Long Nineteenth Century Workshop
111 East Pyne 111 East PynePlease join us to workshop an essay by Elizabeth John (English). The essay is provisionally entitled "Melodramatic Ethics in A Tale of Two Cities." For a copy, please email long19c@princeton.edu
Profiles in Distinguished Teaching with Eduardo Cadava
Betts Auditorium PrincetonThe third event in a new series, which will feature distinguished teachers from across the disciplines. Speaker: Eduardo L. Cadava, Professor of English. Recipient, President's Award for Distinguished Teaching. Moderator: Andrew Cole, Professor of English. Director, Gauss Seminars in Criticism. Co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the College and the Office of […]
The President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power and the Constitution
101 Friend Center 101 Friend Center, NJThe first of two Tanner lectures by Michael McConnell, Professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, is titled "Executive Power and the Constitution." It will address the important issues facing separation of powers today, including the problem of the administrative state. He will present a new approach to the delegation […]
Environmental Humanities Colloquium: Gavin Steingo
111 East Pyne 111 East PyneGavin Steingo seeks to understand globally circulating musical practices from the perspective of the geopolitical South. His research includes examinations of music and value, infrastructures and audio technologies, sound and race, and the politics of world-music circulation. This is the fifth and final talk in the Fall 2018 Environmental Humanities Colloquium. Series Background: Open to […]
Eavesdropping on the Perfected: Reading the Zhengao 真誥
202 Jones Princeton
Alternative Ways of Seeing language: Translanguaging and Metrolingualism
010 East PyneAlthough for a long time the study of language was secluded inside of an intellectual tradition marked by structural and cognitive approaches, interdisciplinary fields such as sociolinguistics, applied linguistics and linguistic anthropology have been progressively shifting the focus from language form to language practice, from theory to fieldwork, from communication to identity and expression, and […]
Tamsen Wolff: Juno’s Swans — a Novel
Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street, PrincetonIn 1988, before her senior year of high school, Nina and her best friend spend the summer alone on Cape Cod. Nina has grown up with her ailing grandmother—and she yearns for the chance of a deeper connection. When she enrolls in an acting course, she soon finds romance with Sarah, one of the teaching […]
VIS Fall Film Series: Desiree Akhavan, The Miseducation of Cameron Post
James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau Street PrincetonCome see writer-director Desiree Akhavan talk about her new film, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, winner of the Sundance Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. This empathic and humorous film set in a gay conversion therapy camp follows Cameron Post (played by Chloë Grace Moretz) as she finds her authentic voice despite […]
