http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/announcements/The latest announcements from Princeton University.en-usPrinceton Universitydaily22005-01-01T12:00+00:00 As the first part of a series about working in the musical theater field, Princeton alumna Winnie Holzman, dramatist, screenwriter, actress and librettist for the hit Broadway musical "Wicked," will speak about her career at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, in Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/75/08O60/index.xml?section=announcementsannouncementsStaff2012-01-25T11:31-05:00 Islamic philosopher and scholar Seyyed Nasr will speak on the place of traditional Islam in the modern world at 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, in the Whig Hall Senate Chamber. The event is sponsored by the Muslim Life Program in the Office of Religious Life and the American Whig-Cliosophic Society.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/80/37Q37/index.xml?section=announcementsannouncementsStaff2012-01-31T14:19-05:00 Soprano Judith Kellock, pianist Janice Weber and theater critic Fintan O'Toole will present a chamber music performance of Ross Lee Finney's setting of poems by James Joyce at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, in Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall. The performance is part of a series presented by Princeton's Fund for Irish Studies. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/79/61O86/index.xml?section=announcementsannouncementsStaff2012-01-30T17:12-05:00 Amin Venjara, a Ph.D. candidate in Princeton's Department of Religion, will give a talk titled "Between Translation and Commentary: Non-Arabic Renderings of the Quran in Early-20th-century Egypt and South Asia" at noon Monday, Feb. 13, in Burr Hall, Room 216.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/76/83C06/index.xml?section=announcementsannouncementsStaff2012-01-27T12:11-05:00 The Council of the Princeton University Community will meet at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, in the Friend Center, Room 101. President Shirley M. Tilghman will lead a "town hall meeting" on topics on the University's agenda.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/86/74E21/index.xml?section=announcementsannouncementsStaff2012-02-07T23:22-05:00 The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs will hold a film screening and discussion about "The Carrier," a film about the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, with Maggie Betts, longtime advocate for the rights of HIV positive women and children in sub-Saharan Africa, producer and director of the film and a 1999 Princeton alumna, and Bill and Susan Belfiore, family ambassadors of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/76/77O97/index.xml?section=announcementsannouncementsStaff2012-01-27T10:30-05:00 The Program in Visual Arts will present a screening of videos created by eight students in an undergraduate course taught by Keith Sanborn, lecturer in visual arts and the Lewis Center for the Arts, at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14, in the Stewart Theater, 185 Nassau St.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/82/05A80/index.xml?section=announcementsannouncementsStaff2012-02-02T12:52-05:00 Ben Ross Schneider, the Ford International Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will give a talk titled "Hierarchical Capitalism: Business, Labor and the Challenges of Equitable Development in Latin America" at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15, in Burr Hall, Room 216.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/76/83K44/index.xml?section=announcementsannouncementsStaff2012-01-27T12:04-05:00 Yuri Tsivian, a professor in the art history department at the University of Chicago, and Daria Khitrova, a visiting assistant professor in the Slavic department at the University of California-Los Angeles, will give a talk titled "Russian Endings, Soviet Endings: How to Wake Up the Sleeping Beauty" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, in East Pyne, Room 010.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/76/84O74/index.xml?section=announcementsannouncementsStaff2012-01-27T12:29-05:00 From Feb. 9 through Feb. 18, Princeton will be the site of three events centered on the banned dramatization of Alexander Pushkin's literary masterpiece, "Eugene Onegin," including a musical and balletic performance, a theater production and a conference. There are various times and locations, and tickets are required for the performances; registration is required for the conference.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/75/23M78/index.xml?section=announcementsannouncementsStaff2012-01-25T15:36-05:00