Princeton University Concerts invites the community to breathe in music: outdoors!
The always popular Music Meditation program led by Associate Dean of Religious Life Matthew Weiner will be offered outside at the Graduate College and D&R Greenway's Johnson Education Center during the month of October.
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Historian and writer Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, a professor in the Department of African American studies, has been awarded a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship. Taylor is among 25 scientists, artists and scholars across the country who each will receive $625,000 in unrestricted grants over a five-year period from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Fellowships are awarded annually to talented individuals in a variety of fields who have shown extraordinary originality in and dedication to their creative pursuits. Read the article on princeton.edu.
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How does an economist teach resilience? New York Times opinion columnist Peter Coy finds the answer in Professor Markus Brunnermeier's new book, The Resilient Society. Read the article on nytimes.com.
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Two of the three authors of A History of Ireland in 100 Words, Máire ní Mhaonaigh and Sharon Arbuthnot, discuss their book, which tells a history of Ireland through the examination of 100 key words from the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of the Irish Language, the most comprehensive dictionary of Irish in existence, introduced by Paul Muldoon. Register here. Friday, October 1 at 4:30 pm on Zoom.
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Princeton University Athletics and the Office of Community and Regional Affairs will honor those who serve on the frontlines of the pandemic during Hometown Heroes Day on Saturday, October 2. Watch the Tigers take on the Columbia Lions at 1:00 pm at Princeton Stadium.
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Princeton Bibliophiles & Collectors meets virtually on Sunday, October 3. Brief presentations by attendees to describe a new acquisition and to bring attention to news of interest to members. Ideas for future meetings will also be discussed. New members are welcome. Sunday, October 3 at 3:00 pm on Zoom.
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Christina Gerhardt, the Barron Visiting Professor in the Environmental Humanities in the High Meadows Environmental Institute and visiting associate professor of HMEI and the German Department, will present “Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean” as part of the High Meadows Environmental Institute Faculty Seminar Series. Register for the livestream. Tuesday, October 5 at 12:30 pm on Zoom.
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The Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series returns in-person for the 2021-22 season with a reading by American Book Award-winning Navajo poet Sherwin Bitsui and multiple award-winning novelist/essayist Maaza Mengiste, presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing. Register for tickets here. Tuesday, October 5 at 7:30 pm in Heart Dance Theater at the Lewis Arts complex.
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Kimberly Bain, an assistant professor of English language and literatures at the University of British Columbia, presents “On Black Breath.” Bain will locate breathing within the histories, theories and philosophies of Blackness and anti-Black racial capitalism in the United States. She will discuss how we can attend to the ways breathlessness has been a defining factor of Blackness, not just in moments of spectacular death, but in the everyday lived experience of Black people. And how we can do so without reducing the lives of George Floyd, Eric Garner and the many named and unnamed Black persons to their moment of death as they gasped “I Can’t Breathe.” Join the livestream. Wednesday, October 6 at 4:30 pm on Zoom.
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Celebrate Filipino American History Month with an exhibition by and conversation with the eight artists of the Filipino American art collective NExSE. The exhibition title, “300 Years in a Convent, 50 Years in Hollywood,” is taken from a popular idiomatic expression used in the Philippines to describe its complex colonial history — Spanish rule through Catholicism and Catholic values, customs and codification, followed by American popular culture imagining the Philippines in terms of exoticism, glamour, difference and seduction.
The exhibition in the CoLab will be open to the University community from 10 am to 8 pm on October 6. At 4:30 pm, there will be a meet-and-greet with the artists. At 5 pm in the Forum, art historian and curator Patrick Flores will join the artists and offer opening remarks before opening up to a conversation with the artists and the public. Register to attend in person or sign-up for the livestream. Wednesday, October 6 at 4:30 pm.
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The Keller Center presents its annual Innovation Forum on Thursday, October 7. Eleven Princeton researchers will present their innovations that have the potential for wider adoption as technologies or services with cultural or societal benefit. Each are vying for 30K in prizes, winners will be determined by an esteemed panel of judges. Register here. Thursday, October 7 at 1:00 pm.
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Princeton Innovation Center BioLabs and the Princeton Entrepreneurship Council host a virtual panel discussion on VC Insights—Trends and Opportunities in Women’s HealthTech. Join panelists for a dynamic conversation as they share their views about the women’s health market, the trends that they see driving this market and the exciting opportunities that remain to be addressed by founders and funders alike. Thursday, October 7 at 4:00 pm.
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Join artist Adama Delphine Fawundu and Anna Arabindan-Kesson, assistant professor of African and Black Diasporic art at Princeton University, for a discussion about cultural inheritance and the significance of materials—hair, cotton, water—for Fawundu’s work in the exhibition Gathering Together / Adama Dephine Fawundu, on view at Art@Bainbridge. Moderated by Beth Gollnick, curatorial associate, photography and modern and contemporary art. Join in-person or register for the livestream. Thursday, October 7 at 5:30 pm at Friend Center, Room 101.
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Princeton School of Public and International Affairs presents a Global Health Colloquium on pandemic and social inequalities: challenges for global health. The colloquium features Nísia Trindade Lima. Lima has served on the forefront response to the COVID-19 Pandemics from its early stages. She participated in the two editions of the WHO Global Research and Innovation Forum, in February and July, and coordinates institutional efforts in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. She is also co-chair of the Economic Recovery Steering Group, one of five steering groups created to assist in the development of a United Nations Research Roadmap for the recovery of COVID-19. Register here. Friday, October 8 at 12:00 pm on Zoom.
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"Piranesi on the Page,” Princeton University Library’s latest exhibition, opens on Friday, October 8 and tells the story of how Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the foremost printmaker in 18th-century Europe, made the book the center of his artistic production. The exhibition runs through December 5 in the Ellen and Leonard Milberg Gallery, located in the Firestone Library lobby. The public is welcome via reservation on Thursdays from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Reservations are for 50-minutes each and can be made on library.princeton.edu. All visitors must be fully vaccinated. Open through December 5.
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