Douglass Day: Abolition: Then and Now
Zoom PrincetonThis event will feature presentations by undergraduate Princeton University students on their collaborative, virtual exhibition entitled “Abolition: Then and Now.” The students put this exhibition together as part of a final project for a fall 2020 course on the writings of Frederick Douglass and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Supported by the 250th Fund for Innovation in […]
An Experimental Inquisition? Hannah Marcus and Jennifer Rampling in conversation with Ann Blair and Anthony Grafton
via Zoom PrincetonBook Event: An Experimental Inquisition? Hannah Marcus and Jennifer Rampling in conversation with Ann Blair and Anthony Grafton Registration is required to attend. To register, visit: https://princeton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqdOivqT4sE9GKiDdcAzvmrRrWp9ONw7J4 Hannah Marcus, Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science and Censorship in Early Modern Italy Jennifer Rampling, The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700
Douglass Day: What’s in a Name? A Discussion with Princeton University and Public School Students
Zoom PrincetonIn June 2020, the Princeton University Board of Trustees voted to change the names of the University’s School of Public and International Affairs and of Wilson College. As President Christopher Eisgruber wrote at the time, “the trustees concluded that Woodrow Wilson’s racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake for a school or college […]
