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 dynamic and engaging French productions. This year we are thrilled to resume the French Theater Festival in person in collaboration with the 51st Edition of […]
The Garden of Bedil: The Indo-Persian Literary and Cultural Landscape
A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building Washington Rd., PrincetonThe Program in South Asian Studies is organizing a three-day festival, “The Garden of Bedil: The Indo-Persian Literary and Cultural Landscape” to be held at Princeton University on September 22-24, 2022. The festival includes a student-focused poetry reading workshop on September 22, a multi-disciplinary in-person conference on September 23, with a virtual session on September […]
Ask Your Questions, a Belknap Visiting Fellows Residency with Daniel Alexander Jones
CoLab Gallery, Lewis Arts ComplexDaniel Alexander Jones, a Belknap Short-Term Visiting Fellow in Princeton’s Humanities Council, collaborates with members of the Princeton community at the Lewis Center for the Arts to construct an altar over the course of a week-long residency. Centered around the prompt “Ask Your Questions,” the conversations, offerings, building and activation of the altar will be […]
Working for the Emperor: Behind the Scenes at Antium
209 Scheide CaldwellIn 1711, fragments of a monumental inscription (known today as the Fasti Antiates Ministrorum Domus Augustae) were found in the fill of a small, unusual room located behind the scaenae frons of a theater on the site of the imperial villa at Antium. The room seems to have served as the meeting hall for a […]
Hamaguchi in Residence: Public Screening of “Storytellers”
Princeton Garden Theatre 160 Nassau Street, PrincetonDirected by Hamaguchi Ryusuke and Sakai Ko 120 mins The third and final installment of Hamaguchi and Ko’s groundbreaking series documenting the aftermath of the 2011 triple disaster in the northern Tohoku region. Following The Sound of the Waves (2012) and Voices from the Waves (2013), the film carries on a deep and patient excavation […]
Belknap Global Conversation with Filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Betts AuditoriumThe Humanities Council is pleased to host a Belknap Global Conversation with award-winning director and screenwriter Ryusuke Hamaguchi, and Princeton faculty Anne Cheng (English), Steven Chung (East Asian Studies), Thomas Hare (Comparative Literature), and Gavin Steingo (Music). Hamaguchi is among the most thoughtful and original filmmakers working in global cinema today...
Hamaguchi in Residence: Public Screening of “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy”
Princeton Garden Theatre 160 Nassau Street, PrincetonDirected by Hamaguchi Ryusuke 121 mins Winner of the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival. An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets. […]