A Historiography of the Trend
399 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building PrincetonThis talk seeks to examine the Trend as a model of history. The shape of trends can be seen in statistical graphs as “time series”— a set of points that index and calculate the transient movement of prices or populations. In fashion, trends articulate the changing cut of clothes but also the roving desires of […]
COUP 53
Princeton Garden Theatre 160 Nassau Street, PrincetonJoin us for a screening of the brand new documentary thriller COUP 53 followed by Q/A with director Taghi Amirani and Academy Award-winning editor Walter Murch COUP 53 is the story of the 1953 Anglo-American coup in Iran that overthrew the democratically elected Prime Minister Mossadegh and reinstalled the Shah. While making a documentary about the […]
Fagles Lecture: “The Classics Can Console?”
101 McCormickCo-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, Humanities Council, Program in Humanistic Studies, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University Public Lectures Committee, Stanley J. Seeger '52 Center for Hellenic Studies
M+M: John R. Blakinger: Undreaming the Bauhaus
N107 School of ArchitectureWhat happened to the Bauhaus dream during the Cold War? This talk considers the legacy of Bauhaus modernism through the work of artist, designer, and visual theorist Gyorgy Kepes (1906-2001), who taught at MIT from 1945 until 1974. Kepes was a relentless advocate of interdisciplinary exchange, or what he called “interthinking” and “interseeing.” He collaborated […]
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street, PrincetonThe Comma Queen returns to Labyrinth with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea. In her New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils and punctuation in The New Yorker’s celebrated copy department. In Greek to Me, she delivers another wise and […]