Bodies of Knowledge Working Group—Conflating animal slaughter and animal and human sacrifice: Vasily Rozanov and ritual murder trials
Zoom PrincetonThe Humanities Council sponsors the Bodies of Knowledge Working Group whose purpose is to engage faculty, staff, and graduate students in questions around embodiment from a wide range of viewpoints including the medical humanities, disability studies, art history and aesthetics, and environmental studies in the Anthropocene. In particular, the group hopes to foster intellectual partnerships with those […]
Munsee Language Symposium
209 Scheide Caldwell and ZoomThis inaugural event will put Princeton faculty and students in direct dialogue with members of Munsee-Delaware Nation to learn about Munsee language, history, and culture. Speakers include Karen Mosko and Ian McCallum, language keepers from the Munsee-Delaware Nation in Ontario, as well as historian Chief Mark Peters, among others.
Artist Conversation: Lois Dodd and Eve Aschheim
Zoom PrincetonThe painter Lois Dodd (b. 1927 and raised in Montclair, New Jersey) is known for making landscape new by finding poignant moments of beauty in the everyday—colorful laundry hanging on a line, views through broken windows, a close-up of a dandelion bloom or condensation on a window—in contrast with the avant-garde who found the new […]
Book Launch: On Solitude, by Darell Wayne Fields
East Gallery, Architecture Building PrincetonPrinceton University School of Architecture announces the launch of Darell Wayne Fields’s newest book On Solitude (Princeton SoA, 2021). Based on his 2020 Kassler Lecture and an associated solo retrospective, Fields builds upon his ongoing project of Black aesthetics, providing the reader with thoughtful insights on racial theory in architecture. The publication features known works, […]
L’Avant-Scène presents “Méphisto Rhapsodie” by Samuel Gallet
Whitman College Theater PrincetonL'Avant-Scène presents "Méphisto Rhapsodie" by Samuel Gallet, and directed by Florent Masse. This event is open to the Princeton University community only (students, Faculty, and staff). Thursday, Nov 4, 2021, 8:00 pm Friday, Nov 5, 2021, 8:00 pm Saturday, Nov 6, 2021, 8:00 pm Mephisto {Rhapsodie} is freely adapted from Klaus Mann’s novel Mephisto. The […]
