The fact we are living through a climate crisis becomes more and more visceral every year, the metrics of emergency ever more well known. As the world sets more and more records for warming, scholars and policymakers look for new solutions to the mounting ecological disaster. The possibility of geoengineering– the deliberate large-scale…
Lecture Series | Overcoming Bipolarity: New Approaches to the Cold War
Featuring speaker Michael Kunichika, Amherst College, Russian, Film and Media Studies. Kunichika teaches at Amherst College, where he is professor and chair of Russian. He also serves as the director of the College’s Center for Humanistic Inquiry. His publications…
The play is an Unreported Story Society production. Princeton University ID holders can register for tickets on the University Ticketing website or stop by the Frist ticket office.
Memoirist, poet, and speaker Javier Zamora believes that immigrants must keep ownership of their own stories. In his award-winning memoir, Solito, he explores his own: a harrowing journey to the US as an unaccompanied nine-year-old that gives a unique and unforgettable glimpse…
This event will be held under the auspices of the Academic Freedom Initiative at Princeton and the Princeton-Humboldt/Berlin cooperation on “Constitutionalism Under Stress.”
There is a widespread view that, in an age of rising autocracy, basic democratic communicative freedoms are under threat. There is also a widespread…
We use the term “justice” in many climate contexts (e.g. “just transition”)—and indeed in a variety of other political and policy contexts (e.g. “social justice”). What does it mean? In this talk, Mintz-Woo will break down some common forms of justice from a philosophical point of view in order to inform climate science and policy. The goal is…
Edward B. Foley, Crane Fellow in Law and Public Policy, will speak on ““The Real Preference of the Voters”: Achieving Neo-Madisonian Electoral Reform.”
This event is open to law-engaged graduate students and law-engaged faculty.
AbstractAmerican democracy needs a transformation, but as long as the Constitution…
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian- a Palestinian Jerusalemite feminist whose scholarship on the settler colonial state’s brutality, unchilding, securitized and sacralized politics, state crime, law and society, and global feminist politics, challenges…
Our conference explores how the Roman idea of liberty influenced, and was influenced by, the built environment of the Roman world. When Roman civic liberty was proclaimed, where was it done? Who would have listened? Who was barred? How do we acknowledge the role of labor, extracted from the unfree, in making these discourses possible?
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