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The Waltz, the Cotillon, and the Hazards of Choice
010 East Pyne 010 East Pyne, PrincetonHaving and making choices has come to stand for freedom in the modern world. How has this happened? This talk will consider the 19th-century ballroom, and especially two French dances […]
Film Forum: The City Without Jews (1924)
Princeton Garden TheatreA screening of Hans Karl Breslauer's film, with live music.
Early/Modern Color: Masquerades and Make Overs
203 Scheide Caldwell HouseA workshop organized by the ECS Graduate Affiliate Working Group on Materiality and Colors in European Art. With a few prisms and some brilliantly crafted experiments, Sir Isaac Newton established in 1704 that color was the effect of refracted light. This emphasis on color-as-light has endured throughout Modernity and encouraged an ever-more immaterial approach to […]