Symposia/Conferences
Upcoming Events
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Brian Cassidy will lead a workshop at Rare Books and Special Collections at Firestone Library titled, "The Machines That Made Them: Identifying Twentieth-Century Duplicating Technologies."
Thomas Browne and the Mystery of Number in the Seventeenth Century
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
This conference will be held 10/4/2019 and 10/5/2019 from 8:30am to 5:30pm each day.
Speakers and official title TBA.
This event is co-hosted by the English Department and the Environmental Institue and will feature a talk by Ian McCalman at the PEI from 4:30-6pm on Wed November 20th and a full-day Symposium on Thursday November 21st with a talk at 4:30pm with Kate Fullagar.
Past Events
2018 - 2019
The Princeton University Program in American Studies and Program in Asian American Studies invite you to explore Japanese America, past and present, transpacific and hemispheric. Afternoon presentations by Andrew Way Leong, Iyko Day, and Karen Umemoto and a panel discussion moderated by symposium organizer Paul Nadal will draw on scholarship across disciplines including literature, history, and urban planning.
The Black Poetry Conference features more than 40 poets in a series of panels and readings, organized by Tracy K. Smith, Joshua Kotin, and Jaamil Olawale Kosoko.
Please see the Conference website for full details.
There is a reading assignment for the workshop. Please bring the Aylmer Maude translation of Tolstoy's story along with the handout of relevant passages (available via the link below), and be prepared to discuss both. Graduate students and faculty are welcome.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZiwjKp9CGDDX8hRhDc6j-TQGbWLMZqyA
A collaboration between the Department of Comparative Literature and the School of Architecture.
A series featuring distinguished teavhers from across the disciplines with Eduardo Cadava.
A lecture by the Bain-Swiggett Visiting Professor of Poetry and Poetics, Sharon Cameron, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor, Emerita at The Johns Hopkins University.
On Halloween 2018, there will be a world-wide marathon reading of Mary Shelley’s extraordinary novel: “Frankenread”–various groups, academic, civic reading the entire novel. This event will be variously recorded by the NEH.
At Princeton, this event will take place over three festive evenings from 6:30 PM to 10:30 PM, and will include a screening of Thomas Edison’s silent film “Frankenstein” (1910) which was the first motion picture adaptation of the novel. Several readers from around the campus and community will each take about ten minutes to read.
This workshop will be hosted by Professor Eduardo Cadava.
A conversation with Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, and Laura Wexler about the collaborative nature of photography and life; hosted by Professor Eduardo Cadava.
Free and open to the public.
For full program go to: http://german.princeton.edu/event/domestic-violence-the-limits-and-possi...
Co-Sponsored by The Department of English
Princeton In Africa presents: Exploring Global Narratives: Navigating Identity, Resistance, & Gender Through Storytelling
This seminar is directed by an English department professor and includes a lecture on October 2, 2018 at 5pm.
RSVP's required; information in poster
This lecture is directed by an English department facutly member and open to the public.
Professor Cheryl Finley will be presenting on Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon (Princeton University Press, 2018) introduced by Professor Autumn Womack (English & African American Studies).
"Frankenstein, Frankenstein, and the Dreams of Science," a lecture by Susan Wolfson.
November 8, 4:45, at the Lewis Library, as part of the Library's 10th anniversary
"Frankenstein's Progeny." A panel of talks: Gunnar Rice (English 2017), Madeleine Broome (science '19), Joyce Carol Oates, Emerita Berlind Professor.
Gunnar Rice's talk on Frankenstein politics and Madelyn Broome's talk on Frankenstein, naming, and new science will be drawn from their prize-winning essays, seeded in fall 2016 in a Humanities/English seminar, "Frankenstein at 200"; Joyce Carol Oates will talk about literary progeny.
Gayle Salamon was a Fund for Reunion-Cotsen Fellow in LGBT Studies and member of the 2005-2008 Society of Fellows cohort. Her research interests include phenomenology, queer and trans theory, feminist philosophy, 20th-century continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, and disability studies. Her first book Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality (2010) was winner of the 2011 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies.
Scholarly Panels and luncheon
For more details and a full schedule, please visit:http://www.princeton.edu/prcw/schedule/
2017-2018
The Intellectual Lives of Hugo Grotius - Texts, Contexts and Controversies Across the Disciplines
Seats are limited so please rsvp to rleo@princeton.edu
Description/Abstract:
Panel I: 2:00 - 3:15
3:15 - 3:45 - coffee break
Panel II: 3:45 - 5:00
5:00 - 6:00 - reception
Techne, Technique, Technology
Professor Malabou extends the claims both of her Gauss lecture and her recent book, "Befor Tomorrow, Epigenesis and Rationality (2016, Paris 2014)." To reserve a seat, please email both Andrew Cole (acole@princeton.edu) and Barbara Leavey (blleavey@princeton.edu). Admission will be on a rolling basis, with seats saved for members of the Princeton University community before opening up to members of the public.
How do scholars write criticism about the moment they're living in? Join the students of English and African American Studies 574, “The Present Moment” (Fall 2017), for a discussion of the contemporary as both object of study and method of analysis. Speakers will address objects that undertake their own projects of social, political, and aesthetic critique, and will draw on critical and theoretical writing from authors both in and outside of the academy. The conference is free and open to the public; all are welcome to attend.
State of the Field: Victorian Studies
G. W. F. Hegel is arguably the most important thinker of modernity whose legacy reaches to nearly all branches of humanist inquiry. He also remains a source of debate and controversy. This seminar explores Hegel’s thought in the humanities today in a multi-disciplinary frame: literature, philosophy, religion, political science, math, and intellectual history. Speakers will offer brief provocations for discussion, addressing Hegel’s place in the university in the present and future.
Frances Ferguson, "Rape and the Rise of the Novel" (Representations, 1987).
Program Schedule:
9:30-10:30, Approaching the Argument
10:45-12:00, Feminism, Theory, Philosophy
12:00-1:30, Break
1:30-2:45, Genre, Personhood, Form
2:45-3:15, Break
3:15-4:30, Rape Culture and the 18th-Century Studies
4:45, Closing Reflections
2016-2017
Migrants and Truth Production, 1400-1700
A daylong conference on the significance of migration to the literary, cultural, and intellectual history of the early modern period, featuring a keynote from Christopher Wood, Professor of German at New York University.
Lunch will be provided.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, Department of English, Department of French and Italian, Department of History, Princeton University Graduate School, Program in American Studies
Reception at Prospect House to follow event.
Space for this event is limited. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/qleXbHrrwnQvAS3p1
"Scholarly Publishing Workshop: What, Where, When, and How"
Co- sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, Department of English, English Department Graduate Action Committee, Program in American Studies
Lunch will be provided.
Sponsored by the 18th C./Romantic Studies Colloquium, Americanist Colloquium, Council of the Humanities, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of English, English Graduate Action Committee, Program in American Studies
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
Alternatives to Academia: Panel Discussion
Reception at the Prospect House to follow event.
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.
http://english.fas.nyu.edu/object/PhillipHarper.html
Reservations required. Contact tarab@princeton.edu to reserve your space.
Free and open to the public, but registration required. For additional information and to register:
http://www.princeton.edu/ams/program-events
Conference organizer: Anne A. Cheng
Sponsored by the Program in American Studies; Co-sponsored by the Department of English, Princeton Environmental Institute, Council for the Humanities, Department of African American Studies, and the Department of Anthropology
Coventry Patmore and the Feeling of Forms
Co-sponsored by the Princeton Department of English Victorian Colloquium and the Center for Digital Humanities.
http://fis.princeton.edu
Free and open to the public
Supported by The Lewis Center for the Arts, David A. Gardner Magic Fund, Global Shakespeare, Department of English, Princeton Fund for Irish Studies
Join us for the start of The Contemporary, a three-day conference sponsored by the Dean for Research Innovation Fund for New Ideas in the Humanities; Department of English; Center for Digital Humanities; Program in American Studies; Program in Media + Modernity
The keynote lecture with Johanna Drucker is open to the public. No registration is required, however registration is required for The Contemporary Conference, March 4-5, 2016.
https://contemporary.princeton.edu/
Hosted by Princeton University's Department of English
Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Austin TX
http://www.mla.org/convention
For further information visit: www.princeton.edu/piirs/conflictshorelines
"Believing What We Read" is a mini-symposium about belief in literature and culture, focusing on the question of how literary belief both resembles and radically departs from other forms of conviction. Two leading scholars of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, Deidre Lynch (Harvard) and Elaine Auyoung (Minnesota), will join Sophie Gee (Princeton) in presenting papers on the problem of Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment faith and cultural value.
SYMPOSIUM
What stories about power, difference, and belonging fuel the social crises we face today? How does visionary fiction offer us models for creating new possible worlds? Can the combined insights and interventions of artists, activists, and scholars plot a different course forward? “Ferguson is the Future” is part of an ongoing collaboration to imagine and create alternative worlds that are more just and representative of humanity.
2014-2015
A Princeton Conference on Early Modern Law, Politics, and Literature
Registration is required.
EventBrite Registration Link (Deadline: Monday, April 13th, 2015):
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-english-legal-imaginary-1500-1700-ticke...
"Emerson's Humiliation: On Shame, Respect, and Reform"
Contact Melissa Tuckman (mtuckman@princeton.edu) for a pre-circulate portion of the paper.
"Wordsworth's Ruins"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Tense Future: From Aeriality to Perpetual Interwar"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"New Postcolonial Subjects"
Organized by the English Department's Postcolonial Colloquium
RSVP Required -- newsubjects0313@gmail.com
"Mansfield Park: Sir Thomas Bertram in Antigua"
"The Pathos of Modernism: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and Gertrude Stein (with a coda on J.M. Coetzee)"
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 Thin Red Line, Wallace Stevens, and the Problem of the War Hero"
" 'The Price of Value' -- on Poetry & Economics, Boethius and Contemporary Poetry"
Please contact Orlando Reade (osxr@princeton.edu) to receive a copy of the precirculated paper.
Lunch will be provided.
Modern Language Association Convention Reception, Friday, January 9, 2015 (5:00-7:00pm)
Graduate Conference in Slavic Languages and Literatures
Princeton University
October 17-18, 2014
For full conference program and schedule visit:
www.princeton.edu/piirs/research/piirs-conferences-and-wor/derrida
PLEASE JOIN US in welcoming Jean Bauer to Princeton at our OPEN HOUSE event, Monday, September 29th at 4:30pm at the new Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton in Green Hall.
Free & Open to the Public
2013-2014
"Irrational Actors: Literature and Logic in Early Modern England"
Symposium: Varieties of Materialism Today
Slavoj Zizek with Mladen Dolar and Alenka Zupancic
"Why Shylock Loses His Case: Judicial Rhetoric in The Merchant of Venice"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
For more details and required registration, please visit:
http://www.princeton.edu/prcw/
"Natural History, Indian Vocabularies, and the Sovereignty of Land and Language in Jeffersonian America"
Lunch will be provided
University Graduate Alum Conference, "Many Minds, Many Stripes"
Department of English Graduate Alumni Reception
"After Benjamin: Theorizing Visual Culture in the Victorian Mediascape"
2012-2013
You Are Cordially Invited
To a Cooking Celebration
Sponsored by ENG 223: Literature and Food
Thursday May 2, 2013
1:30 to 2:20pm
Murray Dodge Hall
"A Romance Re-Tailored: Sartor Resartus and the Love Letters of Jane and Thomas Carlyle"
"A Crash Course in Criticism"
"Lament of the Makers: A Symposium on Conceptualism and Poetic Freedom"
Title TBA
"Presence of Mind"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
"Sibling Rivalry as Narrative Form in Eliot's Mill on the Floss"
Graduate Workshop with Cathy Caruth
Presented by the Princeton Environmental Institute
The Intersections Working Group in English
"The Storms Behind the Storm We Feel: Melville's Civil War Weather Reports"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Graduate Seminar with short-term visiting fellow Stephen Orgel
2008-2009
Editor-in-Chief of Nature magazine Philip Campbell joins bioethics scholar Charis Thompson in a debate about the relationship between the idea of “pure science” and the ethical, racial, and gender politics of scientific inquiry, highlighting the importance of an ongoing dialogue between the Sciences and the Humanities for our present and future. Co-sponsored by the Center for Human Values and the Princeton Environmental Institute.