Baobab Notes: Popular Education and US Solidarity for Southern Africa
Zoom PrincetonA recurring refrain of the Black Student/Black Studies movements of the 1960s and 1970s was the pledge to produce knowledge in service to the people; to create education relevant for the revolution. Scholarly and popular assessments of the achievement of this aim tend to focus on education and knowledge production that occurred in the academy. […]
Archival Silences Working Group: Fictioning Archives
via Zoom - Registration RequiredHow can archives be transformed by creative writing?
The Porcelain Industry Confronts the Vulgar Question of Money
ZoomFaber Lecture: "The Porcelain Industry Confronts the Vulgar Question of Money: Towards a New Prehistory of Industrialization in the German States, 1780-1840" In the mid-eighteenth century, numerous German princes established porcelain manufactories, most importantly for the purposes of prestige, and to prevent the enrichment of Dutch merchants, East Asian producers, and fellow princes. By the […]
The COVID-19 Pandemic in Latin America, A Year Later: Interdisciplinary Insights
via ZoomPRESENTERS: Carlos Castillo-Salgado, Epidemiologist, Johns Hopkins University Rossana Castiglioni, Dean of Faculty, Social Sciences and History, Diego Portales University, Chile Sergio Garrido, Politics, CIDE, Mexico MODERATOR: María José Urzúa Valverde, Politics, Princeton University DISCUSSANTS: Federico Tiberti, Politics, Princeton University Sebastian Rojas Cabal, Sociology, Princeton University This event is free and open to the public. Zoom […]
M+M | Larry D. Busbea: Pattern Watchers: Environmental Response c. 1970
ZoomInterlocutor: Victoria Bugge Øye, Architecture This presentation will bring together some of the key approaches and insights of the book The Responsive Environment: Design, Aesthetics & The Human in the 1970s. The work of Serge Boutourline, Jr. will be given as an example of the attempt to confirm the presence of a conditioning environment, and […]
Book Talk: A Most Interesting Problem — What Darwin’s Descent Of Man Got Wrong
Livestream PrincetonA Most Interesting Problem brings together twelve world-class scholars and science communicators to investigate what Darwin got right (and what he got wrong) about the origin, history, and biological variation of humans. We are pleased to invite you to a conversation between the contributing editor and two other contributing scholars. Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/jeremy-desilva-holly/register
