Data Visualization of our Collective Collections
Firestone Library, Floor BHeidi Nance, Director of Resource Sharing Initiatives for the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation, and Ian Bogus, Executive Director of ReCAP will share data visualization examples of our collective collections and discuss ideas for developing intuition to navigate the complex landscape of our library resources. After brief presentations, we will conduct an active learning activity to […]
Building Process and Regola D’arte: A Customized Approach to the Restoration of Historic Masonry
222 Bowen PrincetonThe lecture will focus on the concepts of regola dell’arte (which may be translated as “conformance to best practices”) and minimal intervention. Each construction is the result of a process that applies the regola dell’arte to the actual building. This process depends on many factors, including the historic context, materials, financial constraints, and workmanship.
Environmental Humanities Colloquium: Once Upon a Tomorrow
111 East Pyne 111 East PyneScience journalist Meera Subramanian, the 2019 Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities in the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), will present, “Once Upon a Tomorrow." Subramanian challenges us to step into other people’s lives — and the narratives that shape them — during this pivotal time for humanity and […]
Moral Thought in the Age of Therapy
106 McCormick NJThe ascendance of psychology in the twentieth century and beyond has had consequential effects on our frameworks for understanding the moral life. This talk will explore the importance of literary and philosophical approaches to moral reflection in the context of influential psychological paradigms reaching from psychoanalysis to cognitive science. In drawing out literary forms of […]
Reading by Yusef Komunyakaa, Maxine Hong Kingston, and David Treuer
Richardson Auditorium Richardson Auditorium, PrincetonPrinceton University’s renowned Program in Creative Writing kicks-off a year-long celebration of its 80th anniversary with a reading by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa, National Book Award-winning writer Maxine Hong Kingston, and Ojibwe novelist and non-fiction writer David Treuer, a Princeton alumnus, three of 80 writers helping to celebrate this milestone anniversary. Free and open […]
Seuls en Scène presents “blablabla”
Wallace Theater, Lewis Arts Complex PrincetonWith "blablabla," Joris Lacoste and Emmanuelle Lafon orchestrate, for the first time, a children’s version of their Encyclopédie de la parole. In this piece, devised using recordings of all different kinds, an actress-singer-performer explores how children hear. Thus, the question is not what is their point of view, but what is their “point of hearing?” […]
