N A S S A U N O T E S
Triangle Club show
The Triangle Club show, "Puns of Steel," will be performed at McCarter Theatre at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 17 and 18, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 19.
Art and jazz mix at museum
The Ellipsis Jazz Project will play at the Art Museum
from 8 to 10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 17. The performance
marks the debut of "The Art of Jazz," a series of concerts
for students, faculty and staff.
While enjoying the music, patrons
can join in informal gallery talks given by Department of
Art and Archaeology graduate student Andrew Hershberger,
who, with Marta Weiss, organized the current exhibition
"Surviving the Photograph."
The 39 photographs exhibited, drawn
from the museum's comprehensive permanent collection and
spanning the history of the medium, address the theme of
survival.
Admission is free and refreshments
will be served. The next jazz night is scheduled for Friday,
Jan. 12.
Dancers
of Nepal showcase culture
The Dance Theater of Nepal will perform at 8 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 18, in the Frist Campus Center's Film
and Dance Theatre.
The event will feature Raj Kapoor,
master Nepali dancer, musician, teacher and co-director of
the group, and 11 other artists performing dances, songs and
instrumentals that represent the cultural heritage of
Nepal.
The performance will include a
classical spiritual discipline dance popular in Buddhist
traditions; a folk dance recognizing the Newari people, the
first settlers of the Kathmandu valley; a masked dance
depicting a demonic-like deity that is driven away with the
birth of Krishna, who signifies benevolent and divine power;
a dance from Sherpa, who are known for their mountaineering
skills; and a popular folk dance performed during major
festivals.
Tickets can be picked up or
purchased at the Frist Welcome Desk. Admission is $10 or
free with a Princeton University ID. The event is sponsored
by the International Center and the South Asian Students
Association. For more information, call the International
Center at 258-5006.
Law professor takes up civil rights
John Powell, University of Minnesota Law School professor
and executive director of the Institute on Race and Poverty,
will lecture on "Regionalism and Civil Rights," at 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 14, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson
Hall.
Powel teaches race and poverty,
civil rights law, property law and jurisprudence. Seven
years ago, he founded the Institute on Race and Poverty, a
strategic research center focusing on the unique dynamic
created by the intersection of racial segregation and
poverty.
Prior to joining the law school
faculty in 1993, Powell received an International Human
Rights Fellowship from the University of Minnesota to work
in southern Africa. He has served as a consultant to the
government of Mozambique and as the national legal director
of the American Civil Liberties Union.
His free lecture is co-sponsored by
the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International
Affairs and Isles Inc., a Trenton-based community service
organization.
Matlock looks at Russia's future
A former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union will discuss
"Putin and Russia's Future" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov.
16, in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.
Jack F. Matlock, currently the
George F. Kennan Professor of Historical Studies at the
Institute for Advanced Study, served the Reagan
administration as the primary liaison with Soviet leadership
during the Gorbachev period. A career diplomat fluent in
Russian and scholastically grounded in Russian history and
culture, Matlock stayed in the Soviet Union until six months
before its collapse. His 1995 book, "Autopsy on an Empire,"
reflects more than 30 years of research and personal
experience as a foreign diplomat.
This free lecture is co-sponsored
by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International
Affairs, International Center, Slavic Society and
Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination.
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One of America's leading political philosophers and
constitutional lawyers will present a lecture on "The Next
Liberal Agenda" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, in
104 Computer Science Building.
Bruce Ackerman, the Sterling
Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University,
will deliver the James Moffett '29 Lecture in Ethics.
Ackerman's most fundamental works
are "Social Justice in the Liberal State" and "We the
People." He also has written books on topics ranging from
housing policy to environmental law to international
relations. The most recent of these is "The Stakeholder
Society."
Ackerman also serves as a lawyer in
selected cases. He testified on behalf of President Clinton
at the impeachment hearings in December 1998.
A member of the American Law
Institute and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
Ackerman has been awarded fellowships by the Guggenheim
Foundation, Ford Foundation, Institute for Advanced Study in
Berlin and Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington.
The lecture is being coordinated by
the Center for Human Values. A reception will follow in the
lobby of the Computer Science Building. For more
information, call 258-4798 or visit <www.princeton.edu/values>.
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The catalog from the exhibit "Art Deco Paris, 1900-1925:
Pochoir Color Prints From the Graphic Arts Collection,"
which is on display in the Exhibition and Milberg galleries
through April 8, can be purchased at the Firestone
Library offices of Rare Books and Special Collections or the
Milberg Gallery for $20.
Material
Language: Small-Scale Sculpture after 1950
"Funny Face" a marble sculpture by Isamu Noguchi, is part
of the exhibition, "Material Language: Small-Scale Sculpture
after 1950," at the University Art Museum through Dec.
30.
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