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SUMMARY:Sarah Lee Elson\, Class of 1984\, International Artist-in-Residence Talk
DESCRIPTION:Join the Princeton University Art Museum and the Tang Center for East Asian Art for a conversation between the Beijing-based painter Liu Xiaodong and Zoe S. Kwok\, the Nancy and Peter Lee Associate Curator of Asian Art. Liu is the Art Museum’s 2024 Sarah Lee Elson\, Class of 1984\, International Artist-in-Residence. He creates monumental social realist paintings; his practice involves photographing and painting carefully staged compositions that address social upheaval wrought by population displacement as well as economic and environmental crises. \nReception to follow. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum and the Tang Center for East Asian Art. \nLATE THURSDAYS! This event is part of the Museum’s Late Thursdays programming\, made possible in part by Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr.\, Class of 1970. Additional support for this program has been provided by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts\, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/sarah-lee-elson-class-of-1984-international-artist-in-residence-talk/
LOCATION:016 Robertson Hall
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SUMMARY:Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to discuss and celebrate Grafton’s revelatory new account of the magus—the learned magician—and his place in the intellectual\, social\, and cultural world of Renaissance Europe. \nIn literary legend\, Faustus is the quintessential occult personality of early modern Europe. The historical Faustus\, however\, was something quite different: a magus—a learned magician fully embedded in the scholarly currents and public life of the Renaissance. And he was hardly the only one. Anthony Grafton argues that the magus in sixteenth-century Europe was a distinctive intellectual type\, both different from and indebted to medieval counterparts as well as contemporaries like the engineer\, the artist\, the Christian humanist\, and the religious reformer. Alongside these better-known figures\, the magus had a transformative impact on his social world. \nMagus details the arts and experiences of learned magicians including Marsilio Ficino\, Pico della Mirandola\, Johannes Trithemius\, and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. Grafton explores their methods\, the knowledge they produced\, the services they provided\, and the overlapping political and social milieus to which they aspired—often\, the circles of kings and princes. During the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries\, these erudite men anchored debates about licit and illicit magic\, the divine and the diabolical\, and the nature of “good” and “bad” magicians. Over time\, they turned magic into a complex art\, which drew on contemporary engineering as well as classical astrology\, probed the limits of what was acceptable in a changing society\, and promised new ways to explore the self and exploit the cosmos. \nAnthony Grafton is the author of The Footnote\, Defenders of the Text\, Forgers and Critics\, and Inky Fingers\, among other acclaimed books. The Henry Putnam University Professor of History and the Humanities at Princeton University\, he writes regularly for the New York Review of Books. \nJennifer Rampling is a historian of medieval and early modern science and medicine at Princeton\, specializing in alchemy. She is the author of The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy\, 1300-1700. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council and the Center for Collaborative History
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/magus-the-art-of-magic-from-faustus-to-agrippa/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:From Resistance to Resilience—Stories from the Urban Risk Lab
DESCRIPTION:Miho Mazereeuw is Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism and Director of the Urban Risk Lab at MIT. Operating at several scales\, her research focuses on designing cities to prepare for disasters such as earthquakes\, flooding\, and typhoons. With the Urban Risk Lab\, she engages in extensive field work and community workshops\, focusing on the needs of diverse cultures and contexts. The Lab aspires to change the course of current global development trends through a radical shift in education and action to proactively embed preparedness and risk reduction in a rapidly urbanizing world. \nHer forthcoming book\, Design Before Disaster: Japan’s Culture of Preparedness (University of Virginia Press\, 2024)\, offers a holistic framework to design for anticipated disasters and provides examples of resilient interventions in urban landscapes and architecture. She has also been the recipient of the Janet Darling Webel Prize\, the Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship\, and the Wheelwright Prize. \nMazereeuw is both a registered architect and a registered landscape architect\, and prior to joining MIT\, she was an associate at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). Additionally\, she held teaching appointments at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the University of Toronto. Mazereeuw received her Master of Architecture and Landscape Architecture with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. \nLectures made possible by the Jean Labatut Memorial Lectures in Architecture and Urban Planning Fund.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/from-resistance-to-resilience-stories-from-the-urban-risk-lab/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
ORGANIZER;CN="Kyara Robinson":MAILTO:kr9710@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:The New York Arabic Orchestra presents "Mosaic" فسيفساء - featuring Layth Sidiq
DESCRIPTION:The New York Arabic Orchestra presents “Mosaic” فسيفساء (Fusaifisa)\, a concert embodying the rich tapestry of Arabic culture. With a palette of diverse sounds and rhythms\, the orchestra will navigate through the musical landscapes of the Arab world\, showcasing the profound diversity of this vibrant region. Each piece is a tile in the vast mosaic\, reflecting the area’s spirit\, from celebration to sorrow. This event is more than just a concert; it’s a sanctuary for expression\, an opportunity to rejoice\, grieve\, and reminisce the incredible history of this music. \nTickets are required. \nCo-sponsored by the Near Eastern Studies Program\, Department of Near Eastern Studies\, Humanities Council\, Lewis Center of the Arts\, Department of Music
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-new-york-arabic-orchestra-presents-mosaic-%d9%81%d8%b3%d9%8a%d9%81%d8%b3%d8%a7%d8%a1-featuring-layth-sidiq/
LOCATION:Alexander Hall\, Richardson Auditorium\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Deena Abdel-Latif":MAILTO:deenaa@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Seeing and Hearing Divine Music in Ancient Greek Art
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines Athenian vase-paintings and reliefs that depict the gods most frequently shown as musicians. Drawing on recent work in sensory studies\, Carolyn argues that images could visually suggest the sounds of the gods’ music. This representational strategy\, whereby sight and sound are blurred\, conveys the “unhearable” nature of their music: because it cannot be physically heard\, it falls to the human imagination to provide its sounds and awaken viewers’ multisensory engagement with the images. \nCarolyn M. Laferrière is the Assistant Curator of Ancient Mediterranean Art at the Princeton University Art Museum. She is the author of Divine Music in Archaic and Classical Greek Art: Seeing the Songs of the Gods\, and is the Associate Editor for Greek and Roman Musical Studies. \nPlease RSVP here if you plan to attend. \n 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/seeing-and-hearing-divine-music-in-ancient-greek-art/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House\, 209 Scheide Caldwell House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240223T160000
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SUMMARY:Restored Chinese Film Classics
DESCRIPTION:We will be showing three screenings of recently restored films from the Golden Age of Chinese cinema\, and hosting a seminar discussion with prominent scholars of twentieth-century Chinese culture and film (details below). \nBarber Takes a Wife 假凤虛凰\nFebruary 23rd\, 4:00pm\nLocation: 202 Jones\nIntroduction by Christopher Rea (University of British Columbia)\nIn post-war Shanghai\, Miss Fan (Li Li-hua)\, a penniless single mother\, and Yang Xiao- mao (Shi Hui)\, a hairdresser\, mask their identities in an attempt to marry for financial gain.\nDirector: Huang Zuolin Year: 1946\n71 min \nThe Flower Girl 花姑娘\nFebruary 23rd\, 6:00pm\nLocation: 202 Jones\nIntroduction by Weihong Bao (UC Berkeley)\nAdapted from Guy de Maupassant’s Boule de Suif\, this politically charged drama is transposed to wartime China. On crossing a checkpoint\, an attractive woman (Li Li-hua) catches the eye of a Japanese officer.\nDirector: Zhu Shilin Year: 1951\n96 min \nA Marriage Full of Obstacles 误佳期\nFebruary 24th\, 1:30pm\nLocation: 202 Jones\nIntroduction by Laurence Coderre (NYU)\nA young couple falls in love\, but lacks the financial means for marriage and a place of their own. A comedy of errors ensues\, until…\nDirector: Zhu Shilin Year: 1951\n93 min \nSeminar with Weihong Bao (UC Berkeley)\, Laurence Coderre (NYU)\, and\nXia Xiaoyu (Society of Fellows)\nFebruary\, 24th 10am-12pm\nLocation: 202 Jones\nPlease email Friederike Ach\, fach@princeton.edu to participate.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/restored-chinese-film-classics/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Friederike Ach":MAILTO:fach@princeton.edu
GEO:40.7228732;-74.0621867
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240226T120000
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SUMMARY:On Translating Qiu Jin: To Meet a Kindred Spirit Who Cherishes the Same Songs
DESCRIPTION:The Mandarin term “zhīyīn” 知音 can be translated directly as “the one who truly understands your songs\,” and encapsulates one’s longing for a kindred spirit who shares your deepest ideals. This sentiment is at the heart of the poetry of Chinese feminist poet Qiu Jin\, and has also become the central lens through which Yilin Wang approaches translating Qiu Jin’s work. Through presenting her translations of Qiu Jin’s work alongside her translator’s commentary\, Yilin Wang will reflect on her creative practice as a translator. She will discuss poetry translation as a type of intimate dialogue with the text and author\, as built on deep shared understanding of cultural knowledge\, and as a form of advocacy for underrepresented voices and literatures.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/on-translating-qiu-jin-to-meet-a-kindred-spirit-who-cherishes-the-same-songs/
LOCATION:144 Louis A. Simpson Building
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240226T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240226T180000
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SUMMARY:The Promise and Peril of Large Language Models for Cultural Analytics
DESCRIPTION:Much work at the intersection of NLP and cultural analytics/computational social science is focused on creating new algorithmic measuring devices for constructs we see encoded in text (including agency\, respect\, and power\, to name a few). How does the paradigm shift of large language models change this? In this talk\, I’ll discuss the role of LLMs (such as ChatGPT\, GPT-4 and open alternatives) for research in cultural analytics\, both raising issues about the use of closed models for scholarly inquiry and charting the opportunity that such models present. The rise of large pre-trained language models has the potential to radically transform the space of cultural analytics by both reducing the need for large-scale training data for new tasks and lowering the technical barrier to entry\, but need care in establishing the reliability of results. \nDavid Bamman is an associate professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley\, where he works in the areas of natural language processing and cultural analytics\, applying NLP and machine learning to empirical questions in the humanities and social sciences. His research focuses on improving the performance of NLP for underserved domains like literature (including LitBank and BookNLP) and exploring the affordances of empirical methods for the study of literature and culture. Before Berkeley\, he received his PhD in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and was a senior researcher at the Perseus Project of Tufts University. Bamman’s work is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities\, National Science Foundation\, an Amazon Research Award\, and an NSF CAREER award.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-promise-and-peril-of-large-language-models-for-cultural-analytics/
LOCATION:006 Friend Center\, 006 Friend Center\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Camey VanSant":MAILTO:cvansant@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240226T170000
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SUMMARY:Philosophies of Defeat
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Comparative Literature Lecture Series \n\nSponsors\n\nThe Department of Comparative Literature\nCo-Sponsored by the Department of German\, and the Humanities Council
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/philosophies-of-defeat/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne
ORGANIZER;CN="Valerie Kanka":MAILTO:vjkanka@priceton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T132000
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SUMMARY:Navigating the Emotional Layers and Subtext of a Poem
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a poetry translation workshop where we’ll examine and reflect on the importance of considering subtext\, shifts\, and ambiguity when translating a poem. Yilin Wang will share translations of several Chinese poems to invite attendees to reflect on the choices made by translators\, and give a behind-the-scenes look at her process for poetry translation. The workshop will engage participants in discussions about the different ways in which translators can convey the emotional arc of a poem. In conversation with Daisy Rockwell\, PTIC Spring 2024 Translator in Residence.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/navigating-the-emotional-layers-and-subtext-of-a-poem/
LOCATION:161 Louis A. Simpson Building
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T180000
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SUMMARY:Edward Said ’57 Memorial Lecture | Radiance in Pain and Resilience: The Global Reverberation of Palestinian Historical Trauma
DESCRIPTION:What is the role of cultural identity in preserving wellbeing and navigating the wounds of history? This lecture explores the profound historical trauma ingrained in the Palestinian experience and its global repercussions. Grounded in the wisdom of Edward Said\, the lecture delves into the psychological dimensions of displacement\, dispossession\, and cultural distortion. It analyzes the lasting impact of trauma on representation and psychical wellbeing\, especially in the face of the continuous distressing military attacks on Gaza. The discussion highlights how Edward Said’s vision of intellectual responsibility offers a framework for psychological resilience and representation in the face of historical trauma. \n  \nDr. Samah Jabr is a psychiatrist practicing in the public and the private sectors within Palestine in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. She is currently the head of the mental health unit within the Palestinian Ministry of Health. She has taught both in the classroom and in clinical settings on the faculties of several Palestinian universities and she is affiliated with George Washington University within the Division of Global Mental Health\, where she is currently an associate clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. She is a trainer of several subjects related to psychiatry and psychotherapy including CBT\, mhGAP\, Istanbul Protocol for the documentation of torture and Treatnet package for drug addiction. \nDr. Jabr often serves as a consultant for international organizations regarding program development\, policy planning\, and program implementation and as a provider of psychological support and well-being workshops for human right organizations. Her varied areas of interest include the rights of prisoners\, the problem of stigma\, psychoanalysis\, childhood trauma\, and the integration of mental health with public health. She is a prolific writer on diverse subjects\, in both academic and public media\, related to mental health and human rights; she authored the book Beyond the Frontlines\, Derrière les fronts: Chroniques d’une psychiatre psychothérapeute palestinienne sous occupation\, published by PMN in 2017\, which appeared in French\, Italian and Spanish\, and the book Sumud\, resistere all’oppressione\, published in Italian by Sensibili alle foglie in 2021. She is also an author of several Arabic professional manuals and guidebooks\, one of them\, on suicide prevention\, won the 2021 prize of the Arabpsy.net. \nDr. Jabr is also a founding member of the Palestine Global Mental Health Network. \n\nSponsors\n\nEdward W. Said Memorial Lecture Fund\nPrinceton Committee on Palestine\nDepartment of English\nDepartment of African American Studies
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/radiance-in-pain-and-resilience-the-global-reverberation-of-palestinian-historical-trauma-edward-said-57-memorial-lecture/
LOCATION:10 McCosh
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Malone":MAILTO:sarah.k.malone@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T180000
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SUMMARY:Antonin Artaud\, Made in USA
DESCRIPTION:Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)\, the world-famous author of The Theater and Its Double and To Have Done with the Judgment of God\, became after his death the subject of passionate theoretical\, critical\, and aesthetic debates in France. This French enthusiastic reception was replicated in the United States in the 1950s\, when certain texts by Artaud were translated and began to circulate. While the observation that there is an “Artaud made in France” just as there is an “Artaud made in USA” might seem trite\, it is far from obvious. Beyond the usual transfers and cultural crossings between the two contexts\, in the case of Artaud the two receptions\, French and American\, seem to be constructed autonomously. In the United States\, Artaud became synonymous with dissidence\, often associated with other similar instances of dissent. While in France Artaud’s voice is considered to be unique in its paroxysmal intensity\, in the United States it merges with other marginal and revolutionary voices. This talk will examine precisely how this American reception was constructed after the 1950s.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/antonin-artaud-made-in-usa/
LOCATION:105 Chancellor Green
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kelly Eggers":MAILTO:keggers@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T180000
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SUMMARY:"A Better World for Migrants in Latin America and the Caribbean"
DESCRIPTION:Ana Maria Ibañez\, Vice President of Sectors and Knowledge at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)\, will present the book “A Better World for the Migrant Population in Latin America and the Caribbean”\, which offers regional research on the use of cost-effective strategies to change people’s perceptions of migration. \nABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER \nAna María Ibáñez\, a citizen of Colombia\, was appointed Vice President for Sectors and Knowledge (VPS) in June of 2023. Prior this appointment\, Ibáñez was Economics Principal Advisor in VPS since 2019 when she joined the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). In this role\, she coordinated and supervised the VPS knowledge program in close collaboration with the operational departments\, focusing on aligning the multi-annual agenda with the development priorities of the Region. \nBefore joining the Bank\, Ibáñez was a professor in the School of Economics at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá since 2003 where she conducted cutting-edge research on migration\, rural development\, and the consequences of conflict. Additionally\, from 2012 to 2016 she was Dean of the School of Economics at the same university and from 2008 to 2012\, she was the Director of the Research Center of the School of Economics (CEDE). Ibáñez has been a visiting professor and senior fellow at several Universities during her career\, including Princeton and Yale\, and is an accomplished writer of publications and books with particular emphasis on migration\, forced displacement and armed conflict. \nAna María Ibáñez served in the Board of Directors of Grupo Éxito\, BBVA-Colombia\, Fundación Éxito and Fundación Saldarriaga Concha\, as well as the Advisory Committee of the United Nation’s Peace Building Fund\, and the World Bank’s Commission on Poverty. She holds a Ph.D. and Master’s degrees in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Maryland at College Park and an undergraduate degree in Economics from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá in Colombia. \nDISCUSSANT \nMaria Micaela Sviatschi\, Economics and Public Affairs\, Princeton University
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/a-better-world-for-migrants-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/
LOCATION:216 Aaron Burr Hall\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Damaris Zayas":MAILTO:damaris@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240227T170000
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SUMMARY:Media and Modernity: "Ars::longa"
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Program in Media + Modernity | Princeton University \nPaul Chan\n“Ars::longa”\n[Response: Devin Fore]\nTuesday\, February 27\, 2024 @5pm ET\nN107 (School of Architecture) \nIt is traditionally understood that the first part of “Ars longa\, vita brevis” means it takes a long time to master an art or technology. Another interpretation is that art lasts\, perhaps longer than life. I suggest a new third reading: that art extends life itself. To support this reading\, I consider the work of Chris Marker\, Arakawa & Gins\, and experiences from my own private research and development in the domain of artificial intelligence called Natural Language Processing. Hellenistic mathematicians Archimedes and Eratosthenes\, who fused poetry with calculation to capture what is “unbounded” or “infinite” are invoked. Naturally\, Faust appears. \nPaul Chan is an artist based in New York. He founded the press Badlands Unlimited (2010-2018). “Breathers”\, a survey exhibition of his recent practice organized by the Walker Art Center\, Minneapolis\, will travel to the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis in March 2024. Chan was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2022. \nDevin Fore is Professor of German at Princeton University. He is editor of Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test (Yale University Press\, 2017) and History and Obstinacy by Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt (Zone Books\, 2014); he is also author of Realism after Modernism: The Rehumanization of Art and Literature (The MIT Press\, 2012) and Soviet Factography: Reality without Realism (University of Chicago Press\, forthcoming this fall). \nImage Caption: Paul Chan\, Left Handed Stomachion\, 2023 (detail) \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 S118 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-arslonga/
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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SUMMARY:Friends of Princeton University Library Small Talk: "When Books Went to War"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Molly Guptill Manning\, author of “When Books Went to War” and curator of “The Best-Read Army in the World\,” recently on display at The Grolier Club\, joins the Friends of PUL on Wednesday. Feb. 28 to discuss the fascinating story of the “Armed Services Editions” books – pocket-sized editions that were sent to American troops during World War II to provide soldiers with not only a pastime\, but also a reminder of their fight for democracy.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/friends-of-princeton-university-library-small-talk-when-books-went-to-war/
LOCATION:Center for Modern Aging Princeton\, 101 Poor Farm Road
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stephanie Oster":MAILTO:soster@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:2023-24 Old Dominion Public Lecture Series - Reading (like a translator?): The War-time Poetry of René Char
DESCRIPTION:Feuillets d’Hypnos (Leaves of Hypnos) was written by the poet René Char during the French Resistance.  It reflects particularly on his years as a leader on the Maquis. The text won immediate praise from critics\, from philosophers such as Albert Camus\, Martin Heidegger\, and Hannah Arendt\, from painters such as Georges Braque\, Henri Matisse\, and Pablo Picasso.  Though often considered a particularly difficult text in French\, it was soon translated into some thirty languages\, and several artistic forms–and is currently the subject of a collaborative scholarly project.  Drawing on Princeton’s “Char archives\,” as well as recent translation theory\, we ask:  How might we better understand Char’s poetry of resistance and its cultural diffusion?  What new insights might these offer about translation\, resistance\, and the reading of poetry? \nSandra L. Bermann is Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Comparative Literature.  She served as Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature (1998-2010) and co-founded the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication (2007). During her career at Princeton\, Bermann served in various university capacities\, including Head of Whitman College (2011-19).  Above all\, she has contributed to international learning within the university\, as Chair of the President’s Bridge Year Program planning group (2008)\, as Founder and Director of the PIIRS Migration Research Community (2016-19); and Director of the Fung Global Fellows Program (2020-21).  Within the field of comparative literature\, she has pursued these goals as President of the American Comparative Literature Association (2007-09) and later\, as President of the International Comparative Literature Association (2019-2022).  In addition to numerous essays in the fields of lyric poetry\, history and theory of literature\, as well as in translation studies\, her books include The Sonnet Over Time: A Study in the Sonnets of Petrarch\, Shakespeare and Baudelaire\, (1988); Manzoni’s ‘On the Historical Novel\,’ A Translation and Critical Introduction\, (1984; 1996); Nation\, Language\, and the Ethics of Translation\, co-edited with Michael Wood (2005); and The Wiley -Blackwell Companion to Translation Studies\, co-edited with Catherine Porter (2014). \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-4/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:“Trading Goods and Exchanging Faiths in the Late Antique Red Sea”
DESCRIPTION:Beginning with an introduction to early global trade\, my paper traces the arrival of monotheism in the Red Sea region through a comparative approach taking into account other nodal first-millennium regions (e.g.\, Central Asia) to reframe the complex interweaving of faith\, identity\, and economic activity during Late Antiquity.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/trading-goods-and-exchanging-faiths-in-the-late-antique-red-sea/
LOCATION:103 Scheide Caldwell
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eleni Banis":MAILTO:hbanis@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240228T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240228T180000
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SUMMARY:Into the Forever and Beautiful Sky: Animal Brutality in a Galaxy of Limitless Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Andrea Jain asks\, What happens when we show a film that pays worshipful attention to animal welfare to a Marvel Studios-sized audience? How does capitalism colonize the popular imagination\, religious and otherwise? Lifting up the Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 as her primary artifact\, Jain uses the film to illustrate how capitalists sell animal ethics and why consumers buy it\, arguing that confrontations with animal brutality get contained within and subsumed by capitalist realism\, that is\, a framework in which capitalism is deemed limitless and without viable alternatives\, and gun capitalism\, that is\, the material and cultural condition of being flooded with guns\, which are mass produced and sold as consumer products. \nThe Doll Lecture on Religion and Money was established in 2007 by Henry C. Doll ’58 and his family. It reflects the family’s longstanding interest in the subject of philanthropy and its relationship with religion. \nThis event is free and open to the public. If you cannot attend in person\, register to watch the livestream webinar.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/into-the-forever-and-beautiful-sky-animal-brutality-in-a-galaxy-of-limitless-capitalism/
LOCATION:A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building\, Washington Road\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jenny Legath":MAILTO:jlegath@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240228T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240228T190000
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SUMMARY:PISC no.5: "The Poet of Islam": The Reception of Muhammad Iqbal in Egypt
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: “This paper reconstructs the largely untold history of how Indian- Muslim poet Muhammad Iqbal’s works arrived in the Arab world through the Egyptian poet ‘Abd al-Wahhab ‘Azzam. His interpretation of Iqbal set the terms of Najib al-Kilani’s—the Arab world’s most influential advocate for a new genre of literature termed al-adab al-islami—own engagement with the poet\, as he both accepted Azzam’s reading of Iqbal and evolved its latent potentials. In the case of both ‘Azzam and al-Kilani\, however\, it is Iqbal’s complicated Sufism—read through the Romantic orientation of Egypt’s literary culture in the early twentieth century—which generated the discursive terrain upon which Iqbal’s poetry could be codified as a metric of literary “Islamness\,” one concrete and consistent enough to anchor a new canon of “Islamic” literature. The paradoxical process of reifying Iqbal’s philosophy of process echoes in al-Kilani’s later thought as an enduring set of tensions if not contradictions. It was thus his early Iqbalian encounter\, and its stubborn irresolvability\, which lent al-Kilani’s lifelong project of Islamic literature both its ideological conservatism and its subversive edge.” \nThe Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium is a forum to discuss work-in-progress of grad students and confirmed scholars. \nWe look forward to hosting you (in person and on Zoom)— sign up here to attend and receive the paper: tinyurl.com/pisc2024
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/pisc-no-5-the-poet-of-islam-the-reception-of-muhammad-iqbal-in-egypt/
LOCATION:102 Jones Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Athina Pfeiffer":MAILTO:apfeiffer@princeton.edu
GEO:40.3815302;-74.651754
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SUMMARY:Movies For Your Mind: Translating Research into Artful Audio Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:We’ve all been there. After weeks and weeks of digging into the archives\, conducting interviews\, and reading countless pages\, you find yourself staring at a mountain of information\, wondering: how can I possibly synthesize all of this into something not only understandable but engaging. That is the challenge we face at Throughline as well. In each episode of this audio documentary history podcast\, we convert that mountain of information into something someone with no knowledge of a complex topic can absorb\, digest\, and truly connect with (in 50 minutes). Our goal is to create an entertaining experience that guides you through the information… a movie for your mind. In this session\, I’ll share some of the techniques we’ve developed to translate great research into great audio storytelling. \nRund Abdelfatah\, co-creator of NPR’s Peabody-Award-winning show Throughline. \nPlease RSVP for this event; space is limited. Open to University faculty\, students\, and staff. \n  \n 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/movies-for-your-mind-translating-research-into-artful-audio-storytelling-4/
LOCATION:16 Joseph Henry House
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SUMMARY:Screening event: PBS American Experience "Freedom Riders"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special screening of PBS’s “American Experience: Freedom Riders\,” an inspirational 2010 documentary by veteran filmmaker Stanley Nelson. \nThe 1961 Freedom Rides are a focus of the current exhibition at Seeley Mudd Manuscript Library\, “Nobody Turn Us Around: The Freedom Rides and Selma to Montgomery Marches– Selections from the John Doar Papers.” The Freedom Riders–members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)\, the Nashville Student Movement\, and many others–risked their lives to ride buses together in interracial groups through the Deep South\, challenging segregation in terminal waiting rooms and facilities. In the process\, these activists managed to bring the president and the entire American public face to face with the challenge of correcting civil rights inequities that plagued the nation. Interviewing influential figures on both sides of the issue\, Nelson chronicles a chapter of American civil rights history that stands as an astonishing testament to the incredible combination of personal conviction and the courage to organize against all odds. \nThe screening will be followed by a private viewing of the exhibition at Mudd Manuscript Library with exhibition curators Will Clements and Phoebe Nobles\, along with refreshments and a special pop-up exhibit featuring original archival materials related to the Freedom Riders that are not featured in the main exhibit.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/screening-event-pbs-american-experience-freedom-riders/
LOCATION:113 Friend Center
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stephanie Oster":MAILTO:soster@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Empires of galanterie: The Transformations of the Imperial Imagination in Eighteenth-century France
DESCRIPTION:In 1763\, an engraving was published in Paris to advertise French colonization in Guyana. Depicting a wealthy land\, rich in promises\, and couples engaged in gallant conversations\, the image promoted a peaceful colonization. It ephemerally reenacted a gallant aesthetic born in Louis XIV’s reign which contributed to frame the imaginary of French empire and colonies until the Regency years. How did this imaginary take form around 1700? How was it articulated to the gallant aesthetics of Louis XIV? From the islands of love to the fêtes galantes and the rise of gallant myths and epics\, this lecture will explore gallantry as an ideal of civilization and commerce between sexes and nations and how it contributed to shape French imperial imagination and its transformation into an irenic trope of colonization.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/empires-of-galanterie-the-transformations-of-the-imperial-imagination-in-eighteenth-century-france/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mo Chen":MAILTO:mochen@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Stewart Lecture in Religion - Simone Weil and Etty Hillesum: Saints? Masochists? Both? Neither?
DESCRIPTION:Timothy P. Jackson is Bishop Mack B. and Rose Stokes Professor of Theological Ethics at The Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta\, Georgia. Professor Jackson has previously held teaching posts at Rhodes College\, Yale University\, Stanford University\, and the University of Notre Dame. He has been a Visiting Fellow at The Center of Theological Inquiry\, The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale\, The Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton\, and The Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard. A native of Louisville\, Kentucky\, Jackson received his B.A. in Philosophy from Princeton and his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Religious Studies from Yale. He is the author of Love Disconsoled; Meditations on Christian Charity (Cambridge 1999)\, The Priority of Love; Christian Charity and Social Justice (Princeton 2003)\, Political Agape; Christian Love and Liberal Democracy (Eerdmans 2015)\, and Mordecai Would Not Bow Down; Anti-Semitism\, the Holocaust\, and Christian Supersessionism (Oxford 2021). He is currently working on a book entitled Faith in Science?; How Three Scientific Revolutions Help to Reconcile Theology and Empirical Inquiry. In 2020\, Professor Jackson received Emory’s Crystal Apple Teaching Award for “Excellence in Professional School Education.”
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/stewart-lecture-in-religion-simone-weil-and-etty-hillesum-saints-masochists-both-neither/
LOCATION:001 Robertson Hall
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SUMMARY:"State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain"
DESCRIPTION:This book talk will present and discuss the unique three volume collection “State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain”\, published by Cambridge University Press in 2013\, 2019 and 2023. The collection is the result of a long-term research project coordinated by the editors of the three volumes\, Miguel A. Centeno (Princeton University) and Agustin E. Ferraro (University of Salamanca)\, with contributions by leading international scholars. \nThe collection represents a major intellectual achievement. One of many enthusiastic reviews described it as “among the most integrated edited collections I have read\, and it ranks with the very top collections on nation-state making\, bar none.” (David Cook-Martin\, Contemporary Sociology 44 (5): 642-644). \nDeficiencies or weaknesses of state institutions are associated with—or directly responsible for—many of the current social troubles in Latin American countries. These adversities include from poverty to outright destitution\, from lack of public security to gender violence and other forms of social discrimination\, from anemic economic growth to lack of opportunities and life perspectives. “State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain” offers a vast historical panorama of state building and the formation of national identities\, since the beginning of the nineteenth century in the regions under study. At the same time\, the collection contributes to the development of a new\, original perspective and methodology of research on the state in Latin America and Spain. \nABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKERS \nMiguel A. Centeno is the Musgrave Professor of Sociology and Executive Vice-Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA; on leave) at Princeton University. His latest publications are “War and Society (Polity 2016)\, Global Capitalism” (Polity 2010)\, “States in the Developing World” (Cambridge UP\, 2017) and “State and Nation Making in the Iberian World” (Cambridge UP \, Vol 1\, 2013; Vol. II 2018\, Vol III\, 2023)\, and “When Worlds Collapse” (Routledge\, 2023). He is the founder of the Research Community on Global Systemic Risk and is also working a new book project on the sociology of discipline. In 2000\, he founded the Princeton University Preparatory Program\, which provides intensive supplemental training for lower income students in local high schools. From 2003 to 2007\, he served as the founding Director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. From 1997-2004 he also served as Head of Wilson College at Princeton. From 2012 to 2017\, he served as Chair of the Sociology Department. \nAgustin E. Ferraro is a Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Salamanca in Spain. Born in Buenos Aires\, Argentina\, from 1994 to 1996 he was a fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the University of Frankfurt to complete his Ph.D. dissertation. From 2001 to 2003\, he was Alexander von Humboldt scholar in Hamburg and London. In 2009\, he won the prestigious national award of the National Institute for Public Administration in Spain\, for original research on Latin American state institutions. Ferraro was Visiting Professor at Princeton University for six months during the Spring Term 2011. He has published books\, journal articles and book chapters in Spanish\, English\, German\, and Portuguese. \nThis event has been co-organized with the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS). \nThis event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/state-and-nation-making-in-latin-america-and-spain/
LOCATION:A71 Louis A. Simpson Building
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ORGANIZER;CN="Damaris Zayas":MAILTO:damaris@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Ancient\, Indigenous\, and Modern Plays from Africa and the Diaspora
DESCRIPTION:The power of theatrical performance is universal\, but the style and concerns of theatre are specific to individual cultures. Join us as we celebrate and discuss a new volume in the Global Theatre Perspectives series\, which presents a reconstructed ancient performance text\, four one-act indigenous African plays and five modern dramas from various regions of Africa and the Caribbean Diaspora. \nBecause these plays span centuries and are the work of artists from diverse cultures\, readers can see elements that occur across time and space. Physicalized ritual\, direct interaction with spectators\, improvisation\, music\, drumming\, and metaphorical animal characters help create the theatrical forms in multiple plays. Recurring themes include the establishment or challenging of political authority\, the oppression or corruption of government\, societal expectations based on gender\, the complex and transformational nature of identity\, and the power of dreams. \nAmong the creators of the pieces are two Nobel Laureates\, those who have been exiled or jailed for the political nature of their work\, and the author of his country’s first constitution. The global perspectives approach\, letting works from ancient\, indigenous\, and modern times resonate with each other\, encourages thinking across boundaries and connective human understanding. \nSimon Gikandi is Professor and Chair of English at Princeton University\, where he is also affiliated with the Departments of Comp Lit\, African Americna Studies and the Program in African Studies. His many books include Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature; and Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism. He is the coauthor of The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English since 1945. R. N. Sandberg is a lecturer at the Lewis Center for the Arts and Department of English\, Princeton University. Though retired in 2021\, he has continued to be affiliated with the Program in Theater\, advising and directing student theses. Stacy Wolf is Professor of Theater\, Director of Fellowships\, and Director of the Program in Music Theater at Princeton University. She is the author of Changed for Good: A Feminist History of Broadway Musical; A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical; and most recently of Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of the American Musical. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council\, the Lewis Center for the Arts\, the African American Studies Department and the Program in African Studies.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/ancient-indigenous-and-modern-plays-from-africa-and-the-diaspora/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240301T160000
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SUMMARY:2024 Womxn in Design and Architecture Conference: Alero Olympio: Activated Matter
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Womxn in Design and Architecture (WDA\, @princetonwda)\, a graduate student group formed in 2014 at Princeton University School of Architecture\, this annual conference celebrates the work and memory of a pivotal architect or designer with contributions from international historians and scholars\, in addition to artists\, musicians\, curators\, and practitioners. The eighth Womxn in Design Conference at the Princeton School of Architecture honors the life and work of Alero Olympio. \nAlero Olympio was an architect and builder of radical ecologies. Born in Ghana and working extensively between Scotland and her homeland\, Olympio theorized and exercised a rigorous dedication to social and environmental sustainability at all scales. She envisioned building methods and materials as emergent sites of potential\, rejecting industrialized products in favor of inherited\, place-specific knowledge systems. Locally sourced Laterite clay and African hardwood were essential materials in her new architectural language\, as she championed the ongoing protection of West African timber resources and delicate forest ecosystems. Olympio’s work codified an intimately ecological approach to architecture\, one embedded within the specific material and social conditions of its place\, and an innovative and distinctly African mode of practice. \nDynamic and inspired\, Olympio challenged the conventional architect archetype. She pursued entrepreneurial endeavors that pushed far beyond the building realm\, from furniture to care products to a children’s book. Her built projects in Ghana and Scotland–including the Kokrobitey Institute\, the visitor trail at Kakum National Park\, and many private residential homes–stand as a testament to the coherence of her methods and the persistence\, integrity\, and longevity of her vision. These projects\, many of which she constructed of local materials\, proposed an affordable\, sustainable\, and site-specific infrastructure that acknowledged Ghanaian social mobility within a post-independence context. Flourishing and developing their own networks of care and mutuality\, the cross-continental communities living within her designs embody Olympio’s enduring legacy. \nThe 2023-24 conference proceedings will call on the discipline with timely topics and inquiries\, such as the wide-reaching sustainable potential of local building materials and place-specific methods\, the role of the architect in forging cross-cultural exchange\, and the impact of architecture as a site for community-building and cultural transformation. Olympio’s work exists at a nexus that continues to be central to contemporary architectural discourse: intertwining biogenic materiality and social resiliency. \nConference participants include Joe Osae-Addo\, Nana Biamah-Ofosu\, Erandi de Silva\, Prof. Lesley Lokko\, Baerbel Mueller\, Renee C. Neblett\, and DK Osseo-Asare\, among others. \nConcurrent with the conference will be a pop-up exhibition celebrating the Ghanaian craft and culture from which Alero Olympio drew much of her inspiration and design methodology. Housed in a building designed by Olympio and informed by her legacy\, the Kokrobitey Institute in Accra\, Ghana\, is an artist residency and community education center. With deep regional roots and cross-global connections\, the Kokrobitey Institute is a site of sustainable making\, providing space for slow craftsmanship and active experimentation. The exhibition features archival images of Olympio’s projects and process\, along with one-of-a-kind garments handmade by Accra-based designers at the Kokrobitey Institute with recycled materials from local fast-fashion landfills. \nWDA conferences are made possible by the Jean Labatut Memorial Lectures in Architecture and Urban Planning Fund at Princeton University. Free and open to the public\, additional details and speakers to be announced.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/2024-womxn-in-design-and-architecture-conference-alero-olympio-activated-matter/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
ORGANIZER;CN="Kyara Robinson":MAILTO:kr9710@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:McGraw Center Faculty Workshop: Flipping the Classroom
DESCRIPTION:Increasingly\, instructors are embracing the flipped classroom as a way to encourage active learning. In a flipped classroom\, students engage with course content outside of class (often via short\, recorded lecture segments) and then complete higher-level\, more challenging activities during class\, often with their peers. In this “How to/Why to” session\, we will discuss the pedagogy of flipped classrooms\, look at some Princeton-specific examples\, and share McGraw’s resources to support these active learning strategies. \nRegister here.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/mcgraw-center-faculty-workshop-flipping-the-classroom-2/
LOCATION:Digital Learning Lab\, 130 Lewis Science Library
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ruthie Boyce":MAILTO:rb4236@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240301T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240301T180000
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SUMMARY:A Poetics of Postmourning: Elegy and the Caribbean
DESCRIPTION:Whereas the historical trauma of the Middle Passage and enslavement has been a prominent subject of Caribbeanist scholarship\, there is surprisingly little sustained consideration of how poems and other imaginative works mourn this violent past\, even though melancholic grief is a crucial component of the literary response to it. Building on the concept of “postmemory” for the transgenerational aftereffects of trauma\, this talk proposes the overlapping concept of postmourning for the grief transferred to later generations and enacted in their creative work\, such as elegies for the historical losses of transatlantic slavery and more intimate losses shadowed by this primordial\, collective grief. \nJahan Ramazani is University Professor and the Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. His books include Poetry in a Global Age (2020)\, Poetry and Its Others: News\, Prayer\, Song\, and the Dialogue of Genres (2014)\, A Transnational Poetics (2009)\, winner of the Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association\, and Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney (1994)\, all from the University of Chicago Press. He is editor of The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry (2017)\, coeditor of the most recent editions of The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry (2003) and The Norton Anthology of English Literature (2006\, 2012\, 2018\, 2024)\, and associate editor of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (2012). Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016 and the American Philosophical Society in 2022\, he is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, an NEH Fellowship\, a Rhodes Scholarship\, the William Riley Parker Prize of the MLA\, and an honorary doctorate from Aalborg University\, Denmark. \nCo-sponsored by the Department of English\, Bain Swiggett Fund\, University Center for Human Values\, the Humanities Council\, Department of Comparative Literature\, Department of African American Studies\, and IHUM.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/a-poetics-of-postmourning-elegy-and-the-caribbean/
LOCATION:105 Chancellor Green
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jessica Brofsky":MAILTO:jbrofsky@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Free Screening of "The Rapture" (2023) + Q&A with Director Iris Kaltenbäck
DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to an exceptional free screening of award-winning “The Rapture” (French: “Le ravissement”) (2023)\, a moving debut following Lydia (Hafsia Herzi)\, a Parisian midwife highly invested in her career who has completely lost control of her life. Was it due to heartbreak\, her best friend Salomé’s pregnancy\, or meeting Milos\, with whom she could have a potential new relationship? Lydia gets stuck in a spiral of lies where everyone’s life is turned upside down. The screening will be followed by an in-person Q&A with Director Iris Kaltenbäck who won the SACD Award at the 2023 Festival de Cannes for this remarkable feature. \nMore information can be found in the registration link. \nSponsors & Partners \nOrganized by the Princeton Film Festival Society in collaboration with 1)GradFUTURES\, 2)Unifrance USA\, 3)Albertine Cinemathèque\, a program of FACE Foundation and Villa Albertine (New York)\, with support from the CNC / Centre National du Cinema\, and SACEM / Fonds Culturel Franco-Américain.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/free-screening-of-the-rapture-2023-qa-with-director-iris-kaltenback/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
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ORGANIZER;CN="Yassine Ait Ali":MAILTO:yali@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240304T163000
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SUMMARY:"Galoot" Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Join the Program in Judaic Studies and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim for a screening of Asher Tlalim’s 2003 personal documentary “Galoot” on Monday\, March 4. \nIn “Galoot” (“Exile” in Hebrew\, 2003) Moroccan-Israeli filmmaker Asher Tlalim finds himself in London. Away from home\, he reflects on Israel/Palestine anew. An intimate saga told through compassionate portraits of his loved ones – his wife\, his children\, and Israeli\, Palestinian and British friends in London. “Galoot” touches the seeds of the pain\, and the heart of the tragedies that have been\, and continue to play out on the political stage. An epic yet intimate journey that goes to Poland\, Palestine\, Morocco and England\, “Galoot” considers the condition of exile\, and asks: What are its heartbreaks? What are its insights? \nRead a review of “Galoot” in Variety\, and learn about Tlalim’s life in The Guardian. \nOpen to the public. \nRonit Yoeli-Tlalim is a Reader in the Department of History at Goldsmiths\, University of London. Currently the Willis F. Doney Member of the Institute for Advanced Study\, she is at work on the Hebrew Book of Asaf (a.k.a. Sefer Re’fuot\, Book of Medicines)\, an important piece in the great puzzle of Eurasian history of medicine\, and history of science more broadly. She is the widow of filmmaker Asher Tlalim.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/galoot-film-screening/
LOCATION:Arthur Lewis Auditorium\, Robertson Hall\, NJ
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ORGANIZER;CN="Margo Bresnen":MAILTO:mbresnen@princeton.edu
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