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Princeton University Humanities Council

We seek to foster creative scholarship, transformative teaching, and intellectual collaboration by bringing humanities departments and programs into dialogue with arts and sciences.

People in the Humanities Council
Princeton University Humanities Council

The Council Chair and Executive Director lead an administrative team that is responsible for day-to-day operations and activities.

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        March 17, 2022 · 12:00 pm—1:15 pm         · 16 Joseph Henry House    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Eat the Buddha: Using literary non-fiction to bring to life a ‘closed town’ in Tibet        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Program in Journalism, Barbara Demick, Program in Journalism; Sophie Gee, English                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        February 24, 2022 · 12:00 pm—1:15 pm         · 16 Joseph Henry House and Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Post-Insurrection Politics: Reporting on the Midterms, 2024 Election, and Democracy in Crisis        
    
    
    
    
            
    
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        February 17, 2022 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · Zoom and Livestream    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Reporting on Repressive Governments: How journalists overcome barriers to safeguard free speech and inform democracy        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Program in Journalism; Office of Communications; Department of Anthropology                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        November 18, 2021 · 4:30 pm—5:45 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Archival Silences Working Group: Language In/Of the Archive        
    
    
    
    
            
    
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        October 28, 2021 · 12:00 pm—1:15 pm         · 16 Joseph Henry House and Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Empathy and Journalism: The power of immersive reporting in creative nonfiction        
    
    
    
    
            
    
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        October 27, 2021 · 6:00 pm—7:00 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Black Bodies, White Gold—Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Labyrinth Books; African American Studies; Humanities Council; the Princeton Public Library, Anna Arabindan-Kesson, African American Studies, Art and Archaeology; Chika Okeke-Agulu, Art and Archaeology, African American Studies                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        October 26, 2021 · 6:00 pm—7:00 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Labyrinth Books; Humanities Council, Leonard Barkan, Comparative Literature; Caroline Mangone, Art & Archaeology                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        October 7, 2021 · 4:30 pm—5:45 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Archival Silences Working Group: Building the Archive        
    
    
    
    
            
    
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        October 5, 2021 · 12:00 pm—1:15 pm         · 16 Joseph Henry House and Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            People, Politics and Journalism: How Americans consume news in an era of partisanship and social media        
    
    
    
    
            
    
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