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SUMMARY:Amphibious Realities: The Documentary Poetics of Allan Sekula
DESCRIPTION:Join the Department of Comparative Literature for a public presentation and conversation with Gail Day and Steve Edwards on their recently published book Amphibious Realities: The Documentary Poetics of Allan Sekula (Verso\, 2025)\, the first monograph on Allan Sekula (1951–2013)\, the award-winning anti-capitalist artist\, photographer\, filmmaker\, and theorist. Amphibious Realities was named a Library Journal Best Book of 2025. \nCombining images and essays\, Sekula’s work examined “the imaginary and material geographies of the advanced capitalist world\,” with particular attention to documentary form\, labor\, globalization\, maritime space\, and what Day and Edwards describe as terraqueous capitalism. Amphibious Realities offers an overarching analysis of Sekula’s “documentary poetics\,” tracing the relation between radical documentary\, allegorical reading\, uneven and combined development\, and the dialectics of form. In their presentation\, Day and Edwards will introduce the intellectual project of Amphibious Realities before turning to their analysis of Waiting for Tear Gas (1999–2000)\, Sekula’s slide cycle documenting the anti-WTO protests in Seattle. The conversation will place Sekula’s work in relation to photography\, film\, realism\, political aesthetics\, and the visual culture of global capitalism. \nThe event will also feature Sally Stein\, Professor Emerita at UC Irvine and director of the Allan Sekula Studio\, in conversation with the authors and Princeton faculty. \nGail Day is Professor of Art History and Critical Theory in the School of Fine Art\, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. Her Dialectical Passions: Negation in Postwar Art Theory (Columbia University Press\, 2011) was shortlisted for the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize. She was the 2025–2026 Pilkington Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester. \nSteve Edwards is Manton Professor of British Art and Director of the Manton Centre for British Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art\, London. He has previously held chairs at the Open University and at Birkbeck\, University of London. His publications include The Making of English Photography\, Allegories (2006)\, Photography: A Very Short Introduction (2006)\, and Martha Rosler: The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems (2012). His next book is Daguerreotypes: Patents\, Persons\, and Property in Britain\, 1840–1855. \nGail Day and Steve Edwards co-authored Amphibious Realities: The Documentary Poetics of Allan Sekula and have worked together on other essays. They are longstanding members of the research collective convening the Marxism in Culture seminar at the University of London. \nRelated Programming \nA screening of Allan Sekula and Noël Burch’s The Forgotten Space (2010) will take place on Tue.\, October 27\, at 7:00 p.m. in Tuttle Lecture Hall\, Princeton University Art Museum [subject to change]. \nA lunch workshop with the authors\, graduate students\, and faculty will take place on Thur.\, October 29\, from 12:00–1:30 p.m. in East Pyne 127. Food will be provided. Space is limited; please RSVP. Participants will receive the pre-circulated reading after registering. \nOrganized by\nBenjamin Baer\, Department of Comparative Literature; Thomas Levin\, Department of German / Film Studies; Sally Stein\, Allan Sekula Studio; and Florian Endres\, Department of Comparative Literature. \nCo-sponsored by the Committee for Film Studies\, the Humanities Council\, the Humanities Initiative\, the Department of English\, the Department of Art & Archaeology\, the Program in Media and Modernity\, European Cultural Studies\, and the Princeton University Art Museum. \nSponsorship of an event does not constitute departmental or institutional endorsement of the specific program\, speakers\, or views presented.
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/amphibious-realities-the-documentary-poetics-of-allan-sekula/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium\, Architecture Building
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SUMMARY:Down and Out in Utopia: Unemployment as Moral Education in Norway
DESCRIPTION:New Books in Anthropology \n\n\nImagine that you have just lost your job. You wonder: “Who or what can I depend on now?” The answer\, it turns out\, varies significantly depending on where you live. In Norway\, a small European social democracy\, you would almost certainly turn to the country’s comprehensive public welfare system. With a work history\, you could be eligible for two years of unemployment benefits that replace upwards of 62% of your previous salary. Meanwhile\, you would not be too worried about covering other major expenses: annual out-of-pocket healthcare costs are capped at a few hundred dollars\, parents receive monthly payments per child\, public education is tuition-free\, and pensions are guaranteed. What would this experience teach you about government\, work\, taxes\, and freedom? \n\n\nIn Down and Out in Utopia\, anthropologist Kelly McKowen explains what happens to those without jobs in one of the world’s wealthiest and most egalitarian countries. Following the daily lives of a diverse group of unemployed individuals during the “oil crash” of the mid-2010s\, he shows that being “down and out” in a social democracy offers people a unique moral education with lessons about the nature and value of the state\, labor\, welfare\, and belonging. \nEngaging\, timely\, and illuminating\, Down and Out in Utopia makes the case that through social policy\, we shape life’s hardships – and these hardships\, in turn\, shape us and how we view the world. \nUniversity programs and activities are open to all eligible participants without regard to identity or other protected characteristics. Sponsorship of an event does not constitute institutional endorsement of external speakers or views presented. \nSpeakers\n\n\n\nKelly McKowen *19\, William & Mary\n\n\n\n\nModerator: João Biehl\, Anthropology\n\n\n\n\nDiscussant: Mitchell Duneier\, Sociology\n\n\n\n\nDiscussant: Nikita Taniparti\,  Anthropology
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/down-and-out-in-utopia-unemployment-as-moral-education-in-norway/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall\, 219 Aaron Burr Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Seismographies – Alexander Kluge’s Polymorphous Urgencies: A Workshop and Tribute Symposium
DESCRIPTION:  \nThis two-day event honors the work of the late writer\, philosopher\, and filmmaker Alexander Kluge (1932–2026). Inviting Kluge’s collaborators in art\, philosophy\, and literature to Princeton\, and further drawing on archival holdings as our working material\, the symposium alternates between film screenings and roundtables around topics including Kluge’s relationship to critical theory; his multimedia and collaborative praxis; and his intertwined understandings of historical experience\, meaning\, and political emotion. The event features film screenings of Kluge’s award-winning Abschied von gestern (1966) and Sarah Morris’s Finite and Infinite Games (2017). Two further sessions will feature a seminar-style close reading of Kluge’s prose fiction and a workshop on Kluge’s recent approach to digital tools and video work. Open to the public\, the event honors the life and legacy of a seminal thinker whose friendship and collaboration with Princeton spanned decades. It also aims to open his work to new audiences—and to lay up material for the Kluge scholarship still to come. \n Thursday November 5  – Location: East Pyne 010 \n5 pm – Film Screening: Yesterday Girl / Abschied von gestern (dir. Kluge\, 1966)\, with introductory remarks by Michael W. Jennings and post-film discussion led by Thomas Y. Levin \nFriday November 6 \n Morning: Workshops & Film Screening \nLocation: Princeton University Art Museum\, room 134 (Tuttle Lecture Hall) \n9 am – “Constellative Collections: Orientations in Alexander Kluge’s Video Work”: an archival workshop led by Kizer S. Walker \n10:30 am – Close reading breakout sessions \n11:30 am – Film Screening: Finite and Infinite Games (dir. Morris\, 2017)\, with an introduction by Sarah Morris [https://sarahmorris.com/single_films/finite-and-infinite-games/] \nAfternoon:  Symposium featuring invited speakers  \nLocation: Senate Chamber\, Whig Hall \n2 pm – Panel I. Kluge & critical theory \n4:30 pm – Panel II. Atlas: Kluge’s multimedia practice\, from architecture to AI \nInvited speakers: Juan-Jacques Aupiais (Ohio State University); Michael W. Jennings (Princeton University); Gertrud Koch (Freie Universität Berlin/Leuphana University Lüneburg); Richard Langston (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Sarah Morris; Irina Simova (Wesleyan University); Joseph Vogl (Princeton University/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin); Kizer S. Walker (Cornell University) \nCo-sponsors \nHosted by the Princeton University Department of German. Co-sponsored by the Center for Digital Humanities; Committee for Film Studies; Department of Art & Archaeology; Department of Comparative Literature; Department of English; Department of Philosophy; Forum for the History of Political Thought at the University Center for Human Values; Princeton Humanities Initiative; Princeton University Humanities Council; Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society; Program in European Cultural Studies; Program in Media and Modernity; Program in Political Philosophy. \nFurther Information \nThis event is open to the public and to all regardless of identity. Sponsorship of an event does not constitute departmental or institutional endorsement of the specific program\, speakers or views presented. For further event details\, please check the Princeton German Department website and/or https://sites.google.com/princeton.edu/kluge. Event contact: mljames@princeton.edu. \nImage credit  \nFilm still from © Sarah Morris\, “Finite and Infinite Games\,” 2017\, HD Digital. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/seismographies-alexander-kluges-polymorphous-urgencies-a-workshop-and-tribute-symposium/
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SUMMARY:Ambassadors Without a Mandate? Towards a Diasporic Approach to Cultural Objects
DESCRIPTION:At a time when restitution is often presented as the only answer to the dispersal of cultural heritage\, other experiences deserve attention. How can connections between dispersed objects and their societies of origin be maintained? The “ambassador objects” initiative\, developed around Kanak cultural heritage\, explored the possibilities of temporary returns and circulation between museums and the society of origin. Although the initiative has now ended\, it leaves an open question: can one be an ambassador without having been given a mandate? This paper proposes a shift towards the notion of the “diasporic cultural object” to explore the memories and attachments that endure across distance\, as well as the role of museums in building living relationships with societies of origin. \nAfter having studied history and archaeology in Paris\, Emmanuel Kasarhérou returned to New Caledonia. In 1985 he was appointed director of the Museum of New Caledonia which is dedicated to indigenous Kanak culture of New Caledonia and to the Pacific Islands cultures in general. In 1994 he joined the Agency for the Development of Kanak Culture as cultural director in charge of the Tjibaou cultural centre project. Designed by Renzo Piano\, the Tjibaou cultural centre opened in 1998. It operates in the fields of contemporary and performing arts from the Pacific\, and it is engaged in the research and collection of tangible and intangible indigenous heritage. From 2006 to 2011 Emmanuel Kasarhérou was general manager of the Tjibaou cultural centre. In 2011\, he joined the musée du quai Branly in Paris where he organized the exhibition “Kanak. L’art est une parole ” in 2013. In 2014 he became senior curator and deputy director of the heritage and collections department. In May 2020\, Emmanuel Kasarhérou was appointed President of the musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac.
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/carl-e-schorske-memorial-lecture-emmanuel-kasarherou/
LOCATION:The Grand Hall\, Princeton University Art Museum
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