Nassau Notes
Arts
Poetry
Poet Peter Fallon will read
his poetry at 4:30 pm on February 11 in the Stewart
Theater, 185 Nassau St. The reading is sponsored by the Fund
for Irish Studies. (Photo by Gabriel Cooney)
Dance concert
Amanda Whitehead '00 and Jean
Lee '00 will perform James Waring's "32 Variations in
C-Minor" in the Program in Theater and Dance's Spring 2000
Dance Festival. The concert is scheduled for 8:00 pm on
February 11 and 12 in Richardson Auditorium,
Alexander Hall. For reservations call 258-5000. (Photo by
Teresa Simao)
Students perform readings, plays
"Time Out of Mind: A Millennium Show"
is a performance directed by Emily Holland '01 in Prospect
House between 2:00 and 4:00 pm on February 12.
The event will feature student readings
from works including the Bible and Koran, and authors such
as Shakespeare and Stephen Hawking, as well as original
student writings. There will also be talks on "time, space
and the year 2000" by faculty members in a range of
disciplines. In addition, students will present
installations and multimedia pieces incorporating film and
other visual arts. "The finale," says Holland, "will be a
time capsule."
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Diego DiFalco (l) and Carolina Zokalski, stars of the Broadway show Forever Tango, will give a workshop on the Argentine Tango from 6:00 to 7:30 pm for beginners and 7:30 to 9:00 pm for interim dancers on February 12. Sponsored by the University Ballroom Dance Club, the event will take place in the Common Room of the New Graduate College.
Ghabra speaks on future of Arab
world
"Is the Arab World Coming in
From the Cold War? Possibilities for Democratization" is the
topic of a talk by Shafeeq Ghabra, director of the Kuwait
Information Office at 4:30 pm on February 7 in 1
Robertson Hall.
Ghabra, who is also professor of
political science at Kuwait University, is the former editor
in chief of Kuwait's Journal of the Social
Sciences.
A long-time advocate of democratic reform
in the Middle East, he is the recipient of Kuwait's highest
award for scientific research in the humanities and social
sciences from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of
Sciences.
Ghabra's most recent book is Israel
and Arabs: From the Conflict of Issues to the Peace of
Interests.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow
Wilson School.
Abrams focuses on religion, foreign
policy
Elliott Abrams will speak on
"Church, State and the National Security Council: Religion
and the Making of American Foreign Policy" at 4:30 pm on
February 8 in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
President of the Washington-based Ethics
and Public Policy Center, Abrams was assistant secretary of
state during the Reagan administration and received the
Secretary of State's Distinguished Service Award. He is a
member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National
Advisory Council of the American Jewish Committee.
Abrams is the author of Undue Process,
Security and Sacrifice and Faith or Fear: How Jews
Can Survive in a Christian America, and many articles
and book reviews.
His lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow
Wilson School and the Center for the Study of Religion.
Goodwin looks at biography,
history
Author and presidential
historian Doris Kearns Goodwin will give a talk on "A
Journey Through the Century: Reflections of a Biographer and
Historian" on February 8 at 3:00 pm in Helm
Auditorium, McCosh 50.
Goodwin, author of Lyndon Johnson and
the American Dream, worked as an assistant to President
Johnson during his last year in the White House and later
assisted him in preparing his memoirs. Her next book, The
Fitzgeralds and The Kennedys, was on the New York
Times bestseller list for five months and was made into
a six-hour miniseries for ABC in 1990. This was followed by
the Pulitzer Prizewinning No Ordinary Time: Franklin and
Eleanor Roosevelt: The American Home Front During World War
I. In 1977 she published Wait Till Next Year: A
Memoir, which drew upon her girlhood love of the
Brooklyn Dodgers.
Kearns's lecture is sponsored by the
Princeton Millennium Project of the Class of 2000 and the
Woodrow Wilson School.
Marx discusses South African
nationalism
Anthony Marx, associate
professor of political science at Columbia University, will
speak on "South African Nationalism Before and After
Mandela" at 4:30 pm on February 8 in 2 Robertson
Hall.
Author of Making Race and Nation: A
Comparison of the United States, South Africa, and
Brazil and Lessons of Struggle: South African
Internal Opposition, 1960-1990, Marx earned his 1986
master's degree and 1990 PhD from Princeton.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow
Wilson School.
Florio examines public policy
Former NJ Governor James
Florio will speak on "A New Public Policy Framework for a
Changing World Economy" at 4:30 pm on February 9 in
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Florio, a partner with Fischbein,
Badillo, Wagner and Harding, also teaches public policy at
Rutgers University. He is a candidate for the US Senate.
As governor of New Jersey from 1990 to
1994, he signed into law the Clean Water Enforcement Act as
well as the Quality Education Act. He also enacted the
nation's toughest assault weapons ban. In 1993 he received
the Kennedy Library Foundation's Profile in Courage award
for commitment to causes serving the public interest.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow
Wilson School.
Exhibit celebrates Adlai Stevenson
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Stevenson and delegates celebrate his presidential nomination, 1952. |
Drawing on the photos, documents, recorded material and memorabilia in the Stevenson Papers at Mudd Library, the exhibit reveals many facets of Stevenson's eventful life.
Moving through the exhibit, visitors pass from a childhood drawing of a farmer to mementos of Stevenson's years at Princeton to an invitation to the inaugural ball that celebrated his election as governor of Illinois in 1948. Representing his presential campaigns are a Pulitzer Prizewinning photograph of Stevenson with a hole in his shoe and a pair of "Win with Adlai" stockings accompanied by a photo in which they adorn the legs of actress Shelley Winters, as well as other documents and mementos.
The exhibition also covers Stevenson's years as US ambassador to the United Nations. Included is an address he made to the UN Security Council during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Audiovisual elements of the exhibit include a condensed version of the 1990 PBS documentary, "Adlai Stevenson: The Man from Libertyville," and an interactive presentation of political commercials, interviews, speeches and other material. Highlights can be viewed at www.princeton.edu/mudd.