http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/Selected upcoming events at Princeton University.en-usPrinceton Universitydaily22005-01-01T12:00+00:00 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 Eve Troutt Powell, an associate professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, will give a lecture titled "Contemporary African Slave Narratives From Sudan" at noon Tuesday, Feb. 21, Burr Hall, Room 216.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/76/85M02/index.xml?section=announcementsannouncementsStaff2012-01-27T12:37-05:00 Joseph Nye Jr., a 1958 Princeton alumnus who is considered the co-founder of the international relations theory of neoliberalism and is the Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University, will give two lectures on foreign policy, “Presidents and the Transformation of American Foreign Policy in the 20th Century,” at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, and “Ethics and Good Leadership in Foreign Policy,” at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22, in Robertson Hall, Room 016, as part of the 2012 Richard Ullman Lecture Series.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/76/78Q37/index.xml?section=announcementsannouncementsStaff2012-01-27T10:38-05:00 The Lewis Center for the Arts will present the 2012 Spring Dance Festival on Friday through Sunday, Feb. 24-26, at the Berlind Theatre. Show times are: 8 p.m. Feb. 24; 2 and 8 p.m. Feb. 25; and 1 p.m. Feb. 26.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/89/03E42/index.xml?section=announcementsannouncementsStaff2012-02-10T15:17-05:00 Michael Barany, a Ph.D. candidate in Princeton's Program in History of Science, will give a talk titled "'For nother is there anie matter more straunge in the englishe tungue': Translating Euclidean Diagrams at the Dawn of 'Englishe Geometrie'" at noon Monday, Feb. 27, in Burr Hall, Room 216.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/76/85C09/index.xml?section=announcementsannouncementsStaff2012-01-27T14:48-05:00 Jonathan Flatley, an associate professor of English at Wayne State University, will present a lecture titled "Black Leninism; or, Newspapers and Revolutionary Attunement From Lenin to the League of Revolutionary Black Workers" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28, in East Pyne, Room 010.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/76/93G41/index.xml?section=announcementsannouncementsStaff2012-01-27T14:56-05:00 The Cyril Black International Book Forum, which will feature Steven A. Cook, author of "The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square," and include Princeton professors in Near Eastern studies, politics and public and international affairs as discussants, will be held at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28, in Burr Hall, Room 219.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/76/94Q10/index.xml?section=announcementsannouncementsStaff2012-01-27T15:05-05:00 Daniel Russell, a senior research scientist at Google, will deliver a lecture titled "What Does It Mean to Be Literate in the Age of Google?" at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28, in McCosh Hall, Room 50.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/88/03Q82/index.xml?section=announcementsannouncementsStaff2012-02-09T11:03-05:00 The seventh annual Innovation Forum, which showcases Princeton research that offers the potential to be commercialized, will be held at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 29, in the Friend Center Auditorium and Convocation Room.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S30/03/98E88/index.xml?section=announcementsannouncementsStaff2012-01-23T13:00-05:00 Historian John Lewis Gaddis will hold a conversation with 1982 Princeton alumnus Bart Gellman, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Washington Post correspondent, and visiting lecturer in public and international affairs, on Gaddis' new book, "George F. Kennan: An American Life," at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, March 1, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/76/78E66/index.xml?section=announcementsannouncementsStaff2012-01-27T10:45-05:00 Translator Natasha Wimmer will present a lecture titled "Translating Roberto Bolaño" at noon Monday, March 5, in Burr Hall, Room 216.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/76/94C53/index.xml?section=announcementsannouncementsStaff2012-01-27T15:18-05:00 Alfdaniels Mabingo of New York University will give a talk titled "Ugandan Drumming and Dance" at noon Tuesday, March 6, in Burr Hall, Room 216.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/76/95K30/index.xml?section=announcementsannouncementsStaff2012-01-27T15:23-05:00 Jennifer Widner, a professor of politics and international affairs in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, will give a lecture titled "Institution-building in Hard Places: Challenges, Contexts, Pathways" at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 7, in Burr Hall, Room 216.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/76/95E28/index.xml?section=announcementsannouncementsStaff2012-01-27T15:43-05:00 Deven Desai, a law professor currently serving as academic research counsel at Google, Inc., will discuss how information theory can be used to analyze and develop trademark law at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, March 8, in Sherrerd Hall, Room 101. The lecture is sponsored by Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/83/04S92/index.xml?section=announcementsannouncementsStaff2012-02-03T16:31-05:00 The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) will host its "Science-on-Saturday" lecture series starting Jan. 7 through March 10 in the PPPL auditorium on the Forrestal Campus. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S29/28/72I33/index.xml?section=announcementsannouncementsStaff2011-12-19T17:30-05:00 An exhibition of digital images selected in Princeton University's fifth "Art of Science" competition are on view until November 2012 in the Friend Center.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/40/39I26/index.xml?section=announcementsannouncementsStaff2011-12-16T07:50-05:00 The exhibit "She Flourishes: Chapters in the History of Princeton Women" at the Mudd Manuscript Library chronicles the history of women at the University, from the late 1800s through the advent of coeducation to the presidency of Shirley M. Tilghman. The exhibit includes a video compilation of archival footage. The exhibit is open from Monday, Nov. 14, through August 31, 2012.http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S32/08/55K49/index.xml?section=announcementsannouncementsStaff2011-11-09T11:20-05:00