Building Life: Spatial Politics, Science, and Environmental Epistemes
Various PrincetonBuilding Life: Spatial Politics, Science, and Environmental Epistemes is a two-day symposium that examines how entanglements between the interdisciplinary fields of the built environment and the sciences have transformed concepts […]
“Disfigurement, Disability, and the Dangers of Punishment in Byzantium: The Case of Punitive Blinding”
103 Scheide CaldwellThis talk is about punishment and exclusion in the Byzantine world. It focuses on a particular penalty—blinding—commonly used to disqualify victims from positions of political leadership. But despite its official […]
“To put back all the things people cluttered up…To Straighten, like a diligent Housekeeper of Reality…”: The Greek, Roman and Byzantine collections at MFA Boston re-imagined
A71 Louis A. Simpson BuildingThis lecture is part of the Kurt Weitzmann Memorial Lecture Series in Late Antique, Early Christian, Byzantine, and Early Medieval Art in the Department of Art & Archaeology.
Lecture & Reading by Louise Kennedy
James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau Street PrincetonAward-winning writer Louise Kennedy presents “Trespasses: Fact, Fiction and Memory,” a lecture based on her bestselling novel Trespasses, which won the British Book Awards Debut Novel of the Year, the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, and the McKitterick Prize. Kennedy will read from the book and examine her use of news reports, […]
Tanner Lectures on Human Values-“The Last Dystopia: Historicizing the Anthropocene Debate in an Age of Multipolarity: Lecture II: Polycrisis”
101 Friend CenterABSTRACT: In the last 25 years the concept of the Anthropocene has emerged as a master category for thinking the contemporary environmental crisis. As much as it has energized the […]
Film Screening: Perfect Days by Wim Wenders
Taylor Auditoium, Fick Chemistry BuildingThe critically-acclaimed Perfect Days will be screened for free, to the University community on November 10 at 6:30 pm, well prior to widespread North American release. Hirayama seems utterly content […]
