PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress: Andy Alfonso and Francisco Cabezon
216 Aaron Burr 216 Aaron Burr, Princeton"Um lugar chamado Angola: Archival Absence, Imaginative Inquiry, and the Current Stakes of Cuban Studies": Andy Alfonso (Spanish and Portuguese) "Income Deductions and Labour Supply in the Developing World": Francisco Cabezon (Economics) This event is free and open to the public. Lunch provided.
Mpala in Motion: Student Films from the PIIRS Global Seminar in Kenya
301 Frist Campus TheaterPlease join PIIRS for a screening of the student films produced during the 2019 Global Seminar Documentary Filmmaking in Kenya: Visual Storytelling on Wildlife and Wildlands Conservation. Hosted by Katie Carpenter ’79 and Daniel Rubenstein, Class of 1877 Professor of Zoology, EEB; Director, Program in Environmental Studies Behavioral ecology and conservation. Featuring five documentary films by: […]
Fall 2019 Anschutz Lecture: Life After Earth: Speculations in World-Building from California to the Red Planet
120 Lewis Library 120 Lewis Library, PrincetonDecades before a U.S. national imaginary fixated on the “new frontier” of space colonization, L.A. civil engineer William Mulholland suggested that world-building here on Earth was California’s particular manifest destiny. In retrospect, his bravado about a growing city’s land-and-water grab from the Paiute Shoshone and agricultural communities of the Owens Valley offers a prescient touchstone […]
Translation and Philology in Greek-Chinese Comparative Philosophy
202 JonesThe Department of Comparative Literature Lecture Series Event poster
Writing Prose: Narrative Forms and Social Communication in Goethe’s Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten
205 East PyneThe concept of prose is unique in that it is the only rhetorical term that has gained prominence as a central metaphor of modernity. Since the 18th century this concept has been marked by an irreducible ambiguity. On the one hand, it refers to a written idiom not constrained by metrical regulations. On the other […]
Nature, Art and the Subjectivity of Color
101 McCormickMoving from the vibrant pigments of bird feathers in the arts of the ancient Americas to the subtle hues used in Victorian illustrations of tropical plants, this interdisciplinary discussion considers the significance of color across cultures and species. Speakers are Mary (Cassie) Stoddard, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology; Bryan Just, Peter Jay Sharp, […]
The Song of Songs: A Biography
Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street, PrincetonThe Song of Songs has been embraced for centuries as the ultimate song of love. But the kind of love readers have found in this ancient poem is strikingly varied. Join us for a conversation among three acclaimed scholars of religion about the history of the greatest love poem ever written.
Film Screening: Le Misanthrope
Princeton Garden Theatre 160 Nassau Street, PrincetonThe Humanities Council and the Department of French and Italian present a screening of the film Le Misanthrope (2019) followed by a Q&A with, actor and director, Clément Hervieu-Léger, Visiting Belknap Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of French and Italian (Fall 2019). From France comes this incredible stage production of Molière’s LE […]
Radical Nonfiction Film Series: America and New Short Films
The films of New Orleans-based artist Garrett Bradley relish in the most exciting instabilities of documentary. Her work is literal yet impressionistic, theatrical yet intimately observed, mannered yet emotionally raw. Bradley is preoccupied with history and the legacies of racially-charged moving pictures, yet her films are firmly rooted in the now and more than mildly […]
