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SUMMARY:The Puzzle of Panamanian Exceptionalism
DESCRIPTION:In the three decades since the U.S. invasion that overthrew the dictatorship of General Manuel Noriega\, Panama has undergone a remarkable transformation. It has remained a stable democracy in an age of democratic backsliding\, and its economy has grown faster than that of any other country in Latin America. It is today one of the richest countries in the region and is considered by the UN to be a case of “very high” human development. These accomplishments have not only received little outside attention\, but have also occurred in ways that defy conventional wisdom about democratization and economic development in startling ways. This talk examines Panama’s rise and highlights four especially puzzling features: 1) it is a rare case of democratization by military invasion; 2) it is home to an extremely unlikely case of authoritarian successor party regeneration; 3) it is a standout instance of effective resource management by a state-owned enterprise; and 4) it has achieved rapid economic development despite very high levels of corruption. \nABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER \nJames Loxton is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the University of Sydney. He is currently a Visiting Research Scholar in the Program in Latin American Studies at Princeton University. His research examines authoritarian regimes\, democratization\, and political parties. He is the award-winning author of Conservative Party-Building in Latin America (Oxford University Press\, 2021) and the co-editor with Scott Mainwaring of Life after Dictatorship: Authoritarian Successor Parties Worldwide (Cambridge University Press\, 2018). He holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University. \nDISCUSSANT \nJared Abbott\, Ph.D.\, Harvard University; PLAS Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer \nIf you would like to receive a copy of James Loxton’s paper in advance of the discussion\, please email damaris@princeton.edu by February 14. \nOpen to students\, faculty\, visiting scholars\, staff and specially invited guests. A boxed lunch will be provided while supplies last.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-puzzle-of-panamanian-exceptionalism/
LOCATION:216 Aaron Burr Hall\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Damaris Zayas":MAILTO:damaris@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:“Europe raped your mother:" The De/Colonialization of Medea (Grillparzer – Jahnn – Jones)
DESCRIPTION:Over the last two and a half millennia\, the child-killer Medea has featured in literature and other media more than any other mythological figure. While her ethnicity was certainly part of the cultural memory in Pindar\, Herodotus\, and Apollonius of Rhodes\, it was nevertheless “forgotten” in the influential tragedies of Euripides and Seneca that stand at the beginning of Medea’s subsequent “career.” The question arises\, what has become of her ethnicity? Has the character remained “white”? That is\, have the authors who have taken up this material continued to deny her ethnicity? In the following\, I would like to trace the reception of the Medea material in two divergent contexts: First\, I examine German drama from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries\, which continued Euripides’s colonization. Against this background\, I explore how the American author\, playwright\, and director Silas Jones (1936–2016) deals with the correlation of ethnicity and alterity in American Medea (2013). On the one hand\, the play makes clear intertextual references to some of the German adaptations; on the other\, in an act of decolonization\, Jones invokes forgotten ancient sources to mobilize the Medea material for black rights.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/europe-raped-your-mother-the-blackening-of-medea/
LOCATION:205 East Pyne
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ORGANIZER;CN="Fiona Romaine":MAILTO:fromaine@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan's Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia\, 1895-1945
DESCRIPTION:This book talk introduces Imperial Gateway (Cornell University Press\, 2022)\, which explores the political\, social\, and economic significance of colonial Taiwan in the southern expansion of Japan’s empire from 1895 to the end of World War II. The book uncovers a half century of dynamic relations between Japan\, Taiwan\, China\, and Western regional powers. Japanese officials in Taiwan did not simply take orders from Tokyo; rather\, they often pursued their own expansionist ambitions in South China and Southeast Asia. When outright conquest was not possible\, they promoted alternative strategies\, including naturalizing resident Chinese as overseas Taiwanese subjects\, extending colonial police networks\, and deploying tens of thousands of Taiwanese to war. The Taiwanese—merchants\, gangsters\, policemen\, interpreters\, nurses\, and soldiers—seized new opportunities for socioeconomic advancement that did not always align with Japan’s imperial interests. Imperial Gateway shows how Japanese officials and Taiwanese subjects transformed Taiwan into a regional gateway for expansion in an ever-shifting international order.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/imperial-gateway-colonial-taiwan-and-japans-expansion-in-south-china-and-southeast-asia-1895-1945/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chao-Hui Jenny Liu":MAILTO:chaoliu@princeton.edu
GEO:40.7228732;-74.0621867
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SUMMARY:Ecotheories Colloquium: Black Soil
DESCRIPTION:This talk turns to Black soil to map a provisional theory of Black alchemy. Black alchemy names an erotic and ethical orientation toward the Dead and dead matter. Sifting the metonymic\, metaphysical\, and material properties between (Black fleshly) matter and (earthly) matters\, I argue for an attention to the erotic relations between Blackness\, soil\, and Dead (matter). These relations disrupt and refuse the circuits of racial capitalism that establish both Black bodies and soil as sites of resource depletion and commodification. Turning to the syncretic knowledge system of Obeah and tinctures of grave dirt; Cachexia Africana and the histories of dirt eating; and the 2019 performance and installation “Dirt Eater” by Kiyan Williams\, I ask: what are the practices of those who’ve collectively lived the end of the world and therefore are already dreaming the messy\, dirty end of this one? \nA speaker series co-sponsored by: The English Department’s Contemporary Poetry Colloquium\, the High Meadows Environmental Institute\, the Environmental Media Lab\, the Bain-Swiggett Poetry Fund\, the Effron Center for the Study of America\, the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities\, and the University Center for Human Values.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/ecotheories-colloquium-black-soil/
LOCATION:Zoom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kyra Morris":MAILTO:kyram@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:The Devil of Details: Titivillus\, from Yesterday’s Monks to Today’s Dungeons & Dragons
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Medieval Studies Faber Lecture with Jan Ziolkowski (Harvard University). \nA reception in the Weickart Atrium will follow the lecture.\nThis event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP HERE. \nFrom medieval Europe to the modern West\, the demon Titivillus has been famous for identifying and collecting slips and sins in song\, speech\, and writing. This talk follows him from his origins around 1200 on\, and investigates the meanings of his name\, diffusion of awareness of him through preaching and painting\, interplay between orality and literacy in stories about him\, issues of gender and blackness that sometimes surrounded him\, and what the Devil has meant across time. Thanks to today’s dominance of English\, Titivillus is regarded as especially particular to medieval England\, but he became commonplace far beyond the Continent and survived past the Middle Ages to appear in Rabelais\, the earliest Slovak literature\, Anatole France\, Herman Melville\, and W. H. Auden\, before finally having a novel devoted to him in 1953. He remains unforgotten\, a curio beloved among calligraphers and role-play gamers. \nJan Ziolkowski (A.B. Princeton University\, Ph.D. University of Cambridge) has been at Harvard since 1981\, now Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin. He has concentrated his research and teaching on the literature of the Middle Ages. His special focuses have included the classical tradition\, grammar and rhetoric\, interaction between folk and learned literature\, and Germanic epic in Latin. Lately he has pursued broad interests in medieval revivalism down to the present day. From 2007 to 2020 he directed Dumbarton Oaks in DC and founded the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-devil-of-details-titivillus-from-yesterdays-monks-to-todays-dungeons-dragons/
LOCATION:A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building\, Washington Road\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544
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SUMMARY:Medieval African Writing Technologies: A Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Mehari Worku is a Ph.D. candidate at Catholic University of America and Wendy Laura Belcher is Professor\, Department of Comparative Literature and Department for African American Studies at Princeton University. They are working together on the Princeton Ethiopian\, Eritrean\, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary Project\, interpreting original Ethiopian miracle stories about the Virgin Mary\, written from the 1300s into the 1900s. \nThis event is part of the Religion and the Public Conversation series. The theme for the 2022-2023 year is “Religion and Technology: From Codex to Coding.”
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/medieval-african-writing-technologies-a-conversation/
LOCATION:Green Hall 0-S-6\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jenny Legath":MAILTO:jlegath@princeton.edu
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SUMMARY:The Vulgarity of Caste: A Social and Intellectual History of Dalit Performance of Tamasha
DESCRIPTION:The Vulgarity of Caste offers the first social and intellectual history of Dalit performance of Tamasha — a popular form of public\, secular\, traveling theater in Maharashtra — and places Dalit Tamasha women who represented the desire and disgust of the patriarchal society at the heart of modernization in twentieth century India. Drawing on ethnographies\, films and untapped archival materials\, Paik illuminates how Tamasha was produced and shaped through conflicts over caste\, gender\, sexuality and culture. \nShailaja Paik is Taft Distinguished Professor\, Department of History and Affiliate in Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies and Asian Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Her first book Dalit Women’s Education in Modern India: Double Discrimination (Routledge\, 2014) examines the nexus between caste\, class\, gender\, and state pedagogical practices among Dalit (“Untouchable”) women in urban India. Her second book The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits\, Sexuality\, and Humanity (Stanford University Press\, 2022) focuses on the politics of caste\, class\, gender\, sexuality\, and popular culture in modern Maharashtra. She is working on her third monograph “Becoming ‘Vulgar’: Caste Domination and Normative Sexuality in Modern India” and co-editing a book on Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (Cambridge University Press\, Forthcoming). \nThis event is part of the ‘Power\, Inequality\, Dissent’ series led by Prof. Divya Cherian (History) and Dr. Harini Kumar (History/CGI). \nCo-sponsored by the Program in South Asian Studies and the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies \nTo register for this event\, please use this form. \nShailaja Paik will be holding office hours on February 17\, 2023 for Princeton students. Please use this form to sign up for an appointment.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-vulgarity-of-caste-a-social-and-intellectual-history-of-dalit-performance-of-tamasha/
LOCATION:A71 Louis A. Simpson Building
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SUMMARY:Qu'est-ce que la Francophonie? Langue et variation\, langues en contact et multilinguisme
DESCRIPTION:Panel Discussion (In French) with representatives from the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) and representatives from member States.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/quest-ce-que-la-francophonie-langue-et-variation-langues-en-contact-et-multilinguisme/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kelly Eggers":MAILTO:keggers@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230221T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230221T132000
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CREATED:20230119T171442Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Faculty Colloquium | Oath and Law: Legal Language in Early Imperial and Medieval China
DESCRIPTION:The Program in Medieval Studies is pleased to offer the Faculty Colloquium series for Spring 2023. Trenton W. Wilson (East Asian Studies) will present our first lunchtime talk of the semester on Tuesday\, February 21. \nIn this presentation\, Wilson will examine the language of interdiction in early Chinese law “codes” with an eye to the persistence of oath language—and its eventual disappearance. Oath language\, he argues\, provided a template for articulating how laws bind\, the relationship between emperor and subject\, and cultural practices for disseminating law throughout the empire. This will be presented as a work in progress\, criticisms\, readings suggestions\, and comparative perspectives are welcome. \nPlease RSVP for this event here. \nBook exhibit in the history reading room \nAlain St. Pierre and the Princeton University Library invite the Medieval Studies community to the History reading room in Firestone Library (Floor A: turn left out of the main staircase) on colloquium days to view recently acquired titles in all subject areas of Medieval Studies. The books will be on display from Monday (February 20) through Wednesday (February 22). Come browse!
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/medieval-faculty-colloquium-oath-and-law-legal-language-in-early-imperial-and-medieval-china/
LOCATION:397 Julis Romo Rabinowitz\, Princeton\, NJ\, United States
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SUMMARY:The French Heritage Language Program:  A Language Equity Model
DESCRIPTION:Agnès Ndiaye Tounkara\, Program Officer of The French Heritage Language Program\, presents A Language Equity Model. \nRegistration is required \nThese events were made possible thanks to the generous support of The 250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education\, The Délégation Générale du Québec à New York\, The Department of French and Italian\, Canadian Studies\, The Humanities Council\, The Lewis Center for the Arts\, The Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie\, The Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES)\, The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-french-heritage-language-program-a-language-equity-model/
LOCATION:Room 002\, Robertson Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Tara Carr-Lemke":MAILTO:carrlemke@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230221T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230221T210000
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SUMMARY:Reading by Rodrigo Toscano & Katie Kitamura
DESCRIPTION:Poet/activist Rodrigo Toscano\, author of The Charm & The Dread (Fence Books\, 2022) and Katie Kitamura\, whose novel Intimacies was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award\, and was a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize\, read from their work as part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/reading-by-rodrigo-toscano-katie-kitamura/
LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Steve Runk":MAILTO:LewisCenter@princeton.edu
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230222T180000
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SUMMARY:From Etruscan Town to Medieval Castle: Recent Excavations of a Central Italian Hilltop Settlement
DESCRIPTION:Join the Environmental History Lab for a seminar on February 22 with Davide Zori (Baylor University). Light refreshments will be provided. Attendance is possible in-person or via Zoom. \nFind more information 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 David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Grant from the Humanities Council. \n 
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/from-etruscan-town-to-medieval-castle-recent-excavations-of-a-central-italian-hilltop-settlement/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell and Zoom
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230222T180000
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SUMMARY:Articulating the Aesthetics of Democracy and Women's Liberation: The Quest for a Decolonial Art history in South Korea
DESCRIPTION:Swept up by a nation-wide democracy movement in the 1980s\, South Korea witnessed its streets\, public squares\, and art galleries occupied by a radical aesthetics of politics. During the “minjung art movement\,” as it had come to be known by the mid-1980s\, the subjectivity of “minjung” (literally\, “common people”) signified a utopian horizon of popular sovereignty and liberation from the US-backed authoritarian regime. This was accompanied by wide-spread recognition among artists that the authoritarian regime’s reformulated neocolonial relations with Japan during the global Cold War continued to shape the institution\, discourse\, and historiography of the art world\, as much as they affected the production of reception of art in South Korea. From the earliest days of the movement\, many of the participants had been women\, but the articulation of an art and aesthetics for women’s liberation emerged only in its later years. At stake was the formulation of precise terms under which the demands of women’s liberation would be fundamental to the political project of an alternative nation-building\, which\, as Sohl Lee argues in her forthcoming book on the minjung art movement\, strived for democracy and decolonization simultaneously. This talk at Princeton\, which stems from the book project\, explores individual and collective art productions by the women artists of the movement who re-envisioned the processes of democratization and decolonization on their own terms. Historicizing this quest for the feminist aesthetics of decolonial democracy in South Korea\, Lee argues\, has broader implications for moving beyond the epistemology of Cold War politics in art history. While addressing the often-lodged criticism of the pro-democracy social movement’s reliance on heroic masculinity—stances embraced by both male and female participants—this talk will bring to light the core origins of a feminist collectivism whose questioning of democracy and decolonization still resonate with us today.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/articulating-the-aesthetics-of-democracy-and-womens-liberation-the-quest-for-a-decolonial-art-history-in-south-korea/
LOCATION:202 Jones Hall
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chao-Hui Jenny Liu":MAILTO:chaoliu@princeton.edu
GEO:40.7228732;-74.0621867
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230222T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230222T183000
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SUMMARY:Debt Working Group: Narrating Debt
DESCRIPTION:This talk will address the links between debt and narration from a twofold perspective: it will examine narratological techniques in narratives of debt and consider debt itself as intrinsically narrative. \nPeter Szendy is David Herlihy Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities. Among his recently published works in English: The Supermarket of the Visible: Toward a General Economy of Images (Fordham University Press\, 2019); Of Stigmatology: Punctuation as Experience (Fordham University Press\, 2018); All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage (Fordham University Press\, 2016); Phantom Limbs: On Musical Bodies (Fordham University Press\, 2015); Apocalypse-Cinema: 2012 and Other Ends of the World (Fordham University Press\, 2015); Kant in the Land of Extraterrestrials: Cosmopolitical Philosofictions (Fordham University Press\, 2013). At the Cogut Institute for the Humanities\, Peter Szendy leads the Economies of Aesthetics Initiative. \n\nThe Debt Working Group brings together faculty\, graduate students\, and staff who are interested in studying debt from an interdisciplinary perspective. The group addresses issues such as the history and legitimacy of sovereign debt; the (un)sustainability and fairness of consumer debt; the logics of colonial and ecological debts; the affective valences of debt as they appear in debates about reparations/repair; debt as a language of morality and as a narratological device; the plural temporalities and spaces of debt; and debt as a tool of governance and subjectivation. \n\nFor more information and readings\, please contact organizers Nicolás Sánchez-Rodríguez (Society of Fellows\, Spanish and Portuguese) at nico.sanchez@princeton.edu\, JahAsia Jacobs (Anthropology) at jfjacobs@princeton.edu\, or Alberto E. Morales (Program in Latin American Studies\, Anthropology) at alberto.morales@princeton.edu.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/debt-working-group-narrating-debt/
LOCATION:216 Aaron Burr Hall\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Nicol&aacute%3Bs S&aacute%3Bnchez-Rodr&iacute%3Bguez":MAILTO:ns9580@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230222T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230222T200000
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SUMMARY:Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America
DESCRIPTION:Korey Garibaldi discusses his recently published book “Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America” with Kinohi Nishikawa. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nKorey Garibaldi\, Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame\, revisits an almost-forgotten American interracial literary culture that advanced racial pluralism in the decades before the 1960s in his recently published “Impermanent Blackness“. In this volume\, Garibaldi examines and reinterprets the intermittent flourishing of cross-racial industrial print production underpinning the genre now commonly celebrated as African American literature. Impermanent Blackness shows how innumerable professional and technological challenges to the publishing industry’s color line\, now taken for granted\, were once central to the promotion of cosmopolitan habits and mentalities during the first seven decades of the twentieth century. \nHe will be joined in conversation with Kinohi Nishikawa\, Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at Princeton University. \nThis event will be livestreamed to YouTube here. \nAbout the Speakers: \nKorey Garibaldi studies the social and intellectual history of the United States and Europe (18th – 20th centuries)\, with particular interests ranging from the Victorian novelist Henry James to Russia’s national poet\, Aleksandr Pushkin. His courses focus on histories of citizenship\, imperialism\, cultural and economic thought\, and the African diaspora. \nKinohi Nishikawa specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century African American literature\, book history\, and popular culture. At Princeton he teaches undergraduate courses on African American humor and African American literary history and graduate seminars on Black archive studies and Black aesthetic theory.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/impermanent-blackness-the-making-and-unmaking-of-interracial-literary-culture-in-modern-america/
LOCATION:Princeton Public Library and Livestream
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T132000
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SUMMARY:Material Aesthetics\, Tonality\, and the Politics of Racial Mixture in Puerto Plata
DESCRIPTION:Since the late 1990s\, the port city of Puerto Plata\, Dominican Republic has anchored a host of public and private efforts to remake the city center into a cultural heritage site. While the city’s large-scale restoration promotes an idealized image of its Victorian architectural past\, the materiality of space has become a vehicle for affective politics and reimagining history among residents of the urban center. Emerging from a turn-of-the-century movement of progress\, the built environment—a grid-plan settlement with a central plaza ringed by Victorian houses—materializes codes of proper citizenship and normative family life tied to notions of racial mixture. This presentation examines how the pastel-hued urban fabric offered a mirror of racial and ethnic plurality in dominant narratives of local heritage\, wherein a sugar plantation economy produced a racially harmonious urban society. If color is salient to the social relations that shaped the progressive social order\, how is color present in the afterlives of its materiality\, and how can attention to tone in everyday life reveal alternative histories of migration and meanings of urban belonging? \nABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER \nMary Pena is a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer with the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture\, Urbanism\, and the Humanities and PLAS. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology with a graduate certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. Her work lies at the intersection of race and space\, materiality\, urban ecology\, and embodiment\, specializing in sensory and multimodal ethnography. Her current project focuses on the role of built landscapes in processes of racialization and embodied experience in the Dominican Republic. Before joining Princeton\, Pena held an internship as a community programming organizer at Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn\, NY\, and coordinated the “Making Sensory Ethnography” working group at the University of Michigan. \nDISCUSSANT \nAmelia Frank-Vitale\, Anthropology\, Ph.D.\, University of Michigan; PLAS Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer \nOpen to students\, faculty\, visiting scholars\, staff and specially invited guests. A boxed lunch will be provided while supplies last.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/material-aesthetics-tonality-and-the-politics-of-racial-mixture-in-puerto-plata/
LOCATION:216 Aaron Burr Hall\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Damaris Zayas":MAILTO:damaris@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065840
CREATED:20230216T145300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230217T171552Z
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SUMMARY:René Char's Mobility
DESCRIPTION:Rarely have René Char’s life and work been looked at from the standpoint of “mobility.” Combining approaches from the humanities and the social sciences\, this lecture will argue that this polysemic notion can help pry open and intertwine several key dimensions of the poet’s biography\, production\, and legacy. Across space and time\, across linguistic boundaries and beyond the humanist’s own death in 1988\, Char and his poetry have never ceased to be “en chemin.”
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/rene-chars-mobility/
LOCATION:15 Joseph Henry House\, Joseph Henry House\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544-0001\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stephanie Lewandowski":MAILTO:steph@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065840
CREATED:20230123T191731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T181628Z
UID:51704-1677169800-1677175200@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:“Securitas: Embodied Concept”
DESCRIPTION:Our modern concept of national security has roots in ancient Rome. First attested in Cicero’s philosophical works\, the Latin word securitas originally meant peace of mind in a strictly psychological sense. A century later\, the phrase “the securitas of the Roman Empire” began to circulate\, as if an empire could have peace of mind. By then\, the emperor had come to embody national security and his spirit to stand for the spirit of the body politic. His body\, however\, is not the only one to represent collective wellbeing. The personified goddess Securitas appears on Roman coinage in various poses that illuminate the concept\, its negations and contradictions\, and the constraints it imposes on the emperor’s power. In this lecture\, I will use parallels from Roman literature to spell out the connotations of these conceptual objects\, whose embodiments shed light on how Roman political thought imagines the relation between individual and collective bodies and souls.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/securitas-embodied-concept-2/
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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230223T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230223T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065840
CREATED:20230124T160028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230216T223409Z
UID:52313-1677169800-1677175200@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Immersion: Reporting From Within Vulnerable Communities
DESCRIPTION:Immersing yourself in the lives of others for weeks or years can yield insight into the plight of marginalized groups—refugees\, needy children\, communities of the street. It also presents ethical quandaries for journalists\, sociologists\, and anthropologists alike. Hear leaders in their respective fields discuss how they cope with the challenges\, and the secrets they have uncovered in the process. \nThe Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism invites you to join us for this interdisciplinary conversation\, co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. \nThe panelists: \n— Nadja Drost\, Visiting Ferris Professor of Journalism; magazine writer\, documentary filmmaker\, and PBS NewsHour contributor \n— Kathryn Edin\, William Church Osborn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs\, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs\, and Director of the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing \n— Andrea Elliott\, Visiting Ferris Professor of Journalism; staff writer for The New York Times and author of “Invisible Child” \n— Rena Lederman\, Professor of Anthropology; scholar of ethics and the politics of “method” in human sciences \nDiscussion moderated by Tera Hunter\, Edwards Professor of American History\, Professor of History and African American Studies\, and Acting Chair of the Humanities Council. \nOpening remarks delivered by Joe Stephens\, Ferris Professor of Journalism in Residence and Director of the Program in Journalism. \nOpen to the public. Reception to follow. \nPlease email Margo Bresnen\, Journalism Program Manager\, at mbresnen@princeton.edu with any questions or difficulties.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/immersion-reporting-from-within-vulnerable-communities/
LOCATION:Arthur Lewis Auditorium\, Robertson Hall\, Arthur Lewis Auditorium\, Robertson Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065840
CREATED:20230201T161840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230213T160816Z
UID:51947-1677169800-1677175200@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:The 'Cross of Gold' revisited: Money and Populism in the Age of Empire
DESCRIPTION:Rosalind Morris’ work is addressed to the histories and social lives—including the deaths and afterlives—produced in the interstices of industrial and resource-based capitalism in the Global South. Those interests extend to the technological and media forms that attend or undergird these economies\, and the forms of subjectivity produced in their midst. They also encompass the racialized and sexualized political logics and structures of desire accompanying these phenomena. Morris’ recent writings on these subjects are grounded in deep ethnographic research in Southern Africa\, an engagement that now stretches over more than two and a half decades; her early work was centered on mainland Southeast Asia\, especially Thailand. \nBelieving that ethnography is a mode of extended listening and learning from others\, and that textual practice is a dimension of analytic practice\, Morris’s work encompasses a variety of forms and media\, from scholarly articles to essayistic prose\, and ethnographic monographs. Her media works included documentary film and expanded cinematic installation\, as well as narrative film. Among her recent works are the documentary film\, We are Zama Zama\, which premiered as an official selection of the ENCOUNTERS International Documentary Film Festival in 2021\, and the flexible multi-media installation\, ‘The Zama Zama Project\,’ which was an official selection of the Berlinale Forum Expanded in 2021. Morris’s poetry has appeared in venues such as Ideas and Futures\, Literary Imagination and the Capilano Review\, among other publications. Artistic collaborations have been central to Morris’s creative practice. In addition to her monograph on Clive van den Berg and her co-authored volumes with William Kentridge\, her libretti\, co-written with Yvette Christiansë\, have been the bases of two operas by the Syrian-born composer\, Zaid Jabri. \nThe Doll Lecture on Religion and Money was established in 2007 by Henry C. Doll ’58 and his family. It reflects the family’s longstanding interest in the subject of philanthropy and its relationship with religion.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-cross-of-gold-revisited-money-and-populism-in-the-age-of-empire/
LOCATION:Green Hall 0-S-6\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jenny Legath":MAILTO:jlegath@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230223T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230223T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065840
CREATED:20230214T141511Z
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UID:52229-1677169800-1677175200@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Europe and the Wolf: Militant Economies of Sound in Pere Portabella and Carles Santos
DESCRIPTION:This presentation is drawn from Nadal-Melsió’s forthcoming book\, Europe and the Wolf: Political Variations on a Musical Concept. The book recuperates the Baroque musical concept of the “wolf”—the dissonant note that tuning systems of the time were intent on eliminating to guarantee the harmony of the whole. The first mention of the “wolf” as an emblem of disharmony\, however\, comes from the proverb “homo homine lupus est\,” an endlessly appropriated phrase that traces the pervasive fear of what is foreign\, of what marks the borders of a community. In the European context\, the “wolf” has often materialized in the person of the stranger\, the immigrant who\, as a threat to the integrity of a presumably “harmonious” community\, must be violently marginalized. \nFocusing on contemporary aesthetic practices that respond to Europe as an unresolved conceptual and political problem\, this presentation follows the “wolf” in between the musical and the political. “Militant Economies of Sound: Pere Portabella and Carles Santos” traces the way in which these Catalan artists explore the role of music in the production of a discontinuous European public sphere\, whereby acoustic dissonance reorganizes economies and temporalities. It emphasizes the moments in their collaborative practice where dissonance activates political agency through a performative actualization of Europe’s musical patrimony as a collective and heterogeneous practice. \nThe lecture is co-sponsored by the Humanities Council\, the Program in Media and Modernity\, the Departments of English and Comparative Literature\, the Committee on Film Studies\, European Cultural Studies\, and IHUM \n\nSara Nadal-Melsió is a NYC-based Catalan writer\, curator\, and teacher. She has taught at the University of Pennsylvania\, Princeton University\, SOMA in Mexico City\, and New York University. Her essays have appeared in various academic journals\, edited volumes\, and museum catalogs. She is the co-author of Alrededor de/ Around\, and the editor of two special issues on cinema\, The Invisible Tradition: Avant-Garde Catalan Cinema under Late Francoism and The Militant Image: Temporal Disturbances of the Political Imagination. She also cocurated a retrospective of Allora & Calzadilla’s work for the Fundació Tápies in Barcelona and has written a book essay about it\, as well as edited a companion volume on the Puerto Rican crisis. Her book Europe and the Wolf: Political Variations on a Musical Concept is forthcoming from Zone Books. \nSeminar to follow this lecture on February 24th at 12pm. Click this link for details.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/europe-and-the-wolf-militant-economies-of-sound-in-pere-portabella-and-carles-santos/
LOCATION:300 Wallace Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065840
CREATED:20230221T181726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230221T181748Z
UID:52404-1677169800-1677175200@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:A Conversation with Sandy Ouvrier
DESCRIPTION:A Conversation On Actors’ Training at the Paris Conservatory\nIn French\nModerated by Florent Masse\, Director of L’Avant-Scène\, Department of French and Italian
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/a-conversation-with-sandy-ouvrier-professor-at-the-paris-national-conservatory-of-dramatic-arts/
LOCATION:298 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kelly Eggers":MAILTO:keggers@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065840
CREATED:20230217T200306Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230217T200306Z
UID:52284-1677175200-1677180600@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Born Under Punches
DESCRIPTION:David Goodman is Acting Dean\, Director of the Bachelor of Architectural Studies and the Master of Architecture\, and Professor of Architecture at the IE School of Architecture and Design in Madrid and Segovia\, Spain. He holds a Doctorate in Business Administration from the IE Business School\, specializing in Strategic Management and Organization Theory\, with a focus on institutional theory and the creative industries. His current research deals with innovations in architecture practice and production during times of socioeconomic turbulence\, and how totalitarian regimes have used the teaching of building methods to construct and institutionalize social inequalities. \nGoodman is coauthor of the book An Introduction to Architecture Theory: 1968 to the Present. His work has also appeared in the journals Log\, A+T\, Journal of Architectural Education\, Technology | Architecture + Design\, and in the anthologies Chicago Architecture: Histories\, Revisions\, Alternatives and Walter Netsch: A Critical Appreciation and Sourcebook. A graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and of Cornell University\, Goodman has previously taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology\, Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Boston Architectural College\, as well as working in the office of Rafael Moneo in Madrid and as co-founder of the Chicago-based architecture firm R+D Studio. He likes to run\, although\, increasingly\, his knees do not. \nLectures made possible by the Jean Labatut Memorial Lectures in Architecture and Urban Planning Fund. The School of Architecture\, Princeton University\, is registered with the AIA Continuing Education (AIA/CE) and is committed to developing quality learning activities in accordance with the AIA/CE criteria. Members of the AIA can log credits for this event by completing the form at the event.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/born-under-punches/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium
ORGANIZER;CN="Carrie Ruddick":MAILTO:cruddick@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230224T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230224T133000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065840
CREATED:20230214T141851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230214T203111Z
UID:52231-1677240000-1677245400@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:"Politically Red"
DESCRIPTION:This seminar is a follow up to the public lecture on February 23rd. “Europe and the Wolf: Militant Economies of Sound in Pere Portabella and Carles Santos” by Sara Nadal-Melsió \nIn this seminar\, Nadal-Melsió will discuss her forthcoming book with co-author Eduardo Cadava. The book’s title plays on the homonym between “red” and “read” and emphasizes the role and place of reading in the political sphere. Focusing on the writings of Karl Marx\, Rosa Luxemburg\, Walter Benjamin\, W. E. B. Du Bois\, and Fredric Jameson\, it demonstrates the way in which their work can be resources for doing political work in the present\, and particularly anti-racist work. \n\nSara Nadal-Melsió is a NYC-based Catalan writer\, curator\, and teacher. She has taught at the University of Pennsylvania\, Princeton University\, SOMA in Mexico City\, and New York University. Her essays have appeared in various academic journals\, edited volumes\, and museum catalogs. She is the co-author of Alrededor de/ Around\, and the editor of two special issues on cinema\, The Invisible Tradition: Avant-Garde Catalan Cinema under Late Francoism and The Militant Image: Temporal Disturbances of the Political Imagination. She also cocurated a retrospective of Allora & Calzadilla’s work for the Fundació Tápies in Barcelona and has written a book essay about it\, as well as edited a companion volume on the Puerto Rican crisis. Her book Europe and the Wolf: Political Variations on a Musical Concept is forthcoming from Zone Books.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/seminar-politically-red/
LOCATION:105 Chancellor Green
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230224T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230225T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065840
CREATED:20230123T215440Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230213T160900Z
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SUMMARY:THAT’S HISTORY? Thirty Years After the End of Apartheid
DESCRIPTION:In May 2024\, South Africa and the world will mark 30 years since the formal end of apartheid. To commemorate this milestone\, a group of South Africanist scholars will gather in Princeton to examine developments in South African history and historiography over the past three decades. Among the questions to be considered are: What effect has the formal end of apartheid had on South African history and its historiography? What difference\, if any\, has the advent of a nonracial democracy in South Africa made to the demographic composition of who studies and teaches South African history? What new directions\, what new archives\, what new questions and what new methods have those studying South African history taken in the past thirty years? What of the liberal-radical controversies of old\, and of the exceptionalism that has bedeviled studies of South Africa? And\, more importantly\, what future for the study of the South African past? \nOrganized by: Professor Jacob S.T. Dlamini (Princeton University)\, Dr. Laura Phillips (North West University)\, and the Center for Collaborative History (Princeton University). \nSponsored by: African Humanities Colloquium | Center for Collaborative History | Humanities Council | University Center for Human Values
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/thats-history-thirty-years-after-the-end-of-apartheid/
LOCATION:211 Dickinson Hall or Zoom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Loessy":MAILTO:jloessy@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230224T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230224T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065840
CREATED:20230210T215355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230210T215355Z
UID:52144-1677254400-1677259800@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Ruha Benjamin in Conversation with Chris Gilliard
DESCRIPTION:Join the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students for the next installation of their FOCUS Speaker Series in the iconic Chancellor Green Rotunda at 4:00 pm on Friday\, Feb 24\, 2023. The first FOCUS speaker event of this year will feature writer\, professor and speaker Dr. Chris Gilliard in conversation with Professor Ruha Benjamin of the African American Studies Department. \nFOCUS is an interdisciplinary initiative sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students designed to bring anti-racist scholarship\, thought\, and action to every part of university life. The name and mission of FOCUS were inspired by the words of Toni Morrison\, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities\, Emeritus\, and the recipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature \nChris Gilliard is a professor at Macomb Community College whose scholarship concentrates on digital privacy\, surveillance\, and the intersections of race\, class\, and technology. He advocates for critical and equity-focused approaches to tech in education and was recently profiled in the Washington Post. His works have been featured in The Chronicle of Higher Ed\, EDUCAUSE Review\, Vice\, Real Life Magazine\, Wired\, and The Atlantic. \nRuha Benjamin specializes in the interdisciplinary study of science\, medicine\, and technology; race-ethnicity and gender; knowledge and power. She is the founding director of the Ida B. Wells JUST Data Lab and author of three books\, Viral Justice (2022)\, Race After Technology (2019)\, and People’s Science (2013)\, and editor of Captivating Technology (2019). Through their conversation\, listeners are encouraged to learn about the ways in which the tech industry reinforces biases\, and increase their understanding of the role of social platforms and artificial intelligence in society. \nThe event is free and open to the public. Attendees will have an opportunity to engage in conversation with professors Gilliard and Benjamin. Undergraduate attendees will be provided free copies of Viral Justice\, which have been purchased from Source of Knowledge\, an independent Black-owned bookstore in Newark\, New Jersey. A reception will be held following the lecture. \nClick to register for this event.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/ruha-benjamin-in-conversation-with-chris-gilliard/
LOCATION:Chancellor Green Rotunda\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065840
CREATED:20230220T200057Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230220T200057Z
UID:52386-1677499200-1677502800@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Translation as a Multiplayer Game
DESCRIPTION:We typically conceive of translation as a solitary activity\, yet translating plays for performance – the focus of much of Neil Blackadder’s work – involves extensive collaboration with directors and actors as well as authors. And he is currently engaged in translating from two languages at once: Anne Weber wrote Ahnen in German and translated it into French. Blackadder will explore these and other contexts in which collaboration makes translation triangular or even a multiplayer game.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/translation-as-a-multiplayer-game/
LOCATION:144 Louis A. Simpson Building
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ORGANIZER;CN="Yolanda Sullivan":MAILTO:syolanda@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065840
CREATED:20230222T182933Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230222T183156Z
UID:52394-1677499200-1677502800@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:A Constitutional Coup in Israel: Background\, Causes\, Consequences
DESCRIPTION:Israel is undergoing a constitutional coup these days. Similar to recent developments in Hungary\, Poland\, and Turkey\, the coup aims to subject Israel’s supreme court to the executive branch\, change the way judges are appointed\, and prevent any review of government actions or Knesset laws. The Princeton community is invited to learn about the coup in this special Zoom event\, where Dr. Yair Sagy (Law\, Haifa) will be in conversation with Prof. Yair Mintzker (History\, Princeton). \nRegister in advance for this meeting.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/a-constitutional-coup-in-israel-background-causes-consequences/
LOCATION:Zoom
ORGANIZER;CN="Yair Mintzker":MAILTO:mintzker@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T131500
DTSTAMP:20260404T065840
CREATED:20230210T220439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230222T010020Z
UID:52089-1677499200-1677503700@humanities.princeton.edu
SUMMARY:Mellon Forum || Christianizing Algiers: Reshaping Urban Identity by “Cross and Plow”
DESCRIPTION:The presentation will center on the territorial interventions of the Catholic Church in Algiers in the 19th century\, examining how the Church reshaped urban space in Algiers through the construction and conversion of buildings in order to advance its aim of resurrecting Augustinian Christendom in North Africa. The larger project from which this presentation is derived seeks to uncover the complex relationship between the church and the multiple actors who helped reconfigure Algiers into a French and largely Christian city. It is structured around three urban practices: the conversion of Muslim institutions\, the consolidation of urban focal points as symbolic cynosures of Christian power\, and the aesthetic and symbolic expression of the buildings themselves and the hidden forms of violence perpetuated by these material forms of representation. This event will be held in-person and via Zoom. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Humanities Council.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/mellon-forum-christianizing-algiers-reshaping-urban-identity-by-cross-and-plow/
LOCATION:School of Architecture and Zoom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jacquelyn Walsh":MAILTO:jw42@princeton.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T065840
CREATED:20230118T165621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230213T160940Z
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SUMMARY:Toward a History of Waiting: Social Hierarchy and Architecture
DESCRIPTION:In early modern continental Western Europe\, antechambers became standard in the residences of the elites. As a time-space infrastructure these rooms shaped encounters between unequals. By imposing spatial distance and temporal delays\, antechambers constituted authority\, rank\, and power. Puff explores both the logic and the experience of waiting in such formative spaces\, showing that time divides as much as it unites\, and that far from what people have said about early moderns\, they approached living in time with apprehensiveness. Situated at the intersection of history\, literature\, and the history of art and architecture\, this wide-ranging talk demonstrates that waiting has a history that has much to tell us about social and power relations in the past and present.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/toward-a-history-of-waiting-social-hierarchy-and-architecture/
LOCATION:205 East Pyne
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ORGANIZER;CN="Fiona Romaine":MAILTO:fromaine@princeton.edu
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