Understanding where we come from as a species has been one of the great goals of humankind, exploring the questions of where we come from and why we are here as a species. In this lecture, Professor Lee Berger (the Phillip Tobias Chair in Human Evolution at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and an Explorer at Large…

A Brazil LAB book forum on the cosmopolitanism and transcendences of the poor and their silenced insurgencies in Brazil’s southern borderlands, with authors João Biehl and Miqueias Mugge.

Discussants:

Hendrik Lorenz,…

Stefania Pandolfo *91 is professor and director of the UC Berkeley Medical Anthropology Program on Critical Studies in Medicine, Science, and the Body at the University of California, Berkeley. Pandolfo studies theories and forms of subjectivity, and their contemporary predicaments in the Middle Eastern and Muslim world,…

Anita Lo is a French-trained chef and cookbook author (Cooking Without Borders and SoLo, a Modern Cookbook for a Party of One, which won Eater’s Cookbook of the Year and was nominated for an IACP award) based in New York City. She is best known for her work at annisa, a contemporary American…

ABSTRACT: The relationship between democracy and art has shifted simultaneously in opposite directions. On the one hand, very few people still believe that aesthetic experience has a positive political value. Yet, on the other, democratic practice is increasingly saturated in performativity and the fictional narratives of…

ABSTRACT: The relationship between democracy and art has shifted simultaneously in opposite directions. On the one hand, very few people still believe that aesthetic experience has a positive political value. Yet, on the other, democratic practice is increasingly saturated in performativity and the fictional narratives of…

Talk with Lily Shangreaux '74 and Dan Bigbee Jr.

Emmy-Award-Winning Producers of the documentary, "Osage Murders Reign of Terror"

In the summer of 2022 "Osage Murders Reign of Terror" won an Emmy in the historical/cultural program category. "Osage Murders Reign of Terror" is a historical documentary…

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is an American playwright. He won the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play for his plays Appropriate and An Octoroon. His plays Gloria and Everybody were finalists for the 2016 and 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama respectively. He was named a MacArthur Fellow for…

Presenters:

The Members of Nuclear Princeton

Sam Brinton, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition, Office of Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Jay Jones, Tribal Liaison, Office of Integrated Waste…