Exhibition — Poetic Record: Photography in a Transformed World
Hurley Gallery, Lewis Arts complexThis exhibition is presented as part of Poetic Record: Photography in a Transformed World, a two-day symposium that gathers photo-based artists, writers, curators, historians, and students to explore the poetics of […]
Effective Science Communication: Balancing Simplicity and Impact
Zoom PrincetonThis workshop will offer tools for effectively communicating complex scientific discoveries to diverse audiences, with a focus on distilling research projects into clear, simple, and impactful messages. Zoom link provided at registration.
“What can I hope?”: Race, Abyssal Aesthetics, and the Failure of Beauty
205 East PyneThis talk addresses the function of the beautiful in accounts of aesthetic and ethical intersubjectivity. Immanuel Kant’s racialized ideal of human beauty and morality affords an interrogation of colorblind optimism. Engaging the promise of beauty as that of abstraction from the ground of phenomenal experience, I contend with beauty’s failure amidst ongoing histories of racialization […]
Agents of Change: American Jews and the Transformation of Israeli Judaism
203 Scheide CaldwellJoin the Program in Judaic Studies on Monday, November 11, to hear Adam S. Ferziger discuss his upcoming book, Agents of Change: American Jews and the Transformation of Israeli Judaism, with Laura Arnold Leibman, Princeton University's Leonard J. Milberg ’53 Professor in American Jewish Studies. The talk will address the rise of moderate Orthodox Judaism […]
The Most Beautiful Possible Line
219 Aaron Burr HallTowards the end of his life, the French poet Paul Valéry jotted down his admiration for the “most beautiful possible line” of all poetry. What sort of beauty was this, such that Valéry recognized it as the aim and the apex of his art? This talk will analyze Valéry’s claim to unsurpassable beauty by drawing […]
