SHE BAD: Women In Film
The Program in Visual Arts presents an evening of five short narratives by women filmmakers, curated by Danielle Eliska Lyle. A discussion with filmmakers Danielle Eliska Lyle and Carolynn Cecilia will follow the screening.
Education is No Panacea: Inequality and Poverty in Brazil
216 Aaron Burr 216 Aaron Burr, PrincetonThere are important limitations to what education can do to reduce inequality and poverty within a reasonable time frame. Education is a long term investment and it takes half a century to qualify the entire labor force. Primary and secondary education have small effects on inequality, even in a highly optimistic scenario.
Modern Europe Workshop: Artists between Tragedy, Camouflage, Mourning, and Mockery: From the Great War to the 1920s
210 Dickinson 210 DickinsonA lunch time workshop. To attend, RSVP to Jack Guenther at jackhg@princeton.edu. A light lunch will be provided.
The Seine: The River that Made Paris
010 East PyneElaine Sciolino will discuss her new book The Seine: The River that Made Paris followed by a Q&A. Elaine Sciolino is a contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief for The New York Times who has lived in Paris since 2002. She has written several books, including La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life. Her […]
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street, PrincetonTwo eminent African American Studies Scholars discuss how exploitative real estate practices continued well after housing discrimination was banned. By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that the turbulence could be calmed by turning Black city-dwellers into homeowners, […]
Comparative Diplomatics: Multilingual Documents of Medieval Sicily and Peasant Studies
105 Chancellor GreenProfessor Hiroshi Takayama will be presenting on “Multilingual Documents of Medieval Sicily and Peasant Studies.” Conveners: Tom Conlan (East Asian Studies; History), Helmut Reimitz (Medieval Studies; History, ), Marina Rustow (Near Eastern Studies; History) Coordinator: Brendan Goldman (Judaic Studies). All are welcome. To receive announcements about the workshop and brief precirculated readings, email Brendan Goldman […]
Ciné-Club: “Ascenseur pour l’échafaud” (1958), Louis Malle
Rocky-Mathey Theater Rockefeller College, 203 Madison Hall, PrincetonFor his feature debut, twenty-four-year-old Louis Malle brought together a mesmerizing performance by Jeanne Moreau, evocative cinematography by Henri Decaë, and a now legendary jazz score by Miles Davis. Taking place over the course of one restless Paris night, Malle’s richly atmospheric crime thriller stars Moreau and Maurice Ronet as lovers whose plan to murder […]
