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The Princeton LLM Forum is bringing together leading scholars and researchers from a variety of disciplines and fields to discuss the implications that large language models (LLMs) have on our understanding of language, society, culture, and theory of mind. Join us for our second panel, a discussion between Wai Chee Dimock, William Lampson Professor Emeritus of American Studies and English at Yale University and research affiliate at the Harvard University Center for the Environment, and CDH Fac...

A tangled narrative of science, politics, and human communities, beginning with smallpox in the 18th century and extending to the COVID vaccination landscape of our own time, with some discussion of AI along with RFK Jr. Wai Chee Dimock (Yale) writes about public health, climate change, and Indigenous communities, focusing on the symbiotic relation between human and nonhuman intelligence.

The Booker longlisted novel examines the complicated idea of home and how institutionalised racism coexists with the idea of the American dream

Loss of wild species has reached a crisis level.  Artificial intelligence can help, but only if Indigenous partners have secure land rights

I did not drastically alter the structure of the book when editing the manuscript after the larp. The story still seemed like a world-machine that I could not intervene in so much as decide how to portray. And the most crucial event that occurred in the book occurred in the larp, too.

There is a House with 7,678 halls; in the House lives the eponymous protagonist of Susanna Clarke’s new novel, Piranesi. The amnesiac narrator knows nothing beyond this architecture, which inhabits and obsesses him—this mansion with great staircases, courtyards, and marble statuary, where, depending on the level reached, you could be in the domain of the clouds (Upper Halls), conversing with birds (Middle Halls), or plunged into an underwater ecosystem (Lower Halls). Piranesi cohabits this...

The Novel Project In fall of 2016, eleven Duke faculty—all of whom were working on their own within their respective language departments—discovered that they shared a common object of knowledge and stood to benefit immensely from working as a group. The group included Nancy Armstrong (English), Miriam Cooke (Arabic), Roberto Dainotto (Italian), Anne Garréta (French), Shai Ginsburg (Hebrew), Aimee Kwon (Korean, Japanese), Cate Reilly (Russian), Anne-Gaëlle Saliot (French), Aarthi Vadde (E...

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"Karen Thornber’s Global Healing is a major achievement that will have a critical impact on both the medical humanities and global literary studies. Ranging across traditional boundaries of east and west, north and south, with erudition, clarity, and compassion, Thornber powerfully demonstrates how literature illuminates the most essential elements of the experience of illness, as well as the limits of our medical and social approaches to its alleviation." - Allan M. Brandt, The Cigar...