Mellon Forum: Settlement / Camp
School of Architecture, South Gallery School of Architecture, South Gallery, PrincetonSpring 2019 Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment: "Locating Politics" takes up the rise and fall of recent uprisings as a springboard for examining a broader inventory and longer trajectory of spaces of contestation.
Así No (Not Like This): Resisting Postpolitics on Mexico City’s Avenida Chapultepec
216 Aaron Burr 216 Aaron Burr, PrincetonBuilding on roughly ten months of ethnographic and archival research, this presentation examines successful resistance to a planned redevelopment project along Avenida Chapultepec, one of Mexico City’s historic boulevards. This case illustrates the instantiation of a ‘postpolitical condition’ in Mexico City, a situation in which any opportunity for dissensus has been foreclosed and ironically replaced […]
The Ritual Economy at Consecratory Festivals in Late Antiquity
103 Scheide Caldwell 103 Scheide Caldwell, Princeton
Book Talk and Screenings: Bernard Haykel on The Looming Tower
Princeton Public Library PrincetonBernard Haykel leads a discussion of Lawrence Wright's book The Looming Tower. This discussion coincides with the screening of the 10-part Hulu series of the same name which is based on Wright's book. Screenings of the TV series are taking place at the library on Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. on the following dates: Dec. 13, […]
