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The Romantic Myth of the U.S. National Parks as Constructed by Frank Jay Haynes and John Muir, Taylor G. Branch, UG '23 (2263948)

Imagine “wilderness”. Does it evoke tropical jungles? Arid deserts? Thick deciduous forests? The concreteness of these images contradicts the fact that, historically and culturally,…

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Sold under Nazi rule: On the Provenance of a Manuscript in Princeton’s Goethe Collection, Dennis Schaefer, GS (2265857)

My presentation discusses the provenance of a 19th century German manuscript by the German author Johann Wolfgang Goethe in our Special Collections, which was sold under Nazi rule in 1934. As part of…

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Sites of Memory: A Symposium on Toni Morrison and the Archive "Writing The Archive"

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CITP Seminar Rebecca Weiss - Participatory User Data Collection and Potential Futures for Platform Accountability: The Case of Mozilla Rally

As modern life increasingly moves online, our ability to understand the impact of the Internet on society has grown critically dependent upon the…

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FPUL Annual Dinner: Elmer Adler Undergraduate Collecting Award Presentation May 1, 2022

Emma Sarconi presents two Adler Undergraduate Collecting prizes to Evan DeTurk and Alexandra Orbuch

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FPUL Annual Dinner: Acquisitions Presentation May 1, 2022

Friends of PUL (FPUL) Annual Dinner: Acquisitions Presentation by Eric White, Scheide Librarian & Asst. Univ. Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books & Manuscripts, and Gabriel Swift,…

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Rebecca J. W. Jefferson- -Deconstructing the Cairo Geniza- Why Provenance Matters- Mar 29, 2022

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The Hottest Worlds in the Universe, Samuel Yee, G4 (3958227)

The first planets to be discovered orbiting stars other than our Sun -- exoplanets -- were a type of planet we hadn't expected, based on our expectations from our own solar system. We call these…

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Belle da Costa Greene, The Extraordinary Librarian-Scholar Who Created the Morgan Library,” with Daria Rose Foner (A Virtual FPUL Small Talk)

On March 27, 2022, the Friends welcomed Dr. Daria Rose Foner, a 2011 Princeton alumna, who recently joined Sotheby’s New York after having served as the Research Associate to the Director at…

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Oval with Points - Patina Restoration

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Epistolary Spaces and Sacred Networks- A Reappraisal of the Ahrari Naqshbandi Tariqa

The Department & Program in Near Eastern Studies Seminar Series 2021-22

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Library and Computing Resources (Humanities/Social Sciences)

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Plastic Plastic, Yidian Liu and Nathaniel Banks, GS (2312094)

Every year, 150 million tonnes of plastic leaches into the world’s oceans. The extent of oceanic plastic contamination is rapidly approaching a critical level where there will soon be more…

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Stokes Library Tour

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A Tale of Two Collections: The Icons of Nikolai Likhachev and Ilya Ostroukhov

“We always imagine Russian culture in the form of a diptych, in which one wing is Petersburg and the other Moscow,” the critic Abram Efros wrote in 1921. “In the field of Russian…

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The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study: A Major U.S. Birth Cohort Study from its Humble Beginnings

This talk describes the evolution of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study (FF), a national U.S. birth cohort study that is headquartered at Princeton University, from its preconception…

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