Calendar of Events

Leonard Jay Horwitz *68 Lecture This discussion will feature the renowned economist and policymaker from Colombia, José Antonio Ocampo. Ocampo recently held a position as Finance Minister in Colombia and has grappled with the challenging task of implementing progressive economic measures during times of financial distress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, […]

What factors should we consider when deciding whether to offer content warnings in our classes? What does the research have to say about their effectiveness? How are Princeton faculty using them? Join us for a discussion of different approaches to teaching difficult topics sensitively and responsibly.

The story of the swordsmith couple Ganjiang 干將 and Moye 莫耶 from the late Warring States period (fifth-century BCE) is so enduring that school children in the Chinese-speaking world can still recite its plot: Charged by the king to cast the deadliest sword, the couple became desperate when the metal would neither melt nor flow. […]

With their distinct markets, institutions, and specialists, the realms of fine art and craft today largely exist as parallel, specialized industries. When they do intersect, practitioners and observers typically offer two syntheses: craft “rises” to the institutional and aesthetic condition of art or supplements its exclusivity as a model of unalienated production. Yet fine artists […]

Pulitzer prize winning science writer, Ed Yong will draw from his new book, An Immense World to reveal the hidden realms of animals' senses and their astonishingly varied ways of perceiving the world. Yong’s talk will explore why the pandemic was so devastating and necessary future actions. Yong engages the challenges of science writing as […]

Join Princeton scholars from the humanities and sciences for an interdisciplinary discussion of the video installation migration (empire) by Doug Aitken, now screening daily on the north lawn of the Lewis Arts complex. Panelists will speak about the video work from their distinct scholarly perspectives, underscoring how different forms of knowledge can inform and help […]