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Notes Toward the Media History of Gibberish
Sep 20, 2023, 4:30 pm

Gibberish has historically inhabited three media: voice, letter, and analog device. Since the beginning of speech, people have been making and hearing unintelligible sounds; since the invention of the alphabet and later of moveable type, spirits of all kinds have conjured with the combinatorics of letters; and since the 19th-century invention…

Location
Betts Auditorium in the School of Architecture
2023 - 2024
The Making Out of Americans: Biology and the Poetics of Queer Social Reproduction
Apr 10, 2023, 4:30 pm

sponsored by the Bain-Swiggett Fund

Location
McCosh 40
Speaker
2023 - 2024
Korey Garibaldi & Kinohi Nishikawa at Princeton Public Library: Impermanent Blackness
Feb 22, 2023, 7:00 pm

Korey Garibaldi discusses his recently published book, Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America, with Kinohi Nishikawa at Princeton Public Library, Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at 7:00 pm.…

Location
Princeton Public Library
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Science Fiction in the Anthropocene
Nov 29, 2022, 4:30 pm

John Plotz is Mandel Professor of Humanities at Brandeis University and editor of the B-Sides feature in Public Books. He co-hosts the podcast 

Location
Jones 100
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Careers in Academic Publishing: Princeton University Press
Nov 28, 2022, 12:00 pm

Want to learn more about what kinds of careers are possible in academic publishing?

Join the English Department and the staff at Princeton University Press to learn more about the ins and outs of academic publishing!

WHEN: Thursday November 28th @ 12:30pm
WHERE: Aaron Burr Hall 219
WHO CAN JOIN: All undergraduate and…

Location
Aaron Burr Hall 219
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Eberhard L. Faber Class of 1915 Memorial Lecture in Literature - Fury and Justice in the Humanities
Nov 7, 2022, 4:30 pm

Judith Butler

Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School

University of California, Berkeley

Sponsored by: The Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council and The English Department

Image from Lala Raščić, The Eumenides (2014)

Register here: 

Location
McCosh Hall 10
Speaker
2022 - 2023
“The Spirit of ’76: Slavery, Empire, and the Anthropocene in Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred,” by Susana Morris
Oct 6, 2022, 4:30 pm

Susana M. Morris is associate professor of literature, media, and communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the author of Close Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women’s Literature (UVA 2014), co-editor, with Brittney C. Cooper and Robin M. Boylorn, of The Crunk Feminist Collection (Feminist…

Location
East Pyne 010
Speaker
2021 - 2022
Faculty In Conversation at Labyrinth Books: “The Matter of Black Living”
Apr 28, 2022, 6:00 pm

Join Autumn Womack, in conversation with Imani Perry, to discuss her new book" The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880-1930" at Labyrinth Books.

The Matter of Black Living excavates the dynamic interplay between racial data and Black aesthetic production that shaped late nineteenth-century social,…

Location
Labyrinth Books
Speaker
2021 - 2022
Gauss Seminars in Criticism: “Back to the Future of the End”
Apr 19, 2022, 5:00 pm
 

The Humanities Council’s Spring 2022 Gauss Seminars in Criticism will be presented by Alenka Zupančič (The Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts).  Her visit, under the general title of “Back to…

Location
Betts Auditorium
Speaker
2021 - 2022
Celebrating Life and Work of Talal Asad
Apr 14, 2022, 1:00 pm

The Department of English is pleased to support a celebration of the life and work of Talal Asad. The event will take place on Thursday, April 14 from 1:00-5:00pm in the Garden Room in Prospect House with livestreaming available.

For on-line participation please register at:

Location
Prospect House, Garden Room
Speaker
2021 - 2022
Artist Conversation: Lance Twitchell and Nicholas Galanin
Apr 7, 2022, 5:30 pm

Please note that this program will no longer be held in person, and will instead be streamed live over zoom.

Location
virtual
2021 - 2022
Public Lectures presents Maggie Nelson - On Freedom: A Conversation with Gayle Salamon
Apr 7, 2022, 5:00 pm

Princeton Public Lectures presents:

Maggie Nelson: On Freedom: A Conversation with Gayle Salamon

Location
McCosh 50
Speaker
2021 - 2022
Organizing Stories Virtual Workshop
Apr 6, 2022, 12:15 pm

Join us for a conversation with Professor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Black feminist theorist and theoretical physicist and author of 

Location
via zoom
Speaker
2021 - 2022
Intersections Working Group: Race, Difference and Social Justice Lecture Series presents Prof. Sasha-Mae Eccleston
Apr 5, 2022, 4:30 pm

The Intersections Lecture Series this year represents a department wide collaboration to bring to campus scholars whose work on race, difference, and social justice has remapped disciplinary boundaries and redefined how we think about the relationship between critical theory and social activism. 
Join us on April 5, 2022 at 4:30pm with…

Location
virtual - requires registration
Speaker
Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Invention of American Lyric
Mar 29, 2022, 4:30 pm

Bain-Swiggett Distinguished Visitor in Poetry & Poetics, UCI Endowed Chair of Rhetoric and Critical Theory in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at UC Irvine.

Register here: https://forms.gle/bgxYRxUDzxPhcHsT6

Location
Chancellor Green 103
Speaker
2021 - 2022
Who's Afraid of Rachel Dolezal? Or, Whiteness as Impasse
Mar 28, 2022, 4:30 pm

Class of 1932 Visiting Fellow in the Council of the Humanities and the Department of English. Professor of the Programs in Literature and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Duke University

East Pyne 111 - 4:30 PM

Mask are required indoors

Register Here: 

Location
East Pyne 111
Speaker
2021 - 2022
CANCELLED - Intersections Working Group presents Prof. Fumi Okiji
Mar 22, 2022, 4:30 pm

The Intersections Lecture Series this year represents a department wide collaboration to bring to campus scholars whose work on race, difference, and social justice has remapped disciplinary boundaries and redefined how we think about the relationship between critical theory and social activism. 
Join us on March 22, 2022 at 4:30pm with…

Location
virtual - requires registration
Speaker
THE ROBERT FAGLES LECTURE FOR CLASSICS IN THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS AND THE 17TH ANNUAL EDWARD W. SAID MEMORIAL LECTURE
Mar 21, 2022, 4:30 pm

"Antigone of Pakistan: narrative violence and the impossibility of homecoming"

Reception to follow in the Chancellor Green Rotunda
 
This event is open to Princeton faculty, staff and students.
Please RSVP by March 16th to [email protected]
 
In…

Location
Robertson 002
Speaker
2021 - 2022
JOE MOSHENKA, JEFF DOLVEN & MICHAEL WOOD IN CONVERSATION MAKING DARKNESS LIGHT: A LIFE OF JOHN MILTON
Mar 16, 2022, 6:00 pm

Join us to discuss and celebrate an innovative and elegant new biography of John Milton from an acclaimed Oxford professor, who will be joined by two distinguished scholars.

This is s a hybrid event. For the livestream, register here

Location
Labyrinth Books
Speaker
Organizing Stories Virtual Workshop
Mar 3, 2022, 5:00 pm

Join ORGANIZING STORIES for our first event this spring, a dynamic virtual workshop featuring Professor Catherine Knight Steele, author of 

Location
virtual - registration required