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Past Book Talk Events

September 27, 2023 · 6:00 pm · Labyrinth Books

Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature with Florian Fuchs & Daniel Heller Roazen

Labyrinth Books; Humanities Council; German Department; Department of Comparative Literature

September 21, 2023 · 7:00 pm · Princeton Public Library

LLL Presents – Wednesday’s Child: Short Stories

Labyrinth Books; Princeton Public Library; Humanities Council; Lewis Center for the Arts

May 2, 2023 · 6:00 pm7:30 pm · Labyrinth Books

The Arc of Interference: Medical Anthropology for Worlds on Edge

Labyrinth Books; Department of Anthropology; PIIRS' Brazil Lab; Humanities Council

April 12, 2023 · 6:00 pm7:30 pm · Labyrinth Books and Livestream

Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber

Labyrinth Books; Humanities Council; Lewis Center for the Arts; University Center for Human Values.

April 11, 2023 · 6:00 pm7:30 pm · Labyrinth Books and Livestream

LLL Presents | Reading Shakespeare Reading Me

Princeton Public Library; Labyrinth Books; Humanities Council; Department of English

March 9, 2023 · 6:00 pm7:30 pm · Labyrinth Books and Livestream

*CANCELLED* LLL Presents | After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America

Labyrinth Books; Princeton Public Library; Humanities Council; Center for Collaborative History

March 28, 2022 · 12:00 pm1:20 pm · Zoom

Book Talk | Organize the world. Another Cold War Story

Center for Collaborative History

December 8, 2021 · 6:00 pm7:00 pm · Livestream

Personal Limits: A Series on Personal Writing, #3

Labyrinth Books; Princeton Public Library; Lewis Center for the Arts; Humanities Council; Department of English

November 18, 2021 · 5:00 pm · 219 Aaron Burr

“Hymns for Humanists”: Dessa on Religion, Humanism, and Artistic Inspiration

Dessa, rapper, singer, and writer

Department of Religion; Humanities Council; Lewis Center for the Arts; Center for Culture, Society and Religion
Poster for Dessa, a rapper, singer, and writer

November 12, 2021 · 12:00 pm2:00 pm · Zoom

The Haitians: A Decolonial History (Book Discussion, Part IV)

Department of African American Studies

November 11, 2021 · 6:00 pm · Livestream

Personal Limits: A Series on Personal Writing, #2

Labyrinth Books; Princeton Public Library; Lewis Center for the Arts; Humanities Council; Department of English

November 11, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 010 East Pyne

Empire of Rubber: A Conversation About the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Liberia

Gregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Simon Gikandi, English


November 1, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

Realität ist schlichtweg das Unverdächtige: On Blumenberg and Critical Affect

German Department

October 13, 2021 · 5:30 pm6:30 pm · Virtual

Personal Limits #1: Sarah Chihaya and Merve Emre

Sarah Chihaya, English; Merve Emre, University of Oxford; Monica Huerta, English, American Studies

Labyrinth Books; Princeton Public Library; Humanities Council; Lewis Center for the Arts; Department of English

October 6, 2021 · 6:00 pm7:00 pm · Labyrinth Books and Livestream

Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

Labyrinth Books; Princeton Public Library; Humanities Council

October 1, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

A History of Ireland in 100 (and More) Words

Fund for Irish Studies at Princeton University

September 22, 2021 · 12:00 pm1:30 pm · Zoom

PIIRS Director’s Book Forum: The Hungry Eye with Leonard Barkan

Leonard Barkan, Comparative Literature

Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies

March 30, 2021 · 5:00 pm · Livestream

Book Talk: Absentees: On Variously Missing Persons

Labyrinth Books; Humanities Council

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