Lectures
Past Events
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…
sponsored by the Bain-Swiggett Fund
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.…
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
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…
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)
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…
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,…
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…
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.
Please note that this program will no longer be held in person, and will instead be streamed live over zoom.
Join us for a conversation with Professor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Black feminist theorist and theoretical physicist and author of
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…
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
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
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…
"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…
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…
Join ORGANIZING STORIES for our first event this spring, a dynamic virtual workshop featuring Professor Catherine Knight Steele, author of