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.
2023
Monday, December 4, 2023
The Fund for Irish Studies; Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University present Caoilinn Hughes, author, “Reading by award-winning writer Caoilinn Hughes.” 4:30 pm, James Stewart Film Theater.
The Humanities Council at Princeton University presents Aglaya Glebova, University of California, Berkeley, “Photo History’s Futures: Aglaya Glebova.” 5:00 pm, 101 Friend Center.
The Humanities Council at Princeton University presents Kim Foster, food critic, “Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City.” 7:00 pm, Princeton High School Auditorium.
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
The Humanities Council at Princeton University presents its Kwartler Family Lecture, Sarit Kattan Gribetz, Fordham University, “How did Helena of Adiabene Become Queen of Jerusalem?” 4:30 pm, A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building.
The Humanities Council at Princeton University presents Joshua Cohen, author, “Writing in Good Faith for Reading in Bad Faith, Or: Making Literature in the Age of Haters.” 5:00 pm, 010 East Pyne.
The Humanities Council at Princeton University presents Tamer el-Leithy, Institute for Advanced Study, “PISC Paper n3: “Ripple Effects of Arabization. Coptic History and Memory in late-medieval Egypt.” 6:00 pm, 202 Jones Hall. Registration required.
The Humanities Council at Princeton University presents “L’Avant-Scene presents Fragments XXIII.” 7:30 pm, Godfrey Kerr Theater Studio, Lewis Arts Complex. In French. Registration advised.
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Lewis Center for the Arts’ Princeton Atelier presents “Readings from The Princeton Comics Notebook.” 1:30 pm, Labyrinth Books.
The Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University presents its Medieval Faculty Colloquium, Tehseen Thaver, Religion, “Engaging the Sensoria in Premodern Qur’an Commentary.” 12:00 pm, 209 Scheide Caldwell. RSVP.
The Humanities Council at Princeton University presents its 2023-24 Old Dominion Public Lecture Series, Laura F. Edwards, History, “Women’s Property and the Downward Spiral into Fraud: questioning the Persistent Narrative of Progress in women’s Legal Status.” 4:30 pm, 01 East Pyne.
The Humanities Council at Princeton University presents Kathryn Davidson, Harvard University, “Information structure insights form sign language anaphora.” 4:30 pm, 1-S-5 Green Hall.
The Humanities Council at Princeton University presents Pierre Ducrozet, author; Göran Blix, French and Italian, “A Conversation on Literature and the Climate Crisis with Pierre Ducrozet.” 4:30 pm, 100 Jones Hall.
The Humanities Council at Princeton University presents Mara Yue Du, Cornell University, “China: From a Nationless State to a Nation Defined by State.” 4:30 pm, 202 Jones Hall.
The Humanities Council at Princeton University presents Catherine Clune-Taylor, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Agustin Fuentes, Anthropology; Mia Miyagi, Brown University, “Sex and Gender Complexity in Scientific Research.” 4:30 pm, 100 Arthur Lewis Auditorium, Robertson Hall. Registration required.
Princeton University Library; Muslim Life Program at Princeton University present Faith Tarhan, Princeton University, “’Tafaḍḍal,’ Come in and Delve!” – Or How to Sense the In/Visible Space in Manuscripts of the Islamic World.” 5:00 pm, Firestone Library, Special Collections, C-Floor.
The Humanities Council at Princeton University presents Catherine Clune-Taylor, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Agustin Fuentes, Anthropology; Mia Miyagi, Brown University, “Science and Social Justice Salon: Sex and Gender Complexity.” 6:00 pm, 056 Bernstein Gallery, Robertson Hall. RSVP.
Thursday, December 7, 2023
The Department of History at Princeton University presents its Modern America Workshop, Halee Robinson, Princeton University, “’We will all be reduced to slavery’: Freedom, Punishment, and Reconstruction Politics in Texas, 1865-1880.” 12:00 pm, 0-S-6 Green Hall and via Zoom. Registration required.
The Department of History at Princeton University presents its Colonial and Revolutionary Americas Workshop, Jessica Choppin Roney, Temple University, “1784, Year of Quiet Revolutions in North American Empires.” 211 Dickinson Hall.
Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies presents Elena Muñiz Grijalvo, Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Research Fellow, “Sensory Stimuli And The Construction Of Monarchical Power In Roman Processions.” 12:00 pm, 203 Scheide Caldwell House.
The Humanities Council at Princeton University presents Andrea Achi, Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Africa & Byzantium at The Met.” 4:30 pm, 010 East Pyne.
The Humanities Council at Princeton University presents “EHL and ART478 Present… A Viking Funeral!” 4:30 pm, Chancellor Green Rotunda.
Princeton Food Project; Humanities Council at Princeton University present Fabio Parasecoli, NYU, “Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics.” 4:30 pm, 016 Robertson Hall.
The Center for Collaborative History at Princeton University presents its Colonial and Revolutionary Workshop, Jessica Choppin Roney, Temple University, “1784, Year of Quiet Revolutions in North American Empires” 4:30 pm, 211 Dickinson Hall.
Friday, December 8, 2023
The Department of History at Princeton University presents its Davis Center Seminar, Tiffany Nichols, Princeton University, “Seeking Stillness: Landscape Laboratories and the Early History of Site Selection of the Laser Interferometer Graviational-Wave Observatory, 1983-1987.” 10:15 am, 211 Dickinson Hall.
The Humanities Council at Princeton University presents Victoria Wohl, University of Toronto; Stephen White, University of Texas at Austin, “Public Philosophy In Classical Greece: 470-370 BCE.” 10:45 am 010 East Pyne.
The Humanities Council at Princeton University presents Eleftheria (Thenia) Vagionaki, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Hellenic Studies, “Manifestations of Policy Learning in Greece and Southern Europe: The Case of EU Soft Law.” 12:00 pm, 103 Scheide Caldwell.
The Humanities Council at Princeton University presents Eric Calderwood, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “The Harmonious al-Andalus.” 3:30 pm, 103 Chancellor Green.