit: Robert Frank. New York City\, 1960. Gelatin silver print. 22.5 x 34.3 cm. (8.9 x 13.5 in.)
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-hot-center-the-literary-establishment-circa-1963/
LOCATION:40 McCosh\, 40 McCosh\, Princeton \, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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