2019-2020 Elmer Adler Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize
PrincetonAre you a collector of books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, recordings, coins, or other materials collected by libraries? Submit an essay about your collection for a chance to win the 2019-2020 Elmer Adler Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize, which is awarded annually to an undergraduate student who shows the most thought and ingenuity in assembling a thematically […]
Book Talk: The Nevada Test Site
Princeton Public LibraryLabyrinth Live at the Library presents a talk by Emmet Gowin. More nuclear bombs have been detonated in America than in any other country in the world. Between 1951 and 1992, the Nevada National Security Test Site was the primary location for these activities, withstanding more than a thousand nuclear tests that left swaths of […]
Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment: Unreal Cities
School of Architecture, South GalleryThis session unearths the layered metafictions of the city: how the stories we tell about our cities restructure the cities themselves and how the city alters how we tell stories about ourselves. What is the science and the imagination of a city? What maps and narratives lie hidden but also animate the familiar atlas of […]
Translating Poetry, Translating Blackness
399 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building PrincetonOver the last 50 years the field of translation studies has developed a substantial discourse around the topic of translation, in all of its forms. Yet the topic of “race” in relation to translation—literary, cultural, professional, legal, etc.—translation remains little discussed. This presentation will explore a particular aspect of this issue, the translation of Black […]
Some Medieval Poetics
209 Scheide Caldwell 209 Scheide Caldwell, PrincetonMedieval Studies Tuesday: Faculty colloquium
Profiles in Distinguished Teaching with Rosina Lozano
399 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building PrincetonThe Profiles in Distinguished Teaching is a series featuring distinguished teachers from across the disciplines, sponsored by The McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, The Office of the Dean of the College, and The Office of the Dean of the Faculty. RSVP required.
Places of Remembrance
205 East PyneThis event begins on the second floor bridge of the East Pyne Building next to Stih & Schnock’s two light boxes, which depict a decentralized memorial installed in remembrance of Jews living in the Bayerisches Viertel (a neighborhood in Berlin – Schoeneberg) during the Third Reich. It demonstrates how the decrees set by the National […]
The Art of Assemblage: Decorating for the Seasons and Status
101 McCormickLecture 1 in a two-part series on the Art of Assemblage: Interior Display in Ming and Qing China. For a viewer of the Ming dynasty, a painting showing a woman hanging a print on a wall would have indicated unmistakably the time of year depicted, for only at the New Year would such a print […]
A Visit with Maya Lin
Richardson Auditorium Richardson Auditorium, PrincetonMarking the completion of two new signature works of public art by Maya Lin at Princeton, known as The Princeton Line and Einstein’s Table, the Princeton University Art Museum warmly invites you to hear the artist in conversation with James Steward, Nancy A. Nasher–David J. Haemisegger, Class of 1976, Director. This informal discussion will focus […]
M+M: Fall 2019 Doctoral Colloquium: Session I: Ivan L. Munuera + Ying Sze Pek
N107 School of ArchitectureIvan L. Munuera (Ph.D. Candidate, Architecture) “Grounded Bodies, Flying Plasma: The Origins of the Hemogeography” Ying Sze Pek (Ph.D. Candidate, Art and Archaeology) “Duration, Discursivity, and Experience: Moving Image Works at the Global Art Exhibition”
