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Special Event: Journalism and Democracy

2023 Public Humanities Forum

2023-12-02 10:00:00 2023-12-02 16:00:00 America/New_York Special Event: Journalism and Democracy Princeton Public Library - Community Room

Saturday, December 02
10:00am - 4:00pm

Add to Calendar 2023-12-02 10:00:00 2023-12-02 16:00:00 America/New_York Special Event: Journalism and Democracy A keynote speaker and two panels of experts, featuring historians and journalists, will discuss the history of democracy, active citizenship and participatory journalism. Registration requested. Princeton Public Library - Community Room

Princeton Public Library

Community Room

A keynote speaker and two panels of experts, featuring historians and journalists, will discuss the history of democracy, active citizenship and participatory journalism. Registration requested.

The 2023 Public Humanities Forum explores the relationship between democracy and journalism through two panel discussions and a public lecture.

Schedule:

10 a.m. - Check-in and Coffee

10:30 a.m. to noon - First Panel: "Democracy, Citizenship, and the Power of the Powerless"

Noon to 1:15 p.m. - Lunch (complimentary to registered guests)

1:15 to 2:45 p.m. - Second Panel: "Democratic Societies and Participatory Journalism"

2:45 p.m. to 3 p.m. - Coffee Break

3 p.m. to 4 p.m. - Public Lecture: Jan-Werner Müller, "Democracy's Critical Infrastructure"

Book signing to follow.


Keynote Speaker: 

Jan-Werner Müller is Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences and professor of Politics at Princeton University. He works mainly in democratic theory and the history of modern political thought; he also has research interests in the relationship between architecture and politics, as well as the normative implications of the current structural transformations of the public sphere. Publications include Constitutional Patriotism (2007), Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe (2011) and What is Populism? (2016), which has been translated into more than 20 languages. 2019 saw the publication of Furcht und Freiheit: Für einen anderen Liberalismus, which won the Bavarian Book Prize; in 2021, Democracy Rules appeared with FSG, Penguin, and Suhrkamp. 

Panelists and Moderator on the First Panel:

Dan-El Padilla Peralta is an Associate Professor of Classics in the Department of Classics at Princeton University. He is the author of two books: Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League (Penguin 2015) and Divine Institutions: Religions and Community in the Middle Roman Republic (Princeton 2020) and he has co-edited two others: Rome, Empire of Plunder: The Dynamics of Cultural Appropriation (with Matthew Loar and Carolyn MacDonald; Cambridge 2017); and Making the Middle Republic: New Approaches to Rome and Italy, c. 400 – 200 BCE (with Seth Bernard and Lisa Mignone; Cambridge 2023). In addition he is a volume editor for the Cambridge History of the African Diaspora. Projects in the works include Classicism and Other Phobias, a manuscript emerging from the 2022 W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures; 338 BCE: Rome and the Age of Empires, co-authored with Denis Feeney (under contract with Harvard University Press); A People’s History of Rome (under contract with Princeton University Press); and a manifesto on race and racism within the disciplinary identity of classics, co-authored with Sasha-Mae Eccleston.

Rachel Devlin is an associate professor of history at Rutgers University specializing in the cultural politics of girlhood, sexuality, and race in the postwar United States. She is the author of Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture (2005). In her most recent book, A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools (2018), Devlin draws on interviews and archival research to tell the stories of the many young women who stood up to enraged protestors, hostile teachers, and hateful white students every day while integrating classrooms. Among them were Lucile Bluford, who fought to desegregate the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism before World War II, and Marguerite Carr and Doris Faye Jennings, who as teenagers became the public faces of desegregation years before Brown v. Board of Education. Devlin has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History (Harvard University), and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute (Harvard University).

Stanley Katz is President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, the national humanities organization in the United States. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1955 with a major in English History and Literature. He was trained in British and American history at Harvard (PhD, 1961), where he also attended Law School in 1969-70. His recent research focuses upon developments in American philanthropy, the relationship of civil society and constitutionalism to democracy, and the relationship of the United States to the international human rights regime. He is the Editor in Chief of the recently published Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History, and the Editor Emeritus of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the United States Supreme Court. He also writes about higher education policy, and has published a blog for the Chronicle of Higher Education. He is the co-founder and editor of the history of philanthropy blog www.histphil.org. Formerly Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of the History of American Law and Liberty at Princeton University, he is a specialist on American legal and constitutional history, and on philanthropy and non-profit institutions. He received the annual Fellows Award from Phi Beta Kappa in 2010 and the National Humanities Medal (awarded by Pres. Obama) in 2011.

Moderator:

Christopher Fisher is an Associate Professor of History at the College of New Jersey. He earned his BA from Rutgers College and his Ph.D. in history, with a focus on U.S. diplomacy, from Rutgers University in 2001. His areas of expertise are the U.S. in the twentieth century, cold war culture and diplomacy, US in the World, American empire and imperialism, African-American history, and Racism and Race Relations in the US. With Alan Dawley and Robert C. McGreevey, he is the co-author of Global America, The United States in the Twentieth Century (Oxford, 2018).

Panelists and Moderator on the Second Panel:

Jane Ferguson is a Polk, Emmy, Peabody, OPCA and DuPont award-winning foreign correspondent for PBS NewsHour, contributor to The New Yorker, and McGraw Professor of journalism at Princeton University. Now based in New York City, she has over thirteen years of experience living and reporting in the Middle East and reporting from the Arab world, Africa and South Asia. Her work focuses on US foreign policy and defense, conflict, diplomacy, and human rights. With an emphasis on in-depth, magazine length broadcasting, Jane's reporting is characterized by exclusive, ground-breaking access, thoughtful story-telling and character-driven reporting. Her memoir, No Ordinary Assignment was published by HarperCollins in July 2023. 

Tennyson Donyéa, a seasoned journalist, storyteller, and aspiring filmmaker continues to leave his mark on New Jersey's media landscape. A Temple University alumnus, he holds a B.A. in Media Studies and Production (2016) and later deepened his journalistic expertise through the Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators program at CUNY Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in 2022. Over the past seven years, Tennyson has extensively reported for various platforms including TV, radio, and both print and digital mediums. His journey has taken him to various states – from California to Maine – but his role at WHYY News in Philadelphia stands out, showcasing his dedication to delivering quality news about New Jersey politics. In 2023, Tennyson's commitment to local journalism was recognized when he received the New Jersey News Commons' Partner of the Year award. This accolade celebrated his significant contributions to bolstering New Jersey's local news ecosystem. Keenly aware of the narratives surrounding New Jersey's Black community, Tennyson took it upon himself to challenge and reshape these perspectives. In 2021, he founded "Black In Jersey" with the aim to provide a more accurate representation of Black communities and address pertinent issues in the fight for Black liberation. Originally hailing from Washington, D.C., Tennyson has called New Jersey home since 2019 and is currently based in Trenton, NJ, where he continues to be a beacon of change in the world of journalism.

Andrew Rodriguez Calderón is a computational journalist at The Marshall Project. Previously a Cross-Borders Data Investigations Fellow at Columbia University, he investigated U.S.-based, right-wing evangelical groups that use dark-money to promote anti-LGBTQ policies in Central and South America. While at The Marshall Project, he has used computer programming and data visualization to report on the immigration courts, border detention of migrant children and the cost of deportation to taxpayers. He has also collaborated on national award-winning stories, including "Detained," "Think Debtor’s Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mississippi," and "More Immigrants Are Giving Up Court Fights and Leaving the U.S."

Moderator:

Anastasia Mann is a lecturer at Princeton University and the founding director of SPIA in NJ. Her work focuses on struggles for economic rights and racial justice by, for, and with communities on the margins of American society. Trained as a historian, Stacy’s interests include reparations and transitional justice, immigrant organizing, access to quality public services, social welfare and social control, kinship, leisure, and mutual aid. Her work is attuned to the ways that gender, race, class, and ethnicity shape structures of opportunity. Mann’s career spans academia (Northwestern, Princeton, Rutgers), research-driven nonprofits (the Russell Sage Foundation, New Jersey Policy Perspective), and the civic sphere (Princeton’s Human Services and Civil Rights Commissions, and the New Jersey Commission on New Americans). Her publications include contributions to The Encyclopedia of Working Class America (Routledge), Flunking Out: New Jersey’s Support for Public Higher Education Falls Short, Garden State Dreams: In-State Tuition for Undocumented Kids (both New Jersey Policy Perspective), and Middlesex County, New Jersey: Crossroads of the World (Rutgers, Eagleton Institute). 


Co-sponsored by the SPIA in NJ Initiative of Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs, the Princeton University Humanities Council, the Princeton University Program in Journalism, and Labyrinth Books and presented with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this programming do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.


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Sun, Dec 10, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
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Mon, Dec 11, 11:00am - 12:00pm
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Mon, Dec 11, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
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Mon, Dec 11, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
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Mon, Dec 11, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
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Mon, Dec 11, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
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Tue, Dec 12, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Princeton Public Library - Conference Room
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Tue, Dec 12, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Princeton Public Library - Tech Center
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Tue, Dec 12, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Princeton Public Library - Story Room
These sessions, with themes and activities that vary each week, offer an opportunity for parents and caregivers to play with their children, in a relaxed, fun and social learning space.

Tue, Dec 12, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Princeton Public Library - Community Room
Based on the Icelandic tradition of Jolabokaflod, attendees and library staff gather to discuss their favorite recent books and find their next great read.

Tue, Dec 12, 4:00pm - 7:00pm
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All Mercer County residents are eligible for this photo ID card, which provides the cardholder's personal identifying information, medical risk factors and emergency contact information.
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Tue, Dec 12, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
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Photographer Chris Gunn and writer Christopher Wanjek discuss their book "Inside the Star Factory: The Creation of the James Webb Space Telescope NASA's Largest and Most Powerful Space Observatory."
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Wed, Dec 13, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Princeton Public Library - Community Room
Bring your knitting and/or crochet project (and your own supplies) to these drop-in social gatherings. Sessions will not include instruction. Registration is not required.

Wed, Dec 13, 10:30am - 11:00am
Princeton Public Library - Story Room
This interactive, in-person story time features books, songs, rhymes, fingerplays and movement for children 2 years old and up with an adult caregiver.

Wed, Dec 13, 11:30am - 12:00pm
Princeton Public Library - Story Room
This interactive, in-person story time features books, songs, rhymes, fingerplays and movement for children 0-24 months old with an adult caregiver.

Wed, Dec 13, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Princeton Public Library - Story Room
After Baby Storytime, stay and enjoy free play and socialization with your baby in a supportive and nurturing environment.

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Discover our go-to resources for reliable information on a myriad of subjects.

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Princeton Public Library
This interactive, in-person story time features books, songs, rhymes, fingerplays and movement for children 2 years old and up with an adult caregiver.

Thu, Dec 14, 10:30am - 12:00pm
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Practice your English speaking skills with others during conversation facilitated by a volunteer on Google Meet. Please register in advance.
This event is full

Canceled
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Princeton Public Library
This interactive, in-person story time features books, songs, rhymes, fingerplays and movement for children 0-24 months old with an adult caregiver.

Canceled
Thu, Dec 14, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Princeton Public Library
After Baby Storytime, stay and enjoy free play and socialization with your baby in a supportive and nurturing environment.

Thu, Dec 14, 7:15pm - 9:00pm
Google Meet - https://meet.google.com/rra-ukco-uzt?pli=1
The group discusses "The Death of Vivek Oji: A Novel" by Akwaeke Emezi.

Fri, Dec 15, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Princeton Public Library - Quiet Room
Practice speaking English in person in this conversation group facilitated by a volunteer.

Sat, Dec 16, 10:30am - 11:00am
Princeton Public Library - Story Room
This interactive, in-person story time features books, songs, rhymes, fingerplays and movement for children 2 years and up, accompanied by an adult.

Rescheduled
Sat, Dec 16, 1:00pm - 1:30pm
New date Saturday, December 02, 1:00pm - 1:30pm
Princeton Public Library
Storytime in Japanese for children and their caregivers.

Sat, Dec 16, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Princeton Public Library - Tech Center
Princeton High School students lead a series of advanced-level Python coding classes for teens. Registration opens Nov. 24 and is required.

Sat, Dec 16, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Princeton Public Library - STEAM Studio
These sessions are intended for youth in second through sixth grade who are beginners or have some chess experience. Registration is not necessary.

Canceled
Sun, Dec 17, 3:00pm - 3:30pm
Princeton Public Library
Storytime in German for children and their caregivers.

Mon, Dec 18, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Princeton Public Library - Conference Room
Writers receive constructive feedback at these twice-monthly group sessions during which participants read passages from a work in progress and members offer suggestions.

Mon, Dec 18, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Princeton Public Library - Story Room
These sessions, with themes and activities that vary each week, offer an opportunity for parents and caregivers to play with their children, in a relaxed, fun and social learning space.

Mon, Dec 18, 4:00pm - 4:45pm
Princeton Public Library - STEAM Studio
These fun drop-in Lego sessions emphasize free play and cooperative building in a non-competitive environment.

Mon, Dec 18, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Virtual - Conference Room
This free 12-week course, offered in partnership with Literacy New Jersey, prepares people for the Citizenship Test. Students must have a Green Card and basic English skills. Registration required

Mon, Dec 18, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Virtual - Google Meet
Practice your English speaking skills with others during conversation facilitated by a volunteer on Google Meet.

Canceled
Tue, Dec 19, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Princeton Public Library
Members of the Princeton Macintosh Users Group help resolve questions about Apple devices. Drop in at any time during this session.

Tue, Dec 19, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Princeton Public Library - Story Room
These sessions, with themes and activities that vary each week, offer an opportunity for parents and caregivers to play with their children, in a relaxed, fun and social learning space.

Tue, Dec 19, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Virtual - Zoom
Writers receive constructive feedback at these monthly Zoom group sessions during which participants read passages from a work in progress and members offer suggestions.

Tue, Dec 19, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Princeton Public Library - Community Room
The Princeton Chapter of the Nashville Songwriters Association provides feedback and tips to help songwriters improve at this event that also includes an acoustic open mic.

Canceled
Wed, Dec 20, 9:30am - 1:00pm
Princeton Public Library
Community members are invited to meet members of the Princeton Human Services Department during these "open office" hours on the third Wednesday of each month.

Wed, Dec 20, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Princeton Public Library - Community Room
Bring your knitting and/or crochet project (and your own supplies) to these drop-in social gatherings. Sessions will not include instruction. Registration is not required.

Wed, Dec 20, 10:30am - 11:00am
Princeton Public Library - Story Room
This interactive, in-person story time features books, songs, rhymes, fingerplays and movement for children 2 years old and up with an adult caregiver.

Wed, Dec 20, 11:30am - 12:00pm
Princeton Public Library - Story Room
This interactive, in-person story time features books, songs, rhymes, fingerplays and movement for children 0-24 months old with an adult caregiver.

Wed, Dec 20, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Princeton Public Library - Story Room
After Baby Storytime, stay and enjoy free play and socialization with your baby in a supportive and nurturing environment.

Wed, Dec 20, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Google Meet - https://meet.google.com/tmq-ohnf-myh
Practice your English speaking skills with others during conversation facilitated by a volunteer on Google Meet. Registration required

Wed, Dec 20, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Princeton Public Library - Community Room
The library's Board of Trustees will meet at the Princeton Public Library.

Thu, Dec 21, 10:30am - 11:00am
Princeton Public Library - Story Room
This interactive, in-person story time features books, songs, rhymes, fingerplays and movement for children 2 years old and up with an adult caregiver.

Thu, Dec 21, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Google Meet - https://meet.google.com/kvn-unvt-yjc
Practice your English speaking skills with others during conversation facilitated by a volunteer on Google Meet. Please register in advance.

Thu, Dec 21, 11:30am - 12:00pm
Princeton Public Library - Story Room
This interactive, in-person story time features books, songs, rhymes, fingerplays and movement for children 0-24 months old with an adult caregiver.

Thu, Dec 21, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Princeton Public Library - Story Room
After Baby Storytime, stay and enjoy free play and socialization with your baby in a supportive and nurturing environment.

Thu, Dec 21, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Princeton Public Library - STEAM Studio
Neurodivergent individuals looking to connect with others are invited to attend a craft session to work on creative projects brought from home.

Fri, Dec 22, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Princeton Public Library - Quiet Room
Practice speaking English in person in this conversation group facilitated by a volunteer.

Fri, Dec 22, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Princeton Public Library - Community Room,Teen Center
Teens are invited to hang out in the Community Room to relax, play games, listen to music, craft and more.

Sat, Dec 23, 10:30am - 11:00am
Princeton Public Library - Story Room
This interactive, in-person story time features books, songs, rhymes, fingerplays and movement for children 2 years and up, accompanied by an adult.

Sat, Dec 23, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Princeton Public Library - STEAM Studio
These sessions are intended for youth in second through sixth grade who are beginners or have some chess experience. Registration is not necessary.

Tue, Dec 26, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Princeton Public Library - Story Room
These sessions, with themes and activities that vary each week, offer an opportunity for parents and caregivers to play with their children, in a relaxed, fun and social learning space.

Tue, Dec 26, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Princeton Public Library - Community Room
In Element City, where Fire, Water, Earth and Air residents live together, quick-witted Ember's friendship with happy-go-lucky Wade challenges her beliefs about their world. PG. 1 hour, 41 minutes.

Tue, Dec 26, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Princeton Public Library - 3rd Floor Pop-up Programming Area
Stop by the the third floor for a fun, creative, self-directed activity.

Wed, Dec 27, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Princeton Public Library - Conference Room
Sketchers of all abilities and experience levels meet twice monthly to sketch, draw and paint together in this social art group. Registration is requested.

Wed, Dec 27, 10:30am - 11:00am
Princeton Public Library - Story Room
This interactive, in-person story time features books, songs, rhymes, fingerplays and movement for children 2 years old and up with an adult caregiver.

Wed, Dec 27, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Princeton Public Library - Community Room
Based on the Super Mario video games, the animated film follows Mario on his adventures with Princess Peach and Toad to find Mario's brother Luigi. PG. 1 hour, 32 minutes.

Wed, Dec 27, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Princeton Public Library - 3rd Floor Pop-up Programming Area
Stop by the the third floor for a fun, creative, self-directed activity.

Thu, Dec 28, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Google Meet - https://meet.google.com/kvn-unvt-yjc
Practice your English speaking skills with others during conversation facilitated by a volunteer on Google Meet. Please register in advance.

Thu, Dec 28, 10:30am - 11:00am
Princeton Public Library - Story Room
This interactive, in-person story time features books, songs, rhymes, fingerplays and movement for children 2 years old and up with an adult caregiver.

Thu, Dec 28, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Princeton Public Library - 3rd Floor Pop-up Programming Area
Stop by the the third floor for a fun, creative, self-directed activity.