Forward Fest public conversation series concludes as part of A Year of Forward Thinking
Monday, Jun 14, 2021
Allison Carruth discusses how storytelling is vital to connecting society with global environmental issues and action.
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Class snapshot: ‘Introduction to American Popular Culture’
Monday, Jun 14, 2021
This spring, 80 students from more than 30 countries focused a historical and critical lens on contemporary novels, film, art and music.Teaching a pandemic in real time
Monday, Mar 22, 2021
Current events often find their way into academic studies, but rarely with such urgency and immediacy as with COVID-19.Judith Weisenfeld explores psychiatry, race and religion in the post-Civil War era
Tuesday, Jan 5, 2021
Her work reveals that racialized theories persisted among influential white psychiatrists well into the 20th century.Alison Isenberg, Beth Lew-Williams receive NEH grants
Monday, Dec 21, 2020
The grants support research and writing of current book projects.‘Indigenous/Settler’ conference examines historical and contemporary issues across geographies
Monday, Apr 15, 2019
“Indigenous/Settler,” a conference held April 4-6 at Princeton, brought together Indigenous scholars and activists with Princeton students and faculty to examine methods for thinking across geographies and building alliances.
‘Japanese/America’ symposium explores art, literature, place, music
Friday, Feb 8, 2019
The Feb. 15 symposium “Japanese/America: Transpacific and Hemispheric” at Princeton will explore the participation of people of Japanese descent in the societies and politics of the Pacific Rim and the Americas.
The program — which is free and open to the public — includes lectures, discussions and a musical performance. It will be held in Chancellor Green Rotunda. Online registration is encouraged.
Excavating Princeton and American history
Thursday, Dec 20, 2018
On Jan. 3, 1777, British and American forces fought a critical battle of the Revolutionary War on and around the Princeton University campus. This semester, 18 students in the course “Battle Lab: The Battle of Princeton” are using hands-on fieldwork to explore how the battle may have unfolded.
Yaacob Dweck, Yiyun Li win Guggenheim Fellowships
Friday, Apr 10, 2020
Dweck sits on Program in American Studies executive committee; Li presented in the 2019-20 Asian American Studies Lecture Series.Teaching with Special Collections: ‘America Then and Now’
Wednesday, Mar 4, 2020
This fall semester, Princeton undergraduates in the team-taught course gained hands-on experience in archival research.
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