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For Susan Stewart: Two Seminars & A Poetry Reading
May 5, 2023, 10:00 am

Two seminars and a poetry reading honoring the work of Susan Stewart, Professor of English, and Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities.

 

10:00 am — Seminar 1: “How Is Poetry a Living Art?” — Betts Auditorium 

 

2:00 pm — Seminar 2: “By What Means Can Poetry Evade Culture?…

Location
Seminar 1 and 2: Betts Auditorium, Poetry Reading: Wallace Theater, Lewis Center for the Arts
2023 - 2024
It Was the Best Of Times: A conference for Deborah Nord
Apr 29, 2023, 8:00 am

“It was the Best of Times” celebrates and discusses the wide-ranging impact of the work of Deborah Nord, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton University. Speakers will address subjects including Professor Nord’s contribution to Victorian literary scholarship, gender studies, urban studies, and interdisciplinary scholarship…

Mary Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"
Apr 20, 2023, 6:00 pm

Labyrinth Books @ 122 Nassau St, Princeton, NJ 08542, and Online streaming @ labyrinthbooks.com/events

This event is co-sponsored by Princeton University's Humanities Council and English Department.

Location
Labyrinth Books @ 122 Nassau St, Princeton, NJ 08542 and Online streaming @ https://www.labyrinthbooks.com/events
Speakers
2022 - 2023
Sites of Memory
Mar 23, 2023, 12:00 am

Site of Memory - A Symposium on Toni Morrison and the Archive

Full information is available here:

Location
The Wallace Theater - Lewis Arts Complex
2022 - 2023
Renaissance Colloquium
Mar 2, 2023, 4:30 pm

Assistant Professor of English at Clark University. He specializes in the literature of the 16th and 17th Centuries. He teaches courses on race, disability, and emotions in early modern British literature.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Location
Aaron Burr Hall 219
Speaker
2022 - 2023
The Next Chapter
Nov 15, 2022, 4:30 pm

The Next Chapter: Career Conversations with Princeton English Alumni will return to its former in-person panel this year! The Department of English welcomes back eight of our recent undergraduate alumni to talk about their career paths since Princeton, and how they have used skills gained in the major in the fields of higher…

Location
The Hobart Betts Auditorium, N-101 Architecture Building
Speakers
2022 - 2023
A Symposium on the Work of Patrice Nganang
Oct 6, 2022, 10:30 am

Please register at the following link:  https://forms.gle/TJQYaPobBNELA3XJ8

Food will be served, please list any allergies or dietary restrictions. 

Please contact [email protected] if you require any special accommodations in order to attend. 

Sponsored by:…

Location
Prospect House, Presidential Dining Room
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Songwriting: Theory of Medieval Song
Sep 28, 2022, 12:00 pm

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

I Record - September 26th at 4:30pm - Chancellor Green 105

Register: https://forms.gle/oBvBh12YBsCrP6eeA

II Pause - September 27th at 4:30pm - Chancellor Green 105

Register:…

Speaker
2021 - 2022
20th Century Workshop
Sep 16, 2022, 12:30 pm

Mary Naydan is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of English. Her research and teaching interests focus on British and American modern literature, poetry and historical poetics, and genre studies. She received her B.A. from Dickinson College in 2015. In 2014, she was awarded a nationally-competitive Beinecke Scholarship for graduate study…

Location
via zoom
Speaker
2022 Majors' Colloquium: Reading for Pleasure: Reclaiming Joy through Literature
Apr 28, 2022, 4:30 pm

Please join us for the 2022 Majors' Colloquium, Reading for Pleasure: Reclaiming Joy through Literature. Four English faculty speakers have been invited by the Class of 2022 to address this topic and all undergraduate English Majors are invited to attend. 

 

Following the colloquium, English UG majors and faculty are invited to a…

Location
East Pyne 010
2021 - 2022
The Great Uprooting: Migration and Movement in the Age of Climate Change
Apr 18, 2022, 4:30 pm

It has long been predicted that climate change will lead to large-scale displacements of population and mass migration. Is it possible to look at the European 'migrant crisis’ of recent years through this prism? This, and many other related questions, prompted me to travel to migrant camps in Italy in 2017, to interview migrants whose…

Location
100 Arthur Lewis Auditorium, Robertson Hall
Speaker
Princeton-Rutgers Victorian Symposium
Apr 1, 2022, 12:00 am

The 13th annual Princeton-Rutgers Victorian Symposium, Print Ecologies, will feature three panels of graduate students presenting on interdisciplinary themes from the environmental humanities, media studies, book history, and more.  

Location
Zoom informaton: https://rutgers.zoom.us/s/93740593560; password-- Zoom Password: 015002
2021 - 2022
The Netherlands: Culture and Global History, 1500 - 1700
Feb 24, 2022, 9:45 am

An interdisciplinary conference exploring the place of the Netherlands and its culture in the later 16th and 17th centuries as it began to exert influence across the globe and as it acted as a distinctive conduit for the transmission of American, African and Asian elements back into Europe.  Papers will discuss political, social, colonial,…

Location
virtual - registration required
Speaker
2021 - 2022
Marvelous Extinctions: Melville on Animal Suffering
Nov 17, 2021, 4:30 pm

Beginning with Melville's remarks left in his Encantadas concerning the Galapagos tortoises this lecture examines the scientific and historical archives to which he had recourse, from Cuvier and Broderip to Porter and Delano. On that basis it seek to reconstruct exactly what, in the early 19th century, prompted scientists, doctors, and…

Location
virtual - registration is required
Speaker
2021 - 2022
Class Day 2021
May 14, 2021, 4:00 pm

Save the Date!  Join Us for Class Day on May 14th 2021 at 4:00pm EST. More Information to Follow. 

Location
virtual
2020-2021
Majors Colloquium: Your Faves Are Problematic: Reading and Teaching Fraught Texts
Apr 21, 2021, 4:30 pm

English Concentrators and Faculty,

Please join us for the 2021 Majors' Colloquium. Our majors have chosen the topic:

Your Faves are Problematic: Reading and Teaching Fraught Texts

And we are thrilled to introduce our department's speakers on this topic:

Anne A. ChengJeff NunokawaKinohi NishikawaAutumn Womack

As we must,…

Location
Zoom
Speaker
2020-2021
The Next Chapter: Alumni Conversations in the Department of English
Mar 3, 2021, 4:30 pm

The Next Chapter: Alumni Conversations in the Department of English. Please join us on March 3, 2021 at 4:30 p.m. via Zoom to meet the panel of Princeton University English Department alumni: 

Eu Na Noh '16 (Law) 
L. Driskell-Garcia '17 (Education) 
Emily Silk '10 (Publishing)
Jack Lohmann '19 (Journalism)
Veronica Pickett …

Location
virtual - requires registration
2020-2021
Princeton-Rutgers Victorian Symposium
Feb 19, 2021, 12:00 am

Friday, February 19

1:30 – 3:00, Panel 1: Capital Accounts

On the Threshold of Friendship: Socialist Sympathy at the Fin de Siècle

Gemma Holgate (Royal Holloway, University of London)

The Social Division of Intellectual Labor as a Condition of England in Kingsley's Alton Locke

Marie Sanazaro (Princeton University)…

Location
Zoom: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/98388144318 Meeting ID: 983 8814 4318
2020-2021