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SUMMARY:No Ordinary Assignment: What it means to be a war correspondent
DESCRIPTION:Jane Ferguson’s career has spanned conflicts from Iraq and Afghanistan to the Arab Spring and the invasion of Ukraine. Along the way\, she has also reckoned with massive changes in the media industry and the massive changes in media. Drawing from her acclaimed\, national bestselling memoir\, No Ordinary Assignment\, Ferguson will talk about what life is really like for war reporters on the road\, being a woman in TV\, and navigating the moral wounds of witnessing tragedy by way of documenting history. \nJane Ferguson\, best-selling author and correspondent for the New Yorker and PBS NewsHour\, with discussant Kim Lane Scheppele\, Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values. \nRegistration is now open; space is limited.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/no-ordinary-assignment-what-it-means-to-be-a-war-correspondent-7/
LOCATION:16 Joseph Henry House
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Circumstantial Detail
DESCRIPTION:We will consider the part played by circumstantial detail in narrative through a 200-year-old essay by Thomas De Quincey\, two stories by Jorge Luís Borges\, and a recent essay. Here again the question will be the media by which we make meaning\, the proofs by which we render art or testimony plausible. \nLunch provided with registration. Register here. Pre-reads provided to registrants. \nJohn Durham Peters teaches and writes on media history and philosophy. He is the María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film & Media Studies at Yale University. He taught at the University of Iowa between 1986-2016. He is the author of Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication\, Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition\, and most recently\, The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media. \n 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/seminar-john-durham-peters/
LOCATION:Hinds Library\, McCosh\, Hinds Library\, McCosh\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Malone":MAILTO:sarah.k.malone@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Comparative Diplomatics: Han Dynasty Edicts and Ordinances on Official Promotion
DESCRIPTION:Trenton Wilson (East Asian Studies) will be presenting on “Han Dynasty Edicts and Ordinances on Official Promotion.” \nAll are welcome. \nConveners: Tom Conlan (East Asian Studies/History)\, Helmut Reimitz (History)\, Marina Rustow (Near Eastern Studies/History) \nCoordinator: Stephanie Luescher (Near Eastern Studies) \nTo receive the edition\, translation and  image of the document discussed during each session\, sign up here.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/comparative-diplomatics-han-dynasty-edicts-and-ordinances-on-official-promotion-2/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T120000
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SUMMARY:Transhemispheric Translation: Scenes from Contemporary Latin American Poetics
DESCRIPTION:This talk is organized around case studies of “transhemispheric translation\,” a term employed to describe poetic experiments that fundamentally foreground translation—between Spanish and English\, Latin America and the United States—for the purpose of negotiating hemispheric power differentials. Beginning in the context of the inter-American Cold War of the late 1960s and early 1970s\, this talk demonstrates that translation operated as a space of Cold War power. This context allows for a re-reading of Cold War poetic performances of inter-American contact: the Argentine poet Juan Gelman’s 1969 pseudotranslation of a fake US poet and the Chilean multimedia artist Cecilia Vicuña’s 1973 “untranslation” into English. The talk ends by considering a recent example—non-equivalent self-translations by the Puerto Rican poet Urayoán Noel—to consider how transhemispheric translation continues to function in anti-imperialist fashion today.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/transhemispheric-translation-scenes-from-contemporary-latin-american-poetics/
LOCATION:3rd Floor Atrium\, Aaron Burr\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Damaris Zayas":MAILTO:damaris@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T163000
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SUMMARY:Notes Toward the Media History of Gibberish
DESCRIPTION:Gibberish has historically inhabited three media: voice\, letter\, and analog device. Since the beginning of speech\, people have been making and hearing unintelligible sounds; since the invention of the alphabet and later of moveable type\, spirits of all kinds have conjured with the combinatorics of letters; and since the 19th-century invention of audiovisual transmission and recording\, new kinds of white noise have erupted.  This talk aims partly to inventory and exemplify forms of gibberish\, and partly to consider the necessarily nonrandom fates that chase us symbolic animals. \nJohn Durham Peters teaches and writes on media history and philosophy. He is the María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film & Media Studies at Yale University. He taught at the University of Iowa between 1986-2016. He is the author of Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication\, Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition\, and most recently\, The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/notes-toward-the-media-history-of-gibberish/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Malone":MAILTO:sarah.k.malone@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:John Durham Peters & Shannon Mattern in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an unconventional conversation with media theorists John Durham Peters (Yale) and Shannon Mattern (UPenn). Modeled as a cross between new media — an AMA (‘ask me anything’ event online) — and old media (scraps of paper with single words pulled from a jar)\, scholars will talk through a wide range of issues having to do with media theory\, the data of language\, and the invisible infrastructures of our everyday interactions. \nLunch will be provided. Seating is limited\, so RSVPs are required.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/john-durham-peters-shannon-mattern-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Firestone Library\, Floor B
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ORGANIZER;CN="Camey VanSant":MAILTO:cvansant@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:17th Annual Humanities Colloquium: Archives and the Future
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Council’s kick-off event features a wide-ranging conversation about central issues in our research\, teaching\, and intellectual life. This year’s speakers include distinguished Princeton scholars whose work represents different approaches and historical periods. They will participate in a panel discussion on the theme of “Archives and the Future” and explore questions around the temporality of the archive\, archival silences\, and various methodologies that shape our practices of research as interpreters of the archive. The conversation will be moderated by Council Chair Esther Schor (English). \nSpeakers: \n\nSandra Bermann (Comparative Literature)\, “Translanguaging the Archive”\nLaura F. Edwards (History)\, “The Archival Contradiction of Law and History”\nSarah Rivett (English and American Studies)\, “The Raven’s Flight through Colonial Archives”\nKinohi Nishikawa (English and African American Studies)\, “Access after the Fact”\n\nModerator: Esther Schor (Chair\, Humanities Council; English) \nOpen to the University community. To see past events\, please visit the Humanities Colloquium page on our website.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/17th-annual-humanities-colloquium/
LOCATION:Chancellor Green Rotunda\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Plataian Community in Athens: An Enclave?
DESCRIPTION:The Plataians lived in Athens for the greater part of a century. Although they received citizenship\, the community maintained its independent identity. Applying a modified version of the modern enclave model\, I argue we can understand their role in the Athenian community and perhaps create a model for understanding other whole community migrations in antiquity.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-plataian-community-in-athens-an-enclave/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Luke Soucy":MAILTO:lsoucy@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:On Assembling
DESCRIPTION:On Assembling \nA lecture from Andrew Holder and Claus Benjamin Freyinger \nThursday\, September 21\, 2023\, 6:00 pm \nBetts Auditorium \nSchool of Architecture \nAndrew Holder is co-principal of The LADG and an Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design\, where he is also Program Director for the MArch I degree track. His research and design interests include the late Baroque architecture of 18th century Germany\, the English picturesque\, and the construction of architecture as an inanimate subject. He has held teaching appointments at the University of Michigan\, the University of Queensland\, UCLA\, SCI-Arc\, and Otis College of Art and Design. Andrew’s writing connects architecture’s form and physical presence to its participation in a larger history of ideas\, most recently in the book Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech\, co-edited with K. Michael Hays (2022). Additional publications include essays and projects in Young Architects 16\, a+t\, Log\, Pidgin\, Project\, Harvard Design Magazine\, and RM 1000. \nClaus Benjamin Freyinger is co-principal of The LADG and a lecturer at the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design. He is a frequent guest critic at institutions across the United States. His built work and architectural proposals focus on how buildings can become active participants\, and the relationship of academic research to architectural practice. Recent projects include a series of five houses in Los Angeles\, a retreat in rural Maine\, a compound in the Mount Washington suburbs of Los Angeles\, and an exhibition design for the Resnick Pavilion at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. \nThe LADG (Los Angeles Design Group) is an architectural practice founded in 2004 by Andrew Holder and Claus Benjamin Freyinger. With offices in Venice\, California and Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, The LADG creates work at all scales–from furniture to multi-unit buildings–making the familiar new again. With completed projects in California\, Colorado\, Hawaii\, Minnesota\, New York\, Oregon\, and the United Kingdom\, their architectural projects take the “everyday” seriously\, challenging the status quo of buildings and our built environment. They have received several awards\, the 2022 AIA LA Next LA Award for their “House on Dusty Mile\,” located in the high desert of Landers\, California\, along with the 2017 and 2018 Progressive Architecture Awards\, among other accolades. Their recently completed “House 5” was published in Wallpaper Magazine and featured on the cover of Dwell Magazine in 2023. \nLectures made possible by the Jean Labatut Memorial Lectures in Architecture and Urban Planning Fund. The School of Architecture\, Princeton University\, is registered with the AIA Continuing Education (AIA/CE) and is committed to developing quality learning activities in accordance with the AIA/CE criteria. Members of the AIA can log credits for this event by completing the form at the event.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/on-assembling/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
ORGANIZER;CN="Gabrielle Langholtz":MAILTO:gml@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T190000
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SUMMARY:LLL Presents - Wednesday’s Child: Short Stories
DESCRIPTION:Labyrinth and the Princeton Public Library are pleased to celebrate a new short story collection about loss\, alienation\, aging\, and the strangeness of contemporary life by the author\, just last year\, of the award-winning The Book of Goose. Li will be talking about her new stories with fellow writer Lynn Steger. \nLi is a truly original writer\, an alchemist of opposites: tender and unsentimental\, metaphysical and blunt\, funny and horrifying\, omniscient and unusually aware of just how much we cannot know. In the stories in Wednesday’s Child\, a grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she’s lost. Elsewhere\, a professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year\, a restless woman receives an email from a strange man twice her age and several states away. In Yiyun Li’s stories\, people strive for an ordinary existence until the surface cracks and the grand mysterious forces—death\, violence\, estrangement—come to light. And even everyday life is laden with meaning\, studded with indelible details: a filched jar of honey\, a mound of wounded ants\, a photograph kept hidden for many years\, until it must be seen. \nYiyun Li is the author of Must I Go\, Where Reasons End\, Kinder Than Solitude\, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers\, The Vagrants\, Gold Boy\, Emerald Girl\, The Book of Goose\, and of the memoir Dear Friend\, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of many awards and honors and teaches at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts. Lynn Steger Strong is the author of the novels Hold Still\,Want\, and Flight. Her non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, New York\, The Paris Review\, and elsewhere and has taught writing at many colleges and Universities including Columbia University and\, most recently\, Bates College.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lll-presents-yiyun-li-lynn-steger-wednesdays-child-short-stories/
LOCATION:Princeton Public Library
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SUMMARY:Black Sea Migrations in the Long Thirteenth Century: Bodies\, Things\, Ideas
DESCRIPTION:This conference examines the role both of the major ports and cities of the Black Sea region — such as Constantinople\, Pera\, Kiev\, Caffa\, Sudak\, Tana\, Sarai Batu and Trebizond – and of the agrarian and pastoral communities of the hinterlands in shaping the trans-regional movement of people\, goods and ideas between Asia\, Europe and Africa. Register here. \nOrganized by: Lillian Datchev | Earnestine Qiu | Teresa Shawcross | Center for Collaborative History \nSponsored by: Center for Collaborative History | Department of Art & Archaeology | Department of Religion | Humanities Council | Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies | Program in Medieval Studies | Program in Russian\, East European and Eurasian Studies\nThe Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies | University Center for Human Values
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/black-sea-migrations-in-the-long-thirteenth-century-bodies-things-ideas/
LOCATION:211 Dickinson Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Loessy":MAILTO:jloessy@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230922T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230922T170000
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SUMMARY:Thinking Through Minshū Bukkyō: Popular Buddhism and the Study of Premodern Japan
DESCRIPTION:The category of folk or popular Buddhism (minshū Bukkyō) offers tremendous promise for scholars of Japanese religion. It forces us to consider Buddhism beyond the walls of the monastery and challenges elite centered narratives by turning to the religion of the many (minshū) rather than the select and famous few. As such\, taking the Japanese category of popular Buddhism seriously helps usher in a new understanding of religion in premodern Japan\, one that addresses lived religion as enacted by individuals from diverse walks of life. Attention to the broader populace (minshū) allows scholars to move beyond standard accounts of premodern Japanese religions\, which have typically centered on powerful religious institutions as gates of power (kenmon) or the state’s role in promoting and regulating Buddhism. Put succinctly\, the model encourages a shift from top-down to bottom-up accounts of religiosity. \nBut the category also presents numerous problems\, many undertheorized in scholarship to date. Who is included in the category of popular? How is the term minshū best translated? What are the boundaries of this sociological category? Are the lines between elite and popular sharp? Does religious practice necessarily map onto social class? And given the fact that most extant sources stem from elite circles\, to what extent can we even access the religious lives of those outside of the upper echelons of society in premodern times? What methods are needed to do so? \nThis workshop encourages us to think through the concept. By this\, the organizers mean that we will both use the notion of popular Buddhism as a lens onto premodern Japanese religions while also engaging in a reassessment of the category’s meaning\, utility\, and limits. In doing so\, we will contribute to both the study of Japanese Buddhism and to that of the humanities more broadly. For the former\, we aim to develop new historiographical angles and greater conceptual rigor. For the latter\, we hope that the Japanese concept of minshū and the presented case studies will contribute new theoretical language and methods for studying non-elite practices. \nThe conference is open to the public and is bilingual. Papers will be presented in both English and Japanese. No translation will be provided. Register here.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/thinking-through-minshu-bukkyo-popular-buddhism-and-the-study-of-premodern-japan/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jenny Legath":MAILTO:jlegath@princeton.edu
GEO:40.7228732;-74.0621867
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230922T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230922T190000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening and Artist Talk: Chantel Comardelle and Dennis Davis of “Knowledge is Power”
DESCRIPTION:Join the Arts Council of Princeton for an artist talk featuring Dennis Davis and Chantel Comardelle of Our Knowledge is Power: The Cultures of Beauty and Survival in Isle de Jean Charles\, LA and Shishmaref\, AK\, on view in the ACP’s Taplin Gallery. \nThroughout the event\, screenings of Preserving our Place: Our Knowledge is Power will take place in the ACP’s Solley Theater. \nExecutive Producers:\nChantel Comardelle\, Dennis Davis\, and Elizabeth Marino \nDirector/Editor:\nJeremy Lavoi \nProducer:\nAbby Berendt Lavoi \nCollaborators:\nNathan Jessee\, Alessandra Jerolleman\, Gwen Davis \nThis film was sponsored by NSF award #1929145: Adaptations to Repetitive Flooding: Understanding Cross Cultural and Legal Possibilities for Long Term Flooding Risks. \nHosted by the Arts Council of Princeton\, and co-sponsored by Fluid Futures\, Humanities Council Magic Project & HMEI Global Environmental Justice Fund\, and the Environmental Humanities Colloquium (HMEI).
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/film-screening-and-artist-talk-chantel-comardelle-and-dennis-davis-of-knowledge-is-power/
LOCATION:Arts Council of Princeton
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230926T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230926T131500
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SUMMARY:Mellon Forum // Womanist Work: Black Women Preachers and the Making of Sermonic Space in Literature and Music
DESCRIPTION:In Black Performance Theory\, Dr. D. Soyini Madison’s foreword explicates the imperatives and aesthetics of Black expressive culture coupled with the ways in which Blackness is performatively examined in time and space. Womanist Work centers the efficacy of the sermon within African American literature\, music\, and social-spiritual moments with respect to Black women preachers as cultural figures. In addition to investigating how Black women preachers use their sermons as modes of resistance\, Womanist Work foregrounds the Black woman preacher’s emphasis on musicality\, expressivity\, thematic relevance\, and improvisatory phrasing\, clarifying the ways that the delivery of the sermon must be understood in terms of both content and context. Womanist Work also acknowledges the prophetic scenarios in African American literature\, music\, and theology that speak to creating\, producing\, and discovering sermonic space regarding Black women preachers within the twenty-first century freedom movement.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/mellon-forum-womanist-work-black-women-preachers-and-the-making-of-sermonic-space-in-literature-and-music/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium and Zoom\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Jacquelyn Walsh":MAILTO:jw42@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Double Exposure: Re-Seeing the West with Timothy O’Sullivan\, America’s Most Mysterious War Photographer
DESCRIPTION:Author Robert Sullivan speaks on his forthcoming book\, Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O’Sullivan\, America’s Most Mysterious War Photographer (FSG\, 2024). \nRobert Sullivan is the author of numerous books\, including Rats\, The Meadowlands\, A Whale Hunt\, The Thoreau You Don’t Know and My American Revolution. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, A Public Space and Vogue. He is the recipient of a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship and teaches creative writing at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English. In April\, FSG will publish his latest book\, Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O’Sullivan\, America’s Most Mysterious War Photographer. He will be a Short-Term Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of English in spring 2024. \nPhoto credit: O’Sullivan\, Timothy H\, photographer. Black Cañon Colorado River\, from camp 8\, looking above / T.H. O’Sullivan\, phot. 1871. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/item/99404085/)
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/double-exposure-resurveying-the-west-with-timothy-osullivan-americas-most-mysterious-war-photographer/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Malone":MAILTO:sarah.k.malone@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Sensory Life in South India: Counter-Narratives of Islamic Material Culture
DESCRIPTION:The Islamic built environment in India is under tremendous strain today. Mosques\, especially\, are disparaged as “ocular reminders” of India’s Muslim past. In this context\, how can we understand the range of significations that such sites have for ordinary Muslims? This talk focuses on mosques on the southeastern coast of India\, built in a distinctive style that is rooted in local architectural idioms. Such mosques are an integral part of the Tamil sacred landscape\, indexing the region’s longstanding Muslim presence as well as histories of maritime trade and mobility. The presentation explores how the architecture and materiality of the built environment mediate people’s connection to the past\, and how such sites are reimagined as spaces of heritage\, historical consciousness\, and cultural value. \nRegister here. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Program in South Asian Studies and the Department of Anthropology.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/sensory-life-in-south-india-counter-narratives-of-islamic-material-culture/
LOCATION:A71 Louis A. Simpson Building
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ORGANIZER;CN="Harini Kumar":MAILTO:harinik@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230926T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230926T180000
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SUMMARY:Chile 9/11 Series | Voluspa Jarpa: "Chile 9/11 Before Chile 9/11"
DESCRIPTION:Chilean artist Voluspa Jarpa investigates the broader notion of the archive by synthesizing popular discourse\, declassified documents\, state symbols\, urban space\, personal narratives\, and psychoanalytic theory. Using materials as disparate as oil on canvas to lasers\, Jarpa analyzes the construction of hegemonic history and memory\, taking into account its inherent erasures and absences. Jarpa also explores ways to emancipate ourselves from these structures and facilitate a more complex telling of past\, present\, and future. \nAmong her numerous solo exhibitions such as En nuestra pequeña región de por acá at MALBA\, Buenos Aires (2016) and L’effet Charcot at La Maison de l’Amerique Latine in Paris (2010)\, Voluspa Jarpa has participated in many international exhibitions\, including the Venice Biennale\, Italy (2019); Shanghai Biennial\, China (2018); Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt\, Berlin (2017–2018); and the 31st Sao Paulo Biennial\, Brazil (2014)\, among others. She recently participated in the BAM-Biennial of the Mediterranean Archipelago\, curated by Beatrice Merz\, with the work False Flag (2022). \nThis series has been funded by a Magic Grant from the Humanities Council. \nDISCUSSANTS\nRachel Price\, Spanish and Portuguese\, Princeton University\nOlivia Lott\, PLAS Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer\, Princeton University \nMODERATOR\nJavier Guerrero\, Spanish and Portuguese \n\nThis talk will be in Spanish with simultaneous interpretation in English. This event is free and open to the public. \nSPONSORS \n\nHumanities Council\nDepartment of Spanish and Portuguese\nPrinceton Institute for International and Regional Studies
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/chile-9-11-series-voluspa-jarpa-chile-9-11-before-chile-9-11/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230926T170000
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SUMMARY:Climate Inheritance
DESCRIPTION:Climate Inheritance is a speculative design publication that reckons with the complexity of world and heritage in the Anthropocene. The impacts of climate change on heritage sites—from Venice flooding to extinction in the Galápagos Islands—have garnered empathetic media attention in a landscape that has otherwise failed to communicate the urgency of the crisis. In a subversion of the media aura of heritage\, DESIGN EARTH casts ten World Heritage sites as narrative figures to visualize pervasive climate risks and narrate entangled inheritances to bequeath other worlds and values. \nRania Ghosn is Associate Professor of architecture and urbanism at MIT and founding partner of DESIGN EARTH. She is author of Geographies of Trash (2015)\, Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment (3rd ed. 2022; 2018)\, and The Planet After Geoengineering (2021). Ghosn holds a Doctor of Design from Harvard GSD\, where she was founding editor of the journal New Geographies and editor of its issue Landscapes of Energy (2009). \nSylvia Lavin is a Professor of History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University. Her work explores the limits of architecture across a wide spectrum of historical periods. Her publications include Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture\, Everything Loose Will Land: 1970s Art and Architecture in Los Angeles and Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths. She is currently working on a new book\, Building Sylvan Media. \nA discount code is provided to each attendee of the event. Attendees can type the word “princeton” in the coupon code box and use a princeton.edu email address to get a 30% discount on orders of Climate Inheritance\, Geographies of Trash\, and Geostories placed on the Actar Website.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/climate-inheritance/
LOCATION:Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Iason Stathatos":MAILTO:iasons@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T120000
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SUMMARY:Writing Seminar: Where is Princeton?
DESCRIPTION:Join Robert Sullivan to map our situation\, considering ecological\, political\, and economic ecologies\, and investigate our position on the cusp of two major estuaries — the Hudson / Raritan and the Delaware — exploring the differences between the city to the north and the city to the south\, looking at how these things connect and / or disconnect the region as a whole. \nRobert Sullivan is a Short-Term Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of English in the fall of 2023\, and the author of numerous books\, including Rats\, The Meadowlands\, A Whale Hunt\, The Thoreau You Don’t Know and My American Revolution. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, A Public Space and Vogue. He is the recipient of a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship and teaches creative writing at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English. In April\, FSG will publish his latest book\, Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O’Sullivan\, America’s Most Mysterious War Photographer. \nImage credit: Geological Survey of New Jersey [Detail]. The State of New Jersey: Economic Geology. 1880. Map reproduction courtesy of the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/writing-seminar-what-is-princeton/
LOCATION:Hinds Library\, McCosh\, Hinds Library\, McCosh\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Malone":MAILTO:sarah.k.malone@princeton.edu
GEO:40.3479074;-74.6573424
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T133000
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SUMMARY:Vathy Astypalaia: Recent Data from a Diachronic Palimpsest of the Aegean
DESCRIPTION:The site of Vathy on the island of Astypalaia\, Greece\, was strategically located along several maritime routes linking the prehistoric societies of the Aegean Sea. Recent excavations at Vathy have brought to light a site of major importance for our knowledge of Mediterranean cultures in the 4th- and 3rd-millennia BCE across a vast area\, from Anatolia to Iberia. The megalithic walls of the settlement are densely engraved with petroglyphs that point to a Mediterranean artistic “koine\,”a common visual language expressed in rock art. Moreover\, coastal enclosures served to contain carefully arranged infant pot burials that are paralleled by similar ritual depositions in Anatolia\, the Balkans and the Aegean. Finally\, marble figurines found at the site connect Late Neolithic and Early Cycladic Aegean statuary with material from Anatolia and the Aegean islands and the broader Mediterranean world. In this lecture\, recent finds from the excavations at Vathy will be discussed and will be placed in their Aegean context.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/vathy-astypalaia-recent-data-from-a-diachronic-palimpsest-of-the-aegean/
LOCATION:Green Hall 3-S-15
ORGANIZER;CN="Eleni Banis":MAILTO:hbanis@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T180000
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SUMMARY:From "The Mind has No Sex?" to "Gendered Innovations": A Historian’s Contribution to Enhancing Excellence in Science & Technology
DESCRIPTION:Join us on September 27 for the annual ECS Faber Lecture with Londa Schiebinger (Stanford University). \nThis event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP HERE. \nReception to follow the lecture. \nThis lecture explores how a historian of science can make significant contributions to science & technology. Professor Schiebinger will quickly sketch her journey from neo-Kantianism to understanding how women and something we might call gender—with intersectional attention to race—were excluded from science during the European scientific revolution of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in ways that made that exclusion seem just and natural. We will take a quick detour into the power dynamics of colonial science to discuss how knowledge circulated between Africa\, Europe\, and the Americas in the Atlantic World. Finally\, we will explore Gendered Innovations in Science\, Health & Medicine\, Engineering\, and Environment to understand how humanists and social scientists can enhance discovery\, innovation\, and social responsibility in science & tech. As time allows\, we will explore social robots\, computer vision\, facial recognition\, and other topics. This work engages with the politics of knowledge—who produces it\, and how who produces science influences to a certain extent the science that is produced. \nFunding provided by the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council. \n\nLonda Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science at Stanford University\, and Founding Director of Gendered Innovations in Science\, Health & Medicine\, Engineering\, and Environment. Schiebinger is a leading international expert on gender and intersectional analysis in science and technology and has addressed the United Nations\, the European Parliament\, the Korean National Assembly\, among others\, on that topic. Schiebinger received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards\, including the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship. She holds Honorary Doctorates from the Universitat de València\, Spain\, 2018; Lunds Universitet\, Sweden\, 2017; and Vrije Universiteit Brussel\, Belgium\, 2013. Her publications include The Mind has No Sex? Women in the Making of Modern Science (HUP\, 1989); Nature’s Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science (Beacon\, 1993); Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (HUP\, 2004); edited with Robert N. Proctor\, Agnotology: The Making & Unmaking of Ignorance (SUP\, 2008); The Secret Cures of Slaves: People\, Plants\, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (SUP\, 2017); AI can be Sexist and Racist—It’s Time to Make it Fair Nature (2018); Sex and Gender Analysis Improves Science and Engineering Nature (2019); A Framework for Sex\, Gender\, and Diversity Analysis in Research Science (2022). Her work has been translated into numerous languages.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/from-the-mind-has-no-sex-to-gendered-innovations-a-historians-contribution-to-enhancing-excellence-in-science-technology/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T180000
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SUMMARY:“Into the Forever and Beautiful Sky”: Confronting Animal Brutality in a Galaxy of Limitless Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Andrea Jain asks\, What happens when we show a film that pays worshipful attention to animal welfare to a Marvel Studios-sized audience? How does capitalism colonize the popular imagination\, religious and otherwise? Lifting up the Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 as her primary artifact\, Jain uses the film to illustrate how capitalists sell animal ethics and why consumers buy it\, arguing that confrontations with animal brutality get contained within and subsumed by capitalist realism\, that is\, a framework in which capitalism is deemed limitless and without viable alternatives\, and gun capitalism\, that is\, the material and cultural condition of being flooded with guns\, which are mass produced and sold as consumer products. \nThe Doll Lecture on Religion and Money was established in 2007 by Henry C. Doll ’58 and his family. It reflects the family’s longstanding interest in the subject of philanthropy and its relationship with religion.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/into-the-forever-and-beautiful-sky-confronting-animal-brutality-in-a-galaxy-of-limitless-capitalism/
LOCATION:A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building\, Washington Road\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jenny Legath":MAILTO:jlegath@princeton.edu
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T180000
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SUMMARY:On the Translation and Adaptation of The Vocabulario da lingoa de Iapam
DESCRIPTION:The current translation project has sprung forth from an enduring fascination with the Vocabulario da lingoa de Iapam\, the monumental Japanese-Portuguese dictionary produced by the Jesuit mission in Nagasaki in 1603 and 1604. The Vocabulario is the oldest and first dictionary of the Japanese classical language\, written by people who lived there. My hope for this dictionary is to achieve\, especially outside Japan and a small circle of linguistic experts\, a broader recognition and wider usage as an unparalleled\, lexicographical tool for the study of the Japanese language of the late medieval period—known among specialists as Late Middle Japanese—and its social context. As part of the translation\, a number of modifications to the original are made\, both in structure and its presentation\, in order to enhance the usability. The romanization system has been changed to modified Hepburn; Japanese script has been added for all expressions in that language; and all Portuguese has been translated into English. \nThis translation-cum-adaptation\, then\, aims to produce the first-ever dictionary of premodern Japanese to English\, based on the original Japanese-Portuguese text of the Vocabulario. In addition\, its purpose is to study the original dictionary from three different angles: 1) The formative process and origination of the Vocabulario\, most prominently the role of Japanese collaborators at the entry level; 2) The mosaic of everyday life in late sixteenth-century Japan that can be analyzed and described\, both quantitively as well as qualitatively\, on the basis of the Vocabulario’s entries; and 3) The perceptions and biases\, or lack thereof\, of the Jesuit missionaries regarding their Japanese living and working environment. Of special interest are their attitudes towards local religious practices and the extent to which they adaptated local terms for their own missionary purposes. \nJeroen Lamers is the author of Japonius Tyrannus: The Japanese Warlord Oda Nobunaga Reconsidered (Japonic Neerlandica\, 2001)\, Treatise on Epistolary Style: João Rodriguez on the Noble Art of Writing Japanese Letters (Volume 39) (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies\, 2002)\, and The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga (Brill\, 2011)\, translated with Jurgis Elisonas. \nRegister for this Zoom talk.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/on-the-translation-and-adaptation-of-the-vocabulario-da-lingoa-de-iapam/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chao-Hui Jenny Liu":MAILTO:chaoliu@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T180000
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SUMMARY:Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature with Florian Fuchs & Daniel Heller Roazen
DESCRIPTION:We invite you for a conversation about the deep history of storytelling as civic agency\, recalibrating literature’s political role for the twenty-first century. \nWhy did short narrative forms like the novella\, fable\, and fairy tale suddenly emerge around 1800 as genres symptomatic of literature’s role in life and society? In order to explain their rapid ascent to such importance\, Florian Fuchs identifies an essential role of literature\, a role traditionally performed within classical civic discourse of storytelling\, by looking at new or updated forms of this civic practice in modernity. \nFuchs’s focus in this groundbreaking book is on the fate of topical speech\, on what is exchanged between participants in argument or conversation as opposed to rhetorical speech\, which emanates from and ensures political authority. His book outlines a genealogy of various literary short forms—from fable\, fairy tale\, and novella to twenty-first century video storytelling—that attempted on both “high” and “low” levels of culture to exercise again the social function of topical speech. Some of the specific texts analyzed include the novellas of Theodor Storm and the novella-like lettre de cachet\, proverbial fictions of Gustave Flaubert and Gottfried Keller\, the fairy tale as rediscovered by Vladimir Propp and Walter Benjamin\, the epiphanies of James Joyce\, and the video narratives of Hito Steyerl. \nFlorian Fuchs is currently a visiting Postdoc in the SFB 980 “Episteme in Bewegung” at Freie Universität Berlin. His book prior to Civic Storytelling is  the co-edited and co-translated History\, Metaphors\, Fables: A Hans Blumenberg Reader. Daniel Heller-Roazen is Professor of Comparative Literature and the Council of the Humanities. He is the author of eight books the most recently of which are Absentees: On Variously Missing Persons; No One’s Ways: An Essay on Infinite Naming; and Dark Tongues: the Art of Rogues and Riddlers.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/civic-storytelling-the-rise-of-short-forms-and-the-agency-of-literature-with-florian-fuchs-daniel-heller-roazen/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230927T213000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening & Discussion: "Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb"
DESCRIPTION:Turn Every Page  follows the iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Caro and his editor\, the literary giant Robert Gottlieb\, in this chronicle of a unique 50-year professional relationship. The film screening will be followed by a conversation with filmmaker\, Lizzie Gottlieb\, and Julian Zelizer\, Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University. \nTickets are available for purchase from the Princeton Garden Theatre. Elizabeth “Lizzie” Alice Gottlieb is an American film and theater director best known for her documentaries Turn Every Page\, Today’s Man\, and Romeo Romeo. Currently\, Gottlieb is teaching documentary filmmaking at the New York Film Academy. Robert A. Caro is an American journalist and author known for his celebrated biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. After working for many years as a reporter\, Caro wrote The Power Broker (1974)\, a biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses\, which was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. He has since written four of a planned five volumes of The Years of Lyndon Johnson (1982\, 1990\, 2002\, 2012)\, a biography of the former president. For his biographies\, he has won two Pulitzer Prizes in Biography\, the National Book Award\, the Francis Parkman Prize (awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that “best exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist”)\, two National Book Critics Circle Awards\, the H.L. Mencken Award\, the Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Letters\, the D.B. Hardeman Prize\, and a Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/film-screening-discussion-turn-every-page-the-adventures-of-robert-caro-and-robert-gottlieb/
LOCATION:Princeton Garden Theatre\, 160 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:"Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meetings to Wall Street" with Jackson Lears & Graham Burnett
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of Jackson Lears’s new book\, in which he retrieves the spiritual visions and vitalisms that animate American life and the possibilities they offer today. \nAnimal Spirits explores an alternative American cultural history by tracking the thinkers who championed the individual’s spontaneous energies and the idea of a living universe against the strictures of conventional religion\, business\, and politics. From Puritan times to today\, Lears traces ideas and fads such as hypnosis and faith healing from the pulpit and stock exchange to the streets and the betting table. We meet the great prophets of American vitality\, from Walt Whitman and William James to Andrew Jackson Davis (the “Poughkeepsie Seer”) and the “New Thought” pioneer Helen Wilmans\, who spoke of the “god within—rendering us diseaseless incarnations of the great I Am.” \nWell before John Maynard Keynes stressed the reliance of capitalism on investors’ “animal spirits\,” these vernacular vitalists established an American religion of embodied mind that also suited the needs of the marketplace. In the twentieth century\, the vitalist impulse would be enlisted in projects of violent and racially charged national regeneration by Theodore Roosevelt and his legatees\, even as African American writers confronted the paradoxes of primitivism and the 1960s counterculture imagined new ways of inspiriting the universe. Today\, scientists are rediscovering the best features of the vitalist tradition—permitting us to reclaim the role of chance and spontaneity in the conduct of our lives and our understanding of the cosmos. \n“Jackson Lears is the preeminent cultural historian of the American empire. This book is another masterpiece in his magisterial corpus.’’ —Cornel West \nJ. Jackson Lears is Professor of History at Rutgers University and the author of many acclaimed books\, including Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America\, 1877–1920and Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America.D. Graham Burnett is a Professor of History at Princeton University who works at the intersection of historical inquiry and artistic practice with a particular interest in the history of attention. His books include Trying Leviathan: the 19th century NY Court Case that Put the Whale on Tiral and Challenged the Order of Nature and\, most recently\, the work of speculative historiography In Search of the Third Bird.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/animal-spirits-the-american-pursuit-of-vitality-from-camp-meetings-to-wall-street-with-jackson-lears-graham-burnett/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T132000
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SUMMARY:McGraw Center Faculty Presentation: The Power of Checking In - Mid-Semester Course Feedback
DESCRIPTION:The purpose of this session is to present faculty with approaches to conducting midterm course evaluations for course improvement and advancement of their teaching. Faculty will be presented with compelling evidence from the literature on the benefits of conducting such activities\, as well as multiple approaches and strategies that could be taken\, including short survey development. Workshop will cover example approaches\, resources available\, action based on analysis\, and general discussion of utilizing student feedback for the improvement of teaching and support of learning.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/mcgraw-center-faculty-presentation-the-power-of-checking-in-mid-semester-course-feedback/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ruthie Boyce":MAILTO:ruthieb@princeton.edu
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T140000
DTSTAMP:20260416T023847
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SUMMARY:Walking in Place: A Tour of Princeton and Vicinity\, Organized by Robert Sullivan
DESCRIPTION:Join Robert Sullivan for a lunchtime walk and talk that can be visited\, too\, in the online modes suggested in the signup form. This will be a tour-walk where we talk and think in heads-together moments. You might walk the walk or be at home\, or elsewhere. You could do a little of the walk\, or walk to the end\, which is hoped to be the Mercer Oak site on the Princeton Battlefield. \nTo walk with us\, register so we know to look for you\, and meet us by Maclean House\, by the American sycamores\, at noon. \nCosponsored by the Humanities Council and High Meadows Environmental Institute. \nImage: Detail of topographical map of New Jersey. U.S. Geological Survey. 1894.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/walking-in-place-a-tour-of-princeton-and-vicinity-organized-by-robert-sullivan/
LOCATION:Maclean House\, Maclean House\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Malone":MAILTO:sarah.k.malone@princeton.eu
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SUMMARY:Pond Music: Interspecies Improvisation
DESCRIPTION:David Rothenberg will drop a hydrophone in the Institute pond\, which will then be transmitted to speakers above ground. He will then improvise with the sounds of plants and insects in the pond. \n\n\n\n\n\nA concert by the Animal Song Collective\, a Humanities Council Magic Project
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/pond-music-interspecies-improvisation/
LOCATION:Institute for Advanced Study
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T163000
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SUMMARY:The Thief Who Stole My Heart
DESCRIPTION:This talk commences by introducing the audience to the sacred bronzes created by a master sculptor around the year 1000\, and suggests that his inspiration may well have been child-saint Sambandar’s opening hymn that hails god Shiva as “the thief who stole my heart.” Vidya Dehejia then moves beyond this sensuous imagery to ask questions of this material that have not been asked before\, treating the bronzes as material objects that interacted in meaningful ways with human activities\, and with socioeconomic and religious practices. Where did the Cholas acquire the copper required to cast the many temple bronzes that are solid and heavy pieces of metal? Why were the Cholas obsessed with island Sri Lanka? What were the circumstances that permitted the creation of so many temples and such large numbers of exquisite bronzes despite the constant warfare that the Chola monarchs undertook to retain and expand their empire? What was the source of the pearls\, and also of coral\, rubies and diamonds\, that were embedded in gold jewelry gifted to adorn temple bronzes? Why did the Cholas cover the walls of their temple walls with inscriptions– some 13\,000 in total – using them the walls almost as if they were the public records office?
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-thief-who-stole-my-heart/
LOCATION:A71 Louis A. Simpson Building
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mo Chen":MAILTO:mochen@princeton.edu
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