The Power of the Pen: Conjuring Law with Words on a Page in the Post-Revolutionary United States
Sep 5, 2025, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationPrinceton University
- AffiliationDepartment of Sociology, Princeton University
Conventions, Half-truths and Misinformation on Museum Labels
Sep 12, 2025, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationColgate University
- AffiliationDepartment of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
Cuban Paper Trails: A Colonial History of Passports, Race, and Mobility
Sep 19, 2025, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationDavis Center Fellow, University of Maryland
- AffiliationPrinceton University
El fantasma rojo: Fear and Fantasies of the Latin America Left from 1917 to 1945
Sep 26, 2025, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationIthaca College
- AffiliationNew York University
The Transferential Truth About Subjects: Psychoanalysis Between West Africa and Western Europe in the Sixties
Oct 3, 2025, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationDavis Center Fellow, Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Shallow Blue Empire: Labor, Science and Environment Across the Indian Ocean Littoral, 1850–1925
Oct 24, 2025, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationDavis Center Fellow, Stony Brook University
- AffiliationIndiana University Bloomington
Not Quite So Random: Psychokinesis on Campus
Oct 31, 2025, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationPrinceton University
- AffiliationPennsylvania State University
Trying Credibility: The Public and Clerical Sexual Violence in Early Modern France
Nov 7, 2025, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationVassar College
- AffiliationUniversity of Texas at Austin
The Problem of Taqiyya: Invisible Subjects in Colonial India
Nov 14, 2025, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationDavis Center Fellow, King's College London
- AffiliationPrinceton University
The Cybernetic Fix: Systems Engineering and Economic Reforms in China
Nov 21, 2025, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationWashington University in St. Louis
- Commentator TBD
Beyond Restitution: Global Reverberations of Holocaust Memory
Dec 5, 2025, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationDavis Center Fellow, City College of New York, and the CUNY Graduate Center
- Commentator TBD
The End of Truth
Dec 12, 2025, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationWesleyan University
- AffiliationPrinceton University
The Fake Baron: Negotiating Expertise, Information, and Identity from Queen Anna's London to Peter I's St. Petersburg
Jan 30, 2026, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationShanghai Tech University
- Commentator TBD
A New Broom: Inventing Anti-Trafficking Law in a Post-Slavery Era
Feb 6, 2026, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationDavis Center Fellow, University of Georgia
- Commentator TBD
Credulity, Superstition and Fanaticism: Queerness, Disability, and Religious Enthusiasm in 18th-Century Protestant Revival Cultures
Feb 13, 2026, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationUniversity of Michigan
- Commentator TBD
The Return to a Simple Truth and Its Consequences: Discourses of Failure and Loss in Late Medieval Bohemia
Feb 20, 2026, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationDavis Center Fellow, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Commentator TBD
Telling the Truth About Empire: Imperial Bureaucrats and the Modern American State
Feb 27, 2026, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationYale University
- Commentator TBD
Information, Truth, and Democratization in Postwar Japan, 1945–1955
Mar 20, 2026, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationDavis Center Fellow, Pennsylvania State University
- Commentator TBD
Lying and the Single Girl: Toward a Genealogy of the Pathological Liar
Mar 27, 2026, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationUniversity of Minnesota
- Commentator TBD
Between Myth and Knowledge: Golden Guiana, Enlightened Khipus
Apr 3, 2026, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speakers
- AffiliationUniversity of Pennsylvania, College de France
- Commentator TBD