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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.

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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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        December 7, 2022 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 1-S-5 Green Hall    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            On the origins of Cikunda, “a language without a land”  (Presentation of the OriKunda project)        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Rozenn Guérois, LLACAN (African Languages and Cultures Laboratory)                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        November 30, 2022 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 1-S-5 Green Hall    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Experiments in Euphemism Detection        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Anna Feldman, Montclair State University                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        November 1, 2022 · 5:00 pm—6:30 pm         · Room N107, School of Architecture    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Getting to the Point. Genealogies of the Analog Code        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Wolfgang Schäffner, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        September 14, 2022 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 1-S-5 Green Hall    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            “Us” as “one”: First person plurals as impersonals in Mayan        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Carol Rose Little, University of Oklahoma                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        March 30, 2022 · 12:00 pm—1:20 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Algerian Letters – Unlearning Short Histories        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Brown University                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        March 23, 2022 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 100 Jones Hall    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            LE PHILOSOPHE ET LE CHARLATAN. Les ambivalences de la publicité au siècle des Lumières.        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Antoine Lilti, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        March 3, 2022 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 010 East Pyne    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Clipping in and out of the Trenches: Black Radicalism and the Archive        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Brent Hayes Edwards, Columbia University                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        February 16, 2022 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Form and Meaning in a Sign Language Lexicon        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Naomi Caselli, Boston University                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        December 14, 2021 · 12:00 pm—1:30 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Skin and Blood? Blackness and Arabness in Middle Eastern Perspectives        
    
    
    
    
            
    
                        Rachel Schine, NYU AbuDhabi; Peter Webb, Leiden University        
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        November 22, 2021 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 161 East Pyne and Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            How to Write a W: On the Magical Beginning of German Writing        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Stephan Müller, University of Vienna                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        November 18, 2021 · 5:00 pm         · 219 Aaron Burr    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            “Hymns for Humanists”: Dessa on Religion, Humanism, and Artistic Inspiration        
    
    
    
    
            
    
                        Dessa, rapper, singer, and writer        
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        November 10, 2021 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 219 Aaron Burr Hall and Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Not Just Rabbis: Rethinking Jewish Communal Leadership in Medieval Europe – The Case of Cologne        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Ephraim Shoham-Steiner, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        November 10, 2021 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · via Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            3rd Person Singular and Default Case in Child African American English        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Lisa Green, University of Massachusetts Amherst                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        October 6, 2021 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            An ‘Under’ World of Practices: Romano-British Religious Cults in the Severn Valley        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Janet Kay, Art and Archaeology; Avner Goldstein, Boston College                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        September 27, 2021 · 12:30 pm—1:30 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Translating Medieval Texts        
    
    
    
    
            
    
                        Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Institute for Advanced Study and University of Pittsburgh        
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                            
    

                    
    
            
    
        
    
    
    

    


    
    
    
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