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SUMMARY:From Paris to Romania: Music of George Enescu
DESCRIPTION:Violinist Kevin Matheson and pianist Tim Fuller will present music by the Romanian composer and virtuoso George Enescu at Taplin Auditorium on the Princeton University campus. \nTheir program begins with the Sonata #2\, composed in Paris\, a lyrical work in cyclical form that has been described as “one of the most important works in the whole literature of the sonata.” From Paris\, the program moves to Romania with the Sonata #3 “in Romanian Folk Character\,” which uses extravagant bowings\, slides\, and piano colorations to evoke the expressive world of Romanian folk musicians. \nViolinist Kevin Matheson was awarded first prize in the Charleston International Music Competition.  He has performed as soloist with Orchestra Manhattan\, conducted by Karim Said at Carnegie Weil Recital Hall\, and with the Tahoe Philharmonic. He has recorded with the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra in the Czech Republic. \nAfter highly-praised concerts in the U.S. and the Middle East\, Tim Fuller was forced by tendinitis to abandon a performing career\, but thirty years later he re-taught himself and returned to the concert stage. His interpretations of Enescu are informed by a background in ethnomusicology and experience in Romanian dance. \nThe event is presented by the Princeton University Humanities Council and the Department of Music\, with co-sponsorship from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures\, the Program in Russian\, East European and Eurasian Studies\, and the Program in European Cultural Studies. \nAdmission/Tickets: Free and open to the public. No tickets or registration required. \nVenue: Directions\, Parking\, Venue \nAccessibility: This venue is accessible via elevator; learn more. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Humanities Council at humaniti@princeton.edu at least one week prior to the event date.
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/from-paris-to-romania-music-of-george-enescu/
LOCATION:Taplin Auditorium\, Fine Hall
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SUMMARY:Essay Week
DESCRIPTION:This week-long celebration of the essay genre brings together scholars and practitioners of the form for a range of lectures\, conversations\, and experimental activities. To celebrate the release of The Cambridge History of the American Essay\, this series of events pays tribute to the richness and variety of the essayistic spirit across centuries\, continents\, and cultures. \nFind the latest information on the Department of French and Italian website. \nEssay Week is presented by the Department of French and Italian with support from the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council and is co-sponsored by the Department of German\, IHUM\, the Program in Journalism\, the Princeton Public Library\, the Department of Comparative Literature\, European Cultural Studies\, and the Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies. \nOrganizer: Christy Wampole\, Princeton University \nParticipants:\n\nLucy Alford\, Wake Forest University\nNora Alter\, Temple University\nTed Anton\, De Paul University\nBrigitte Bailey\, University of New Hampshire\nAndrea Capra\, New York University\nShawn Anthony Christian\, Florida International University\nVinson Cunningham\, The New Yorker\nJeff Dolven\, Princeton University\nWilliam Dow\, The American University of Paris\nJeffrey Dudas\, University of Connecticut\nAnne Finger\, writer\nFlorian Fuchs\, Princeton University\nDenise Gigante\, Stanford University\nEmily Greenhouse\, The New York Review of Books\nTom Huhn\, School of Visual Arts\, NYC\nCarolina Iribbaren\, Princeton University\nLawrence Kritzman\, Dartmouth College\nJohn Michael\, University of Rochester\nWalton Muyumba\, Indiana University\, Bloomington\nKinohi Nishikawa\, Princeton University\nDavid Sloane\, University of New Haven\nJenny Spinner\, Saint Joseph’s University\nJulien Stout\, Princeton University\nHertha Sweet-Wong\, University of California\, Berkeley\nEleni Theodoropoulos\, Johns Hopkins\nSalamishah Tillet\, Rutgers University-Newark
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/essay-week/
LOCATION:Multiple Venues
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T213000
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SUMMARY:Imagine Otherwise: Fantasy\, Fairytale\, Fiction (Slavic Film Series) - Land of Oz
DESCRIPTION:Land of Oz (dir. Vasily Sigarev\, 2015\, 100 min) \nOn December 31st\, Lena searches for Torforezy Street somewhere deep in Ekaterinburg\, where she has just gotten a job as a cashier at a kiosk. However\, her journey is repeatedly waylaid\, first by a car accident\, and then by several men who loosely resemble the Tinman\, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. With an extremely innovative approach to language\, Sigarev shows that what has flooded the post-ideological space of 2000s Russia is the obscenity – Russian mat. Obscene language provides a unifying framework through which the post-Soviet subjects can understand one another and is much more effective than any fairy-tale ideology at providing a common language. Following in the footsteps of Gogol\, Saltykov-Shchedrin\, and Chekov\, Vasilii Sigarev stakes a claim as the ultimate satirist of the post-Soviet space. \n_______________________ \nThe Soviet project was characterized by a utopian drive that stretched far beyond the material means at their disposal. Such a desire\, uninhibited by ontological strictures\, finds some of its clearest manifestations in film\, a medium that Siegfried Kracauer once called “the daydream of society.” Consequently\, this film series explores the way in which the social imaginary developed in Soviet (and Post-Soviet) cinema\, particularly through the lens of fantasy\, fairytale and science fiction. The aim of the series\, however\, is not to expose the incommensurable distance between a fallacious imagination and empirical reality\, but rather to focus on the discourses of the possible – and not the factual – which have made cinema a privileged site for imagining how our world could be radically otherwise. \nThe series has been organized into four sub-series which allow us to explore different facets of this social imaginary. The first three films in the series (Aelita\, Moscow-Cassiopeia\, and First on the Moon) probe the Soviet Union’s cosmic imagination. Long before the Soviet Space Program\, Nikolai Fyodorov’s biocosmism had captured the imagination of many radical thinkers. Aelita\, one of the first full-length films depicting space travel\, gave concrete imagery to these thinkers’ theories with Isaac Rabinovich and Victor Simov’s constructivist set designs of Martian society. The following films in this sub-series show the diachronic development of the sci-fi aesthetic\, through the years following the Space Race (Moscow-Cassiopeia) and into the retrofitting historicization of the post-soviet perspective (First on the Moon). \nThe second sub-series (Amphibian Man and Professor Dowell’s Testament) focuses on the concept of the New Human in the new Soviet society. These films construct a laboratory – inhabited by animal-human hybrids and reanimated human heads – to think past the human and explore the potential consequences of such a posthumanist leap. \nThe third sub-series (New Gulliver\, Alice in Wonderland\, and Tale of Tales) centers on animation as another method of thinking beyond the real. This sub-series also articulates temporal and geo-spatial adaptations as two distinct ways of creating the new – while New Gulliver and Alice in Wonderland both represent the Soviet Union’s attempt to translate Western tales to Soviet contexts\, Tale of Tales is an attempt to treat the Soviet past as material for fairytale narrativization. \nLand of Oz and Mermaid\, the films which constitute the last sub-series\, similarly narrativize the real world through the epistemological framework of the fairytale. Here\, however\, the ideological explanatory functions of the Soviet Union have already faded away\, and one must cling to the fairytale not to tell stories about the past\, but to interpret the chaos of the present post-Soviet space. Events: \nOctober 9th\nAmphibian Man (dir. Vladimir Chebotaryov\,1962\, 82 min) \nOctober 23rd\nProfessor Dowell’s Testament (dir. Leonid Menaker\, 1984\, 91 min) \nOctober 30th\nNew Gulliver (dir. Aleksandr Ptushko\, 1935\, 75 min) \nNovember 6th\nAlice in Wonderland (dir. Efrem Pruzhanskiy\, 1981\, 31 min) & Tale of Tales (dir. Yuri Norstein\, 1979\, 29 min) \nNovember 13th\nLand of Oz (dir. Vasily Sigarev\, 2015\, 100 min) \nDecember 4th\nMermaid (dir. Anna Melikyan\, 2007\, 115 min)
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/imagine-otherwise-fantasy-fairytale-fiction-slavic-film-series-land-of-oz/
LOCATION:301 Julis Romo Rabinowitz
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251106T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251106T213000
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SUMMARY:Imagine Otherwise: Fantasy\, Fairytale\, Fiction (Slavic Film Series) – Alice in Wonderland & Tale of Tales
DESCRIPTION:Alice in Wonderland (dir. Efrem Pruzhanskiy\, 1981\, 31 min) & \nTale of Tales (dir. Yuri Norstein\, 1979\, 29 min) \nThese two short films both reflect the distinct and experimental animation practices at work in the late Soviet Union. Alice and Wonderland was produced by the Ukrainian animation and film studio Kyivnaukfilm\, well known for its surreal and experimental approach to animation. While the character designs were influenced by Sir John Tenniel’s original illustrations\, the animation adds its own Soviet twist. Tale of Tales\, on the other hand\, takes the Soviet past itself as the material for self-mythologization\, with a script from Lyudmila Petrushevskaia narrativizing Soviet history through the framework of the fairytale. \n_________________________________ \nThe Soviet project was characterized by a utopian drive that stretched far beyond the material means at their disposal. Such a desire\, uninhibited by ontological strictures\, finds some of its clearest manifestations in film\, a medium that Siegfried Kracauer once called “the daydream of society.” Consequently\, this film series explores the way in which the social imaginary developed in Soviet (and Post-Soviet) cinema\, particularly through the lens of fantasy\, fairytale and science fiction. The aim of the series\, however\, is not to expose the incommensurable distance between a fallacious imagination and empirical reality\, but rather to focus on the discourses of the possible – and not the factual – which have made cinema a privileged site for imagining how our world could be radically otherwise. \nThe series has been organized into four sub-series which allow us to explore different facets of this social imaginary. The first three films in the series (Aelita\, Moscow-Cassiopeia\, and First on the Moon) probe the Soviet Union’s cosmic imagination. Long before the Soviet Space Program\, Nikolai Fyodorov’s biocosmism had captured the imagination of many radical thinkers. Aelita\, one of the first full-length films depicting space travel\, gave concrete imagery to these thinkers’ theories with Isaac Rabinovich and Victor Simov’s constructivist set designs of Martian society. The following films in this sub-series show the diachronic development of the sci-fi aesthetic\, through the years following the Space Race (Moscow-Cassiopeia) and into the retrofitting historicization of the post-soviet perspective (First on the Moon). \nThe second sub-series (Amphibian Man and Professor Dowell’s Testament) focuses on the concept of the New Human in the new Soviet society. These films construct a laboratory – inhabited by animal-human hybrids and reanimated human heads – to think past the human and explore the potential consequences of such a posthumanist leap. \nThe third sub-series (New Gulliver\, Alice in Wonderland\, and Tale of Tales) centers on animation as another method of thinking beyond the real. This sub-series also articulates temporal and geo-spatial adaptations as two distinct ways of creating the new – while New Gulliver and Alice in Wonderland both represent the Soviet Union’s attempt to translate Western tales to Soviet contexts\, Tale of Tales is an attempt to treat the Soviet past as material for fairytale narrativization. \nLand of Oz and Mermaid\, the films which constitute the last sub-series\, similarly narrativize the real world through the epistemological framework of the fairytale. Here\, however\, the ideological explanatory functions of the Soviet Union have already faded away\, and one must cling to the fairytale not to tell stories about the past\, but to interpret the chaos of the present post-Soviet space. Events: \nOctober 9th\nAmphibian Man (dir. Vladimir Chebotaryov\,1962\, 82 min) \nOctober 23rd\nProfessor Dowell’s Testament (dir. Leonid Menaker\, 1984\, 91 min) \nOctober 30th\nNew Gulliver (dir. Aleksandr Ptushko\, 1935\, 75 min) \nNovember 6th\nAlice in Wonderland (dir. Efrem Pruzhanskiy\, 1981\, 31 min) & Tale of Tales (dir. Yuri Norstein\, 1979\, 29 min) \nNovember 13th\nLand of Oz (dir. Vasily Sigarev\, 2015\, 100 min) \nDecember 4th\nMermaid (dir. Anna Melikyan\, 2007\, 115 min) \n 
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/slavic-fall-film-series-imagine-otherwise-fantasy-fairytale-fiction-alice-in-wonderland-tale-of-tales/
LOCATION:301 Julis Romo Rabinowitz
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251030T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251030T213000
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SUMMARY:Imagine Otherwise: Fantasy\, Fairytale\, Fiction (Slavic Film Series) - New Gulliver
DESCRIPTION:New Gulliver (dir. Aleksandr Ptushko\, 1935\, 75 min) \nOne of the first feature films to extensively utilize stop-motion puppet animation\, New Gulliver is a Communist re-telling of Jonathan Swift. Petya\, a pioneer from Artek\, falls asleep while reading Gulliver’s Travels and finds himself in a dreamscape where Swift’s Lilliputia has been rendered as a capitalist-military state. Petya becomes involved in a worker’s strike\, where his notebook from the Soviet Union informs the laborers of Lilliputia of the international solidarity of the proletariat. \nThe film\, which was highly admired by Charlie Chaplin and additionally the founders of Czech animation\, represents a highly productive Soviet translation of the Western fantasy genre. What is aimed for in the translation is not a one-to-one mapping between different cultural contexts\, but a poetic inscription of difference at the moment of transposition. \n_________________________________ \nThe Soviet project was characterized by a utopian drive that stretched far beyond the material means at their disposal. Such a desire\, uninhibited by ontological strictures\, finds some of its clearest manifestations in film\, a medium that Siegfried Kracauer once called “the daydream of society.” Consequently\, this film series explores the way in which the social imaginary developed in Soviet (and Post-Soviet) cinema\, particularly through the lens of fantasy\, fairytale and science fiction. The aim of the series\, however\, is not to expose the incommensurable distance between a fallacious imagination and empirical reality\, but rather to focus on the discourses of the possible – and not the factual – which have made cinema a privileged site for imagining how our world could be radically otherwise. \nThe series has been organized into four sub-series which allow us to explore different facets of this social imaginary. The first three films in the series (Aelita\, Moscow-Cassiopeia\, and First on the Moon) probe the Soviet Union’s cosmic imagination. Long before the Soviet Space Program\, Nikolai Fyodorov’s biocosmism had captured the imagination of many radical thinkers. Aelita\, one of the first full-length films depicting space travel\, gave concrete imagery to these thinkers’ theories with Isaac Rabinovich and Victor Simov’s constructivist set designs of Martian society. The following films in this sub-series show the diachronic development of the sci-fi aesthetic\, through the years following the Space Race (Moscow-Cassiopeia) and into the retrofitting historicization of the post-soviet perspective (First on the Moon). \nThe second sub-series (Amphibian Man and Professor Dowell’s Testament) focuses on the concept of the New Human in the new Soviet society. These films construct a laboratory – inhabited by animal-human hybrids and reanimated human heads – to think past the human and explore the potential consequences of such a posthumanist leap. \nThe third sub-series (New Gulliver\, Alice in Wonderland\, and Tale of Tales) centers on animation as another method of thinking beyond the real. This sub-series also articulates temporal and geo-spatial adaptations as two distinct ways of creating the new – while New Gulliver and Alice in Wonderland both represent the Soviet Union’s attempt to translate Western tales to Soviet contexts\, Tale of Tales is an attempt to treat the Soviet past as material for fairytale narrativization. \nLand of Oz and Mermaid\, the films which constitute the last sub-series\, similarly narrativize the real world through the epistemological framework of the fairytale. Here\, however\, the ideological explanatory functions of the Soviet Union have already faded away\, and one must cling to the fairytale not to tell stories about the past\, but to interpret the chaos of the present post-Soviet space. Events: \nOctober 9th\nAmphibian Man (dir. Vladimir Chebotaryov\,1962\, 82 min) \nOctober 23rd\nProfessor Dowell’s Testament (dir. Leonid Menaker\, 1984\, 91 min) \nOctober 30th\nNew Gulliver (dir. Aleksandr Ptushko\, 1935\, 75 min) \nNovember 6th\nAlice in Wonderland (dir. Efrem Pruzhanskiy\, 1981\, 31 min) & Tale of Tales (dir. Yuri Norstein\, 1979\, 29 min) \nNovember 13th\nLand of Oz (dir. Vasily Sigarev\, 2015\, 100 min) \nDecember 4th\nMermaid (dir. Anna Melikyan\, 2007\, 115 min) \n 
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/imagine-otherwise-fantasy-fairytale-fiction-slavic-film-series-new-gulliver/
LOCATION:301 Julis Romo Rabinowitz
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251030T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251030T180000
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SUMMARY:Vanishing Vienna: Modernism\, Philosemitism\, and Jews in a Postwar City
DESCRIPTION:The Program in Judaic Studies\, the Center for Collaborative History\, and the Program in European Cultural Studies invite you to join us for this talk by Frances Tanzer on Thursday\, October 30. \nFrances Tanzer will discuss her new book\, Vanishing Vienna: Modernism\, Philosemitism\, and Jews in a Postwar City (University of Pennsylvania Press)\, which traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German Anschluss through Austrian (re)independence in 1955. The book reveals continuity in Vienna’s cultural history across this period: a framework for interpreting Viennese culture that has relied on antisemitism\, philosemitism\, and a related discourse of Jewish presence and absence. The reality of Jewish absence in postwar Vienna produced conceptual and practical challenges. Tanzer argues that\, in response to these challenges\, philosemitism became a surprising but foundational component of cultural reconstruction efforts and postwar Austrian identity\, as well as early conceptions of European integration and postwar discourses of cosmopolitanism. \nOpen to the public. Refreshments will be available. \nMore about Frances Tanzer \nFrances Tanzer is the Rose Professor of Holocaust Studies and Jewish Culture and Associate Professor of History at Clark University in Massachusetts. Her book Vanishing Vienna: Modernism\, Philosemitism\, and Jews in a Postwar City was published with University of Pennsylvania Press in 2024. She has received support for her research from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, the Remarque Institute at New York University\, and other institutions. Her new project is entitled Klezmer Dynasty: An Intimate History of Modern Jewish Culture\, 1880-2019.
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/vanishing-vienna-modernism-philosemitism-and-jews-in-a-postwar-city/
LOCATION:A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251028T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251028T180000
DTSTAMP:20260626T005929
CREATED:20251022T170259Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251022T170721Z
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SUMMARY:Catalan Classics of Political Thinking - A Conversation Around Jaume Vicens Vives' "We\, the Catalans"
DESCRIPTION:With: \nPere Almeda\, Director of the Institut Ramon Llull \nJosep M. Muñoz\, Editor and Historian \nPaul Freedman\, Yale University’s Chester D. Tripp Professor of History \nCo-sponsored by Institut Ramon Llull\, Generalitat de Catalunya IJ lnstitut d’Estudis de I’ Autogovern\, and Princeton University’s European Cultural Studies and Fung Global Fellows
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/catalan-classics-of-political-thinking-a-conversation-around-jaume-vicens-vives-we-the-catalans/
LOCATION:144 Louis A. Simpson Building
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T213000
DTSTAMP:20260626T005929
CREATED:20251008T194004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T195451Z
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SUMMARY:Imagine Otherwise: Fantasy\, Fairytale\, Fiction (Slavic Film Series) – Professor Dowell's Testament
DESCRIPTION:The second Belyaev adaptation of our series\, Professor Dowell’s Testament gives a perestroika-update to a 1925 novel. Professor Dowell\, having created a solution that is capable of reanimating body parts\, asks his assistant Dr. Korn to preserve his head after death. The head remains capable of speech and cognition\, and converses with Korn while an investigation takes place surrounding Dowell’s mysterious death. Professor Dowell’s Testament offers a stark reflection on the scientific experimentation of a Soviet Union coming to its end. \n________________________________________________ \nThe Soviet project was characterized by a utopian drive that stretched far beyond the material means at their disposal. Such a desire\, uninhibited by ontological strictures\, finds some of its clearest manifestations in film\, a medium that Siegfried Kracauer once called “the daydream of society.” Consequently\, this film series explores the way in which the social imaginary developed in Soviet (and Post-Soviet) cinema\, particularly through the lens of fantasy\, fairytale and science fiction. The aim of the series\, however\, is not to expose the incommensurable distance between a fallacious imagination and empirical reality\, but rather to focus on the discourses of the possible – and not the factual – which have made cinema a privileged site for imagining how our world could be radically otherwise. \nThe series has been organized into four sub-series which allow us to explore different facets of this social imaginary. The first three films in the series (Aelita\, Moscow-Cassiopeia\, and First on the Moon) probe the Soviet Union’s cosmic imagination. Long before the Soviet Space Program\, Nikolai Fyodorov’s biocosmism had captured the imagination of many radical thinkers. Aelita\, one of the first full-length films depicting space travel\, gave concrete imagery to these thinkers’ theories with Isaac Rabinovich and Victor Simov’s constructivist set designs of Martian society. The following films in this sub-series show the diachronic development of the sci-fi aesthetic\, through the years following the Space Race (Moscow-Cassiopeia) and into the retrofitting historicization of the post-soviet perspective (First on the Moon). \nThe second sub-series (Amphibian Man and Professor Dowell’s Testament) focuses on the concept of the New Human in the new Soviet society. These films construct a laboratory – inhabited by animal-human hybrids and reanimated human heads – to think past the human and explore the potential consequences of such a posthumanist leap. \nThe third sub-series (New Gulliver\, Alice in Wonderland\, and Tale of Tales) centers on animation as another method of thinking beyond the real. This sub-series also articulates temporal and geo-spatial adaptations as two distinct ways of creating the new – while New Gulliver and Alice in Wonderland both represent the Soviet Union’s attempt to translate Western tales to Soviet contexts\, Tale of Tales is an attempt to treat the Soviet past as material for fairytale narrativization. \nLand of Oz and Mermaid\, the films which constitute the last sub-series\, similarly narrativize the real world through the epistemological framework of the fairytale. Here\, however\, the ideological explanatory functions of the Soviet Union have already faded away\, and one must cling to the fairytale not to tell stories about the past\, but to interpret the chaos of the present post-Soviet space. Events: \nOctober 9th\nAmphibian Man (dir. Vladimir Chebotaryov\,1962\, 82 min) \nOctober 23rd\nProfessor Dowell’s Testament (dir. Leonid Menaker\, 1984\, 91 min) \nOctober 30th\nNew Gulliver (dir. Aleksandr Ptushko\, 1935\, 75 min) \nNovember 6th\nAlice in Wonderland (dir. Efrem Pruzhanskiy\, 1981\, 31 min) & Tale of Tales (dir. Yuri Norstein\, 1979\, 29 min) \nNovember 13th\nLand of Oz (dir. Vasily Sigarev\, 2015\, 100 min) \nDecember 4th\nMermaid (dir. Anna Melikyan\, 2007\, 115 min)
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/slavic-fall-film-series-imagine-otherwise-fantasy-fairytale-fiction-professor-dowells-testament/
LOCATION:301 Julis Romo Rabinowitz
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251009T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251009T213000
DTSTAMP:20260626T005929
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SUMMARY:Imagine Otherwise: Fantasy\, Fairytale\, Fiction (Slavic Film Series) - Amphibian Man
DESCRIPTION:Amphibian Man (dir. Vladimir Chebotaryov\,1962\, 82 min) \nPurportedly among Quentin Tarantino’s favorite Russian films\, Amphibian Man tells the story of Ichthyander\, who spends the majority of his time living underwater thanks to the shark gill implants he has received from his doctor-scientist adoptive father. Although he prefers to spend his time under the sea\, he falls in love with a young woman who he saves from a shark attack\, and enters the society of a nearby town\, where the greedy capitalist Zurita plans to exploit Ichthyander’s abilities to harvest pearls from the ocean floor. \nOne of the most popular films of the Soviet Union\, Amphibian Man was originally attacked for “spoiling the high tastes of the Soviet viewership with the genre of the adventure film.” However\, the film has achieved cultural longevity\, with the recent Guillermo del Toro film Shape of Water notably taking influence. Chebotaryov’s film\, taking influence from Alexander Belyaev’s eponymous novel\, attempts to give image to the new Soviet (post)human. \n_________________________________________ \nThe Soviet project was characterized by a utopian drive that stretched far beyond the material means at their disposal. Such a desire\, uninhibited by ontological strictures\, finds some of its clearest manifestations in film\, a medium that Siegfried Kracauer once called “the daydream of society.” Consequently\, this film series explores the way in which the social imaginary developed in Soviet (and Post-Soviet) cinema\, particularly through the lens of fantasy\, fairytale and science fiction. The aim of the series\, however\, is not to expose the incommensurable distance between a fallacious imagination and empirical reality\, but rather to focus on the discourses of the possible – and not the factual – which have made cinema a privileged site for imagining how our world could be radically otherwise. \nThe series has been organized into four sub-series which allow us to explore different facets of this social imaginary. The first three films in the series (Aelita\, Moscow-Cassiopeia\, and First on the Moon) probe the Soviet Union’s cosmic imagination. Long before the Soviet Space Program\, Nikolai Fyodorov’s biocosmism had captured the imagination of many radical thinkers. Aelita\, one of the first full-length films depicting space travel\, gave concrete imagery to these thinkers’ theories with Isaac Rabinovich and Victor Simov’s constructivist set designs of Martian society. The following films in this sub-series show the diachronic development of the sci-fi aesthetic\, through the years following the Space Race (Moscow-Cassiopeia) and into the retrofitting historicization of the post-soviet perspective (First on the Moon). \nThe second sub-series (Amphibian Man and Professor Dowell’s Testament) focuses on the concept of the New Human in the new Soviet society. These films construct a laboratory – inhabited by animal-human hybrids and reanimated human heads – to think past the human and explore the potential consequences of such a posthumanist leap. \nThe third sub-series (New Gulliver\, Alice in Wonderland\, and Tale of Tales) centers on animation as another method of thinking beyond the real. This sub-series also articulates temporal and geo-spatial adaptations as two distinct ways of creating the new – while New Gulliver and Alice in Wonderland both represent the Soviet Union’s attempt to translate Western tales to Soviet contexts\, Tale of Tales is an attempt to treat the Soviet past as material for fairytale narrativization. \nLand of Oz and Mermaid\, the films which constitute the last sub-series\, similarly narrativize the real world through the epistemological framework of the fairytale. Here\, however\, the ideological explanatory functions of the Soviet Union have already faded away\, and one must cling to the fairytale not to tell stories about the past\, but to interpret the chaos of the present post-Soviet space. Events: \nOctober 9th\nAmphibian Man (dir. Vladimir Chebotaryov\,1962\, 82 min) \nOctober 23rd\nProfessor Dowell’s Testament (dir. Leonid Menaker\, 1984\, 91 min) \nOctober 30th\nNew Gulliver (dir. Aleksandr Ptushko\, 1935\, 75 min) \nNovember 6th\nAlice in Wonderland (dir. Efrem Pruzhanskiy\, 1981\, 31 min) & Tale of Tales (dir. Yuri Norstein\, 1979\, 29 min) \nNovember 13th\nLand of Oz (dir. Vasily Sigarev\, 2015\, 100 min) \nDecember 4th\nMermaid (dir. Anna Melikyan\, 2007\, 115 min)
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/imagine-otherwise-fantasy-fairytale-fiction-slavic-film-series-mermaid/
LOCATION:301 Julis Romo Rabinowitz
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SUMMARY:Free Screening of Claude McKay\, From Harlem to Marseille (2023) + Q&A with filmmaker Matthieu Verdeil
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Princeton French Film Series\, you’re invited to watch Claude McKay\, From Harlem to Marseille (2023) by filmmaker Matthieu Verdeil\, who will be in attendance for a Q&A. \nPractical information: Open to everyone upon registration. In French and English with English subtitles\, the screening will start at 6:30 PM on Wednesday\, October 8th\, 2025\, and will last approximately 70 minutes. Doors to the screening room open at 6:15 PM. \nSynopsis: Matthieu Verdeil directed the first documentary devoted to the work and tumultuous life of Claude McKay\, the Jamaican poet and writer. Punctuated with archival footage and readings set against swing music\, the film is an incredible journey through the 1920s\, from Marseille to Harlem\, and on to Jamaica\, Russia\, and Morocco. It evokes the artistic avant-gardes of the early century that McKay encountered in New York with the Harlem Renaissance and later in Europe\, the social movements he chronicled in England\, and the political figures he met such as Trotsky. One comes away struck by the great freedom with which McKay moved through his era\, becoming a forerunner of both literature and the Black cause.
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/free-screening-of-claude-mckay-from-harlem-to-marseille-2023-qa-with-filmmaker-matthieu-verdeil/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium\, Betts Auditorium\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Academic Expo 2025 - Welcome\, Class of 2029!
DESCRIPTION:The Program in European Cultural Studies (ECS) looks forward to meeting and welcoming the Class of 2029 at the upcoming Academic Expo. From 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm on August 25\, incoming students can meet ECS staff and learn more about the ECS Undergraduate Minor . \nWe are excited to meet you there!
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/academic-expo-2025-welcome-class-of-2029/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T193000
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SUMMARY:E.1027 Film Screening and Conversation with Director Beatrice Minger
DESCRIPTION:Join UCHV’s Film Forum\, Research Film Studio and Forum for the History of Political Thought for a screening of the film “E.1027 Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea.” The screening will be followed by a conversation on “Modernism\, Misogyny\, and Other Matters” with Beatrice Minger\, the film’s director. \nSponsors: Forum for the History of Political Thought\, UCHV; Film Forum\, UCHV; Research Film Studio\, UCHV; School of Architecture; the Program in European Cultural Studies
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/e-1027-film-screening-and-conversation-with-director-beatrice-minger/
LOCATION:Rocky Theater
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SUMMARY:Carl E. Schorske Memorial Lecture - Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg as Buddhists of the End-Times
DESCRIPTION:The Program in European Cultural Studies (ECS) is pleased to announce that Peter Sellars will deliver this year’s annual Carl E. Schorske Memorial Lecture on Tuesday\, April 15. \nA reception will follow the lecture.   \nThis event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP HERE. \nIn 1909\, already fatally ill\, Gustav Mahler chose the words of the Chinese Tang Dynasty Buddhist poet\, Wang Wei\, to describe in his “Das Lied von der Erde” (Song of the Earth) what he felt and imagined to be the last disintegrating months of his life and the final collapse of the Western symphonic tradition.  In the same month\, another visionary Viennese composer\, Mahler’s student and friend Arnold Schoenberg\, created “Erwartung” (Expecting)\, his opera of the future for a single female voice that signaled the birth of a new symphonic universe.  Both men were writing music that was artistically revolutionary\, and that also powerfully prophesized pogroms\, holocausts\, and atrocities of the coming century while engaging spiritually inflected strategies of political resistance and transcendence. \nIn honor of Carl Schorske\, one of the preeminent scholars of fin-de-siècle Viennese culture\, this talk will recontextualize the Orientalisms and Expressionisms  of both Mahler and Schoenberg in the light of contemporary global struggles\, contradictions\, setbacks\, and cross-cultural creative initiatives.
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/carle-e-schorske-memorial-lecture-gustav-mahler-and-arnold-schoenberg-as-buddhists-of-the-end-times/
LOCATION:101 Friend Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250408T121500
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SUMMARY:Film Festival - 50 Years of Criticism: Masterclass led by David Sterritt
DESCRIPTION:Registration is required. Please register here. \nAs part of the third edition of the Princeton French Film Festival\, you’re invited to an informal conversation with long-time film critic David Sterritt who will be in attendance to talk about his impressive career in film criticism. This event will take place in Rocky’s Private Dining Room from 12:00 to 1:30 PM. Lunch will be provided to attendees not on a meal plan. \nAbout David Sterritt:\nDavid Sterritt is a film critic\, author\, teacher and scholar. He is most notable for his work on Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard\, and his many years as the Film Critic for The Christian Science Monitor\, where\, from 1968 until his retirement in 2005\, he championed avant-garde cinema\, theater\, and music. He has a PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University and was\, until 2015\, chair of the National Society of Film Critics for ten years. He has also served two terms as chair of the New York Film Critics Circle and ten years as co-chair of the University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation at Columbia University\, where he taught for 25 years. \nThis graduate student event is presented by The Program in European Cultural Studies and co-sponsored by the Department of English.
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/film-festival-50-years-of-criticism-masterclass-led-by-david-sterritt/
LOCATION:Rocky Private Dining Room
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SUMMARY:Minor in European Studies Sophomore Open House
DESCRIPTION:Join the Program in European Cultural Studies (ECS) and the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society (EPS) for lunch on March 27 to learn about the joint minor in European Studies. We’ll share information on upcoming courses\, cultural excursions to New York\, events\, and answer questions about program requirements. \nLunch will be served. \nAbout the minor \nThe minor in European Studies offers a comprehensive exploration of Europe\, blending the Humanities and Social Sciences. Students gain a deep understanding of Europe’s past and present through diverse coursework and engaging extra-curricular activities. You’ll explore European history\, literature\, art\, architecture\, music\, cinema\, theater\, politics\, sociology\, economy\, and philosophy\, covering various time periods and national contexts\, and develop skills in critical thinking\, cultural analysis\, and interdisciplinary research.
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/minor-in-european-studies-sophomore-open-house/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241120T163000
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SUMMARY:Historical Crisis and Paranoid Emplotment: The Discursive Structure of Racial Panics in Interwar Year Europe
DESCRIPTION:Please note that this event has changed locations. It will now be held in Robertson Hall\, Room 002. \nAnnual ECS Faber Lecture with Donna V. Jones (University of California\, Berkeley) \nPlease RSVP HERE \nThis event is free and open to the public. Reception to follow the lecture. \nCan paranoia be a mode of historical emplotment? The catastrophe of the First World War produced a genre of pessimistic writing. Oswald Spengler’s Decline of the West was among the most widely read. Still\, the era produced dozens similar: Francesco Nitti’s The Decadence of Europe: The Path To Reconstruction (1923)\, Albert Demangeon’s Le Déclin de l’ Europe (1923)\, Wythe Williams’ Dusk of Empire: The Decline of Europe And The Rise Of The United States (1937)\, and Arturo Labriola’s Le Crépuscule de la Civilisation: L’Occident et les peoples de couleur (1936). In all\, the coming historical consciousness of the colonized world figures significantly. Drawing on Hayden White’s notion of historical emplotment\, this presentation will examine the paranoid structure of such writing. \nFunding provided by the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council. \n\nDonna V. Jones is an associate professor of literature at the University of California\, Berkeley’s  Department of English. She is the author of The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Vitalism\, Négritude\, and Modernity\, which won the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize in Comparative Literature. She works in the fields of critical theory\, vitalism\, and history and literature. Her current project is The Ambiguous Promise of European Decline: Race and Historical Pessimism in the Interwar Years\, an intellectual history of the reactions to the war catastrophe from Europe and the colonized world.
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/ecs-faber-lecture/
LOCATION:002 Robertson Hall
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SUMMARY:The European Review of Books
DESCRIPTION:A Pitching Panel with the Editors of The European Review of Books\nTuesday\, November 19\, 5:00 – 7:00 pm \nBetts Auditorium  \nThe editors of The European Review of Books (Sander Pleij\, Wiegertje Postma\, and George Blaustein) will hear 3-minute pitches from audience members who’d like to propose an article idea for publication in the magazine. We encourage attendees to have a look at the ERB website to get a sense of the kinds of things they publish\, which topics and styles excite the editors\, and which fresh ideas might be a good fit for the ERB. A sign-up sheet will be available at the event\, and we’ll get to as many pitches as we can. \n\nMisadventures in Magazine Making: An Evening with The European Review of Books\nWednesday\, November 20\, 5:00 – 7:00 pm \nChancellor Green Rotunda \nThe editors of The European Review of Books will share tales of felicity and failure from their years as magazine makers. The ERB\, which began as a crowd-funded idea in 2021\, was first published in June 2022 and has continued to grow\, attracting new readers of all backgrounds across the globe. In this playful conversation\, the editors will feature some of the more painful episodes in the ERB’s history and ideas about how not to make a magazine. \n\n\n\nSponsors: Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities\, Department of Comparative Literature\, Department of English\, Department of French and Italian\, Department of German\, Department of Spanish and Portuguese\, European Cultural Studies\, Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society\, Program in Journalism\, Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication.
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/the-european-review-of-books/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T120000
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SUMMARY:European Cultural Studies & Contemporary European Politics and Society Sophomore Open House
DESCRIPTION:Join the Program in European Cultural Studies (ECS) and the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society (EPS) for lunch on April 11 to learn about our new joint Minor in European Studies. We’ll share information on upcoming courses\, cultural excursions to New York\, events\, and answer questions about program requirements. \nLunch will be served. \nThe European Cultural Studies certificate is open to students with a concentration in any department\, and does not place restrictions on independent work. Current students and recent graduates have concentrated in the natural sciences\, engineering\, social sciences\, and the humanities. \nWith a particular emphasis on current events related to politics\, economics\, government\, and beyond\, the program in Contemporary European Politics and Society examines how the region’s long history and variety of cultural traditions still shape many European responses to modern predicaments.
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/european-cultural-studies-contemporary-european-politics-and-society-sophomore-open-house/
LOCATION:209 Scheide Caldwell House
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240404T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240404T202000
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SUMMARY:[Cancelled] An evening with Orlando | Carl E. Schorske Memorial Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Due to unforeseen circumstances\, this lecture has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule in 2024-25. For questions\, please contact Anna D’Elia\, program manager. \n\nPresented by the Program in Media and Modernity\, the School of Architecture & the Program in European Cultural Studies \n“Come\, come! I’m sick to death of this particular self. I want another.” Taking Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando: A Biography as its starting point\, academic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Preciado has fashioned the documentary\, ORLANDO\, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY\, as a personal essay\, historical analysis\, and social manifesto which premiered and took home four prizes at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival. For almost a century\, Woolf’s eponymous hero/heroine has inspired readers for their gender fluidity across physical and spiritual metamorphoses over a 300-year lifetime. Preciado casts a diverse cross-section of more than twenty trans and non-binary individuals in the role of Orlando as they perform interpretations of scenes from the novel\, weaving into Woolf’s narrative their own stories of identity and transition. Not content to simply update a seminal work\, Preciado interrogates the relevance of Orlando in the continuing struggle against anti-trans ideologies and in the fight for global trans rights. Presentation and Q&A with Paul B. Preciado. \n\nPaul B. Preciado is a writer\, philosopher\, filmmaker and one of the leading thinkers in the study of gender and body politics. He is the founder and director of the Institute for Planetary Transition at Luma Arles\, France. He has been Curator of Public Programs of documenta 14 (Kassel/Athens)\, Curator of the Taiwan Pavilion in Venice in 2019\, and Head of Research of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA). His books\, Counter-sexual Manifesto (Columbia University Press); Testo Junkie (The Feminist Press); Pornotopia (Zone Books); An Apartment in Uranus (Semiotexte and Fitzcarraldo)\, and Can the Monster Speak (Semiotexte and Fitzcarraldo) are a key reference to queer\, trans and non-binary contemporary art and activism. He was born in Spain and lives in Paris. His new book Dysphoria Mundi will be published in English (Graywolf and Fitzcarraldo) in 2024. Preciado’s first film\, Orlando: My political biography\, premiered at Berlinale in 2023 and received four awards including the Teddy Award for Best LGBT Documentary and the Special Price of the Jury for Best Documentary. \nS.E. Eisterer is Assistant Professor for Architectural History and Theory at the School of Architecture at Princeton University. Her research focuses on spatial histories of dissidence\, feminist\, queer\, and trans theory\, as well as the labor of social and ecological movements. S.E. is currently a Senior Fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and she is working on two book projects: the interdisciplinary history and translation project Memories of the Resistance: Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and the Architecture of Collective Dissidence\, 1918–1989 and the edited volume Living Room: Architecture\, Gender\, Theory\, which illuminates methods and theories in writing about feminist and LGBTQIA+ spaces in architecture.
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/an-evening-with-orlando/
LOCATION:Betts Auditorium\, Betts Auditorium\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Smells\, Sounds and Textures of Iberian Modernity: The Harmonious al-Andalus
DESCRIPTION:Join the Department of Spanish & Portuguese on Friday\, December 8\, 3:30-5:00 PM in 103 Chancellor Green for the third invited guest lecture of the “Smells\, Sounds\, and Textures of Iberian Modernity” talk series\, entitled “The Harmonious al-Andalus”.  Invited guest speaker\, Eric Calderwood\, is Associate Professor in Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Drawing from his recent book entitled On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of al-Andalus\, he will speak to the connection between art\, music\, and the legacy of Al-Andalus in Moroccan contemporary culture. There are a few extra copies of his book which the organizers will be offering to the first graduate students to attend the talk. \n\n\nSponsors: Spanish and Portuguese\, the Center for Culture\, Society\, and Religion\, the Humanities Council\, the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities\, Anthropology\, Art & Archaeology\, Comparative Literature\, Music\, Near Eastern Studies\, Religion\, and the Program in European Cultural Studies
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/smells-sounds-and-textures-of-iberian-modernity-the-harmonious-al-andalus/
LOCATION:103 Chancellor Green\, Princeton University\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Smells\, Sounds and Textures of Iberian Modernity: The High Plateau and the Sea: Landscape and Character in Spanish and Catalan Nationalism
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Joan Ramon Resina (Stanford University) \nDiscussant: Lucia Filipova (Spanish & Portuguese) \nModerator: Renee Congdon (Spanish & Portuguese) \nJoin the Department of Spanish & Portuguese on Friday\, November 17\, 3:30-5:00 PM in 103 Chancellor Green for the second invited guest lecture of the “Smells\, Sounds\, and Textures of Iberian Modernity” talk series” talk series\, entitled “The High Plateau and the Sea: Landscape and Character in Spanish and Catalan Nationalism.” Guest speaker\, Joan Ramon Resina\, is Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures and Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. On Friday\, he will explore the role of landscape for the so-called Generation of ’98\, a Spanish literary group active at the end of 19th century\, in comparison with the representation of landscape in the context of Catalan nationalism\, focusing on the early 20th-century cultural movements of Modernism and Noucentisme. This talk will explore the interstices of visuality\, imagery\, literature\, and art\, engaging in a sensorial analysis of literary representations of landscape. \n\n\nSponsors: Spanish and Portuguese\, the Center for Culture\, Society\, and Religion\, the Humanities Council\, the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities\, Anthropology\, Art & Archaeology\, Comparative Literature\, Music\, Near Eastern Studies\, Religion\, and the Program in European Cultural Studies
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/talk-series-smells-sounds-and-textures-of-iberian-modernity-2/
LOCATION:103 Chancellor Green\, Princeton University\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Documenting Violence in Writing and Translation
DESCRIPTION:Join the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication for a hands-on conversation between PTIC Translator in Residence Hanna Leliv and Ukrainian writer and scholar Oleksandr Mykhed\, about his recent book “Language of War: Chronicles of the Invasion.” This riveting work of nonfiction begins on the first day of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine and chronicles the next 13 months from a deeply personal perspective\, weaving in the voices of those whose lives have been changed forever by the war. Oleksandr will share his strategies for conveying harrowing events through human stories\, and Hanna will talk about her experience translating an essay from the book\, “Small Big Evil\,” and the particular challenges she encountered. \nLimited availability; please sign up using this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfgMhCWKWGE3Ip9JZECPSgu1Zeb8Hi…: \nLunch will be provided.
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/documenting-violence-in-writing-and-translation/
LOCATION:161 Louis A. Simpson International Building
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SUMMARY:The Language of War: Rage\, Love\, Memory
DESCRIPTION:Oleksandr Mykhed will present his personal story and experiences as a writer and a scholar and address how Ukrainians talk about the Russian invasion. How has the semiotic system of everyday life changed? What has happened to the meaning of words? How are these changes reflected in art? \n\nThis event is Sponsored by the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication (PTIC). Find more details on their website.
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/the-language-of-war-rage-love-memory/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:Smells\, Sounds and Textures of Iberian Modernity: Spain’s Perfumed Modernity
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bob Davidson (University of Toronto) \nDiscussant: Renee Congdon (Spanish & Portuguese) \nModerator: Lucia Filipova (Spanish & Portuguese) \nJoin the Department of Spanish & Portuguese on Friday\, October 6\, 3:30-5:00 PM in 103 Chancellor Green for the first invited guest lecture of the “Smells\, Sounds\, and Textures of Iberian Modernity” talk series\, entitled “Spain’s Perfumed Modernity.” Invited guest speaker Bob Davidson\, Professor of Spanish and Catalan Studies at the University of Toronto\, will take us on a sensory journey through the rise of Spain’s perfume industry from the 1910s to 2000\, discussing the role Perfumería Gal\, Myurgia\, and Puig played in the construction of Spanish olfactory modernity via product design\, advertising\, and the fragrances themselves. The talk will be sensorily interactive\, as audience members will be invited to test vintage perfumes like Maderas de Oriente\, Maja\, Agua Lavanda\, Agua Brava\, and Quorum while exploring themes of orientalism and Othering\, terroir\, the aspirational power of scent\, and\, ultimately\, the importance of smelling in the Humanities. \n\nDisclaimer: Because we will be smelling perfumes during the talk\, those with sensitivity to fragrances may wish not to attend. \n\nSponsors: Center for Culture\, Society\, and Religion; Department of Anthropology; Department of Art & Archaeology; Department of; Comparative Literature; Department of Music; Department of Near Eastern Studies; Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Department of Religion; Humanities Council; Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities; Program in European Cultural Studies
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/talk-series-smells-sounds-and-textures-of-iberian-modernity/
LOCATION:103 Chancellor Green\, Princeton University\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:From The Mind has No Sex? to Gendered Innovations: A Historian’s Contribution to Enhancing Excellence in Science & Technology
DESCRIPTION:Join us on September 27 for the annual ECS Faber Lecture with Londa Schiebinger (Stanford University). \nThis event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP HERE. \nReception to follow the lecture. \nThis lecture explores how a historian of science can make significant contributions to science & technology. Professor Schiebinger will quickly sketch her journey from neo-Kantianism to understanding how women and something we might call gender—with intersectional attention to race—were excluded from science during the European scientific revolution of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in ways that made that exclusion seem just and natural. We will take a quick detour into the power dynamics of colonial science to discuss how knowledge circulated between Africa\, Europe\, and the Americas in the Atlantic World. Finally\, we will explore Gendered Innovations in Science\, Health & Medicine\, Engineering\, and Environment to understand how humanists and social scientists can enhance discovery\, innovation\, and social responsibility in science & tech. As time allows\, we will explore social robots\, computer vision\, facial recognition\, and other topics. This work engages with the politics of knowledge—who produces it\, and how who produces science influences to a certain extent the science that is produced. \nFunding provided by the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council. \n\nLonda Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science at Stanford University\, and Founding Director of Gendered Innovations in Science\, Health & Medicine\, Engineering\, and Environment. Schiebinger is a leading international expert on gender and intersectional analysis in science and technology and has addressed the United Nations\, the European Parliament\, the Korean National Assembly\, among others\, on that topic. Schiebinger received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards\, including the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship. She holds Honorary Doctorates from the Universitat de València\, Spain\, 2018; Lunds Universitet\, Sweden\, 2017; and Vrije Universiteit Brussel\, Belgium\, 2013. Her publications include The Mind has No Sex? Women in the Making of Modern Science (HUP\, 1989); Nature’s Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science (Beacon\, 1993); Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (HUP\, 2004); edited with Robert N. Proctor\, Agnotology: The Making & Unmaking of Ignorance (SUP\, 2008); The Secret Cures of Slaves: People\, Plants\, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (SUP\, 2017); AI can be Sexist and Racist—It’s Time to Make it Fair Nature (2018); Sex and Gender Analysis Improves Science and Engineering Nature (2019); A Framework for Sex\, Gender\, and Diversity Analysis in Research Science (2022). Her work has been translated into numerous languages.
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/from-the-mind-has-no-sex-to-gendered-innovations-a-historians-contribution-to-enhancing-excellence-in-science-technology/
LOCATION:010 East Pyne\, 010 East Pyne\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:ECS Welcome Back Reception
DESCRIPTION:The Program in European Cultural Studies is pleased to welcome faculty and students to AY2023 – 24! Please join us for food and drinks on the Joseph Henry House lawn on September 14 at 5:30 pm. \nIn case of rain\, the location will be moved to Joseph Henry House 16 & Sunporch. \nRSVP to Program Manager Anna D’Elia (anna.delia@princeton.edu).
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/ecs-welcome-back-reception/
LOCATION:Joseph Henry House
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SUMMARY:Carl E. Schorske Memorial Lecture – Giving the Working Class a Body: Politics\, Literature\, and Class War
DESCRIPTION:The Program in European Cultural Studies (ECS) is pleased to announce that Édouard Louis will deliver this year’s annual Carl E. Schorske Memorial Lecture on Thursday\, April 6. \nRegistration is required for this event. Please email Anna D’Elia to RSVP. \nReception to follow in the Forum.  \nWe know that class domination is a synonym for the premature destruction of certain bodies. In most societies\, to be working class is to see your chance of dying before 65 years old increase by 50%. In France and the United States\, the wealthiest live between 10 and 15 years longer than the poorest. \nEverything in the working-class life converges towards the weakening and slow erasure of the body: the harsh work\, poor nutrition\, despair or masculine culture. \nMy Father is 57 years old and already incapable of walking properly\, because he was born into a life of poverty and stayed in poverty. My Brother died at 38 because he was born poor in a class system. How can literature give a body to those who have had theirs stolen and destructed by our societies\, even when it is too late? Can politics and literature play a role in this struggle? \nBernardine Evaristo once said that every life contains its own manifesto. So\, does every death. This lecture will try to constitute the starting point of a new manifesto for the working class. \n\nÉdouard Louis’s first novel\, En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule\, was published when he was 21 years old. It was heralded as a literary revelation by El País\, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung\, Corriere delle Sera\, and other publications. He is also the editor of Pierre Bourdieu: l’insoumission en heritage (PUF\, 2013). In 2014 Louis received the Prix Pierre Guénin. One of the most celebrated writers of his generation worldwide\, his other works include Histoire de la violence\, Qui a tué mon pere\, Combats et métamorphoses d’une femme\, and\, most recently\, Changer: Méthode.  His work is published in over 30 languages worldwide.
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/carl-e-schorske-memorial-lecture-giving-the-working-class-a-body-politics-literature-and-class-war/
LOCATION:Godfrey Kerr Theater Studio\, Lewis Arts complex\, 122 ALEXANDER STREET\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:"Politically Red"
DESCRIPTION:This seminar is a follow up to the public lecture on February 23rd. “Europe and the Wolf: Militant Economies of Sound in Pere Portabella and Carles Santos” by Sara Nadal-Melsió \nIn this seminar\, Nadal-Melsió will discuss her forthcoming book with co-author Eduardo Cadava. The book’s title plays on the homonym between “red” and “read” and emphasizes the role and place of reading in the political sphere. Focusing on the writings of Karl Marx\, Rosa Luxemburg\, Walter Benjamin\, W. E. B. Du Bois\, and Fredric Jameson\, it demonstrates the way in which their work can be resources for doing political work in the present\, and particularly anti-racist work. \n\nSara Nadal-Melsió is a NYC-based Catalan writer\, curator\, and teacher. She has taught at the University of Pennsylvania\, Princeton University\, SOMA in Mexico City\, and New York University. Her essays have appeared in various academic journals\, edited volumes\, and museum catalogs. She is the co-author of Alrededor de/ Around\, and the editor of two special issues on cinema\, The Invisible Tradition: Avant-Garde Catalan Cinema under Late Francoism and The Militant Image: Temporal Disturbances of the Political Imagination. She also cocurated a retrospective of Allora & Calzadilla’s work for the Fundació Tápies in Barcelona and has written a book essay about it\, as well as edited a companion volume on the Puerto Rican crisis. Her book Europe and the Wolf: Political Variations on a Musical Concept is forthcoming from Zone Books.
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/politically-red/
LOCATION:105 Chancellor Green
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SUMMARY:Europe and the Wolf: Militant Economies of Sound in Pere Portabella and Carles Santos
DESCRIPTION:This presentation is drawn from Nadal-Melsió’s forthcoming book\, Europe and the Wolf: Political Variations on a Musical Concept. The book recuperates the Baroque musical concept of the “wolf”—the dissonant note that tuning systems of the time were intent on eliminating to guarantee the harmony of the whole. The first mention of the “wolf” as an emblem of disharmony\, however\, comes from the proverb “homo homine lupus est\,” an endlessly appropriated phrase that traces the pervasive fear of what is foreign\, of what marks the borders of a community. In the European context\, the “wolf” has often materialized in the person of the stranger\, the immigrant who\, as a threat to the integrity of a presumably “harmonious” community\, must be violently marginalized. \nFocusing on contemporary aesthetic practices that respond to Europe as an unresolved conceptual and political problem\, this presentation follows the “wolf” in between the musical and the political. “Militant Economies of Sound: Pere Portabella and Carles Santos” traces the way in which these Catalan artists explore the role of music in the production of a discontinuous European public sphere\, whereby acoustic dissonance reorganizes economies and temporalities. It emphasizes the moments in their collaborative practice where dissonance activates political agency through a performative actualization of Europe’s musical patrimony as a collective and heterogeneous practice. \nThe lecture is co-sponsored by the Humanities Council\, the Program in Media and Modernity\, the Departments of English and Comparative Literature\, the Committee on Film Studies\, European Cultural Studies\, and IHUM \n\nSara Nadal-Melsió is a NYC-based Catalan writer\, curator\, and teacher. She has taught at the University of Pennsylvania\, Princeton University\, SOMA in Mexico City\, and New York University. Her essays have appeared in various academic journals\, edited volumes\, and museum catalogs. She is the co-author of Alrededor de/ Around\, and the editor of two special issues on cinema\, The Invisible Tradition: Avant-Garde Catalan Cinema under Late Francoism and The Militant Image: Temporal Disturbances of the Political Imagination. She also cocurated a retrospective of Allora & Calzadilla’s work for the Fundació Tápies in Barcelona and has written a book essay about it\, as well as edited a companion volume on the Puerto Rican crisis. Her book Europe and the Wolf: Political Variations on a Musical Concept is forthcoming from Zone Books. \nSeminar to follow this lecture on February 24th at 12pm. Click this link for details.
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/europe-and-the-wolf-militant-economies-of-sound-in-pere-portabella-and-carles-santos-3/
LOCATION:300 Wallace Hall
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SUMMARY:Partitions of Europe and Healing Spaces of Expulsion
DESCRIPTION:Join us on November 21 for the annual ECS Faber Lecture with Esra Akcan (Cornell University). \nThis event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP HERE. \nReception to follow the lecture. \nThis lecture explores architecture’s role in the right-to-heal by defining a healing space as one where violence and violations are confronted\, and accountability and reparations are instituted. It shows the role of the designed environment both in the opportunistic responses to crises and in the much-needed debates of accountability\, reckoning with the past and transitional justice. The lecture particularly raises the question of harm and healing after mandatory mass migrations during nation-state formations\, such as the ones during the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire that partitioned today’s Europe and the Middle East. It argues that the international and national authorities treated land settlement as a top-down demographic engineering device\, and its architecture as a technical problem in a post-conflict setting\, failing to notice the trauma of mass expulsion\, or ignoring the cultural complexity of resettlement. It also discusses the residues of these historical wounds today\, by contrasting the state-led religio-nationalist policies to the practice of a handful architects\, residents and stonemasons who struggle toward healing through architecture. \nEsra Akcan is the Michael A. McCarthy Professor in the Department of Architecture\, and the Resident Director in the Institute for Comparative Modernities at Cornell University. Her research on modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism foregrounds the intertwined histories of Europe\, West Asia and East Africa\, and offers new ways to understand architecture’s role in global\, social and environmental justice. She has written extensively on critical and postcolonial theory\, racism\, immigration\, architectural photography\, translation\, neoliberalism\, and global history. Her books include Landfill Istanbul: Twelve Scenarios for a Global City (124/3\, 2004); Architecture in Translation: Germany\, Turkey and the Modern House (Duke University Press\, 2012); Turkey: Modern Architectures in History (Reaktion/Chicago University Press\, 2012\, with Sibel Bozdoğan); Open Architecture: Migration\, Citizenship and the Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg by IBA-1984/87 (Birkhäuser/De Gruyter Academic Press\, 2018); Abolish Human Bans: Intertwined Histories of Architecture (CCA\, 2022). Currently\, she is editing Migration and Discrimination (with Iftikhar Dadi) and writing Right-to-Heal: Architecture in Transitions After Conflicts and Disasters.  \nFunding provided by the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council.
URL:https://ecs.princeton.edu/event/partitions-of-europe-and-healing-spaces-of-expulsion/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall\, 219 Aaron Burr Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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