Wednesday 1/29 at 7:30pm Berlind Theatre, McCarter Neko Case will be joined in conversation with A.M. Homes to discuss her memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood, obsessive desires, and indispensabl ...
William Lewis: "Preserving the Pines: New Jersey and the Origins of Environmentalism"(Post)Sunday 6/1 @ 3:00PM Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street In the early twentieth century, an interconnected web of men and women led by Dr. V.E. Vivian fought for and won a better future in Whitesbog Vi ...
Daniel Mendelsohn in conversation with Yelena Baraz - A New Translation of The Odyssey(Post)Thursday 4/17 @ 6:00PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Join us as celebrated author, critic, classicist, and translator Daniel Mendelsohn discusses his new translation of The Od ...
Dorothy A. Brown in conversation with Brandon McKoy: "Getting to Reparations: How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning with Our Past"(Post)Thurs 4/9 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Join us as Dorothy A. Brown discusses her new book with Brandon McKoy. Getting to Reparations is a bold manifesto arguing that there is a cl ...
Bob Crawford in Conversation with Sean Wilentz: "America’s Founding Son: John Quincy Adams, from President to Political Maverick"(Post)Sat 3/14 @ 4:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Doors open at 3:30PM. Registration required.Click here to register. Join the New Jersey Council for the Humanities for a special conversation bet ...
Michael Steven Wilson in conversation with José Antonio Lucero: "What Side Are You On? A Tohono O'odham Life across Borders"(Post)Tuesday 4/22 @ 6:00PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Renowned human rights activist Michael "Mike" Wilson has borne witness to the profound human costs of poverty, racism, border policing, an ...
2025 Prathia Hall Lecture: The Radical Roots of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and its Lessons for Today with Danielle McGuire(Post)Monday 4/21@ 5:00PM Theron Room, Wright Library, Princeton Theological Seminary >>RSVP to attend in person or online The Montgomery Bus Boycott is often reduced to a simple story of Rosa P ...
Steven Weitzman in conversation with Leora Batnitzky: "Disasters of Biblical Proportions: The Ten Plagues Then, Now, and at the End of the World"(Post)Tues 3/17 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street People have been telling and retelling stories about disasters for as long as they have been telling stories. One of the oldest of such stor ...
Christopher Eisgruber: "Terms of Respect: How Colleges Get Free Speech Right" - A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)Mon 10/20 @ 6:00PMPrinceton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber discusses his book Terms of Respect: How Colleges Get Free Speech Right. Free Regis ...
Edward Tenner: "Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge: Essays in Unintended Consequences," A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)Wednesday 6/4 @ 7:00pm Princeton Public Library Essays by international bestselling author Edward Tenner that explore the surprises of human ingenuity How did the addition of lifeboats after the Tita ...
Serena Zabin: "The Boston Massacre: A Family History"(Post)Thurs 5/7 @ 7:00PMRobertson Hall 100 (Arthur Lewis Auditorium), Princeton University A dramatic, untold “people’s history” of the storied event that helped trigger the American Rev ...
Elaine Pagels in conversation with Eliza Griswold(Post)Tuesday 4/8 @ 6:00pm Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street From a renowned National Book Award–winning scholar, an extraordinary new account of the life of Jesus that explores the mystery of h ...
Allison Daminger in conversation with Nancy Reddy: "What's On Her Mind" -- A Library and Labyrinth Event(Post)9/23 @ 7:00PM Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Allison Daminger is joined by Nancy Reddy for a conversation about her recently published book What’s on Her Mind: The Mental Workload of ...
Agustín Fuentes in conversation with Catherine Clune-Taylor(Post)Thursday 5/8 @ 6:00PM Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street Being human entails an astonishingly complex interplay of biology and culture, and while there are important differences between women and men ...
Robert G. Parkinson: "Tyrants and Rogues: Understanding the Declaration of Independence"(Post)Tues 6/30 @ 7:00PMRobertson Hall 100 (Arthur Lewis Auditorium), Princeton University A dramatic, untold “people’s history” of the storied event that helped trigger the American Rev ...
Author Tea: Sally Hepworth, presented by Princeton Public Library(Post)Sat 5/2 @ 3:00 PMThe Historical Society of Princeton's Updike Farmstead Australian author Sally Hepworth discusses and signs copies of Mad Mabel at this event at the Historical So ...
D. Vance Smith in conversation with Simon Gikandi: "Atlas’s Bones: The African Foundations of Europe" – A Library & Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)Thurs 2/5 @ 6:00PMPrinceton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street Registration requested here D. Vance Smith, joined in conversation with Simon Gikandi, presents his new book Atlas&rs ...
Tom Toro in Conversation with Patrick McDonnell - A Princeton Public Library Book Brunch Event(Post)Sun 12/7 @ 11:00 AMPrinceton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon The author presents and discusses his collection And to Think We Started as a Book Club... Doors open at 10:45 a.m. for coffee & pastr ...
Durba Mitra & Chandra Talpade Mohanty in conversation, facilitated by Lorgia García Peña: "The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism"(Post)Thurs 3/26 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Durba Mitra's new book explores how Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imag ...
Joseph Fronczak in conversation with Shiri Pasternak: "The Five Ages of Antifascism"(Post)Weds 4/15 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street Joseph Fronczak, research scholar at Princeton University’s Department of History, is joined in conversation with Shiri Pasternak about his ...