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Past Talk Events

November 4, 2021 · 5:30 pm6:30 pm · Zoom

Artist Conversation: Lois Dodd and Eve Aschheim

Lois Dodd, Artist

Princeton University Art Museum

November 4, 2021 · 12:00 pm1:20 pm · Zoom

Bodies of Knowledge Working Group—Conflating animal slaughter and animal and human sacrifice: Vasily Rozanov and ritual murder trials

Henrietta Mondry, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Humanities Council; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Image of illustration of a skeleton a desk.

October 29, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

Seamus Heaney’s Late Poems

Nicholas Allen, Director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia

Fund for Irish Studies at Princeton University

October 28, 2021 · 5:30 pm6:30 pm · Zoom

Lecture: Celebrating 50 Years of Photography

Katherine A. Bussard, Princeton University Art Museum

Princeton University Art Museum
Image of Ansel Adams in his office.

October 28, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

Artful (Re)working: Pictures of Labor in Eighteenth-Century Japan

Chelsea Foxwell, University of Chicago

Department of Art and Archaeology

October 28, 2021 · 4:00 pm · Zoom

Jessica to Jack: story of a transition (Screening and Q&A)

Department of French and Italian; New Italian Cinema Events (N.I.C.E)

October 28, 2021 · 12:00 pm1:30 pm · 209 Scheide Caldwell

Languages of Emergency, Infrastructures of Response and Everyday Heroism in the Circumpolar North

Olga Ulturgasheva, Pathy Distinguished Visitor in the Fund for Canadian Studies; Barbara Bodenhorn, University of Cambridge

Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Princeton (NAISIP); Humanities Council

October 27, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

A Virtual Book Talk and Conversation with Rey Chow

Rey Chow, Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Duke University’s Program in Literature

English Department's Theory Colloquium; Department of East Asian Studies

October 27, 2021 · 12:00 pm · Zoom

Where is the real home?

Kubra Khademi, Visual Artist

Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities
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October 26, 2021 · 5:00 pm6:30 pm · Zoom

Journalism at Borders: Covering Mexico in a Time of Pandemic, Migration and Violence

Adela Navarro Bello, Semanario Zeta; Mary Beth Sheridan, The Washington Post; Adriana Zehbrauskas, photojournalist and documentary photographer

Program in Latin American Studies; Program in Journalism; Center for Migration and Development

October 25, 2021 · 12:30 pm1:30 pm · Zoom

Translating Between Modalities: The Case Study of American Sign Language and English

Amelia Becker, Humanities Council, Linguistics

Program in Translation & Intercultural Communication; Humanities Council; Program in Linguistics

October 15, 2021 · 2:00 pm4:00 pm · Zoom

The Haitians: A Decolonial History (Book Discussion, Part III)

Professor Chelsey Kivland & Professor Nathalie Pierre, Dartmouth College & Howard University

Department of African American Studies

October 13, 2021 · 7:00 pm8:30 pm · Zoom

Smiling behind the mask: Tokyo Olympics and its volunteers

Barbara Holthus, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo

East Asian Studies Program

October 13, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

DeCamp Bioethics Seminar: “‘A Kind of Insanity in My Spirits’: Frankenstein, Childhood, and Criminal Intent”

Melissa Ganz, University Center for Human Values and Marquette University

University Center for Human Values

October 13, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

Crime Fiction, Bad Living, and the Anthropocene

Lucas Hollister, Dartmouth College

Department of French and Italian

October 13, 2021 · 12:00 pm1:30 pm · Zoom

The Affects of Manumission: Racial Melancholy and Roman Freedpersons

Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Classics

Medievalists of Color; Program in Medieval Studies; Austrian Academy of Sciences; Institute for Advanced Study

October 12, 2021 · 5:00 pm6:30 pm · Zoom

Leveraging the Rise of Centralized Choice and Assignment Mechanisms to Improve Education Markets in Developing Countries

Christopher Neilson, Economics, School of Public and International Affairs

Program in Latin American Studies

October 7, 2021 · 5:30 pm6:30 pm · 101 Friend Center

Artist Conversation: Adama Delphine Fawundu and Anna Arabindan-Kesson

Adama Delphine Fawundu, artist; Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Art and Archaeology and African American Studies

Princeton University Art Museum

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