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 […]
Pacific and Atlantic Worlds: Encounters, Ecologies, Epistemologies
Various PrincetonWednesday November 20 at 12pm: “Writing Imperial and Indigenous Histories” - Hinds Library Seminar for graduate students presented by Kate Fullagar (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) co-sponsored by the Committee on Renaissance […]
Art & Activism in Puerto Rico: Valor y Cambio
216 Aaron Burr 216 Aaron Burr, Princeton“Decolonial Joy” Frances Negrón-Muntaner (English and Comparative Literature, Columbia) Frances Negrón-Muntaner M.A. in Visual Anthropology and Fine Arts, Temple; Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Rutgers. Frances Negrón-Muntaner is an award-winning filmmaker, […]
Plots, Secrets, Truths and Lies in Modern Iranian Historiography
300 WallaceYann Richard (Professor Emeritus, Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris) studied philosophy and linguistics and has live in Iran in considerable periods of times before, during and after the 1979 revolution. He […]
Managing Research Data in the Humanities
B Floor, Firestone Library B Floor, Firestone LibraryData in the humanities can take many forms – Wind Cowles and Grant Wythoff will explore the joys and challenges of working with humanities research data, leading a discussion of […]
A diachronic perspective on interspeaker covariation in sound change
1-S-5 Green Hall 1-S-5 Green Hall, PrincetonPhiladelphia English has been undergoing multiple vowel changes throughout the twentieth century. Using data from the Philadelphia Neighborhood Corpus (PNC), Labov et al. (2013) demonstrate that some of these changes […]
Under the Surface: William Seabrook, Marjorie Worthington, and (Sub)cultural Bonds in 1930s 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 […]
Ciné-Club: “Tirez sur le pianiste” (1960), François Truffaut
Rocky-Mathey Theater Rockefeller College, 203 Madison Hall, PrincetonPart thriller, part comedy, part tragedy, "Tirez sur le pianiste" relates the adventures of mild-mannered piano player Charlie (Charles Aznavour, in a triumph of hangdog deadpan) as he stumbles into […]
Library Music Live: Rarely Performed Music from the Special Collections
Fine Hall PrincetonMendel Music Library presents a live performance of music from our Locked Collection and Princeton University Library’s Special Collections. Repertoire includes the Magnificat primi toni (first setting) from Canticum Beatae […]
