Empathy and Journalism: The power of immersive reporting in creative nonfiction
16 Joseph Henry House and ZoomHelen Thorpe, a visiting Ferris Professor of Journalism in the Humanities Council, is a journalist and an award-winning author of three books of narrative nonfiction. Her latest, The Newcomers, recounts her experience of spending a year inside a Denver high school with 22 immigrant students from around the world as they learned English together. Her […]
Languages of Emergency, Infrastructures of Response and Everyday Heroism in the Circumpolar North
209 Scheide CaldwellIn the second in a series of Fall 2021 Working Group Seminars presented by the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Princeton (NAISIP), the paper considers ethnographic case examples from Siberia and Alaska to explore local responses to emergencies at the juncture of different forms of expert knowledge.
Jessica to Jack: story of a transition (Screening and Q&A)
Zoom PrincetonScreening: "The film Un uomo deve essere forte (A man must be strong)" by Ilaria Ciavattini and Elsi Perino will be available from Wednesday, October 13th until Wednesday, October 27th, 2021. In the outskirts of a province of the north of Italy, full of gun factories, hunting grounds, and lakes for fishing, Jessica starts the […]
Artful (Re)working: Pictures of Labor in Eighteenth-Century Japan
ZoomFrom tilling and planting to food preparation, shop-tending, and drawing water, representations of physical labor have a long history of depiction within East Asian art. The reasons behind their appearance are familiar: they underscore ideals of a stable, prosperous realm, reiterate hopes and prayers for a good harvest, punctuate seasonal rhythms, reveal the human body […]
Lecture: Celebrating 50 Years of Photography
Zoom PrincetonFifty years ago, David H. McAlpin, Class of 1920 and friend to Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Ansel Adams, made a landmark gift of photographs to the Princeton University Art Museum. Join the Museum's Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography, Katherine A. Bussard, for a discussion about the legacy of this foundational gift as well […]
“Pedagogy + Practice”
Betts AuditoriumJ. Meejin Yoon, AIA FAAR, is the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP) at Cornell University and cofounder of Höweler + Yoon, an award-winning design studio engaged in projects across the U.S. and around the world. An architect, designer, and educator, Yoon is committed to advancing pedagogy, […]
