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 ...
A Conversation on Amy Kaplan's "Our American Israel"-- Featuring Joan Scott & Chris Hedges(Post)
Wednesday 4/9 @ 6:00PM
Labyrinth Books
122 Nassau Street
On the occasion of the paperback release of Amy Kaplan’s Our American Israel, Chris Hedges and Joan Scott discuss Kaplan’s es ...
Zara Anishanslin: "The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution"(Post)
Thurs 4/23 @ 7:00PMRobertson Hall 100 (Arthur Lewis Auditorium)
Zara Anishanslin presents on her book The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution, ...
John Seabrook: "The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty" - A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)
Monday 6/16 @ 7:00PM
Princeton Public Library
John Seabrook, staff writer at The New Yorker for more than 3 decades, discusses his recently released book The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an Ame ...
Beth Lew-Williams in conversation with Anne Cheng: "John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life under American Racial Law"(Post)
Tues 9/16 @ 6:00PM
Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Beth Lew-Williams discusses her new book with Anne Cheng. John Doe Chinaman is a revelatory history of the laws that conditioned the everyday li ...
Brian Soucek in conversation with Joan Scott: "The Opinionated University: Academic Freedom, Diversity, and the Myth of Neutrality in American Higher Education"(Post)
Thurs 1/29 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Law professor Brian Soucek discusses his new book with Joan Scott. The Opinionated University demonstrates why institutional neutrality is nothi ...
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 ...
Judith Weisenfeld in conversation with Nicole Myers Turner(Post)
4/29 @ 6:00PM
Labyrinth Books
122 Nassau Street
In the decades after the end of slavery, African Americans were committed to southern state mental hospitals at higher rates as white psychiatrists lis ...
Annette Gordon-Reed: "The Jefferson Paradox: Race, Slavery, and the Promise of America”(Post)
Sun 4/26 @ 3:00PM
Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed, joined by Eddie Glaude, discusses her book "Jefferson on Race," exami ...
The Althea Ward Clark Reading Series presents Didi Jackson and Major Jackson(Post)
Tues 2/17 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
The Lewis Center’s Program in Creative Writing presents the annual Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series, which provides an opportuni ...
Sanyu Mojola "Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol" - A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)
Mon 2/2 @ 6:00PMThe Princeton Public Library
Sociologist Sanyu Mojola, joined in conversation with Waverly Duck and Tukufu Zuberi, presents her new book Death by Design: Producing Racial Health In ...
Owen Zidar in conversation with Alan Blinder: "The Everywhere Millionaire: Who Is Really Rich in America and How They Got There" - A Labyrinth & Library Collaboration(Post)
Wed 9/16 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Join us for a discussion between Owen Zidar and Alan Blinder. The Everywhere Millionaire is Zidar’s groundbreaking new portrait, co-authored ...
CANCELLED--Shatema Threadcraft in Conversation with Reena Goldthree: "The Labors of Resurrection"(Post)
Mon 2/23 @ 6:00PMThe Princeton Public Library
Please note this event has been cancelled due to inclement weather.
The author, joined in conversation by Reena Goldthree, presents her new book The La ...
Cortney Lamar Charleston in conversation with Patricia Smith: "It’s Important I Remember: Poems"(Post)
Thurs 4/16 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Cortney Lamar Charleston is joined by Patricia Smith to discuss his new collection of poems from Northwestern University Press.
“History d ...
Jarvis McInnis in conversation with Autumn Womack: “Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South"(Post)
Mon 10/20 @ 5:00PMA17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz, Princeton University
Join Jarvis McInnis, in conversation with Autumn Womack, assistant professor of African American Studies and English at Prin ...
The C. K. Williams Reading Series presents Hala Alyan and Student Readers(Post)
Tues 2/10 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Award-winning novelist, poet and memoirist Hala Alyan, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award, reads from he ...
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 ...
Anand Pandian in conversation with Elizabeth Anne Davis: "Something Between Us"(Post)
Tuesday 9/9 @ 6:00 PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Anand Pandian, anthropologist and professor at Johns Hopkins University, discusses his new book Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of Am ...
Susan Stewart in conversation with Eliza Griswold: "Bramble"(Post)
Tues 4/28 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Acclaimed poet Susan Stewart discusses her new poetry collection with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and poet Eliza Griswold. Bramble is ...
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 ...
