Skin Memories of War: Uncertainty, Opacity, and the Chemical Afterlife of Vietnam
010 East PyneEnvironmental historian David Biggs has characterized the Vietnam War as a “chemical war,” fought with chemically-saturated explosives and incendiaries, tear gas and firebombs, herbicides and insecticides. While U.S. soldiers have won some recognition for deleterious health effects, the consequences of this broad chemical exposure remain shrouded in a politics of uncertainty. In this talk, Thuy […]
Revisiting Exodus! Twenty Years Later
120 Lewis Library 120 Lewis Library, PrincetonEddie Glaude (African American Studies) will give the keynote address at the conference, "Time and Religion in Early America." Visit the conference website for schedule of events https://religion.princeton.edu/spaceandtime/
The Caliph and the Monks’ Cattle: An Almohad Decree in Favor of a Catalan Monastery (1217 CE)
Jones 202 Jones Hall, PrincetonComparative Diplomatics Workshops are a faculty-graduate student working group of the Comparative Antiquities network at the Humanities Council, co-sponsored by the Program in Medieval Studies. The Comparative Diplomatics Workshop will hold its first meeting of the spring semester with Professor Umberto Bongianino presenting on “The Caliph and the Monks' Cattle: An Almohad Decree in Favor of […]
Princeton International Cinema Series: Cold Case Hammarskjöld
Princeton Garden Theatre 160 Nassau Street, PrincetonDanish filmmaker Mads Brugger’s documentary examines the mysterious 1961 plane crash that killed United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld’s and most of the crew. After scores of false starts, dead ends and elusive interviews later, Brügger and his sidekick, Swedish Göran Björkdahl, begin to uncover something more monumental than anything they’d initially imagined. 2 hours, 8 […]
Biosynthesis & New Paradigms of Making
Betts AuditoriumJenny E. Sabin is an architectural designer whose work is at the forefront of a new direction for 21st century architectural practice — one that investigates the intersections of architecture and science and applies insights and theories from biology and mathematics to the design of responsive material structures and adaptive architecture. Sabin is the Arthur […]
Film Screening: They Shall Not Grow Old
Princeton Public LibraryIn this 2018 documentary film, Academy Award-winner Peter Jackson presents never- before-seen footage of World War I and shares the stories of men who were there. Using groundbreaking computer restoration technology on archival footage that is more than 100 years old, Jackson’s team creates a moving depiction of WWI in restored, vivid color and retiming […]
