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Labyrinth Books and Princeton's Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies are pleased to invite you to a conversation with Joan Wallach Scott and Gayle Salamon about the continued relevance of psychoanlaytic theory just when the culture at large seems set to ring its death knell. In The Fantasy of Feminist History, Joan Wallach Scott argues that feminist perspectives on history are enriched by psychoanalytic concepts, particularly fantasy.

Labyrinth Books and Princeton's Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies are pleased to invite you to a conversation with Joan Wallach Scott and Gayle Salamon about the continued relevance of psychoanalytic theory just when the culture at large seems set to ring its death knell. In The Fantasy of Feminist History, Joan Wallach Scott argues that feminist perspectives on history are enriched by psychoanalytic concepts, particularly fantasy.

 
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American cartoonist Rube Goldberg designed crazy, intricate machines meant to make life “easier.” Now it’s your turn! We’re bringing in LEGOS and giving you the green light for experiments in engineering and imagination. Sketch an idea or build a mechanism of your own. We’ll have our own Rube Goldberg machine, built by Princeton University Engineering students, that will flip, trip, roll, and drop its way to the “ultimate reading experience.”

No registration required – free of charge
Ages 5 & up

Professor Emeritus of Physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and world-renowned author and educator will hold an informal talk and Q&A session followed by a book signing. This event is open to the public. Free.

The Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton is pleased to announce that Dr. Paul J. Steinhardt, Albert Einstein
Professor in Science and Director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, will present a talk entitled
"Inflationary Cosmology on Trial" on Tuesday, February 14, 2012. The lecture will begin at 8:00pm in Peyton Hall, 4 Ivy
Lane on the Princeton University Campus. Admission is free and the public is welcome. Ample free parking is available
across the street from Peyton Hall.

by Prof. Suzanne Alonzo, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
 
Science on Saturday series

by Prof. Ernest Davis, Computer Science Department, New York University, New York
Science on Saturday series

Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium, will discuss the ambitions, achievements and shortcomings of NASA's Apollo space program at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 29, in McCosh Hall, Room 50. The illustrated lecture, "Delusions of Space Enthusiasts," is sponsored by the Princeton University Public Lectures’ Louis Clark Vanuxem Fund and the University's Department of Astrophysical Sciences.

Independent researcher and oral historian Linda G. Arntzenius discusses her book on Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study. Founded in 1930, the Institute for Advanced Study was created as an independent institution devoted to the pursuit of knowledge. Opening its doors to scholars “without regard to race, creed or sex,” it provided a haven for Jewish intellectuals fleeing Nazi Germany including Albert Einstein, who remained on the faculty until his death in 1955.

The Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton is pleased to announce that physicist Dr. Freeman Dyson will be our featured speaker on Tuesday October 11, 2011.  Dr. Dyson will talk about searching for life in the universe in new ways and in unlikely places.  The lecture will begin at 8:00pm in Peyton Hall, 4 Ivy Lane on the Princeton University Campus.  Admission is free and the public is welcome.  Ample free parking is available across the street from Peyton Hall.

The Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton announces our 2011-2012 lectures on astronomy, cosmology, exobiology and space exploration:

The Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton announces our 2011-2012 lectures on astronomy, cosmology, exobiology and space exploration:

The Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton announces our 2011-2012 lectures on astronomy, cosmology, exobiology and space exploration:

The Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton announces our 2011-2012 lectures on astronomy, cosmology, exobiology and space exploration:

This club for middle school students meets monthly at the library. Talk about books and other interests, help with library events, plan programs with the librarians and have a say in library services. New members are always welcome.

Princeton University's Class of 2011 emerged through the FitzRandolph Gate today, the culmination of days of reunions, class day events, and memorable speakers.

Loosely based on the TV reality show “The Amazing Race,” this program explores subjects in the Dewey Decimal System with stories, games, and other activities.  Youth Services Department

"Attack, Sustain, Release"

Works by graduate students Oscar Bettison, N. Cameron Britt, Lainie Fefferman, Jascha Narveson and Caroline Shaw

Michael Pratt & Barbara White, directors

New works by graduate students Ryan Brown, Michael Early, Lainie Fefferman, Matt Marble and Kate Neal performed by the JACK Quartet

The Albert Einstein Memorial Lecture, "RNAi: From Mystery to Mechanism, or how a worm won three Nobels"   is this Thursday, April 28th, at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, Princeton University from 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.  

Privacy and the Integrity of Social Life
Presented by Helen Nissenbaum, professor of Media, Culture and Communication at NYU

In this timely talk Professor Nissenbaum will examine threats to privacy posed by information technologies (including digital media such as the Internet and Web) and offer advice on how best to respond. Helen Nissenbaum is the author of  “Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy and the Integrity of Social Life” published by Stanford University Press in 2010.

Eating contests, calculator counters, and plane rides with Einstein impersonators are all wrapped up in one big celebration that aims to become a tradition, dubbed “Geek Freak” Weekend. The four-day event starts Friday and culminates on March 14, the date of Albert Einstein’s birth -- designated as “Pi Day,” based on the mathematical number pi, whose digits mirror the date (3.14).

Join Joan Goldstein in the first floor Quiet Room, for a discussion of Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America by Kate Zernike.

Boiling Mad is an eye-opening look inside the Tea Party. Zernike shows how the Tea Party movement emerged from an unusual alliance of young Internet-savvy conservatives and older people alarmed at a country they no longer recognize.