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. We are thrilled to bring this new edition of the festival in collaboration with the 52nd Edition of Festival d’Automne […]
Mindscapes Unveiled, an exhibition by Chanika Svetvilas
Hurley Gallery, Lewis Arts complexPrinceton’s Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab 2022-23 Artist-in-Residence Chanika Svetvilas presents a culminating exhibition from her year-long project, Anonymous Was the Data, which uplifts the individual lived experiences of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who have a mental health difference or condition through mapping their survey data about healthcare access and stigma. The collected […]
Mellon Forum // Womanist Work: Black Women Preachers and the Making of Sermonic Space in Literature and Music
Betts Auditorium and Zoom PrincetonIn Black Performance Theory, Dr. D. Soyini Madison’s foreword explicates the imperatives and aesthetics of Black expressive culture coupled with the ways in which Blackness is performatively examined in time and space. Womanist Work centers the efficacy of the sermon within African American literature, music, and social-spiritual moments with respect to Black women preachers as […]
Double Exposure: Re-Seeing the West with Timothy O’Sullivan, America’s Most Mysterious War Photographer
010 East Pyne PrincetonAuthor Robert Sullivan speaks on his forthcoming book, Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O’Sullivan, America’s Most Mysterious War Photographer (FSG, 2024). Robert Sullivan is the author of numerous books, including Rats, The Meadowlands, A Whale Hunt, The Thoreau You Don’t Know and My American Revolution. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, […]
Sensory Life in South India: Counter-Narratives of Islamic Material Culture
A71 Louis A. Simpson BuildingThe Islamic built environment in India is under tremendous strain today. Mosques, especially, are disparaged as “ocular reminders” of India’s Muslim past. In this context, how can we understand the range of significations that such sites have for ordinary Muslims? This talk focuses on mosques on the southeastern coast of India, built in a distinctive […]
Chile 9/11 Series | Voluspa Jarpa: “Chile 9/11 Before Chile 9/11”
219 Aaron Burr HallChilean artist Voluspa Jarpa investigates the broader notion of the archive by synthesizing popular discourse, declassified documents, state symbols, urban space, personal narratives, and psychoanalytic theory. Using materials as disparate as oil on canvas to lasers, Jarpa analyzes the construction of hegemonic history and memory, taking into account its inherent erasures and absences. Jarpa also explores ways […]
Climate Inheritance
Room N107, School of Architecture Room N107, School of Architecture, PrincetonClimate Inheritance is a speculative design publication that reckons with the complexity of world and heritage in the Anthropocene. The impacts of climate change on heritage sites—from Venice flooding to extinction in the Galápagos Islands—have garnered empathetic media attention in a landscape that has otherwise failed to communicate the urgency of the crisis. In a […]
