Calendar of Events

We are pleased to announce a new reading group, the first phase in a three-part initiative to expand and diversify the community of the Department of German at Princeton by fostering the study of an increasingly relevant field in German Studies: “Transnational Literatures” and “Literature of (Post-) Migration.” A group organized by Professors Sara S. […]

Daniel Sheffield will present the lunchtime talk, “The Return of the Magus: Theurgy in Safavid Iran.”

John Plotz is Mandel Professor of Humanities at Brandeis University and editor of the B-Sides feature in Public Books. He co-hosts the podcast Recall This Book. His books include The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics (University of California Press, 2000), Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move (Princeton University Press, 2008), Semi-Detached: Aesthetic Experience […]

Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear will reflect on the critical role of the Osage nation vis-à-vis federal law, the creation of the FBI, and environmental resources management and sovereignty policy. He will be in conversation with Anthropology graduate student Noah Collins (Cherokee Nation/White Mountain Apache Tribe) and Astrophysics graduate student Rodrigo Córdova (Osage). Geoffrey Standing […]

Associate Professor of Psychology Molly Crockett studies how people learn and make decisions in social situations. Their lab's recent work focuses on moral cognition -- how people decide whether to help or harm, punish or forgive, trust or condemn -- in the digital age. Crockett will be interviewed by CCSR Graduate Student Fellow Enoch Kuo. […]

Shambhavi Kaul "Swamp” Tuesday, November 29, 2022 @5pm ET N107 (School of Architecture) The swamp has long been imagined as a site of horror in popular cinema, partially premised on the idea that such land exists beyond the reach of capitalist society: think of the much-adapted 1971 comic, The Swamp Thing, whose protagonist is a […]

Labyrinth and the Princeton Public Library present A.M. Homes, who will discuss The Unfolding, a stunning alternative history that is prescient, tender, and funny and is her first novel since the Women’s Prize award-winning May We Be Forgiven, with historian Laura F. Edwards. The Big Guy loves his family, money, and country. Undone by the results […]

In a series of conversations that bring guest artists to campus to discuss what they face in making art in the modern world, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, director of the Princeton Atelier, engages in a conversation with Emmy-nominated actor Jonathan Majors (The Last Black Man in San Francisco, HBO series Lovecraft Country, ABC miniseries […]