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SUMMARY:Literary Theory for Robots
DESCRIPTION:::Event co-sponsored by the Center for Digital Humanities:: \nLiterary Theory for Robots (W.W. Norton\, 2024) reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence\, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language\, past Hollywood fiction factories and missile defense systems trained on Russian folktales. In this talk\, we will discuss the past and future of literary technologies: the necessity of research into the material conditions of textual production\, and the surprising afterlife of Structuralist thought. A case study from the book will conclude the conversation. \nDennis Yi Tenen is an associate professor of English at Columbia University\, where he also co-directs the Center for Comparative Media. His research happens at the intersection of people\, text\, and technology. A long-time affiliate of Columbia’s Data Science Institute\, formerly a Microsoft engineer in the Windows group and fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society\, his code runs on millions of personal computers worldwide.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/literary-theory-for-robots/
LOCATION:Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Iason Stathatos":MAILTO:iasons@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Sovereign Materials: Tragedy\, Extraction\, and the Settler Colonial Mindset
DESCRIPTION:This salon will stage an interactive dialogue between contemporary Amazonia and Greek tragedy. We will use some of the tools in Makerspace to foreground the material and productive practices implicated in our projects\, dwelling on points of connection\, including political sovereignty\, narrative\, and loss. Some of our guiding questions include: What is sovereignty made of? Under what circumstances is “making” a destructive process? What\, if anything\, does death produce? \nIHUM graduate students presenting: Paul Eberwine (Classics) & Lucas Prates (Anthropology)
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/sovereign-materials-tragedy-extraction-and-the-settler-colonial-mindset/
LOCATION:PUL Makerspace\, A Level of Lewis Science Library
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ORGANIZER;CN="Barbara Leavey":MAILTO:blleavey@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Reading Symptoms and Enjoyments | A lecture from K Michael Hays
DESCRIPTION:K. Michael Hays is the Eliot Noyes Professor of Architecture Theory and Co-Director of the Master in Design Studies Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD)\, where he has taught since 1988. In addition to teaching\, he advises doctoral students on the history and theory of architecture. Prior to the GSD\, Hays held academic appointments at numerous institutions including Princeton University\, along with Columbia University\, Cornell University\, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)\, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)\, among others. \nHis research and scholarship focus on critical theory\, modernism\, and the legacy of poststructuralism in architecture. Hays has played a pivotal role in the development of architectural theory. He was founding editor of the journal Assemblage and the first Adjunct Curator of Architecture at the Whitney Museum. His notable publications include Modernism and the Posthumanist Subject (MIT Press\, 1992)\, Architecture Theory since 1968 (MIT Press\, 1998)\, Architecture’s Desire (MIT Press\, 2009)\, and\, most recently with Andrew Holder\, Inscriptions (Harvard University Press\, 2022). \nHays received his Master of Architecture degree and his Ph.D. in the History\, Theory\, and Criticism of Architecture and Art from MIT. \n​Lectures made possible by the Jean Labatut Memorial Lectures in Architecture and Urban Planning Fund.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/reading-symptoms-and-enjoyments-a-lecture-from-k-michael-hays/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
ORGANIZER;CN="Kyara Robinson":MAILTO:kr9710@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:'Rhyming Back Into the Canon': An Anthology of Queer Roman Verse
DESCRIPTION:This project brings together\, for the first time\, a representative selection of queer poetry from ancient Rome in line-for-line verse translations both amusing and accessible to the non-specialist. Nearly all the most famous Latin poets dealt with same-sex subjects — in lyric poetry (Catullus\, Horace)\, elegy (Propertius\, Tibullus)\, and epic (Virgil\, Ovid) — yet a tradition of homophobic scholarship and translation means that a book of this kind has only recently become conceivable. Using a variety of formal idioms inspired by the poems’ metrical and generic diversity\, this anthology aims to give the reader a sense of what collections of classical poetry in translation might have been like had these works not been suppressed for centuries.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/rhyming-back-into-the-canon-an-anthology-of-queer-roman-verse/
LOCATION:144 Louis A. Simpson Building
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SUMMARY:Teaching in the Kitchen: Hands-on Workshop by Spatula&Barcode
DESCRIPTION:Join Princeton Food Project and visiting fellows Laurie Beth Clark and Michael Peterson for a hands-on workshop on cooking and pedagogy.  Clark and Peterson\, also known as Spatula&Barcode\, will discuss their artistic collaborations that involve food and share their experiences teaching and making art together in the kitchen.  Read more about their work here (https://www.spatulaandbarcode.art/) and then meet us in the New College West Community Kitchen (C031) to make lunch together and discuss teaching.   \nRSVP to foodproject@princeton.edu\n(We’ll be sure to reply with directions to the venue.) \nThe Princeton Food Project is funded by a Humanities Council Magic Grant for Innovation.  
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/teaching-in-the-kitchen-hands-on-workshop-by-spatulabarcode/
LOCATION:New College West Commuity Kitchen
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SUMMARY:Scholarly panel: Ulises Carrión: Bookworks and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Ulises Carrión (1941–1989) was one of the most remarkable artists and writers of the second half of the twentieth century. Part of a generation of artists that challenged the boundaries separating visual arts\, literature\, music\, and performance\, Carrión worked in a wide range of media: artists’ books\, sound poetry\, performance art\, mail art\, video art\, theoretical writing\, and exhibitions. Beyond publishing his own innovative artists’ books\, Carrión fostered collaboration amongst experimental artists through operating his own bookstore-gallery and engaging deeply with the international mail art network. Carrión’s work is the focus of a new exhibition at Milberg Gallery in Firestone Library\, “Ulises Carrión: Bookworks and Beyond\,” as well as an accompanying exhibition catalog. \nThe panelists represent the exhibition’s curatorial team and two contributors to the catalog. In celebration of the release of the “Ulises Carrión: Bookworks and Beyond” catalog\, the panelists will share insights from their research\, which draws on art history\, media studies\, poetics\, and archival studies to place Carrión’s work in a new light. \nLunch will be provided.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/scholarly-panel-ulises-carrion-bookworks-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Chancellor Green Rotunda\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stephanie Oster":MAILTO:soster@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:[POSTPONED] Vajrasattva and the Wheel: Investigating a mysterious object from Dunhuang Cave 17
DESCRIPTION:Please note this event has been postponed. Please visit the CSR website for more information. \nA mysterious object from the “library cave” at Dunhuang\, now in the British Library\, has puzzled scholars for over a century – an octagonal miniature painting on paper\, which is mounted onto a pointed wooden stick. Each side bears a different motif: on one side\, a figure which is probably the deity Vajrasattva\, and on the other\, a wheel. This unique object is an example of the cross-fertilization between various visual traditions seen in Dunhuang during this period\, and was probably used in Buddhist ritual practices before being deposited in the cave in the tenth century. Trying to understand the culture and practices that surrounded the creation and use of this unique object has led us to use and integrate a variety of different approaches. In this talk we investigate the object from five different angles: (i) the nature of the find site\, (ii) the physical object as a museum collection item\, (iii) the painted images\, and their place in the artistic traditions of China\, Tibet and Central Asia\, (iv) the literary context in tantric Buddhist ritual texts also found in the cave\, and (v) the social context\, a living tradition with links to Buddhist practices of the present day. \nMélodie Doumy is Curator of Chinese collections\, with a specific focus on the Stein Collection and the International Dunhuang Project (IDP) at the British Library. Her interests include the material cultures of China and the Eastern Silk Road\, Buddhism\, the history of Collections\, and cultural diplomacy. Her research and publications have focused on the materiality of the Dunhuang manuscripts and the social and religious practices associated with them. Her recent publications include “The Diamond Sutra” in The Book by Design\, edited by Philippa Marks (British Library Publishing\, 2023); “Dunhuang Texts” in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion (Oxford University Press\, 2021); and “The Curious Case of a Miniature Painting at the British Library: A Tantric Ritual Implement for Empowerment” (Arts of Asia\, 2020). \nSam van Schaik is Head of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library\, having previously worked for many years at the Library in the International Dunhuang Project (1999-2019). His main area of research is Tibetan Tantric Buddhism and early Tibetan history\, with a focus on the Dunhuang manuscript sources. His interests include Buddhist ritual practice\, manuscript paleography and codicology\, and the history of Tibet and Central Asia. His publications include the books Tibet: A History (Yale\, 2012)\, Tibetan Zen: Discovering a Lost Tradition (Snow Lion\, 2015)\, and Buddhist Magic: Divination\, Healing and Enchantment Through the Ages (Shambhala\, 2020). He is also the co-author of the catalogues Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts from Dunhuang (Brill\, 2008) and Old Tibetan Texts in the Stein Collection Or.8210 (Toyo Bunko\, 2012). \nRegistration required.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/vajrasattva-and-the-wheel-investigating-a-mysterious-object-from-dunhuang-cave-17/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jenny Legath":MAILTO:jlegath@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:The Donald S. Bernstein '75 Lectures Present "AI and the Law"
DESCRIPTION:“AI and the Law” by Tim Wu. Professor Wu (Columbia Law School) is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. He is best known for his work on Net Neutrality theory. He is author of the books The Master Switch\, and The Attention Merchants\, along with Network Neutrality\, Broadband Discrimination\, and other works. In 2013 he was named one of America’s 100 Most Influential Lawyers\, and in 2017 he was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-donald-s-bernstein-75-lectures-present-ai-and-the-law/
LOCATION:Arthur Lewis Auditorium\, Robertson Hall\, NJ
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ORGANIZER;CN="Minda Alena":MAILTO:mindaalena@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Gauss Seminars in Criticism: Denise Ferreira da Silva
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Council’s Spring 2024 Gauss Seminars in Criticism will be presented by Denise Ferreira da Silva\, Samuel Rudin Professor in the Humanities Department of Spanish & Portuguese\, Co-Director of Critical Racial & AntiColonial Study-CRACS Co-Lab\, New York University. Her visit\, under the general title\, “On Sensibility\, “ will comprise a public lecture on Wednesday\, March 6 and a seminar on Thursday\, March 7. \nAn academic and an artist\, Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva writes on crucial global issues\, which she approaches from an anticolonial black feminist perspective. She is the author of the field-changing books Toward a Global Idea of Race and Unpayable Debt\, as well as numerous articles. Her several articles have been published in leading interdisciplinary journals and she has exhibited and lectured at major art venues\, such as the Pompidou Center (Paris)\, Whitechapel Gallery (London\, MASP (Sāo Paulo)\, Reina Sofia (Madrid)\, The Belkin (Vancouver)\, Guggenheim (New York)\, MACBA (Barcelona)\, and MoMa (New York) as well as 10th Berlin Biennial\, Document14\, 2022 Singapore Biennial. \nWednesday\,  March 6 at 5:00 PM in Betts Auditorium \nPublic Lecture: “Annotations on Black Art: On Authority at the Threshold of Representation” \n“If you don’t know …\, if you’ve never …\, if you thought …  you can’t\,” the artist tells critics\, who insist on ignoring interventions both theoretical and aesthetical\, do not even bother\, for the work\, my work\, this work does not address you.⁠  Not because of any distinctive\, unique feature of the work itself\, but because the knowledge apparatus shared by critics and the public (and questioned by the artist and the intellectual tradition of which she is part) does not comprehend her work and their critique among that which is properly and immediately taken as artistic.  Thinking with Simone Leigh’s\, Zinzi Minott’s\, and Iagor Peres’s artworks\, in this talk I consider their questioning of the aesthetic\, which I gather in how they confront the colonial\, racial\, and cisheteropatriarchal matrix. The guiding concern\, I find and share with these artists\, in their work is not about the whether and how of their inclusion but the whether and how their existence already occasions an implosion at/of the core (as they expose the very intrastructure) of the aesthetic field. \nThursday\, March 7 at 12:00 PM — Location TBA \nSeminar: “On Interiority” \nIf every concept\, like any other modern tool for thinking\, cannot but presuppose interiority as its domain of operation\, how can the latter be brought under interrogation – how can interiority itself become available to its own (our mental) tools? In this seminar we consider whether the tools of raciality (that is\, racial difference and cultural difference)\, which is the symbolic arsenal that plays in both the ethic-economic and an ethic-juridic corner of the liberal political architecture\, can guide an analysis of interiority able to expose how it has operated in the accumulation of capital in the past two hundred years or so. The core formulation of interiority engaged here is the one presented in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and Critique of Power of Judgement\, namely the formal thing or “unity of apperception\,” which is the subject of determinative and reflective judgement.  Both books will be read with theoretical contributions that frame raciality as a political concept\, such as Gayatri C. Spivak’s\, David C. Lloyd’s\, Sylvia Wynter’s\, Judith Butler’s\, Frantz Fanon’s\, C.L.R. James’s\, Édouard Glissant’s\, among others. Through these interventions we will read re-presentations of the Kantian Formal thing\, the thing of interiority (the subject\, subjectivity\, or the first-person singular) — such as Husserl’s\, Heidegger’s\, Lacan’s\, Foucault’s\, Deleuze & Guattari’s — that render it a crucial aspect of the liberal political entity. \nRSVP required for this lunch seminar\, which is open only to members of the Princeton University community. To reserve a spot\, please email both Brooke Holmes and Jeannine Matt Pitarresi. The location will be communicated to all registrants several days before the seminar.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/gauss-seminars-in-criticism-denise-ferreira-da-silva/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium\, Betts Auditorium\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Notes on a Critical Theory out of Schelling
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature and co-Sponsored by the Department of German\, and the Humanities Council.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/notes-on-a-critical-theory-out-of-schelling/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne
ORGANIZER;CN="Valerie Kanka":MAILTO:vjkanka@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Libraries\, Encyclopedias\, and Other Labyrinths
DESCRIPTION:The first talk in a lecture series on Introducing Interpretive Semiotics\, for the Humanities and Social Sciences. \nAfter Anna Maria Lorusso graduated in Philosophy with a dissertation in Semiotics\, in Bologna\, she completed her doctoral research in Semiotics\, under the supervision of Umberto Eco. Following a research scholarship\, Lorusso became a researcher at the University of Bologna\, where she is now Associate Professor\, as well as Director of both the First Cycle Degree in Communication Sciences in the Department of the Arts and the Master in Publishing. Her interests have always revolved around the rhetorical-discursive dimension of culture: forms of collective narrative\, dominant rhetorical figures\, discursive modalities for stability\, and translation and transformation of stereotypes and commonplaces. Recently she has published under many labels of excellence\, including Bakhtiniana: Revista de Estudos do Discurso\, Estudos Semióticos\, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law\, Rivista di Estetica and Semiotica.  \nAt the present date\, she is a member of the research group Trame\, dealing with memory and cultural trauma\, and the President of the Italian Association for Semiotic Studies. \n  \n 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/libraries-encyclopedias-and-other-labyrinths/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jeff Heller":MAILTO:jh43@princeton.edu
GEO:40.7228732;-74.0621867
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SUMMARY:Americans Abroad in the Seventeenth Century: People\, Buildings\, and the Space of Empire
DESCRIPTION:One way to understand the network of Spanish Habsburg places in the early modern period is to think about individuals experiencing architecture. Zooming out to take in the wide space of empire allows us to explore how buildings and public spaces were shaped\, often with coherent messages rendered through carved heraldry and ornament. Zooming in to consider the lived experience of individuals gives us an opportunity to consider how particular buildings functioned in society. This lecture examines seventeenth-century architecture on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean via the experiences two accomplished Dominican priests—the Mexican-born Antonio de Monroy and the Peruvian Juan Meléndez—who traversed the Spanish world\, interacting with other imperial subjects. It also considers the experience of an exceptional American-born woman\, Rose of Lima. Although far less mobile than her male Dominican counterparts\, her reputation and image traveled widely in the seventeenth-century\, even inspiring architectural undertakings fostered in part by Meléndez and Monroy.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/americans-abroad-in-the-seventeenth-century-people-buildings-and-the-space-of-empire/
LOCATION:A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building\, Washington Road\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mo Chen":MAILTO:mochen@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Launching a Digital History Lab for the Twenty-First Century: Concepts\, Methods\, and Institutions
DESCRIPTION:Jo Guldi is Professor of Quantitative Methods at Emory University. Guldi mostly thinks in terms of the history of land and water: who got evicted; who controlled the water; how land was mapped\, owned\, connected\, and used\, and what stories we tell about those displacements that have shaped the world that came after. She is also a scholar of history who uses machine learning\, statistics\, and other big-data methods to approach the traditional concerns of the humanities. Before joining Emory\, Guldi served as was on faculty at Southern Methodist University (2016-2023) and was also previously Hans Rothfels Assistant Professor of History at Brown (2012-16). \nThis even will be offered in hybrid format. Registration is only required for those who attend virtually via Zoom.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/launching-a-digital-history-lab-for-the-twenty-first-century-concepts-methods-and-institutions/
LOCATION:211 Dickinson Hall or Zoom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Loessy":MAILTO:jloessy@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Fabric Object: Agrest and Gandelsonas
DESCRIPTION:FABRIC OBJECT— opening at the Princeton University School of Architecture on Thursday\, March 7\, and on view through the Spring 2024 semester—is a small show on the early career of Diana Agrest and Mario Gandelsonas\, of Agrest and Gandelsonas Architects. There are seven projects\, mostly unbuilt\, all related to ideas of urbanism\, presented through things made by hand. Drawings. Writings. What seemed important was to show an intimacy to their work\, while also showing how impersonal it is. It may sound contradictory\, but Agrest and Gandelsonas have always played with oppositional binaries. Individual-Collective. Building-City. Memory-Amnesia. Fabric-Object. Like the flip-flop reversibility of their axonometric drawings (think El Lissitsky Proun\,) architecture appears as something and an inversion of that thing. They love design. They love non-design. Architecture is autonomous. Architecture relies upon the city. And so on. Maybe this is because there are two of them. With two\, and is inevitable. Or perhaps their work is simply a product of its time\, a collection of 1968 Pre-Post-Structuralist desires (think Barthes\, Saussure\, Kristeva\, Lacan\, etc..) brought into Architecture\, ideas like Language as a Model (and Speech as a Model and Text as a Model\,) Dialectical Opposition\, Semiotics\, Typology\, Rejection of Authorship/Individualism\, and so on. If you read their descriptions of their own work\, they will tell you what everything means. This as That. That as This. They construct complex thoughts and arguments with their work\, but they will also tell you that it can never mean any one thing\, there is always and. \nWith and in mind\, the exhibition includes multiple perspectives and thoughts on their work by Princeton School of Architecture faculty. \nThursday\, March 7\, 6PM
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/fabric-object-agrest-and-gandelsonas/
LOCATION:North Gallery\, School of Architecture\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Kyara Robinson":MAILTO:kr9710@princeton.edu
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240318T132000
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SUMMARY:A German Vasari? Johann Neudörffer’s “Notes on Nuremberg’s Artists and Craftsmen” (1547)
DESCRIPTION:The earliest German collection of artistic biographies\, Johann Neudörffer’s “Notes on Nuremberg’s Artists and Craftsmen” (1547) has frequently (and not always favourably) been compared to Giorgio Vasari’s seminal “Lives of the Artists”\, as the two texts appeared within three years of each other. This lecture will highlight how the format\, scope and purpose of Neudörffer’s manuscript differed from its Italian print cousin and re-contextualise the “Notes” in both Nuremberg’s literary traditions and sixteenth-century historiography. \nSusanne Meurer received her PhD from the Warburg Institute\, University of London. She has been a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Houghton Library and a postdoctoral fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut (Max-Planck Institute)\, Florence and the Warburg Institute in London.  As a senior lecturer in the History of Art at UWA (School of Design) she teaches classes on Renaissance and Baroque Art and Curatorial Studies. \nCo-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/a-tale-of-two-experts-johann-neudorffer-georg-romer-and-the-origins-of-german-art-historiography-2/
LOCATION:3-S-15 Green Hall\, Princeton University\, Princeton\, NJ\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240318T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240318T133000
DTSTAMP:20260530T073608
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SUMMARY:Mellon Forum // Escape from Liberty Island: Lower Manhattan Against the World\, 1973-2001
DESCRIPTION:What was the World Trade Center?\nShould it be referred to in the lowercase\, as a serialized spatial form that was invented to facilitate the decolonization of the dollar at the urban scale\, starting in New Orleans right after World War II? Or should it be understood according to the vernacular definition of the term\, “the” World Trade Center\, uppercase\, which in the United States\, at least\, has denoted the Twin Towers that officially opened in New York City in the pivotal year of 1973\, and that over the next generation would come to stand as an archetype of a new world order\, and even a new period of the history of capitalism?
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/mellon-forum-escape-from-liberty-island-lower-manhattan-against-the-world-1973-2001/
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:20240318T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240318T180000
DTSTAMP:20260530T073608
CREATED:20231127T215030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240308T022752Z
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SUMMARY:Persuasion: Oratory and the Novel
DESCRIPTION:Frances Ferguson is the Mabel Greene Myers Distinguished Service Professor of English and the College at the University of Chicago (Emerita as of July 1\, 2023). She is the author of Wordsworth: Language as Counter-spirit (Yale University Press\, 1977)\, Solitude and the Sublime: Romanticism and the Aesthetics of Individuation (Routledge\, 1992)\, and Pornography\, the Theory: What Utilitarianism Did to Action (Chicago: University of Chicago Press\, 2004). She is currently completing a study on the rise of mass education (around 1800). Recent essays center on Bitcoin (published) and on eighteenth-century oratory and the English novel (forthcoming).
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/persuasion-oratory-and-the-novel/
LOCATION:105 Chancellor Green
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Malone":MAILTO:sarah.k.malone@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T132000
DTSTAMP:20260530T073608
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SUMMARY:Medieval Faculty Colloquium: "How Tang Literature Became 'Ancient': Evolving Models of Tang Dynasty Literary History in the Northern Song"
DESCRIPTION:Please note that this event was rescheduled from February 20 to March 19. Please email Anna D’Elia with any questions. \nThe Program in Medieval Studies is pleased to offer the Faculty Colloquium series for Spring 2024. Anna Shields\, Professor of East Asian Studies and Chair of Department of East Asian Studies\, will present this lunchtime talk on Tuesday\, March 19. \nThis talk explores a thread in the reception history of Tang dynasty (618-907) literature in the Northern Song (960-1127)\, focusing on emerging models of Tang literary development proposed by Song scholars. The new significance of “antiquity” as a value in Northern Song intellectual culture has been well-studied–as a catalyst for a revival of classical studies\, the development of Neo-Confucian thought\, and the flourishing of historical writing\, among other things. But the impact of these trends on Song scholars’ views of literature and its historical development is less well understood. Certain Tang writers claimed to have achieved a timeless “antiquity” in their literary writing–how did those claims shape Song scholars’ attempts to map the trajectory of Tang literature? More broadly\, to what extent could literary writing (wenzhang 文章) be conceptualized as a product of historical change? Song scholars’ answers to these questions reveal their new concern about the correct relationship of literary writing to historical circumstance\, as well as competition over a still-emerging Tang literary canon. \nPlease RSVP Here. Lunch will be provided. \n\nUpcoming Medieval Faculty Colloquia for Spring 2024 \nTues\, April 9 at 12:00 pm: Stephen Teiser (Religion)
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/medieval-faculty-colloquium-how-tang-literature-became-ancient-evolving-models-of-tang-dynasty-literary-history-in-the-northern-song/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:'Just Another Boss:' Autogestion\, Workers' Control\, and the Fate of Socialism in Chile\, 1972
DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey L. Gould’s paper examines the failure of the Unidad Popular to achieve an accord with the Christian Democratic Party in July 1972 that would have made it far more difficult for the military and its rightist allies to carry out the lethal coup of September 11\, 1973. In the words of a Christian Democratic Party leader\, they came “within a hair’s breadth of an agreement.” The accord embodied an understanding between the two forces that proposed a way forward towards a socialist society. \nABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER \nJeffrey L. Gould is Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Historical Studies\, Institute for Advanced Study and Distinguished Professor Emeritus\, Indiana University. His most recent books are Entre el Bosque y Los Arboles: Utopías Menores en El Salvador y Uruguay– CALAS\, Universidad de Guadalajara\, 2021; Solidarity Under Siege\, The El Salvadoran Labor Movement\, 1970-1990\, New York: Cambridge University Press\, 2019 and Desencuentros y Desafíos: Ensayos Sobre la Historia Contemporánea Centroamericana\, Editorial CIHAC\, San Jose 2016. His most recent film is Port Triumph\, 2019. He is currently working with Ernesto Jara on an historical drama\, Dawn to Despair/Sombras al Amanecer. \nDISCUSSANT \nCarlos Aguirre\, Professor of History\, University of Oregon; PLAS Visiting Research Scholar and Visiting Professor \nThis event is open to students\, faculty\, visiting scholars and staff. Lunch will be provided while supplies last.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/just-another-boss-autogestion-workers-control-and-the-fate-of-socialism-in-chile-1972/
LOCATION:216 Aaron Burr Hall\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Damaris Zayas":MAILTO:damaris@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T180000
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SUMMARY:Committee for the Study of Books & Media | "Lay Readings of the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World"
DESCRIPTION:Kirsten Macfarlane is Associate Professor in Early Modern Christianities at the University of Oxford. Macfarlane has held Visiting Fellowships at the Houghton Library\, Harvard; the Massachusetts Historical Society; the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies; and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. \nThis workshop will be offered in hybrid format. Registration is only required for those who attend via Zoom.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/committee-for-the-study-of-books-media-lay-readings-of-the-bible-in-the-seventeenth-century-atlantic-world/
LOCATION:211 Dickinson Hall or Zoom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Loessy":MAILTO:jloessy@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T180000
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SUMMARY:Goethe’s Philosophical Lexicon
DESCRIPTION:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) published volumes of poetry\, plays\, novels\, criticism\, and natural scientific papers\, but he never published a “philosophical lexicon”—indeed\, he had a certain disdain for the very idea of a lexicon. Nevertheless\, Prof. Smith and a number of co-editors have been involved for some five years in a digital project\, the Goethe-Lexicon of Philosophical Concepts (GLPC)\, with the aim of demonstrating that Goethe did develop his own unique and often heterodox take on crucial philosophical issues of the Western tradition\, and especially those of the heady years of German Idealism around 1800. By publishing interpretive entries on major\, minor\, and unexpected concepts\, we make an argument that Goethe made his own contribution to philosophical thinking—a contribution that is relevant for pressing topics under discussion today. \nProf. Smith’s talk will present the GLPC and discuss some examples of Goethean conceptual thinking where even his literature is doing philosophical work. \nJohn H. Smith is now a Professor Emeritus of German at the University of California\, Irvine. He has published on a variety of topics\, thinkers\, and writers in the German literary and philosophical tradition from 1600 to the present. His intellectual touchstones are Goethe and Hegel\, but he’s unabashedly eclectic in his tastes. At present and for the foreseeable future he is spending his time with the Goethe Lexicon of Philosophical Concepts\, both as a co-editor and author of entries.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/goethes-philosophical-lexicon/
LOCATION:205 East Pyne
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ORGANIZER;CN="Susan Morrow":MAILTO:sm22@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T183000
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SUMMARY:Media and Modernity: "In the Black Fantastic”
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Program in Media + Modernity | Princeton University \nEkow Eshun\n“In the Black Fantastic”\n[Response: Tina M. Campt]\nTuesday\, March 19\, 2024 @5pm ET\nN107 (School of Architecture) \n:: co-sponsored by the Princeton Collaboratorium for Radical Aesthetics :: \nEkow Eshun will explore the landscape of ideas and imagery that inform his recent book\, In the Black Fantastic (MIT Books\, 2022). Embracing the mythic and the speculative\, In the Black Fantastic\, recycles and reconfigures elements of fable\, folklore\, science fiction\, spiritual traditions\, ceremonial pageantry\, and the legacies of Afrofuturism to shows how speculative fictions in Black art and culture are boldly reimagining perspectives on race\, gender and identity. Standing apart from Western narratives of progress and modernity premised on the historical subjugation of people of color\, In the Black Fantastic celebrates the ways that Black artists draw inspiration from African-originated myths\, beliefs\, and knowledge systems\, confounding the Western dichotomy between the real and unreal\, the scientific and the supernatural. \nWriter and curator Ekow Eshun is Chairman of the Fourth Plinth\, overseeing the foremost public art programme in the UK\, and the former Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts\, London. He is the winner of the Association for Art History Curatorial Prize 2023 and author of books including Black Gold of the Sun (Penguin 2006) shortlisted for the Orwell Prize\, and Africa State of Mind (2021) nominated for the Lucie Photo Book Prize. \nTina M. Campt is Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor of Humanities in the Department of Art & Archaeology and the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. She is the author of Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race\, Gender and Memory in the Third Reich (University of Michigan Press\, 2004)\, Image Matters: Archive\, Photography and the African Diaspora in Europe (Duke University Press\, 2012)\, Listening to Images (Duke University Press\, 2017)\, Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography (with Marianne Hirsch\, Gil Hochberg and Brian Wallis\, Steidl\, 2020) and A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See (MIT Press\, 2021). \nPlease visit M+M’s official website for details and current information. \nM+M strives to make everyone feel welcome. If you are concerned that room N107 will not provide adequate physical accommodation for you\, please contact us in advance to discuss it.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/media-and-modernity-in-the-black-fantastic/
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:20240319T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240319T220000
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SUMMARY:"Navalny" Film Screening and discussion with Christo Grozev
DESCRIPTION:The University Center for Human Values’ Film Forum and Academic Freedom Initiative (AFI) will feature a screening of the award-winning documentary “Navalny” with guest speaker Christo Grozev. Grozev is a distinguished investigative journalist with Bellingcat; he played a crucial role in identifying the details and\, in particular\, the perpetrators of Alexei Navalny’s poisoning in 2020. \nThe film screening will take place in the James Stewart Theater on March 19 at 7:30 p.m.\, to be followed by a talk by Grozev with the title “Lessons in Resilience.” \nCo-sponsored by the Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism; Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination; Russian\, East European and Eurasian Studies; Slavic Languages and Literatures
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/navalny-film-screening-and-discussion-with-christo-grozev/
LOCATION:James Stewart Theater
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ORGANIZER;CN="Julie Clack":MAILTO:jclack@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240320T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240320T180000
DTSTAMP:20260530T073608
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SUMMARY:Operational opacity at the clausal middlefield
DESCRIPTION:Early formulations of Phase Theory posit that each clause consists of two locality domains (phases): the complete clause (CP) and a clause internal domain located roughly around vP. Syntactic evidence for the phasehood of CP comes from two types of phenomena: footprints of successive cyclic movement and operational opacity. In contrast\, evidence for a clause-internal phase has primarily come from successive cyclic movement (i.a. Legate 2003\, Aldridge 2008\, Bennett et al. 2012\, van Urk 2015). Operational opacity is not observed at vP\, a category notoriously transparent for syntactic relations. This contrast between CP and vP has led some researchers to conclude that only CP is a phase and that intermediate movement through the edge of vP must be explained differently. This talk presents the missing type of evidence\, from operational opacity\, for the clause-internal phase hypothesis. In particular\, I argue that VoiceP in Zimbabwean Ndebele is opaque for A-movement and phi-agreement. A VoiceP-external probe can only access a VoiceP-internal goal if the goal moves to Spec\,VoiceP\, and not otherwise. The talk additionally motivates the assumption that successive cyclic movement\, both A and A-bar\, is feature-driven. This is based on the observation that all movement out of VoiceP in Ndebele is blocked when Voice is independently shown to lack a movement-triggering feature. I conclude with some thoughts on why operational opacity is much easier to detect at a CP boundary than at the clausal middlefield. \nAsia Pietraszko is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Rochester. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago Linguistics Department. She is the director of the Field Syntax Lab at the University of Rochester and works in syntax and morphology\, with a focus on Bantu languages. She studies questions related to clausal architecture and the processes that underlie structure building\, such as selection and movement. Topics she’s worked on include verbal periphrasis\, head-movement and do-support\, A-movement\, clausal embedding and nominalization\, and backward control.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/operational-opacity-at-the-clausal-middlefield/
LOCATION:1-S-5 Green Hall\, 1-S-5 Green Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ecotheories Colloquium: "Black Star: Charles Hérard-Dumesle's Haitian Naturalism"
DESCRIPTION:Early Haitian historian\, scientist\, and poet Charles Hérard-Dumesle’s massive natural history “Voyage dans le nord d’Hayti” (1824) proposes that colonialism’s best trick was convincing imperialists and almost everyone else that there is only one nature the world over. His book\, including its famous poetic account of the 1791 Bwa Kaiman Vodou ceremony\, assays a natural history that joins together poetics\, other-than-human forces\, and the history of the dispossessed to forge a decolonial nature that serves Haitian sovereignty. Allewaert argues that Hérard-Dumesle’s Haitian natural history contested not simply the intellectual legacy of imperial natural history but the materiality of nature itself. \nREGISTER HERE. \nSponsors: \nEnglish Department (primary)\, The High Meadows Environmental Institute\, The Princeton Blue Lab\, The Bain-Swiggett Poetry Fund\, The Effron Center for the Study of America\, The Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities\, The University Center for Human Values\, The Environmental Humanities & Social Transformation Colloquium\, The Fluid Futures Forum
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/ecotheories-colloquium-black-star-charles-herard-dumesles-haitian-naturalism/
LOCATION:111 East Pyne\, 111 East Pyne
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kyra Morris":MAILTO:kyram@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:PISC no. 6: "Sex\, Homoeroticism\, and Persian Literature in 19th-century India"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: “This dissertation chapter challenges two key tenets of South Asian historiography: 1) that Persian literature in colonial India declined rapidly once the British replaced Persian as a language of education and administration\, and 2) that the political failure of 1857 ushered in major changes to the Indian cultural landscape\, particularly in the domains of gender and sexuality where Victorian values were absorbed by colonized intellectuals\, Muslims and Hindus. This chapter shows that Persian printing thrived in the nineteenth-century\, to the extent that one of the most printed texts was a Persian classic\, the Gulistan of Sa‘di. These printings of Gulistan did not just contain the text; they were accompanied with varying paratextual and extratextual paraphernalia: marginal commentaries\, interlinear translations\, variant readings\, and visual illustrations. The Gulistan prints\, then\, reveal a whole world of Indian popular publishing that has largely escaped the attention of historians. This was a world populated by scribes\, poets\, scholars\, painters\, and\, of course\, hundreds and thousands of readers\, many of whom were Muslims but substantial numbers were Hindus (and Sikhs and Parsis). By paying close attention to the various hermeneutic devices—textual and visual—accompanying different editions\nof Gulistan\, this chapter reveals hitherto unrecognized continuities between early-modern and colonial-era Indian engagement with Persian literature\, especially in attitudes toward sex and homoeroticism.” \nThe 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. Presented by the Department of Near Eastern Studies and co-sponsored by the Department of Religion\, Near Eastern Studies Program\, Center for Culture\, Society and Religion\, Humanities Council with support from the Stewart Fund for Religion \nThe paper and the Zoom link will be provided upon registration.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/pisc-no-6-sex-homoeroticism-and-persian-literature-in-19th-century-india/
LOCATION:102 Jones Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Athina Pfeiffer":MAILTO:apfeiffer@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T190000
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SUMMARY:Playwright Larissa FastHorse and Director Michael John Garcés in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:A conversation between Larissa FastHorse and Michael John Garcés. FastHorse is a 2020 MacArthur Fellow\, award-winning playwright and choreographer\, co-founder of Indigenous Direction\, the nation’s leading consulting company for Indigenous arts and audiences\, and a member of the Sicangu Lakota Nation. FastHorse is also a Short-Term Belknap Fellow in the Humanities Council and Lewis Center this semester. Her satirical comedy\, The Thanksgiving Play\, was recently included as one of the top ten most-produced plays in America\, the first Native American playwright represented on that list. Michael John Garcés is a director and playwright and\, until 2023\, artistic director of Cornerstone Theater Company\, a community-engaged ensemble in Los Angeles. \nThe conversation is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations required. \nCosponsored by Land\, Language\, and Art (LLA)\, a Global Initiative from the Humanities Council. \n  \n\nLarissa FastHorse (Sicangu Lakota Nation) is a 2020 MacArthur Fellow\, award winning writer/choreographer\, and co-founder of Indigenous Direction\, the nation’s leading consulting company for Indigenous arts and audiences. Larissa will be represented across the country in the 2023-2024 season with a revised book of the beloved Jerome Robbins Broadway musical\, Peter Pan. She made her Broadway debut in the 2022-2023 season with her satirical comedy\, The Thanksgiving Play\, making her the first known female\, Native playwright to be produced on Broadway (second only to Lynne Riggs in the 1930s). The Thanksgiving Play has been one of the top ten most-produced plays in America for the last two seasons. She is the first Native American playwright in the history of American theater on that list. Larissa is also one of the top 20 most-produced playwrights of last season. Additional produced plays include For The People\, The Democracy Project\, What Would Crazy Horse Do?\, Landless and Cow Pie Bingo\, Average Family\, Teaching Disco Squaredancing to Our Elders: a Class Presentation\, Vanishing Point and Cherokee Family Reunion. In fall 2023\, Larissa was a professor of practice (literature) at Arizona State University’s Department of English.\nMichael John Garcés smiles and wears dark glasses and a dark tshirt. \nMichael John Garcés is a Los Angeles-based director and playwright. Directing credits include For the People by Ty Defoe and Larissa FastHorse (The Guthrie Theater)\, the just and the blind by Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Daniel Bernard Roumain (Carnegie Hall and The Kennedy Center)\, The Play You Want by Bernardo Cubriá (The Road Theatre Company)\, The Rivers Don’t Know by James McManus (City Theatre)\, Seize the King by Will Power (The Alliance Theatre)\, Wrestling Jerusalem by Aaron Davidman (Intersection for the Arts\, The Guthrie\, Cleveland Public Theatre\, Philadelphia Theatre Company and others)\, Epic by Ellen Struve (Great Plains Theatre Commons)\, The Thanksgiving Play by Larissa FastHorse (Geffen Playhouse) and The Royale by Marco Ramirez (Arizona Theatre Company). He has worked at many other theaters across the country. Michael is the recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award\, the Alan Schneider Director Award\, the Princess Grace Statue Award\, and an L.A. Artist Residency (Center Theatre Group). Michael was the artistic director of Cornerstone Theatre Company\, a nationally recognized community-engaged ensemble\, from 2006 to 2023. At Cornerstone he directed plays by many writers including Alison Carey\, Juliette Carrillo\, Naomi Iizuka\, Lisa Loomer\, and Mark Valdez. He was also a company member at Woolly Mammoth for several years\, helming productions of plays by Luis Alfaro\, Chad Beckim\, Jackie Sibblies Drury\, Max Frisch\, Danai Gurira\, and Craig Wright. He is currently a professor of practice at the Los Angeles campus of Arizona State University. \n 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/conversation-with-playwright-larissa-fasthorse/
LOCATION:Drapkin Studio at Lewis Arts complex\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:LLL Presents -- A Chance Meeting: Encounters between American Writers and Artists
DESCRIPTION:Each chapter of Cohen’s inventive consideration of American culture evokes an actual meeting between two historical figures. We invite you to a conversation between two acclaimed writers working at the height of their craft. \nIn 1854\, Henry James\, as a boy\, goes with his father to have a daguerreotype made by Mathew Brady and is captured in a moment of self-consciousness about being American. Brady returns to photograph Walt Whitman and\, later\, at City Point in the midst of the Civil War\, Ulysses S. Grant. Meanwhile\, Henry James begins a lasting friendship with William Dean Howells\, and also meets Sarah Orne Jewett\, who in turn is a mentor to Willa Cather. Mark Twain publishes Grant’s memoirs; W. E. B. Du Bois and his professor William James visit the young Helen Keller; and Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz argue about photography. \nLater\, Carl Van Vechten and Gertrude Stein\, who was also a student of William James’s\, attend a performance of The Rite of Spring; Hart Crane goes out on the town with Charlie Chaplin; Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston write a play together; Elizabeth Bishop takes Marianne Moore\, who was photographed by both Van Vechten and Richard Avedon\, to the circus; Avedon and James Baldwin collaborate on a book; John Cage and Marcel Duchamp play chess; and Norman Mailer and Robert Lowell march on the Pentagon in the anti-Vietnam War demonstration of 1967. \nThe accumulation of these pairings draws the reader into the mysterious process through which creativity has been sparked and passed on among iconoclastic American writers and artists. \n“Innovative . . . faultless . . . [Cohen] gives us a more intimate sense of these people in a few pages than one sometimes gleans from entire biographies.” —The New Yorker \nRachel Cohen is the author of three books of nonfiction\, most recently Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels. Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker\, The Guardian\, The London Review of Books\, and The New York Times\, among other publications\, and her work has been included in Best American Essays and Pushcart Prize anthologies. She is Professor of Practice in the Arts in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Chicago. Jill Dolan is the Dean of the College at Princeton University\, where she also is Professor in English and Professor of Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts. Dolan received the 2011 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for her blog\, “The Feminist Spectator.”  Her book\, The Feminist Spectator in Action:  Feminist Criticism on Stage and Screen\, collects 20 of her blog posts and includes 10 new essays. Dolan’s most recent book is Wendy Wasserstein. Her other books include Theatre & Sexuality; Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre; Geographies of Learning: Theory and Practice\, Activism and Performance; and Presence and Desire: Essays on Gender\, Sexuality\, Performance. \nThis event is co-presented by Labyrinth and the Princeton Public Library and cosponsored by Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts\, the Humanities Council\, and the Department of Art and Archaeology.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lll-presents-a-chance-meeting-encounters-between-american-writers-and-artists/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:PLAS Graduate Workshop | Fernanda Conforto de Oliveira & Daniel Persia
DESCRIPTION:1ST PRESENTATION \n“The First Standby Arrangements Of The Imf In Argentina And Brazil\, 1956–64” \nFernanda Conforto de Oliveira\, Geneva Graduate Institute; History \nDiscussant: Grigore Pop-Eleches\, Professor of Politics and International Affairs\, Princeton \nThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) is central to global economic governance as the world’s leading crisis lender. Scholars have conducted broad structural studies and single-case studies to understand IMF lending patterns. However\, we still know little about what happens inside the black box of policy making and financial negotiations of the IMF. This paper combines tools in Digital Humanities with traditional historical methods to examine over 1\,000 recently declassified documents from the IMF staff and Executive Board. The goal is to understand why national officials from these two countries reacted differently during engagements with the IMF: Argentine authorities sought to comply and cooperate with the Fund\, while their Brazilian counterparts hesitated. My paper opens up the black box of policymaking and financial negotiations to examine the opinions\, reasons\, and attitudes of IMF officials\, showing that the Fund dealt with both countries in a process of learning where these parallel and simultaneous interactions influenced their views and attitudes in each case and cannot be read as independent from one another. \nFernanda Conforto de Oliveira is a Ph.D. candidate in International History and Politics and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Finance and Development at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Currently\, she is a visiting student researcher in the Department of History at Princeton University. \n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \n2ND PRESENTATION \n“The Translator’s “I”: Navigating Subjectivity in the 21st Century” \nDaniel Persia\, Spanish and Portuguese\, Princeton \nDiscussant: Dylan Blau Edelstein\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Spanish and Portuguese\, Princeton \nIn a moment steeped in reactionary politics\, with increasing attention paid to individual and collective identities\, translators are often left questioning whether\, or how\, to take on projects that cross lines of difference. This presentation gathers a series of (para)texts at the intersection of Translation\, Latin American\, and Black Studies—and\, more specifically\, in the space of the Black Atlantic—to highlight some of the major shifts in translational thinking since the late twentieth century. Historically\, there has been an absence of visible models from which translators can glean insights to better formulate—and articulate—their intellectual and theoretical commitments. I suggest that\, not only do these models exist\, but they (1) demonstrate how the key tenets of Black Studies help to redefine the imaginative work (and field) of translation across the Americas and (2) solidify translation as a vital mechanism for the expansion of the field of Black Studies outward\, from the United States into the majority world. \nDaniel Persia is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University. His translations have appeared in journals such as Asymptote\, Circumference\, Exchanges\, and Kenyon Review Online. Before coming to Princeton\, he served as a National Science Foundation Noyce Teaching Fellow at the Boston Arts Academy and Regional Lead for the US-Brazil Fulbright Commission\, overseeing grantees in the states of São Paulo and Paraná. He has been a fellow with the Program in Latin American Studies\, the Center for Digital Humanities\, and the Brazil LAB. \nMODERATOR \nWill Mullaney\, PLAS Graduate Fellow\, Comparative Literature \nThis workshop is open to students\, faculty\, visiting scholars and staff. Lunch will be provided while supplies last.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/plas-graduate-workshop-fernanda-conforto-de-oliveira-daniel-persia/
LOCATION:3rd Floor Atrium\, Aaron Burr\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:2023-24 Old Dominion Public Lecture Series - Story as Survival
DESCRIPTION:Leslie Marmon Silko begins her novel Ceremony (1977) with a definition of story as more about survival than entertainment. Often overlooked in modern\, Western culture\, the concept of story as survival pervades Native American literature and criticism. A singular American origin story also underwrites a pernicious form national survival by subsuming Indigenous stories into peripheral realms of folklore\, mythology\, and atavistic entertainment. Nowhere is this binary more vividly displayed than in the symbol of the raven. Lawless and contra-teleological\, the raven has no place in Anglo American origins stories except as an emblem of death. By contrast\, in the Indigenous Pacific West\, the raven generates life through story. Like Spider Woman in Silko’s Ceremony\, the Tlingit raven assumes the role of storyteller. He flies in and out of comical vignettes that eschew American origins in favor of a new future-oriented continental creation story. But rather than produce a counter-narrative or an ensconced settler-indigenous binary\, the Tlingit raven resurrects knowledge about the story’s capacity to ensure human and ecological survival. \nSarah Rivett is Professor of English and American Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England (2011)\, Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation (2017)\, and Raven’s Land: Placing the Indigenous Northwest Pacific in American Literature (in progress). Professor Rivett’s research traces continuities between religious phenomena and secular history. Her work shows how religion functions as a distinctive feature of American literature’s temporal and geographic parameters\, shaping settler and Indigenous identities that are at once distinct yet embedded within a larger field of transnational\, religious\, and cultural forms. Through research and teaching\, Rivett strives to recover voices\, lands\, and stories of the past that have been erased or obscured by settler colonialism. She seeks to understand how settler\, African American\, and Indigenous histories intersected as a reparative method to address the violence of the past and present. \nOld Dominion Research Professors contribute to the Council’s programs and events and engage the campus community in sustained discussions about their research. This cohort of senior faculty join a yearlong program designed to provide additional research time and to enhance the humanities community more broadly. They also serve as faculty fellows in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. Old Dominion Professors are full professors in the humanities and humanistic social sciences.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/2023-24-old-dominion-public-lecture-series-3/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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