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"Robinson Crusoe," a picture from about 1857 by British photographer William Lake Price, is among the works on display in "Stranger than Fiction: 19th-Century Photographs from the Permanent Collection" at the University Art Museum through Dec. 8. An overview of the first six decades of the art of photography, the exhibition is curated by Anne McCauley, the David Hunter McAlpin Professor of the History of Photography and Modern Art. "If writing was developed to correct the lapses of memory and fanciful embellishments of oral culture, then photography can be seen as another technology that promised to transcend the limits of human perception," she writes. Organized in conjunction with Art 248: "History of Photography," the exhibition includes more than two dozen prints by American and European artists, including Edouard Baldus, Julia Margaret Cameron, Gertrude Käsebier, Alfred Stieglitz, Carlton Watkins and Clarence H. White. For more information, visit <www.princetonartmuseum.com> or call 258-3788.
Washington Post reporter to speak on U.S. military's role in world affairs
Dana Priest, investigative reporter and military intelligence writer for The Washington Post, will present a lecture titled "The Mission: The U.S. Military's Expanding Role in World Affairs" at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Priest worked as the Post's Pentagon correspondent for six years, and then wrote exclusively about the military as an investigative reporter. She was one of the first reporters on the ground for the invasion of Panama in 1989, reported from Iraq in late 1990 just before the war began and covered the 1999 Kosovo war from air bases in Europe. She has written extensively about the nation's four regional commanders-in-chief, Army Special Forces training programs overseas, the 1999 Kosovo air war and the Army's peacekeeping missions in Bosnia and Kosovo.
In 2001, Priest was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grant, as well as both the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the National Defense and the State Department's Excellence in Journalism Award for her series, "The Proconsuls: A Four-Star Foreign Policy?"
Priest's book, "The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace With America's Military" (W.W. Norton, 2003), is an examination of America's growing dependence on the military to manage world affairs.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Global partnership for women is topic
A lecture on "Vital Voices: A Global Partnership for Women" will be presented at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21, in 16 Robertson Hall.
The speaker will be Theresa Loar, president of Vital Voices Global Partnership, an organization dedicated to promoting women's roles in building strong democracies and vibrant economies around the world.
A former diplomat with extensive foreign policy experience, Loar was the principal adviser to First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on international women's issues. She co-founded and directed the President's Interagency Council on Women, a task force to develop programs and policies for women and their families as a follow-up to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. She directed the U.S. government policy planning and participation in the Beijing conference, and led U.S. delegations to a number of international conferences on women and democracy.
Through the President's Council on Women, Loar helped to create a number of programs including the Vital Voices Democracy Initiative, a private-public partnership which generated more than $20 million in projects to support women as democracy builders. She also developed the U.S. government's campaign to combat trafficking in women and children.
As the senior coordinator for International Women's Issues at the Department of State, Loar led the effort to integrate the advancement of women into U.S. foreign policy. She began her work on women's human rights at the State Department just a few days after the Taliban took control in Afghanistan in October 1996. She has been a forceful advocate for U.S. policy to promote and protect the human rights of Afghan women and girls. She also has served in diplomatic posts in Mexico and South Korea.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Gender and Policy Development Network.
Writers to read from their work
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Nell Freudenberger and Gjertrud Schnackenberg
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Short-story writer Nell Freudenberger and poet Gjertrud Schnackenberg will read from their work at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22, in the Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St.
Freudenberger's first book, "Lucky Girls," was published this year by Ecco/HarperCollins. She first came to national attention in 2001 when the title story was included in The New Yorker fiction issue. The book features five stories narrated by young women living abroad who are trying to find their place in the world.
Schnackenberg is the author of works including "The Throne of Labdacus" (2001), "Supernatural Love: Poems 1976-1992" (2000) and "A Gilded Lapse of Time" (1994), all published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. "The Throne of Labdacus" won the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry and was named a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2000. Schnackenberg also has received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets and the Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
The reading is part of the Creative Writing Program's Althea Ward Clark Reading Series.
School plans Harves Fair
The University League Nursery School's annual Harvest Fair is set for noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, at 171 Broadmead.
Parents and children are invited to enjoy a variety of food, activities and games while helping to support the school's scholarship fund.
Volunteers will be available to answer questions and take applications for the 2004-05 school year. For more information, call 924-3137.
Annual Vendor Fair scheduled
The purchasing department will sponsor the ninth annual Vendor Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28, in Dillon Gym.
This year's theme is "Sports," and there will be numerous door prizes, games and giveaways. Contract vendors as well as small, disadvantaged and environmentally friendly businesses will be showcased.
McCarter Theatre
Lang Lang, who at age 20 already has established himself as one of the most exciting pianists of our time, will perform at 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, at McCarter Theatre. Since his last-minute substitution for Andre Watts at the 1999 Ravinia Festival, he has performed with many of the world's leading orchestras. The program at McCarter will include works by Haydn, Schumann, Tan Dun, Chopin and Liszt. For more information, call 258-2787 or visit <www.mccarter.org>.
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