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The Cryptographic Renaissance: Early Modern Ciphers and the Modern Search for Meaning
211 Dickinson Hall and ZoomCommittee for the Study of Books and Media hosts Bill Sherman, The Warburg Institute, University of London Please find the details here
“‘Poor Tom’s a cold’: Shakespeare and Ecological Catastrophe”
209 Scheide Caldwell House PrincetonDear CREMS Graduate Students, You are invited to a lunch talk with Walter Cohen on Wednesday, February 8, at noon in 209 Scheide Caldwell. Professor Cohen's talk is entitled "'Poor Tom's a cold': Shakespeare and Ecological Catastrophe." There is a short essay on the topic, optional reading, that I can send to you. The […]
5000 Years of African Literature
219 Aaron Burr 219 Aaron Burr, Princeton2022-2023 CREMS Faber Lecture This talk's central claim is that Africa has a 5000-year literary history. Why does such a possibility remain almost entirely unrecognized? How well does the extant evidence support such a claim? And what difference might the answers to these questions make? The presentation takes up each of these matters in turn. […]
