The Spirit of Truth-Seeking II
Arts Council of PrincetonThe Arts Council of Princeton will host an exhibit of pieces commissioned from "The Spirit of Truth-Seeking I," in which Being Human invited local artists using any medium to capture the Friday, October 11 conversation among Princeton University Professor Robert George, Harvard University Professor Cornel West *80, and Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83. A […]
Argentina: A Regional Outlier in an Unsettled Region?
216 Aaron Burr 216 Aaron Burr, PrincetonMaria Victoria Murillo has recently published Non-Policy Politics: Richer Voter, Poorer Voter and the Diversification of Parties Electoral Strategies (with Ernesto Calvo) and Understanding Institutional Weakness: Power and Design in Latin American Institutions (with Daniel Brinks and Steven Levitsky), both with Cambridge University Press in 2019. She works on electoral behavior, distributive politics, public policy, […]
Comparative Diplomatics: What Can(‘t) Greek Documents from Egypt Tell Us About Greek Documents from Bactria?
105 Chancellor GreenRachel Mairs (University of Reading) will be presenting on "What can('t) Greek documents from Egypt tell us about Greek documents from Bactria?" All are welcome. Conveners: Tom Conlan (East Asian Studies; History), Helmut Reimitz (History), Marina Rustow (Near Eastern Studies; History) Coordinator: Brendan Goldman (JDS). To receive announcements about the workshop and brief precirculated readings, email […]
The Lawful Piracy of James Joyce’s Poems
Firestone Library Rare Books and Special Collections Princeton University, PrincetonA workshop about piracy and modernist literature with a special focus on James Joyce's Chamber Music (1918).
“O Lord”: Religious Evidence on Elephantine Island in Egypt
Marx 301Verena Lepper is currently the 2019/2020 Stewart Fellow in the Humanities Council and in the Department of Religion. She is curator for Egyptian and Oriental Papyri and Manuscripts at the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection, National Museums Berlin, and Honorary Professor at the Humboldt University Berlin. She has published widely on different aspects of Egyptology, […]
Historical Fiction Book Group: Their Finest Hour and a Half
Historical Society of Princeton PrincetonThe Historical Fiction Book Group features scholar-led book discussions about the fictional elements and nonfictional historic and regional context of selected books. At this session, Frank Wetta, a lecturer at Kean University, leads a discussion of Their Finest Hour and a Half by Lissa Evans, a story of Britain’s Ministry of Information producing a propaganda […]
