Canonical and Non-canonical Questions
1-S-5 Green Hall 1-S-5 Green Hall, PrincetonDonka F. Farkas is the Stanley Kelley, Jr. Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching in the Program in Linguistics. The general aim of the work this talk is part of is to understand the difference between `canonical’ and `non-canonical’ questions with respect to form, content and general conditions of use. The first part of the talk […]
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Yiyun Li and Jia Tolentino
010 East PyneCelebrating New Asian American Writing Princeton University Professor of Creative Writing Yiyun Li's debut short story collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, The Guardian First Book Award, and California Book Award for first fiction. Her novel The Vagrants won the gold medal of California […]
From Periphery to Paris: Food, Photography and Planning in Interwar France
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
Environmental Humanities Colloquium: Salvage: Experiment, Engagement and the Environmental Humanities
111 East Pyne 111 East PyneAllison Carruth will draw upon the environmental humanities to propose a reinvention of the liberal arts that actively engages with the crises of our time. With Bruno Latour’s query, “Why has critique run out of steam?” as her point of departure, Carruth will outline a method of sociocultural and ecological salvage that integrates history, rhetoric […]
Reading Late Imperial Chinese Fiction: A Century of Developments
202 JonesThe 2019-20 Annual Mote Memorial Lecture
Luther, Theology, and the Research University
1879 Hall Lounge 1879 Hall Lounge, PrincetonLounge Seminar RSVP to Mary Kay Bodnar mbodnar@princeton.edu
Were They Enslaved? A New Look at Maya Figurines
101 McCormickThe James F. Haley '50 Memorial Lecture Maya figurines of the 8th century from the island of Jaina, off Yucatan, Mexico, long admired for their lifelike, poignant, and sometimes amusing characteristics, reveal a complexity of Maya practice rarely seen in other media, such as painted ceramics or monumental sculpture. The figurines can be seen through […]
Ciné-Club: “Détective” (1985), Jean-Luc Godard
Rocky-Mathey Theater Rockefeller College, 203 Madison Hall, PrincetonA mini-masterpiece, this is a cross between a ‘Grand Hotel’ for the 1980s and film noir: a crumbling Paris hotel houses four groups of people whose paths occasionally cross. One is the group around detective Terzieff, still trying to solve a murder of years ago; another is the entourage of boxer, Tiger Jones, in training […]
Fall Film Series: The Assassin (2015)
Princeton Garden Theatre 160 Nassau Street, PrincetonIn conjunction with the exhibition The Eternal Feast: Banqueting in Chinese Art from the 10th to the 14th Century, the Art Museum and the Princeton Garden Theatre present three award-winning Chinese-language films. Museum members receive Princeton Garden Theatre member admission price. The Assassin is loosely based on a Tang dynasty tale, the film follows the life of a general’s daughter […]
Film Forum: “The Burning Child” (2019), Joseph Leo Koerner
James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau Street PrincetonUCHV Film Forum Fall 2019 Discussion with Joseph Leo Koerner
