VIRTUAL: Public Works and Private Capital: A New Appraisal of Interstate Highway Financing in 1950s America
via Zoom PrincetonModern America Workshop For ZOOM meeting information and for a copy of the pre-circulated paper, please email Jennifer Loessy at jloessy@princeton.edu
Masterclass with Lawrence Zazzo, Countertenor
Taplin AuditoriumInternationally renowned opera star, countertenor Lawrence Zazzo will engage with Princeton University students in a public masterclass. Further details TBA. Lawrence Zazzo is a Short-Term Visiting Belknap Fellow in the Humanities Council and Department of Music. He will also present a recital with Early Music Princeton on April 15, 7:30PM.
VIRTUAL: The Social Networks of Antiquities Collectors in Northern-Song China: An Experiment in Digital Humanities
via Zoom PrincetonNorthern Song dynasty (960-1127) of China has often been compared with the Renaissance in the West. Like Renaissance humanists, scholar-officials of the Northern Song began to collect and study remains from antiquity, especially bronze ritual objects. By the end of the Northern Song, ancient bronzes had become a prominent category in Emperor Huizong’s (r. 1100-1125) […]