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Princeton Weekly Bulletin February 15, 1999
Nassau Notes
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Creative Writing celebrates 60 years
A Gala Reading at 4:30 p.m. on February
17 in Richardson Auditorium will kick off a
year-long celebration of the Creative Writing
Program's 60 years at Princeton. The reading will
begin with an introduction by President Shapiro, to
be followed by current and former faculty members
reading from their own work.
Participating authors include
Agha Shahid Ali, Jeffrey Eugenides, Laurie Sheck,
A. J. Verdelle and Edmund White (lecturers in the
Council of Humanities and Creative Writing); Yusef
Komun-yakaa (professor in the Council of the
Humanities and Creative Writing), Toni Morrison
(Goheen Professor in the Humanities), Paul Muldoon
(Clark University Professor in the Humanities),
Joyce Carol Oates (Berlind Professor in the
Humanities), James Richardson (professor of
English) and C. K. Williams (lecturer with rank of
professor in the Council of the Humanities and
Creative Writing); and Russell Banks (Clark
University Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus),
Edmund Keeley (Straut Professor of English,
Emeritus), and Renee and Theodore Weiss (Paton
Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern
Literature, Emeritus).
The event is part of the 1998-99
Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series.
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University Concert
![](m/mikhailuk.JPG) Pianist
Alexander Mikhailuk will perform at 8:00 p.m. on
February 18 in Richardson Auditorium,
Alexander Hall.
Chapel music
Peter
Sykes, with Victoria Wagner, will perform Gustav
Holst's The Planets at 8:00 p.m. on February
19 in the University Chapel. For information
call 258-3654.
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International service award nominations
The International Center invites members of the
University community to nominate an undergraduate
or graduate student or student organization for the
International Service Award. This award is given
for humanitarian endeavors at Princeton that
promote international understanding among fellow
students and area residents, or initiate or support
activities that assist individuals or communities
in other parts of the world.
Send nominations, with a brief
description of the nominee's accomplishments, to
Paula Chow, 91 Prospect Ave., or e-mail
pchow@princeton.edu.
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Sisso speaks on Israeli elections
Shmuel Sisso, consul general of Israel in New
York, will give a talk on "The Role of the Peace
Process in the Upcoming Israeli Elections" at 4:30
p.m. on February 17 in 1 Robertson Hal1.
A native of Morocco, Sisso
emigrated to Israel with his parents at the age of
five in 1952. He interrupted his studies at the
Hebrew University in 1972 to fight on the southern
front of the Yom Kippur War, then went on to earn a
law degree in 1976. He launched his political
career in 1978 as a city councilman in his hometown
of Kiryat Yam and was elected mayor in 1989 and
reelected with 81 percent of the vote in 1993.
During his term as mayor, Kiryat
Yam's population grew by 50 percent, largely due to
the absorption of approximately 20,000 immigrants.
Sisso oversaw large-scale municipal projects,
including the construction of 3,000 new housing
units and the establishment of a technical college.
His efforts earned him many awards, including the
Environment Ministry's National Prize and an
Education Ministry award for increasing the rate of
graduation from high schools.
Sisso has also been a member of
the Prime Minister's Advisory Committee on Social
Policy, National Council for the Prevention of Road
Accidents and Association for the Promotion of
Secondary Education. He has traveled as an envoy of
the foreign ministry and of the Jewish Agency, and
as a guest of the U.S. Information Agency Forum for
Young Leadership.
His talk is sponsored by the
Woodrow Wilson School.
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Schauer gives Moffett lecture on ethics
Frederick Schauer will speak on "Obedience to
the Law, Obedience to the Courts and the
Obligations of Citizenship" at 4:30 p.m. on
February 18 in 1 Robertson.
Frank Stanton Professor of the
First Amendment at Harvard University's Kennedy
School of Government, Schauer teaches and writes
about the philosophical grounding, legal contours
and practical implications of constitutionalism. He
also studies the relationship between law, ethics
and policymaking.
Former chair of the section on
constitutional law of the Association of American
Law Schools and editor of the journal Legal
Theory, he is author of The Philosophy of
Law, among other publications.
This is the James A. Moffett '29
Lecture in ethics is sponsored by the Program in
Ethics and Public Affairs.
A reception will follow the
lecture in the lower lobby of Robertson Hall.
Brumberg looks at experience of American girls
Joan Brumberg will give an illustrated lecture
titled "From Corsets to Body Piercing: How History
and Culture Shape the Experience of American Girls"
at 8:00 p.m. on February 22 in 1 Robertson
Hall.
Weiss Professor of History,
Human Development and Women's Studies at Cornell
University, Brumber is the author of The Body
Project, on which her talk is based. It draws
on diary excerpts and media images from the 1830s
to the present and traces the shift in girls'
attitudes from the Victorian concern with good
works to the modern concern about good looks.
Brumberg's talk is sponsored by
the Women's Center and Raising Women's Voices,
along with numerous other campus organizations and
departments.
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In print
Virtues
of Authenticity: Essays on Plato and Socrates, by
Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in
the Humanities Alexander Nehamas. (Princeton
University Press, 1998)
"Nehamas presents here a
collection of his most important essays on Plato
and Socrates. The papers are unified in theme by
the idea that Plato's central philosophical concern
in metaphysics, ethics and aesthetics was to
distinguish the authentic from the fake
The
papers represent Nehamas's distinct and original
contributions to scholarship on Plato and Socrates
and serve as a comprehensive introduction to the
thought of these two philosophers." (from the book
cover)
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Celebrating the Duke
The University Gospel Ensemble will join the
Concert Jazz Ensemble and Glee Club for a
performance celebrating the sacred music of Duke
Ellington at 8:00 p.m. on February 20 in
Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall. (photo: Ron
Carter)
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