Videos of the “Listening and Seeing” conference organized by Pedro Meira Monteiro and Bruno Carvalho (Princeton University, Mar 6, 2015) are available for viewing here.
Listening and Seeing: An Homage to Eduardo Coutinho
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Class snapshot: ‘Environmental Challenges and Urban Solutions’
This spring, 12 Princeton undergraduates are joining forces in the interdisciplinary course “Environmental Challenges and Urban Solutions” to confront urbanization and environmental problems and to rethink traditional theories about nature and city dynamics.
CUBA: TRES IMÁGENES PARA COMBATIR EL ENTUSIASMO*
por Gerardo Muñoz
¿Cuáles serían las imágenes que nos ayudan a combatir hoy el entusiasmo? Por entusiasmo comprendo aquí no solo la reacción generalizada que han despertado los recientes cambios diplomáticos entre Cuba y EEUU, sino también un modo de comprensión y lectura asociada con aquel momento en que el viejo Emanuel Kant trató de delimitar un modo de posicionarse ante el evento de la Revolución Francesa (1).
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Fernández-Kelly shines light on overlooked communities
The people of West Baltimore populate Princeton sociologist Patricia Fernández-Kelly‘s recently released book, “The Hero’s Fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State.”
Through the stories of D.B. Wilson, Big Floyd, Little Floyd and other residents, Fernández-Kelly said she has tried to shine a light on the lives of people in some of the poorest and most violent neighborhoods in America — lives often overlooked by society.
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Presenting Princeton’s Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera
Presenting Princeton’s Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera
The Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera is a steadily growing repository containing a previously unavailable subset of Princeton’s Latin American Ephemera Collection as well as newly acquired materials being digitized and added on an ongoing basis.
PLAS fellow João Cezar de Castro Rocha on the Latin American literary boom
PLAS fellow João Cezar de Castro Rocha on the Latin American literary boom: the importance of Firestone Library […]
RICARDO PIGLIA, LOS AÑOS DE PRINCETON
“Americans in Havana” by Rubén Gallo
Dear friends:
I thought you might be interested in my most recent piece on Cuba:
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/americans-havana?intcid=mod-latest
All my best,
Rubén
Praise for Bruno Carvalho’s book, “Porous City”!
The following was tweeted by Simon Romero, New York Times bureau chief in Brazil, to his over 15K followers. Click here to access the tweet.
Congratulations Yessica Martinez and Jake Robertson!
Photos by Denise Applewhite, Office of Communications
Princeton seniors Yessica Martinez and Jake Robertson have been named co-winners of the University’s 2015 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate.
They will be recognized at a luncheon during Alumni Day on campus Saturday, Feb. 21.