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 […]
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 […]
Writing Seminar: Where is Princeton?
Hinds Library, McCosh Hinds Library, McCosh, PrincetonJoin Robert Sullivan to map our situation, considering ecological, political, and economic ecologies, and investigate our position on the cusp of two major estuaries — the Hudson / Raritan and the Delaware — exploring the differences between the city to the north and the city to the south, looking at how these things connect and […]
Vathy Astypalaia: Recent Data from a Diachronic Palimpsest of the Aegean
Green Hall 3-S-15The site of Vathy on the island of Astypalaia, Greece, was strategically located along several maritime routes linking the prehistoric societies of the Aegean Sea. Recent excavations at Vathy have brought to light a site of major importance for our knowledge of Mediterranean cultures in the 4th- and 3rd-millennia BCE across a vast area, from […]
From “The Mind has No Sex?” to “Gendered Innovations”: A Historian’s Contribution to Enhancing Excellence in Science & Technology
010 East Pyne 010 East Pyne, PrincetonJoin us on September 27 for the annual ECS Faber Lecture with Londa Schiebinger (Stanford University). This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP HERE. Reception to follow the lecture. This lecture explores how a historian of science can make significant contributions to science & technology. Professor Schiebinger will quickly sketch her journey from […]
“Into the Forever and Beautiful Sky”: Confronting Animal Brutality in a Galaxy of Limitless Capitalism
A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building Washington Road, PrincetonAndrea Jain asks, What happens when we show a film that pays worshipful attention to animal welfare to a Marvel Studios-sized audience? How does capitalism colonize the popular imagination, religious and otherwise? Lifting up the Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 as her primary artifact, Jain uses the film to illustrate how capitalists sell animal […]
On the Translation and Adaptation of The Vocabulario da lingoa de Iapam
Zoom PrincetonThe current translation project has sprung forth from an enduring fascination with the Vocabulario da lingoa de Iapam, the monumental Japanese-Portuguese dictionary produced by the Jesuit mission in Nagasaki in 1603 and 1604. The Vocabulario is the oldest and first dictionary of the Japanese classical language, written by people who lived there. My hope for […]
Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature with Florian Fuchs & Daniel Heller Roazen
Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street, PrincetonWe invite you for a conversation about the deep history of storytelling as civic agency, recalibrating literature’s political role for the twenty-first century. Why did short narrative forms like the novella, fable, and fairy tale suddenly emerge around 1800 as genres symptomatic of literature’s role in life and society? In order to explain their rapid […]
Film Screening & Discussion: “Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb”
Princeton Garden Theatre 160 Nassau Street, PrincetonTurn Every Page follows the iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Caro and his editor, the literary giant Robert Gottlieb, in this chronicle of a unique 50-year professional relationship. The film screening will be followed by a conversation with filmmaker, Lizzie Gottlieb, and Julian Zelizer, Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Tickets are […]
