BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Princeton University Humanities Council - ECPv6.15.16//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Princeton University Humanities Council X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Princeton University Humanities Council REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20220101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230221T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230221T210000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 CREATED:20230201T161555Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230213T160624Z UID:51956-1677007800-1677013200@humanities.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/reading-by.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Steve Runk":MAILTO:LewisCenter@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230222T163000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230222T180000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 CREATED:20230131T172720Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230213T160716Z UID:51916-1677083400-1677088800@humanities.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Barbarano-Romano1-image-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230222T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230222T180000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 CREATED:20230207T154543Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230207T154543Z UID:52066-1677083400-1677088800@humanities.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/민주시민대동제-정정엽.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Chao-Hui Jenny Liu":MAILTO:chaoliu@princeton.edu GEO:40.7228732;-74.0621867 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230222T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230222T183000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 CREATED:20230210T220119Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230210T220119Z UID:52138-1677085200-1677090600@humanities.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Monte-Carlo-Bond-Marcel-Duchamp.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Nicolá%3Bs Sá%3Bnchez-Rodrí%3Bguez":MAILTO:ns9580@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230222T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230222T200000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 CREATED:20230221T141052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230221T141052Z UID:52397-1677092400-1677096000@humanities.princeton.edu 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T132000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 CREATED:20230213T161538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230213T161538Z UID:52171-1677153600-1677158400@humanities.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Mary-Pena-Event-Image.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Damaris Zayas":MAILTO:damaris@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T173000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 CREATED:20230216T145300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230217T171552Z UID:52249-1677169800-1677173400@humanities.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Rene-Char-stamp.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Stephanie Lewandowski":MAILTO:steph@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T180000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/DE-MUS-149328-ID608-rv.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Eileen Robinson":MAILTO:eileenrobinson@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230223T163000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230223T180000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/230223_Digital_2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T180000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/4_NUGGET1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Jenny Legath":MAILTO:jlegath@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230223T163000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230223T180000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 CREATED:20230214T141511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230214T203131Z 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/SPO-lecture.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T180000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/ouvrier-image.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Kelly Eggers":MAILTO:keggers@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T193000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230224T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230224T133000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/SPO-lecture.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230224T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230225T163000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 CREATED:20230123T215440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230213T160900Z UID:51695-1677245400-1677342600@humanities.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2022-06-22-at-3.08.31-PM.png ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Loessy":MAILTO:jloessy@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230224T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230224T173000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T130000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Alpenvorland-hotINK-rehearsal.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Yolanda Sullivan":MAILTO:syolanda@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T130000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T131500 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Mellon-Forum-2023-graphic-only-horiztonal_.png ORGANIZER;CN="Jacquelyn Walsh":MAILTO:jw42@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T180000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 CREATED:20230118T165621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230213T160940Z UID:51628-1677515400-1677520800@humanities.princeton.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Puff_Figure_17_KLEINER-Belvedere-1733-BB_1012-013-2010-5.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Fiona Romaine":MAILTO:fromaine@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T190000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 CREATED:20230213T161434Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T163535Z UID:52161-1677517200-1677524400@humanities.princeton.edu SUMMARY:The Ver-Fremdworteffekt. Adorno on Language’s Glitches DESCRIPTION:Theodor W. Adorno has written two texts on foreign words and how they affect language. These texts contain a theory of how something apparently universal gives rise to another\, to a different\, a differently universal universality. The talk will explore what this means structurally and politically. \nFrank Ruda is Chair of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Dundee. His most recent publications include Reading Hegel (with Slavoj Žižek and Agon Hamza\, Polity 2021)\, The Dash – the Other Side of Absolute Knowing (with Rebecca Comay\, MIT Press 2018)\, Gegen-Freiheit. Für einen komischen Fatalismus (Konstanz University Press 2018). The English translation of his Indifference and Repetition\, or Modern Freedom and its Discontents is forthcoming with Fordham University Press in 2023 (including a new preface by Alain Badiou). He is currently working on the manuscript of a book tentatively entitled Stuckness and Courage. On Modes of Absorbing Historical Time and How to Counter Them. \nCo-sponsored by the Humanities Council\, the German Department and the Department of Philosophy URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/the-ver-fremdworteffekt-adorno-on-languages-glitches/ LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Frank-Ruda.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Florian Endres":MAILTO:fendres@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T193000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 CREATED:20230222T182108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230222T182108Z UID:52418-1677520800-1677526200@humanities.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Reception + Gallery Talk | Living Histories: Space for Reckoning by STOSS Landscape Urbanism + MPdL Studio DESCRIPTION:How do we ensure that public spaces tell the complex and interconnected histories that have shaped our culture and inform who we are? How do we bring to light those stories that lie buried just beneath the surface of a society in ways that allow us to confront the harder and sometimes brutal realities of our entangled pasts? How is it that we might transform the recognition and commemoration of moments of civic\, political\, and racial violence in ways that allow us to reckon with these histories and set a foundation for conversation and healing? And how do we animate the people that embodied and lived our complex histories in ways that are honorific\, and continue to live on? \nThis will require a new way of thinking about commemoration in public spaces. Rather than focusing on a single person or a single moment in time\, on grand gestures or static monuments\, public space has the capacity to record and trace the multiple lives and histories that have taken place and continue to take place in an unfolding series of stories. Public space should offer opportunities for interactions on people’s own terms; a space for reflection and contemplation and reckoning; a place for discourse\, debate\, gathering\, remembrance\, and even just the simple and ordinary pleasures of everyday life. In public space\, histories can be broadened and deepened; can be enlivened and honored; and can be written anew as part of the evolving life of a city. \nThe proposed reimagining of Martyr’s Park and Dealey Plaza in Dallas\, Texas\, weaves a reconsideration of the site of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy with a reframing and enhancement of the proposed Martyr’s Park\, site of the lynching of three innocent Black men. In concert with the nearby Holocaust Museum and the city’s judicial complex on the riverfront\, these places highlight moments of intense racial and political violence in the city while honoring and celebrating the lives lost. \nThe opening reception and gallery talk on February 27\, 2023 at 6pm will be led by Chris Reed\, Mark Lamster\, and Mónica Ponce de León. URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/reception-gallery-talk-living-histories-space-for-reckoning-by-stoss-landscape-urbanism-mpdl-studio/ LOCATION:North Gallery\, School of Architecture\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/02_08_23_Princeton_LivingHistorys_digital_draft.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Carrie Ruddick":MAILTO:cruddick@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230228T163000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230228T180000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 CREATED:20221011T174819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230217T154841Z UID:50166-1677601800-1677607200@humanities.princeton.edu SUMMARY:2022-23 Old Dominion Public Lecture Series – The Buddhist Wheel of Rebirth: Painting & Performance\, Then & Now DESCRIPTION:The wheel of rebirth is a familiar sight in Buddhist cultures. The wheel symbolizes the cycle of birth and death\, and paintings with stock images of pleasure and pain constitute a visual curriculum in Buddhist temples. This talk interrogates old and new representations of the wheel of rebirth—some arguably post-capitalist or Protestant—to reconsider the performative dimensions of Buddhist teachings on the afterlife. \nStephen F. Teiser is the D. T. Suzuki Professor in Buddhist Studies and professor of religion. His research interests include the transformations of Buddhism throughout Asia\, and his scholarship traces the interaction between cultures along the Silk Road using textual\, artistic\, and material remains. Teiser’s project as Old Dominion Professor in the Humanities Council is to develop his book\, “Curing with Karma: Healing Liturgies in Chinese Buddhism\,” which will engage with moral issues of healing rituals in premodern Buddhist cultures\, the poetics of prayer\, and the materiality of liturgical manuscripts. \n\nOld Dominion Research Professors contribute to the Council’s programs and events and engage the campus community in sustained discussions about their research. This cohort of senior faculty join a yearlong program designed to provide additional research time and to enhance the humanities community more broadly. They also serve as faculty fellows in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. Old Dominion Professors are full professors in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/2022-23-old-dominion-public-lecture-series-stephen-f-teiser/ LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Old-Dominion-Poster_Teiser-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230228T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230228T180000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 CREATED:20230117T143517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230219T053711Z UID:51602-1677601800-1677607200@humanities.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Art Hx Presents: A Conversation with Artist Nate Lewis DESCRIPTION:During this conversation\, artist Nate Lewis\, the 2022-23 Art Hx: Visual and Medical Legacies of British Colonialism artist-in-residence\, will speak about his practice and recent work exploring monuments\, time\, COVID-19\, and movement/dance. This conversation will be moderated by Jessica Womack\, Art Hx Project Manager and PhD Candidate\, Art and Archaeology\, Princeton University. \nThis event will be held in person and will also be livestreamed. \nTo register for the livestream\, please click here. \nTo register for the in-person event\, please click here. \n\n\n2022-2023 Artist-in-Residence: Nate Lewis \nBased in New York City\, artist Nate Lewis explores history through patterns\, textures\, and rhythm\, creating meditations of celebration and lamentations. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from Virginia Commonwealth University\, and he practiced critical-care nursing in DC-area hospitals for nine years. \nHis work has been exhibited at the California African American Museum; The Studio Museum in Harlem; The Yale Center for British Art; 21c Museum Hotels; with the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services. Past residencies include Pioneer Works and Dieu Donne. Lewis’s work is in the public collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art\, The Studio Museum in Harlem\, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts\, Weatherspoon Art Museum\, Santa Barbara Museum of Art\, Blanton Museum of Art\, and The University of Austin at Texas. His most recent solo exhibition\, Tuning the Current\, was on view at Fridman Gallery in New York City earlier this fall. The featured works raised “questions about the interrelatedness of physical movement\, history and healing\, particularly (but not only) in the context of African diasporic art and culture.” To learn more about Lewis’s work\, visit his website: ​​https://natelewisart.com/. \nThe Art Hx Artist-in-Residence program is made possible thanks to the Collaborative Humanities Project of the Humanities Council URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/art-hx-presents-a-conversation-with-artist-nate-lewis/ LOCATION:James Stewart Film Theater\, 185 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, 08544\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Nate-Lewis-392x600-1.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Jessica Womack":MAILTO:jw44@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230228T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230228T183000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 CREATED:20230220T151036Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230220T151136Z UID:52373-1677603600-1677609000@humanities.princeton.edu SUMMARY:"The Architecture of Disability" DESCRIPTION:In this presentation\, David Gissen will outline a few key concepts from his new book\, The Architecture of Disability: Buildings\, Cities and Landscapes Beyond Access (University of Minnesota Press\, 2022). Disability critiques of architecture usually emphasize the need for modification and increased access\, but The Architecture of Disability calls for a radical reorientation of this perspective by situating experiences of impairment as a new foundation for the built environment. With its provocative proposal for “the construction of disability\,” this book fundamentally reconsiders how we conceive of and experience disability in our world. \nDavid Gissen is an author and designer based in New York City. He is Professor of Architecture and Urban History at Parsons School of Design/The New School and a visiting professor at Columbia GSAPP. In addition to The Architecture of Disability\, he is the author of the books Subnature (2009) and Manhattan Atmospheres (2013). \nV. Mitch McEwen is an Assistant Professor at Princeton’s School of Architecture. She is principal of Atelier Office\, director of the Black Box Research Group\, and co-founder of the Black Reconstruction Collective. \nBeatriz Colomina is the Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture. Her most recent books are X-Ray Architecture (Lars Muller\, 2019)and Radical Pedagogies\, ed. with Ignacio Gonzalez Galan\, Evangelos Kotsioris\, and Anna-Maria Meister (MIT Press\, 2022). \nPlease visit M+M’s official website for the full events calendar and current information. URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/program-in-media-and-modernity-the-architecture-of-disability/ LOCATION:Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Room N107\, School of Architecture\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/230207_Gissen-Poster-INSTA-02jpg.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Iason Stathatos":MAILTO:iasons@princeton.edu GEO:40.3478617;-74.6561685 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Room N107 School of Architecture Room N107 School of Architecture Princeton NJ 08544 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Room N107\, School of Architecture:geo:-74.6561685,40.3478617 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230301T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230301T132000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 CREATED:20230213T161802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230213T161802Z UID:52179-1677672000-1677676800@humanities.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Archives of Repetition: Adapting Greek Heroines in the Digital Age DESCRIPTION:Focusing on Agustina Gatto’s Ifigenia en\, and Yara Travieso’s La Medea\, this talk will analyze how contemporary playwrights/directors reimagine Greek characters and myths. Travieso and Gatto demystify canonical works\, and create new forms of audience engagement\, while also playing with the limits of the theatrical experience. In their work\, the use of technology and social media is a powerful tool to connect with wider\, archipelagic communities of spectators. \nABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER \nLilianne Lugo Herrera (Ph.D.\, University of Miami). Before joining PLAS\, Lugo Herrera was a lecturer at the Modern Languages and Literatures Department and the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Miami. Lugo Herrera’s work focuses on the intersection of theater and media in contemporary works by women playwrights. In fall 2023\, she will start an appointment as assistant professor of Spanish at Muhlenberg College. Read more. \nDISCUSSANT \nRachel Price\, Associate Professor\, Spanish and Portuguese \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/archives-of-repetition-adapting-greek-heroines-in-the-digital-age/ LOCATION:216 Aaron Burr Hall\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Lilianne-Lugo-Herrera-Event-Image.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Damaris Zayas":MAILTO:damaris@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230301T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230301T180000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 CREATED:20230207T154709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230207T154709Z UID:52069-1677688200-1677693600@humanities.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Betting on the Farm: Institutional Change in Japanese Agriculture DESCRIPTION:Betting on the Farm (Cornell University Press\, 2022) explains variations in strategic change within Japan Agricultural Cooperatives (JA)\, the nationwide network of farm co-ops that has dominated the Japanese agricultural landscape since the mid-20th century. JA’s tradition-bound organizations are under increasing economic and demographic pressure to expand farmer incomes by adapting co-op strategies to rapidly changing market incentives\, but some local co-ops are adapting more quickly and effectively than others. Drawing on insights from institutionalism theory\, our book ultimately attributes these variations to three sets of local variables: the co-op’s capacity to produce foods that can earn good prices in today’s markets; the quality of co-op leadership; and the appropriate organization of farmer-members behind new co-op strategies. This book support these claims with a mix of quantitative and especially qualitative methodologies\, including in-depth case studies of individual co-ops and farmers. The authors also touch on several related themes\, including long-term changes to the institutional foundations of Japanese farming; the sector’s ongoing economic and demographic crisis and its implications for farm and co-op reform; the diversification of farmers and its impact on farmer ties with the JA system; and JA’s quest to find a workable balance between adapting to freer markets\, on the one hand\, and its longstanding responsibility to contribute public goods to local farm communities\, on the other hand. We also demonstrate how years of seemingly ineffective\, small-scale policy changes have had a cumulative\, transformative effect on both farmers and co-ops—so much so\, we argue\, that pressures for further agricultural reform will likely intensify regardless of a particular government’s position on reform. URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/betting-on-the-farm-institutional-change-in-japanese-agriculture/ LOCATION:202 Jones Hall ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Photo_Maclachlan.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Chao-Hui Jenny Liu":MAILTO:chaoliu@princeton.edu GEO:40.7228732;-74.0621867 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230301T163000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230301T180000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 CREATED:20230216T194759Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230222T182831Z UID:52438-1677688200-1677693600@humanities.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Variation in color expression in languages of Cameroon DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: \nExplaining observed variation in linguistic data and its correlates is a particular challenge when describing under-studied languages lacking huge corpora. The use of a certain variable may be conditioned phonologically or grammatically\, but also by sociolinguistic factors ranging from speech registers to language contact phenomena. \nIn this talk\, I showcase the various levels of variation in the color system of four Bantu speech communities in southern Cameroon. Based on data from my own fieldwork on Gyeli\, Kwasio\, and Bulu\, I show that there is a high degree of variability with respect to color terms and categories. On the one hand\, the variability can be linked to patterns of color innovation in language contact. On the other hand\, intra-community variation in color word forms and lexical choices is considerable and leaves the question whether the variation can be explained by sociolinguistic factors or whether colors do not constitute a unitary domain in these languages (Levinson 2001). \nIn the second part of the talk\, I argue that sociolinguistic factors are not a standard consideration when explaining variation. This is confirmed in a study of twenty recent reference grammars\, where we find that most instances of sociolinguistic variation are discussed for phonetic/phonological variables and are often explained as dialectal differences. For other types of linguistic variables\, e.g. syntactic\, proposed social correlates of non-grammatical variation are vague. \n***** \nNadine Grimm is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Rochester. She obtained a B.A. in General Linguistics and French at the University of Bielefeld (Germany)in 2006\, and M.A. in African Studies\, German linguistics\, and French at the Humboldt University\, Berlin in 2010\, and a Ph.D. in Linguistics at the Humboldt University\, Berlin in 2015. \nDr. Grimm’s research takes place in a descriptive\, documentary\, and typological framework with a special focus on the grammatical tone\, language contact\, and phonetic features of plosives in northwestern Bantu languages. Nadine has worked on Gyeli\, a Bantu language of Cameroon\, since 2010. Previously\, she studied the numeral system of Ikaan\, a Benue-Congo language of Nigeria. \nShe received the Pāṇini Award by the Association for Linguistic Typology in 2019 for her doctoral dissertation\, which consisted in a grammatical description of Gyeli. The dissertation was published as a book in 2021 (A Grammar of Gyeli\, Language Science Press)\, for which she was awarded the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award by the Linguistic Society of America in 2023. URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/variation-in-color-expression-in-languages-of-cameroon/ LOCATION:1-S-5 Green Hall\, 1-S-5 Green Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Lab03-scaled.jpeg GEO:40.3524818;-74.6613275 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1-S-5 Green Hall 1-S-5 Green Hall Princeton NJ 08540 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1-S-5 Green Hall:geo:-74.6613275,40.3524818 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230301T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230301T180000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 CREATED:20230222T181237Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230222T181405Z UID:52422-1677688200-1677693600@humanities.princeton.edu SUMMARY:A Universe of Terms: Religion in Visual Metaphor DESCRIPTION:How can we foster a more inclusive\, responsible\, and communicative future? What if illustrated scholarship is one way to get there? \nOrganized around eight terms in the study of religion\, the groundbreaking\, multifaceted book A Universe of Terms: Religion in Visual Metaphor combines text and image to examine the human as both catalyst of crisis and principal agent for its mitigation. Mona Oraby and Emilie Flamme—a professor and an illustrator—were spurred to create an alternative form for scholarly communication\, one that stages conversations between thinkers who likely would not all find themselves in the same room. This graphic nonfiction book acknowledges the significance of certain terms to the social sciences and the humanities\, narrates their limitations\, and shows why we need a structure and style for thinking them otherwise. It further urges the iterative rethinking of any new terms this exercise yields. Through its unique visual lexicon\, A Universe of Terms explores religious media in postcolonial and secular contexts\, performances of religious feeling\, the political economy of religion\, sacred presence\, and human striving amid social inequality and climate change. Beautifully illustrated and inspired by a range of media from graphic novels to podcasts\, A Universe of Terms is a visual experiment\, one that invites readers to think again and anew about how the visual is integral to thought. \nThis event is free and open to the public. It will not be livestreamed but will be recorded and posted on the CCSR website after the event. \nThe first 20 graduate students\, undergraduate students\, or non-tenure-track scholars to register for this event will receive a copy of the book! URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/a-universe-of-terms-religion-in-visual-metaphor/ LOCATION:A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building\, Washington Road\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/UniverseTerms.png ORGANIZER;CN="Jenny Legath":MAILTO:jlegath@princeton.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230301T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230301T193000 DTSTAMP:20260629T190029 CREATED:20230219T055046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230219T055046Z UID:52243-1677693600-1677699000@humanities.princeton.edu SUMMARY:Organizing Stories: Dinner & Dialogue DESCRIPTION:Join the Organizing Stories team for their first event of the spring semester. Graduate students will discuss cultivating self sustaining praxis and artistic resistance while organizing around labor rights\, gender based violence\, BIPOC maternal health\, and Black liberation! \nRSVP here. URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/organizing-stories-dinner-dialogue/ LOCATION:Rockefeller College Private Dining Room ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://humanities.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/OrganizingStories_Logo_ColorWithBackground.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Hellen Wainaina":MAILTO:hw7926@princeton.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR