Mellon Forum: Underground Jerusalem: On the Relentless Modernization of the Jewish Past
School of Architecture, South GalleryThis architectural history of post-1967 Jerusalem chronicles how architecture, landscape design, urban planning, and everyone from municipal politicians to state bureaucrats, Israeli-born architects to international luminaries, competed to create Jerusalem’s new image. Alona Nitzan-Shiftan reveals architecture as an active agent in forming urban and national identity, demonstrating how debates about Zionism affected Jerusalem’s built environment […]
The Dash — The Other Side of Absolute Knowing
16 Joseph Henry HouseRebecca Comay, Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, will discuss a chapter from her recent book, co-authored with Frank Ruda, The Dash — The Other Side of Absolute Knowing (MIT Press, 2018), which presents a reading of Hegel’s most reviled concept, absolute knowing. The book sets out from a counterintuitive […]
Lumpendialectic
010 East Pyne
The Genres of Slavery
103 Chancellor GreenThis lecture tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining template for understanding contemporary human rights abuses. To fathom forms of freedom and bondage today — from unlawful detention to sex trafficking to the refugee crisis to conscription in war — Goyal will discuss how contemporary literature draws on the antebellum genre of the slave […]
Sounds of Migration: Listening to Filipino Caregivers in America
A17 Julis Romo RabinowitzJames Gabrillo joined Princeton to work on his postdoctoral ethnographic project on the soundscapes of Filipino migrant caregivers. His articles have been published in the journals Musical Quarterly, Journal of Popular Music Studies, and Rock Music Studies. His recent Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Cambridge examines issues of class and taste in contemporary Filipino […]
An Evening with Pascal Rambert
106 McCormick NJFlorent Masse (French and Italian) will be in conversation with the French playwright and director, Pascal Rambert who joins Princeton this Spring as a Visiting Lecturer in the Humanities Council and Belknap Fellow in French and Italian. The discussion will feature Rambert’s past and future projects with his company Structure Production, partners overseas, and Princeton […]
Book Talk: Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells
Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street, PrincetonFrom one of our most astute observers of human nature comes a far-reaching exploration of Japanese history and culture and a moving meditation on impermanence, mortality, and grief. Labyrinth, the Princeton Public Library, and the Humanities Council invite you to a reading and conversation with the author. For years, Pico Iyer has split his time […]
Open Archive: Princeton’s Civil War
Princeton Public LibraryThis Open Archive event is a chance to explore Princeton’s connections to and involvement in the Civil War, including the war’s effect on local families and the notable Princetonians who were involved. Co-sponsored by the library and the Historical Society of Princeton. Photo: Collection of the Historical Society of Princeton.
