Building Safavid Isfahan—with Magic: Shaykh Baha’i as Architect-Mage
A71 Simpson International BuildingShaykh Baha’i (d. 1621), the celebrated Baalbeki jurist, philosopher and mathematician, was one of the leading architects of the new Safavid capital of Isfahan. He is also acclaimed in contemporary and later sources as the leading mage of Safavid Iran. This talk explores the extent to which Shaykh Baha’i’s pronounced neopythagorean and occult-scientific proclivities—shared with […]
Not Just for the Church: Laypeople’s Use of Documents in the Carolingian Era
McCormick 106 McCormick 106, Princeton.The U.S.and the Middle East: Where to Now?
A71 Simpson International BuildingOpening Lecture in the Near East & the World Seminar Series: American Foreign Policy and the Middle East
The Operations of Culture
N107 School of ArchitectureThe origins of what has come to be called “new German media theory” are traceable to an unlikely location far from Germany—Texas—and by way of an even less evident path: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. A German émigré, Ernst Kapp, reading Hegel in the rural expanses of central Texas in the middle of the nineteenth century, […]
Open Archive: Drafting Princeton
Princeton Public LibraryMany noted architects have left their mark on the Princeton landscape. The Princeton Public Library Discovery Center presents architectural drawings and other materials that highlight the multitude of styles represented in our small community.