Young Russia: The National Image in its Colorful Life
203 Scheide Caldwell 203 Scheide CaldwellA workshop organized by the ECS Graduate Affiliate Working Group on Color and Modernity. This work in progress considers the early history of color photography in Russia and America — and exchanges therein — in order to assess the status of color and the “colorful” in representing not only a picture of imperial Russia, but […]
A Sensory Reading of Generational Memory in Iran
219 Aaron Burr PrincetonThis lecture focuses on youth who self identify as daheh-ye shasta-ha or “the 1980s generation” in Iran, and who performatively remember, enact, mobilise, and embody specific cultural and linguistic references in order to reconstruct their collective and individual memories of the 1980s. The 1980s is considered a decade of socio-political turmoil, anomie, and double binds, […]
The World as It Is
010 East PyneThe fifth talk in the Near East and the World Seminar Series: American Foreign Policy and the Middle East
Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left
B14 McCoshFaculty, students, and scholars of any discipline are invited to join the Theory Colloquium in English for a q&a discussion of Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left (CUP 2019) with co-translator, Loren Goldman. A description of this first translation of Ernst Bloch's book into English is available here Please contact Jessica at terekhov@princeton.edu for more details […]
M+M: Program in Media and Modernity Doctoral Colloquium
N107 School of ArchitectureM+M Program in Media and Modernity presents its Spring 2019 Doctoral Colloquium: Victoria Bugge Øye (Architecture) "Architecture as Metacommunication: Coop Himmelblau's 'Kommunikationsmodell'" Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco (Architecture) "A Physiological Baroque. Museography and the Senses in Francoist Spain" Miguel Domínguez (Spanish and Portuguese) "Margins of Rationality: Surrealism in 20th-Century Mexican Literary Magazines"
“On the Front Line” Screening to Benefit Gorongosa National Park
50 McCosh PrincetonA screening of the documentary "On the Front Line: The Rangers of Gorongosa National Park" will be held to benefit Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park as it recovers from the recent devastation from Cyclone Idai. This event is organized by Princeton graduate and undergraduate students and postdoctoral researchers with connections to Africa, Mozambique and Gorongosa, and […]
Troublemakers: A Philosophy of Puer Robustus
Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street, PrincetonIn his important new book, Dieter Thomä examines the crucial but often overlooked function of figures on the margins of society, developing a philosophy of troublemakers from the 17th century to the present day. He is joined for a discussion of these troublemakers from Hobbes to Trump by political theorist Jan-Werner Mueller. Dieter Thomä is […]
Screening and Discussion: The Chinese Exclusion Act
Princeton Public LibraryPBS American Experience episode “The Chinese Exclusion Act” will be screened, followed by a discussion with Beth Lew-Williams, assistant professor of history at Princeton University.
