Friends of Princeton University Library Small Talk: “When Books Went to War”
Center for Modern Aging Princeton, 101 Poor Farm RoadProfessor Molly Guptill Manning, author of “When Books Went to War” and curator of “The Best-Read Army in the World,” recently on display at The Grolier Club, joins the Friends of PUL on Wednesday. Feb. 28 to discuss the fascinating story of the “Armed Services Editions” books - pocket-sized editions that were sent to American […]
2023-24 Old Dominion Public Lecture Series – Reading (like a translator?): The War-time Poetry of René Char
010 East Pyne PrincetonFeuillets d’Hypnos (Leaves of Hypnos) was written by the poet René Char during the French Resistance. It reflects particularly on his years as a leader on the Maquis. The text won immediate praise from critics, from philosophers such as Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, and Hannah Arendt, from painters such as Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, and […]
“Trading Goods and Exchanging Faiths in the Late Antique Red Sea”
103 Scheide CaldwellBeginning with an introduction to early global trade, my paper traces the arrival of monotheism in the Red Sea region through a comparative approach taking into account other nodal first-millennium regions (e.g., Central Asia) to reframe the complex interweaving of faith, identity, and economic activity during Late Antiquity.
Into the Forever and Beautiful Sky: 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 […]
PISC no.5: “The Poet of Islam”: The Reception of Muhammad Iqbal in Egypt
102 Jones Hall PrincetonAbstract: "This paper reconstructs the largely untold history of how Indian- Muslim poet Muhammad Iqbal’s works arrived in the Arab world through the Egyptian poet ‘Abd al-Wahhab ‘Azzam. His interpretation of Iqbal set the terms of Najib al-Kilani’s—the Arab world’s most influential advocate for a new genre of literature termed al-adab al-islami—own engagement with the […]
