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Seuls en Scène – Princeton French Theater Festival

Princeton University

Seuls 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 […]

Writers In Conversation: On Migration, Language and the Stories of Our Lives

A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building Washington Rd., Princeton

Is language a “place” you call home? How do migratory patterns influence the stories we tell? Sámi-Swedish writer Linnea Axelsson, Professor of Creative Writing Aleksandar Hemon, and Translator-in-Residence Saskia Vogel […]

The E. Franklin Robbins/UJA-Federation Lecture – Ilana Pardes

A71 Louis A. Simpson Building

The Program in Judaic Studies and the Ronald O. Perelman Institute for Judaic Studies invite you to join us for a panel discussion in the 2022 E. Franklin Robbins/UJA-Federation Lecture […]

Poison and politics: toward a (pre-modern?) theory of community and communication

219 Aaron Burr Hall 219 Aaron Burr Hall, Princeton

The first task in this talk will be to suggest, by drawing on linguistics, literary texts, myth and scripture, that in many pre-modern cultures poison, hypocrisy, politics, and communication were intimately related concepts. In these cultures, communication could be thought of as profoundly ambivalent, capable of both deceit and revelation. The dangers of this ambivalence were often imagined in terms of poison, and specialists in communicative action often represented as poisoners.

On the Bias

Room N107, School of Architecture Room N107, School of Architecture, Princeton

This talk will consider the diagonal line as a technique within thought. Inherently formal and spatial, if not also graphical, the diagonal or oblique line has played any number of important roles: from the diagonal of the […]

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