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SUMMARY:Fatal Forgiveness: Euripides\, Austin\, Cavell\, Arendt
DESCRIPTION:The Moffett Lecture Series aims to foster reflection about moral issues in public life\, broadly construed\, at either a theoretical or a practical level\, and in the history of thought about these issues. The series is made possible by a gift from the Whitehall Foundation in honor of James A. Moffett ’29. \nAbstract: Are today’s “Oath Keepers” descendants of Euripides’ Hippolytus\, whose titular hero is himself an oath keeper extraordinaire? This lecture explores classical and contemporary connections between oath-keeping and masculinity\, attending to the politics of sex/gender in connection with Hippolytus and Phaedra\, and reading the Hippolytus as noir. The Hippolytus is all about words\, and it is a veritable treasure trove of performativity\, featuring not only oaths\, but also vows of silence taken\, promises made\, and sentencing delivered. The most important of these is Hippolytus’ final forgiveness of his father\, Theseus\, for a lifetime of wrongs\, which—like the play as a whole—spans performative utterance\, as theorized by J.L. Austin\, and the passionate utterance with which Austin’s student Stanley Cavell supplemented the work of his teacher. Might Hannah Arendt’s account of forgiveness in The Human Condition help clarify the status of forgiveness as performative\, passionate\, both\, or neither? The lecture concludes by returning to Euripides\, to consider the possible fatality of forgiveness\, and its implications for ethics and politics. \nBonnie Honig is the Nancy Duke Lewis Professor\, Political Science and Modern Culture and Media (MCM)\, and co-director of the Democracy Project\, Brown University; she is an affiliate at the American Bar Foundation\, Chicago. Honig’s work in democratic and feminist theory studies the cultural politics of immigration (Democracy and the Foreigner\, Princeton\, 2001)\, emergency (Emergency Politics: Paradox\, Law\, Democracy\, Princeton\, 2009)\, mourning (Antigone\, Interrupted\, Cambridge\, 2013) and refusal (A Feminist Theory of Refusal\, Harvard\, 2021). Her book Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair (Fordham\, 2017) came out days after Trump’s 2017 inauguration and her first piece of public writing about that presidency\, “The President’s House is Empty\,” appeared on that inauguration day in the Boston Review. A collection of her public writing\, Shell Shocked: Feminist Criticism After Trump\, appeared with Fordham in 2021. In 2023\, her first book\, Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics\, was re-published as a 30th-anniversary edition by Cornell University Press.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/fatal-forgiveness-euripides-austin-cavell-arendt/
LOCATION:101 Friend Center
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ORGANIZER;CN="Tammy Hojeibane":MAILTO:tammyh@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:The Art of Losing or The Afterlives of the Algerian War: A Conversation with Alice Zeniter
DESCRIPTION:The Department of French and Italian presents “The Art of Losing or The Afterlives of the Algerian War. A Conversation with Alice Zeniter” organized by André Benhaïm\, featuring Alice Zeniter\, Novelist\, translator\, screenwriter\, and director\, André Benhaim\, Department of French and Italian\, Gyan Prakash\, Department of History. Alice Zeniter studied literature and theater at l’École Normale Supérieure and Sorbonne-Nouvelle University. She is the author of four novels and has won many awards for her work; Sombre dimanche (Albin Michel\, 2013) won the Prix du Livre Inter\, the Prix des lecteurs de l’Express and the Prix de la Closerie des Lilas; Juste avant l’oubli (Flammarion\, 2015) won the Prix Renaudot des lycéens. Her novel The Art of Losing\, which was translated into English by Frank Wynne and published by Picador in 2021\, won the International Dublin Literary Award in 2022.  \nZeniter is a Short-Term Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of French and Italian in Fall 2023. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Council and the Center for Collaborative History. For more information.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-art-of-losing-or-the-afterlives-of-the-algerian-war-a-conversation-with-alice-zeniter/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T180000
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SUMMARY:PISC workshop: "Are There Post-Mamluk Encyclopedias? Yusuf al-Shirbīni’s Hazz al-Quhuf (c. 1097/1686)"
DESCRIPTION:Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī’s Hazz al-quḥūf (c. 1686) is\, formally speaking\, a commentary on a poem by a peasant. This\, however\, is but a structuring device. The Hazz teems with anecdotes about peasants interlaced with quotations from the Quran\, ḥadīth\, poetry\, and more. Drawing on Arabic encyclopedias and the ʿajāʾib tradition\, I argue that the Hazz pertains to the genealogy of Arabic encyclopedic writings. In other words\, the Hazz\, and perhaps other works from the Ottoman period\, represents the next chapter of encyclopedic Arabic writing before the advent of colonialism—a history that remains to be written. \nThe Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium is a forum at Princeton University for workshopping students’ and guest scholars’ works-in-progress in Islamic Studies and related fields. REGISTER. \nCo-sponsors: Near Eastern Studies Department\, Department of Religion\, Near Eastern Studies Program\, Center for Culture\, Society and Religion\, Humanities Council with support from the Stewart Fund for Religion
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/pisc-workshop-are-there-post-mamluk-encyclopedias-yusuf-al-shirbinis-hazz-al-quhuf-c-1097-1686/
LOCATION:102 Jones\, 102 Jones\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Athina Pfeiffer":MAILTO:apfeiffer@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:LAMB Workshop: 'Lapidatores\, Percussores Urbisque Depopulatores': Urban Violence in the Chronicle of Marcellinus Comes
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on October 26 for our first LAMB workshop of the semester in 209 Scheide Caldwell. We will read and discuss Radka Pallová’s paper entitled ‘Lapidatores\, Percussores Urbisque Depopulatores’: Urban Violence in the Chronicle of Marcellinus Comes. \nThis workshop is for Graduate Students only. Please Please RSVP Here and download the paper on the LAMB website. \nAbout LAMB:  \nThe Late Antique\, Medieval\, and Byzantine Graduate Workshop at Princeton (LAMB) provides interdisciplinary forums for presenting research\, fostering community\, and training in professional development. \nContact Amel Bensalim (ab7941@princeton.edu) or Anna D’Elia (anna.delia@princeton.edu) with any questions. \nLAMB is sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies\, the Center for Collaborative History\, and the Departments of Art & Archaeology\, English\, Religion\, and Classics.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lamb-workshop-lapidatores-percussores-urbisque-depopulatores-urban-violence-in-the-chronicle-of-marcellinus-comes/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T180000
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SUMMARY:Violence on Land and Body
DESCRIPTION:Jordan Weber is a New York-based regenerative land sculptor and activist who works at the intersection of social justice and environmental apartheid through grassroots collaboration in industrially polluted places such as St. Louis\, Detroit\, Boston\, Des Moines\, and the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn. In 2020\, the Walker Art Center commissioned Weber to create an urban phytoremediation farm in North Minneapolis as a counter tactic to industrial violence upon biodiverse lands and racially diverse communities. His work All Our Liberations–which took inspiration from Japanese Zen gardens and created a space for community learning\, reflection\, and healing–was exhibited through the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in 2021. This year\, the triennial civic exhibition Counterpublic engaged Weber to develop Defensive Landscape\, a site-specific regenerative earthwork in St. Louis’s Peace Park\, which will permanently house a community-engaged rainwater garden and gathering space\, offering a critical intervention into the generational health implications of the intertwined crises of captivity and ecological apartheid. \nWeber has received notable awards and honors including the 2023 Guggenheim Award and 2022 United States Artist Award\, and he was named a 2021 Harvard LOEB Fellow. He was recently appointed as the inaugural Yale University Artist in Residence to build an environmental-humanities focused project at Horse Island for the Black and Indigenous student body. His work was also featured in this year’s Architecture Biennale in Venice.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/violence-on-land-and-body/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kyara Robinson":MAILTO:kr9710@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231027
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231030
DTSTAMP:20260625T131652
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SUMMARY:Conference: Finished? Early Modern Arts in the Imperfect Tense
DESCRIPTION:“Imperfection” and “Renaissance” are antonyms. At least that is what Giorgio Vasari’s history of Italian artistic evolution (as with other early modern European writings on art\, poetry\, literature\, music\, and theatre) tries to convince us. His construction of perfection – in the sense of completeness and as an aesthetic ideal – as a defining attribute of the period renders incompleteness\, at best\, peripheral in consequence. At worst\, the incomplete stands as perfection’s negative alter-ego\, inherently deficient\, breaking boundaries\, and destabilizing artistic norms and their periodizing logic. Yet varieties of imperfection proliferated among the arts of early modernity\, existing in tension with\, simultaneous to\, and even correlative of paradigms of perfection. The imperfect manifests in objects and texts left unfinished\, whether intentionally or otherwise; in the fascination with witnessing\, describing\, and representing processes of production; in instances of extended collaboration across practitioners and time; in the mutability of printed books; in acts of retouching or alteration to finished objects; in works where the subject matter is left open and unresolved\, or where form threatens to dissolve into formlessness; in the preservation and replication of preparatory work; in the elisions between architectural construction and ruination; and in the tension between figural making and unmaking\, to name just a few. “Imperfection” perhaps is imbricated in “Renaissance” far more than Vasari\, and we\, acknowledge. \nThe goal of this conference is to explore the obstinate presence of things imperfect in the arts of the Renaissance\, and to consider the implications of interpreting the period from the vantage of the unfinished\, the open-ended\, and the deferred. Arts in the imperfect tense are works that exist in a state of flux\, their production ongoing\, incomplete\, continuous\, or coincident with other actions. Their liminality allows for multiple possibilities to exist simultaneously. The various contributions will examine instances of the imperfect or its reception from c. 1400-1650 and that give insight into an array of wide-ranging questions: In what ways might imperfection be understood as generative or desirable\, as constitutive of the age\, even as it was the subject of significant anxiety and discomfort? What artistic boundaries – medial\, visual\, conceptual\, temporal\, and so on – are blurred by incompleteness\, and what critical categories do such transgressions remake? Who or what determines when something is finished and by what terms? Can we speak of an aesthetics of imperfection\, of categories of unfinishedness? What is(are) the semantic field(s) of imperfection in the arts? What possibilities for interactive participation and viewership are produced by unfinishedness? What social\, political\, religious or scientific concerns might have encouraged deferral of ends in the arts? The conference will also include talks that examine notions of unfinishedness as articulated in the long historiography of the arts of the Renaissance and of early modernity.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/conference-finished-early-modern-arts-in-the-imperfect-tense/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mo Chen":MAILTO:mochen@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231027
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231031
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SUMMARY:Re/Framing Eastern European Cinema
DESCRIPTION:A three-day international conference\, Re/Framing Eastern European Cinema\, focusing on the re-conceptualization of Eastern European cinema and its master narratives before and in the aftermath of the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2022. \nFull schedule here.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/re-framing-eastern-european-cinema/
LOCATION:50 McCosh Hall\, 50 McCosh Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T120000
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SUMMARY:Angelus Novus-Balancing Act from the Cosmological\, Architectonic\, Moral and Aesthetic Points of View
DESCRIPTION:Join the bilingual round-table discussion about the principle of self-supporting balance. Panel discussants: Professors Attilio Pizzigone and Vittorio Paris (University of Bergamo)\, Erika A. Kiss (Princeton University) in person in Palazzo Mora\, Venice\, Italy\, and Professors Sigrid Adriaenssens and Chris Tully (Princeton University) participating online from Princeton\, USA. \nRegister for this hybrid event. \nStanding under the center of the Angelus Novus Vault in the garden of Palazzo Mora in Venice while holding up a mobile device equipped with the Plato’s Cave App\, one can see the inside of Brunelleschi’s dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore. The inside of the augmented reality dome is “painted” with the animated mashup of the Vasari fresco\, The Last Judgement ( just like in Brunelleschi’s dome) and Kiss’s Assembly/Disassembly. The augmented reality experience via the Plato’s Cave App under the Angelus Novus Vault reveals the correspondences of the self-balancing architectonics of Brunelleschi’s curved space engineering and the non-Euclidean\, spherical cosmology of Dante’s Divina Commedia that inspired the perfect moral balance of Vasari’s The Last Judgement. The European Cultural Center\, Italy and Princeton University presents a bilingual and bicontinental round-table discussion about the man-made balance that keeps balancing as if by itself.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/angelus-novus-balancing-act-from-the-cosmological-architectonic-moral-and-aesthetic-points-of-view/
LOCATION:Green Hall 3C3 and Zoom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kim Girman":MAILTO:kgirman@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T140000
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SUMMARY:La Pisada Del Ñandú / The Rhea’s Footprint
DESCRIPTION:There is a special thread of continuity between voices\, skins and stars that enables us to conjure up this visual essay in exhibition format. An essay formulated\, perhaps\, in the manner of those who listen to footsteps on the Earth\, akin to the practices of healing with plants and to dances of transition and transformation\, related to the temporality in which poetry or handicrafts are formed\, somewhat outside the classic contemporary discourse on art. We present here a constellation of intuitions\, knowledge and practices on the colonial invention of bodies based on the imposition of a hierarchy of skin\, sexuality\, gender and ethnic identity and the banning of certain individual and community erotic\, visual and spiritual practices. We will attest to the powerful beauty of the invocations against the effects of the colonial trauma and the permanent resistance against it in our bodies. The Rhea’s Footprint (Or How We Transform Silences) enables us to chart a counter-history of the bodies of the constellations of the south\, bodies that today we would term transvestite/trans/non-binary. \nYou are invited to a talk about the exhibition The Rhea’s footprint (or how we transform silences) which is currently on display at the Cultural Center of Memory Haroldo Conti in Buenos Aires\, Argentina\, after being shown at La Virreina Museum of Barcelona and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama. The exhibition\, curated by Río Paraná (Mag De Santo & Duen Neka’hen Sacch) brings together works by trans\, transvestite\, non-binary\, queer and bisexual artists from a diversity of cultures and origins in our Americas. Georgie Sanchez\, Ph.D. student in Art & Archeology will be moderating the event. \nThis event will be held in Spanish\, and is free and open to the public. Lunch provided while supplies last.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/la-pisada-del-nandu-the-rheas-footprint/
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:20231027T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T180000
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SUMMARY:4th Annual Mid-Atlantic Ottomanist Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will provide an opportunity for scholars of Ottoman studies to gather\, discuss their research\, and receive substantive feedback. This initiative aims to bring together scholars of all stages based in the mid-Atlantic region who are working to advance the study of the Ottoman Empire as well as its interactions with the wider world from the 15th century through the early 20th century. \nThe theme of the 2023 workshop will be “Networks and Networking in the Ottoman Empire”. From Sufi-guild networks in early-modern Istanbul\, to the army-civilian networks forged by the Committee of Union and Progress in the early twentieth century\, a dense matrix of relations and interactions linked the Ottoman state to its subjects\, mediated between different sections of society\, and connected the Ottoman world with people\, ideas\, and commodities from other geographic regions. This workshop will seek to understand how social\, cultural/cross-cultural\, diplomatic\, entrepreneurial\, and geo-spatial networks\, influenced the course of Ottoman history. \nSponsored by: Center for Collaborative History | Humanities Council | Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies | M. Münir Ertegün Foundation for Turkish Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/4th-annual-mid-atlantic-ottomanist-workshop/
LOCATION:211 Dickinson Hall or Zoom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Loessy":MAILTO:jloessy@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T180000
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SUMMARY:“Language and the Irish Novel\,” a talk and reading by Barry McCrea
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning writer Barry McCrea will give a brief talk on “Language and the Irish Novel” followed by a reading from his novel-in-progress Miracle at Thorn Island. Introduced by Visiting Leonard L. Milberg ’52 Professor in Irish Letters Fintan O’Toole. \nAdmission: Free and open to the public; no tickets required. \nAccessibility: The Stewart Film Theater 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/language-and-the-irish-novel-a-talk-and-reading-by-barry-mccrea/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Lewis Center for the Arts":MAILTO:lewiscenter@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231027T190000
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SUMMARY:Documentary Screening  & Panel Discussion "A Spear Through the Heart"
DESCRIPTION:This event will feature a screening of the 2022 documentary “A Spear Through the Heart”\, which explores the life\, legacy and impact of the legendary singer\, songwriter\, and activist\, Hachalu Hundessa\, who was assassinated in Addis Ababa\, Ethiopia\, on June 29th\, 2020. Hachalu was a hugely popular Oromo-Ethiopian musician widely viewed by the Oromo people as a symbol of unity and resistance. His evocative songs echoed the hopes and aspirations of the Oromo people and played a pivotal role in the 2014-2018 Oromo protests against the Ethiopian regime. \nThe documentary chronicles Hachalu’s life and the profound impact of his music on the Oromo quest for self-determination\, but it also addresses broader themes of state repression\, political violence and the transformative power of music in political mobilization. \nThe screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Ms. Fantu Demisse (Hundessa’s widow and Chairwomen of the Board of Hachalu Hundessa Foundation)\, Dr. Awol Allo (Visiting Fellow at UCHV\, Fung Global Fellow Alumni ’21\, and executive producer of the documentary)\, and Mr. Bruno Sorrentino (the documentary’s director and editor). The panel will be moderated by Professor Wendy Belcher\, Professor of Comparative Literature and African American Studies and Acting Chair\, Department of Comparative Literature. \nA trailer of the documentary can be found here. \nEvent co-sponsors: University Center for Human Values\, Department of Comparative Literature\,  PIIRS\, Program in African Studies\, Fung Glolbal Fellows Program\, Africa World Initiative
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/documentary-screening-panel-discussion-a-spear-through-the-heart/
LOCATION:A71 Louis A. Simpson Building
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ORGANIZER;CN="Fiona Romaine":MAILTO:fromaine@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231030T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231030T180000
DTSTAMP:20260625T131652
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SUMMARY:The Language of War: Rage\, Love\, Memory
DESCRIPTION:Oleksandr Mykhed will present his personal story and experience as a writer and a scholar and address how Ukrainians talk about the Russian invasion. How has the semiotic system of everyday life changed? What has happened to the meaning of words? How are these changes reflected in art? \nCo-sponsored by the Humanities Council\, The Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination\, The Program in Contemporary European Politics & Society (EPS)\, The Program in European Cultural Studies (ECS) and the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-language-of-war-rage-love-memory/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Yolanda Sullivan":MAILTO:syolanda@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231030T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231030T190000
DTSTAMP:20260625T131652
CREATED:20230929T165522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230929T165522Z
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SUMMARY:Bain-Swiggett Library Open House with Patricia Smith
DESCRIPTION:On October 30\, from 6-7 P.M.\, the Bain-Swiggett Library will host an open house and poetry reading with Professor Patricia Smith.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/bain-swiggett-library-open-house-with-patricia-smith/
LOCATION:22 McCosh Hall (Thorp Library)
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ORGANIZER;CN="Felicity Sheehy":MAILTO:fs2321@princeton.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231030T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231030T200000
DTSTAMP:20260625T131652
CREATED:20231023T135923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231023T135923Z
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SUMMARY:Circular Connecting
DESCRIPTION:Catherine De Wolf is Assistant Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich). She is also Chair of Circular Engineering for Architecture (CEA)\, an interdisciplinary team of civil engineers\, architects\, urbanists\, and computer scientists who collaborate towards automating the reuse of building materials. Through the CEA\, she conducts research on digital innovation—particularly the use of AI and machine learning—towards a circular built environment. A key element in Catherine’s work is ensuring a continuous link between academia and industry. She collaborates closely with governmental institutions and pioneering industry partners on the reuse of building materials in real-world projects\, such as the reuse of the glass from the Centre Pompidou in 2021\, which she described as turning the caterpillar into a butterfly. \nCatherine has a dual background in civil engineering and architecture from Belgium\, and obtained her Ph.D. in building technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)\, where her dissertation examined low-carbon pathways for structural design and embodied life cycle impacts of building structures. She also worked for the University of Cambridge\, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)\, and University of Technology Delft (TU Delft). She has received a number of awards and recognitions including the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture’s (ACSA) Research Contribution Award (US) in 2020\, International Association for Space and Shell Structures’ (IASS) Hangai Prize (JP) in 2016\, and MIT’s Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Belgium Award (US) in 2015\, among others.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/circular-connecting/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kyara Robinson":MAILTO:kr9710@princeton.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231031
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231106
DTSTAMP:20260625T131652
CREATED:20231025T132838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231025T132838Z
UID:57016-1698721200-1699153199@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Chile 9/11 Series | Alfredo Castro: A Political Retrospective (Film Series)
DESCRIPTION:Series curated by Javier Guerrero (Princeton University) & Juana Suárez (New York University) \nMarking the 50th anniversary\, this September 11\, of the military coup against President Allende in Chile\, this retrospective is dedicated to Alfredo Castro\, the internationally acclaimed Chilean actor whose work is essential to a deep exploration of the cruelty of the dictatorship led by Augusto Pinochet (1973-1989). Inspired by the French playwright Antonin Artaud\, Castro has theorized the ‘third body\,’ a key concept in the study of unknown and unconfessed human drives. In this retrospective\, we privilege Castro’s close\, decades-long collaboration with the Chilean director Pablo Larraín. \nFull event series information is listed on the Program in Latin American Studies website.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/chile-9-11-series-alfredo-castro-a-political-retrospective-film-series/
LOCATION:Various\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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GEO:40.3467174;-74.6568772
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231031T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231031T132000
DTSTAMP:20260625T131652
CREATED:20230907T192642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231029T201511Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Faculty Colloquium: "How Japan Became Known as the Land of the Rising Sun: The Enduring Influence of the Seventeen Commandments of 604"
DESCRIPTION:The Program in Medieval Studies is pleased to offer the Faculty Colloquium series for Fall 2023. \nThe Seventeen Commandments of Prince Shōtoku (574-622) enthroned Buddhism as the basis for the monarchy\, distanced Japan from the Chinese model of history\, and ultimately caused Japan to be identified as the “Land of the Rising Sun.” That notion\, long thought to be a simple statement of Japan’s geography\, served as a declaration of political independence as well. Join us on October 31 to hear Professor Thomas Conlan (East Asian Studies and History)  present the lunchtime talk\, How Japan Became Known as the Land of the Rising Sun: The Enduring Influence of the Seventeen Commandments of 604. \nPlease RSVP Here. Lunch will be provided.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/medieval-faculty-colloquium-how-japan-became-known-as-the-land-of-the-rising-sun-the-enduring-influence-of-the-seventeen-commandments-of-604-2/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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GEO:40.3494863;-74.6585743
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=209 Scheide Caldwell 209 Scheide Caldwell Princeton NJ 08544 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=209 Scheide Caldwell:geo:-74.6585743,40.3494863
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231031T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231031T133000
DTSTAMP:20260625T131652
CREATED:20231027T161026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231027T161026Z
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SUMMARY:Documenting Violence in Writing and Translation
DESCRIPTION:Join the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communications for a hands-on conversation between PTIC Translator in Residence Hanna Leliv and Ukrainian writer and scholar Oleksandr Mykhed\, about his recent book “Language of War: Chronicles of the Invasion.” This riveting work of nonfiction begins on the first day of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine and chronicles the next 13 months from a deeply personal perspective\, weaving in the voices of those whose lives have been changed forever by the war. Oleksandr will share his strategies for conveying harrowing events through human stories\, and Hanna will talk about her experience translating an essay from the book\, “Small Big Evil\,” and the particular challenges she encountered. \nLimited availability; please sign up using this form.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/documenting-violence-in-writing-and-translation/
LOCATION:161 Louis A. Simpson Building
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231031T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231031T183000
DTSTAMP:20260625T131652
CREATED:20231025T132004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231025T132004Z
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SUMMARY:"Art’s Properties”
DESCRIPTION:David Joselit\n“Art’s Properties”\n[Response: Irene V. Small]\nTuesday\, October 31\, 2023 @5pm ET\nN107 (School of Architecture) \nArt’s Properties is a revisionist reading of modern art in response to recent calls for racial justice. It assesses modern Euro-American art\, from the late 18th century to the present\, in light of systemic racism or white supremacy. As such\, it addresses questions of repatriation\, the history of museums and copyright\, black radical theory\, and contemporary art criticism to explore the ethics of claiming aesthetic content as one’s own exclusive property. \nDavid Joselit is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor and Chair of Art\, Film\, and Visual Studies at Harvard. He is author several books including Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization (MIT Press 2020) which won the Robert Motherwell Book award in 2021 and Art’s Properties (Princeton University Press\, 2023). \nIrene V. Small is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art & Criticism in the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University\, and associated faculty in the Program in Latin American Studies and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. She is the author of Hélio Oiticica: Folding the Frame (University of Chicago Press\, 2016). A new book\, The Organic Line: Toward a Topology of Modernism\, is forthcoming from Zone Books in 2024.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/arts-properties/
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
GEO:40.3478617;-74.6561685
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231101T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231101T180000
DTSTAMP:20260625T131652
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231026T191045Z
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SUMMARY:History (Re)incarnate: George Eliot and Qurratulain Hyder
DESCRIPTION:In making incarnation a key term for her fiction\, George Eliot exemplifies a broader Victorian effort to transmute Christian sentiment into a secular ideal of sympathy and an aesthetic of realism. At the same time\, the critical tendency to situate Eliot in relation to a New Testament paradigm has obscured her engagement with cosmologies other than the Christian telos. Disambiguating incarnation from the New Testament legacy—but not from religion—this talk traces Eliot’s interest in forms of ensouled embodiment that take shape in multiple iterations over time. Inspired by calls to reimagine the geographical and chronological boundaries of Victorian studies\, this talk pairs Middlemarch (1871-72) with a 20th-century Urdu novel that makes reincarnation its organizing narrative principle: Qurratulain Hyder’s Aag ka Darya (1959)/River of Fire (trans. 1998)\, a historical epic that sees its characters repeatedly reborn over the course of 2500 years. In examining how both novels theorize history by engaging with Hindu and Buddhist models of spiritual embodiment\, this talk demonstrates what becomes possible when we consider the relationship between literary form and religious doctrine outside the Christian context.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/history-reincarnate-george-eliot-and-qurratulain-hyder/
LOCATION:B14 McCosh
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jeewon Yoo":MAILTO:jeewony@princeton.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231101T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231101T193000
DTSTAMP:20260625T131652
CREATED:20230726T182135Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231029T201828Z
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SUMMARY:Ukrainian Poetry in Translation with Ilya Kaminsky\, Katie Farris\, Maya Chabra\, Andrew Janco & Olga Livshin
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading and discussion with a showcase of poets and translators from two new books that consider what it means to be Ukrainian during unthinkable times. \nIn the Hour of War: Poems from Ukraine\, edited by Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky \nPoetry has played an outsized role in Ukrainian culture since its inception. “Our anthology begins: ’Letters of the alphabet go to war’ and ends with ’I am writing/ and all my people are writing’\,” note the editors. “It includes poets whose work is known to thousands of people\, who are translated into dozens of languages\, as well as those who are relatively unknown in the West.” \nToday is a Different War by Lyudmyla Khersonska \nMasterfully translated into English by Olga Livshin\, Andrew Janco\, Maya Chhabra\, and Lev Fridman\, few other volumes of poems capture the duality of fear and bravery\, anger and love\, despair and hope\, as well as the numbness and deep feeling of what it means to be Ukrainian in these dark times as starkly as Livshin’s new collection. \nMaya Chhabra’s translations have appeared in The White Review\, Cardinal Points\, and Poetry Travels. She is the author of a novel in verse\, Chiara in the Dark\, and several other children’s books including Stranger on the Home Front. Her short stories and original poetry have appeared in Strange Horizons\, PodCastle\, and various anthologies. Katie Farris is the author of the memoir-in-poems\, Standing in the Forest of Being Alive. She is also the author of the hybrid-form text boysgirls\, and the chapbooks A Net to Catch My Body in its Weaving; Thirteen Intimacies; and Mother Superior in Hell.  Most recently she is winner of the Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, Granta\, The Atlantic Monthly\, The Nation\, and Poetry\, and has been commissioned by MoMA. She is currently Visiting Associate Professor of Poetry at Princeton University. Andrew Janco’s translations are published in The New York Times\, Ploughshares\, and other journals\, and are included in the anthology Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine. With Olga Livshin\, he is the co-translator of A Man Only Needs a Room\, a volume of Vladimir Gandelsman’s poetry. llya Kaminsky was born in Odesa\, Ukraine\, and now lives in the United States. He is the author of two poetry collections\, Dancing in Odessa and The Deaf Republic. His works also include translations\, essays and anthologies. He is a professor of creative writing at Princeton University. Olga Livshin’s poetry and translations appear in The New York Times\, Ploughshares\, the Kenyon Review\, and other journals. She is the author of A Life Replaced: Poems with translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman. She is a co-translator of A Man Only Needs a Room.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/ukrainian-poetry-in-translation-with-ilya-kaminsky-katie-farris-maya-chabra-andrew-janco-olga-livshin/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231102
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231106
DTSTAMP:20260625T131652
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231013T205415Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval and Early Modern German Studies Graduate Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:The Medieval and Early Modern German Studies Graduate Colloquium 2023 brings together faculty and graduate student scholars of pre-modern German literature and culture from North American universities. A bi-annual collaboration between pre-modernist Germanists at Princeton\, Stanford\, Berkeley\, U of Toronto\, U of Waterloo\, and University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill\, the gathering is designed to facilitate exchange of and feedback on graduate work in progress as well as to provide networking opportunities for all participants\, who are often singularities on their individual campuses. \nThis year’s gathering at Princeton features a keynote lecture by Professor Aleksandra Prica (UNC-Chapel Hill)\, titled: “The Time of the Lily: Vigilance\, Speculation\, and the Dawn of the New World in Jacob Böhme’s ‘Aurora’ (1612).” The keynote will take place on Thursday\, Nov. 2 at 5pm\, followed by discussions of pre-circulated papers of participating graduate students on Friday and Saturday\, Nov. 3 and 4. \nThe event is sponsored by the Department of German and co-sponsored by: \n\nComparative Literature\nProgram in Medieval Studies\nProgram in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies\nProgram in European Cultural Studies\nCenter for Culture\, Society\, and Religion\nCenter for Collaborative History\nDepartment of Art & Archeology\nDepartment of Classics\nHumanities Council\nPrinceton Institute for International and Regional Studies
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/medieval-and-early-modern-german-studies-graduate-colloquium/
LOCATION:Various\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sara Poor":MAILTO:spoor@princeton.edu
GEO:40.3467174;-74.6568772
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231102T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231102T130000
DTSTAMP:20260625T131652
CREATED:20230823T134147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231027T171620Z
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SUMMARY:The Family Roe: The unknown woman at the heart of Roe v. Wade
DESCRIPTION:The pro-choice movement viewed Jane Roe as an imperfect plaintiff. But she embodied the national ambivalence about abortion as no Gloria Steinem could\, her life guided by the same cross-currents —sex and religion\, gender and class— that have so long divided America. \nJosh Prager\, author and former Wall Street Journal journalist. Discussant Elizabeth Armstrong\, Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs\, School of Public and International Affairs. \nRegistration for this event is closed. Please email Tim Waldron\, Program Manager\, to be added to the wait list.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-family-roe-the-unknown-woman-at-the-heart-of-roe-v-wade-5/
LOCATION:16 Joseph Henry House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231102T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231102T132000
DTSTAMP:20260625T131652
CREATED:20231022T152008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231022T152008Z
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SUMMARY:"Byzantium Revisited: A Focus on Modern Greek Painting"
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop exploring a few examples of the various forms of visual European culture such as theater\, cinema\, poetry\, photography\, painting\, we will indicate the strong and persistent interest of Western Europeans in Byzantine cultural achievements at the end of 19th century through the first half of 20th. We will focus on the place that was accorded to Byzantium within the artistic production of Greek artists such as Parthenis\, Contoglou\, Engonopoulos\, Tsarouchis\, and Asteriadis. Those artists from different paths were trying to perceive and assimilate elements of tradition and of modernity in their visual discourse\, seeking new means of expression and a way to define themselves and their art. \nHybrid Lecture: Register here for In-Person\, here for online.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/byzantium-revisited-a-focus-on-modern-greek-painting/
LOCATION:203 Scheide Caldwell House
ORGANIZER;CN="Eleni Banis":MAILTO:hbanis@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231102T133000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231102T153000
DTSTAMP:20260625T131652
CREATED:20231027T153339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231027T153339Z
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SUMMARY:Screening of "Il Moro (The Moor)" and Conversation with Filmmaker Daphne Di Cinto
DESCRIPTION:Italian filmmaker and actor Daphne Di Cinto (Bridgerton) screens her film\, Il Moro (The Moor)\, longlisted for the 2024 Academy Awards. This captivating film delves into the extraordinary life of the first Duke of Florence in 1530\, Alessandro de’ Medici\, who happens to be the first black man to ascend to the position of head of state in modern Western Europe. The film presents a compelling narrative\, shedding light on an often-overlooked historical figure and his significant role in European history. In Italian with English subtitles. Followed by an audience Q&A with Di Cinto moderated by Program in Visual Arts faculty member Medhin Paolos. \nThe screening is free and open to the public; no tickets or registration required. \nCosponsored by Princeton’s Department of African American Studies\, Humanities Council\, and the Department of French & Italian.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/screening-of-il-moro-the-moor-and-conversation-with-filmmaker-daphne-di-cinto/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231102T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231102T180000
DTSTAMP:20260625T131652
CREATED:20230913T200013Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230913T200013Z
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SUMMARY:Ideologies of resilience in ancient Roman architecture
DESCRIPTION:This lecture explores Roman failure and its counterpart\, resilience\, in ancient Roman architecture and urbanism. Focusing on the years before the great fire of 64\, it argues\, perhaps surprisingly\, that Romans faced constant architectural failure\, which authorities carefully managed; and that even before the fire\, failure analysis and resilience strategies were recurrent catalysts for architectural change\, with their own powerful ideological charge. It concludes by returning to Nero’s radical building legislation after the conflagration\, which\, against this new continuum\, delivers even more radical repercussions than are usually recognised.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/ideologies-of-resilience-in-ancient-roman-architecture/
LOCATION:A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building\, Washington Road\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mo Chen":MAILTO:mochen@princeton.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231102T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231102T180000
DTSTAMP:20260625T131652
CREATED:20230929T164133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231009T154213Z
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SUMMARY:Dalits and the Anti-Caste Epistemology: From Oral to Literary Tradition in Telugu Country
DESCRIPTION:Caste is one of human history’s oldest forms of inequality\, legitimized by Brahmanical knowledge and enforced through caste-based violence and dehumanization. This paper argues that the anti-caste articulations are as old as caste itself. Using the Telugu-speaking areas as a historical site\, this paper tracks the anti-caste epistemology articulated by Dalits for centuries in the forms of oral and folk traditions. With the dawn of colonial modernity\, anti-caste articulations in the form of literary journals\, texts\, and political pamphlets in the colonial public sphere challenged caste inequality and Brahmanical power and supremacy. The paper uses Kula (Caste) Puranas of the marginalized communities as an oral resistance tradition and the Telugu publications of Dalits and anti-caste writers to build an alternative anti-caste epistemology that resisted Brahmanical oppression and envisioned egalitarian philosophy of equality and dignity as a precondition for human emancipation. \nChinnaiah Jangam is an associate professor in the Department of History at Carleton University. His research focuses on the social and intellectual history of Dalits in modern South Asia\, illuminating the histories of marginalization and resistance through the lens of Dalits. It attempts to construct an historical narrative of anti-caste epistemology as a stepping stone to an ethical and egalitarian world. His first book\, “Dalits and the Making of Modern India\,” was published by Oxford University Press in 2017. He is currently working on several projects\, including a memoir about his mother and a translation of the Telugu classic “Gabbilam” (The Bat). \nRegister here.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/dalits-and-the-anti-caste-epistemology-from-oral-to-literary-tradition-in-telugu-country/
LOCATION:144 Louis A. Simpson Building
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ORGANIZER;CN="Harini Kumar":MAILTO:harinik@princeton.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231102T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231102T180000
DTSTAMP:20260625T131652
CREATED:20231025T195832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231025T195832Z
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SUMMARY:France: quelle égalité\, quelle fraternité aujourd'hui?
DESCRIPTION:This event is open to the public\nThe presentation will be held in French\, followed by a reception
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/france-quelle-egalite-quelle-fraternite-aujourdhui/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kelly Eggers":MAILTO:keggers@princeton.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231102T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231102T180000
DTSTAMP:20260625T131652
CREATED:20231027T152355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231027T152355Z
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SUMMARY:Towards a New History of Ukraine: Writing Women’s Lives into War and Postwar
DESCRIPTION:This co-presentation aims to unsettle the way the history of Ukraine has been imagined by venturing into stories that might be found in other historiographies\, such as Russian\, Eastern European\, Polish\, Jewish\, and Soviet. Exploring the biographies of two women—Dina Pronicheva\, a Jewish survivor of Babyn Iar and a puppet theater actress\, and Muza Konsulova\, an architect involved in postwar rebuilding in Soviet Ukraine—highlights the ways we can reimagine scholarly categories and think differently about women’s lives in the time of war and postwar. Ukraine then becomes central to larger stories of the region. \nParticipants: \nSofia Dyak\nDirector of the Center for Urban History\, Lviv\, Ukraine \nMayhill C. Fowler\nAssociate Professor of History\, Stetson University \nOrganized by the Program in Russian\, East European and Eurasian Studies; co-sponsored by the Program in Judaic Studies
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/towards-a-new-history-of-ukraine-writing-womens-lives-into-war-and-postwar/
LOCATION:016 Robertson Hall
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Jhumpa Lahiri & Zahid Chaudhary
DESCRIPTION:Pulitzer Prize-winning author and translator Jhumpa Lahiri returns to Princeton— where until recently she served as a professor of creative writing  — for an evening of discussion of her newest collection of short stories\, which she wrote in Italian and then co-translated into English; about her life’s work; and about the power of translation. \nAt 45\, Italian became her new adoptive language. “Nothing came to me naturally;” she wrote\, “I had to pay my dues.” McCarter Theater\, Labyrinth Books\, and the Princeton Public Library invite Jhumpa Lahiri to explore her life and art with her former colleague at Princeton and with the audie \nIn Roman Stories\, Lahiri’s first story collection since the #1 NYTimes beststelling Unaccustomed Earth\, Rome—metropolis and monument\, suspended between past and future\, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is the protagonist\, not the setting. These are splendid\, searching stories\, written in Jhumpa Lahiri’s adopted language of Italian and seamlessly translated by the author and by Knopf editor Todd Portnowit \nCurrently Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Barnard College\, Jhumpa Lahiri received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for Interpreter of Maladies. In 2014\, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama. Zahid R. Chaudhary teaches British and Postcolonial literature in the English Department at Princeton University and is a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton). He is the author of Afterimage of Empire: 19th Century Photography in India. His forthcoming book is Unruly Truth: Psychopolitics and the Crises of Authority. \nPlease note: this is a ticketed event. The price of the ticket includes a copy of Lahiri’s Roman Stories. Ticket information is here. \nThis event is co-presented by Labyrinth\, McCarter Theatre\, and the Princeton Public Library and is co-sponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/an-evening-with-jhumpa-lahiri-zahid-chaudhary/
LOCATION:McCarter Theater
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