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Challenging and changing the narrative around the word “feminism” is key to moving toward an equitable society, said activist Teresa C. Younger in a lecture on gender, power, and equality.
Former Republican Congresswoman Nan Hayworth ’81, Former Democratic Congresswoman Marjorie Margolies, and 2016 Democratic Congressional candidate and 2012 alumni class president Lindy Li ’12 participated in a panel discussion about navigating a career in politics as a woman. Hayworth majored in biology at the University and went on to graduate from Cornell University Medical College and practice as an ophthalmologist.
“By virtue of picking the most famous people around they introduced a bias,” he said.
Trust seems like the only grounds on which non-scientists can accept scientific findings, internationally acclaimed Harvard Professor in the history of science Naomi Oreskes said at a Thursday lecture.However, she noted, trust depends on shared values, which non-scientists and scientists often lack.
In a lecture, Wilson School professor Aaron Friedberg and Brookings Institution senior fellow Michael O’Hanlon GS '91 each presented several possibilities for action that the Chinese government may take under President-elect Trump in the future, all of which suggested a Chinese desire to scale back American influence in East Asia so that China can become the preeminent power in the region.
University’s David W. Miller conducted an interview with Myron “Mike” Ullman on Nov. 30. They discussed the role religion plays in Ullman’s success in life, business, and philanthropy.Ullman is a businessman who has led several global enterprises toward success, based in places across the globe.
Ana Navarro, a political commentator for news outlets including CNN, ABC, and Telemundo, and a Republican strategist who worked on presidential campaigns for John McCain and Jeb Bush, discussed the causes and implications of Donald Trump’s electoral victory during a lecture at the Woodrow Wilson School on Nov. 16.
Members of the Princeton community, including town residents and University students and faculty, came together on Tuesday, Nov. 29 to discuss the challenges facing the Muslim community in the wake of the 2016 presidential election in a forum.Speakers in the forum discussed issues such as anti-Muslim rhetoric and violence, civil and human rights, immigration, civic engagement, local politics, foreign policy, and international affairs. Favoring a town hall style, moderators listened to and wrote down points and concerns suggested by members of the audience on panels mounted around the room.
“A big realization was that Trump is dangerous mainly because of the level of power that America has in the world right now versus perhaps what past demagogic presidents in United States have had in history."
The Daily Princetonian held a dynamic panel on Thursday to discuss the aspect of diversity, or lack thereof, in newsrooms and the media industry.The panel was moderated by Sarah Sakha ’18, who began the event by asking each of the panelists about their professional lives and general opinions on the issue of diversity in journalism.Sakha is an associate opinion editor for the ‘Prince’.Benét Wilson, who has hosted workshops and discussions on diversity, said that she is inspired to continue participating in events because of the students she meets and learning about their successes later on.
Yale Law School lecturer Linda Greenhouse discussed the cyclical nature of the judicial-legislative relationship and the transition into a more scrutinous Supreme Court in a lecture on Thursday evening. Greenhouse focused the lecture around several federal courts’ recent decisions to invalidate three separate restrictive abortion and voting laws in Texas and North Carolina for deliberate human civil rights violations in order to reveal the increasingly rigorous standards of the judiciary.
Renowned suspense novelist Stephen King and award-winning poet Eileen Myles gave a joint reading as part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series 2016-2017.
Einat Wilf, former member of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, spoke about the conditions for peace in Israel at the Center for Jewish Life on Nov.
University psychology professor Susan Fiske, Harvard European studies and sociology professor Michèle Lamont, and Cornell economics professor Ravi Kanbur met in a panel discussion on the afternoon of Nov.
Two days after the U.S. presidential election, Amb. Daniel C. Kurtzer, U.S. ambassador to Israel from 2001-05 and U.S.
The wonderful thing about being a Princeton student is that January 1isn’t the kickoff day for the start of our new year.
Andrew Rosenthal, editorial page editor of The New York Times, spoke on campus Tuesday evening about the current state of news and editorial journalism.
Citizens have a responsibility to be well-informed in order to keep the government in check, New York Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal said in a lecture on campus Tuesday evening.
Reddit founder Ohanian discusses techniques for successful entrepreneurship, power of Internet. While the earth is most certainly round, the Internet is flat and can be the world’s largest stage from which everyone has the opportunity to learn, Alexis Ohanian, the founder of online forum Reddit, told a crowd of Princeton students on Wednesday in a lecture about Reddit’s founding and the field of entrepreneurship. Having grown up with the World Wide Web, younger generations have had the advantage of understanding the Internet better than the “incumbents,” or older generation — a “huge advantage that we all need to capitalize on,” Ohanian said. Ohanian also offered his advice on entrepreneurship by noting that the difference between entrepreneurs is not whether or not one has great ideas.
The government’s mass call tracking program violates fundamental civil liberties and rights to privacy, Catherine Crump, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project argued in a lecture on Thursday. Crump began the lecture with a simple question: “How many of you have cell phones?” Virtually every hand in the room shot up. “It used to be practically impossible for the government to track you without expending tremendous resources,” Crump added.
