The Hyena and the Jay: Modern Fables for a Scientific World
Jan 29, 2025, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speaker
Affiliation
Princeton University
Learning from 'the Father of Lies': Herodotus and Modern Historiography
Jan 31, 2025, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationLouisiana State University
- Commentator TBD
Legal Truths and Everyday Injustices: The Judicialization of Human Rights in Chile
Feb 7, 2025, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationMassachusetts Institute of Technology
- Commentator TBD
Seeking Justice: The Civil Rights Division and the “Mississippi Burning” Trial
Feb 12, 2025, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speaker
Affiliation
Princeton University
Transformations of the Information Age: How Socialist Cybernetics Became the Neoliberal Dream
Feb 14, 2025, 10:15 am – Feb 28, 2025, 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationDavis Center Fellow and University of Southern California
- AffiliationPrinceton University
Slavery's Uncertain Inheritances: Blood, Property, and the Archives
Feb 21, 2025, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationDavis Center Fellow and Johns Hopkins University
- Commentator TBD
Fake Literature as a Cultural Problem: The Case of "Tolstoy Prophecy of WWI"
Feb 28, 2025, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationPrinceton University
- AffiliationPrinceton University
Belongings: South Africa and the Search for History
Mar 5, 2025, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speaker
Affiliation
Princeton University
A Matter of Truth? Mood Reports and Internal Information Channels in Maoist China
Mar 21, 2025, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationUniversity of Freiburg, Germany
- Commentator TBD
Forging the Middle Ages: On the Regimes of Fake in the Mediterranean Basin
Mar 28, 2025, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationDavis Center Fellow and the Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
- Commentator TBD
In (and Out of) Context: The Varieties of Contextual Interpretation from Ancient Rome to Early Modern Humanism
Apr 4, 2025, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationUniversity of Southern California
- Commentator TBD
"Trusting in Fake Things" in Early and Medieval China
Apr 11, 2025, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationPrinceton University
- Commentator TBD
“As Inaccessible As Ever”: Unpacking the Score of Notated Calumet Songs as Primary Sources in Intellectual History and Popular Culture
Apr 16, 2025, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speaker
Affiliation
Princeton University
Truth Has But One Side: Debating the Sedition Act of 1798
Apr 18, 2025, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationDavis Center Fellow and University of Notre Dame
- Commentator TBD
Rumor and Displacement: Finding Truth in Nazi Europe
Apr 25, 2025, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationDavis Center Fellow and Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History
- Commentator TBD
Part 1
Before 'West' and 'East'
Apr 29, 2025, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
TBD
Speaker
Affiliation
King's College London
Part 2
Before 'West' and 'East'
Apr 30, 2025, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
TBD
Speaker
Affiliation
King's College London
Part 3
Before 'West' and 'East'
May 1, 2025, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
TBD
Speaker
Affiliation
King's College London