The Global Plantation Symposium
via ZoomPlantations were and are sites for labor and production. As physical, economic and material interventions in a landscape, they also exist powerfully in people’s imaginations. As our title suggests we are also interested in the plantation’s iterations across temporal and spatial geographies, for we wonder if the transformations they wrought across the globe might also […]
Nationalists, Refugees and Artists: A Decade Reporting from Europe
via ZoomRachel Donadio, a visiting Ferris Professor of Journalism in the Program in Journalism, is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. Based in Paris, she covers politics and culture across Europe with a focus on populism, migration, feminism and the history of ideas. Donadio previously wrote for The New York Times and the Times Book Review, […]
Suspect Citizenship: Race and Racism in Contemporary France
virtualOn Thursday, October 15 (noon to 1:30), the Migration Lab -- a PIIRS research community now in its fifth year -- will be virtually hosting Prof. Jean Beaman of the University of California, Santa Barbara as she presents “Suspect Citizenship: Race and Racism in Contemporary France.” More details about the lecture will be forthcoming.
Memories of the Resistance: Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and the Architecture of Collective Dissidence
via ZoomSophie Hochhäusl (Princeton Mellon Fellow) in conversation with Davy Knittle (University of Pennsylvania) and Emmanuel Olunkwa (Columbia University). Today Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897-2000) has been widely recognized as one of the most significant female figures in modern design who worked in Austria, Germany, the Soviet Union, and Turkey in the 1920s and 1930s. These […]
Political Philosophy Colloquium
via ZoomDetails to follow.
Screening: At Eternity’s Gate (2018)
VirtualThe Art Museum and the Princeton Garden Theatre are partnering to offer a virtual film screening of At Eternity’s Gate (2018), and a related lecture about the life and work of Vincent van Gogh with Caroline Harris, the Museum’s associate director of education. Academy Award nominee Julian Schnabel’s film is a journey inside the world and mind […]
