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SUMMARY:Ahasver\, the Wandering Jew: Between History and Literature
DESCRIPTION:The Wandering Jew is one of the most important figures in the history of Antisemitism. In its modern iteration\, it dates to a most mysterious pamphlet\, published anonymously and by an unknown publisher somewhere in German-speaking Europe in 1602. The pamphlet describes how a Jew named Ahasverus mocked Christ on his way to the Crucifixion\, for which God cursed him to wander the earth until the Second Coming. The lecture will present new evidence about the origins of the 1602 pamphlet\, discuss the surprising motivation behind it\, and reveal new details about its early reception history.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/ahasver-the-wandering-jew-between-history-and-literature/
LOCATION:205 East Pyne
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ORGANIZER;CN="Fiona Romaine":MAILTO:fromaine@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Roman failure: inequality in practice
DESCRIPTION:The case of the Early Imperial small rural settlement of Marzuolo\, in south-central Etruria\, paints a micro-history of arrested developments: a couple of decades into the site’s existence\, an abandoned wine-production facility was converted into a blacksmithing workshop\, which in turn burnt down and was abandoned soon after. But were both these endings failures? This paper uses the concept of failure as an epistemic lens to examine inequality: who could fail in the Roman world\, and for whom was failure not an option? Was failure tied up with particular notions of the future\, and were those equally distributed? Did failure in the Roman world feature as a stepping-stone towards growth\, as per modern Silicon Valley-credos? \nZoom option available. No registration required to attend in person.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/roman-failure-inequality-in-practice/
LOCATION:East Pyne 010 and Zoom\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eileen Robinson":MAILTO:eileenrobinson@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:UCHV Film Forum: Melvin Van Peebles' Three Day Pass (1969)
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of “Love\, That’s America\,” the Fall 2022 UCHV Film Forum.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/uchv-film-forum-melvin-van-peebles-three-day-pass-1969/
LOCATION:Green Hall 0-S-6\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fall 2022 Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment / Palm Politics
DESCRIPTION:Nipa palm is one of the most commonly found species in tropical habitats that meet the ocean\, and it has a wide spectrum of uses in estuarine places. It is woven into panels for walls\, folded into shingles for roofs\, it is threaded\, thatched\, fermented\, bunched and tied into baskets\, hats\, mats and brooms. Its fruit is eaten as a dessert ingredient in Malaysia and Singapore\, while it is fermented to become a kind of liquor in the Philippines\, known as tuba. Palm is a machine for living of and living in. However\, this perennial\, ubiquitous\, living material\, has had a brittle relationship to the realm of architectural study\, where it is often sidelined as so-called “vernacular” architecture. The epistemic trajectory of houses built from nipa or coconut palm and bamboo is at odds with a construction process that is often gendered and tied to traditional\, lived knowledge. This talk explores how palms (arecaceae) have come to be interpreted in their various architectural guises.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/fall-2022-mellon-forum-on-the-urban-environment-palm-politics/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium and Zoom\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jacquelyn Walsh":MAILTO:jw42@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221005T120000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Faculty Colloquium: “Beginnings and Anomalies. The Example of Medieval Iberia”
DESCRIPTION:Medieval Studies is pleased to offer the Faculty Colloquium Series for the 2022-23 academic year. \nMarina S. Brownlee (Spanish & Portuguese) will present the lunchtime talk\, “Beginnings and Anomalies. The Example of Medieval Iberia.” \nPlease RSVP for this event here.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-faculty-colloquium-beginnings-and-anomalies-the-example-of-medieval-iberia/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela
DESCRIPTION:Why have thousands of Venezuelan youth and their families chosen to invest their desires in classical music? In this talk\, Yana Stainova will discuss her new book Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela\, based on 16 months of ethnographic research with musicians from Venezuela’s classical music program El Sistema. The state-funded initiative provides free classical music education and instruments to almost a million young people all over the country. The book looks at how these young people engage with what she calls “enchantment\,” that is\, how through musical practices they create worlds that escape\, rupture\, and critique dominant structures of power. Stainova’s focus on artistic practice and enchantment allows her to theorize the successes and failures of political projects through the lens of the everyday transformations in people’s lives. \nABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER\nYana Stainova is an interdisciplinary scholar interested in art\, migration\, and the lived experience of violence in Latin America. She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Brown University\, and is currently assistant professor of anthropology at McMaster University. \nDISCUSSANT\nJoão Biehl\, Chair of Anthropology\, Princeton University \nREGISTER HERE \nOpen to Princeton students and faculty\, and specially invited guests. A “to-go” lunch will be provided at the conclusion of the event.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/sonorous-worlds-musical-enchantment-in-venezuela/
LOCATION:216 Aaron Burr Hall\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Damaris Zayas":MAILTO:damaris@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Marx’s Critique and its Implications for a Critical Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will present the principles and epistemological aspects of Marx’s critical method and the specific categorical structures associated with it. It will thus present\, among other things\, Marx’s distinction between the esoteric and exoteric levels of analysis\, between the real object and the object of knowledge\, and indicate the connection of his epistemological approach with that of French historical epistemology. It will then attempt to show\, using Marx’s critique of political economy as an example\, how Marx’s method of historicizing categories and “denaturalizing” them can be an effective tool for a critical theory of deideologization and defetishization.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/marxs-critique-and-its-implications-for-a-critical-philosophy/
LOCATION:100 Jones Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kelly Eggers":MAILTO:keggers@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:EHL Seminar: “HistoGenes: Integrating Genomic\, Archaeological\, and Historical Perspectives on Eastern Central Europe"
DESCRIPTION:Presentations will take place in Aaron Burr 219 from 4:30-6:30 PM\, with a coffee and treats reception preceding the talk from 4-4:30PM in the lobby outside the room. A Q&A session will follow the talk from 6:30-7PM \nHistoGenes is an ambitious project funded by the European Research Council to study population movements and community structures in the Carpathian Basin between the fifth and ninth centuries. The project is sequencing ancient DNA from over 100 cemeteries and 6000 individuals and coordinating the genomic data produced with archaeological\, isotopic\, and historical data in the largest project of its type ever undertaken. During the presentation\, Krishna Veeramah and Patrick Geary will present an overview of the genomic and historical framework of the project\, and Deven Vyas\, Yijie Tian\, and István Koncz will present specific examples of how HistoGenes is analyzing specific communities in the region.\n \nRegister on the EHL website. \nThis seminar is organized by The Environmental History Lab (EHL)\, an interdisciplinary program affiliated with the Program in Medieval Studies and funded by a Humanities Council David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Grant for innovation. \nAttendance is possible by Zoom (via registration) or in-person. \nIn-person attendees are required to wear face masks while in the room.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/ehl-seminar-histogenes-integrating-genomic-archaeological-and-historical-perspectives-on-eastern-central-europe/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall or Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221005T170000
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SUMMARY:Glare Captured Through Telescope Eyes: On Seeing and Unseeming in the New Ethers
DESCRIPTION:Ethers come and go. Devices make present spectacular and sublime incomprehensibilities\, the tiniest shudders in space and time\, a glimmer from something so distant its seeming existence might just be an effect of the mechanism – lending interest to Adorno’s line about the splinter in one’s eye being the best magnifying glass . Our media eyes are directed towards an cosmic turbidity offworld\, but we have our clouds\, fogs\, ethers on Earth too and they equally present conundrums to the unaided eye. This talk explores galactic desire and earthbound ethers designed to capture and communicate the business of the world. It asks what nature\, what new nature\, is seen through new and old lenses and how does it look back. Adorno claimed in 1956 that ‘Philosophy exists in order to redeem what you see in the look of an animal’. What do we see in – and through – robot eyes? In the lens of telescopes? What do they see in us\, and for whom? Can we speak of a new ontology of vision – or subsumption by the provisional – in the age of turbid media? \nEsther Leslie is Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck\, University of London. Her interests lie in the poetics of science and imbrications of politics and technologies\, with a particular focus on the work of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno\, as well as the poetics of science\, European literary and visual modernism and avant gardes\, animation\, colour and madness. Current work focuses on turbid media and the aesthetics of turbulence. Her books include various studies and translations of Walter Benjamin\, as well as Hollywood Flatlands: Animation\, Critical Theory and the Avant Garde (2002); Synthetic Worlds: Nature\, Art and the Chemical Industry (2005); Derelicts: Thought Worms from the Wreckage (2014)\, Liquid Crystals: The Science and Art of a Fluid Form (2016) and Deeper in the Pyramid (2018) and The Inextinguishable (2021)\, both with Melanie Jackson.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/glare-captured-through-telescope-eyes-on-seeing-and-unseeming-in-the-new-ethers/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Florian Endres":MAILTO:fendres@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Troubling Times: South Asia and the Postcolonial
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to attend Princeton’s 2022 South Asia conference\, ′Troubling Times: South Asia and the Postcolonial’. The conference will take place from Thursday 6th October to Saturday 8th October in A71\, Louis A. Simpson International Building. \nThe conference has an exciting line-up of panellists and speakers\, who will interrogate “post-coloniality” as a paradigm for representing South Asia. There will be three keynote addresses: Priya Gopal\, Professor of English at the University of Cambridge is a public intellectual who has commented widely on empire\, race and literary radicalism. She will talk about how issues of caste disrupt “postcolonial” axioms. Shahidul Alam\, Bangladeshi photojournalist and activist\, will be flying to Princeton from documenta to share his work (pictured below)\, and thoughts about alternative lexicons for framing South Asia. Natasha Ginwala\, associate curator at Gropius Bau\, Berlin and Colomboscope\, Sri Lanka\, will contribute her knowledge and experience as a curator and thinker of contemporary art and visual culture. \nIn addition to the keynotes\, the conference has an interesting and provocative array of panellists\, who will present on issues ranging from the use of artificial intelligence to reconstruct ancient manuscripts to popular comedy in the aftermath of Partition. The full list of panels and panellists is on the conference website: https://southasiaworkshop.wordpress.com/2022-conference-program/  \nCo-sponsors: The Chadha Center for Global India\, the Humanities Council\, the Center for Digital Humanities\, High Meadows Environmental Institute\, School of Architecture\, School of Public and International Affairs\, Department of Religion\, Department of Classics\, PIIRS\, University Center for Human Values\, The Lichtenstein Institute\, Department of Art & Archaeology\, Department of Comparative Literature\, Department of English\, Department of Near Eastern Studies\, the Bobst Center for Peace and Justics\, The Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies\, The Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities\, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies\, the Program in Media and Modernity\, and the Program in Translation.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/princeton-south-asia-conference/
LOCATION:A71 Simpson International Building
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SUMMARY:A Symposium on the Work of Patrice Nganang
DESCRIPTION:Panel 1:\nJean-Michel Devesa\, Writer (University of Limoges\, France): Minorizing the French language in the work of Nganang [in French]\nPeter Vakunta (Defense Language Institute-Foreign Language Center\, Monterey-California): Is this French? The Task of Teaching Nganang’s Temps de chien\nBertrand Eric Oka Kouame (University of Abidjan-Cocody\, Ivory Coast): Patrice Nganang\, a writer between theory and practice [in French] \nPanel 2:\nArmelle Touko (Akindra Editions\, Yaounde): Generation Change and the House of Writers\nRoger Fopa (University of Maroua/Université de KwaZulu-Natal\, South Africa): On the experience of building school classes in Yaounde\nNsah Mala (Aarhus University\, Denmark): Dog stories and the Anglophone question \nPlease register at this link. \nFood will be served\, please list any allergies or dietary restrictions. \nPlease contact mandrie@princeton.edu if you require any special accommodations in order to attend. \nSponsored by: The Department of English\, the Department of French and Italian\, the Department of African American Studies\, the Department of Comparative Literature\, Lewis Center for the Arts\, and the Humanities Council.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/a-symposium-on-the-work-of-patrice-nganang/
LOCATION:Prospect House\, Presidential Dining Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Quinn Russell":MAILTO:qrussell@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221006T120000
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SUMMARY:The Sassoons: The Global Merchants and the Making of a Dynasty
DESCRIPTION:The influential merchants of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries shaped the globalization of today. The Sassoons\, a Baghdadi-Jewish trading family\, built a global trading enterprise by taking advantage of major historical developments during the nineteenth century. Their story is not just one of an Arab Jewish family that settled in India\, traded in China\, and aspired to be British. It also presents an extraordinary vista into the world in which they lived and prospered economically\, politically\, and socially. \nThe Global Merchants (Pantheon\, 2022) is about the Sassoons’ rise as well as their decline: Why each happened\, how political and economic changes after the First World War adversely affected them\, and finally\, how realizing their aspirations to reach the upper echelons of British society led to their disengagement from business and prevented them from adapting to the new economic and political world order. \nThis is a hybrid event. Register here for the Zoom link. \nJoseph Sassoon is the director of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and Professor of History and Political Economy at Georgetown University. He holds the al-Sabah Chair in Politics and Political Economy of the Arab World. He is also a Senior Associate Member at St Antony’s College\, Oxford. In 2013\, his book Saddam Hussein’s Ba‘th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime (Cambridge University Press\, 2012) won the prestigious British-Kuwait Prize for the best book on the Middle East. Prof. Sassoon completed his D.Phil. at St Antony’s College\, Oxford. He has published extensively on Iraq and its economy and on the Middle East. The Global Merchants is his fifth book.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-sassoons-the-global-merchants-and-the-making-of-a-dynasty/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall and Zoom\, 202 Jones Hall\, NJ
ORGANIZER;CN="Ruchi Chaudhary":MAILTO:rc9054@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:The Spirit of ’76: Slavery\, Empire\, and the Anthropocene in Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Kindred’
DESCRIPTION:The Effron Center for the Study of America presents the Fall 2022 Anschutz Lecture: Susana Morris \nIn 1976\, the United States was celebrating the Bicentennial\, or the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Still reeling from Vietnam\, Watergate\, and the previous decade’s culture wars\, the still young nation threw itself into the culmination of a series self-congratulatory festivities to combat the cheerless national mood. Set in both 1976 and antebellum America\, Butler’s Kindred is part of a cadre of the 1970s neo-slave narratives that reckon with the nation’s legacy in ways that the Bicentennial’s commemorative stamps\, coins\, and patriotic parades could never do. Kindred tells the ugly\, complicated\, unvarnished history of America\, demythologizing the past and giving readers a clearer view of the present. In this talk\, I will discuss the role of the Bicentennial in Butler’s work\, especially as it relates to the legacy of slavery and the concurrent rise of the American empire and the Anthropocene. \nSusana M. Morris is associate professor of literature\, media\, and communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the author of Close Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women’s Literature (UVA 2014)\, co-editor\, with Brittney C. Cooper and Robin M. Boylorn\, of The Crunk Feminist Collection (Feminist Press 2017)\, and co-author\, with Brittney C. Cooper and Chanel Craft Tanner\, of the young adult handbook\, Feminist AF: The Guide to Crushing Girlhood (Norton 2021). She is the co-founder of The Crunk Feminist Collective and has written for Gawker\, Long Reads\, Cosmopolitan.com and Ebony.com\, and has also been featured on NPR\, the BBC\, Essence magazine\, and The New York Times. Her research and teaching interests explore Black women’s relationships to Afrofuturism\, the Anthropocene\, and feminism. She is currently at work on a cultural biography of Octavia Butler\, Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-spirit-of-76-slavery-empire-and-the-anthropocene-in-octavia-e-butlers-kindred/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Quinn Russell":MAILTO:qrussell@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221006T180000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Book Club: Wonderful to Relate: Miracle Stories and Miracle Collecting in High Medieval England
DESCRIPTION:To start off the academic year\, the Medieval Studies Book Club will be meeting on Thursday\, October 6 from 6 to 7:20pm to discuss Rachel Koopmans’s “Wonderful to Relate: Miracle Stories and Miracle Collecting in High Medieval England” (2011).  \nIf you would like to join us for a lively book discussion and dinner\, please RSVP by Tuesday\, September 6th to Alice Morandy.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/medieval-studies-book-club-wonderful-to-relate-miracle-stories-and-miracle-collecting-in-high-medieval-england/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell\, 209 Scheide Caldwell\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reassessing Rousseau’s Political Antiquity
DESCRIPTION:This interdisciplinary panel will discuss Flora Champy’s recent book\, L’Antiquité politique de Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Paris: Classiques Garnier\, 2022). Studying Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s use of ancient material helps us explore several questions: how significant are examples in political writing? How important is the Early Modern regime of symbolism to foundational works of political theory? Rousseau deliberately turned traditionally educational and cultural material into tools of critical inquiry. Early on\, his interest moved away from illustrious figures to focus on the city-state as a political community. Putting forward the Roman Republic as his main political model\, Rousseau emphasized the connection between anthropology and politics\, moral education and civic activity. He also addressed a pressing issue: how can political authority retain legitimacy through the eventfulness of history? \nSpeakers\n• David Bell\, Princeton University\n• Flora Champy\, Princeton University\n• Christopher J. Kelly\, Boston College\n• Melissa Lane\, Princeton University\n• James Swenson\, Rutgers University
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/reassessing-rousseaus-political-antiquity/
LOCATION:105 Chancellor Green
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kelly Eggers":MAILTO:keggers@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221007T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221007T153000
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SUMMARY:Artist Conversation: Marianne Nicolson
DESCRIPTION:Marianne Nicolson is an artist and activist of the Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw First Nations. She will discuss her artistic practice\, which incorporates light sculptures\, installations\, writing\, graphic arts\, and advocacy for Indigenous land rights. \nJoin us—in person or live via Zoom—for a conversation with the artist moderated by Rachael Z. DeLue\, Chair of the Department of Art & Archaeology and Christopher Binyon Sarofim ’86 Professor in American Art. \nThis program is cosponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum\, Institutional Equity and Diversity\, and the Office of Religious Life. \nFree registration via Zoom here. (When prompted\, click to sign in as “attendee.”) \nThis event will include live closed captions in both English and Spanish. English captions are available directly in the Zoom toolbar by clicking the “CC” icon. To access Spanish-language captioning\, open Streamtext\, where you can select “Spanish” to see the live captioning. \nPara acceder a los subtítulos en varios idiomas\, ingrese al seminario web de Zoom durante un evento en vivo\, luego abra un navegador web separado para visitar esta página donde puede seleccionar “español” o el idioma de su elección.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/artist-conversation-marianne-nicolson/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium and Zoom\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221007T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221007T183000
DTSTAMP:20260405T133750
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SUMMARY:Silence in Free Improvisation
DESCRIPTION:The Musicology Colloquium Series presents a talk by Professor Ritwik Banerji\, co-sponsored by the Center for Digital Humanities and the Department of Anthropology. \nWhat does it mean when one or more improvisers remains silent in the midst of an improvised performance? While music scholars have given substantial attention to the meaning of musical silence\, this has focused almost exclusively on its meaning in the performance of fully notated\, composed works. The meaning of silence in the context of improvisation carries a fundamentally different meaning as it is not the result of composerly prescription\, but the individual discretion often inherent to improvisation. At the same time\, like silences in other forms of human communication (i.e.\, conversation)\, improvisatory silences are prone to ambiguity. \nThis talk examines the meanings performers attribute to silence in improvised musical interactions through an experimental ethnographic methodology in which I have designed a variety of artificially intelligent virtual performers of free improvisation and subjected these to the critique of human performers of this musical practice. Because such systems are not human\, but still humanlike\, this methodology enables musicians to discuss elements of their experience of free improvisation as a form of human interaction that they would not normally discuss (and in particular\, critique) regarding the behavior of a (biologically) human co-performer. Among the many themes performers have critiqued about these systems\, their interpretation and deployment of silence has been a consistent topic. As is the case in language\, the meanings performers attribute to silence are diverse\, including silence as an expression of politeness\, disapproval\, or weakness\, to silence as a dimension of gender performance (and difference)\, the relationship between musical improvisation and conversation (through language)\, to the notion that voluntary silence is a critical performative element of humanness.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/silence-in-free-improvisation/
LOCATION:102 Woolworth\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Madeline Kushan":MAILTO:mkushan@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221007T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221009T220000
DTSTAMP:20260405T133750
CREATED:20220930T183454Z
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SUMMARY:Celebration/Party Time
DESCRIPTION:Two short works by the renowned playwright Harold Pinter. CELEBRATION\, an interplay between two vivacious dinner parties with enough dry irony and sarcasm to keep you laughing all night. In PARTY TIME\, eight wealthy guests gather for a house party amidst the upheaval outside. As the night goes on\, subtle tensions grow. What’s going on outside? And what happened to Jimmy? Join us for an immersive show of dark hilarity\, irony\, and innuendo. \nTickets are $8 for students or FREE through Student Events\, $10 for faculty and seniors\, and $12 for general audiences. Buy tickets online at tickets.princeton.edu (preferred)\, the Frist ticketing office at 609-258-9220\, or at the Theatre Intime box office 45 minutes before each show time. \nContent Warning: Celebration and Party Time include scenes that discuss and/or portray implied sexual content\, profanity\, and alcohol use. Scenes in Party Time depict abusive relationships\, implied unrest\, and ableist language; scenes in Celebration include mentions of incest; and scenes in both shows include mentions of sexual assault\, murder\, adultery\, and profanity. Please prioritize your comfort and wellbeing when deciding whether to engage with the content of this production; if you have any questions about the content of the plays or would like a list of more specific content warnings\, please contact sjafri@princeton.edu and km6212@princeton.edu. \n“Celebration (Pinter)” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French\, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/celebration-party-time-2/
LOCATION:Theatre Intime\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Emily Yang":MAILTO:ey3875@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221010T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221010T183000
DTSTAMP:20260405T133750
CREATED:20221004T175351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221004T175643Z
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SUMMARY:Seed Farm Open House
DESCRIPTION:Marking Indigenous Peoples Day\nThe Seed Farm is a new interdisciplinary research project that grows rare and culturally-meaningful seeds on a 3.5 acre farm. The project works with community partners to ask broad research questions related to ecological and social repair and mutualisms. The farm hosts regular Saturday workdays and other events. The farm plot is nestled amidst the 99-acre Stony Ford property\, which is managed and supported by the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Come out to the farm and enjoy the garden and walking trails. Help with seed harvesting and processing. Learn more about the research projects happening and how you can be involved. \nSponsored by The Seed Farm Project\, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology\, Effron Center for the Study of America\, University Facilities\, High Meadows Environmental Institute\, Humanities Council\, Office of Sustainability\, Pace Center for Civic Engagement\, and the Program for Community Engaged Scholarship. \nShuttle Service: A ongoing shuttle service will offer a loop between the Wawa parking lot (152 Alexander Rd) and the Stony Ford Research Station. The shuttle will run from 3 – 7 pm. A schedule will be posted soon. \nParking: Parking at Stony Ford is very limited. Use of parking spaces will be limited to 45 minute slots. If you would like to drive and park at the site\, you will need to make a reservation using the following Google Doc. \nOther questions? Email seedfarm@princeton.edu \nWant to Get Involved? Sign up for workdays.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/seed-farm-open-house/
LOCATION:Stony Ford Research Station
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221010T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221010T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T133750
CREATED:20220922T152857Z
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SUMMARY:UCHV Film Forum: Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep (1978)
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of “Love\, That’s America\,” the Fall 2022 UCHV Film Forum.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/uchv-film-forum-charles-burnetts-killer-of-sheep-1978/
LOCATION:Green Hall 0-S-6\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T130000
DTSTAMP:20260405T133750
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SUMMARY:“The US Government’s Formulation of Middle East Policies: An Insider’s Perspective”
DESCRIPTION:In his talk Col. Joel Rayburn will provide a description of the US national security decision-making process and structures\, which he has been part of and in various capacities over more than two decades. This will including a discussion and analysis of the US government’s major institutional players and their respective ways of doing business. Building on his personal involvement and experience as well as his academic work\, Col. Rayburn will then examine three policy cases that spanned the Obama and Trump administrations. They are: Syria\, Iran\, and the campaign against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-us-governments-formulation-of-middle-east-policies-an-insiders-perspective/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall and Zoom\, 202 Jones Hall\, NJ
ORGANIZER;CN="Ruchi Chaudhary":MAILTO:rc9054@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221011T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221011T131500
DTSTAMP:20260405T133750
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SUMMARY:Documenting the Unreal: Chronicling the Covid Lockdown in India
DESCRIPTION:Kushanava Choudhury\, a visiting Ferris Professor of Journalism in the Program in Journalism\, is a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Caravan and The Statesman. The author of “The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta\,” he is teaching in the journalism program for his second time. Discussant Jacob Dlamini is an Associate Professor of History. \nThe Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism invites faculty\, graduate students and staff to participate in the next in our series of events where distinguished visiting journalists discuss their work and pressing issues of the day with faculty from a variety of disciplines. These lunchtime talks offer intimate looks inside the work of colleagues and an opportunity for dialogue across specialties. \nAttendance by reservation only. Space is limited; RSVP to Margo Bresnen at mbresnen@princeton.edu\, noting your University affiliation. \nEmail Margo Bresnen\, Journalism Program Manager\, at mbresnen@princeton.edu with any questions or difficulties.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/documenting-the-unreal/
LOCATION:16 Joseph Henry House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T133750
CREATED:20220919T184637Z
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SUMMARY:Soldiers and Kings: Inside the World of Human Smuggling
DESCRIPTION:In 2014\, Mexico (with financial and logistical support from the Obama administration) launched Programa Frontera Sur\, a security enforcement project aimed at stopping Central American migrants from reaching the U.S./Mexico border. Under this program\, Mexico dramatically increased arrests and deportations while simultaneously making the migration journey more arduous and deadly. In response to this heightened security\, migrants have turned to transnational gangs such as MS-13 who have become increasingly involved in the human smuggling industry. In 2015 De León began a long-term photoethnographic project focused on understanding the daily lives of Honduran smugglers who profit from transporting migrants across the length of Mexico. In this talk he will use ethnographic data to discuss the relationship between transnational gangs and the human smuggling industry and outline the complicated role that photography plays as a field method and data source in this violent and ethically challenging context. \nABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER\nJason De León is Executive Director of the Undocumented Migration Project and the Colibri Center for Human Rights\, a joint 501(c)(3) organization focused on raising awareness about issues related to migration and assisting families of missing migrants search for their loved ones. De León is Professor of Anthropology and Chicana\, Chicano\, and Central American Studies at the University of California\, Los Angeles and Head Curator of the ongoing global exhibition “Hostile Terrain 94.” He is the author of the award-winning book “The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail” and a 2017 MacArthur Fellow. \nLEARN MORE\nUndocumented Migration Project \nHostile Terrain 94 \nDISCUSSANTS\nAgustín Fuentes\, Anthropology\, Princeton University\nPatricia Fernandez-Kelly\, Sociology\, Princeton University \nCo-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology\, Center for Migration and Development\, Effron Center for the Study of America\, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS)\, and the Humanities Council. \n  \nThis event is free and open to the public. A reception will immediately follow. Space is limited\, please register in advance. \nIN-PERSON REGISTRATION \nThose who cannot attend in person can alternatively choose to join us via Zoom: \nZOOM REGISTRATION
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/soldiers-and-kings-inside-the-world-of-human-smuggling/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Damaris Zayas":MAILTO:damaris@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T133750
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SUMMARY:‘THE ANCIENT THREAD INTO MODERN DRESS: Using the Greek Classics to Tell Contemporary Stories’
DESCRIPTION:Theater director and MacArthur “genius” grant winner Luis Alfaro will deliver Princeton’s 2022-2023 Robert Fagles Lecture for Classics in the Contemporary Arts. Alfaro works in theater\, performance\, poetry and journalism\, and is known for plays and performances including three adaptations of ancient Greek dramas: Mojada\, a retelling of Medea set in Los Angeles\, Oedipus El Rey\, a Chicano retelling of Oedipus Rex\, and Electricidad\, based on Sophocles’ Electra. \nIn addition to the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship\, Alfaro is a Joyce Foundation Fellow and has won numerous fellowships and grants for his wide-ranging work. His “Greek Trilogy” was gathered and published in 2020 by Bloomsbury\, in a volume edited by Rosa Andújar\, a graduate alumnus of Princeton. \nAlfaro will deliver a lecture titled ‘The Ancient Thread into Modern Dress: Using the Greek Classics to Tell Contemporary Stories’ on Tuesday\, 11th October at an event hosted by the Classics Department. Participants from the Princeton community will be able to attend in person or online.  \nThe recently established Fagles Lecture invites a distinguished writer or artist to Princeton\, whose work engages with the Classics. During the visit\, the guest gives a lecture and a class or reading\, as well as meeting students and engaging in a public conversation with faculty members about their work. Support for this project has been provided in part by Princeton’s Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature\, the Humanities Council\, the Lewis Center for the Arts\, Princeton University Public Lectures Committee\, Program in Humanistic Studies and the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-ancient-thread-into-modern-dress-using-the-greek-classics-to-tell-contemporary-stories/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium and Zoom\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eileen Robinson":MAILTO:eileenrobinson@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T133750
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race\, Class\, and Food in the American South
DESCRIPTION:Joseph Ewoodzie Jr.\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, Vann Professor of Racial Justice\, Davidson College\, spent more than a year following a group of socioeconomically diverse African Americans — from upper-middle-class patrons of the city’s fine-dining restaurants to men experiencing homelessness who must organize their days around the schedules of soup kitchens. He went food shopping\, cooked\, and ate with a young mother living in poverty and a grandmother working two jobs. He worked in a Black-owned BBQ restaurant\, and he met a man who decided to become a vegan for health reasons but must drive across town to get tofu and quinoa. He learned about how soul food is changing and why it is no longer a staple survival food. Now he presents his findings to show how food choices influence\, and are influenced by\, the racial and class identities of Black Jacksonians. \nDemonstrating how “foodways” — food availability\, choice\, and consumption — vary greatly between classes of African Americans in Jackson\, Mississippi\, and how this reflects and shapes their very different experiences of a shared racial identity\, Ewoodzie offers new insights into the lives of Black Southerners and helps challenge the persistent homogenization of blackness in American life. The phrase ‘You are what you eat’ gains new poignance in this fascinating\, mouth-watering\, study. \n\nSponsors\n\nPrinceton Food Project\, a Humanities Council Magic Project\nDepartment of Sociology\nEffron Center for the Study of America
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/book-talk-getting-something-to-eat-in-jackson-race-class-and-food-in-the-american-south/
LOCATION:A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building\, Washington Rd.\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T183000
DTSTAMP:20260405T133750
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SUMMARY:James Baldwin Lecture Series: "The Limits Of The Quantitative Approach To Discrimination"
DESCRIPTION:The annual James Baldwin Lecture series was launched March 29\, 2006\, aiming to celebrate the work of Princeton faculty and to provide an occasion for the intellectual community to reflect on the issue of race and American democracy. The lectures also honor the work of the late essayist James Baldwin\, one of America’s most powerful cultural critics. \nDiscrimination is obvious to the people facing discrimination. Given this\, do we even need quantitative studies to test if it exists? Regardless of the answer\, quantitative studies such as ProPublica’s “Machine Bias” have had a galvanizing effect on racial justice\, especially in the context of automated decision-making. In this talk\, I will discuss what the quantitative approach can reveal\, but\, more importantly\, situations where it cannot tell us what we need to know. Both because of the inherent limits of quantification and because of the way knowledge is socially constructed in quantitative communities\, such studies tend to drastically underestimate discrimination\, oppression\, and algorithmic harms. In the end\, quantification is no substitute for centering the experiences of those harmed. \nArvind Narayanan is an associate professor of computer science at Princeton. His work was among the first to show how machine learning reflects cultural stereotypes including racial and gender biases. He is co-authoring a textbook in fairness and machine learning. Dr. Narayanan co-created an online course and textbook on bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies which has been used in over 150 courses worldwide. He is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)\, twice recipient of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award\, and thrice recipient of the Privacy Papers for Policy Makers Award.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/james-baldwin-lecture-series-the-limits-of-the-quantitative-approach-to-discrimination/
LOCATION:East Pyne 010 and Zoom\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T183000
DTSTAMP:20260405T133750
CREATED:20221004T130039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221010T181801Z
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SUMMARY:Canceled: Program in Media and Modernity: "Untying Things Together”
DESCRIPTION:This event has been canceled. Please visit the Program in Media and Modernity website for upcoming events.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/program-in-media-and-modernity-untying-things-together/
LOCATION:Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Iason Stathatos":MAILTO:iasons@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T193000
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SUMMARY:The Book of Goose: A Novel
DESCRIPTION:The Book of Goose is a magnificent\, beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris\, from an English boarding school to the quiet Pennsylvania home where a woman can live without her past. It’s a story of disturbing intimacy and obsession\, of exploitation and strength. The celebrated author Yiyun Li will discuss her new novel with her fellow writer and colleague at Princeton\, Idra Novey. \nJoin us at Labyrinth or register here to join online. \nFabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend\, Agnès\, receives the news in America\, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised—the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now\, Agnès is free to tell her story. \nAs children in a war-ravaged\, backwater town\, they’d built a private world\, invisible to everyone but themselves—until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything\, launching Agnès on an epic trajectory through fame\, fortune\, and terrible loss. \nYiyun Li is the author of the novels Must I Go; Where Reasons End; Kinder Than Solitude; A Thousand Years of Good Prayers; The Vagrants; and Gold Boy\, Emerald Girl; and the memoir\, Dear Friend\, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She teaches creative writing at Princeton. Idra Novey’s novels are the acclaimed Those Who Knew; and Ways to Disappear. Her poetry collections include Exit\, Civilian; The Next Country; and Clarice: The Visitor. Her works as a translator include Clarice Lispector’s novel The Passion According to G.H. and a co-translation with Ahmad Nadalizadeh of Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian\, Lean Against This Late Hour. She teaches creative writing at Princeton University. \nThis event is part of Labyrinth’s and the Princeton Public Library’s ongoing joint programming and is cosponsored by Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts and Humanities Council.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-book-of-goose-a-novel/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books and Livestream\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Quinn Russell":MAILTO:qrussell@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T203000
DTSTAMP:20260405T133750
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SUMMARY:Isostasy: Chamber Music from Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:Join the Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival for a special concert of 20th century chamber music across four generations of composers from Ukraine. Entry to the concert is free\, with a suggested donation to benefit Ukraine. Click here for a list of reputable organizations to help Ukraine. \nThe concert starts at 7:00 PM\, with a pre-concert talk at 6:00 PM. \nCo-sponsored by the Program in Canadian Studies.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/isostasy-chamber-music-from-ukraine/
LOCATION:Taplin Auditorium\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221012T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221012T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T133750
CREATED:20220920T130724Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Discussion: What Are the Limits of Flexibility and Compassion?
DESCRIPTION:How do we teach with high standards as well as compassion and flexibility? Are deadlines important\, and why? Do we penalize late assignments\, and how? Do we grade attendance and participation? How do we communicate our expectations and pedagogical rationale to students? How do we respond to requests for extensions and exceptions? \nRegister here.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/faculty-discussion-what-are-the-limits-of-flexibility-and-compassion/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Ruthie Boyce":MAILTO:ruthieb@princeton.edu
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