Seuls en Scène – Princeton French Theater Festival
Princeton UniversitySeuls en Scène brings celebrated French actors and directors, as well as promising early-career artists, to Princeton University and the local community to present their work, introducing American audiences to […]
Degrade and Destroy: How the U.S. Defeated the Islamic State?
202 Jones Hall and Zoom 202 Jones Hall, NJMichael Gordon’s recently published book Degrade and Destroy provides the first authoritative account of how the U.S. and its partners planned and executed the campaign to destroy the Islamic State’s caliphate in Iraq and Syria. The book draws on extensive access to senior U.S. commanders and policymakers, the author’s experience with Iraqi and Kurdish units […]
Doublespeak in ancient Greek and modern Ethiopian satire
Zoom PrincetonAbstract: In this talk, I treat satire as a site where Classics and African literature converge. Namely, I point out a particular type of linguistic wordplay, which I deem doublespeak, in Lucian’s (c. second century CE) “Trial of the Consonants: Sigma against Tau in the Court of the Seven Vowels” and Hama Tuma’s (1993) “The […]
The Rose and Isaac Ebel Lecture
219 Aaron Burr HallThe Program in Judaic Studies and the Ronald O. Perelman Institute for Judaic Studies invite you to join us for the 2022 Rose and Isaac Ebel Lecture. This year's public lecture will be given by Alma Heckman (Neufeld-Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies and Associate Professor of History, University of California, Santa Cruz) titled "Casablanca International: […]
Program in Media and Modernity Event: A Black Gaze
Room N107, School of Architecture Room N107, School of Architecture, PrincetonTina Campt, newly appointed Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor of Humanities in the Department of Art & Archaeology and the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, will discuss her recent book, A Black Gaze (MIT Press, 2021). Examining Black contemporary artists who resuscitate and revalue the historical and contemporary archive of Black life […]
Atelier@Large: Conversations on Art-making in a Vexed Era – Jennifer Egan & Michael J. Love
Richardson Auditorium Richardson Auditorium, PrincetonIn a series of conversations that bring guest artists to campus to discuss what they face in making art in the modern world, Paul Muldoon, director of the Princeton Atelier, moderates a discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan (A Visit from the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach, The Candy House), and award-winning interdisciplinary tap dance […]
