Princeton French Film Festival
Various PrincetonThe French and Francophone Society, along with its generous partners at Princeton University and beyond, are thrilled to invite you all to the first-ever Princeton French Film Festival, happening from April 16th to 28th at various venues across our campus. A unique opportunity to discover the richness and diversity of Francophone cultures through the magic […]
Just Me: An Asian American Artist on Disability and Mental Health
A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building Washington Road, PrincetonChanika Svetvilas is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural worker whose practice focuses on mental health difference. Her work is an extension of her continued interest in using narratives as a way to challenge stereotypes in contemporary society and to create safe spaces. She has presented her work in a variety of spaces and contexts including […]
Epistemological Reconfigurations in Queer German Cinema
205 East Pyne“Cinema is always involved in world making, and queerness promises to knock off kilter conventional epistemologies,” write Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt. This lecture will attend to those conventional epistemologies — of religion, whiteness, the nation, and capital – that are re-configured in selected works of queer German cinema from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. […]
“Who will Dry My Tears?” Reflections on the History of a Lynching
15 Joseph Henry House Joseph Henry House, PrincetonNola Romey, a Syrian grocer, was lynched in Lake City, Florida in 1929, and his wife was murdered by Florida police. Prof. Sarah Gualtieri revisits the oral histories and archival methods she used to write the history of these events. She brings to the fore previously uncited letters written by their surviving daughter in a […]
Mamadou Diabate and Percussion Mania: Master of the talking balafon from Burkina Faso
Taplin AuditoriumMamadou Diabate & Percussion Mania is known for its virtuosic balafon playing and rhythm and is characterized by two balafons as lead instruments. This ensemble is the only one of its kind worldwide - different from all other West African bands. Musical dialogs and spectacular balafon duels between Mamadou and his cousin Yacouba Konate are […]
