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 […]
My Princeton Oral History Training
Mudd LibraryMy Princeton Oral History Project is an initiative to create a space for students who feel left out of the dominant Princeton narrative by capturing and sharing their unique experiences through recorded interviews. The project aims to capture students' experiences in and outside of Princeton, guided through questions such as why they chose Princeton, what […]
Defeated Revolutionaries, Lasting Legacies: The Afterlife of Revolution in Dhufar, Oman
A71 Simpson International BuildingPost-conflict authoritarian states often rely on patronage and repression as strategies to quell dissent and to win hearts and minds. Gulf monarchies have relied on these tactics in the Arab Spring, and in facing earlier generations of insurgents including during Oman’s war against Dhufar’s revolutionaries (1965-1975). Re-examination of the everyday lives of ex-revolutionaries in Dhufar […]
I-language and interspeaker variation in a refugee community
1-S-5 Green Hall 1-S-5 Green Hall, PrincetonThis talk advocates an approach to interspeaker linguistic variation that aligns with the ‘I-language’ view (Chomsky 1986). On this view, the object of study in linguistics is mental grammar; language is understood as being internal to the individual, in contrast to the ‘E-language’ approach, where language is external to individual speakers. In this talk I […]
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Ken Chen and Sally Wen Mao
Donald G. Drapkin Studio, Lewis Arts Complex NJCelebrating New Asian American Writing Ken Chen served as the executive director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop from 2008 to 2019. He is the recipient of the Yale Younger Poets Award, the oldest annual literary award in America, for his book Juvenilia, which was selected by the poet Louise Glück. An NEA, NYFA and […]
Queer Exile in Interwar Berlin and Paris
105 Chancellor Green PrincetonPart of “Paris, Modern: A Workshop Series,” a Humanities Council Magic Project, related to a team-taught graduate course, “Paris, Modern” (Fall 2019) which features works-in-progress by well-known scholars of the artistic, literary, and intellectual culture in Paris between 1905 and 1940. For the pre-circulated paper, contact Joshua Kotin (English) jkotin@princeton.edu.
Rosie Won the War: A Conversation and a Display
111 East Pyne 111 East PyneRenata Stih and Frieder Schnock are conceptual artists and Visiting Whitney J. Oates Fellows in the Humanities Council and the Department of Comparative Literature (Fall 2019)
Adorno, Aesthetic Negativity, and the Problem of Idealism
205 East PyneOne of Adorno’s most sweeping and frequent characterizations of his project in Aesthetic Theory has it that the “task that confronts aesthetics today” is an “emancipation from absolute idealism” (165). The context and the phrase itself make explicit that he means Hegel, but only in so far as Hegel represents the culmination and essence of […]
Tanner Lecture: Active and Passive Citizens I: Rousseau and Sieyès
101 Friend Center 101 Friend Center, NJTanner Lectures on Human Value I Richard Tuck will address the question of “Active and Passive Citizens," in two Tanner lectures on November 6 and 7. The idea that democracy rests ultimately on majority voting plays remarkably little part in most current theories of democracy. Instead, they stress (to take only a few examples) the […]
Comparative Diplomatics — Making a Case: Pahlavi Documents from early Islamic Iran
105 Chancellor GreenKhodadad Rezakhani (Research Scholar, Mossavar-Rahmani Center) will be presenting on “Making a Case: Pahlavi Documents from early Islamic Iran”. All are welcome. Conveners: Tom Conlan (East Asian Sutides; History), Helmut Reimitz (History), Marina Rustow (Near Eastern Studies; History) Coordinator: Brendan Goldman (JDS). To receive announcements about the workshop and brief precirculated readings, email Brendan Goldman at bgg2@princeton.edu. […]
Book Talk: Race for Profit
Betts AuditoriumBy 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, they passed the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and set about establishing policies to induce mortgage lenders […]
EXILE
Richardson Auditorium Richardson Auditorium, PrincetonThe Pharos Ensemble is delighted to work with renowned musician and scholar Kyriakos Kalaitzidis in their first upcoming US tour in the fall of 2019. This collaboration is a rare opportunity for them to join forces and present the original work "EXILE" as well as a repertoire of Greek traditional music. Eirini Tornesaki, vocals Vasilis […]
Ciné-Club: “Un flic” (1972), Jean-Pierre Melville
Rocky-Mathey Theater Rockefeller College, 203 Madison Hall, PrincetonBeginning with a remarkable bank robbery on a deserted beach front and also featuring a helicopter heist shot in real time, Un Flic is perhaps Jean-Pierre Melville's most perfect synthesis of style and suspense. A wonderfully fatalistic study of loss and deception, and a distillation of Melville's interest in the codes of loyalty and honor, […]
Fall Film Series: Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
Princeton Garden Theatre 160 Nassau Street, PrincetonIn conjunction with the exhibition The Eternal Feast: Banqueting in Chinese Art from the 10th to the 14th Century, the Art Museum and the Princeton Garden Theatre present three award-winning Chinese-language films. Museum members receive Princeton Garden Theatre member admission price. Eat Drink Man Woman is a delicious comedy about food, fatherhood, and family ties. Widower Tao Chu, Taiwan’s most […]
