The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture 2025(Post)
Thursday 4/3 @ 7:00PM
Princeton Public Library, Community Room
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Princeton Theological Seminary presents The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr ...
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 ...
Peniel Joseph In Conversation with Laurence Ralph: "Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America's Civil Rights Revolution" – A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)
9/11 @ 6:00 PM
Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon
In Freedom Season, acclaimed historian Peniel Joseph offers a stirring narrative history of 1963, marking it as the defining year of the Black ...
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 ...
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 ...
Priya Vulchi in conversation with Ruha Benjamin(Post)
Monday 4/14 @ 7:00PM
Princeton Public Library
Priya Vulchi is joined in conversation by Ruha Benjamin to discuss her latest book, Good Friends: Bonds that Change Us and the World.
Friendship is ...
Simon Morrison in conversation with Renata Kapilevich: "A Kingdom and a Village: A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow"(Post)
Weds 4/29 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Simon Morrison discusses his new book with Renata Kapilevich. A Kingdom and a Village is an erudite and entertaining history of Moscow, a city de ...
Dave Zirin in conversation with Brian Jones: "The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn"(Post)
Thurs 10/28 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Join us for a conversation with Dave Zirin on his biography of iconic radical historian Howard Zinn, examining his life and work as a progressi ...
Audrey Truschke: "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" - A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)
Thursday 5/29 @ 7:00PM
Princeton Public Library
Audrey Truschke, professor of history and Asian Studies director at Rutgers University-Newark, presents her forthcoming book.
Much of world histo ...
Cynthia McVay: "Under the Crucian Sun: A Memoir of Place"(Post)
Sun 6/28 @ 1:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
In Under the Crucian Sun, environmentalist and creative Cynthia McVay sets foot on the island of St. Croix in 2018 for the ...
Brian Jones in conversation with Naomi Murakawa: "Black History Is for Everyone"(Post)
Wed 1/28 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Longtime educator Brian Jones discusses his new book with Naomi Murakawa. Black History Is for Everyone explores how the study of Black hist ...
"The Librarians" screening at Princeton Garden Theatre with Princeton Public Library(Post)
Mon 10/13 @ 7:00PMPrinceton Garden Theatre, 160 Nassau Street
In partnership with Princeton Garden Theatre and Princeton Public Library for Banned Books Week, this screening of The Librarians highli ...
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 ...
Library Live at Labyrinth Presents Jack Lohmann in conversation with Brian Eugenio Herrera(Post)
Thursday 3/27 @ 6:00PM
Labyrinth Books
122 Nassau Street
A profound and lyrical reflection on the cyclical nature of life, what happens when we break that cycle, and how to repair it, told through th ...
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 ...
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 ...
Anny Gaul in conversation with Hanna Garth: "Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato"(Post)
Wed 3/18 @ 12:00PM219 Aaron Burr Hall, Princeton University
By the end of the twentieth century, the tomato, indigenous to the Americas, had become Egypt's top horticultural crop and a staple of Egy ...
Shatema Threadcraft in conversation with Wendy Brown: "The Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Necromancy, and Morrisonian Democracy"(Post)
Thurs 11/20 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Black death and Black grief are among the most important forces in contemporary American politics. As Shatema Threadcraft argues in The Labors ...
The Fund for Irish Studies presents Fintan O’Toole & Sam McBride: "For and Against a United Ireland"(Post)
Fri 3/20 @ 4:30PMJames Stewart Film Theatre, 185 Nassau Street
Co-authors Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride debate the points in their recent book, For and Against a United Ireland, a ...
Morten Høi Jensen in conversation with Florian Fuchs: "The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of 'The Magic Mountain'" (Post)
Thurs 10/23 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Join us for a discussion on the arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain while a defeated Germany descended into politi ...
