Book Talk: “Emerging Global Cities: Origins and Significance”
216 Aaron Burr HallAlejandro Portes is Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of (Emeritus) Sociology at Princeton University and Professor of Law and Distinguished Scholar of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami. He is the founding director of the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton. He has taught at several universities. He is a […]
After Transformation: Refiguring Christianity and the Late Roman World
010 East PyneNo word is more associated with late antiquity than ‘transformation,’ a term signaling a departure from Gibbon’s melodramatic narrative of decline and collapse of the Roman empire, for which Christianity was partially to blame. But transformation has its own romances, not to mention its own exceptionalism, and so this lecture will offer an alternative approach […]
Atelier@Large: Conversations on Art-making in a Vexed Era
Richardson Auditorium Richardson Auditorium, PrincetonIn a series of conversations that bring guest artists to campus to discuss what they face in making art in the modern world, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, director of the Princeton Atelier, moderates a discussion with Princeton scholar, translator and biographer David Bellos (Who Owns This Sentence: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs); songwriter […]
