Lectures
Upcoming Events
A hybrid event offered by Princeton's Labyrinth Books and the Princeton Public Library, on Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at 6:00 pm, Labyrinth Books will host Kamila Shamsie and Michael Wood in conversation about Shamsie's latest novel: Best of Friends.
sponsored by the Bain-Swiggett Fund
Past Events
2022 - 2023
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. Link to event information here.
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 Recall This Book. His books include The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics (University of California Press, 2000), Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move (Princeton University
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 graduate students in the Humanities
Staff presentations will be followed by a Q&A session.
This is a hybrid event with box lunches being served.
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: https://forms.gle/FTujJWYE78hq1DdH6
2021 - 2022
Susana M. Morris is associate professor of literature, media, and communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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 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 Future of the End,” will comprise a public lecture on Tuesday, April 19 and a seminar on Wednesday, April 20.
Join English Department faculty in exploring the essential questions, concepts, and writing skills necessary to prepare for the 2022 comprehensive exam.
The "Encountering" events are faculty-led conversations that offer students practical methods for approaching difficult texts, genres, and concepts.
The "Workshops" provide a space for students to refine the critical reading and writing skills needed for the exam.
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:
https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7X-u_kUYT3eG-vq6HQjHfA
Please note that this program will no longer be held in person, and will instead be streamed live over zoom.
Princeton Public Lectures presents:
Join us for a conversation with Professor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Black feminist theorist and theoretical physicist and author of The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred (2021), and her grandmother Selma James, long-time feminist activist and ‘Wages for Housework’ co-founder, on Wednesday, April 6th, 12:15-
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
Reception to follow in the Rotunda
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: https://forms.gle/Xbrhp3jWG7QKJUxW6
Sponsored by: The Council of the Humanities and the Department of English.
Join English Department faculty in exploring the essential questions, concepts, and writing skills necessary to prepare for the 2022 comprehensive exam.
The "Encountering" events are faculty-led conversations that offer students practical methods for approaching difficult texts, genres, and concepts.
The "Workshops" provide a space for students to refine the critical reading and writing skills needed for the exam.
"Antigone of Pakistan: narrative violence and the impossibility of homecoming"
Join English Department faculty in exploring the essential questions, concepts, and writing skills necessary to prepare for the 2022 comprehensive exam.
The "Encountering" events are faculty-led conversations that offer students practical methods for approaching difficult texts, genres, and concepts.
The "Workshops" provide a space for students to refine the critical reading and writing skills needed for the exam.
The Next Chapter: Career Conversations with Princeton English Alumni 2022.
Please join us on March 2, 2022 at 4:30 p.m. for a Hybrid Event: In-person Student Watch Party and Zoom English Alumni Speakers to meet our panel:
Emma Boettcher '14, Senior UX Analyst @ OSU College of Medicine, former User Experience Librarian @ UChicago
Victoria Davidjohn '19, Writer, Theatre Director, Lighting Designer
Cande Duran '18, HBO Originals Creative Marketing Associate Manager
Marlise Pierre-Wright '12 *16 S11, Northwestern Medical School
A conversation with author Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Undrowned, Dub: Finding Ceremony, M Archive, Spill) and founding director of Sailing for Social Justice, Tala Khanmalek
Personal Limits is a conversation series with critics, authors, and poets about contemporary experiments in personal writing amidst our ongoing and overlapping crises hosted by Prof. Monica Huerta.
Registration information and link: https://monicahuertaphd.com/PersonalLimits
A conversation with author Dan-El Padilla Peralta ("Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League")
Personal Limits is a conversation series with critics, authors, and poets about contemporary experiments in personal writing amidst our ongoing and overlapping crises hosted by Prof. Monica Huerta.
Registration Information and Link: https://monicahuertaphd.com/PersonalLimits
A conversation with "Slate" staff writer Lili Loofbourow
Personal Limits is a conversation series with critics, authors, and poets about contemporary experiments in personal writing amidst our ongoing and overlapping crises hosted by Prof. Monica Huerta.
Registration information and link: https://monicahuertaphd.com/PersonalLimits
Careers in Academic Publishing: Princeton University Press
Thursday, November 11, 2021 at 12:30 p.m. via Zoom. Registration Required.
Please join us on Thursday, November 11, 2021 at 12:30 p.m. via zoom to learn about the ins and outs of academic publishing with the staff from Princeton University Press.
Find out about career paths, internship opportunities, and more.
Question and Answer period to follow.
A lunchtime conversation with Profs. Anne Cheng and Kinohi Nishikawa about Morrison's novels, for beginners and seasoned readers alike (and anyone who just might be taking the Common Exam in the spring). We will read some passages together and dare to ask the question, what are these novels about, anyhow?
Lunch provided to those concentrators who RSVP by Thursday, November 4, 2021.
A lunchtime conversation with Profs. Russ Leo and Jeff Dolven about Milton's epic, for beginners and seasoned readers alike (and anyone who just might be taking the Common Exam in the spring). We will read some passages together and dare to ask the question, what is this poem about, anyhow?
Lunch provided to those concentrators who RSVP by Thursday, October 28, 2021.
A conversation with co-authors of "The Ferrante Letters" Sarah Chihaya and Merve Emre
Personal Limits is a conversation series with critics, authors, and poets about contemporary experiments in personal writing amidst our ongoing and overlapping crises hosted by Prof. Monica Huerta.
Registration information and link: https://monicahuertaphd.com/PersonalLimits
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 guest speaker John Rowe Workman Assistant Professor of Classics Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Brown University.
"Mettle, Metal, and Medal, or Autotheorizing Contemporary Classical Scholarship"
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 guest speaker Assistant Professor of Rhetoric Fumi Okiji, University of California Berkeley.
Register here: https://forms.gle/ZGaBZQ71U4zEjWYz7
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 DIGITAL BLACK FEMINISM, in conversation with cultural critic and writer
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 January 25, 2022 at 4:30pm for Miming the Monumental: Notes on Public Art and the Politics of Removal with guest speaker Associate Professor of Theater and Performance Studies Malik Gaines, New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
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 December 7, 2021 at 4:30pm with guest speaker Professor of English and African American Studies Yogita Goyal, University of California Los Angeles.
"Media Convergence: Cecil the Lion Meets Black Lives Matter."
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 November 16, 2021 at 4:30pm with guest speaker Associate Professor of English Cajetan Iheka, Yale University.
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 October 28, 2021 at 4:30pm with guest speaker Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the College Kara Keeling, University of Chicago.
"Black Graphics: The Flesh Made Word."
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 October 5, 2021 at 4:30pm with guest speaker Professor of English Evie Shockley, Rutgers University.
Sponsored by: Intersections Working Group, Department of English, and African American Studies
If you are an undergraduate or member of the alumni applying to a graduate program within the Humanities or just thinking about applying, we encourage you to attend this workshop. Learn about best practices for completing your application. Gain insight into what an admissions committee is looking for in a writing sample and/or essay. Speak to graduate students about their experience visiting schools, how to juggle multiple offers and navigate deadlines.
How does Latina/o/x Studies exert pressure on the memory-work of U.S. American cultural history, and especially on its figurations of racial identity? Reaching back to the early eighteenth century, this talk situates third-generation Puritan Cotton Mather within Spanish colonial and indigenous spaces and translation practices. A theorization of errancy links this revisionism to the contemporary activist poetics of Juan Felipe Herrera.
“Present Tense: The Iconology of Time” is an essay on the endless unfolding of social experience, tracking the collective emotional states of the present epoch, primarily in American political culture. It asks the question that informs every social encounter: how are we feeling about the present? What is the mood of our times? Is the “time out of joint,” as Hamlet claims? Are “the times a-changing” as Bob Dylan insisted? Why does Nietzsche claim that “insanity in individuals is somewhat rare,” but in groups (parties and nations) and at certain times (“epochs”) it is the rule.
This compelling book explores sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English retellings of the Roman siege of Jerusalem and the way they informed and were informed by religious and political developments. The siege featured prominently in many early modern English sermons, ballads, plays, histories, and pamphlets, functioning as a touchstone for writers who sought to locate their own national drama of civil and religious tumult within a larger biblical and post-biblical context.
This talk explores the possibility of inventing a new methodology or locating alternative methodologies less reliant upon the disciplines used to generate knowledge about sexuality. It examines the importance of the sexual imaginary’s embodied movement in order to remind us that black imagination and creative desires have always shaped and will continue to inform their radical black politics.
Intersections Working Group (co-sponsored by English and African American Studies)
"Contempt in James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room"
2020-2021
Richard Blanco(link is external) is the fifth presidential inaugural poet in United States history — the first Latino, immigrant, and gay person to serve in that role. Born in Madrid to Cuban exile parents and raised in Miami, the negotiation of cultural identity and place characterize his body of work.
Event Registration Link:
https://princeton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkdO2hpzwtE9HpQi5eh_SdnsSWKHSw4NbA
The Program in Journalism is excited to be holding its signature event for the semester on Feb. 16, on the future of Objectivity.
Objectivity and the News: Reexamining Facts, Truth, and Fairness
4:30 to 6 p.m. on February 16, via Zoom
On Thursday, February 11th at 5:00pm EST, the Asian American Student Association (AASA) and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students (ODUS) are thrilled to share one of today’s most brilliant and inventive writers, Charles Yu, with the Princeton community and greater public.(link is external) Both AASA and ODUS share a common goal to present compelling narratives that illuminate our understanding of how identity and race operate in contemporary society.
Join the Shakespeare and Company Project (https://shakespeareandco.princeton.edu) for a conversation about the Lost Generation and the books they loved. Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach's bookshop and lending library in interwar Paris, counted among its members James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and many other prominent writers and intellectuals.
In conversation will be Project Director Joshua Kotin (Department of English) and Keri Walsh (Fordham), editor of "The Letters of Sylvia Beach."
Join us for a career focused workshop with the Princeton University Press staff who will provide insight about the daily job duties and individual career paths leading up to their current position with the Press. Q&A to follow. Open to undergraduate and graduate students in the Humanities.
Please register here: https://forms.gle/NkvFsTLTyorKL2wk9
Arts Conversation Online
Karan Mahajan
Karan Mahajan is the author of Family Planning, a finalist for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and The Association of Small Bombs, which was shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Award, won the 2017 Young Lions Fiction Award from the New York Public Library, and was named one of The New York Times 10 Best Books of 2016. In 2017, he was selected as one of Granta’sBest of Young American Novelists.
Justin Torres will discuss his book We the Animals.
Moderated by: Professor Christina León
Contact: mandrie@princeton.edu for Event Link
Register here: https://forms.gle/C3ikXjsN4CiQvwDT8
AMS Workshop with Andrew Way Leong, Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley. Workshop will feature sections of his monograph in progress “A Queer, Queer Race: Origins for Japanese/American Literature”
RSVP Required: jd15@princeton.edu
SPONSORS: Program in American Studies; Carl A. Fields Center for Equality + Cultural Understanding; Department of English; LGBT Center
Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa and India.
2019-2020
Since 2015, the Asian American Studies Lecture Series has brought speakers from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences to Princeton to explore diverse aspects of this continually evolving field.
In 2019-20, in collaboration with the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Department of English, the series is dedicated to contemporary Asian American letters, to showcase the recent explosion of Asian American creative writers and to highlight the expansive geopolitical diversity of what constitutes Asian American letters today.
Faculty Seminar for Claudia Johnson in the Hinds Library
Princeton Seminar in Poetry & Poetics - "Songwriting: Theory of Medieval Song"
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Princeton Seminar in Poetry & Poetics - "Songwriting: Theory of Medieval Song"
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Princeton Seminar in Poetry & Poetics - "Songwriting: Theory of Medieval Song"
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Since 2015, the Asian American Studies Lecture Series has brought speakers from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences to Princeton to explore diverse aspects of this continually evolving field.
In 2019-20, in collaboration with the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Department of English, the series is dedicated to contemporary Asian American letters, to showcase the recent explosion of Asian American creative writers and to highlight the expansive geopolitical diversity of what constitutes Asian American letters today.
Corals are everywhere in Melville’s work. His obsession with them started with Typee and Omoo, where corals were the phenomenon of a predominantly geological nature; then it intensified in Mardi and Moby-Dick, where they were promoted into a primary metaphysical concept. As of Mardi, corals provide the starting point for how Melville understands the functioning of individuation, generating an ontology attentive to embodiment, and finally leading him to posit the existence of the utterly incarnated, porous, and affective minds that I call “coral”
Richard Preston is the bestselling author of ten books, including The Hot Zone, The Wild Trees, and his most recent, Crisis in the Red Zone. His books explore little-known worlds of nature, terror, and human character, and have been published in more than 35 languages. Preston has taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University and the University of Iowa, and he is the recipient of many honors, including the Champion of Prevention Award of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
Since 2015, the Asian American Studies Lecture Series has brought speakers from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences to Princeton to explore diverse aspects of this continually evolving field.
In 2019-20, in collaboration with the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Department of English, the series is dedicated to contemporary Asian American letters, to showcase the recent explosion of Asian American creative writers and to highlight the expansive geopolitical diversity of what constitutes Asian American letters today.
Since 2015, the Asian American Studies Lecture Series has brought speakers from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences to Princeton to explore diverse aspects of this continually evolving field.
In 2019-20, in collaboration with the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Department of English, the series is dedicated to contemporary Asian American letters, to showcase the recent explosion of Asian American creative writers and to highlight the expansive geopolitical diversity of what constitutes Asian American letters today.
Abstract
Decades before a U.S. national imaginary fixated on the “new frontier” of space colonization, L.A. civil engineer William Mulholland suggested that world-building here on Earth was California’s particular manifest destiny. In retrospect, his bravado about a growing city’s land-and-water grab from the Paiute Shoshone and agricultural communities of the Owens Valley offers a prescient touchstone for subsequent dreams about moon landings and Martian colonies that have emanated, in no small measure, from California’s ever-expanding tech industries.
Guest Speakers: Slavoj Zizek, Jela Krecic and Ben Saunders
This event will feature three presentations on the way in which superhero films—such as Batman, The Avengers, Black Panther,X-Men, and Spiderman—serve as mirrors of our time and, in particular, of the anxieties that permeate society and culture in general.
2018-2019
The ascendance of psychology in the twentieth century and beyond has had consequential effects on our frameworks for understanding the moral life. In this talk I will explore the importance of literary and philosophical approaches to moral reflection in the context of influential psychological paradigms reaching from psychoanalysis to cognitive science. In drawing out literary forms of moral reflection, I will pay particular attention to the under-acknowledged case of rumination (as opposed to deliberation or judgment).
Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities: Art, Literature and Urban Spaces explores phenomena of urban mapping in the discourses and strategies of a variety of postwar artists and practitioners of space: Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Vito Acconci, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Smithson, Rebecca Solnit, Matthew Buckingham, contemporary Situationist projects. The distinctive approach of the book highlights the interplay between texts and site-oriented practices, which have often been treated separately in critical discussions.
The Humanities Council invites the campus community to join us for a new series of public lectures given by the Council’s Old Dominion Research Professors for 2018-19.
Forgetting, Knowledge, and Action: The Work of Gertrude Stein
Sponsored by the Princeton Center for Digital Humanities, in collaboration with the English Department Victorian and 20th C. Colloquia.
Claudia Johnson, a leading Austen scholar, discusses “The Beautifull Cassandra: A Novel in Twelve Chapters,” the “novel in miniature” written by Jane Austen when she was a young girl. Johnson edited and wrote an afterword for the book. Joining Johnson in the talk will be Leon Steinmetz, who created the watercolor drawings featured in the book.
2017-2018
Helen Deutsch, UCLA, "Between the World and teh Archive": Jonathan Swift, Edward Said and the Critic's Job of Work AND Kristen Silva Gruesz, UCSC, "Comparative or Entangled? Cotton Mather and the Spanish South"
Sponsored by the Departments of History, English and the Colonial Americas Workshop.
For further details, please contact Professors David Bell and Wendy Warren (History) and Professors Sarah Rivett and Sophie Gee (English).
Our Beloved Kin: A Digital Awikhigan
Gale R. Owen-Crocker, BA, PhD, FSA, is Professor Emerita of The University of Manchester, UK, where, before her retirement, she was Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. She co-founded and co-edits with Robin Netherton the journal Medieval Clothing and Textiles.
Gale R. Owen-Crocker, BA, PhD, FSA, is Professor Emerita of The University of Manchester, UK, where, before her retirement, she was Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. She co-founded and co-edits with Robin Netherton the journal Medieval Clothing and Textiles.
Sponsored by Gauss Seminars in Criticism
Co-sponsored by the Contemporary Poetry Colloquium
Writers need readers—and in the present moment, many academic writers are seeking ways to address a broader and more diverse readership. This panel, aimed at graduate students and anyone interested in writing for a broader audience, brings together five members of the Princeton community whose writing has reached readers far beyond the academy.
The momentous statement made on behalf of the British cabinet on November 2, 1917 by Arthur James Balfour, His Britannic Majesty’s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, is usually regarded in light of the interests and designs of the great power that issued it, or in terms of its ostensible subject, a “national home for the Jewish people." What the sixty-seven words of Balfour’s statement actually meant for the Palestinian people, and how the latter perceived this and other British declarations involve a perspective that is rarely considered, and will be the topic of this presentation.
Sponsored by the Departments of History, English and the Colonial Americas Workshop.
For further details, please contact Professors David Bell and Wendy Warren (History) and Professors Sarah Rivett and Sophie Gee (English).
A talk by writer and political analyst Peter Zilahy exploring the parallel universes of political thinking, the floodgates of populism, Orbán, Trump, Europe and the refugees
The morning after the 2016 US election, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán welcomed the results in a live radio interview. “The world will be a better place with the new American president,” Mr.
The roundtable Blackness & Disability dovetails with the publication of African American Review's special issue of the same name. Contributors to the issue will address practical and theoretical concerns in the intersectional study of race, gender, disability, and embodiment.
Co-sponsored by the Department of English, Humanities Council, Department of African American Studies, Disability Studies Working Group, Program in American Studies, and the Office of Disability Services
This lecture explores the dramaturgy of the foot in a series of
well-known Shakespeare plays, from /Richard III/ through /As You Like
It/ to /Macbeth/. It looks at the theatrical uses of limping, pacing,
stalking, tripping and says quite a bit about wandering too. The
arguments may stumble but there will be running jokes and hopefully
light will be shed on Shakespeare's originality.
Complex means woven; the word comes from experiments with textiles in seventeenth-century London. Professor Silver will be discussing the kinds of thinking that textiles demand-- a shift in scale from the smallest of sub-visible fibers to trans-Atlantic networks, from complex systems back to single hairs. Some texts include writings by William Petty, Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle, John Locke, and Alexander Pope (and maybe Jane Austen).
Roxane Gay is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, the author of the bestselling books Bad Feminist, Difficult Women and Hunger, and the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. In this talk, Roxane will speak about her work and how it serves as a tool for activism and social justice. Following a talk-back with Professor Imani Perry, we will host a book sale and signing, as well as a reception where refreshments will be served.
Intersections Working Group presents Jack Halberstam
2016-2017
Postwar New York: A Workshop Series
Organized by Joshua Kotin, Department of English
Write jkotin@princeton.edu for precirculated papers.
Sponsored by the David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project in the Council of the Humanities
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Full Series:
Deborah Nelson (University of Chicago), “Susan Sontag: An-aesthetics and Agency,” Tuesday, February 28, 4:30pm, McCosh 40
Co-sponsored by American Studies and the Department of English.
Reservations required. Please call (609) 258-4710).
See http://ams.princeton.edu/events/ams-workshops for more information.
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Co-sponsored by the Department of English, the Center for Collaborative History, and the Princeton American Indian Studies Working Group
Reservations required. Please call (609) 258-4710.
See http://ams.princeton.edu/events/ams-workshops for more information.
Join us for an evening of photography by Richard Misrach, who has spent years documenting the U.S.-Mexican border, and music by Guillermo Galindo who has made musical instruments out of remains left by migrants trying to cross the border.
Intersections Working Group presents Hazel V. Carby
Co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies and the Department of English
Acclaimed French author of The Heart, Maylis de Kerangal, and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen read from and discuss their work.
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion, Humanities Council and the Department of English.
Hosted by the Northeast Milton Seminar
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion, Humanities Council and Department of English
2015-2016
In recent years, theoretical developments across several disciplines (history, art history, literary studies) have highlighted the intrinsic dependence of the political in general, and early modern European politics in particular, on the suggestive powers of images and fictions.
Program will include a screening of filmmaker S. Leo Chiang's new documentary, entitled OUT RUN.
The 13th Annual Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture
Sponsored by the Princeton University Department of English and the Princeton Committee on Palestine
Workshop reservations required. Please email cwkessel@princeton.edu if you would like to attend. Lunch will be served.
Sponsored by American Studies and the Department of English
A screening of Kathleen Collins's LOSING GROUND and Ronald K. Gray's TRANSMAGNIFICAN DAMBAMUALITY
The screening will be followed by Q&A with Amy Heller, Dennis Doros and Ronald K. Gray.
A conversation with the author and playwright Caryl Phillips
Organized by Tao Leigh Goffe
Colonial Americas Workshop presents Peter Mancall
Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Department of English
Reservations required by Wed., Feb. 3rd: (609) 258-4710 or email cwkessel@princeton.edu
Lunch will be provided.
presented by the American Studies, Spring 2016 Workshop
Co-sponsored by the Department of English and the Program in Law and Public Affairs
Leti Volpp, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
The Intersections Working Group presents
Natalie Diaz, poet and Hodder Fellow, language conservationist and Mojave activist, will be speaking on November 19th, at 4:30pm, in McCosh 60. The title of her talk is "The Paradox of Gesture and Language: Can I enact what I have no words for?" We hope you'll join us for the lecture and the reception afterwards.
For further information visit: www.princeton.edu/piirs/conflictshorelines
"Imagining an English Jamaica"
Professor Carla Pestana will present a pre-circulated paper from her new work on the early modern Caribbean.
Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Department of English.
http://www.princeton.edu/cch/events/workshops/caw/?utm_source=CCH+Weekly...
Intersections Working Group presents: Julia Lee. Julia Lee is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. She is the author of The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel (Oxford, 2010) and has published articles in Symbiosis, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and African American Review.
A panel discussion with Princeton alumni speaking about their careers after graduating with a degree in English. Refreshments will be served.
*This event is OPEN TO ALL PRINCETON STUDENTS, UNDERGRADS & GRADS.
Michele Wallace, a feminist scholar, writer and educator, was born on January 4, 1952 in New York City to Robert Earl Wallace, a musician, and Faith Ringgold, a well-known artist and author. In 1978, at age 26, she published her first book, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, setting off a maelstrom of controversy in the black community and beyond. In 1990 Wallace published Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory.
2014-2015
The Avant-Garde 1900-1940
Workshop Series
Organizers: Joshua Kotin (Princeton Department of English), Effie Rentzou (Princeton Department of French)
Co-sponsors:
David A. Gardner Magic Project, Department of English, Department of French and Italian, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Program in European Cultural Studies, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities
Sea Changes: A Conversation with Ruth Ozeki (A Tale for the Time Being) and Chang-rae Lee (On Such a Full Sea)
Moderated by Anne Cheng and Sarah Chihaya
Open to the public
Sponsored by the Department of English, Program in American Studies, Jaqueliyne Hata Alexander '84 P14 Fund for Japanese American Studies, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton Environmental Institute, Council for the Humanities, Fund for Canadian Studies, University Center for Human Values and the Department of Comparative Literature
Note: Updated location, now McCosh Hall 10
A reception will follow the reading. Join us in 20 McCosh Hall (Thorp Library).
Craig Dworkin is the Bain-Swiggett Visiting Lecturer in Poetry at the Department of English, Princeton.
Doris Egan is a novelist and a television writer/producer for shows such as House and Smallville that inspire large fanfiction followings and are themselves inspired by popular sources. Egan joins ENG 222 (Fanfiction) for a conversation about writing for television, adaptation, and her own take on fanfiction and its specific value to writers and readers.
Free and open to the public.
The Poetry Series is organized in conjunction with ENG 405: Contemporary Poetry.
Co-sponsored by the Contemporary Poetry Colloquium.
"Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
The Avant-Garde 1900-1940
Workshop Series
Organizers: Joshua Kotin (Princeton Department of English), Effie Rentzou (Princeton Department of French)
Co-sponsors:
David A. Gardner Magic Project, Department of English, Department of French and Italian, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Program in European Cultural Studies, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities
Slavoj Žižek: FIGURES OF NEGATIVITY
Slavoj Žižek: FIGURES OF NEGATIVITY
Robert Adamson is one of Australia's most eminent poets, and is a writer, editor and publisher. He has published 15 books of poetry. He has acted as President of the Poetry Society, editor of the Poetry Society of Australia's magazine, New Poetry, and poetry reviewer for Australia's national newspaper, The Australian.
Cyndy Aleo is a book reviewer, writer, and longtime participant in fanfiction communities. As both a popular author and "ranter," Aleo was an integral part of the Twilight fandom while the story that became Fifty Shades of Grey rose to prominence. Open to currently enrolled Princeton University Students and the public.
Sponsored by the English Department Graduate Action Committee
Slavoj Žižek: FIGURES OF NEGATIVITY
Slavoj Žižek: FIGURES OF NEGATIVITY
The Avant-Garde 1900-1940
Workshop Series
Organizers: Joshua Kotin (Princeton Department of English), Effie Rentzou (Princeton Department of French)
Co-sponsors:
David A. Gardner Magic Project, Department of English, Department of French and Italian, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Program in European Cultural Studies, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities
Slavoj Žižek: FIGURES OF NEGATIVITY
https://new.livestream.com/caas/SartorialBlack (LIVE STREAM LINK)
Intersections Working Group presents: Tanisha C. Ford in conversation with Monica Miller
Reception to follow, Stanhope Hall
Tanisha C. Ford is Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for African American Studies and author of Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul.
Slavoj Žižek: FIGURES OF NEGATIVITY
An evening discussion featuring (among others):
Emily Nussbaum, Television critic for The New Yorker
Elizabeth Minkel, Fandom/digital culture columnist at The New Statesman and The Millions
Jamie Broadnax, Creator of the groundbreaking website and podcast Black Girl Nerds
Heidi Tandy, Intellectual Property Attorney and long time fangirl
Anne Jamison, Associate Professor of English, University of Utah, and author of Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking over the World (2013)
The Avant-Garde 1900-1940
Workshop Series
Organizers: Joshua Kotin (Princeton Department of English), Effie Rentzou (Princeton Department of French)
Co-sponsors:
David A. Gardner Magic Project, Department of English, Department of French and Italian, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Program in European Cultural Studies, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities
The Avant-Garde 1900-1940
Workshop Series
Organizers: Joshua Kotin (Princeton Department of English), Effie Rentzou (Princeton Department of French)
Co-sponsors:
David A. Gardner Magic Project, Department of English, Department of French and Italian, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Program in European Cultural Studies, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities
Psychoanalysis as initiated by Freud has been the most exhaustive soma-analysis in the history of thought. It has made explicit the ways in which the body has been equipped, in the course of its evolution, to survive, both pleasurably and painfully, in what Freudian soma-analysis essentially sees as a warlike relation between the human subject and the world.
The 12th Annual Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture
Tariq Ali is a journalist, writer and filmmaker. He has written more than two dozen books on world history and politics, and seven novels (translated into over a dozen languages) as well as scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of New Left Review and lives in London.
The Avant-Garde 1900-1940
Workshop Series
Organizers: Joshua Kotin (Princeton Department of English), Effie Rentzou (Princeton Department of French)
Co-sponsors:
David A. Gardner Magic Project, Department of English, Department of French and Italian, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Program in European Cultural Studies, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities
This talk brings under the framework of "racial dystopia" the racialization of environment through and within the invocation of disability. Drawing from select literary works as well as archival research on drug laws that involve racial enmeshments and the control of human encounters with inhuman substances. Chen explores the constitution of logics that inform such diverse attributions as "post-Asian," "post-American," "post-human," and "post-race."
Graduate Seminar
Intersections Working Group presents: Nick Sousanis
Nick Sousanis is the first academic to compose his entire dissertation in comics form. Get a sneak-peek of his forthcoming book Unflattening and hear how his groundbreaking work can change the way you think about academic writing. Sousanis earned his doctorate in education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and is currently Eyes High Postdoctoral Fellow in Comics Studies at the University of Calgary.
Sponsored by the Intersections Working Group.
Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism
Co-sponsored by the Department of English, the Center for African American Studies, and the Program for Gender and Sexuality Studies
Anne Cheng
ORNAMENT and LAW
Lunch provided.
Please call 258-4710 or email cwkessel@princeton.edu for reservations.
Workshop in American Studies
Co-sponsored by the Department of English
Lecture and poetry reading.
Nathaniel Mackey, Reynolds Price Professor of Creative Writing at Duke University, Princeton University Alumnus, Author and Award-Winning Poet reads from his work.
Sponsored by the Intersections Working Group in the Department of English and the Center for African American Studies.
Reception to follow.
2013-2014
Philosophy Through Psychoanalysis Seminar
Session 5 - The Obscene Law
Philosophy Through Psychoanalysis Seminar
Session 4 - Gods: Real, symbolic, and Prothetic
Intersections and CAAS Graduate Affairs will be co-sponsoring a lecture by Prof. Jonathan Flatley (Wayne State University) on Monday, April 14th at 4:30pm entitled "Andy Warhol's Skin Problems."
Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor in English, Vanderbilt University
Philosophy Through Psychoanalysis Seminar
Session 3 - The Impasses of the Negation of Negation
Philosophy Through Psychoanalysis Seminar
Session 2 - Beyond the Transcendental Turn
(from Kant to Hegel)
Philosophy Through Psychoanalysis Seminar
Session 1 - Materialist Theories of Subject
(Althusser, Badiou)
MARK ANTHONY NEAL: "TRAPPED IN THE SOUL CLOSET
Mar 27, 2014, 4:30 p.m. · Room 106, Woolworth Center
Mark Anthony Neal Duke University "Trapped in the Soul Closet" Thursday March 27 at 4:30 pm Woolworth 106 Cosponsored by the Department of English and the Program in American Studies Support provided by the Princeton University Lewis Center for the Arts Thanks to the Program for Gender and Sexuality Studies for additional co-sponsorship
"Race, Dreamers, and Latina Literature"
Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, and United Nations Special Rapporteur on “the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967”
Marianne Hirsch, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and
Professor in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender
School Pictures in Liquid Time: Assimilation, Exclusion, Resistance
The Wilson College Signature Lecture Series is pleased to present:
Jeffrey Eugenides, in conversation with Michael Wood, on Monday, February 10th, at 5pm in McCosh 10.
Course event: Forms of Literature: Introduction to U.S. Latina/o Literature - Professor Alexandra Vazquez
The Intersections Working Group in English and the Center for African American Studies presents
Anthologizing American Literature in the 21st Century
A Critical Conversation on the State of the Field with Werner Sollors (Harvard University), Glenda Carpio (Harvard University) & Jeffrey Ferguson (Amherst College), editors of the forthcoming New Anthology of American Literature.
"The Art of Hunger: Empire Aesthetics in the Present Moment"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Co-sponsored by the Department of English, the South Asia Program, the Postcolonial Colloquium
For more details and required registration, please visit:
http://www.princeton.edu/prcw/
Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679): Drama, Politics, Religion and Aeshetics in the seventeenth-century Netherlands and Europe
Reading group open to faculty and graduate students. Contact Andrew Cole at acole@princeton.edu for more details.
Intersections Joint Lecture/Conversation: A Jazz Studies Critical Conversation
Brent Edwards: http://english.columbia.edu/people/profile/381
Kevin Young: http://www.blueflowerarts.com/booking/kevin-young
Kevin Young, biography:
Film screening and discussion. Dept. of English Co-sponsored event.
The Department of English's History of a Book seminar is a biannual series of lectures/discussions on how a book of criticism came to be. Guest speakers bring to the table not a work in progress, but a finished book, between covers, and they explain how it got made.
2012-2013
You are invited to a special event, to be held on May 2nd at 4:30 PM in the Hinds Library - a showcase of early modern music that, we hope, will serve as the first in a series of conversations about the place of music in Renaissance drama and poetry. The event will feature performances by our own John Lacombe, lutist extraordinaire, and Kevin Mensch, esteemed vocalist, together with John H.
"A Crash Course in Criticism"
"Discipline and Interdiscipline"
"The Annotated Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
The Intersections Working Group in English
"Migrant Personhood and the Defense of Sovereign Power in North America”:
In this talk American Studies scholar Chandan Reddy reviews the many different moments during which the state regulation of homosexuality and immigration have intersected with one another since the middle of the 20th century. Charting these intersections can allow LGBTQ of color activists, policy makers and advocates to see and pursue a distinct trajectory of anti-state politics within the current "Immigrant Rights" movement.
Irish theater critic and scholar Fintan O’Toole will present the 2013 Robert Fagles Memorial Lecture, entitled “Three Irish Heresies,” on Friday, March 8 at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart ’32 Theater. The lecture is part of a series presented by Princeton University’s Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public.
Join Professor Gikandi as he discusses the evolution of his award-winning book, Slavery and the Culture of Taste (Princeton University Press, 2011).
Walden's Carbon Footprint: People, Plants, Animals, and Machines in the Making of an Environmental Classic
Cosponsored with American Studies.
Lunch provided. Please call 258-4710 or email cwkessel@princeton.edu for reservations.
Co-Sponsored by the Princeton Environmental Institute and the English Department