Humanities News at Princeton

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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


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


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


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

Lecture: Celebrating 50 Years of Photography

Katherine A. Bussard, Princeton University Art Museum


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

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

Chelsea Foxwell, University of Chicago



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


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


October 27, 2021 · 12:00 pm · Zoom

Where is the real home?

Kubra Khademi, Visual Artist


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


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


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


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


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


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

Crime Fiction, Bad Living, and the Anthropocene

Lucas Hollister, Dartmouth College


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

The Affects of Manumission: Racial Melancholy and Roman Freedpersons

Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Classics


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


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


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