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Past Book Talk Events


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

LLL Presents – Wednesday’s Child: Short Stories


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

The Arc of Interference: Medical Anthropology for Worlds on Edge


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

Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber


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

LLL Presents | Reading Shakespeare Reading Me



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

Book Talk | Organize the world. Another Cold War Story


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

Personal Limits: A Series on Personal Writing, #3


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

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

Dessa, rapper, singer, and writer


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

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


November 11, 2021 · 6:00 pm · Livestream

Personal Limits: A Series on Personal Writing, #2


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



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


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

Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning


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

A History of Ireland in 100 (and More) Words


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

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

Leonard Barkan, Comparative Literature


March 30, 2021 · 5:00 pm · Livestream

Book Talk: Absentees: On Variously Missing Persons


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