Gauss Seminar in Criticism: Neoliberalism’s Frankenstein
Betts Auditorium Betts Auditorium, PrincetonThe first Gauss Seminar in Criticism in the academic year 2018-19 will be presented by Professor of Political Science Wendy Brown (UC Berkeley), whose scholarship focuses on neoliberalism and the […]
Experiments in Artificial Human Intelligence
210 Dickinson 210 DickinsonThis workshop explores the intersection of machine-based algorithms and free will. Justin Smith, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the Université Paris […]
Take No Prisoners: Unintended Consequences of Criminal Justice Reform in Venezuela
216 Aaron Burr 216 Aaron Burr, PrincetonDorothy Kronick, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, will present "Take No Prisoners: Unintended Consequences of Criminal Justice Reform in Venezuela," for the Program […]
The New Wilderness
10 Guyot PrincetonA PEI Faculty Seminar Jeff Whetstone (Lewis Center for the Arts) will draw on film and photographs from his PEI-funded documentary about New Orleans and the Lower Mississippi River, "The Batture Ritual," […]
Revolt of the Suburbs in the 1968 & 2018 Elections
101 McCormick 101 McCormick Hall, PrincetonPolitical pundits identify a “suburban revolt” as the key to victory in the 2018 midterms. In a reversal of Richard Nixon’s 1968 efforts to court “Forgotten Americans” wary of the […]
Book Talk: The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews in Italy
Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street, PrincetonA discussion of Sullam’s revisionist account of how ordinary Italians actively participated in the deportation of Italy’s Jews between 1943 and 1945, when Mussolini’s collaborationist republic was under German occupation.
Mendel Night at the Opera
Mendel Music Library, Woolworth PrincetonMendel Music Library will stream the 2018 Metropolitan Opera production of Puccini's "Tosca," preceded by a brief introduction from one of Princeton's accomplished musicology graduate students.
African Philosophers in Europe and the Question of Slavery, 1700-1750
010 East PyneJustin Smith will discuss G. W. Leibniz’s 1702 work, De la notion commune de la justice, Jacobus Capitein's treatise On Slavery, Not Contrary to Christian Liberty, and Anton Wilhelm Amo (c. 1703 c. 1753).
