Latin America Today: Upheavals and Repression, Part II
219 Aaron Burr PrincetonThis roundtable conversation explores the current political landscape in Latin America. With a focus on Puerto Rico, Colombia, and Mexico, discussants will address the roots of social unrest and state of repression, and offer insight into the major challenges facing each nation.
The Birth of the Contemporary Avant-Garde in Guatemala, 1965-1974
219 Aaron Burr PrincetonThere is no obvious moment or movement that marks the birth of contemporary art in Guatemala; nevertheless, the country has produced one of the most original chapters in twentieth century art. Its artistic production needs to be understood beyond general categories of art history, and in the context of unique cultural, political and social specificities, […]
Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East
A71 Louis A. Simpson BuildingIn Money, Markets, and Monarchies (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Adam Hanieh examines how the six states of the Gulf Cooperation Council are powerfully shaping the political economy of the wider Middle East. Through unprecedented and fine-grained empirical research — encompassing sectors such as agribusiness, real estate, finance, retail, telecommunications, and urban utilities — the book […]
Asian American Studies Lecture Series: Monica Youn and Jenny Zhang
101 McCormickPoet and Princeton creative writing lecturer Monica Youn and fiction writer and poet Jenny Zhang read and discuss in this series celebrating new Asian American writing. A reception and book sale and signing follows. Monica Youn is the author of three books of poetry, most recently “Blackacre” (Graywolf Press 2016), which won the Poetry Society […]
The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture
Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street, PrincetonLabyrinth Books and Princeton Public Library host a book talk with Susan Stewart (English) and Denis Feeney (Classics) on how ruins have become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature, covering a vast chronological and geographical range, from ancient Egyptian inscriptions to twentieth-century memorials. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Council
