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 Character in Music
Spencer Trask Lecture
speaker: Alfred Brendel, pianist
Monday, November 9 at 8 pm
Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall
open to the public, free ticket required (see below)
Alfred Brendel
The lecture sets out to show that in musical performances the perception
of character and atmosphere is no less important than that of form and
structure. The belief that the structure of a work automatically reveals
its character is a fallacy.
The pianist's task becomes related to that of a character actor
identifying with different roles, with an ever-widening awareness of the
staggering emotional and psychological variety great music has to offer.
Mr. Brendel will play a number of musical examples during the lecture.
[free ticket & lecture information]
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Full Court Press: the Supreme Court, the Media and Public
Understanding
Wednesday, November 11 at 4:30 pm
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
free & open to the public
"This panel discussion builds on recent issues raised by the
confirmation process of Associate Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
'76, particularly with regard to what the public knows and understands
about the Court," explained Professor Paul Fymer, acting director of
Princeton's Program in Law and Public Affairs. Panelists will explore
what the role of the media is or should be in educating the public about
judges and judicial nominees, as well as issues such as how the media
views/should view its job as a "fourth branch of government,"
how the media should handle interest group efforts at agenda control, and
what the media's future place is in Supreme Court politics.
Panelists: Emily Bazelon, Yale Law School senior research
scholar, Slate senior writer and editor; Adam Liptak, New
York Times, law reporter covering the Supreme Court; Dahlia
Lithwick, Slate Supreme Court reporter; Jeffrey Toobin,
The New Yorker staff writer, CNN senior legal analyst, and author of
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court; Moderator:
Paul Starr, professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton
University.
[read more]
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iPhone Apps: The New High-Tech Gold Rush?
Thursday, November 12 at 5:30 pm
Friend Center Auditorium, room 101
free & open to the public
With over 75,000 applications in the Apple App store and over a billion
downloads, is the app market the new high-tech gold rush?
There are iPhone apps for everything-but which app categories are hot?
How does a developer get started? What are the relevant business
models for guaranteeing success? Hear from developers working on
communication, gaming, social networking and health apps.
Panelists: David Lieb, ceo of Bump Technologies; Sharon
Fordham, chairperson of the Board of Skyworks; Ken Kay,
ceo of ici; Matthew Connor '11, ceo of iAbetics
[read more]
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Preserving Programs that Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect
During a Time of Economic Crisis: A Research & Policy Conference
Friday, November 13, 8 am-3:30 pm
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
free & open to the public - registration required (see below)
In 2007, 720,000 children in the United States were identified by state
child protective service agencies as having been abused or neglected,
most often by one of their parents. Of these maltreated children, more
than 1,500 died. Tens of thousands more suffered profound adverse effects
on their health and development, up to and including permanent physical
and mental impairments.
Acknowledging the need to reduce both the human and fiscal costs of child
maltreatment, social science researchers have begun focusing on
strategies designed to prevent child abuse and neglect.
[registration & agenda]
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 On
the Lost Manuscript (series of three)
Gauss Seminars in
Criticism
speaker: Abdelfattah Kilito,
professor, Muhammad V University,
Rabat, Morocco
111 East Pyne
free & open to the
public
Adbelfattah Kilito
Named in honor of Dean Christian Gauss, The Gauss Seminars
in Criticism were instituted in 1949 to provide a focus for discussion,
study, and the exchange of ideas in the humanities. Several seminars are
held annually. The seminars may take different forms, but traditionally
they have been conducted by guests invited to present material upon which
they are working.
The Second Madness of Shahriyar
Tuesday, November 17 at 4:30 pm
Is
Harîrî the Author of His Assemblies?
Thursday, November 19 at 4:30 pm
An Unpublished Tale from The Arabian Nights?
Monday, November 23 at 5:30 pm
[read more]
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The Poet, The Biographer, The Statue and the Doves that
would not nest
speaker: David Ganz, Institute for Advanced Study, King's
College London
Thursday, November 19 at 4:30 pm
010 East Pyne
free & open to the public
The Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University
seeks to encourage interdisciplinary study of the medieval period in
Europe and adjacent Mediterranean cultures (c.500-1500): art, literature
(Latin and vernacular), music, religion, philosophy, science, politics
and economic and social structures. The Program includes faculty,
professional staff, graduate students and undergraduate students from
almost all of the Humanities departments at the University, and faculty
and visiting members of the Institute for Advanced Study. To learn more
about the program click here.
[Program in Medieval Studies event calendar]
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Social Entrepreneurship: A Rising Generation
Changing the World
speaker: Gordon Bloom, Dean's Visiting Professor
of
Entrepreneurship of Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering
Education and Electrical Engineering
Thursday, November 19 at 4:30 pm
Carl A. Fields Center(new location),
86 Olden Avenue
free & open to the public
Gordon Bloom with students
Inaugurated in 2007-08, and made possible by the generous support of
several Princeton alumni, the Dean's Visiting Professorship in
Entrepreneurship is a key element of Princeton's broadening scope of
entrepreneurship education in the School of Engineering and Applied
Science. The goal of this position is to bring a unique and creative
educational experience to both undergraduate and graduate students from
all disciplines. Select students from Professor Bloom's class, A
Collaboratory for Social Entrepreneurship (SE Lab), will also present
their entrepreneurial endeavors during the lecture.
[read more]
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The Role of Europe in a Multilateral World
Walter E. Edge Lecture
speaker: Romano Prodi, former prime minister of Italy,
currently professor-at-large, Watson Institute for International Studies,
Brown University
Thursday, November 19 at 8 pm
McCosh 50
free & open to the public
Romano Prodi
The central issue Dr. Prodi will address is the evident
mismatch between the economic power of the European Union and its limited
role as a political player in the international arena.
[read more]
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Is an Eclipse Described in Homer's Odyssey?
Marcelo Magnasco, professor and head, Mathematical
Physics Laboratory,
Rockefeller University
Monday, November 30 at 8 pm
McCosh Hall 10
free & open to the public
Marcelo Magnasco
Plutarch and Heraclitus believed that a certain passage in
the 20th book of The Odyssey ("Theoclymenus's prophecy") was a
poetic description of a total solar eclipse. In the late 1920s Schoch and
Neugebauer computed that the solar eclipse of 16 April 1178 B.C.E. was
total over the Ionian Islands and was the only suitable eclipse in more
than a century to agree with classical estimates of the decade-earlier
sack of Troy around 1192-1184 B.C.E.
[read more]
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OIT
Hosts Technology Lecture Series
12 Noon
Frist Campus Center
free & open to the public
The Office of Information Technology will host weekly "Lunch 'n
Learn" and "Productive Scholar" lectures on a broad range
of technology topics.
Lunch 'n Learn [schedule & topics]
Wednesdays thru December 16, 2009
Multipurpose Room A
the Productive Scholar [schedule & topics]
Thursdays thru December 17, 2009
Multipurpose Room B
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