Local Academic Events, Beyond Historical Studies
Listed here are events taking place outside of the Institute and the School of Historical Studies that may be of interest to SHS faculty and members. Please note that this is not intended to be a complete list of events taking place at Princeton University, in the town of Princeton or at neighboring institutions. More complete listings of events sponsored by Princeton University departments can be found on the University's departmental events calendars, a list of which can be found here.
The events identified below do not include SHS’ Lunchtime Colloquia or the Institute Calendar, which identifies events and activities happening throughout the Institute.
2024
Monday, November 18, 2024
The Department of History at Princeton University presents Johanna Rozakis-Siu, Princeton University, “Between Emerging Empires: Trade, Diplomacy, and Conflict in Gujarat (1500 – 1540).” 12:00 pm, 210 Dickinson Hall and via Zoom.
Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies; Humanities Council at Princeton University present Clare Cavanagh, Northwestern University, “The Cold War and Poetry: The Case of Czeslaw Milosz.” 4:30 pm, 219 Aaron Burr Hall.
Council on Science and Technology; Princeton Materials Institute, Visual Arts, and Physics at Princeton University present Hideo Mabuchi, Stanford University, “2024 Anthony B. Evnin Lecture with Hideo Mabuchi.” 5:00 pm, 50 McCosh Hall.
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Program in Judaic Studies; Department of Religion at Princeton University present Ilana Pardes, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “David’s Inner Court: Dynasties and Their Discontents.” 11:30 am, 209 Scheide Caldwell House. RSVP to judaic@princeton.edu and note any dietary needs.
Department of English at Princeton University presents Julia Jarcho, Brown University; Andrew Schlager, English, “Intersections Working Group: Julia Jarcho — Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism.” 12:00 pm, HInds Library, McCosh. Registration required.
Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University presents “Fall Student Reading, presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing.” 5:00 pm, Chancellor Green Rotunda.
The Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities at Princeton University presents George Blaustein, University of Amsterdam; Sander Pleij, literary writer and author; Wiegerte Postma, Amsterdam University of the Arts, “A Pitching Panel with the Editors of The European Review of Books.” 5:00 pm, Betts Auditorium.
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
The Humanities Council at Princeton University presents Alberto Ravani, Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, ““Writing the Waves: John Tzetzes and the Allegory of Book 18 of the Iliad” 4:30 pm, 103 Scheide Caldwell. Registration required.
The Humanities Council at Princeton University presents Sophus Helle, Classics, “Parmenides in Babylon: A Dialogue on Tunnel Vision.” 4:30 pm, 100 Jones Hall.
Program in European Cultural Studies; Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council at Princeton University presents Donna V. Jones, University of California, Berkeley, “Historical Crisis and Paranoid Emplotment: The Discursive Structure of Racial Panics in Interwar Year Europe.” 4:30 pm, 016 Robertson Hall. Registration required.
East Asian Studies Program at Princeton University presents Jisoo M. Kim, George Washington University, “Fashioning Monogamy: Constitutional Rights of Gender (In) Equality and Adultery Law in Postcolonial South Korea.” 4:30 pm, 202 Jones Hall.
Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University presents Paul Freedman, Yale University, “The Middle Ages in Catalan Historiography and Imagination.” 4:30 pm, 010 Easy Pyne. Registration required.
The Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities at Princeton University presents George Blaustein, University of Amsterdam; Sander Pleij, literary writer and author; Wiegerte Postma, Amsterdam Universtiy of the Arts, “Misadventures in Magazine Making: An Evening with The European Review of Books.” 5:00 pm, Chancellor Green Rotunda.
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Program in African Studies; Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton University presents Panashe Chigumadzi, Brandeis University, “Apartheid isn’t the Question, Settler Colonialism is: Black South African Thought and the Critique of the International Left’s Apartheid Paradigm.” 4:30 pm, 144 Louis A. Simpson International Building.
Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University presents Rabea Eghbariah, Harvard University, “Princeton Palestinian Studies Colloquium: Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept.” 4:30 pm, 002 Robertson Hall.
Humanities Council's Committee for Film Studies at Princeton University presents Gertrud Koch, Freie Universität Berlin, emerita, “Ghosts and Guests in the Machine: Animism and Technology.” 4:30 pm, 010 East Pyne.
M.S. Chadha Center for Global India at Princeton University presents Smaran Dayal, Stevens Institute of Technology; Ben Baer, Comparative Literature, “Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein.” 4:30 pm, A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building.
Department of Near Eastern Studies; Department of Religion; Near Eastern Studies Program at Princeton University presents Xiwen Yang, UC Davis, “PISC no. 3: “A View from the Province: An 18th-century Ottoman’s Reckoning with Science and Religion” 5:00 pm, 102 Jones Hall.
Princeton University Art Museum presents Rachel Federman, guest curator; Katherine Bussard, Princeton University Art Museum; Esther Schor, Humanities Council and English; and Stacy Wolf, Lewis Center for the Arts, “Faculty Panel – Helène Aylon: Undercurrent.” 5:30 pm, Art on Hulfish.
Friday, November 22, 2024
The Department of History at Princeton University presents Tim Guinnane, Yale University, “Truth and Information in Early Private Equity: Germany's GmbH, 1892–1933.” 10:15 am, 211 Dickinson Hall.
The Department of History at Princeton University presents Emmanuel Ennin, Princeton University, “Holding Ground: Ghanaian Women’s Resilience in Preserving Traditional Healing Through the Colonial Era, 1920s – 1930s.” 3:30 pm, 210 Dickinson Hall.
The Department of History at Princeton University presents Santiago Conti, Princeton University, “The Herds of Mandure: Economic Transformations and Shifting Power Relations in the Guarani Missions, 1768 – 1810.” 4:30 pm, Zoom.