'As a concept, methodological commitment, and object of study, practice has assumed enormous significance among social scientists and humanists. As an analytical category, practice foregrounds the routine activity constitutive of intellectual, cultural, and political work, and thereby reframes the vexed opposition of product and process. The 2018–19 lunchtime talk series of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities at Princeton triangulates practice against process and product, convening scholars from different fields to reflect on practice as concept, object and method.

We will invite speakers and participants to consider questions such as:  how does practicing an action through repetition transform the practitioner? How does one practice politics, in art, in scholarship, or in daily life? In the eyes of one wielding the methodological cudgel of practice, is everything practice, even theory itself? How do phenomena of networks and complex ystems, such as recursivity, self-production, and feedback inflect the concept of practice? How does pedagogic practice outside the university, such as prison education, relate to teaching inside it? Given that universities in North America rely increasingly on casualized academic workers, what solidaristic practices support adjunct and graduate labour?

All talks are 12:00–1:20 pm.
Lunch will be provided.
RSVP to Barbara Leavey