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 […]
LUDUS: Playtime with Manuscripts
209 Scheide Caldwell 209 Scheide Caldwell, PrincetonInaugural workshop for LUDUS, a working group devoted to the active, performed, creative and re-creative study of pre-modern culture. Taking seriously the ‘play element’ in medieval art, architecture, music, drama, and literature, this group brings together scholars interested in developing methodological and technical tools to study the Middle Ages in its live, plastic, and time-bound […]
The Sword and the Shield: Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and American Democracy
101 Julis Romo Rabinowitz PrincetonThis talk examines the way in which the political thought and activism of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. helped to transform American democratic political culture during the 1960s and beyond. Malcolm and Martin, the two most enduring historical icons of the postwar black freedom struggle, did more than just transform black political culture. […]
