Event Archives

Events Archive

Sustainable Oystering: A Farmer-to-Table Conversation
Wed, Nov 16, 2022, 4:30 pm7:00 pm

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…

Location
Shultz Dining Room in Robertson Hall
Speakers
Tanner Lectures on Human Values: Fintan O'Toole (columnist for the Irish Times and book author): "Known and Strange Things: The Political Necessity of Art"
Thu, Nov 10, 2022, 4:30 pm6:30 pm

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…

Location
Friend Center, 101
Tanner Lectures on Human Values: Fintan O'Toole (columnist for the Irish Times and book author): "Known and Strange Things: The Political Necessity of Art"
Wed, Nov 9, 2022, 4:30 pm6:30 pm

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…

Location
Friend Center, 101
"Osage Murders Reign of Terror"
Sat, Nov 5, 2022, 12:00 pm1:30 pm

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…

Location
104 Carl A. Fields Center
Playwriting with Anthropology
Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

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…

Location
219 Aaron Burr Hall
Speakers
TITRATION: Radioactive Waste, Princeton, & the Navajo Nation
Wed, Oct 26, 2022, 10:00 am11:30 am

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…

Soldiers and Kings: Inside the World of Human Smuggling
Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

In 2014, Mexico (with financial and logistical support from the Obama administration) launched Programa Frontera Sur, a security enforcement project aimed at stopping Central American migrants from reaching the U.S./Mexico border. Under this program, Mexico dramatically increased arrests and deportations while simultaneously making the…

Speakers
Indigenizing Academia
Mon, Oct 10, 2022, 4:30 pm6:30 pm

Speaker
Corey Still (United Keetoowah Band)
Bacone College

Discussants:
Elizabeth Ellis (Peoria Tribe of Oklahoma) History Department

Noah Colllins (Cherokee Nation/White Mountain Apache Tribe), Anthropology Department

The…

Location
219 Aaron Burr Hall
Speaker
Coup or No Coup? A Post-Presidential Election Debate
Wed, Oct 5, 2022, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

A Brazil LAB event with Laura Carvalho and Silvio Almeida. Discussant: Miguel Centeno. Moderated by João Biehl.

Laura Carvalho is a leading Brazilian economist and public intellectual. She is currently the Global…

UNSCRIPTED: The Murdered Child: On the Grievability of Black Deaths in Norway
Mon, Oct 3, 2022, 12:30 pm1:30 pm

Sindre Bangstad is a Norwegian-born anthropologist, and the incoming Stanley Kelley Jr. Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Teaching of Anthropology at Princeton. He holds a cand.polit. degree from the University of Bergen in Norway, and a PhD from Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Bangstad has undertaken…

Location
216 Aaron Burr Hall
Speakers