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 […]
Discovering Gandhi in Prison
Garden State Youth Correctional Facility PrincetonDiscovering the profound way in which prison was the secret to the ethics and actions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, this study group will meet weekly for six weeks, reading and discussing Gandhi’s Autobiography alongside other essential writings. Princeton University lecturer Mark Edwards will convene the sessions with twenty residents inside Garden State Youth Correctional Facility […]
Knotty Testimonies: Reckoning with Andean Cord-keeper Accounts from the Mid-sixteenth Century
209 Scheide Caldwell House PrincetonIn the Spanish colonies, double-entry bookkeeping (DEB) coexisted with, incorporated and transformed indigenous techniques for administering population and resources, as Gary Urton has demonstrated in his various studies on the khipu, including but not limited to historical accounts, but also inventories. Transcriptions and translation of sixteenth-century khipukamayuq testimony suggest that even as these Andean forms […]
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 […]
The Art of Assemblage: Auspicious Elegance and Erudition on Display
101 McCormickLecture 2 in a two-part series The Art of Assemblage: Interior Display in Ming and Qing China. By the Qing period, profuse displays of objects, especially in cabinets designed with open, staggered, multi-tiered shelves, drawers, and small cupboards (duobaoge), were popular in both palaces and private residences. The assembled objects and the pieces of furniture […]
Tanner Lecture: Active and Passive Citizens II: Active Democracy
101 Friend Center 101 Friend Center, NJTanner Lectures on Human Value II 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 […]
On the Virtues of Philology from Nietzsche to Machine Learning
010 East PyneDepartment of Comparative Literature Lecture Series Talk
The Poetics of an Amazonian World: Flutes, Spells, Necklaces, and Manioc
219 Aaron Burr PrincetonA Brazil LAB event with Carlos Fausto (Museu Nacional) and Rob Nixon. Carlos Fausto is Professor of Anthropology at the Brazilian Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He has been conducting fieldwork among Amazonian indigenous peoples since the 1980s and writing on warfare, shamanism, ritual, art, mythology, and political authority. He is the […]
International Cinema Series: Birds of Passage
Princeton Garden Theatre 160 Nassau Street, PrincetonFrom the filmmakers behind 2016’s Embrace of the Serpent comes another poetic look at South American history. Set in Colombia during a volatile decade of drug trafficking, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that threatens their lives and culture. Birds of Passage is bold and powerful filmmaking […]
States of Health: Visualizing Illness and Healing
10 McCoshJoin Veronica White, Curator of Academic Programs, as she discusses this cross-cultural exhibition that considers the role that art plays in shaping our perceptions and experiences of illness and healing. Sophie Blue ’21 and Madison Lai ’21 will perform a dance inspired by the exhibition. A reception in the Museum will follow.
Radical Nonfiction Film Series: “Hale County” and “Easter Snap” plus New Short Films
RaMell Ross’s HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING may be the most radical film ever nominated for an Oscar. The photographer/filmmaker’s subjective, conceptually rigorous portrait of a community of African Americans — some of whom were his students — in Hale County, Alabama, was made from 1300 hours of intensely personal footage and edited into a meditation […]
