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All events take place in 101 McCormick Hall and are free and open to the public.
Thursday, May 12
2:30
Welcome: Brigid Doherty
2:45-4:30
Perspectives on European Culture: Recent Doctoral Research at Princeton
Moderator: Effie Rentzou
Emmelyn Buttereld-Rosen
The Disposition of Persons: Conventions of Pose and the Modernization of Figural Art, 1886-1912
Miguel Caballero
A Monument to the People? Debates on Monumentality in Madrid During the Spanish Civil War
Rachel Cristy
Asceticism and the Right to Believe: Friedrich Nietzsche and William James Against the Unconditional Will to Truth
Daniela Fabricius
An Economy of Forms: Calculation and the Rational Turn in Postwar German Architecture
Federica Soletta
Between Toy and Science: The Stereoscopic Magazine and the Popular History of Architecture
5:00-7:00
ECS in the World I: Studying Cultures after Princeton A conversation among ECS alumni from the classes of ’97 through ’14
Moderators: Anthony Grafton and Eileen Reeves
Panelists: Nicholas Bellinson ’13, Holly Borham ’97, Max Botstein ’14, Jacob Denz ’10, Daria Foner ’11, Marina Isgro ’08, Chenxin Jiang ’09, Madeline McMahon ’13, Mariam Rahmani ’10
Friday, May 13
9:00-11:00
Conflict, Culture, and Pedagogy
Moderator: David Bell
Robert Darnton
ECS 406: Recollections of a Collaboration with Clifford Geertz
Sophia Rosenfeld ’88
The History of Mentalité and the Study of Politics
Deborah Krohn ’83
Teaching Cultural History through Food
Maryam Wasif Khan ’08
Teaching The Iliad in Post-9/11 Pakistan: The Unspeakable Burden of Narrative
11:30-1:00
ECS in the World II: Reflections from Beyond the Academy
A conversation among ECS alumni from the classes of ’76 through ’06
Moderator: Brigid Doherty
Panelists: Susan Feder ’76, Julia Friedlander ’06, Isabella de la Houssaye ’86, Jonathan Kevles ’90, Joshua D. Pollack ’99, E. Randol Schoenberg ’88, Joshua Sternfeld ’01, Naomi Wolfensohn ’87
2:30-4:30
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Debora Silverman ’75 (UCLA)
Europe Without Borders, Modernity Unbounded: Fin-de-Siècle Imperialism and the Avant-Garde in King Leopold’s Belgium and Freud’s Vienna
4:30-6:30
Objects, Spaces, and Institutions in European Modernity and Beyond
Moderator: Spyros Papapetros
Anthony Vidler
Architecture and Cultural Studies at Princeton
Lisa Saltzman ’88
Daguerreotypes: Fugitive Subjects, Contemporary Objects
John Monroe ’95
Mirages of Modernism: Inventing Histories of African Sculpture in Interwar Paris
Jill Casid ’88
Necro-Tactics at the Limits of Refuge
Hilary Ballon ’77
Abu Dhabi: Nation Building and Urbanism
Saturday, May 14
9:30-12:00
Historicizing Power, Sovereignty, Self-Determination in Europe and Beyond
Moderator: Anson Rabinbach
Jerrold Seigel
Europe in Two African Mirrors
Stefanos Geroulanos ’01
Napoleon as Lawgiver: Sovereignty in the Composition of the Civil Code and its Afterlives
Timothy Nunan ’08
Between Berlin and Moscow: Iranian Visions of Self-Determination in a World at War, 1914-1921
Anne O’Donnell ’02
Ending an Endless Revolution: Property, Law, and Time in the Russian Revolution, 1917-1923
Paul Silverstein ’92
Moroccan Coalminers, Ethno-Religious Revivalism, and the Fate of Cosmopolitan Europe
Bernard Harcourt ’84
The Expository Society: Theorizing Power After May ’68
1:30-3:30
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Michael Steinberg ’78
The Future of the European Past