LLL Presents – “Necessary Trouble: Growing up at Mid-Century”
Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street, PrincetonJoin us for a conversation between two presidents emerita of Harvard and Princeton respectively about Drew Gilpin’s new memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. Two world wars […]
Seeking Justice: The Civil Rights Movement and the Federal Government
Friend Center Convocation RoomDuring the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, activists knew that securing the sympathy and support of the federal government was essential. Drawing on materials in Mudd Manuscript Library, Professor of History Kevin M. Kruse will compare and contrast the 1961 Freedom Rides and the 1965 Selma protests to show how the federal response shaped […]
Splendors and Miseries of Lies. Autofiction, Exofiction, Ego Histoire, and the Question of Truth
105 Chancellor GreenAfter post-structuralism enjoined us to forget the notion of truth, the 21st century is reactivating it in the face of the generalization of lies. Today's era of post-truth, characterized by fake news, alternative facts, the fading of evidence, and the supremacy of narratives, makes it necessary to rethink the criteria of truth. François Noudelmann will […]
