Category Archives: Events and Goings-On
Also This Week: Michael Fried
Michael Fried, art historian, art critic, cultural historian, and poet, who teaches at Johns Hopkins, is going to be at Princeton this week as a Short Term Fellow of the Humanities Council, owing to the initiative of Comparative Literature, and … Continue reading
Events for the Week of 12/1/08
**Please remember to sign up for Spring courses in the binder located on Pat’s desk.** Monday, 12/1 12:00 PM. American Studies Workshop: The Treasure Hunt of Tradition: Re-visiting the archives of Jewish-American music; McCosh 40 4:30 PM. Lapidus Lecture: And … Continue reading
Events for the Week of 11/24/08
Monday 11/24 4:30 PM. Simon Gaunt, King’s College London: Translating Diversity in the Middle Ages, East Pyne 010 4:30 PM. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan: The Crisis of Feminism in Some Recent Indian Fiction in English, 216 Aaron Burr Hall 6:00 PM. … Continue reading
Grad Study Room Book Collection
We Need Your Input!! Please read and respond to the following wonderful initiative described here and headed by Greg Londe. As part of the continuing renovation and awesome-ification project of the English Graduate Study Room in Firestone, we are in … Continue reading
Events for 11/11/08-11/21/08
Tuesday, 11/11 12:00 PM. Louis Menand Seminar; Hinds 8:00 PM. A Tribute to Mahmoud Darwish: Cafe Vivian, Frist Campus Center Wednesday, 11/12 12:30 PM. Works in Progress: Ariana Reilly, “Trends from a Major Fashion House: Representations of Fashion in Bleak … Continue reading
Mark Sanders at Cuny
So I’ve been quite the blog delinquent– I promise to begin posting events again, but for now, here’s one at Cuny that’s been passed along to me: The CUNY Graduate Center Postcolonial Studies Group Colloquium Series 2008-2009 The Postcolonial Studies … Continue reading
Events for the Week of 10/13/08
Monday, 10/13 Tuesday, 10/14 5:30 PM. GAC Meeting! Hinds Library 5:30 PM. (Sorry about the scheduling conflict!) Toni Morrison reading; Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall Wednesday, 10/15 4:30 PM. Olga Taxidou: ‘”Utopia And Failure In Modernist Performance: The Craig/Stanislavksy ‘Hamlet’ And … Continue reading
Events for the Week of 10/6/08
General exams begin this week– good luck to all the third-years! Monday, 10/6 12:00 PM. American Studies Workshop presents John Palattella: Book Reviews are Dying, Long Live Book Reviews: Literary Journalism Today; McCosh 40 Tuesday, 10/7 9:30 AM. Final Public … Continue reading
Conference on Walter Benjamin’s Media-Theoretical Writings
Somehow, this event (October 3rd and 4th) escaped my notice: http://www.princeton.edu/german/news/viewstory.xml?id=10
Events for the week of 9/29/08
Monday 9/29 A Very happy new year to everyone celebrating Rosh Hashanah! Tuesday 9/30 Wednesday 10/1 6:00 PM. Michael J. Golec: “Riding the Rift: Tony Smith’s New Jersey Turnpike and the End of Art;” Betts Auditorium 8:00 PM. Mayor Cory … Continue reading