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Filmmaker Julietta Singh joins Sophie Gee and Sarah Rivett for a screening of the documentary, "The Nest," and a post-screening conversation. The screening starts at 5:15 p.m. Registration requested.
About the film (from the website):
At the end of her mother’s life, decolonial writer Julietta Singh returns to say goodbye to her haunted childhood home. As she digs into the history of the house, she uncovers 140 years of forgotten matriarchs and political rebels she never knew.
Singh teams up with acclaimed filmmaker Chase Joynt ("Framing Agnes," "No Ordinary Man") for a politically charged cross-community collaboration that deftly interweaves Indigenous, Deaf, Japanese and South Asian histories, all connected through the home.
A reckoning with memory, matriarchy and the enduring legacies of silenced voices, the film questions who gets lost in the archives of history, and what we stand to gain by resurrecting them. "The Nest" transforms a single home from a place of siloed histories into a site of radical collective potential.
In Conversation:
Julietta Singh is a Whitney J. Oates Short-Term Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Effron Center for the Study of America in Spring 2026. She is also professor of English and Stephanie Bennett-Smith Chair of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Richmond. She is the author of three books: "Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements" (Duke UP, 2018), "No Archive Will Restore You" (Punctum Books, 2018), and "The Breaks" (Coffee House Press, 2021). Her work has been published in venues such as South Atlantic Quarterly, Women & Performance, Social Text, Cultural Critique, and Studies in Gender and Sexuality.
Sophie Gee teaches in the English department at Princeton University. She is also Vice Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Sydney, where she's engaged in building the public value of the humanities. She is the author of scholarly monographs and a historical novel and co-hosts the globally successful "Secret Life of Books" podcast. She writes for many publications including The New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement and the Sydney Morning Herald. Sophie appears at festivals and events worldwide, advocating for the Humanities.
Co-sponsored by the Princeton University Humanities Council and GradFutures Professional Development at Princeton University. Public Humanities programs are presented with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this programming do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Lectures & Panels | Humanities | Films | *Registration Requested |
TAGS: | NEH |
