The World on a Lithograph Scroll from Meerut, 1849
399 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building PrincetonModern consciousness in India and other places colonized by Europeans is often seen as a passage from particularity to universality. In this view, European epistemologies are self-evidently global while knowledge systems of the colonized are parochial, irrespective of their complexity. Our acceptance of this understanding means taking European claims on face value. In elaborate narratives […]
Faculty Discussion: How Do We Create Deep Engagement?
ZoomDynamic and engaged discussion; attentive listening; creative and analytical thinking: we hope for these qualities in our classrooms and our students’ work. What exercises, homework assignments, and final assessments generate deep engagement among our students? In what ways does technology deepen engagement? Register here.
Ecotheories Colloquium: “Ecology/Echography: Heidegger’s Hut–Three Displacements”
111 East Pyne 111 East Pyne"Ecology/Echography: Heidegger’s Hut—Three Displacements," explores Martin Heidegger's iconic hutte in the Black Forest, to which many famous writers and thinkers have made pilgrimage, as an enframing technology and a spectral inscription—a kind of echo chamber—through which to explore the relationship between philosophy, ecology, technology, and violence. Our first = displacement will involve the storied visit […]
Symposium: How Museums Are Diversifying Their Collections to Include Black and Brown Artists
Art on Hulfish 11 Hulfish St, PrincetonJoin the Arts Council of Princeton for a symposium held in conjunction with ACP’s groundbreaking exhibition, RETRIEVING THE LIFE AND ART OF JAMES WILSON EDWARDS AND A CIRCLE OF BLACK ARTISTS. A Williams College survey of the works in the collections of all major US museums in 2019 found that just 1.2% of works were created […]
Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street, PrincetonA major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emancipation. In this definitive biography, the first full-scale life of Dunbar in half a century, Gene Andrew Jarrett offers a revelatory account of a writer whose Gilded Age celebrity as the “poet […]
L’Avant-Scène presents “Des territoires (… Et tout sera pardonné?)” by Baptiste Amann
Whitman College Class of 1970 TheaterL’Avant-Scène presents "Des territoires (… Et tout sera pardonné?)" by Baptiste Amann Directed by Florent Masse In French Featuring: Yasmine Zein `23 Gil Joseph `25 John Patrick `24 Éloi Delort `24 Anaïs Yolka `24 Mikaela Avakian `24 Jeielle Habinam `25 Hervé Ishimwe `24 Josie Smart `25 Registration required.
