Past Events

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)
students gathered in room to hear about IHUM open house
IHUM Application Deadline
March 1, 2024, 8:00 am – 11:30 pm
black and white drawing with person pulling a string
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
poster for latent archives
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
three dancers posing
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
Student gathering in the Rotunda-Open House event
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
Letter from Peaches news clipping
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
words, ihum logo
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
words, ihum logo
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
words, ihum logo
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
just a black square
Black Study, Black Struggle
April 6, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
Zoom
Speaker
Derecka Purnell
Human Rights Lawyer, Writer, Organizer
women activist
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
House half underground
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
House half underground
Open House
IHUM Open House
December 10, 2019, 5:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Location
Sun Porch Joseph Henry House
daniel lind-ramo assemblage
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
Film still from Rien du Tout
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
Karin Knorr medicine
“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
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Experiments in Artificial Human Intelligence
October 2, 2018, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
210 Dickinson Hall
Speaker
Justin E.H. Smith
Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7
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Faber Lecture
Being in Life without Wanting the World: On Biopolitics and the Attachment to Life
September 24, 2018, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Lauren Berlant
University of Chicago
Théâtre Robert Houdin poster
Faber Lecture
The Intelligence of Algorithms — before Electronic Computers
May 1, 2018, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Lorraine Daston
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
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Post-Fierce + reEarth: Black Code Work
April 10, 2018, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
399 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building
Speaker
Jessica Marie Johnson
Johns Hopkins University
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Repair Work
April 4, 2018, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
301 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building
Speaker
Dana Simmons
University of California, Riverside
View of stockade showing
Deadlines (Literally)
March 8, 2018, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
301 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building
Speaker
Rebecca Comay
University of Toronto
Detail of Colossal Krater from Altamura, about 350 B.C., Greek, made in Apulia, South Italy
Can We Work Towards a Better Future?
February 15, 2018, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location
301 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building
Speaker
Holly Case
Brown University
Keywords book cover
Open House
IHUM Open House and Book Launch
December 5, 2017, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Location
Prospect House