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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
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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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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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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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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T081500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T170000
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T133000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T132000
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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:20260731T194504
CREATED:20260409T152222Z
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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
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260213T143811Z
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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
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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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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260419
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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
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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
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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
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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:20260731T194504
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260415T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260415T132000
DTSTAMP:20260731T194504
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260410T235532Z
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SUMMARY:The Abraham Accords:  Their Origins and their Future
DESCRIPTION:The Honorable Jason Greenblatt is a diplomat\, lawyer and commentator who worked for President Donald Trump for 20 years and then served as an Assistant to the President and the White House Special Envoy to the Middle East from 2017-2019. In this role\, Greenblatt was a major player in strengthening the US-Israel relationship and the relationship between the US and many of its Arab allies. Greenblatt played a key role in laying the foundation for the Abraham Accords. He is the author of the widely acclaimed book In the Path of Abraham: How Donald Trump Made Peace in the Middle East. Greenblatt continues to work toward peace and prosperity throughout the Middle East region and is a sought-after commentator on the Middle East. \nJason Greenblatt will offer an insider’s view to help us understand the origins of the Abraham Accords\, where the agreements stand today\, and what we might expect of them for the future of the Middle East and beyond. Mr. Greenblatt will be in conversation with Professor Jonathan Gribetz\, director of TRI.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-abraham-accords-their-origins-and-their-future/
LOCATION:100 Arthur Lewis Auditorium\, Robertson Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T190000
DTSTAMP:20260731T194504
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SUMMARY:Sound Performance: Echoes from the Borderlands
DESCRIPTION:This developmental sound performance will feature an excerpt of a 24-hour “sonic essay” that documents the histories of violence against land and bodies in the US-Mexico borderlands. Following the southern border of the United States\, it begins in the pounding waves of the Pacific Ocean in the Tijuana /San Diego border\, and moves eastward throughout 24 hours –from sunrise to sunrise– until it reaches the wetlands of the Texan coast. Through the merging of narratives\, soundscapes\, voices\, melodies\, rhythms\, archival recordings\, and sound constellations\, the piece connects issues that have marked the borderlands\, such as the genocide of native peoples\, extractivism\, nuclear testing\, migration\, femicide\, vigilantism\, human trafficking\, and mass detention. However\, these stories of plundering and exploitation are also met with stories of resilience and resistance. \nEchoes from the Borderlands was created by Valeria Luiselli\, Ricardo Giraldo\, and Leo Heiblum with support from the Dia Art Foundation. Valeria Luiselli is the Sadie Samuelson Levy Professor in Languages and Literature at Bard College. Her writing has been translated into over 30 languages\, and she became a MacArthur Fellow in 2020. Leo Heiblum is an award-winning composer\, producer\, and sound artist who has composed music for over 50 feature films. He collaborates regularly with Philip Glass\, Patti Smith\, and musicians from all over the world\, mixing classical and indigenous instruments with field recordings. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Effron Center for the Study of America\, Center for Migration and Development\, Council of the Humanities\, Department of Music\, Lewis Center for the Arts\, Princeton University Art Museum\, and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. \nThis event is open to the public.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/performance-echoes-from-the-borderlands-2/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T183000
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SUMMARY:Spring Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Selected students from spring courses in Creative Writing read from their work in fiction\, poetry\, creative non-fiction\, screenwriting\, and playwriting as part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series\, presented by the Program in Creative Writing. \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/spring-student-reading-2/
LOCATION:Chancellor Green Rotunda\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T180000
DTSTAMP:20260731T194504
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260412T034010Z
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SUMMARY:The Black Androids: Writing the Technological Underground
DESCRIPTION:Join Edward Jones-Imhotep\, in conversation with Adriana Green\, to discuss his newest book project\, “The Black Androids\,” and its adaptation into a graphic novel. \nCurrently in development with MIT Press\, and drawing on five years of historical research\, “The Black Androids: A Graphic Novel\,” is a collaboration with six writer-illustrators exploring the Black technological underground in New York City between 1830 and 1930\, set against the rise of the Black androids — actual historical machines\, built in the form of Black humans. \nEdward Jones-Imhotep received his Ph.D. in history of science from Harvard University and is professor and director of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. He is co-editor\, with Wiebe Bijker and Rebecca Slayton\, of MIT Press’s Inside Technology series. \nAn Intersections Working Group event. The Intersections Working Group\, organized by Associate Professor of English and African American Studies Kinohi Nishikawa\, brings authors of recently published and forthcoming monographs together with Princeton faculty for (mostly) lunchtime conversations.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-black-androids-writing-the-technological-underground/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T180000
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: Elites and Democracy
DESCRIPTION:A central paradox of democracies is that they are always ruled by elites. What can democracy mean in this context? Today\, it is often said that a populist revolt against elites is driving democratic politics throughout the West. But in Elites and Democracy\, Hugo Drochon argues that democracy is more accurately and usefully understood as a perpetual struggle among competing elites—between rising elites and ruling elites. Real political change comes from the interaction between social movements and elite political institutions such as parties. But\, although true democracy—the rule of the people—may never be achieved\, striving towards it can bring about worthwhile democratic results. \nAt the turn of the twentieth century\, Gaetano Mosca\, Vilfredo Pareto\, and Robert Michels put forward “elite” theories of democracy and gave us terms such as the “ruling class” and “elites” itself. Drawing on their work and tracing the history of democratic thought through figures such as Joseph Schumpeter\, Robert Dahl\, C. Wright Mills\, and Raymond Aron\, Elites and Democracy reveals that this fundamentally elitist basis of democracy—democracy understood as competition between elites—was there all along. The challenge is to think it anew. \nMoving away from procedural or principled conceptions of democracy\, Elites and Democracy develops a dynamic theory of democracy\, one grounded in movement. With current politics defined by a populist backlash against elites\, dynamic democracy offers the tools we urgently need to understand our contemporary predicament and to act upon it.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/book-discussion-elites-and-democracy/
LOCATION:301 Wooten Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T180000
DTSTAMP:20260731T194504
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SUMMARY:Electroshocking the Past: Art History and the Political Project of Non-Generative AI
DESCRIPTION:This talk presents material from Sonja Drimmer’s current project\, “Extracting the Past: How AI Is Stealing History to Rob Our Future.” Broadly\, the book offers an account of the artificial intelligence industry’s reliance on historical artifacts\, the labor of historians\, and a perverse recounting of history itself. In this talk\, she will focus on non-generative forms of machine learning—computer vision in particular—as both the driving force behind some of the AI industry’s most profitable ventures and the bedrock of the political project that this industry is enabling. She will discuss how art historians working within museums and universities have—wittingly and unwittingly—played an important role in this industry’s development\, and how an inordinate focus on generative AI threatens to obscure the now-mundane uses of a technology that is being leveraged to dismantle the foundations of civil society. \nSonja Drimmer is a scholar of medieval European art with expertise in illuminated manuscripts and early print. Before joining the History of Art & Architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2013\, she received her BA from Brown University and PhD from Columbia University. Her research is largely concerned with premodern notions of authorship and authority\, media theory\, book history\, reproduction\, and the aesthetics and material culture of politics. She maintains a strong interest in historiography and in particular\, how mediation\, reproduction\, and restoration shape the reception of objects over time: this concern extends into commentary she has written for both public and scholarly venues regarding the incursion of machine learning and artificial intelligence into the humanities and art history in particular. \nModeling Culture is generously funded by an AI Lab Seed grant\, with additional support from the Humanities Council and the Princeton Humanities Initiative.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/electroshocking-the-past-art-history-and-the-political-project-of-non-generative-ai/
LOCATION:134 Art Museum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T173000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260406T183014Z
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SUMMARY:Reporting on Iran From Afar
DESCRIPTION:Join investigative journalist Nilo Tabrizy as she discusses her experiences reporting on Iran from the United States. \nNilo Tabrizy is an investigative journalist specializing in open-source reporting methods and forensic journalism. She has worked for the Washington Post\, The New York Times and Vice News. She is co-author of For The Sun After Long Nights\, a book about the 2022 women-led uprising in Iran and how journalists told the story of those protests from inside and outside Iran. It was longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/reporting-on-iran-from-afar/
LOCATION:002 Robertson Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T173000
DTSTAMP:20260731T194504
CREATED:20260310T140650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260313T013738Z
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SUMMARY:Metropolises in the Mud: lnnovation in Building Technology in the Low Countries
DESCRIPTION:Join the Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies for an afternoon seminar with Merlijn Hurx\, Professor of Architectural History at KU Leuven.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/metropolises-in-the-mud-lnnovation-in-building-technology-in-the-low-countries/
LOCATION:375 Art Museum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T190000
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SUMMARY:"Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims" Short Film Screening + Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Join scholar and artist Denise Ferreira da Silva (New York University) for a screening of Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims (2023)\, an award-winning film by Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman. \nAncestral Clouds Ancestral Claims is the latest work within Ferreira da Silva and Neuman’s ongoing collaboration Elemental Cinema\, which explores the classical elements through experimental film. The series undermines patterns of thinking about and relating to the Earth that have been shaped by European colonial modernity.  Shot in Chile’s Atacama Desert\, the film follows the wind from the Sahara to the Amazon and along the Pacific coast\, tracing stories of migration and displacement and reflecting on the history of neoliberalism and one of its defining early episodes: Chile under the Pinochet regime. \nFollowing the screening\, Ferreira da Silva will be joined by Rachel Price (Spanish and Portuguese) in conversation about the work. \nOpen to the public. This event is hosted by the Gauss Seminars in Criticism and supported through a collaboration between the Humanities Council and the Princeton Humanities Initiative. It is co-sponsored by the Program in Media + Modernity\, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. \nWatch a video of the Q&A.  \n\nDenise Ferreira da Silva is the Samuel Rudin Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at New York University. An academic and an artist\, Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva writes on crucial global issues\, which she approaches from an anticolonial black feminist perspective. A prolific author\, her field-changing books – such as Toward a Global Idea of Race and Unpayable Debt (2022 Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book Award by the Caribbean Philosophical Association — have been published by major presses. Her several articles have been published in leading interdisciplinary journals\, such as Social Text\, Theory\, Culture & Society\, Social Identities\, PhiloSOPHIA\, Griffith Law Review\, Theory & Event\, The Black Scholar\, to name a few. Her artistic works includes the films Serpent Rain (2016) and 4Waters-Deep Implicancy (2018)\, Soot Breath/Corpus Infinitum (2020)\, and Ancestral Clouds/Ancestral Claims (2023\, winner of the Best Feature Film at the 2025 St Moritz Film ) in collaboration with Arjuna Neuman; and the relational art practices Poethical Readings\, Sensing Salon\, and Reading with Echo\, in collaboration with Valentina Desideri. She has exhibited and lectured at major art venues\, such as the Pompidou Center (Paris)\, Whitechapel Gallery (London\, MASP (Sāo Paulo)\, Reina Sofia (Madrid)\, The Belkin (Vancouver)\, Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna)\, Kunsthalle Hamburg (Hamburg)\, Guggenheim (New York)\, MACBA (Barcelona)\, and MoMa (New York) as well as 10th Berlin Biennial\,35th São Paulo Biennial\, 2024 Venice Biennale\, Kadist (Paris)\, Document14\, 2022 Singapore Biennial\, to name a few. She has held Visiting Professorships at major research universities\, such as University of Pennsylvania\, University of Toronto\, La Trobe University\, Universidade de São Paulo\, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro\, and University of Copenhagen. She held the 2023 International Chair in Contemporary Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Paris 8 and an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Fine Art\, at Monash University . \nShe is a member of several boards\, including the Third Text editorial collective\, the Advisory Board for the International Consortium for Critical Theory Programs and the editorial boards for journals Postmodern Culture\, Catalyst\, Social Identities\, and Dark Matter. \n\nAncestral Clouds Ancestral Claims \nSYNOPSIS \nThe film is the latest part of a series called Elemental Cinema; each film in this series is dedicated to one of the four elements. In it\, the artists have developed an approach that takes matter\, material\, and the elemental as its starting point – aspects which continue to be neglected and suppressed by the globally dominant order of thinking and being. \nFerreira da Silva and Neuman’s work undermines patterns of thinking about and relating to the Earth that have been shaped by European colonial modernity. They show that categories and distinctions that seem self-evident to us underlie a profoundly unequal\, racist world. Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims turns the spotlight on the persistence\, though in altered form\, of this modern relation to the Earth in the history of neoliberalism and one of its defining early episodes: Chile under the Pinochet regime. \nThe film was shot in the Chilean Atacama Desert\, home to some of the world’s largest mines. The elevated\, extremely dry terrain and clear air of the desert preserve history. Today you can find prehistoric stone drawings there\, but also that labor camps from colonial times which were later reactivated during Pinochet’s dictatorship and used to exploit opponents of the regime. While telescopes are used to observe the sky in this place with the clearest and driest air on the planet\, these stories of violence stay hidden in plain sight. \nNeuman and Ferreira da Silva‘s work experiments with thinking and sensing simultaneously the various moments of material existence: the quantic\, cosmic\, organic/mechanic\, historic/geologic. It often departs from a particular site\, but then moves through and weaves together various times and places to show the planetary scope and historical depth of pressing geopolitical issues. \nIn Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims\, the wind—air is the classical element taken up in this part of the series—travels from the Sahara to the Amazon and along the Pacific coast. Like the film’s off-screen voices\, the composition and movement of material reality tells stories of migration and displacement\, but also of another geography drawn by the winds.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/ancestral-clouds-ancestral-claims-short-film-screening-qa/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T183000
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SUMMARY:2026 Meredith Miller Memorial Lecture with Shaina Taub
DESCRIPTION:Two-time Tony Award winner\, Obie Award winner\, Grammy and Emmy Award nominee Shaina Taub is a songwriter\, performer\, and artist-in-residence at New York City’s Public Theater. \nWith the 2024 Broadway opening of her original musical Suffs\, she became the first woman in history to win Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Score by herself. Hailed by The New York Times as “belonging to a breed of performers\, who\, apart from being artists\, are gravitational forces around whom others cluster like filings to a magnet\,” Taub is a solo artist signed to Atlantic Records\, with three acclaimed albums in her catalog. She was named to Time100’s Next List of rising leaders shaping the future. \nShaina will be joined in conversation with Professor Stacy Wolf. Stacy Wolf is one of America’s foremost scholars on musical theatre. She is Professor of Theater at Princeton\, Director of Fellowships\, and Director of Princeton’s new Program in Music Theater. She is the author of Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America (Oxford University Press\, 2020)\, which explores musical theater across the country in local and amateur venues like summer camps\, high schools\, and community theatres. Her chapter on Disney musicals in elementary schools appears in The Disney Musical: Stage\, Screen\, and Beyond. \nThis event is free and open to the public. Please register here.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/2026-meredith-miller-memorial-lecture-with-shaina-taub/
LOCATION:Wallace Theater\, Lewis Arts Complex
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