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, December 2, 2024
Lewis Center for the Arts; Humanities Council Magic Project present “Exhibition — Poetic Record: Photography in a Transformed World.” Open daily 10/1-12/5, 10:00 am - 8:00 pm, Hurley Gallery, Lewis Arts complex.
East Asian Studies Program at Princeton University presents Daniel Burton-Rose, Wenzhou-Kean University; Stuart Young, Bucknell University, “Devotional Creatures: Amphibians, Bugs, and Creepy Crawlies in Chinese Religions.” 4:30 pm, 202 Jones.
Effron Center for the Study of America at Princeton University presents Oscar Hokeah (Cherokee Nation, Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma), fiction writer; Santee Frazier (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma), St. Lawrence University, “Wellbeing and Indigenous Literature in the 21st Century.” 4:30 pm, A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building
Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton University presents “Habermas and Us” A Conversation with Philipp Felsch and Jan-Werner Müller.” 4:30 pm, 127 East Pyne.
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
The Department of History at Princeton University presents Xiao Sun, Princeton University; Macabe Keliher, Southern Methodist University, “At the Margins of the Great Leap Forward: Organizing the Cotton Textile Industry During China’s Rapid Industrialization Campaign (1958 – 1962).” 12:00 pm, 210 Dickinson Hall, registration required; and via Zoom.
High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University presents Sarah Rivett, English and American Studies, “HMEI Faculty Seminar: “The Raven and the Sea” 12:30 pm, 10 Guyot Hall and Zoom.
Department of Classics; Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council at Princeton University present Aileen R. Das, University of Michigan, “Philhellenism, Germanophilia, and Max Meyerhof’s (1874–1945) Greco-Arabic ‘Tradition’ of Science.” 4:30 pm, 010 East Pyne.
Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities at Princeton University presents Nicolas Barone, History; Minna Lee, East Asian Studies, “‘History is What Hurts’: Crisis, Stasis, and the Mnemonic Landscape.” 5:00 pm, Palmber House Solarium.
L’Avant-Scène; Department of French and Italian at Princeton University presents “L’Avant-Scène presents “Fragments XXIV” 8:00 pm, Rockefeller College Common Room.
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
East Asian Studies Program at Princeton University presents Nadia Kanagawa, Furman University, “Strange in the Extreme: The Emishi and the Early Japanese Court.” 4:30 pm, 202 Jones Hall.
Thursday, December 5, 2024
The Department of History at Princeton University presents Christopher Parsons, Northeastern University, “The Ordeal of the Longhouse on Trial: Early America, Canadian Courts, and the Articulation of Aboriginal Rights in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries.” 4:30 pm, 211 Dickinson Hall.
The Department of Music at Princeton University presents “Demestvo presents: Lost Polyphonies.” 8:00 pm, Princeton Theological Seminary Chapel.
Friday, December 6, 2024
The Department of History at Princeton University presents its Davis Center Seminar, Tim Livsey, Davis Center Fellow and Northumbria University, “Knowledge, Information, and the British Colonial “Migrated” Archives.” 10:15 am, 211 Dickinson Hall.
The Department of History at Princeton University presents Miqueias Mugge, Brazil Lab, Princeton University; Victoria Bergbauer, Princeton University, “(Un)Settled: Punishment, Displacement, and Fixation Across Empires.” 4:30 pm, 210 Dickinson Hall and via Zoom.
L’Avant-Scène; Department of French and Italian; French Theater Workshop at Princeton University presents “L’Avant-Scène presents “Bérénice” by Racine.” Fri, 12/6—Sat, 12/7, 201 Madison Hall. Tickets required.