Lectures

Upcoming Events

Apr 04
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Kamila Shamsie and Michael Wood
Labyrith Books and Online (see event link above) 6: 00 PM

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.

Apr 10
Natalia Cecire, University of Sussex
Natalia Cecire, University of Sussex
McCosh 40 4: 30 PM

sponsored by the Bain-Swiggett Fund

Past Events

2022 - 2023

Feb 22
Korey Garibaldi & Kinohi Nishikawa in Conversation
Korey Garibaldi & Professor Kinohi Nishikawa
Princeton Public Library 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. Link to event information here.

Nov 29
John Plotz, Eberhard L. Faber Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and Department of English
Jones 100 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 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

Nov 28
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Members of the staff at Princeton University Press.
Aaron Burr Hall 219 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 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. 

Nov 07
Judith Butler, Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley
McCosh Hall 10 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: https://forms.gle/FTujJWYE78hq1DdH6

2021 - 2022

Oct 06
Susana M. Morris, associate professor of literature, media, and communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
East Pyne 010 4: 30 PM

Susana M. Morris is associate professor of literature, media, and communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Apr 28
Autumn Womack - Imani Perry - Labyrinth Books
Autumn Womack, Imani Perry
Labyrinth Books 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.

Apr 19
Alenka Zupančič, The Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts
Betts Auditorium 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 the Future of the End,” will comprise a public lecture on Tuesday, April 19 and a seminar on Wednesday, April 20.

Apr 18
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Prof. Jeff Dolven
McCosh Hall B14: The Hinds Library 12: 30 PM

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.

Apr 14
Featuring: Gil Anidjar, Columbia University Jonathan Boyarin, Cornell University Ayça Çubukçu, London School of Economics Mayanthi Fernando. University of California- Santa Cruz Charles Hirschkind, UC Berkeley Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia University Nada Moumtaz, University of Toronto Peter van der Veer, Max Planck Institute, Götingen Henry Zial, SOAS- University of London
Prospect House, Garden Room 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:
https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7X-u_kUYT3eG-vq6HQjHfA

Apr 07
virtual 5: 30 PM

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

Apr 07
Maggie Nelson, Department of English, University of Southern California
McCosh 50 5: 00 PM

Princeton Public Lectures presents:

Apr 06
Professor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and Selma James.
via zoom 12: 15 PM

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-

Mar 29
Virginia Jackson, UCI Endowed Chair of Rhetoric and Critical Theory in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at UC Irvine
Chancellor Green 103 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

Reception to follow in the Rotunda

Mar 28
Robyn Wiegman, Class of 1932 Visiting Fellow in the Council of the Humanities and the Department of English.
East Pyne 111 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: https://forms.gle/Xbrhp3jWG7QKJUxW6

Sponsored by: The Council of the Humanities and the Department of English.

Mar 22
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Professor Tamsen Wolff
McCosh Hall B14: the Hinds Library 12: 30 PM

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.

Mar 21
KAMILA SHAMSIE In conversation with Yelena Baraz
Robertson 002 4: 30 PM

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

Mar 14
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McCosh Hall B14: The Hinds Library 12: 30 PM

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.

Mar 02
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 William Plunkett '16, Assistant Manager @ Simon & Schuste Eliza Wright '19, Customer Success Associate @ Arable Maggie Zhang '16, Design Program Manager @ Spotify
East Pyne 010 4: 30 PM

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

Feb 09
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Undrowned; Dub: Finding Ceremony; M Archive; and Spill Tala Khanmalek, founding director of Sailing for Social Justice
virtual 6: 00 PM

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

 

Dec 08
Dan-el Padilla Peralta, author of Undocumented
virtual 6: 00 PM

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

 

Nov 11
Lili Loofbourow, staff writer at Slate
virtual 6: 00 PM

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

 

Nov 11
Princeton University Press
Virtual: Registration Required. 12: 30 PM

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.

Nov 08
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Prof. Anne Cheng & Prof. Kinohi Nishikawa
The Hinds Library, McCosh Hall Basement 12: 30 PM

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.

https://bit.ly/CWEssentials_2

Nov 02
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McCosh Hall 40 12: 30 PM

 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.

https://bit.ly/CWEssentials_1

 

Oct 13
Sarah Chihaya & Merve Emre, co-authors of The Ferrante Letters
virtual 5: 30 PM

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

 

Apr 05
Professor Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Brown University, John Rowe Workman Assistant Professor of Classics
virtual - requires registration 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 guest speaker John Rowe Workman Assistant Professor of Classics Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Brown University. 

"Mettle, Metal, and Medal, or Autotheorizing Contemporary Classical Scholarship"

Mar 22
Professor Funi Okiji, University of California Berkeley, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric
virtual - requires registration 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 guest speaker Assistant Professor of Rhetoric Fumi Okiji, University of California Berkeley.

Register here: https://forms.gle/ZGaBZQ71U4zEjWYz7

Mar 16
Joe Moshenska, Professor of English, Oxford University
Labyrinth Books 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.

Mar 03
virtual - registration required 5: 00 PM

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 

Jan 25
Professor Malik Gaines, New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Associate Professor of Theater and Performance Studies
virtual - requires registration 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 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. 

Dec 07
Professor Yogita Goyal, University of Los Angeles, Professor of English and African American Studies
virtual - requires registration 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 December 7, 2021 at 4:30pm with guest speaker Professor of English and African American Studies Yogita Goyal, University of California Los Angeles.

Nov 16
Professor Cajetan Iheka, Yale University, Associate Professor of English
virtual - requires registration 4: 30 PM

"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.

Oct 28
Prof. Kara Keeling, University of Chicago, Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the College
virtual - requires registration 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 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.

Oct 05
Prof. Evie Shockley, Rutgers University, Professor of English
virtual - requires registration 4: 30 PM

"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

Oct 14
virtual 12: 30 PM

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.

Mar 03
Kirsten Silva Gruesz Professor, Department of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz Whitney J Oates Fellow in the Humanities and the Department of English
McCormick 106 4: 30 PM

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.

 

Nov 14
W.J.T. Mitchell Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor University of Chicago
McCormick 101 4: 30 PM

“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. 

Oct 16
Vanita Neelakanta, Rider University, and Nigel Smith, Princeton
Marx 101 4: 30 PM

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.

Sep 24
L.H. Stallings Professor and Chair African American Studies Georgetown University
McCormick 106 4: 30 PM

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)

 

Feb 27
Ian Davis, Department of English, Princeton University
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 12: 00 PM

"Contempt in James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room"

2020-2021

Apr 15
Richard Blanco(link is external) Fifth United States Presidential Inaugural Poet; Professor of English, Florida International University “Complaints of El Rio Grande”
virtual - registration required 6: 00 PM

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.

Mar 29
Feb 16
Rachel Donadio, Paris-based contributing writer at the Atlantic. Kimbriell Kelly, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Bureau Chief of The Los Angeles Times. Carlos Lozada, Pulitzer Prize-winning non-fiction book critic for The Washington Post. Gideon Rosen, Stuart Professor of Philosophy and the chair of the Department of Philosophy.
virtual 4: 30 PM

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  

Feb 11
Professor Paul Nadal & Charles Yu
Zoom 5: 00 PM

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.

Nov 18
virtual - requires registration 7: 00 PM

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."

Nov 04
Lyndsey Claro, Chief of Staff, PU Press
virtual 12: 30 PM

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

 

 

 

 

Oct 29
Karan Mahajan, Assistant Professor of Literary Arts, Brown University and Jenny Xie, Lecturer in Creative Writing and the Lewis Center for the Arts
virtual 7: 30 PM

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.

Oct 22
Justin Torres, novelist and Assistant Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles
virtual 7: 30 PM

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

 

Sep 21
Andrew Way Leong, Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley “A Queer, Queer Race: Origins for Japanese/American Literature”
via Zoom 12: 00 PM

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

Sep 15
Valeria Luiselli, 2019 MacArthur Fellow and Writer in Residence at Bard College
via Zoom 5: 00 PM

Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa and India.

2019-2020

Apr 29
Min Jin Lee and Parul Sehgal https://ams.princeton.edu/events/asian-american-studies-lecture-series/min-jin-lee-parul-sehgal
McCormick 101 4: 30 PM

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.

Apr 14
Claudia Johnson, Princeton University
McCosh Hall B14 (Hinds Library) 12: 00 PM

Faculty Seminar for Claudia Johnson in the Hinds Library

Mar 26
Ardis Butterfield Marie Borroff Professor of English, Professor of French, Professor of Music Ph.D., M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge M.A. University of Bristol
4: 30 PM 4: 30 PM

Princeton Seminar in Poetry & Poetics - "Songwriting: Theory of Medieval Song"

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Mar 25
Karan Mahajan and Jenny Xie https://ams.princeton.edu/events/asian-american-studies-lecture-series/karan-mahajan-jenny-xie
4: 30 PM 4: 30 PM

This event has been canceled. 

Mar 25
Ardis Butterfield Marie Borroff Professor of English, Professor of French, Professor of Music Ph.D., M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge M.A. University of Bristol
4: 30 PM 4: 30 PM

Princeton Seminar in Poetry & Poetics - "Songwriting: Theory of Medieval Song"

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This event has been canceled

Mar 24
Ardis Butterfield Marie Borroff Professor of English, Professor of French, Professor of Music Ph.D., M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge M.A. University of Bristol
4: 30 PM 4: 30 PM

Princeton Seminar in Poetry & Poetics - "Songwriting: Theory of Medieval Song"

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This event has been canceled. 

 

Feb 26
Monica Youn and Jenny Zhang https://ams.princeton.edu/events/asian-american-studies-lecture-series/monica-youn-jenny-zhang
McCormick 101 4: 30 PM

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.

Feb 10
Branka Arsic, Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
East Pyne 010 4: 30 PM

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”

Feb 05
Richard Preston
East Pyne 010 4: 30 PM

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.

Dec 04
Yinyun Li and Jia Tolentino https://ams.princeton.edu/events/asian-american-studies-lecture-series/yiyun-li-jia-tolentino
East Pyne 010 4: 30 PM

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.

Dec 04
Meredith TenHoor (Pratt Institute)
TBD 4: 30 PM
From Periphery to Paris: Food, Photography and Planning in Interwar France
Nov 20
Patricia Allmer (University of Edinburgh)
TBD 4: 30 PM
"Under the Surface": William Seabrook, Marjorie Worthington, and (Sub)cultural Bonds in 1930s Paris
Nov 13
Brent Hayes Edwards (Columbia University)
TBD 4: 30 PM
Paulette Nardal and the Paradoxes of Colonial Feminism
Nov 06
Ken Chen and Sally Wen Mao https://ams.princeton.edu/events/asian-american-studies-lecture-series/ken-chen-sally-wen-mao
Donald G. Drapkin Studio, Lewis Arts Complex 4: 30 PM

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.

Nov 06
Roman Utkin (Wesleyan University)
TBD 4: 30 PM
Queer Exile in Interwar Berlin and Paris
Oct 10
Allison Carruth Fall 2019 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies “Life on Mars: Speculations in World-Building from California to the Red Planet”
Lewis Library, Room 120 4: 30 PM

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.

Oct 09
Betts Auditorium 5: 00 PM

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.

Sep 18
Mimeograph machine
Brian Cassidy, Bookseller
Firestone Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, C-floor Large Classroom 4: 30 PM
Despite more than a century of near-ubiquity, duplicated materials remain poorly studied and understood — even among collectors, curators, booksellers, and scholars who frequently handle them. But to misunderstand, for example, what separates a xerox from a mimeograph, or to be unable to distinguish a ditto from a hectograph can have profound implications in our interpretations of of books and texts.

2018-2019

Sep 25
Amanda Anderson - Visiting Whitney J. Oates Fellow in the Humanities Council and Department of English
McCormick 106 4: 30 PM

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).

Feb 26
Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities: Art, Literature and Urban Spaces
Monica Manolescu
School of Architechture South Gallery 12: 00 PM

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.

Feb 13
Simon Gikandi: On Art and Suffering lecture
010 East Pyne 4: 30 PM

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.

Feb 13
Jennifer Soong, Department of English, Princeton University
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 12: 00 PM

Forgetting, Knowledge, and Action: The Work of Gertrude Stein

Nov 12
Joshua Kotin and Meredith Martin, discussion leaders, and Elspeth Green and Mary Naydan, participants -- Department of English, Princeton University
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Sponsored by the Princeton Center for Digital Humanities, in collaboration with the English Department Victorian and 20th C. Colloquia.

Oct 08
Claudia L. Johnson
Princeton Public Library - Community Room 7: 00 PM

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

Mar 30
Helen Deutsch, UCLA and Kristen Silva Gruesz
B14 McCosh Hall, basement level (Outer Entry Door #2) 3: 30 PM

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).

Mar 15
Lisa Brooks, Department of English and Department of American Studies, Amherst College
Firestone Library, Floor B, Center for Digital Humanities 4: 30 PM

Our Beloved Kin: A Digital Awikhigan

Mar 15
Gale R. Owen-Crocker
2 McCosh Hall (outer entry door B) 11: 30 AM

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.

Mar 14
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Gale R. Owen-Crocker
The Index of Medieval Art, McCormick Hall 4: 45 PM

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.

Mar 13
Nicky Zeeman
McCosh Hall, 40 4: 30 PM
Mar 12
Monique Allewaert, University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of Ariel’s Ecology: Personhood and Colonialism in the American Tro pics, 1760-1820
106 McCormick 4: 30 PM
Feb 15
Micah Lazarus (Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge)
Hinds Library 4: 30 PM
Feb 13
Catherine Malabou
101 McCormick Hall 5: 00 PM

Sponsored by Gauss Seminars in Criticism

Dec 14
Morgan Parker, poet
TBD 4: 30 PM

Co-sponsored by the Contemporary Poetry Colloquium

Dec 06
Paul Nadal | Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in American Studies | Wellesley College
East Payne, Room 010 12: 00 PM
Nov 28
Frances Tran, Post-Doctoral Fellow / Interim Assoc. Director, Futures Initiative at The Graduate Center, City University of New York
100 Jones Hall 4: 30 PM
Nov 15
Matt Karp (faculty, History), Sara Marcus (Ph.D. candidate, English), Jesse McCarthy (Ph.D. candidate, English), Kameron Collins (Ph.D. candidate, English), Briallen Hopper (Lecturer in English, Yale University)
010 East Pyne (lower level) 4: 30 PM

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.

Nov 09
Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University
10 McCosh Hall (Entry 1 or A) 5: 00 PM

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. 

Nov 06
Michelle Burnham, Santa Clara University
211 Dickinson Hall 4: 30 PM

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).

Oct 17
Peter Zihaly, Writer/Political Analyst
219 Aaron Burr Hall 4: 30 PM

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.

Oct 16
Blackness and Disability Roundtable poster
Jane Dunhamn, National Black Disability Coalition; Leroy F. Moore Jr., Krip-Hop Nation; Timothy Lyle, Iona College; Therí A. Pickens, Bates College; Sami Schalk, University Wisconsin-Madison; Dennis Tyler, Fordham University
101 McCormick Hall (Princeton Art Museum Entrance) 5: 00 PM

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

Oct 11
John Kerrigan, University of Cambridge
010 East Pyne (lower level) 4: 30 PM

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.

Oct 05
Sean Silver, University of Michigan
B14 McCosh Hall, basement (Hinds Library) 4: 30 PM

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). 

Oct 04
Roxane Gay, writer
Carl A. Fields Center, MPR 6: 00 PM

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.

Sep 25
Jack Halbertstam, Columbia University
East Pyne, 010 5: 00 PM

Intersections Working Group presents Jack Halberstam

Sep 20
Adrienne Brown, University of Chicago
Prospect House, Library 12: 00 PM

2016-2017

Apr 26
Tom Eyers, Duquesne University
TBD 4: 30 PM

Hosted by Andrew Cole (acole@)

Feb 28
Deborah Nelson, University of Chicago
40 McCosh Hall (Entry #4) 4: 30 PM

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

Dec 05
Monica Huerta, Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and English
102 Jones Hall 12: 00 PM

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.

Oct 26
Gregor Moder, University of Ljubljana
111 East Pyne 4: 30 PM

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Oct 10
Sarah Rivett, Associate Professor of English and Sean Harvey, Assistant Professor of History, Seton Hall University
102 Jones Hall 12: 00 PM

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.

Sep 27
Richard Misrach & Guillermo Galindo
101 McCormick (Princeton Art Museum) 7: 00 PM

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.

Sep 26
Hazel Carby, Yale University, Professor of African American Studies and American Studies
McCormick 106 4: 30 PM

Intersections Working Group presents Hazel V. Carby

Co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies and the Department of English

Sep 19
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Associate Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
101 McCormick (Princeton Art Museum) 4: 30 PM

Acclaimed French author of The Heart, Maylis de Kerangal, and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen read from and discuss their work.

 

 

Sep 19
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Associate Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
106 McCormick Hall (Princeton University Art Museum) 12: 00 PM
Sep 17
Various
TBA 9: 00 AM

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion, Humanities Council and the Department of English.

Sep 16
Laura Knoppers, Notre Dame University
010 East Pyne (lower level) 5: 00 PM

Hosted by the Northeast Milton Seminar

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion, Humanities Council and Department of English

2015-2016

May 06
Albrecht Koschorke, Konstanz University
010 East Pyne (lower level) 5: 00 PM

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.

May 06
Julianne Werlin (Duke University), Deborah Blocker (UC Berkeley), Kirill Ospovat (St. Petersburg/Princeton University), Joel Lande (Princeton University), Albrecht Koschorke (Konstanz University)
East Pyne 127 & 010 1: 30 PM
Fantasies of Power:
 Drama, Politics and Aesthetics in Early Modern Europe
 
An Afternoon Workshop
 Friday, 6 May, 2016
 
Free registration: http://goo.gl/for
Apr 26
S. Leo Chiang and Erin Y. Huang
100 Jones Hall 4: 30 PM

Program will include a screening of filmmaker S. Leo Chiang's new documentary, entitled OUT RUN.

Apr 13
Jacqueline Rose, Professor of Humanities at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London
10 McCosh Hall (Entry B or 1) 5: 00 PM

The 13th Annual Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture

Sponsored by the Princeton University Department of English and the Princeton Committee on Palestine

Apr 11
Samuel Otter, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley
Dickinson Hall, Room 210 12: 00 PM

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

Apr 05
Amy Heller, Dennis Doros and Ronald K. Gray
McCormick 101 (Princeton Art Museum) 5: 00 PM

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.

Apr 04
Caryl Phillips
McCormick 101 4: 30 PM

A conversation with the author and playwright Caryl Phillips

Organized by Tao Leigh Goffe

Mar 07
Judith Madera, Wake Forest University
100 Jones Hall 4: 30 PM
Feb 25
Peter Mancall, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, USC
Dickinson Hall, Room 210 4: 30 PM

Colonial Americas Workshop presents Peter Mancall

Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Department of English

 

 

Feb 15
Nadia Ellis, UC Berkeley
100 Jones Hall 4: 30 PM
Feb 08
Leti Volpp, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Dickinson Hall, Room 210 12: 00 PM

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

Jan 19
40 McCosh Hall (Entry #4) 4: 30 PM
Dec 08
40 McCosh Hall (Entry #4) 4: 30 PM
Nov 19
Natalie Diaz
McCosh 60 (entry #6) 4: 30 PM

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.

Nov 12
Various
Betts Auditorium, School of Architeture 8: 00 AM

For further information visit: www.princeton.edu/piirs/conflictshorelines

Nov 11
Professor Carla Pestana, UCLA
Dickinson Hall, Room 211 4: 30 PM

"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...

 

Nov 10
McCosh Hall, Hinds Library, B14 4: 30 PM
Oct 20
40 McCosh Hall (Entry #4) 4: 30 PM
Oct 15
Julia Lee, UNLV and Princeton alumna
40 McCosh Hall (Entry #4) 4: 30 PM

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.

Oct 01
Roger Berlind '52, Landon Jones, Jr. '66, William Kelly, III '71, Blair Labatt '69, Alan Thomas '81; Also attending, A. Scott Berg '71, William Germano, Susan Mizruchi *85, Richard Preston *83, Neil Rudenstine '56, Annalyn Swan '73
40 McCosh Hall (Entry #4) 4: 00 PM

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.

Sep 24
Michele Wallace
4 McCosh Hall (Entry #1 or B) 4: 30 PM

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

Apr 30
Johanna Malt, King's College London
East Pyne 127 4: 30 PM

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

Apr 28
Ruth Ozeki and Chang-rae Lee
10 McCosh Hall (Building Entry Door #1, A or B) 4: 30 PM

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

Apr 27
Craig Dworkin, Visiting Lecturer & Jennifer Scappettone, University of Chicago
40 McCosh Hall (Entry #4) 4: 30 PM

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.

Apr 27
Doris Egan
East Pyne 010, Princeton University 12: 30 PM

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.

Apr 23
Pierre Joris
105 Chancellor Green 4: 30 PM

The Poetry Series is organized in conjunction with ENG 405: Contemporary Poetry.

Co-sponsored by the Contemporary Poetry Colloquium.

Apr 16
Gary Wilder, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Hinds Library, McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

"Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World"

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

Apr 16
Christopher Bush, Northwestern University
East Pyne 127 4: 30 PM

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

Apr 15
Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupančič and Mladen Dolar
46 McCosh Hall (capacity 166) 4: 30 PM

Slavoj Žižek: FIGURES OF NEGATIVITY

 


 

Apr 13
Slavoj Žižek
46 McCosh Hall (capacity 166) 4: 30 PM

Slavoj Žižek: FIGURES OF NEGATIVITY

 


 

Apr 09
Robert Adamson and Devin Johnston
Chancellor Green 105 4: 30 PM

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.

Apr 08
Cyndy Aleo, Editor. Writer. Reviewer.
010 East Pyne, Princeton University 12: 30 PM

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.

Apr 07
Hinds Library, McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Sponsored by the English Department Graduate Action Committee

 

Apr 07
Slavoj Žižek
46 McCosh Hall (capacity 166) 4: 30 PM

Slavoj Žižek: FIGURES OF NEGATIVITY

 


 

Apr 06
Slavoj Žižek
46 McCosh Hall (capacity 166) 4: 30 PM

Slavoj Žižek: FIGURES OF NEGATIVITY

 


 

Apr 02
Eric Bulson, Claremont Graduate University
East Pyne 127 4: 30 PM

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

Apr 01
Slavoj Žižek
46 McCosh Hall (capacity 166) 4: 30 PM

Slavoj Žižek: FIGURES OF NEGATIVITY

 


 

Mar 31
Monica Miller, Barnard College and Tanisha Ford, CAAS Visiting Associate Research Scholar
201 Stanhope Hall 4: 30 PM

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.

Mar 30
Lisa Lowe, Tufts University
010 East Pyne, Princeton University 4: 30 PM
http://www.princeton.edu/ams/program-events/ The Program in American Studies is delighted to host a lecture by Lisa Lowe, Professor of English and American Studies and a member of the Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diapsora at Tufts University, on Monday, March 30th at 4:30pm in 010 East Pyne. Professor Lowe will be speaking about her forthcoming new book The Intimacy of Four Continents. Please save the date.
Mar 30
Slavoj Žižek
46 McCosh Hall (capacity 166) 4: 30 PM

Slavoj Žižek: FIGURES OF NEGATIVITY

Mar 25
Emily Nussbaum, Elizabeth Minkel, Jamie Broadnax, Heidi Tandy, Anne Jamison
Robertson Hall 100, Dodds Auditorium 7: 00 PM

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)

Mar 12
Harsha Ram, University of California, Berkeley
East Pyne 127 4: 30 PM

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

Mar 05
Johanthan Eburne, Penn State University
127 East Pyne 4: 30 PM

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

Mar 04
Leo Bersani, Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley
010 East Pyne, Princeton University 4: 30 PM

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.

Mar 02
Colin Dayan, Vanderbilt University
TBA 4: 30 PM
Feb 27
Nicole Fleetwood, Rutgers University
TBA 12: 00 PM
Feb 24
Ivy Wilson, Northwestern University
TBA 4: 30 PM
Feb 23
Tariq Ali
McCosh 10 5: 00 PM

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.

http://tariqali.org/

 

Feb 19
Tsitsi Jaji, University of Pennsylvania
TBA 4: 30 PM
Feb 16
Alex Weheliye, Northwestern University
TBA 12: 00 PM
Feb 12
Michelle Clayton, Brown University
105 Chancellor Green 4: 30 PM

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

Feb 09
Shane Vogel, Indiana University
TBA 4: 30 PM
Feb 04
Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, UC Berkeley
McCormick 106 4: 30 PM

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."

Dec 05
Eleanor Johnson, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 2: 00 PM

Graduate Seminar

Nov 10
Nick Sousanis
McCosh 48 4: 30 PM

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.

Oct 21
Amber Musser, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Washington University
Hinds Library, McCosh Hall, Room B14 4: 30 PM

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

Oct 06
Graphic Novelist, Paul Karasik
Labyrinth Books, Nassau Street 6: 00 PM

We invite you to come out for a presentation by and conversation with Paul Karasik.

Oct 06
Anne Cheng, Professor of English and African American Studies
102 Jones Hall 12: 00 PM

Anne Cheng

ORNAMENT and LAW

Lunch provided.

Please call 258-4710 or email cwkessel@princeton.edu for reservations.

www.princeton.edu/ams

 

Workshop in American Studies

Co-sponsored by the Department of English

Oct 02
Professor Nathaniel Mackey, Reynolds Price Professor of Creative Writing, Duke University
McCosh 40 4: 30 PM

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.

Sep 23
Professor Anne McClintock, University of Wisconsin-Madison
McCormick 106 4: 30 PM

2013-2014

May 06
Hinds Library, B14 McCosh Hall 12: 00 PM
Apr 16
Slavoj Zizek
46 McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Philosophy Through Psychoanalysis Seminar

Session 5 - The Obscene Law

 

 

Apr 14
Slavoj Zizek
46 McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Philosophy Through Psychoanalysis Seminar

Session 4 - Gods: Real, symbolic, and Prothetic

 

 

Apr 14
Professor Jonathan Flatley, Wayne State University
201 Stanhope Hall 4: 30 PM

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."

Apr 10
Professor Hortense Spillers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor in English, Vanderbilt University
McCormick Hall, Room 106 4: 30 PM
The 2014 Eberhard L. Faber Lecture 

 

Professor Hortense Spillers

 

Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor in English, Vanderbilt University

"Some Speculations on Sentiment: Women and Public History"

Thursday, April 10th @ 4:30pm, Betts Auditorium

 

co-sponsored by the Center for African American Studies, Graduate Affairs

 

Apr 08
40 McCosh Hall 12: 00 PM
Apr 07
Slavoj Zizek
46 McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Philosophy Through Psychoanalysis Seminar

Session 3 - The Impasses of the Negation of Negation

 

Apr 02
Slavoj Zizek
46 McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Philosophy Through Psychoanalysis Seminar

Session 2 - Beyond the Transcendental Turn
(from Kant to Hegel)

 

 

 

Mar 31
Slavoj Zizek
10 McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM





Philosophy Through Psychoanalysis Seminar

Session 1 - Materialist Theories of Subject
(Althusser, Badiou)

 

Mar 27
Mark Anthony Neal, Duke University
Woolworth Center, Room 106 4: 30 PM

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

Mar 26
Professor Mary Pat Brady, Department of English, Cornell University
Jones Hall, Room 100 4: 30 PM

"Race, Dreamers, and Latina Literature"

Mar 24
Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Professor of English, UCLA
106 McCormick Hall 4: 30 PM
The rise of postcolonial ecocriticism has resulted in an expanded discussion about how we theorize the relationship between people and place. This talk addresses the depiction of soil in rather literal and material terms by exploring how Caribbean artists and writers have called attention to the political and the aesthetic implications of making dirt, or waste, visible.
Feb 18
Professor Emeritus Richard A. Falk
McCosh 10 5: 00 PM

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”

Feb 17
Marianne Hirsch, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Professor in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender
210 Dickinson Hall 12: 00 PM

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

http://www.princeton.edu/ams/

Feb 10
Jeffrey Eugenides, in conversation with Michael Wood
McCosh 10 5: 00 PM

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.

Nov, Nov, Dec 06, Nov, Nov, Dec 20, Nov, Nov, Dec 11
Hinds Library, McCosh Hall 12: 00 PM
Dec 05
Fiction writer Nelly Rosario, poet Sheila Maldonado, and multimedia journalist Macarena Hernández collaborate to remix the fotonovela as comic reportage, poetry, memoir, and graphic novel.
201 Stanhope Hall 12: 00 PM

Course event: Forms of Literature: Introduction to U.S. Latina/o Literature - Professor Alexandra Vazquez

Nov 20
Professor Nigel Smith
Hinds Library 4: 30 PM

Details TBA

Nov, Nov, Dec 06, Nov, Nov, Dec 20, Nov, Nov, Dec 11
Hinds Library, McCosh Hall 12: 00 PM
Nov 14
Professors Glenda Carpio, Werner Sollors and Jeffrey Ferguson
McCosh Hall 40 4: 30 PM

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.

Nov 11
Mrinalini Chakravorty, Department of English, University of Virginia
Hinds Library, McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

"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

Nov, Nov, Dec 06, Nov, Nov, Dec 20, Nov, Nov, Dec 11
Hinds Library, McCosh Hall 12: 00 PM
Oct 24
Keynotes: Kay Mussell and Jennifer Crusie with Mary Bly/Eloisa James
Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture 5: 00 PM
Keynote Addresses and Roundtable Discussion

For more details and required registration, please visit:

http://www.princeton.edu/prcw/
Oct, Oct 09, Oct, Oct 23
TBA 12: 00 PM
Oct 18
Professor Jan Bloemendal (Huygens Institute), Professor Frans-Willem Korsten (Erasmus University, Rotterdam)
209 Scheide-Caldwell Hall 1: 00 PM

Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679): Drama, Politics, Religion and Aeshetics in the seventeenth-century Netherlands and Europe

Oct 16
Jeff Dolven to present
Hinds Library 4: 30 PM
Oct 14
Samo Tomsic, Humboldt University (Berlin)
McCosh 40 4: 30 PM

Reading group open to faculty and graduate students. Contact Andrew Cole at acole@princeton.edu for more details.

Oct 10
Professor Brent Edwards, Columbia University & Kevin Young, Distinguished Poet
Jones Hall, Room 100 4: 30 PM

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

Oct 09
Kevin Young, Distinguished Poet and National Book Award Finalist
McCosh Hall, Room 40 4: 30 PM
Oct, Oct 09, Oct, Oct 23
TBA 12: 00 PM
Oct 04
TBD 4: 30 PM

Film screening and discussion. Dept. of English Co-sponsored event.

Oct 01
Professor of English, Alexandra Vazquez
McCosh Hall, Hinds Library B14 4: 30 PM

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

May 02
Hinds Library, McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

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.

Apr 30
Hinds Library, McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

"A Crash Course in Criticism"

Apr 16
Hinds Library, McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

"Discipline and Interdiscipline"

Apr 03
Susan Wolfson, Department of English, Princeton University Ron Levao, Department of English, Rutgers University
Hinds Library, McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

"The Annotated Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley"

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

Apr 01
Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Yale University
40 McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

The Intersections Working Group in English

"Migrant Personhood and the Defense of Sovereign Power in North America”:

Mar 26
Chandan Reddy, University of Washington
Women's Center Conference Room (Frist 243) 12: 00 PM

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.

Mar 11
TBA (All day)
Mar 08
Fintan O'Toole
James M. Stewart '32 Theater - 185 Nassau Street 4: 30 PM

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.

Mar 06
Simon Gikandi (English, Comparative Literature, and African American Studies at Princeton University)
Hinds Library, McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Join Professor Gikandi as he discusses the evolution of his award-winning book, Slavery and the Culture of Taste (Princeton University Press, 2011).

 

Mar 04
Eric Slauter, Director, The Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture; Associate Professor of English at University of Chicago
210 Dickinson Hall 12: 00 PM

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.

www.princeton.edu/ams

Feb 13
Ken Hiltner, Currie C. and Thomas A Barron Visiting Professor
Guyot Hall, Room 10 4: 30 PM

Co-Sponsored by the Princeton Environmental Institute and the English Department

Feb 07
Wayne Koestenbaum
106 McCormick 4: 30 PM

"Odd Secrets of the Line"

Dec 12
Hinds Library, McCosh Hall 12: 00 PM
A lunchtime colloquium for Graduate and Undergraduate Students
Dec 05
Susan Wolfson, Department of English, Princeton University and Ron Levao, Department of English, Rutgers University
TBA 4: 30 PM
POSTPONED UNTIL A LATER DATE