The Politics of Resistance to Criminal Victimization
216 Aaron Burr 216 Aaron Burr, PrincetonCriminal violence is a growing concern for citizens and policymakers across the developing world. Much existing research assumes that victims are resigned to their victimization at the hands of violent criminal actors amid absent or complicit states. Moncada challenges the conventional wisdom and argues that not only do victims resist their victimization, but resistance actually […]
A Conversation with Naomi Klein
50 McCosh PrincetonJournalist and author Naomi Klein will discuss her bestselling book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate in a conversation with writer and environmental activist Ashley Dawson, the 2017 PEI Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities. Hosted by the Princeton Environmental Institute and the Princeton University Art Museum, […]
The Age of ‘Amok’
N107 School of ArchitectureThe proliferation of mass-shootings in the USA since the 1960s has produced a character profile of largely unremarkable, middle-class male culprits who transform particular places of civil peace – schools, universities shopping malls – into landscapes of war. On the one hand, the lack of clear motives has led mystified psychiatric experts to draw correlations […]
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
Betts Auditorium Betts Auditorium, PrincetonPulitzer Prize winner and National Humanities Medal recipient Isabel Wilkerson is the author of The New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration.
Fred McDarrah: New York Scenes
Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street, PrincetonDuring his 50-year association with the Village Voice, photographer Fred W. McDarrah (1926–2007) covered the city’s downtown scenes, producing an unmatched and encyclopedic visual record of people, movements, and events. McDarrah captured every vital moment, from Jack Kerouac reading poetry, to Bob Dylan hanging out in Sheridan Square, to Andy Warhol filming in the Factory, […]
Princeton University Sinfonia
Richardson Auditorium Richardson Auditorium, PrincetonIn its first Richardson performance of the year, the Princeton University Sinfonia treats the community to a concert of orchestral gems. Program TBA