Talk: How Chances It They Travel?: Mapping Itinerant Theater in Early Modern Europe By Emily Glider (Boston University, Literary and Cultural Theory) Date: Monday, February 24, 2025 Time: 1230-1330 Room: H232 Abstract: Itinerant theater has long been represented as a “chance” affair: troupes of “wandering” or “strolling” players performing on an opportunistic basis at various courts, cities, and trade fairs […]
Talk: “It Will Be Like a Statue,” or: Place and Utopia in London’s Theaters By Madeleine Read (University of California Irvine, English) Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2025 Time: 1730-1900 Room: H232 Abstract: In 1988, London’s Royal Court Theatre produced a series by Howard Brenton billed as “Three Plays Toward Utopia.” Utopia is a genre with intricate and abiding English roots, […]
Talk: The Automation Bias - Radio Art and American Technopolitics. By Andy Kelleher Stuhl (McGill, Art History & Communication Studies) Date: Tuesday, 4 March Time: 1730-1900 Room: G-140 Abstract: In the 1960s and 1970s, a new technology—radio automation—was changing how sound and information flowed among American audiences, musicians, and creative intermediaries like disc jockeys. But automation did not take hold […]
Talk: Upscaling: On the Cross-Scalar Movement of Modernity By Kirill Chepurin (ICI Berlin) Date: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 Time: 1230-1330 Room: H232 Abstract: This talk argues that “modernity,” emerging as epoch and normative program in Enlightenment and Romantic thought, is a cross-scalar category that has, from the outset, served to mediate across three scales: the global, the planetary, and the […]
Title: Bioarchaeology in Ancient Anatolia By Benjamin Irvine (BIAA-Hacettepe) Dates: 5 March, 2025 Time: 1730-1900 Place: FFB-05 Abstract: Bioarchaeology, the study of bones and other biological materials found in archaeological contexts, can provide a wealth of information about human life and the environment in the past. This talk will examine how bioarchaeological methodologies can tackle important and broad questions related […]
Title: Life in transition – Shifts in settlement, urbanization, infrastructure and material culture in Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Asia Minor By Dr. Rinse Willet (University of Nijmegen) Dates: 19 March, 2025 Time: 1730-1900 Place: C-Block amphi Abstract: During the Hellenistic to Roman Imperial periods, Anatolia saw a rise in cities, monumental architecture, and infrastructure. Roman rule formalized communication networks like […]
Title: Proximal Functions and the Distribution of Episodic Memory By Arieh Schwartz (London School of Economics and Political Science, Philosophy) Date: Thursday, April 10, 2025 Time: 1530-1700 Room: H232 Abstract: Most textbook discussions of memory include a tree diagram distinguishing different memory systems. Episodic memory is distinguished from semantic memory. These are distinguished from procedural memory, and so on. There is broad, (though not universal) agreement about […]
Talk: Lost in Imagination - Reality Principle and World Literature By Mehmet Yıldız (Harvard, Comparative Literature) Date: Monday, April 14, 2025 Time: 1730-1900 Room: H232 Abstract: A fundamental question within the debate surrounding the contemporary notion of world literature concerns the possible misappropriation of texts in foreign contexts. In this talk, I trace such a concern to a commitment towards the […]
Title: What Is a Free Will? Reflections on Suárez By Dominik Perler (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophy) Date: Thursday, April 17, 2025 Time: 1530-1700 Room: H232 Abstract: Why are we free in our actions? Suárez, an influential late scholastic author, gives a clear answer: we are free because we have a free will. The will is never determined to accept the action-guiding judgment […]
Workshop on the History of Modal Metaphysics Dates: April 29 - May 2, 2025 Location: Bilkent University About: We will spend a day on ancient theories of modality (especially Aristotle’s), a day on the medieval and Islamic philosophers, and a day on early moderns with a focus on Leibniz. Participants: Faculty and graduate students from Princeton, Bilkent, and beyond. The […]
Title: No empty names, no problem? By Chris Tillman (Manitoba, Philosophy) Date: Thursday, May 8, 2025 Time: 1530-1700 Room: H232 Snacks and refreshments will be available from 1500. Abstract: Puzzles of nonexistence are ancient and philosophically central. In analytic philosophy, these issues are typically examined through the lens of "empty" (i.e., non-referring) names. E.g. if 'Vulcan' is empty, then how […]
The Department of English Language and Literature invites you to a public talk by Professor Anna Cristina Ribeiro (Texas Tech University). The event will be held on Zoom. Title: “Thinking with Poetry” Date and time: Thursday 5 October, 17:30 Zoom Meeting ABSTRACT. Poetic language is sensuous and imagistic: its sounds often form a rhythm, and its images ground us in […]
