Princeton University’s Spencer Trask Lectures: Carol Anderson, Emory University

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our RacialDivide Monday, February 11, 2019 6:00 pm, McCosh Hall, Room 10 Throughout our history, as African American have advanced towards full participation in our democracy, White reaction has fueled a deliberate and relentless rollback of their gains. The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with the Black Codes and Jim

Princeton University’s Spencer Trask Lectures: Alison Bechdel, Cartoonist and Graphic Memoirist

An Evening with Alison Bechdel Tuesday, October 9, 2018 McCosh 10; 6:00 pm Alison Bechdel is an internationally beloved cartoonist whose darkly humorous graphic memoirs, astute writing and evocative drawing have forged an unlikely intimacy with a wide and disparate range of readers.  She will explore her artistic process; describe her  unlikely road to activism; and share insight into her

Princeton University’s Spencer Trask Lectures: Drive-By Truckers

Rock-and-Roll, Progressive Politics, and the Dirty South An evening of conversation and music with thelead singers of the Drive-By-Truckers, Michael Cooley and Patterson Hood with Jonathan Rieder. Wednesday, March 7, 2018 McCosh Hall, Room 50; 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm The two co-founders of the Drive-By Truckers, Patterson Hood and Michael Cooley, will join Barnard Sociologist Jonathan Rieder for a

Princeton University’s Spencer Trask Lectures: Jill Lepore, Historian

American History From Beginning to End Thursday, November 30, 2017 McCosh Hall, Room 50; 6:00 pm Jill Lepore will discuss the challenge of writing American history during a time of division. Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University.  She has  been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2005. Her books include The Name of War (1998),

Princeton University’s Spencer Trask Lectures: Katherine Boo, author of Behind The Beautiful Forevers

Field Notes From An Ethical Minefield Wednesday, November 8, 2017 McCosh Hall, Room 50; 6:00 pm In the second annual Distinguished Teaching Lecture in Service and Civic Engagement, journalist and author Katherine Boo will discuss some lessons learned in 25 years of investigating injustice in dis-empowered communities. Katherine Boo’s 2012 book Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a

Princeton University’s Spencer Trask Lectures: David Henry Hwang, Playwright

Whose Story? Re-centering the Mainstream Wednesday, March 23, 2016 McCosh 50, 6:00 pm Tony Award winning playwright, librettist and TV writer David Henry Hwang (M. BUTTERFLY, CHINGLISH, AIDA, THE AFFAIR) shares his journey as a kid from Los Angeles who discovered theatre, and what it means to be an Asian American writer in a country where people of color are rapidly

Princeton University’s Spencer Trask Lectures: John McPhee, Writer and Pioneer of Creative Nonfiction

Writing on the Writing Process: A Reading Wednesday, November 12, 2014 6:00 pm, McCosh 50 John McPhee, author and pioneer of creative non-fiction, will read from several personal history pieces, all relating to the writing process and to Princeton. John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine

Princeton University’s Spencer Trask Lectures: Film and Terrorism, Discussion by Filmmaker Olivier Assayas and Critic Ian Buruma

Film and Terrorism Tuesday, March 4, 2014 6:00 pm, McCosh 50 Filmmaker Olivier Assayas and Critic Ian Buruma will present a conversation on  “Film and Terrorism.”  Ruben Gallo, Director of Princeton University’s Program in Latin American Studies, will lead the discussion, which will focus on how Assayas has portrayed terrorism in several of his award-winning films. Director and Screenwriter Olivier

Princeton University’s Spencer Trask Lectures: Mario Vargas Llosa, Recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature

Politics and Culture in Latin America, a Conversation with Enrique Krauze Tuesday, October 8, 2013 6:00 PM in McCosh 50 Writer and Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa will discuss the current state of politics and culture in Latin America in a conversation with Enrique Krauze, Historian and Visiting Research Scholar. Mario Vargas Llosa’s novels, including The War of the End