20th Annual Humanities Colloquium: Communities in the Making

The Humanities Council, in collaboration with the Princeton Humanities Initiative, presents the 20th annual Humanities Colloquium on Thursday, September 10 at 4:30 pm in the Princeton University Art Museum Grand Hall. This year’s event features distinguished Princeton scholars who will explore the theme, “Communities in the Making.”

Speakers include Devin Fore (German), Katja Guenther (History), Brooke Holmes (Classics), and Beth Lew-Williams (History). The panel will discuss how communities of thought and experience are made and undone, what conditions their survival or disappearance over time, and how exclusion and othering become a corollary to belonging.

The four speakers will examine communities that are formed through political passions (Fore), family care and communal traditions (Guenther), networks of sympathy (Holmes), and legal systems of alienage and citizenship (Lew-Williams).

The conversation, open to the University community, will be moderated by Council Chair Esther Schor (English).

To see past events, please visit the Humanities Colloquium page on our website. Requests for accommodations should be emailed to Mary Cate Connors (marycc@princeton.edu ) by August 31, 2026.

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