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 […]
Mellon Forum: Divided Cities
School of Architecture, South GalleryCites are amorphous, at times unwieldy, entities unified by shared narratives of inhabitants and visitors about their history, landmarks, culinary traditions or sports teams. But communities and narratives are multiple and, at times, outright conflicting. Division can literally derive from physical barriers, from natural (rivers or hills) to manmade (walls or fences). But most barriers […]
PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress: Charlie Hankin and Patrick J. Signoret
216 Aaron Burr 216 Aaron Burr, PrincetonRaplove: The Politics of Recursion in Latin American Hip-Hop Charlie Hankin (Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton) This paper explores a widespread tendency toward mise-en-abyme by rappers in Cuba, Brazil, and Haiti: the common gesture of rapping about rap or in apostrophe to hip-hop in quasi-religious veneration. Listening closely to song lyrics, I explore the ways self-reflexive […]
The Arts of Land and Water Defense
219 Aaron Burr PrincetonIn Indigenous practices, thinking the body and land together has been at the heart of knowledge and relationality. Though the “ontological turn” dispenses with some of the Western assumptions of the body as a singular entity, and the land as merely the object of man’s conquest, it is through specific genealogies of scholarship on race […]
Book Talk: Mary Toft: or The Rabbit Queen
Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street, PrincetonLabyrinth Live at the Library presents Dexter Palmer From the highly acclaimed author of Version Control comes a powerfully evocative new novel based on a true story -- in 1726 in the small town of Godalming, England, a young woman confounds the medical community by giving birth to dead rabbits.
