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
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott is often reduced to a simple story of Rosa P ...
Radha Lin Chaddah in Conversation with Amy Jo Burns: A Princeton Public Library Book Brunch Event(Post)
Sun 2/8 @ 11:00AMThe Princeton Public Library
The author presents and discusses her novel And the Ancestors Sing. Doors open at 10:45 a.m. for coffee & pastri ...
Noel Rubinton: "Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee" - A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)
Thursday 5/15 @ 7:00PM
Princeton Public Library
Noel Rubinton discusses his recently published book Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee, an annotated guide to the wor ...
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 ...
Elaine Sciolino in Conversation with Christy Wampole: "Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum"(Post)
Thursday 4/24 @ 6:00PM
Labyrinth Books
122 Nassau Street
In an era of rapid change, the role of museums and art has never been more vital in connecting the past to the present. Laurence des Ca ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hanna Garth in conversation with Bonnetta Adeeb & Ruha Benjamin: "Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement"(Post)
Wed 3/18 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Food justice activists have worked to increase access to healthy food in low-income communities of color across the United States. Yet despite the ...
A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration: Lawrence Ingrassia in conversation with Arnold Levine(Post)
Wednesday 3/12 at 7:00pm
Princeton Public Library
65 Witherspoon Street
Lawrence Ingrassia is joined by Arnold Levine to discuss his memoir A Fatal Inheritance How a Family Misfortune Rev ...
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 ...
Eduardo Cadava and Sara Nadal-Melsio in conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore(Post)
Thursday 3/6 at 6:00PM
Labyrinth Books
122 Nassau Street
How reading and writing are collective acts of political pedagogy, and why the struggle for change must begin at the level of the sen ...
“Many Minds, Many Stripes”: A Princeton Graduate Alumni Author Roundtable(Post)
Thurs 10/9 @ 1:30PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Join a lively conversation with Princeton University graduate alumni authors Jasmin Darznik, Eszter Hargittai, Peter Lighte, and Xita Rubert as ...
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 ...
What’s So Great About “The Great Gatsby”?(Post)
Monday 4/28 @ 4:30PM
Labyrinth Books
122 Nassau Street
Free registration required. Register here.
Featuring The Great Gatsby scholars Maureen Corrigan, Anne Margaret Daniel, and Kirk Curnutt, a ...
“The Third Reich of Dreams”: A roundtable on Charlotte Beradt’s study of the dreaming of political fables in Nazi Germany(Post)
Weds 4/22 @ 4:30 PMBetts Auditorium, Architecture Building, Princeton University
A roundtable on The Third Reich of Dreams, Charlotte Beradt's 1966 study of the dreaming of political fables in ...
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 ...
Jazmina Barrera in conversation with Megan McDowell: "The Queen of Swords: A journey through the Princeton Archives of Elena Garro"(Post)
Wed 11/12 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
The Queen of Swords Tour: Jazmina Barrera and Megan McDowell on Elena GarroAuthor Jazmina Barrera, on tour from Mexico City, and translator Megan ...
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 ...
Art Hx Speaker Series: Hettie Judah "On Art and Motherhood"(Post)
Mon 10/27 @ 4:30PMEast Pyne Building 010
Hettie Judah will be discussing research she collated for the Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood which opened at the ...
