2007-2008 Events
Lecture
October 18, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Speaker: Robert McCracken Peck '74, Senior Fellow of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Location: East Pyne 010
"Paul DuChaillu and the 'Discovery' of the Gorilla or The Science Behind 'King Kong'"
In this fully illustrated lecture, naturalist and historian Robert McCracken Peck will tell the fascinating story of Du Chaillu's "discovery" of the Gorilla and trace its enormous social imact from the nineteenth century to the present day. This lecture ties in with the exhibition currently on display in Firestone Library's main gallery, "To The Mountains of the Moon: Mapping African Exploration, 1541-1880"
New York Small Talks
October 25, 2007
Nancy Kalish '82, coauthor of The Case Against Homework: How Homework Is Hurting Our Children and What We Can Do About It
6:30 pm in Brooklyn, NY
November 28, 2007
David H. Orr '95, lawyer and poetry columnist for the New York Times Book Review, will speak about the "Situation of Poetry"
8:00 pm in Manhattan
For more information, or to register for these talks, please contact Linda Oliveira at 609-258-3155 or loliveir@princeton.edu.
Woodrow Wilson Small Talk Series
October 21, 2007
James Axtell, Kenan Professor of Humanities, college of William and Mary
"Bad Dream: Wilson on Princeton-After Princeton"
November 11, 2007
A. Scott Berg '71, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer
"Searching for Woodrow Wilson"
November 18, 2007
Johns Hopkins University and Princeton University
"Woodrow Wilson: The Battle of Princeton and the Making of an American President"
Due to the overwhelming response to this series we are no longer taking reservations for the Wilson Small Talks
Academic Conferences
November 3, 2007, 2:00 pm
"Writers, Editors, and Literary Magazines, 1947-2007: A Conversation in Honor of "The Hudson Review"
Stewart Theater, 185 Nassau Street, Princeton
Schedule of Events:
2:00 pm - Welcome by Shirley M. Tilghman
Keynote address by Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts
3:00 pm - Panel Discussion
Panelists include:
Paula Deitz, Editor, The Hudson Reveiw
Professors Anthony Grafton, Sean Wilentz, and Michael Wood (Princeton University); Professors Emily Grosholz (Pennsylvania State University) and William H. Pritchard (Amherst College); David Orr '96, poetry critic; and Lea Carpenter '95, former deputy publisher, The Paris Review
4:30 - 6:00 pm - Reception, Main Gallery, Firestone Library
Selected items from The Hudson Reveiw Archives and the Frederick Morgan Papers will be on display
November 9, 2007, 9:30 am - 4:15 pm
"The Rebirth of Antiquity: Numismatics, Archaeology, and Classical Studies in the Culture of the Renaissance
East Pyne 010, Princeton University
Speakers include:
John Cunnally - Iowa State University
Tamara Griggs - University of Chicago
Peter N. Miller - Bard University Graduate Center
Brian Ogilvie - University of Massachusetts
William Stenhouse - Yeshiva University
Christopher S. Wood - Yale University
The symposium is held in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition "Numismatics in the Renaissance" on view in Firestone Library. The opening reception will be held in the Main Gallery in Firestone Library at 4:30 pm on November 9.
Exhibitions
Currently on view
"El Taller de Gráfica Popular: The Workshop for Popular Graphic Art"
Location: Leonard L. Milberg Gallery for the Graphic Arts, Firestone Library
Hours: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm on weekdays, Wednesday evenings until 8:30 pm, and 12 noon - 5:00 pm on weekends
This exhibition will be on view through February 10, 2008. Exhibition Tours will be offered at 3:00 pm on October 21, December 9, and February 10.
October 20, 2007
"Capturing China, 1913 - 1929: Photographs, Films, and Letters of Diplomat John van Antwerp MacMurray"
3:00 pm - Opening Lecture
Location: Computer Science Building Room 104
Speaker: Arthur Waldron, Lauder Professor of International Relations, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania. Additional Remarks by Lois MacMurray Starkey, John van Antwerp MacMurray's youngest child.
4:00 pm - Exhibition Opening and Reception
Location: Wiess Lounge, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library
The exhibition will remain on view through January 18, 2008
November 9, 2007
"Numismatics in the Renaissance"
4:00 pm - Exhibition Opening and Reception
Location: Main Gallery of Firestone Library
The exhibition will remain on view through July 20, 2008
March 9, 2008
“Notre livre”: À toute épreuve: A Collaboration between Joan Miró and Paul Éluard
3:00 pm - Exhibition Opening Lecture
“The Surrealist Artist's Book: Beyond the Page”
Location: Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture
Speaker: Elza Adamowiez, Professor of French and Visual Culture, School of Modern Languages, Queen Mary, University of London
4:00 pm - Exhibition Opening and Reception
Location: Leonard L. Milberg Gallery for the Graphic Arts, Firestone Library
The exhibition will be on view from February 22 to June 29
Annual Winter Dinner
February 2, 2008
Robert C. Darnton, Shelby Cullom Davis '30 Professor of European History, Emeritus and current head of the Harvard University Library will be the guest speaker.
Book Adoption Party and Fundraiser
March 30, 2008, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Location: Chancellor Green Library
Cost is $25.00 per person, reservations requested. Dress is business attire. Attendees will receive a preview catalog. Wine and hors d'oeuvres will be served.
The Book Adoption Party offers Friends of the Library and guests the opportunity to underwrite the cost of acquiring and conserving selected rare books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and coins in the Princeton University Library's special collections. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet the Library's curators and conservators and learn from them about the items available for adoption. The cost of these items will range from $100 to $1,500. Your reservation will entitle you to receive an advance copy of the event catalogue, or you may view it online at www.fpul.org/bae.
Highlights of Past Years
The Friends of the Princeton University Library sponsor a variety of events and activities throughout the academic year, and many available exclusively for members. Friends receive event calendars twice a year, as well as invitations to exhibition openings, dinners, and other special events. A list of past Friends events is below.
Highlights of 2006-2007
SPECIAL EVENTS
· Trip to New York for behind-the-scenes tour of the Morgan Library and the private library of Sid Lapidus
·Annual Winter Dinner: A Tribute to Lynne and Bob Fagles
·Cotsen Pajama Party
SYMPOSIUMS
·"Players and Painted Stage: the Leonard L. Milberg Collection of Irish Theater"
·"Sharpening the Subtle Knife: Cutting New Paths Through Children's Literature"
EXHIBITIONS
·"Players and Painted Stage: the Leonard L. Milberg Collection of Irish Theater"
·"Boris Godunov"
·"To The Mountains of the Moon: Mapping African Exploration, 1541-1880"
SMALL TALKS
·This year's speakers were D. Graham Burnett, Prof. John Fleming, and Phyllis Billington
Highlights of 2005-2006
SPECIAL EVENTS
· Trips to Philadelphia and Washington, DC for behind-the-scenes tours, and tours of private libraries
·A Book in the Works: The Arts in Book Production Lecture and Workshop Series
· Treasures of the Princeton University Library: On Display by the Curators Who Collect and Care for Them
·Annual Winter Dinner with Paul Muldoon and C.K. Williams
· Monthly Book Collectors meetings
EXHIBITIONS
· "The Lure of the Library: The Friends at 75"
·"Lessons in Roman Epigraphy: Princeton's Lateran Epitaphs"
·"O, What a Place for a Lake: The Centenial of the Construction of Loch Carnegie"
·"Framing the Frontier: Photographers and the American West, 1850-1920"
· "Wonderful Stories for Pictures: H.C. Andersen and His Illustrators"
CONFERENCES
· Hidden but not Forgotten: The Legacy of Hans Christian Andersen in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries"
·"Framing the Frontier: A Day of Lectures in Honor of Alfred L. Bush"
SMALL TALKS
·This year's speakers were Sean Wilentz, John Sacret Young '69, Robert P. George, Daniel T. Rogers, Emily Mann, Anthony T. Grafton, Steven Mackey, Donald C. Skemer.
Highlights of 2004-2005
Lecture: Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison opened the Friends’ 75 th Anniversary celebration on April 3d with a lecture entitled "Overdue: A Writer's Debt; a Reader's Interest," followed by a dinner at Prospect House.
Exhibition and gallery talk : "Derso & Kelen: cartoons & caricatures"
Film: "The Lost Generation," introduced by Professor Maria DiBattista (Fast-Talking Dames)
A lecture by Professor Simon Morrison about his team's recreation of Serge Prokofiev's 1925 ballet, Le Pas D’Acier, staged at the Roger S. Berlind Theater at Princeton University.
Exhibition and gallery talk: “Portraits Of The Lost Generation"
Small talks:
- Susan Naquin, "In Search of Old Peking."
- David Maraniss, “Reflections On Vietnam And Its Lessons For Iraq."
- Landon Y. Jones, Jr., "William Clark And The Shaping Of The West."
Highlights of 2003-2004
SPECIAL EVENTS
· Trips to Philadelphia and Baltimore for behind-the-scenes tours, and tours of private libraries
· Tour of literary landmarks of Princeton
· Private Tour of the Scheide Library conducted by William H. Scheide '36 and his librarian, Paul Needham
· One day Scheide Bible Exhibition
· Annual Winter Dinner Robert Caro on Lyndon Johnson (2002) and Harold Shapiro on libraries and collecting (2003), and Frank Deford on the sports industry (2004)
· Monthly Book Collectors meetings
WORKSHOPS
· "Preserving Works on Paper"
·"Collecting" and "Preserving Family Heirlooms" (with the Historical Society of Princeton)
SPECIAL LECTURES
· Anthony T. Grafton, Edward H. Tenner, and James Axtell on Woodrow Wilson
· Barbara Baden on 20th Century Children's Books
· Colin Powell and John Lewis Gaddis on George Kennan
· Nell Irvin Painter, Jean and Robert Hollander, Samuel Hynes
· Illustrated lecture on aviation with past president of the Tuskegee Airmen’s Assn.
COTSEN CHILDREN'S LIBRARY EVENTS
· Middle Earth Theater at Communiversity
· Chinese Bookbinding Workshop
· Visiting authors and storytellers
· Young Curators program and Cotsen Players theater productions
· Conference: “Under Fire: Childhood in the Shadow of War”
EXHIBITION OPENINGS AND TOURS
·“Brave New World: 20th Century Children's Books from the Cotsen Children's Library.”
·“Woodrow Wilson at Princeton: The Path to the Presidency.”
·“The Life and Times of George F. Kennan: A Centennial Exhibition.”
·“Jonathan Edwards: The Life of a Master Preacher.”
·“The Romance of Flight”
·“Of Maps and Men: In Pursuit of a Northwest Passage”
·“The Bible in English: Before and After the Hampton Court Conference, 1604”
