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 […]
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 and Early Modern Studies. Thursday November 21: 12pm: “Three Lives in an Age of Empire,” Kate Fullagar - 101 McCormick, followed by a roundtable discussions […]
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, writer, and scholar. She is the recipient of Ford, Truman, Scripps Howard, Rockefeller, and Pew fellowships as well as a Social Science Research Council and […]
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 has been working on the Iranian history and the roots and the meaning of political conflicts between Iran and the West for more than four […]
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 how to approach data management in the humanities, using specific examples of humanities datasets.
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 reversed direction mid-century while others continued in a single direction.
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 artistic, literary, and intellectual culture in Paris between 1905 and 1940. For the pre-circulated paper, contact Joshua Kotin (English) jkotin@princeton.edu.
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 the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair. Loaded with gags, guns, clowns, and thugs, this razor-sharp homage to the American gangster film is pure […]
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 Mariae Virginis (1568) by Renaissance composer Giovanni Animuccia and other early vocal music, a solo harpsichord suite from Couperin’s Pièces de clavecin (1713), a Sammartini […]
