This Filthy WorldMarch 25, 2010. Cosponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts/Performance Central and the Spencer Trask Lecture Fund. In this part-lecture, part-vaudeville performance, Waters speaks candidly and irreverently about the formative influences on his career, Hollywood, the art world, social taboos, and modern culture in general. Born in Baltimore, Waters began his career making low-budget underground films. His
The Man Who Loved ChinaFebruary 11, 2010. Spencer Trask Lecture (NOTE: 8 p.m. in McCosh Hall 10) Seldom can it be said that any one person ever managed to change the outside world’s perception of an entire nation, an entire people. But, beginning in 1954, Joseph Needham (1900–1995), a Cambridge biochemist, a figure dauntingly eccentric and brilliantly polymathic in equal measure, did
A Reading from Marias’s Works Followed by a Conversation with Professors Angel G. Loureiro and Michael Wood December 1, 2009. Cosponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Spencer Trask Fund. (NOTE: McCormick 101 at 4:30 p.m.)
Character in MusicNovember 9, 2009. Cosponsored by the Spencer Trask Fund, Lewis Center for the Arts, Department of Music, Princeton University Concerts, and the Department of German (NOTE: 8:00 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall. Free ticket required. See below for details.) The lecture sets out to show that in musical performances the perception of character and atmosphere is no
Odetta, Folk Music, and Social Activism(NOTE: panel discussion 4:30–6:30 p.m. in McCosh 10; concert at 8:30 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium) Cosponsored by the Center for African American Studies, the Program in American Studies, the Program in Women and Gender, the Departments of History, Music, and Religion, the Humanities Council, the Centers for Human Values and the Study of Religion, the
Cosponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Spencer Trask Fund. Words such as “nature” or “culture’” do not denote a universal reality that would manifest itself under the same guise to everybody, but rather particular ways of carving ontological domains in the texture of things that the Moderns have devised in the course of the past four centuries. Other
A discussion of the novels of Uruguayan novelist Juan Carlos Onetti and their relationship to the work of William Faulkner and Jorge Luis Borges.
The Bible, though its centrality may now be fading, has been a pervasive presence in American culture, for the most part, in the King James version. It was the Old Testament rather than the New Testament that exerted the greater magnetism because its focus on family and nation, politics and history spoke to the American condition, and because, beginning with
Robert Hass, poet laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997, will read from his latest collection, Time and Materials. Currently chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Hass has won several awards, including two National Book Critics Circle Awards. He received a Ph.D. in English from Stanford University and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. His volumes of poetry
The founder and host of American Public Media’s “Speaking of Faith” will read from her book. Leigh Schmidt (Department of Religion), Matt Hedstrom (Center for the Study of Religion), and Judith Weisenfeld (Department of Religion) will be the panel participants. Carolyn Rouse, Department of Anthropology, will serve as moderator.A journalist and former diplomat, Krista Tippett conceived the idea for “Speaking