Past Events

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IHUM Graduate Salon with Francisco del Pino and Rachael Uwada Clifford
April 9, 2025, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location
Prospect House, Redwood Library
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IHUM Graduate Salon with Cate Morley and Hazal Hürman
March 5, 2025, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location
Princeton Public Library, Newsroom
IHUM Graduate Salon with Angelika Joseph and Ayluonne Tereszkiewicz
February 12, 2025, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location
Prospect House, Cedar Room
The Witness-Machine Complex: The Witness-Machine Complex, 2021. Installation view: The Sonic Image, Sharjah Art Foundation, 2022. Commissioned by Kunstverein Nürnberg. Courtesy of the Artist.
The Sonics of Self Determination
February 11, 2025, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location
A71 Louis A. Simpson Building
Speaker
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Director, Earshot.ngo
Chain fork
IHUM Open House
December 4, 2024, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location
Chancellor Green Rotunda
Kang Yong Suk, From Maehyang-ri, 1999, gelatin silver print, 70 x 80 cm
IHUM Graduate Salon with Nicholas Barone and Minna Lee
December 3, 2024, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location
Palmer House, Solarium
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Misadventures in Magazine Making: An Evening with The European Review of Books
November 20, 2024, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location
Chancellor Green Rotunda
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A Pitching Panel with the Editors of The European Review of Books
November 19, 2024, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location
Betts Auditorium
interactive lifesize puzzle at Washington Monument
Faber Lecture
Made Instrument: Art, Black Spirituality and Social Life
May 2, 2024, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
010 East Pyne
Dead humpback whale beached with people looking on
Graduate Salon
IHUM Graduate Salon with Paul Eberwine and Lucas Prates
March 5, 2024, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location
Markerspace (A floor of Lewis Science Library)
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IHUM Application Deadline
March 1, 2024, 8:00 am – 11:30 pm
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Graduate Salon
IHUM Graduate Salon
February 1, 2024, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location
Princeton Public Library, 2nd Floor NEWSROOM
House half underground
Open House
IHUM Open House
December 6, 2023, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location
Chancellor Green Rotunda
Goup of poeple raising hands to the sky
Political Imaginaries Unmoored: Beyond the Universal and Particular
December 4, 2023, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
219 Aaron Burr Hall
Speaker
Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Columbia University
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Graduate Salon
IHUM Graduate Salon
November 1, 2023, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
185 Nassau Street, Room 219
Speaker
Julian Chehirian & Denise Xu
One big circle with the colors of the rainbow
Faber Lecture
Leaping Clear of the Many and the One
April 27, 2023, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Speaker
Ruth Ozeki
Graduate Salon
IHUM Graduate Workshop
March 31, 2023, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Location
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 209
Speakers
  • Luke F. Johnson & Fedor Karmanov
Graduate Salon
IHUM Graduate Workshop
March 10, 2023, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Location
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 209
Speaker
Navjit Kaur & Becca Liu
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The Opposite of Cancel Culture: Shifting Opera and Ballet for a Multiracial Future
February 1, 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
Wallace Hall, Room 300
Speaker
Phil Chan
Co-founder of Final Bow for Yellowface, Author, Advocate
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Value and Solidarity
December 7, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:20 pm
Location
Wallace Hall, room 300
Speaker
Colleen Lye
University of Berkeley
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Open House
IHUM Open House
December 6, 2022, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location
Chancellor Green Rotunda
colorful tapestry
The World on a Lithograph Scroll from Meerut, 1849
November 3, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, Room 399
Speaker
Shahzad Bashir
Brown University
Graduate Salon
IHUM Graduate Workshop
September 16, 2022, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Location
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 209
Speakers
  • Hannah Stamler & Joyce Chen
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Faber Lecture
The "Agape of Peaches": Advocacy, Women Political Prisoners and Captive Maternals
April 13, 2022, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Zoom
Speaker
Joy James
Williams College
coins held in a person's hand
Algerian Letters - Unlearning Short Histories
March 30, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
Zoom
Speaker
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
Brown University
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Graduate Salon
IHUM Graduate Workshop
February 11, 2022, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Location
Zoom
Speaker
Lina Ahmed Abushouk & Gemma Peacock
Alice in Wonderland stuck in white rabbits house
Tutissimum Refugium
February 2, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
Zoom
Speaker
Sophie Lewis
Independent Scholar
House half underground
Open House
IHUM Open House
November 17, 2021, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location
Chancellor Green Rotunda
two people in cooking
A House with a Date Palm Will Never Starve
November 10, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
Zoom
Speaker
Michael Rakowitz
Visual Artist
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Graduate Salon
IHUM Graduate Workshop
November 5, 2021, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Location
Zoom
Speaker
Malina Buturovic & Junnan Chen
Home-lunchtime-talk
Where is the real home?
October 27, 2021, 12:00 pm – 12:00 pm
Location
Zoom
Speaker
Kubra Khademi
Visual Artist
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Graduate Salon
IHUM Graduate Workshop
September 24, 2021, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Location
Zoom
Speaker
Kutay Onayli
Empty white room with 2 doors, paneled floors and pictures on side wall
Faber Lecture
Encumbrance
May 20, 2021, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
Zoom
Speaker
Cameron Rowland
Artist
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Black Study, Black Struggle
April 6, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
Zoom
Speaker
Derecka Purnell
Human Rights Lawyer, Writer, Organizer
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Baobab Notes: Popular Education and US Solidarity for Southern Africa
March 2, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
Zoom
Speaker
Martha Biondi
Northwestern University
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Open House
IHUM Open House
November 19, 2020, 4:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Location
Zoom
ceramic object in the shape of an embryo on a table
All the Best Memories Are Hers
November 10, 2020, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
Virtual
Speaker
Carissa Rodriguez
Artist
back of shirtless women surrendering to authorities
Public Things After Trump: Truth and Reckoning
October 6, 2020, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
Zoom
Speaker
Bonnie Honig
Brown University
They molding an image
Virtual : The Body as Social Sculpture
April 30, 2020, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
Zoom
Speaker
Cassils
Magazines bound with pink rope
VIRTUAL: Forced Womanhood!
April 14, 2020, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Speaker
Río Sofia
Visual Artist and Organizer
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Beyond the Will to Truth
February 12, 2020, 12:00 pm – 12:00 pm
Location
Wallace Room 300
Speaker
Bernard E. Harcourt
Columbia University
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Open House
IHUM Open House
December 10, 2019, 5:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Location
Sun Porch Joseph Henry House
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Translating Poetry, Translating Blackness
November 5, 2019, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
399 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building
Speaker
John Keene
Rutgers University
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A Historiography of the Trend
October 22, 2019, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
399 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building
Speaker
T'ai Smith
University of British Columbia
Idle no more
Land as Relationship: Building Cross-Struggle Solidarity through Land-Based Practice
April 4, 2019, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
161 East Pyne
Speaker
Glen Coulthard
University of British Columbia
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Problems with Practice
April 2, 2019, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
399 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building
Speaker
Gadi Algazi
Tel Aviv University
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From Rehearsal to Simulation
March 13, 2019, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
399 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building
Speaker
Sabeth Buchmann
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
Barney installation
Open House
IHUM Open House: A Conversation on the Presentational
December 5, 2018, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location
School of Architecture - South Gallery
Speakers
  • Brooke Holmes
    Department of Classics
  • Devin Fore
    Department of German
Ellen Fullman with her Long String Instrument
Constructing a Musical Phrase from the Ground Up
November 19, 2018, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
Lewis Center for the Arts - CoLab Gallery
Speaker
Ellen Fullman
American Composer; Artist in Residence
Constructing a Musical Phrase from the Ground Up
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“Practice” and Time: Unfolding Effects of a Concept’s Success
November 7, 2018, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
209 Scheide Caldwell
Speaker
Karin Knorr Cetina
University of Chicago