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 […]
A New Law on Earth’: Humanity’s Journey from Science to Science Fiction in the Wake of World War
A71 Simpson International BuildingHuman. Humanity. Those words have talismanic significance in the current moment, as we turn to them to understand — and address — crises from the resurgence of militant nationalisms to the problem of climate change. This talk returns to the mid-20th- century moment with the emergence of the phrase “human rights” to understand the contemporary […]
Exhibition Talk: Gutenberg & After
Ellen and Leonard Milberg Gallery PrincetonJoin a talk by an exhibition curator of "Gutenberg & After." The subject expert will guide visitors through the unprecedented display that tells the story of the two decades that transformed text production and distribution across Europe. Meet in Firestone Lobby.
Jean de Meun and Visual Eroticism in Fifteenth-Century Poetics
106 McCormick NJWe Shall Come to You in a Manner More Befitting a King: The Royal Succession in Sasanian Iran
209 Scheide Caldwell 209 Scheide Caldwell, PrincetonLecture
The Fire Next Time: Eddie Glaude and Steve Shapiro in Conversation
Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street, PrincetonLabyrinth Live at the Library presents a conversation with Eddie Glaude (African American Studies) and Steve Shapiro (photographer). Renowned photographer, documentarian, and activist Steve Shapiro, will be discussing the illustrated version of Baldwins The Fire Next Time, to which he contributed the photographs, with Eddie Glaude. Glaude's book on Baldwin will be out next spring.
Now that the World has Become an Endless Hotel’: Greek Narratives of Displacement in the Middle East during WWII
103 Scheide Caldwell 103 Scheide Caldwell, Princeton
Beyond the Canon: Anne Conway on Sense Perception
010 East Pyne 010 East Pyne, Princeton
