Carbon
Petroleum has both lain the structure for our society and carries with it the potential to destroy it. Architectural historian Ateya Khorakiwala examines the lasting social and political effects of […]
On Principals and Agency: Reassembling Trust along the Arabian Littoral
202 Jones 202 Jones, PrincetonProgram in Near Eastern Studies Brown Bag Lunch talk
Imperial Connections: The Nahda and Translation Movements between Ottoman Turkish and Arabic, 1860-1914
144 Louis A. Simpson International BuildingWhat kinds of ties connected intellectuals in Istanbul, Cairo and Beirut in the last decades of the Empire? To what extent did these intellectuals follow each other’s debates and engage […]
Thinking Cinema Lecture: “Thinking Like a Holy Girl: A Philosophy of Grandma’s Bedroom”
106 McCormickOn Monday, October 16, the Committee for Film Studies will host the second lecture in its seven-part, year-long Thinking Cinema series, which structures vibrant encounters between leading film scholars and the […]
Intersections presents: Blackness & Disability, a roundtable discussion
101 McCormick 101 McCormick Hall, PrincetonThe roundtable Blackness & Disability dovetails with the publication of African American Review's (link is external) special issue of the same name. Contributors to the issue will address practical and […]
How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848
Labyrinth Books Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street, PrincetonJonathan Israel, one of the world’s leading historians of the Enlightenment, shows how the radical ideas of America's founders set the pattern for democratic revolutions, movements, and constitutions around the […]
Film Forum: White Supremacy in Hollywood
Rocky TheaterWhite Supremacy in Hollywood: D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1916) and Workshop I (Workshops involve running commentary during silent screening of the examined film.) Film Forum Director: Erika […]
Media, Technology, and Race: A Walter Lord Society Dinner Conversation with Tanzina Vega
Private Dining Room, Mathey CollegeJoin the Walter Lord Society on Monday, October 16, at its third dinner conversation of the year: Media, Technology, and Race. Tanzina Vega, CNNMoney’s national reporter for race and inequality, […]
