Nassau Notes
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Nikita Mikhalkov and daughter Nadja from a 1996 documentary |
Filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov will
give a lecture on "Russia! Her Past and Future" at 4:30 pm
on November 9 in 101 McCormick.
Mikhalkov has starred in and
directed more than 20 films and won an Oscar in 1994 for
Burnt By the Sun. His most recent film, The Barber
of Siberia, is due to premier in the United States this
month. Head of the Russian Filmmaker's Union, he is
president of the Russian Cultural Foundation.
The lecture is sponsored by the
Program in Russian Studies, Center of International Studies
and Committee for European Studies.
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Novelist Edwidge Danticat (l) will read from her work at 4:30 pm on November 10 in the Stewart Theater at 185 Nassau St., as part of Creative Writing's Althea Ward Clark Reading Series. (Photo by Arturo Patten)
Pop music
Flamenco song, dance. Guitarist
Paco de Lucia Sextet will appear at McCarter Theatre at 8:00
pm on November 10.
Lyle Lovett will perform at McCarter Theatre at 8:00 and 10:45 pm on November 12. (Photo by Michael Wilson)
Gatherings
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Portrait of Goethe by Ludwig Sebbers, 1826, on display in Firestone Library |
"Goethe and the Age of Romanticism," an international conference in honor of the 250th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749&endash;1832), will be held on campus November 11 through 14.
"The conference will offer perspectives on Goethe's versatility and influence as poet, playwright, novelist, artist, essayist and scientist," says conference organizer Walter Hinderer, professor of Germanic languages and literatures. "Although he was critical at times of Romantic literature and art, the Romantics admired him as the founding father and exemplar of their ideas on art and aesthetics."
On the evening of November 11, a reception will be held in Firestone Library, where objects related to the conference (paintings, drawings, watercolors, original letters and first editions) will be on exhibit.
All sessions on November 11 and 12 will be in 106 McCormick Hall; all sessions on November 13 and 14 will be in Betts Auditorium at the Architecture School.
For more information, call 258-4141 or visit www.princeton.edu/~german.
Speakers
Blumenthal speaks on
presidents
Sidney Blumenthal will give a
public lecture on "Presidents and Democracy: An American
History" at 8:00 pm on November 9 in Helm Auditorium,
McCosh Hall 50.
As assistant to the president,
Blumenthal provides President Clinton with advice on a wide
range of subjects, including politics and policy and major
presidential speeches. He was a principal writer of the
president's 1998 and 1999 State of the Union addresses and
is presidential liaison to the prime minister of Great
Britain.
Before joining the White House,
Blumenthal was a staff writer for The New Yorker. He
has also been a staff writer for the Washington Post,
and national political correspondent and senior editor for
The New Republic.
He is the author of several books,
including Pledging Allegiance: The Last Campaign of the
Cold War andOur Long National Daydream: A Political
Pageant of the Reagan Era.
This is the annual Willard and
Margaret Thorp Lecture in American Studies, cosponsored this
year by the Woodrow Wilson School. It will be simulcast on
Channel 7 on campus and on RCN Channel A-11 and broadcast on
the web at www.princeton.edu/WebMedia.
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Former Secretary of State George Shultz will give a lecture on "The Road Ahead" at 9:30 am on November 13 in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.
An economist, Shultz has combined academics and government service in a long and distinguished career. After earning his BA at Princeton in 1942 and his PhD at MIT in 1949, he was a member of President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers before joining the faculty of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, where he later served as dean. Appointed secretary of labor in 1969, he went on to be director of the Office of Management and Budget and secretary of the Treasury and to chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Nixon.
In 1974 Shultz left government to become president and director of the Bechtel Group for eight years. He also taught at Stanford University until appointed secretary of state by President Reagan in 1982.
In this position for seven years, he played a key role in implementing foreign policy that brought about the end of the Cold War and the development of strong relationships between the United States and the Asia-Pacific region.
After leaving office in 1989, Shultz became director and senior counselor at Bechtel, professor of international economics at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and a distinguished fellow at the Hoover Institution. In 1989 he was awarded the Medal of Freedom, the highest US civilian honor.
Among his many books are Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State (1993) and Economic Policy Beyond the Headlines (1978).
Ambassador discusses Slovak
society
Martin Butora will speak on
"Slovakia Ten Years After: Rebirth of Civil Society" at 4:30
pm on November 11 in 1 Robertson Hall.
Ambassador of the Slovak Republic
to the United States, Butora served as human rights adviser
to President Vaclav Havel and director of the section for
human rights from 1990 to 1992. A cofounder of the Public
Against Violence movement, in 1997 he was cofounder of the
Institute for Public Affairs, a public policy research think
tank in Bratislava, of which he is president.
A 1993-94 fellow at the Woodrow
Wilson School, Butora later coordin-ated a research project
based on video testimonies of Holocaust survivors from
Slovakia, produced in cooperation with the Fortunoff Video
Archive at Yale University. From 1996-98 he was the coeditor
of Global Reports on Slovaki.
Author of several books, he writes
on post-Communist transformation. His lecture is sponsored
by the Woodrow Wilson School.
Scholars discuss Latin American
economies
A conference on "Latin American
Economies in the Long Run," organized by the Program in
Latin American Studies, will be held on November 12 and
13.
The focus of the conference will be
supply-side changes within market factors and changes in the
microeconomic policy climate, capital markets and
technology. The format consists of panel discussions and
presentations followed by open discussion sessions.
Participants include Arminio Fraga,
head of Brazil's central bank, and other financial leaders
and economists, as well as others from academic,
multilateral and governmental institutions.
The event is free and open to the
public. Registration is requested at www.princeton.edu/plasweb/longrun/onlineregform.html.
The conference is sponsored by the
Department of Economics, Woodrow Wilson School, Center of
International Studies, Council on Regional Studies and
Research Program in Development Studies.
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