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.
Taxing the Rich in the Just City: Cicero and Dionysius on Fiscal Fairness
209 Scheide CaldwellIn 43 BC the Roman senate decided to levy tributum, a direct tax on property, on citizens for the first time since its suspension in 167 BC. Roman citizens were once again confronted with the question of fiscal fairness: who should bear the burden on behalf of the republic? Cicero recognized the urgency in 43 […]
Alfred Hitchcock and the Ideology of Absolute Music
301 Wooten HallAs part of the "Music and Film" series, sponsored by the Humanities Council's Edward T. Cone ’39 *42 Fund, join John Butt (University of Glasgow) for this conversation about the ways Alfred Hitchcock used music as a way of conceiving of films, specifically in the relationships between ‘absolute music’ and ‘pure cinema’. The Music and […]
Paying Attention: Images of Monuments on Roman Imperial Coins
Green Hall 3-S-15Representations of architecture on Roman coins have long been studied by scholars interested in retrieving information about ancient monuments, especially those ones that are partially or totally lost. Recent scholarship has shown that numismatic images cannot be treated as straightforward and objective sources about the appearance of these monuments. However, they remain a significant witness […]
The Visuality of Writing in Colonial Korea
202 Jones HallLiterary texts from early twentieth-century Korea appear quite different from contemporary works. Due to the textual hybridity that mixes early modern Korean, Chinse characters (hancha), and the Japanese colonial language, Korean literature from even less than a hundred years ago remains mostly incomprehensible to many Korean readers in the twenty-first century. The exclusive usage of […]
Interworlds: HMEI 2022 Summer Intern Art Show Reception
James S. Hall Memorial Gallery, Butler College, Bogle HallOver the summer of 2022, as part of HMEI’s Summer Internship Program, a group of Princeton students worked with HMEI Art and Media Specialist Barron Bixler to develop environmentally themed creative projects as an expression of, or in parallel to, their summer research. The Hall Gallery in Butler College is hosting an exhibition of this […]
