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 […]
El Camino de Arriba y el Camino de Abajo: Life on the Road in the South-Central Andes
216 Aaron Burr 216 Aaron Burr, PrincetonThe Inca imperial road system (qhapaq ñan) is justifiably known as one of the great road networks of the pre-industrial world. But what do we know about its emergence within older Andean traditions of vertical mobility and caravanning? And what were this network's post-conquest legacies for colonial economy and society in the region? This talk […]
Rileggere il Cortegiano
023 East Pyne Princeton
Formations of Belief: Historical Approaches to Religion and the Secular
Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street, PrincetonJust published in September 2019 by Princeton University Press, Formations of Belief: Historical Approaches to Religion and the Secular examines changing attitudes toward religion and spirituality as secularism declines. The essay collection explores new perspectives on the ebb and flow of beliefs, their core orientations, and how the Reformation along with the Renaissance enabled the […]
Paris Modern: Paulette Nardal and the Paradoxes of Colonial Feminism
WebinarPart 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.
Old Dominion Public Lecture Series: Me Versus Them
010 East PyneSteven Mackey will talk about recent work focusing on works for soloist and orchestra, including two projects that will both have world premieres this fall. He will also discuss a violin concerto he wrote about the experience of his mother’s death. Steven Mackey is the William Shubel Conant Professor of Music and Old Dominion Research […]
Environmental Humanities Colloquium: A Woman of Many Masks
111 East Pyne 111 East PyneIain McCalman will examine the work of Sheldon, who wrote popular science fiction under the name James Tiptree Jr. for a decade before her identity was revealed. Sheldon was fiercely anti-patriarchal as Tiptree, a big-game hunter and CIA operative who often wrote of women inheriting a decimated planet. McCalman will reframe Sheldon’s work as equally […]
A General Introduction to the Peking Opera 中国京戏之审美原则与表演形式
202 JonesPerformance and demonstration
Music and Cultures of Migration
Whitman College Theatre PrincetonMore people than ever before in human history are being forced to move away from their homelands. This conversation will explore the impact of these migrations—economic and political, environmental and gendered—on the music of the contemporary world. Music can be a longing for home and a platform for politics, and also a tool for waging […]
Socrates NOW
Murray Theater PrincetonThink. Question. Change. Plato’s timeless classic The Apology of Socrates will unfold in a solo performance-discourse by Emmy Award winner Yannis Simonides. Take a seat in the court of ancient Athens as Socrates goes on trial for his life. Hear the philosopher face his accusers with his trademark wit, cutting logic, and the courage of his ideals. […]
