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 photography, its instability, and its latent potential. The exhibition is co-curated by Deana Lawson and Michael Famighetti, editor-in-chief of Aperture magazine. The exhibition and symposium coincide with […]
Mellon Forum // Toward a Third Monumentality: The Soviet Reception of Mexican Architectural Modernism
School of ArchitectureThis talk brings into dialogue two contexts that have tended to remain on the fringe of architectural historiography, namely Mexico and the Soviet ‘peripheries,’ or the non-Russian republics of the […]
Kan’pan: Signage, Inscription, and Soundscape in 1920s Seoul
202 Jones HallThe 1920s marked a period of rapid commercialization and urbanization in Seoul, transforming the city’s visual and auditory landscape. This lecture explores the rise of commercial signage as a critical […]
Forms and Politics of Ecomedia in Africa
Betts AuditoriumHow have African media producers grappled with resources extraction and other ecological challenges across the continent? This lecture turns to African ecomedia -- which include arts like film and photography, and resource media including oil--to account for the perils and worldmaking possibilities of media in confronting planetary precarity. Positioning Africa as ground zero for the […]
“I Heard It Through the Grapevine” Screening and Conversation with Filmmaker Pat Hartley
James Stewart Film Theater 185 Nassau Street, PrincetonAs part of the Baldwin Circles project, the Humanities Council and the UCHV Film Forum present a film screening of the newly restored documentary I Heard It Through the Grapevine followed by a conversation with filmmaker Pat Hartley. I Heard It Through the Grapevine, directed by Pat Hartley and Dick Fontaine, follows James Baldwin as […]
Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority
Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street, PrincetonThe most personal writing yet to come from a noted scholar of race: a bold and moving look at race, gender, aging, and immigration that examines, through lenses both intimate and political, what it means to be an Asian American woman living in America today. Part memoir, part cultural criticism, part history, Anne Anlin Cheng’s […]
