Calendar of Events

Defining the Immigration Problem in Progressive-Era America

Katherine Benton-Cohen, Georgetown University

Program in American Studies

The Hermeneutics of Empire in the Cold War: Tayeb Salih, the CIA, and “Season of Migration to the North”

Elizabeth M. Holt, Bard College

Near Eastern Studies

The Strategic Idea of North: Glenn Gould, Sergeant Jones, and White Alice

Lytle Shaw, New York University

Department of English

Visual Philosophy, Pirandello and the Languages of the Image

Faculty panel

Department of French and Italian

Book Talk: Are We Human?

Beatriz Colomina, School for Architecture, in conversation with Mark Wigley, Columbia University

Labyrinth Books

Augustus’ Religion in the Mirror of Ovid’s Fasti: The Case of Concordia Augusta

Darja Šterbenc Erker, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Department of Classics

“How to Write a Song” Concert of New Songs

Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Creative Writing, Department of Music

Book Talk: The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy

Walter McDougall, University of Pennsylvania

Labyrinth Books

Shaping Atmospheres: Early Environmental Approaches in Latin American Architecture

Joaquín Medina Warmburg, Program in Latin American Studies and Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism & the Humanities

Program in Latin American Studies

Documentary Screening: The Enclave (2016)

Followed by Q&A with Li Wei, director

East Asian Studies Program and Department, co-sponsored by the Humanities Council