Events

The Drama of the Zloty: A Wartime and Postwar Story
Oct 9, 2024, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
Davis Center Works in Progress
Cruel and Usual: Imprisonment in Colonial North America
Oct 23, 2024, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speaker
Wendy Warren
Princeton University
Davis Center Works in Progress
Davis Center Seminar
When the Truth Is Not Enough: Exposing Corruption in an Era of Impunity
Oct 25, 2024, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
Davis Center Seminar
Davis Center Seminar
“True Picture of Public Opinion”: The Rise of Opinion Polling as a Scientific and Political Technology
Nov 1, 2024, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
Davis Center Seminar
Davis Center Seminar
Truth in the Trauma of the Fantastic: The Alien Abduction Controversy, 1975–2000
Nov 8, 2024, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
Davis Center Seminar
Davis Center Seminar
Sacrilege, Conspiracy, and Proof in the Seventeenth-Century Spanish Empire
Nov 15, 2024, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
Davis Center Seminar
The Legacy of Natalie Zemon Davis: A Conference
Nov 15, 2024, 1:30 pm – Nov 16, 2024, 4:15 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Conference
Davis Center Conference
Davis Center Seminar
Truth and Information in Early Private Equity: Germany's GmbH, 1892–1933
Nov 22, 2024, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
Davis Center Seminar
Davis Center Seminar
Knowledge, Information, and the British Colonial “Migrated” Archives
Dec 6, 2024, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
Davis Center Seminar
Davis Center Seminar
Trials, Truths, and Legal Fictions: The Judge as a Writer of History
Dec 13, 2024, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
Davis Center Seminar
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
Erika Milam
Princeton University
Davis Center Works in Progress
Learning from 'the Father of Lies': Herodotus and Modern Historiography
Jan 31, 2025, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
Davis Center Seminar
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
  • Eden Medina
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Commentator TBD
Davis Center Seminar
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
Kevin Kruse
Princeton University
Davis Center Works in Progress
Fake Literature as a Cultural Problem: The Case of "Tolstoy Prophecy of WWI"
Feb 14, 2025, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
Davis Center Seminar
Slavery's Uncertain Inheritances: Blood, Property, and the Archives
Feb 21, 2025, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
  • Sasha Turner
    Davis Center Fellow and Johns Hopkins University
  • Commentator TBD
Davis Center Seminar
Transformations of the Information Age: How Socialist Cybernetics Became the Neoliberal Dream
Feb 28, 2025, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
  • Aro Velmet
    Davis Center Fellow and University of Southern California
  • Commentator TBD
Davis Center Seminar
Belongings: South Africa and the Search for History
Mar 5, 2025, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speaker
Jacob Dlamini
Princeton University
Davis Center Works in Progress
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
  • Daniel Leese
    University of Freiburg, Germany
  • Commentator TBD
Davis Center Seminar
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
  • Paul Bertrand
    Davis Center Fellow and the Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • Commentator TBD
Davis Center Seminar