Applied Historical and Corpus Linguistics
B14 McCoshThe second of three fall workshops exploring "Disciplines of Language," hosted by the Theory Colloquium in English with support from the Graduate School. Lunch will be served.
Talisman-images Gather the Cosmos and Press it to Your Body
106 McCormick NJThe second lecture in the year-long Thinking Cinema series.
The President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power at Home and Abroad
101 Friend Center 101 Friend Center, NJThe second of the Tanner lectures by Michael McConnell (Stanford Law School) will address the powers of peace and war, in which he will claim that the president does not have the exclusive power over foreign affairs that the Court attributes to it, a defense of a narrow understanding of the Commander in Chief power, […]
Exhausted Speculations and the Crisis of Futurity
010 East PyneComparative Literature Lecture Series
Reading Matters Conference: Film Screening and Discussion
Betts Auditorium Princeton“Reading Matters” is a three-day conference at Princeton University that calls on an interdisciplinary group of distinguished scholars to respond to contemporary, political problems in their many social, textual, material, and embodied manifestations, and through considering reading as a collaborative, engaged and generative practice. In reflecting on why and how reading matters, participants will consider […]
Fake Friends: A Symposium on Art History and Comparison
106 McCormick, The Institute of Contemporary Art, PhiladelphiaA day-long series of presentations and discussions broaching the operations of comparison and similitude in the methods and practices of art and its histories, with plenty of incursions into other disciplines—notably comparative literature, religion, architecture, music, and philosophy, among others. The symposium will be opened at 5:30 M on November 29 at the Institute […]
Artist Talk: Alexis Rockman
10 McCoshAlexis Rockman’s evocative paintings imagine future life on Earth in the wake of climate change and genetic engineering gone awry. Nature’s Nation co-curator Alan C. Braddock engages the artist in conversation about his work and its relationship to the exhibition’s broader aims. A reception in the Museum will follow.
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street, PrincetonLabyrinth Books and the Princeton Public Library invite you to hear world-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt and acclaimed critic, Renaissance scholar, and poet Jeff Dolven explore the playwright’s insight into bad (and often mad) rulers.
