Chile 9/11 Series | Alfredo Castro: A Political Retrospective (Film Series)
Various PrincetonSeries curated by Javier Guerrero (Princeton University) & Juana Suárez (New York University) Marking the 50th anniversary, this September 11, of the military coup against President Allende in Chile, this retrospective is dedicated to Alfredo Castro, the internationally acclaimed Chilean actor whose work is essential to a deep exploration of the cruelty of the dictatorship […]
History (Re)incarnate: George Eliot and Qurratulain Hyder
B14 McCoshIn making incarnation a key term for her fiction, George Eliot exemplifies a broader Victorian effort to transmute Christian sentiment into a secular ideal of sympathy and an aesthetic of realism. At the same time, the critical tendency to situate Eliot in relation to a New Testament paradigm has obscured her engagement with cosmologies other […]
Ukrainian Poetry in Translation with Ilya Kaminsky, Katie Farris, Maya Chabra, Andrew Janco & Olga Livshin
Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street, PrincetonJoin us for a reading and discussion with a showcase of poets and translators from two new books that consider what it means to be Ukrainian during unthinkable times. In the Hour of War: Poems from Ukraine, edited by Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky Poetry has played an outsized role in Ukrainian culture since its […]