CANCELED: The Netherlands: Culture and Global History, 1500-1700
Various PrincetonA conference of cross-disciplinary experts from the Netherlands and Europe. For full schedule, speakers and updates, visit: https://netherlands.princeton.edu/
VIRTUAL: Mellon Forum: Disability
via Zoom PrincetonIn this conversation, the panelists will consider how an explicitly disability-focused design might differ from design that attempts to eliminate disability or build for an imagined “everyone,” and how the built environment might already reflect or challenge assumptions about the needs, abilities, life conditions, and desires of bodies. Zoom link: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/645410760
POSTPONED: Princeton Environmental Film Festival: Patrimonio
Computer Science Building, Room 104 PrincetonPatrimonio begins in 2015 as a mega development is poised to engulf a small Mexican community with a vast hotel/condo complex called Tres Santos. Marketed to wealthy Americans as “green” and “mindful,” Tres Santos threatens to transform and overwhelm the idiosyncratic desert town of Todos Santos, quadrupling its population and causing irreversible damage: not only are […]
VIRTUAL: Statesmanship in Times of Crisis: Robert P. George in Conversation with Allen C. Guelzo
via Zoom PrincetonRobert P. George is in conversation with Allen C. Guelzo, Director of the James Madison Program’s Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship and Senior Research Scholar in Princeton University's Council of the Humanities. Guelzo is one of our country’s preeminent historians—a celebrated biographer of Abraham Lincoln and scholar of the Civil War. He is also an […]
VIRTUAL: Reflecting on Boccaccio’s Decameron (The Frame Tale)
via Zoom PrincetonA discussion with Simone Marchesi. For Zoom information, see: https://fit.princeton.edu/events/reflecting-boccaccios-decameron-frame-tale
CANCELED: Bacchae in Relief: Wole Soyinka and the Greeks
010 East Pyne PrincetonMythology and performance have been primary modes of access to the classical past, the 1960s and 1970s being watershed moments on the modern stage. As it pertains to the resonances between classical European performance and that of African peoples, Wole Soyinka served as a mediator, perhaps self-appointed, most prominently in his 1973 Bacchae, an adaptation […]
VIRTUAL: The Making of HBO’s Chernobyl: A Conversation with Writer/Producer Craig Mazin ’92
via Zoom PrincetonEmmy and Golden Globe-winning writer/producer and Princeton alumnus Craig Mazin ‘92 discusses the making of HBO’s Chernobyl and his career journey in a conversation with Director of the Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Michael A. Reynolds and Creative Writing Lecturer Susanna Styron. Audience Q&A follows the conversation. The conversation is open to Princeton students, […]
