Mellon Forum: Indigenous Resistance and Anti-Colonial Critique of Environmental Justice
School of Architecture, South Gallery School of Architecture, South Gallery, PrincetonThis presentation examines the critical interplay among settler colonialism, Indigenous resurgence, and the politics of climate justice. In the wake of a planet-wide movement riddled with idioms about “saving our home,” where the ground is fast-shifting and the fate of humanity’s collective future is at stake, there has been a tidal wave of interest in Indigenous […]
Virtual Reality and the Feeling of Virtue: Women of Color Narrators, Enforced Hospitality, and the Leveraging of Empathy
100 Jones PrincetonThis lecture analyzes women of color’s labor as virtual reality’s documentary subjects whose digital presence and hospitality within war-torn, emiserated, and inhospitable scenes such as a Lebanese refugee camp, a favela, and a cucumber farm enables a fantasy of virtuous empathy on the part of the viewer. Lisa Nakamura, Professor of American Culture at the […]
Frankenstein, Ethics, and Teaching Across the Disciplines
010 East PynePanel discussion as part of the Frankenstein @ 200 celebrations. "Teaching Frankenstein and Race." John Bugg, Fordham University, teaching award winner at Fordham and Princeton PhD "Frankenstein in the History of Happiness: From Ancient Ethics to Richard Wright." Adam Potkay, College of William and Mary; Laurence Rockefeller Teaching Professor at Center for Human Values
Victorians, Obviously
B14 McCoshA talk by Jonathan Farina, Associate Professor of English (Seton Hall University) Co-sponsored by the Princeton Victorian Colloquium and Associate Professor of English, Meredith Martin.
Shariah at the University
Betts AuditoriumWhat is Shariah's place in American intellectual life? What role can academics and academic institutions play in public discussions of this contentious topic? In this lecture, Dr. Abou El Fadl will offer his analysis, informed by decades of research and teaching on Islamic law, on the past, present, and future of the study of Shariah […]
The Changing State Of Journalism In Greece
103 Scheide Caldwell 103 Scheide Caldwell, PrincetonJoanna Kakissis is a contributing international correspondent for NPR, based in Athens and covering southeastern Europe and the Balkans. Joanna regularly reports throughout Europe and has also filled in for NPR bureau chiefs in Berlin, Jerusalem, London and Paris. Having lived in Europe since 2004, much of Joanna’s reporting has focused on the forces straining […]
Mendel Night at the Opera
Cone Seminar Room, WoolworthPrinceton University Library's Mendel Music Library will stream the 2012 Glyndebourne production of W.A. Mozart's, "The Marriage of Figaro," starring Vito Priante, Lydia Teuscher, Sally Matthews, Audun Iversen, and Isabel Leonard with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
