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SUMMARY:The Sergei Loznitsa Symposium
DESCRIPTION:A two day event devoted to the internationally acclaimed film director Sergei Lonznitsa. \n\n4:30pm –  “Did I Hear Right? Re-sounding Archival Images in the Films of Sergei Loznitsa” lecture from Professor Daniel Schwartz (McGill University) in 245 East Pyne.\n \n7-9pm – Film Screening: “The Kiev Trial” at the Princeton Garden Theatre\, Nassau Street\, Princeton NJ \n\nThis symposium is supported by the Humanities Council Magic Project and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-sergei-loznitsa-symposium-2/
LOCATION:245 East Pyne\, 245 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ada Lovelace Day Graduate Mixer
DESCRIPTION:Calling all grads! Curious about digital humanities? The Center for Digital Humanities and GradFUTURES invite you to raise a glass to Ada Lovelace\, the first computer programmer\, at our annual fall mixer. Ask your burning questions about digital humanities in a relaxed\, friendly environment\, and learn more about the opportunities we have for you! No previous experience\, tech skills\, or passwords required. \nRSVP here.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/ada-lovelace-day-graduate-mixer/
LOCATION:Yankee Doodle Tap Room
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ORGANIZER;CN="Camey VanSant":MAILTO:cvansant@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Fluid Futures Forum: Islands\, Oceans and Volcanoes in Transformation
DESCRIPTION:Curtis Deutsch will talk about islands\, walls and bridges based on his time in Panama. Ryo Morimoto will talk about the 2023 Nuclear Ghost: the flushing of contaminated water into the ocean in the long aftermath of Fukushima. Anne McClintock (HMEI) will talk with photographs about melting glaciers in Iceland. Kevon Rhiney and Tae Cimarosti will respond.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/fluid-futures-forum-islands-oceans-and-volcanoes-in-transformation/
LOCATION:130 Corwin
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ORGANIZER;CN="Anne McClintock%3B Ryo Morimoto":MAILTO:am31@princeton.edu; ryo.morimoto@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T180000
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SUMMARY:Chile 9/11 Series | Nona Fernández: ¿Cómo recordar la sed?/ How to Remember the Thirst?
DESCRIPTION:Chile 9/11 | A 50th Anniversary Series of the Coup Against President Salvador Allende \nNona Fernández is a Chilean actor and writer\, and has published two plays\, a collection of short stories\, a work of nonfiction\, and six novels\, including Space Invaders and La dimension desconocida/The Twilight Zone\, which was awarded the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize. Her books have been translated into French\, Italian\, German\, Greek\, Portuguese\, Turkish\, and English. \nThis series has been funded by a Magic Grant from the Humanities Council. \n\nThis talk will be conducted in Spanish\, and is free and open to the public. \n 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/chile-9-11-series-nona-fernandez-como-recordar-la-sed-how-to-remember-the-thirst/
LOCATION:PLAS 3rd Floor Atrium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231012T163000
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SUMMARY:LLL Presents - "Necessary Trouble: Growing up at Mid-Century"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation between two presidents emerita of Harvard and Princeton respectively about Drew Gilpin’s new memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. \nTo grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances\, nuclear threat\, and destabilized social hierarchies. Two world wars and the depression that connected them had unleashed a torrent of expectations and dissatisfactions—not only in global affairs but in American society and Americans’ lives. \nA privileged white girl in conservative\, segregated Virginia was expected to adopt a willful blindness to the inequities of race and the constraints of gender. For Drew Gilpin\, the acceptance of both female subordination and racial hierarchy proved intolerable and galvanizing. Urged to become “well adjusted” and to fill the role of a poised young lady that her upbringing imposed\, she found resistance was necessary for her survival. During the 1960s\, through her love of learning and her active engagement in the civil rights\, student\, and antiwar movements\, Drew forged a path of her own—one that would eventually lead her to become a historian of the very conflicts that were instrumental in shaping the world she grew up in. \nCulminating in the upheavals of 1968\, Necessary Trouble captures a time of rapid change and fierce reaction in one young woman’s life\, tracing the transformations and aftershocks that we continue to grapple with today. \nDrew Gilpin Faust is University Professor of History at Harvard University. She was Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study from 2001 to 2007 and served as Harvard’s president from 2007 to 2018. Faust is the author of several books\, including This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War\, winner of the Bancroft Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; and Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War. Shirley Tilghman served as President of Princeton University from 2001-2013 and is Professor of Molecular Biology and Public Affairs at Princeton. In 2002\, Discover Magazine recognized her as one of the 50 most important women in science. \nCo-presented by Labyrinth Books and the Princeton Public Library and co-sponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council\, Gender and Sexuality Studies\, History \, and African American Studies Departments\, and by SPIA in NJ.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lll-presents-drew-gilpin-faust-shirley-tilghman-necessary-trouble-growing-up-at-mid-century/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:Seeking Justice: The Civil Rights Movement and the Federal Government
DESCRIPTION:During the civil rights struggles of the 1960s\, activists knew that securing the sympathy and support of the federal government was essential. Drawing on materials in Mudd Manuscript Library\, Professor of History Kevin M. Kruse will compare and contrast the 1961 Freedom Rides and the 1965 Selma protests to show how the federal response shaped the course of civil rights campaigns\, for better and for worse. \nA reception and open house will follow at Mudd Manuscript Library beginning at 6pm\, where the exhibition “Nobody Turn Us Around: The Freedom Rides and Selma to Montgomery Marches–Selections from the John Doar Papers” is currently on display. Curators Will Clements and Phoebe Nobles will be available for questions. During the reception\, a special pop-up exhibit will be on view in the Mudd Library reading room\, featuring archival materials chosen by Kevin Kruse to complement his talk. \nRegistration is required. \nProgram\nTalk: 4:30pm-5:45pm\nReception and exhibition open house: 6:00pm-7:00pm
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/seeking-justice-the-civil-rights-movement-and-the-federal-government/
LOCATION:Friend Center Convocation Room
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stephanie Oster":MAILTO:soster@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231012T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231012T180000
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SUMMARY:Splendors and Miseries of Lies. Autofiction\, Exofiction\, Ego Histoire\, and the Question of Truth
DESCRIPTION:After post-structuralism enjoined us to forget the notion of truth\, the 21st century is reactivating it in the face of the generalization of lies. Today’s era of post-truth\, characterized by fake news\, alternative facts\, the fading of evidence\, and the supremacy of narratives\, makes it necessary to rethink the criteria of truth. François Noudelmann will draw on famous works of contemporary literature\, historiography\, and his practice to analyze such issues.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/splendors-and-miseries-of-lies-autofiction-exofiction-ego-histoire-and-the-question-of-truth/
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:20231023T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T170000
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SUMMARY:McGraw Center Faculty Workshop: AI and Our Classrooms
DESCRIPTION:This series of workshops will provide faculty the opportunity to do some guided\, hands-on experimentation with generative AI tools\, to reflect in community on the experience\, and to discuss the tools’ potential impact on our teaching. \nAttendees are encouraged to bring their laptop for use during the session. \nGithub Copilot helps novice programmers to quickly generate powerful code snippets to work with data of various kinds. Questions we will consider include: How can we be transparent about code written with AI? Can AI-generated code demonstrate a user’s comprehension of the logic that structures a programming language? Can code generators assist non-programmers in producing coursework on par with their peers who have programming experience?
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/mcgraw-center-faculty-workshop-ai-and-our-classrooms/
LOCATION:330 Frist\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ruthie Boyce":MAILTO:ruthieb@princeton.edu
GEO:40.3467174;-74.6568772
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T163000
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SUMMARY:The First Kings of Europe: An International Exhibition about the Prehistoric Balkans
DESCRIPTION:Lecture: The modern world is plagued with unprecedented levels of social\, economic\, and political inequalities. But these inequities did not happen overnight; in places like southeastern Europe they emerged over the course of thousands of years as the small egalitarian farming villages of the Neolithic gave way to some of the earliest hierarchical kingdoms in the Iron Age. This is the story that is told in the First Kings of Europe exhibition\, an ambitious international collaboration between twenty-six museums in eleven countries in southeastern Europe. The exhibition\, organized by the Field Museum of Natural History\, is currently on display in Chicago before it travels to Ottawa\, Canada\, in early 2024. In this presentation\, Bill Parkinson gives an overview of the exhibition he co-curates with his colleagues\, Attila Gyucha\, and discusses the challenges they faced during the process of putting it together over the last eight years.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-first-kings-of-europe-an-international-exhibition-about-the-prehistoric-balkans/
LOCATION:3-S-15 Green Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mo Chen":MAILTO:mochen@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T190000
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SUMMARY:The Flowers of Andromache: Allegory and the Ontological Difference
DESCRIPTION:The Comparative Literature Department’s graduate lecture series\, ‘Influence & Interference\,’ welcomes Nathan Brown (Concordia University). Professor Brown will discuss the relation between Charles Baudelaire’s “Le Cygne” and Book XXII of the Iliad toward a theory of the temporality of allegory via Kant and Heidegger. Reception to follow. \nThis lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of German\, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese\, and the Humanities Council.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-flowers-of-andromache-allegory-and-the-ontological-difference-2/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Max Maller":MAILTO:mm8831@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T133000
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SUMMARY:On ‘Political Disappointment’ and its Origins in a Princeton English Dissertation
DESCRIPTION:Sara Marcus discusses her new book Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis and its origins in her Princeton dissertation\, along with discussion of her time as a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Princeton. Diana Fuss serves as interlocutor. \nSara Marcus is assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution\, a finalist for the National Award for Arts Writing. She received her Ph.D. in English from Princeton in 2018. \nDiana Fuss\, the Louis W. Fairchild Class of ’24 Professor of English\, has taught at Princeton since 1988\, after receiving her PhD from Brown University in English and Semiotics. She has taught undergraduate courses on a range of topics in the areas of criticism and theory\, 19th and 20th century American and British literature\, narrative and poetry\, film and media\, wilderness and environment\, and love and language. Her more specialized graduate offerings have focused on such subjects as Body Parts\, Architectural Interiors\, The Senses\, Contemporary Theory\, Freud’s Toolbox\, American Elegy\, Modern Death\, Modern Love\, Keywords\, Storytelling\, and Pedagogy. She has also conducted the graduate pedagogy and dissertation seminars. In 2001 Fuss received the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching\, and more recently the University’s Cotsen Fellowship for Distinguished Research and Teaching.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/on-political-disappointment-and-its-origins-in-a-princeton-english-dissertation/
LOCATION:Hinds Library\, McCosh\, Hinds Library\, McCosh\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Malone":MAILTO:sarah.k.malone@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T120000
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SUMMARY:"Value and slavery\, or the longue durée of the analog-digital distinction”
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Program in Media + Modernity | Princeton University \nSeb Franklin\n“Value and slavery\, or the longue durée of the analog-digital distinction”\n[Response: Paul Nadal]\nTuesday\, October 24\, 2023 @12pm ET\nS118 (School of Architecture) \n:: Please note that this event will start at 12:00 pm instead of 5:00 pm\, and that it will take place in Room S118\, instead of Room N107 :: \nIn this talk I theorise the analog and the digital as bundles of concepts\, feelings\, and attachments whose origins long precede the technical media most commonly associated with them. Beginning from Hari Kunzru’s 2017 novel White Tears\, which overtly connects analog media fetishism to an extractive fascination with racial blackness\, I argue through readings of media history\, Lacanian and Marxist theory\, and Black studies that the prevailing notions of analog and digital emerged from and remain animated by the network of relations that shaped specifically capitalist notions of ‘free’ labor\, slavery\, and indenture. In so doing\, I propose Richard Ligon’s 1657 True and Exact History of Barbados as an exemplary text for a media theory of social form. \nSeb Franklin is Reader in Literature\, Media\, and Theory in the Department of English at King’s College London. He is the author of The Digitally Disposed: Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value (2021) and Control: Digitality as Cultural Logic (2015). \nPaul Nadal is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Princeton University. An interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of literature and economy\, he is completing a book on novels and remittances in the Philippine diaspora\, a chapter of which appeared in American Quarterly and won the Best Essay Prize from the American Literature Society. \nM+M strives to make everyone feel welcome. If you are concerned that room N107 will not provide adequate physical accommodation for you\, please contact us in advance to discuss it.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/value-and-slavery-or-the-longue-duree-of-the-analog-digital-distinction/
LOCATION:School of Architecture\, Room S118
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ORGANIZER;CN="Iason Stathatos":MAILTO:iasons@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T180000
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SUMMARY:"Good Music and Bad Music in Late Antiquity"
DESCRIPTION:Christians were debating the aesthetics and morality of music more than a millennium and a half before the Satanic panic. But their debates weren’t solely or even mostly about the putatively demonic properties of music. They were also anchored in the conviction that music had serious psychological and behavioral ramifications\, and this talk explores how music theorists\, monks\, and other moralists drew the line between good and bad music accordingly.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/good-music-and-bad-music-in-late-antiquity/
LOCATION:103 Scheide Caldwell
ORGANIZER;CN="Eleni Banis":MAILTO:hbanis@princeton.edu
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231024T190000
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SUMMARY:Princeton Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)
DESCRIPTION:4:30 pm\nCommunity altar building\nDancing\nSpoken word poetry \n6 pm\nReception \nDay of the Dead is an Indigenous and Catholic syncretic practice in Mexico and Latin America that remembers and honors the deceased. Day of the Dead in the United States is a place where Latina/o/x communities can gather\, honor\, remember and claim space. In Latin America\, the Day of the Dead is a family-centered celebration\, where homes and graves are prepared to honor ancestors and family who have departed and their favorite foods and drink are offered. In the United States\, the holiday has also become a cultural and artistic experience\, where altar exhibitions and making\, processions\, and vigils are often accompanied by political messages to point to injustices that have caused unnecessary deaths. These events are celebrated in public and social locations rather than only cemeteries. \nAll are welcome to bring offerings\, photos of deceased family and friends\, poetry\, or any other thing to share. \nOpen to the University community and the public. \nCo sponsored by the Department of African American Studies\, Program in Latin American Studies\, Lewis Center for the Arts\, Department of Religion\, and Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/princeton-dia-de-los-muertos-day-of-the-dead/
LOCATION:East Pyne Courtyard
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SUMMARY:Gauss Seminars in Criticism: Silvia Federici
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Council’s Fall 2023 Gauss Seminars in Criticism will be presented by Silvia Federici\, Professor of Political Philosophy and International Studies\, Emerita\, Hofstra University.  Her visit\, under the general title\, “Rethinking\, Remaking a Feminist Agenda\,” will comprise a public lecture on Tuesday\, October 24 and a seminar on Wednesday\, October 25. \nProfessor Federici is a longtime activist\, teacher\, and writer. In 1972 she was among the founders of the International Feminist Collective\, the organization that launched the Campaign for Wages For Housework in the US and abroad. She has also been active in the anti-globalization movement and the anti-death penalty movement. In the 1990s she was a member of the journal Radical Midnight Notes and in 1991\, after a period of teaching in Nigeria\, she helped found the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa\, which for more than ten years documented the struggle of African students against the austerity programs imposed by the IMF and the World Bank. \nTuesday\,  October 24 at 5:00 PM in Betts Auditorium \nPublic Lecture: “Feminism\, Social Reproduction\, and the Reconstruction of the Commons” \nThis lecture discusses the different ways in which feminist movements internationally are imagining and constructing a post-capitalist world built on the principle of the “commons.” It presents a feminist theory on the “commoning” of life while showing how\, already\, the principle of the “commons” and “commoning” is reshaping our conception of social reproduction\, knowledge-building\, and feminist organizing. \nWednesday\, October 25 at 12:30 PM — Location TBA \nSeminar: “The Body as a Site of Resistance” \nSince the 1970s\, in feminist theory and practice\, the body has emerged as a key terrain of confrontation with institutional policies and transformative practices. This seminar will discuss the significance of the feminist politicization of the body\, the struggles it has inspired\, and how “body politics” helps us in re-imagining and enriching the perspective of other social justice movements. \nRSVP required for this lunch seminar\, which is open only to members of the Princeton University community. To reserve a spot\, please email both Brooke Holmes and Jeannine Matt Pitarresi . The location will be communicated to all registrants several days before the seminar.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/gauss-seminars-in-criticism-silvia-federici/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T210000
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SUMMARY:The Nassau Literary Review’s 181st Anniversary Conference: Diversity and Representation in NassLit and Princeton’s History
DESCRIPTION:The Nassau Literary Review (NassLit) is the second oldest undergraduate literary magazine in the nation and the oldest student publication at Princeton University. As this year marks the Review’s 181st anniversary\, its 2023 conference will emphasize diversity and representation in NLR’s historic archives. \nFeaturing readings and panels by Princeton faculty\, alumni\, and students from various departments—including English\, Creative Writing\, Visual Arts\, Comparative Literature\, Gender & Sexuality Studies\, and more—this conference will explore and interrogate issues of race and diversity across NassLit history whilst highlighting the work of traditionally underrepresented groups. Speakers include Sarah M. Anderson (English)\, A.M. Homes (Creative Writing)\, Esther Schor (Chair\, Humanities Council; English); and Amy Yao (Visual Arts). \nDiscussions will be based on an archival research project across NassLit publications and will intersect art and literature with social conversations about race\, diversity\, and writing the human experience. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Humanities Council\, the Department of English\, and the Department of Comparative Literature.\nOrganized by Rachel Brooks ‘25 and Annie Cao ‘25
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-nassau-literary-reviews-181st-anniversary-conference-diversity-and-representation-in-nasslit-and-princetons-history/
LOCATION:Chancellor Green Rotunda\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Rachel Brooks":MAILTO:nasslit@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T193000
DTSTAMP:20260418T102657
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SUMMARY:"Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis"
DESCRIPTION:In her new cultural history of the United States\, Sara Marcus shows how artists\, intellectuals\, and activists turned political disappointment—the unfulfilled desire for change—into a basis for solidarity. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor\, one of the most forceful and clear progressive voices in the US today\, joins the author for a conversation. \nMarcus argues that the defining texts in twentieth-century American cultural history are records of political disappointment. Through often surprising readings of literature and sound\, Marcus offers a new cultural history of the last century\, in which creative minds observed the passing of moments of possibility\, took stock of the losses sustained\, and fostered intellectual revolutions and unexpected solidarities. \nIn close readings of writings\, song\, and poetry from figures such as Du Bois to Lead Belly or Audre Lorde\, among many others\, Marcus shows how defeat time and again gave rise to novel modes of protest and new forms of collective practice\, keeping alive the dream of a better world. Disappointment has proved to be a durable\, perhaps even inevitable\, feature of the democratic project\, yet so too has the resistance it precipitates. \nSara Marcus is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution\, a finalist for the National Award for Arts Writing. Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor’s Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She is the author\, in addition\, of From #Blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation. Yamahtta-Taylor is contributing writer at The New Yorker and professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council and English\, Music\, and Gender and Sexuality Studies Departments as well as SPIA in NJ.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/political-disappointment-a-cultural-history-from-reconstruction-to-the-aids-crisis-with-sara-marcus-keeanga-yamahtta-taylor/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231024T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231024T193000
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SUMMARY:Le Théâtre d’Alice Zeniter: Conversation avec Florent Masse
DESCRIPTION:The Department of French and Italian presents “Le Théâtre d’Alice Zeniter Conversation avec Florent Masse” organized by André Benhaïm\, featuring Alice Zeniter\, novelist\, translator\, screenwriter\, and director and Florent Masse\, Department of French and Italian. 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. For more information. \n*Conversation in French
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/le-theatre-dalice-zeniter-conversation-avec-florent-masse/
LOCATION:202 Madison Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T110000
DTSTAMP:20260418T102657
CREATED:20230918T204807Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230918T204807Z
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SUMMARY:McGraw Center Faculty Drop-in Session: Custom Course Evaluation Questions
DESCRIPTION:Drop-in session for faculty to get support developing well-written\, relevant questions to submit in the course evaluation system before the deadline arrives and the window closes. Join us at anytime between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. this day.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/mcgraw-center-faculty-drop-in-session-custom-course-evaluation-questions/
LOCATION:329 Frist\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ruthie Boyce":MAILTO:ruthieb@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T131500
DTSTAMP:20260418T102657
CREATED:20231016T194333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231016T194333Z
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SUMMARY:Mellon Forum // Three Propositions on the Relationship between Spatial Settings and Emotional Attachments
DESCRIPTION:Even though the term “belonging” evokes a positive attribute of a spatial setting\, the relationship between spatial settings and emotional attachments is not as straightforward as it seems at first hearing. Drawing on studies of rural to urban migration and the formation of informal human settlements in cities in newly industrializing nations\, this exploratory talk will deliberate three questions: (1) What creates a sense of spatial belonging for new migrants (2) How does such attachment evolve over time\, and (3) Can belonging be exclusionary and be exploited by political leaders?
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/mellon-forum-three-propositions-on-the-relationship-between-spatial-settings-and-emotional-attachments/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium and Zoom\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Jacquelyn Walsh":MAILTO:jw42@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T132000
DTSTAMP:20260418T102657
CREATED:20231012T204217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231017T180036Z
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SUMMARY:"Europe's Coming of Age"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Tsoukalis will present his newly published book Europe’s Coming of Age. \n\n\n\nOrganized by the EU Program\, co-sponsored by the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society\, the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination\, and the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies\, with the support of the Paul S. Sarbanes ‘54 Fund for Hellenism and Public Service
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/europes-coming-of-age/
LOCATION:015 Robertson Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eleni Banis":MAILTO:hbanis@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231025T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231025T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T102657
CREATED:20231010T164524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231010T164540Z
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SUMMARY:Femmes et Fictions Littéraires: Conversation avec Alice Zeniter
DESCRIPTION: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. Zeniter will be a Short-Term Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of French and Italian in Fall 2023. \nConversation in French. \nOpen to members of the Princeton University community. Registration required.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/femmes-et-fictions-litteraires-conversation-avec-alice-zeniter/
LOCATION:102 Julis Romo Rabinowitz
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231025T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231025T180000
DTSTAMP:20260418T102657
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230823T135219Z
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SUMMARY:Were the Ancient Greeks Responsible for Antisemitism?
DESCRIPTION:This talk addresses a widespread notion that the roots of antisemitism lay in the Hellenistic period\, as Greek rulers and populace found the Jews to be divisive\, seclusive\, misanthropic\, and alien. It examines closely the principal episodes regularly cited as exhibiting deep Greek hostility to the Jews\, such as the persecutions of Antiochus IV\, the slanders and libels spread by Greek intellectuals\, and the “pogrom” in Alexandria. The talk attempts to reassess these actions and attitudes in the circumstances of the ancient world rather than through the lens of modern experience.” \nErich S. Gruen is Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics\, Emeritus at the University of California\, Berkeley. He owns degrees from Columbia\, Oxford\, and Harvard. He is the author\, among other works\, of The Last Generation of the Roman Republic\, The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome\, Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition\, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity\, and Ethnicity in the Ancient World – – Did It Matter?
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/were-the-ancient-greeks-responsible-for-antisemitism/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T180000
DTSTAMP:20260418T102657
CREATED:20230920T164059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231024T195112Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Introducing Grapholinguistics: Why and How a Linguist Studies Writing Systems
DESCRIPTION:*****Please note that this lecture has been cancelled. Additional details regarding rescheduling will be shared once they become available.*****
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/introducing-grapholinguistics-why-and-how-a-linguist-studies-writing-systems/
LOCATION:1-S-5 Green Hall\, 1-S-5 Green Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T180000
DTSTAMP:20260418T102657
CREATED:20231005T194644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231012T203607Z
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SUMMARY:Africa World Lecture Series: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
DESCRIPTION:A high-level platform for imagining\, assessing and keeping pace with the idea\, realities and futures of Africa by the continent’s finest minds. The lectures are established to bring greater visibility\, from the perspective of Africa\, to Princeton’s support of knowledge production about Africa. The lectures will take place in October. \nNigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will be the inaugural lecturer. \nThere will also be a Q&A event with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on October 26 at 1 pm in Arthur Lewis Auditorium in Robertson Hall. \n 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/africa-world-lecture-series-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/
LOCATION:Alexander Hall\, Richardson Auditorium\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Aurelio Soto":MAILTO:aurelio.soto@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T180000
DTSTAMP:20260418T102657
CREATED:20231012T133305Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231012T133305Z
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SUMMARY:The Archaeology of Everyday Life in Late Medieval Japan
DESCRIPTION:This talk will introduce the provincial urban city of Ichijōdani\, which peaked in the sixteenth century\, a period usually associated primarily with political incohesion and endemic warfare. The archaeological evidence from Ichijōdani\, particularly when put into conversation with excavated materials from other urban sites in Japan\, illuminates the rhythms and logic of daily life for the many medieval Japanese who lived in urban agglomerates other than the capital city of Kyoto. I will also consider the destruction of this provincial city in 1573 and the meaning of that erasure for our understanding of both the period in which it took place and the larger metanarrative of Japanese history.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-archaeology-of-everyday-life-in-late-medieval-japan/
LOCATION:202 Jones\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chao-Hui Jenny Liu":MAILTO:chaoliu@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T180000
DTSTAMP:20260418T102657
CREATED:20231022T145834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231022T145834Z
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SUMMARY:LLM Forum: A Conversation with Meredith Whittaker
DESCRIPTION:Recent breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have produced a new class of neural networks called Large Language Models (LLMs) that demonstrate a remarkable capability to generate fluent\, plausible responses to prompts posed in natural language. While LLMs have already revolutionized certain industry applications\, the debut of ChatGPT has generated new anxiety and curiosity about machine intelligence\, especially in the way we teach\, research\, tell stories and report facts. \nRegister for this event here. \nThe Princeton LLM Forum is bringing together leading scholars and researchers from a variety of disciplines and fields to discuss the implications that large language models (LLMs) have on our understanding of language\, society\, culture\, and theory of mind. Join us for our first panel\, a discussion between Meredith Whittaker\, president of Signal\, and Arvind Narayanan\, Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton\, about the implications of LLM technology on society. \nMeredith Whittaker is the President of Signal. She is the current Chief Advisor\, and the former Faculty Director and Co-Founder of the AI Now Institute. Her research and advocacy focus on the social implications of artificial intelligence and the tech industry responsible for it\, with a particular emphasis on power and the political economy driving the commercialization of computational technology. Prior to founding AI Now\, she worked at Google for over a decade\, where she led product and engineering teams\, founded Google’s Open Research Group\, and co-founded M-Lab\, a globally distributed network measurement platform that now provides the world’s largest source of open data on internet performance. She has advised the White House\, the FCC\, FTC\, the City of New York\, the European Parliament\, and many other governments and civil society organizations on artificial intelligence\, internet policy\, measurement\, privacy\, and security. \nCo-organized by the Center for Digital Humanities and the Department of Computer Science. Supported by the Humanities Council’s Magic Project.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/llm-forum-a-conversation-with-meredith-whittaker-2/
LOCATION:101 Friend Center
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ORGANIZER;CN="Camey VanSant":MAILTO:cvansant@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T183000
DTSTAMP:20260418T102657
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230913T135809Z
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SUMMARY:Caravaggio and the Echos of Figuration
DESCRIPTION:With their distinct markets\, institutions\, and specialists\, the realms of fine art and craft today largely exist as parallel\, specialized industries. When they do intersect\, practitioners and observers typically offer two syntheses: craft “rises” to the institutional and aesthetic condition of art or supplements its exclusivity as a model of unalienated production. Yet fine artists since the early modern period have\, at key moments\, called upon “craft\,” in its many valences\, to engage\, rather than negate\, the movements of history that conditioned their work. Focusing on such moments\, the participants in this series will assess the stakes and the meanings of art’s craft in settings ranging from the Italian Renaissance\, to eighteenth-century India\, to the contemporary Andes. \nOver six workshops scheduled throughout the 2023–24 academic year and taking place on Princeton’s campus\, Know How: Workshops on the Histories of Art and Craft aims to develop responses to the following questions: Under what social\, material\, and art-historical conditions does craft appear? How do the motivations and manifestations of such appearances compare across geographies and periods? As art historians\, what methods are at our disposal to follow artists and objects as they bridge the systems of value that separate their circulation?
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/caravaggio-and-the-echos-of-figuration/
LOCATION:3-S-15 Green Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Joe Bucciero":MAILTO:bucciero@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231025T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231025T193000
DTSTAMP:20260418T102657
CREATED:20231004T133016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231013T155633Z
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SUMMARY:LLL Presents – Tabula Rasa\, Vol. 1
DESCRIPTION:The legendary John McPhee looks at the work he never completed\, and two of his eminent former students help ask why. \nThis event is masked and ticketed; info is here. The ticket entitles the holder to one signed copy of Tabula Rasa. Please cancel your ticket if you can’t attend to make room for others. Here’s how. Doors open at 5:30; empty seats will go to folks on the wait list by 5:50.Over seven decades\, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges\, bark canoes\, experimental aircraft\, the Swiss Army\, geophysical hot spots\, ocean shipping\, shad fishing\, dissident art in the Soviet Union\, and an even wider variety of other subjects\, he has consistently written narrative pieces of immaculate design. \nIn Tabula Rasa\, Volume 1\, McPhee looks back at his career from the vantage point of his desk drawer\, reflecting wryly upon projects he once planned to do but never got around to—people to profile\, regions he meant to portray. There are so many examples that he plans to go on writing these vignettes\, an ideal project for an old man\, he says\, and a “reminiscent montage” from a writing life. This first volume includes\, among other things\, glimpses of a frosty encounter with Thornton Wilder\, interrogative dinners with Henry Luce\, the allure of western Spain\, criteria in writing about science\, fireworks over the East River as seen from Malcolm Forbes’s yacht\, the evolving inclinations of the Tower of Pisa\, the islands among the river deltas of central California\, teaching in a pandemic\, and persuading The New Yorker to publish an entire book on oranges. The result is a fresh survey of McPhee’s singular planet. \nJohn Angus McPhee is considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction. He is a four-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize\, and he won that award for Annals of the Former World. In 2008\, he received the Goerge Polk Career Award for his “indelible mark on American journalism during his nearly half-century career.” The most recent of his many\, many books is Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process. Since 1974\, McPhee has been the Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. Joel Achenbach writes about science and politics for The Washington Post’s National desk. He has been a regular contributor to National Geographic since 1998\, writing on such topics as dinosaurs\, particle physics\, earthquakes\, extraterrestrial life\, megafauna extinction and the electrical grid. He has taught journalism at Princeton and at Georgetown University. Robert Wright is the author\, most recently\, of Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment. His other books include The Evolution of God\, The Moral Animal\, and Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny. In 2009\, Wright was named by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the top 100 global thinkers. Wright is a visiting lecturer at Princeton University. \nThis event is co-presented by Labyrinth Books and the Princeton Public Library and co-sponsored by Princeton University’s Humanities Council.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/lll-presents-tabula-rasa-vol-1/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231026T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231026T131500
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SUMMARY:Public Humanities Across Borders
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Humanities Council for a lunchtime conversation with Sarah Churchwell *98\, Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities and Professor of American Literature at the School of Advanced Study\, University of London. Churchwell serves as director of the UK’s annual Being Human Festival. \nLunch will be served. RSVP here by October 17\, 2023. \nSarah Churchwell is Professor in American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study\, University of London\, where she directs the Being Human Festival\, the UK’s national festival of the humanities. She is the author of The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells; Behold\, America: A History of America First and the American Dream; Careless People: Murder\, Mayhem and The Invention of The Great Gatsby; and The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe\, which was featured in Oscar-nominated director Liz Garbus’s 2012 film Love\, Marilyn\, and adapted into a 2022 CNN/BBC series narrated by Jessica Chastain. \nHer journalism has appeared widely in international newspapers and periodicals\, including the New York Review of Books\, Atlantic\, Washington Post\, New York Times\, Financial Times\, Prospect\, Guardian\, TLS\, New Statesman and many others\, focusing especially upon American culture\, history\, and politics. She has frequently contributed to television\, documentary film\, and radio and judged many literary prizes including the Booker Prize. She was co-winner of the 2015 Eccles British Library Writer’s Award\, and longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2021. \n 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/public-humanities-across-borders/
LOCATION:16 Joseph Henry House
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