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SUMMARY:"Filling in the Blanks: Increasing the Representation of Late Antique and Early Medieval Coin Finds from Greece and Türkiye"
DESCRIPTION:FLAME (Framing the Late Antique and Medieval Economy) is a digital numismatic project\, based in Princeton University’s Firestone Library\, which brings together an international team of scholars working on the minting and circulation of coinage in the period 325-750 CE in Afro-Eurasia. This workshop represents the culmination of its Heartlands Project\, funded by a Humanities Council Magic Grant. It brings together four PhD students from Greece and Türkiye\, who have spent the past year attempting to discover and digitize published and unpublished coin finds from their respective countries. The workshop is meant to expose the Princeton community to the challenges and opportunities for the discovery\, digitization\, and use of numismatic data for further understanding the economic transition between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. \nThis workshop\, as well as the entirety of the FLAME Heartland Project\, was sponsored through the generous support of a Magic Grant from Princeton University’s Humanities Council. Magic Grants support new faculty-led projects that reimagine how the humanities are conceived or taught. They encourage bold\, status-quo-defying intellectual work in the humanities that foster interdisciplinary collaborations and team-teaching\, expand the curriculum with new modes of thought\, and provide unique educational experiences to students. \nA light reception will be offered following the workshop \nImage: Mapping of distribution of Byzantine-era coin finds containing 40-nummi coins of Justinian I (527-565)\, FLAME Project Circulation Module
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/filling-in-the-blanks-increasing-the-representation-of-late-antique-and-early-medieval-coin-finds-from-greece-and-turkiye/
LOCATION:103 Scheide Caldwell House\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Walking with Stories: Palestine\, Memory and Practices of Ongoing Return
DESCRIPTION:Grounded in the land and people of Palestine\, Ongoing Return: Mapping Memory and Storytelling in Palestine (2026) centers Lifta\, a village of Jerusalem\, as the starting point for stories of the Nakba War (1947-1949) and practices of ongoing return\, recounted through a methodology I call “walking with stories.” I first take on the “specter of the Red Indian\,” the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) and complexities of the Indigenous comparison with the question of Palestine through analysis of writings of Yasser Arafat\, Edward Said and Mahmud Darwish. Drawing on stories\, court cases\, archival materials\, and techniques of preservation/erasure\, Ongoing Return then sheds light on museumification as a way of turning Palestine into a “biblical landscape” during the colonial mandate period; memories and stories of the Nakba War 1947/48; the horror of forced expulsion – all through the lens of a  from the politics of recognition and representation in 1968 to the devastation of war in Beirut 1981/82 and through the second Intifada in 2002. Palestinian commitment to ongoing return. Across five chapters\, the book gathers and reframes stories of the past to present ongoing return as a practice and a mode of being. \nRana Barakat is an associate professor of history and the Director of Birzeit University Museum in Palestine. Her research interests include the history and historiography of colonialism\, nationalism\, and cultures of resistance. She earned her PhD in history from the University of Chicago and has published in notable venues including the Journal of Palestine Studies\, Jerusalem Quarterly\, Settler Colonial Studies\, and Native American and Indigenous Studies. Her forthcoming book\, Ongoing Return: Storytelling as a Map of Return to Lifta and Palestine (UNC Press)\, advances an Indigenous understanding of time\, space\, and memory in Palestine by focusing on the details of the people and place of Lifta village over time. She is currently working on her next book\, “The Buraq Revolt: Constructing a History of Resistance in Palestine\,” which argues that this 1929 revolt was the first sign in the Mandate period of sustained mass resistance to the settler-colonial project\, including direct and rhetorical actions against both political Zionism and British imperialism\, planting seeds of mass political mobilization.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/walking-with-stories-palestine-memory-and-practices-of-ongoing-return/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall
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SUMMARY:French Film Festival | Screening of "Little Amelie\, or the Character of the Rain" (2025) + Q&A with filmmaker Mailys Valladé
DESCRIPTION:Amélie\, a Belgian child in Japan\, explores life with her companion Nishio-san. Her third birthday becomes a turning point… \nAs part of the fourth edition of the Princeton French Film Festival\, you are invited to the exceptional screening of Amelie\, or the Character of the Rain (2025)\, followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Mailys Valladé who was nominated in all the major ceremonies this year\, including the Cesars\, Oscars\, BAFTAs\, and many more. \nSynopsis: Adapted from Belgian author Amélie Nothomb’s novel Métaphysique des tubes (2000). The world is a perplexing\, peaceful mystery to Amélie until a miraculous encounter with chocolate ignites her wild sense of curiosity. As she develops a deep attachment to her family’s housekeeper\, Nishio-san\, Amélie discovers the wonders of nature as well as the emotional truths hidden beneath the surface of her family’s idyllic life as foreigners in post-war Japan. Adapted from the autobiographical novel by Amélie Nothomb and brought to life in the completely original animated style of directors Mailys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han\, Little Amélie tells a tender\, poignant and visually stunning story about the healing power of human connection. \nOrganized by the Princeton University’s Princeton Film Festival organization. We thank our sponsors and partners for their support (complete list on the website below). Open to everyone regardless of identity. All rooms are wheelchair-friendly and attendees can contact us at filmfestival@princeton.edu for special accommodations (preferably 48 hours before the scheduled event). Please be aware that pictures might be taken before\, during\, and after the event. \nhttps://frenchfilmfestival.gradlife.princeton.edu/festivalschedule
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/french-film-festival-screening-of-little-amelie-or-the-character-of-the-rain-2025-qa-with-filmmaker-mailys-vallade/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
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SUMMARY:Charlotte Beradt’s Third Reich of Dreams
DESCRIPTION:A Panel Discussion \nSpeakers \n\nKelly Bulkeley (Independent Scholar)\nDagmar Herzog (CUNY Graduate Center)\nJan-Werner Müller (Princeton)\nMichael Wood (Princeton)\nmoderated by Brigid Doherty (Princeton)\n\nFree and open to the public. \nCo-Sponsors: German Department\, Labyrinth Books
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/charlotte-beradts-third-reich-of-dreams/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
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SUMMARY:KOREAN MESSIAH: Kim Il Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea's Personality Cult
DESCRIPTION:North Korea remains one of the most confounding geopolitical challenges that the world faces—and at its heart is a system that is deeply misunderstood. North Korea is a country\, yes\, but it is perhaps more properly understood as a religious society—or\, if one prefers\, a cult. North Korea has a flag\, an army\, an anthem\, and a seat at the United Nations. But it is also a society of 25 million people\, almost entirely cut off from the outside world\, inculcated for eighty years with the belief that its founding god-king\, Kim Il Sung\, can offer a measure of immortality through faith in his teachings. Drawing on a raft of historical sources\, and an interest stretching back to his Princeton history senior thesis\, Jonathan Cheng unpacks the story behind his first book\, KOREAN MESSIAH (Alfred A. Knopf). \nJonathan Cheng is the China bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal\, overseeing the Journal’s coverage of the world’s second-largest economy across a range of areas including politics\, economics\, business\, technology\, and society. He oversees a team of more than two dozen correspondents and researchers in Beijing\, Shanghai\, Hong Kong\, Taipei\, Singapore\, and New York with responsibility for the Chinese mainland and Taiwan. Previously\, Jonathan was the Seoul bureau chief for the Journal\, running coverage of the Korean peninsula\, including North Korea and South Korean politics and business. He began his career as an intern in the Journal’s Hong Kong bureau\, and has also worked as a markets reporter in the Journal’s New York office. Jonathan speaks English\, Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese\, French\, and Korean. A native of Toronto\, Canada. He graduated from Princeton University with a degree in history. He lives in Beijing and has traveled to North Korea twice.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/korean-messiah-kim-il-sung-and-the-christian-roots-of-north-koreas-personality-cult/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall
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SUMMARY:L'Avant-Scène presents "Juste la fin du monde" by Jean-Luc Lagarce
DESCRIPTION:The Department of French and Italian and L’Avant-Scène\, the French Theater Workshop\, present “Juste la fin du monde” by Jean-Luc Lagarce\, directed by Florent Masse and performed by L’Avant-Scène students. “Juste la fin du monde” is a contemporary classic written by Lagarce in 1990 and popularized in 2016 by the film directed by Xavier Dolan. The play depicts the return of Louis\, a 34-year-old man who returns home to tell his family that he is dying. Throughout the tense visit\, we see a family fractured by lack of communication and insecurities\, each member struggling to be heard and understood by the others. “Juste la fin du monde” will feature advanced L’Avant-Scène students : Jordan Coty Eloundou Ndongo GS\, Alex Pereyra `28\, Cécile Raas GS\, Louisa Joy `29\, and Blandine Guerrand. \nRegistration required.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lavant-scene-presents-juste-la-fin-du-monde-by-jean-luc-lagarce-2/
LOCATION:Rocky-Mathey Theater\, Rockefeller College\, 203 Madison Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:L'Avant-Scène presents "Juste la fin du monde" by Jean-Luc Lagarce
DESCRIPTION:The Department of French and Italian and L’Avant-Scène\, the French Theater Workshop\, present “Juste la fin du monde” by Jean-Luc Lagarce\, directed by Florent Masse and performed by L’Avant-Scène students. “Juste la fin du monde” is a contemporary classic written by Lagarce in 1990 and popularized in 2016 by the film directed by Xavier Dolan. The play depicts the return of Louis\, a 34-year-old man who returns home to tell his family that he is dying. Throughout the tense visit\, we see a family fractured by lack of communication and insecurities\, each member struggling to be heard and understood by the others. “Juste la fin du monde” will feature advanced L’Avant-Scène students : Jordan Coty Eloundou Ndongo GS\, Alex Pereyra `28\, Cécile Raas GS\, Louisa Joy `29\, and Blandine Guerrand. \nRegistration required.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lavant-scene-presents-juste-la-fin-du-monde-by-jean-luc-lagarce/
LOCATION:Rocky-Mathey Theater\, Rockefeller College\, 203 Madison Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:On Journalism and Scholarship: Kevin Sack in Conversation with Avram Alpert about "Mother Emanuel"
DESCRIPTION:Sack will present his book Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race\, Resistance\, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church\, a sweeping history of one of the nation’s most important African American churches and a profound story of courage and grace amid the fight for racial justice. Sack and Alpert will then talk about the importance of scholarship for Sack’s public writing\, and what scholars and journalists can learn from each other in terms of presenting research to general readers. \nPart of the Writing Program’s Public Scholarship Initiative\, in collaboration with Labyrinth Books. Co-sponsored by the Program in Journalism. \n\nFrom Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Kevin Sack\, Mother Emanuel is a sweeping history of one of the nation’s most important African American churches and a profound story of courage and grace amid the fight for racial justice.\n\nFew people beyond South Carolina’s Lowcountry knew of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston—Mother Emanuel—before the night of June 17\, 2015\, when a twenty-one-year-old white supremacist walked into Bible study and slaughtered the church’s charismatic pastor and eight other worshippers. Although the shooter had targeted Mother Emanuel—the first A.M.E. church in the South—to agitate racial strife\, he did not anticipate the aftermath: an outpouring of forgiveness from the victims’ families and a reckoning with the divisions of caste that have afflicted Charleston and the South since the earliest days of European settlement. \nMother Emanuel explores the fascinating history that brought the church to that moment and the depth of the desecration committed in its fellowship hall. It reveals how African Methodism was cultivated from the harshest American soil\, and how Black suffering shaped forgiveness into both a religious practice and a survival tool. Kevin Sack\, who has written about race in his native South for more than four decades\, uses the church to trace the long arc of Black life in the city where nearly half of enslaved Africans disembarked in North America and where the Civil War began. Through the microcosm of one congregation\, he explores the development of a unique practice of Christianity\, from its daring breakaway from white churches in 1817\, through the traumas of Civil War and Reconstruction\, to its critical role in the Civil Rights Movement and beyond. \nAt its core\, Mother Emanuel is an epic tale of perseverance\, not just of a congregation but of a people who withstood enslavement\, Jim Crow\, and all manner of violence with an unbending faith. \nKevin Sack is a veteran journalist who has written about national affairs for more than four decades and has been part of three Pulitzer Prize–winning teams. A native of Jacksonville\, Florida\, and a graduate of Duke University\, he spent thirty years on the staff of The New York Times\, where he specialized in writing long-form narrative and investigative reports\, often related to race. He has also written for the Los Angeles Times and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution\, and his work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine. He was previously an Emerson Collective Fellow at New America and teaches journalism at Princeton University. \nAvram Alpert is a generalist in the humanities. He works to understand what values we should live by in our connected\, chaotic\, and potentially catastrophic times. His writing has appeared in Aeon\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and elsewhere. His most recent book is The Good-Enough Life.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/on-journalism-and-scholarship-kevin-sack-in-conversation-with-avram-alpert-about-mother-emanuel/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:Regulatory Landscapes at the Whitney Biennial 2026
DESCRIPTION:Please note that this event location has changed and will now be held in N107\, School of Architecture. \nEmilio Martínez Poppe is an artist who is concerned with the right to the city and the struggle of public memory. Through a social and research-led practice spanning photography\, sculpture\, text\, and installations\, he explores the spatial mechanisms and ideological conditions that reproduce state and capital infrastructures. His current work explores the potentials of cultural organizing within the public sector as in his public art commission “Civic Views” in Philadelphia and his role managing the Public Artists in Residence Program in New York. Recent commissions and exhibitions include the Whitney Museum of American Art\, the Museum of the City of New York\, Queens Museum\, Abrons Art Center\, New York; Mural Arts\, Icebox Project Space\, Tiger Strikes Asteroid\, Philadelphia; Petrine\, Paris; and De Brakke Grond\, Amsterdam. \nDavid L. Johnson is an artist and educator based in New York City. Johnson makes work attuned to the streets of the city\, pinpointing moments of slippage between public and private property. His practice utilizes photography\, video\, found and stolen objects\, and installation to consider the politics\, histories\, aesthetics\, and forms of use that define contemporary urban space. Johnson received a BFA from the Cooper Union in 2015 and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020. He is an alumnus of the Whitney Independent Study Program and is a part-time faculty member in the Fine Arts MFA program at the Parsons School of Design. \nIgnacio Gatica lives and works between Santiago\, Chile and Brooklyn\, NY. Gatica deploys drawing\, installation\, sculpture\, video\, and text to reveal unsuspected connections between signs and signifiers of economic and social structures. Gatica pays special attention to the languages of currency\, finance\, retail culture\, and the global technologies and systems that shape our cities. Through various media\, Gatica’s research is articulated through responses to the mechanisms that dictate the civic and economic infrastructures. Gatica’s recent exhibitions include The Whitney Biennial 2026\, Playa Privada at Galería Patricia Ready in Santiago\, Chile (2025); Sujeto Cuantificado at Von Ammon Co. in Washington\, D.C. (2023). His work has been featured in group exhibitions at institutions such as SculptureCenter in New York City (2022)\, the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College in Annandale-On-Hudson\, New York (2022)\, and El Museo del Barrio in New York\, NY (2017). \nMODERATOR \nRubén Gallo\, Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor in Language\, Literature and Civilization of Spain\, Princeton University
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/regulatory-landscapes-at-the-whitney-biennial-2026/
LOCATION:Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lacan\, Althusser and the ‘Very Pretty Dream’ of Interdisciplinarity
DESCRIPTION:This talk will discuss how a shared critique of interdisciplinarity and the “conjectural sciences” shaped the alliance between French psychoanalysts and Marxists in the run-up to May ’68\, from its formation to its dissolution. \nKobe Keymeulen is a philosopher interested in the tension between the history of ideas and “anti-historicist” theoretical problems. \nKeymeulen largely specializes in continental philosophy from late modernity to the present (Kant\, Hegel\, Adorno\, Lacan\, Althusser\, Badiou\, Foucault\,…).  Following his doctoral dissertation\, Drawing the Line – Contemporary Continental Philosophy and the Concern of (Inter)Disciplinarity (2025)\, he continues to pursue the tricky conceptualization of what “a discipline” is (a science or an art\, contra Science or Art) according to these theoretical frameworks. \nAt Princeton\, he is working as a Fulbright Scholar on a project investigating the ongoing relationship between American literary theory and contemporary continental philosophy. His main focus is the influence of an ontological or materialist turn in 21st-century philosophies on approaches to critical theory in the United States\, pursuing shared points of reference (drawn from Marxism\, psychoanalysis\, et al) and methodological differences.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lacan-althusser-and-the-very-pretty-dream-of-interdisciplinarity/
LOCATION:40 McCosh\, 40 McCosh\, Princeton \, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Seniors Reading: Fiction & Creative Nonfiction
DESCRIPTION:Seniors in Princeton’s renowned Program in Creative Writing read from the novels and collections of short stories or creative nonfiction written as their senior independent work under mentorship of professional writers on the faculty. \nAdmission: Free and open to the public\nAccessibility: Chancellor Green Rotunda is an accessible venue. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at least one week in advance at LewisCenter@princeton.edu
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/creative-writing-seniors-reading-fiction-creative-nonfiction-2/
LOCATION:Chancellor Green Rotunda\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:REPORTING FROM BEIJING with Jonathan Cheng '05
DESCRIPTION:It has become a cliché that the U.S.-China relationship is the world’s most important bilateral relationship. But how does it feel on the ground\, and what tools do Western journalists have in reporting on one of the world’s most important — and most difficult-to-cover — countries? Jonathan Cheng ’05\, who has spent the last seven years in Beijing leading The Wall Street Journal\, including through the long COVID-19 years\, shares how the country and the reporting environment have changed during that time. \nJonathan Cheng is the China bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal\, overseeing the Journal’s coverage of the world’s second-largest economy across a range of areas including politics\, economics\, business\, technology\, and society. He oversees a team of more than two dozen correspondents and researchers in Beijing\, Shanghai\, Hong Kong\, Taipei\, Singapore\, and New York with responsibility for the Chinese mainland and Taiwan.  Previously\, Jonathan was the Seoul bureau chief for the Journal\, running coverage of the Korean peninsula\, including North Korea and South Korean politics and business. He began his career as an intern in the Journal’s Hong Kong bureau\, and has also worked as a markets reporter in the Journal’s New York office.  Jonathan speaks English\, Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese\, French\, and Korean. A native of Toronto\, Canada. He graduated from Princeton University with a degree in history. He lives in Beijing and has traveled to North Korea twice. \n\n\n\nSponsors\n\nEast Asian Studies Program\nCenter on Contemporary China\nProgram in Journalism
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/reporting-from-beijing-with-jonathan-cheng-05/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall
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SUMMARY:“Why Do You Begrudge Us Your Daughter?”: Genealogy as Slaveholding Practice
DESCRIPTION:In first-century CE Herculaneum\, a freedwoman named Petronia Vitalis staged a confrontation with her patrons over their claim to her daughter Iusta. Some years later\, Iusta would elevate the dispute to a legal matter\, leaving a cache of wooden tablets attesting to the entanglement of slavery and kinship in the household. Using Vitalis’ struggle as a jumping-off point\, I argue that genealogy was foundational to the practice of Roman slavery. \nWhile historians often focus on the ways that Roman slavery effaced ties of kinship to effect “natal alienation” (Patterson)\, I show that enslavers frequently recognized\, documented\, and even sought to establish enslaved (and freed) peoples’ family ties. Engaging in a selective and strategic mode of genealogy\, free Romans facilitated the continuity of their own family lines by appropriating the lineages of others.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/why-do-you-begrudge-us-your-daughter-genealogy-as-slaveholding-practice/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260421T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260421T170000
DTSTAMP:20260731T185319
CREATED:20260402T184824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T191752Z
UID:74122-1776783600-1776790800@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:How to Write a Song: Concert of New Songs
DESCRIPTION:Princeton students perform a concert of songs with music and lyrics written over the past semester as part of the spring Princeton Atelier course “How to Write a Song” co-taught by Bridget Kearney of the band Lake Street Dive and Bartees Strange\, named “Must-Hear Indie Artist of the Month” by Billboard in June 2022\, with a number of guest songwriters and music critics. In the class\, small songwriting teams weekly created music and lyrics inspired by such emotionally charged themes as Gratitude\, Loss\, Protest\, Desire\, Joyousness\, Remorse\, and Defiance.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/how-to-write-a-song-concert-of-new-songs-3/
LOCATION:Frist Theater\, Frist Theater\, Frist Campust Center\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260420T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260420T190000
DTSTAMP:20260731T185319
CREATED:20260419T021818Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260420T133218Z
UID:74280-1776708000-1776711600@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Exhibition Opening | Princeton in/and Cinema: From Thomas Edison to Oppenheimer
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a (re)discovery of Princeton’s important place in the history of cinema – and vice versa. \nDates\nOfficial launch: Monday\, April 20\, 2026 between 6:00 and 7:00 PM (with drinks and food)\nExhibition: April 20 to May 3\, 2026\, accessible during the opening times of the Princeton Public Library \nArgument: Lights\, camera\, Princeton: this dynamic exhibition at the Princeton Public Library\, supported by the National Humanities Center (Being Human Festival 2026) and Princeton Humanities Initiative\, uncovers the town’s surprising cinematic legacy\, from Thomas Edison’s pioneering experiments in nearby West Orange to Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. Through rare archival materials\, film stills\, newspapers\, and residents’ stories\, it traces how Princeton’s architecture\, landscapes\, and intellectual aura have shaped—and been shaped by—the moving image. Spanning early sound films like Varsity (1929) to contemporary productions\, the exhibition reveals a rich yet largely overlooked history at the crossroads of culture\, technology\, and storytelling. Inviting visitors of all backgrounds to see familiar spaces anew\, it offers a fresh\, engaging perspective on Princeton as both a setting and a protagonist in the history of cinema. \nPhoto courtesy of Princeton University’s Archives
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/exhibition-opening-princeton-in-and-cinema-from-thomas-edison-to-oppenheimer/
LOCATION:Princeton Public Library (Community Room)\, NJ\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260420T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260420T180000
DTSTAMP:20260731T185319
CREATED:20260410T153001Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260714T010331Z
UID:74210-1776702600-1776708000@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Christian Converts to Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean World
DESCRIPTION:Join Renaissance and the Early Modern Studies for the next Faber Lecture\, featuring Sir Noel Malcolm. \nThe Faber Lecture is supported by the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council. \nRead Sir Noel’s biography on the University of Oxford website.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/christian-converts-to-islam-in-the-early-modern-mediterranean-world/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260420T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260420T180000
DTSTAMP:20260731T185319
CREATED:20260401T175543Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260401T231323Z
UID:74076-1776702600-1776708000@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Creative Writing Seniors Reading: Poetry\, Playwriting & Screenwriting
DESCRIPTION:Seniors in Princeton’s renowned Program in Creative Writing read from the plays\, screenplays or collections of poems written as their senior independent work under mentorship of professional writers on the faculty. \nAdmission: Free and open to the public\nAccessibility: Chancellor Green Rotunda is an accessible venue. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at least one week in advance at LewisCenter@princeton.edu
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/creative-writing-seniors-reading-poetry-playwriting-screenwriting/
LOCATION:Chancellor Green Rotunda\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T190000
DTSTAMP:20260731T185319
CREATED:20260115T182630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T182630Z
UID:72994-1776535200-1776538800@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:"Le Retour au désert" by Bernard-Marie Koltès
DESCRIPTION:The Department of French and Italian and L’Avant-Scène\, the French Theater Workshop\, presents “Le Retour au désert” by Bernard-Marie. Koltès. Directed by Florent Masse.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/le-retour-au-desert-by-bernard-marie-koltes-2/
LOCATION:Rocky-Mathey Theater\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
GEO:40.3467174;-74.6568772
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T081500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T170000
DTSTAMP:20260731T185319
CREATED:20260305T205028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260309T123218Z
UID:73696-1776500100-1776531600@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Rethinking the Origins of Buddhist Studies in North America Kenneth Ch’en and the Central Role of Asian and Asian-American Scholars in Founding the Field
DESCRIPTION:This conference focuses on Professor Kenneth Ch’en (1907–1993) and his larger intellectual context. Professor Ch’en was the first professor specializing in Buddhism hired at Princeton and possibly the first scholar of East Asian descent to receive the rank of full professor here. The conference is the capstone of a larger project funded by the Princeton Histories Project\, which supports research on “aspects of Princeton’s history that have been forgotten\, overlooked\, subordinated\, or suppressed.” \nSponsors: Princeton Histories Fund; Department of Religion; East Asian Studies Program; Center for Culture\, Society\, and Religion; Program in Asian American Studies; Princeton University Humanities Council; Glorisun Global Network for Buddhist Studies; Numata Visiting Scholar Fund. \n 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/rethinking-the-origins-of-buddhist-studies-in-north-america-kenneth-chen-and-the-central-role-of-asian-and-asian-american-scholars-in-founding-the-field/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T190000
DTSTAMP:20260731T185319
CREATED:20260115T182528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T182528Z
UID:72992-1776448800-1776452400@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:"Le Retour au désert" by Bernard-Marie Koltès
DESCRIPTION:The Department of French and Italian and L’Avant-Scène\, the French Theater Workshop\, presents “Le Retour au désert” by Bernard-Marie. Koltès. Directed by Florent Masse.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/le-retour-au-desert-by-bernard-marie-koltes/
LOCATION:Rocky-Mathey Theater\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
GEO:40.3467174;-74.6568772
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T133000
DTSTAMP:20260731T185319
CREATED:20260326T195657Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T003958Z
UID:73958-1776427200-1776432600@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Possessing the Recent Past: Renewing the National Palace Museum of the Republic of China
DESCRIPTION:RSVP by April 10\, 2026. One RSVP per person. \nThe National Palace Museum houses more than 650\,000 artifacts across Chinese history. More than a repository of cultural treasures\, the Museum reflects the complex political and cultural conditions of Taiwan. As the Museum embarks on its latest expansion\, the project must address questions that extend beyond museology to issues of history\, identity\, and public meaning. This presentation examines the Museum’s historical trajectory within Taiwan’s evolving context and considers how the past informs the architectural design of its renewal. \nMichael Fei is an architect based in Taipei\, Taiwan. He earned his A.B. from Princeton University in 1994 and his M.Arch. from Columbia University in 1997. After dedicating 11 years to architectural endeavors in New York City\, he returned to Taipei to assume the position of Vice President at Fei & Cheng Associates. Under his leadership\, the firm has spearheaded notable projects\, including work for the National Palace Museum and Taoyuan Airport Terminal 3. \n\nThis project is supported by a David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Grant from the Humanities Council\, the Department and the Program in East Asian Studies\, and the Tang Center for East Asian Art
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/possessing-the-recent-past-renewing-the-national-palace-museum-of-the-republic-of-china/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall
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GEO:40.7228732;-74.0621867
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T132000
DTSTAMP:20260731T185319
CREATED:20260316T203718Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260317T121607Z
UID:73848-1776340800-1776345600@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Faculty Salon: Materials and Art in the Laboratory—Gold
DESCRIPTION:Faculty\, staff\, and scholars are invited to join our Materials Salon series\, featuring lightning talks centered on one material theme\, gold\, from faculty and scholars across the university. Through this series\, we intend to convene a broad group of scholars with shared interdisciplinary interests in this area to gather and exchange ideas across specialties and identify new approaches for research and teaching. Lunch will be served. \nJoin us for lightning talks by the following speakers: \n\n\nTom Duffy\, Professor and Chair\, Geosciences\nThere’s Gold in Them Hills: An Introduction to Gold Geology \nAdam Oberlin\, Senior Lecturer\, German\nVon tiurem golde rîche: Precious Materiality and the Lexicon in Old Germanic \nAlan Stahl\, Curator of Numismatics\, PUL\nBetter than Gold — the Purity of the Medieval Venetian Ducat \n\n\n\nSponsors\n\nCenter on Science and Technology\nPrinceton University Art Museum\nPrinceton Materials Institute
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/faculty-salon-materials-and-art-in-the-laboratory-gold/
LOCATION:Lewis Library Tree House\, 2nd Floor
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T131500
DTSTAMP:20260731T185319
CREATED:20260409T152222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260409T203223Z
UID:74191-1776340800-1776345300@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:PLAS Graduate Workshop
DESCRIPTION:GRADUATE PRESENTERS \nAngela Brown\nPh.D. Candidate in Art & Archaeology; PLAS Graduate Fellow\, Princeton University \n“Woven Anagrams: The Petate as Placemaker” \nDiscussant: Jonathan Mandel\, Art & Archaeology\, Princeton University \n~~~~~~~~~~~~ \nChloe Wheeler\nPh.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature\, Princeton University \n“Regal ekphrases: Reading Royals in Guaman Poma\, Úrsula de Jesús\, and Sor Juana de la Cruz” \nDiscussant: You-Jin Kim\, Ph.D. Candidate in Spanish and Portuguese\, Princeton University
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/plas-graduate-workshop/
LOCATION:216 Aaron Burr Hall\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T131500
DTSTAMP:20260731T185319
CREATED:20260114T011503Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260213T143811Z
UID:72949-1776340800-1776345300@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Mother Emanuel: Faith and Forgiveness Ten Years After the Charleston Church Massacre
DESCRIPTION:Few people beyond South Carolina’s Lowcountry knew of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston — Mother Emanuel — before June 17\, 2015\, when a young white supremacist massacred nine Black worshippers at an evening Bible study. Although the shooter had targeted the first AME church in the South to agitate racial strife\, he could not have anticipated the aftermath: an outpouring of forgiveness from victims’ families and a reckoning with the divisions of caste that have afflicted the South since the earliest days of European settlement. \nPulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Kevin Sack (Journalism) spent a decade researching and writing “Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race\, Resistance\, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church\,” which explores the remarkably rich 200-year history that brought the church to its lowest moment. During this lunch talk\, he will discuss the newly published book in conversation with Judith Weisenfeld (Religion)\, chair of the Department of Religion and a scholar of African American religious history. \nPresented by the Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism. Lunch talks are open to University faculty\, students\, and staff. Space is limited. RSVP required here. \n*Please note\, RSVP form requires University log-in credentials \nRelated reading: \nDebbie Elliot\, Andrew Craig\, Samantha Balaban\, NPR\, “10 years after the deadly church shooting\, a new history of ‘Mother Emanuel” \nNYT Staff\, The New York Times\, “The 10 Best Books of 2025”
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lunch-talk-kevin-sack-and-judith-weisenfeld/
LOCATION:16 Joseph Henry House
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260416
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260420
DTSTAMP:20260731T185319
CREATED:20260402T150340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T162745Z
UID:74091-1776308400-1776567599@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Floralia: A Conference in Honor of Harriet and Michael Flower
DESCRIPTION:A retirement conference in honor of Harriet Flower\, Andrew Fleming West Professor in Classics\, and Michael Flower\, David Magie ’97 Class of 1897 Professor of Ancient History. \nConference Speakers:\nMargaret M. Andrews\nNicole Brown\nJessica H. Clark\nMegan DiLuzio\nSarah Brown Ferrario\nAnna Bonnell Freidin\nHanna Gołąb\nKatharine Huemoeller\nDanielle L. Kellogg\nK. Scarlett Kingsley\nBrahm Kleinman\nJohn Marincola\nKassandra J. Miller\nDan-el Padilla Peralta\nSusan Satterfield\nHannah Smagh\nRobert Sobak\nCarolyn Tobin
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/floralia-a-conference-in-honor-of-harriet-and-michael-flower/
LOCATION:Princeton University
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260416
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260419
DTSTAMP:20260731T185319
CREATED:20260317T160014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260406T172223Z
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SUMMARY:The Mediterranean and Caribbean: A Wayward Comparison
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, the Mediterranean and Caribbean have attracted increasing scholarly attention. Both are transnational regions born of empire\, forged in extractive violence\, and animated by enduring traditions of resistance and radical imagination. Yet\, despite the clear resonances between the two archipelagos\, there has been next to no sustained scholarly effort to bring the Mediterranean and Caribbean into direct conversation\, or to theorize their relation. The Atlantic has marked both a geographic and epistemic divide; the few well-known attempts to bridge it\, such as Alexander von Humboldt’s famous description of the Caribbean as the “American Mediterranean\,” belie the embeddedness of the Northern European colonial vantage onto both seas. This workshop proposes a dialogue between these two archipelagic worlds\, suggesting that we view them not as stable and parallel geographies but as relational constellations in an unfolding map of dispossession\, resistance\, and survival. Rather than a search for equivalence\, our invitation to comparison encourages a wayward method in the sense articulated by Saidiya Hartman: a mode of thinking and moving that disorients\, that lingers in the errant and peripheral\, that refuses the disciplinary impulse to align. \nDiscussions will examine entangled histories of extraction and border regimes\, shared political imaginaries and solidarities\, maritime infrastructures and their submerged histories\, and the aesthetic and political practices that emerge from environmental violence across these seas. Together\, the workshop seeks to trace new lines of relation and to open a space for critical alliances across the Mediterranean and Caribbean worlds. \nSponsors\n\nDepartment of Comparative Literature\nPrinceton Institute of Regional Studies\nHumanities Council\nSeeger Center for Hellenic Studies\nUniversity Center for Human Values\nEffron Center of the Study of America\nDepartment of Anthropology\nDepartment of English\nDepartment of French and Italian
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-mediterranean-and-caribbean-a-wayward-comparison/
LOCATION:Carl A. Fields Center\, 58 Prospect Avenue\, Princeton\, New Jersey\, 08544
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260415T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260415T190000
DTSTAMP:20260731T185319
CREATED:20260413T205007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260414T123052Z
UID:74245-1776276000-1776279600@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:"The Five Ages of Antifascism"
DESCRIPTION:Joseph Fronczak\, research scholar at Princeton University’s Department of History\, is joined in conversation with Shiri Pasternak about his new book from Cambridge University Press\, The Five Ages of Antifascism\, a global history of antifascism from its inception to our own times. \nThe book’s inspiration and subject of critique is a work of fascist history\, Robert O. Paxton’s classic essay “The Five Stages of Fascism.” Paxton influentially studied fascism by comparing national case studies and proposing a cycle of five developmental stages through which each national fascism might progress. Fronczak counters Paxton’s method of stages with one of ages: instead of organizing antifascism into national case studies going through stages\, he organizes antifascism’s global history into five ages\, stressing the transnational causes and solidarities that pushed global antifascism to take form and shift shape over time. Part of Cambridge’s “Elements in the History and Politics of Fascism” series\, a further aim of this book is to pose this history of antifascism as a counterhistory of fascism\, a sort of epistemological experiment for rethinking fascism’s history through a formulation of antifascism’s history. \nJoseph Fronczak is a historian who has primarily written on politics and ideology in the modern world. He has also written on aspects of capitalism\, labor\, empire\, the national security state\, and social movements. He is the author of two books: Everything Is Possible: Antifascism and the Left in the Age of Fascism and The Five Ages of Antifascism. Fronczak received his undergraduate education at the University of Wisconsin and his Ph.D. in history at Yale University. He has been a faculty fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University\, a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University\, and a postdoctoral fellow in the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard. \nShiri Pasternak is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is currently serving at Princeton as Laurence G. Pathy ’56 Distinguished Visiting Professor in Canadian Studies and is teaching a course titled “The Long Arc of Fascism” for the Humanities Council’s Program in Humanistic Studies. Pasternak is the co-founder and former research director for the Yellowhead Institute\, an Indigenous-led think tank based in the Faculty of Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is the author of the award-winning book Grounded Authority: The Algonquins of Barriere Lake Against the State\, published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2017. She has contributed to numerous essay collections and academic journals\, while also writing for The Globe & Mail\, Toronto Star\, and Canada’s National Observer. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Princeton University’s Department of History\, The Fund for Canadian Studies\, the Humanities Council\, and Labyrinth Books.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-five-ages-of-antifascism/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260415T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260415T193000
DTSTAMP:20260731T185319
CREATED:20260224T154333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T205236Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening of The Fishbowl/La Pecera followed by Q&A with Film Director Glorimar Marrero Sánchez
DESCRIPTION:Screening of The Fishbowl (La Pecera) followed by Q&A with film director Glorimar Marrero Sánchez \nApril 15\, 5pm at 010 East Pyne\, Princeton University (doors open at 4:30pm). \nLa Pecera/The Fishbowl (Puerto Rico/Spain\, 2022\, 92 min. In Spanish with English Subtitles)\, directed by Glorimar Marrero Sánchez\, tells the story of a visual artist from Vieques as she faces terminal cancer and decides to return to her community\, which is still dealing with the effects and toxicity of decades of U.S. military testing ground for war. It is a film that talks about grief\, colonialism\, ecological harm\, and gender\, as it makes us see the ecological and social consequences of U.S. colonialism\, as well as about the power of a community that resisted it. \nThe film made history being the first Puerto-Rican produced film to premiere at 2023 Sundance Film Festival\, and to receive a nomination for the prestigious Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film (2024). The film received numerous international accolades\, including Best Film at the Cyprus Film Days and the Grand Jury Prize at the Seattle International Film Festival. It was also nominated for Best Latin American Film at the Forqué Awards\, and received two nominations at the Platino Awards \nSponsors\n\nThe Department of Comparative Literature\nProgram in Latin American Studies\nThe Council of Humanities\nGender and Sexualities Studies
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/film-screening-of-the-fishbowl-la-pecera-followed-by-qa-with-film-director-glorimar-marrero-sanchez/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260415T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260415T180000
DTSTAMP:20260731T185319
CREATED:20260413T110518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T123703Z
UID:74232-1776270600-1776276000@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:The Morality of Taxpaying in America
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Ruth Braunstein delves into how paying taxes became a moral battleground in American public life. \nRuth Braunstein studies religion\, politics\, and money. In her new book\, My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America\, Braunstein maps the contested moral landscape in which Americans experience and make sense of the tax system. Braunstein tells the stories of Americans who view taxpaying as more than a mundane chore: antigovernment tax defiers who challenge the legitimacy of the tax system\, antiwar activists who resist the use of their taxes to fund war\, antiabortion activists against “taxpayer funded abortions\,” and a diverse group of people who promote taxpaying as a moral good. \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/the-morality-of-taxpaying-in-america/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260415T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260415T180000
DTSTAMP:20260731T185319
CREATED:20260402T155005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T163258Z
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SUMMARY:“Defining the Old Japan”— Interpretations of Self-Cultivation in the Late Meiji and Taishō Periods
DESCRIPTION:This presentation will highlight developing views of “Chinese learning” (kangaku) and Rinzai Zen practice (sanzen) as related resources for personal cultivation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The reliance on classical textual studies for moral and intellectual development is illustrated by the regular attendance of laypeople\, especially university students and other young people with career aspirations\, at Zen master Shaku Sōen’s sermon (teishō) series in the Tokyo area. I cite an example from one of these talks in which he contextualizes and comments at length on a passage from the Mencius following the interpretation of Imakita Kōsen\, his predecessor as abbot of Engakuji in Kamakura. From the mid-1890s a growing number of young people in the Tokyo area not only attended these seemingly ecumenical lectures but also experimented with Zen practice at Engakuji and other nearby sites. They reportedly considered Zen a form of shūyō or moral discipline that would help advance their life goals in the rapidly modernizing nation of Japan. In this regard the great novelist\, Natsume Sōseki\, was representative of his generation; as a young man he\, too\, visited Kamakura and tried to practice Zen under Shaku Sōen. Sōseki’s later remarks about his experience in a short testimony called Iroke o sareyo\, and indirectly in his novel\, Mon\, give us a special glimpse into how “old” traditions of self-improvement were being redefined during this period. \nPlease note that registration is required.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/defining-the-old-japan-interpretations-of-self-cultivation-in-the-late-meiji-and-taisho-periods/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall
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