2011-2012 Events
Exhibition: "George Segal: Sculptor as Photographer"
On display in the Milberg Gallery, Firestone Library
25 July 2011 - 12 February 2012
Gallery Tours: Friday, October 14 at 10:00 a.m. and Sunday, December 4 at 3:00 p.m.
For more information about the exhibition and George Segal, please click here.
“George Segal: Sculptor as Photographer”
A lecture in conjunction with the exhibition “George Segal: Sculptor as Photographer.”
Date: 6 November, 2011, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Location: 101 McCormick Hall
Speaker: Phuyllis Tuchman, Art Historian
Reception to follow in the Main Exhibition Gallery of Firestone Library
Special Performance
In conjunction with Memory and the Work of Art: A year of exhibitions, concerts, performances, and lectures on the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001, the Friends of the Princeton University Library invite you to a special performance. Artist Werner Pfeiffer will present and build his book sculpture, Out of the Sky, at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 17, 2011 in the Chancellor Green Rotunda. A reception will follow.
Exhibition: "Sin and the City: William Hogarth's London"
On display in the Main Gallery, Firestone Library
26 August 2011 - 29 January 2012
Gallery Tour: Sunday, October 23 at 3:00 p.m.
For more information about the exhibition please click here.
"A Midnight Modern Conversation"
A discussion in conjunction with the exhibition "Sin and the City: William Hogarth's London."
With Linda Colley, Mark Hallett, Tim Hitchcock, Claude Rawson and moderated by James Steward.
Date: 7 October 2011 from 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: 101 McCormick Hall
Reception to follow in the Main Exhibition Gallery of Firestone Library
Free, but reservations required. Please call 609-258-3197 for reservations.
Exhibition: "She Flourishes": Chapters in the History of Princeton Women
Date: September 19, 2011 - June 3, 2012
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, 65 Olden Street, Princeton
She Flourishes documents the struggles and accomplishments of women scholars, students, staff and other women associated with the institution. Drawing from the library's rich holdings, the exhibit showcases various accounts of women throughout Princeton's history and explores the ways in which these women have redefined what was once considered an “old-boys' school.”
"Transforming Childhood Memories of War and Displacement into Art"
A seminar in conjunction with Memory and the Work of Art: A year of exhibitions, concerts, performances, and lectures on the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001. The seminar examines memoirs, diaries, and fiction by adults and children about their experiences during World War II.
Date: Friday, October 20, 1–5 p.m.
Location: Cotsen Children's Library in Firestone Library
"Hogarth & His Musical Friends"
A concert in conjunction with "Sin and the City: William Hogarth's London."
The Practitioners of Musick: John Burkhalter, Clara Rottsolk, Donna Fournier, Donovan Klotzbeacher.
Date: 13 November 2011 from 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Main Gallery, Firestone Library
Reception to follow
Exhibition: "Gwen John Watercolors Rediscovered"
On display November 21 - December 30, 2011
in the 18th-Century Window located in the Main Gallery of Firestone Library
A selection from two albums recently found in the papers of art critic and poet Arthur Symons.
Exhibition: “A Fine Addition: New and Notable Acquisitions in Princeton's Special Collections ”
Date: 12 February 2012 – 5 August 2012
Location: Main Gallery, Firestone Library
This exhibition highlights recent additions to the holdings of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, including the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, as well as the Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology.
Exhibition: “Capping Liberty: the Invention of a Numismatic Iconography for the New American Republic”
Date: 2 March 2012 – 8 July 2012
Location: Milberg Gallery, Firestone Library
This exhibition traces the process whereby the founders of the new American republic selected the images to go on the coinage. In addition to coins from the colonial through federal periods as well as medals and paper money from the Numismatic Collection, it features books, manuscripts and graphic arts from other Princeton University collections.
FPUL Book Adoption Party
Date: 25 March 2012, 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location: Chancellor Green Rotunda
Cost: $25.00 per person, reservations requested
The Book Adoption Party offers Friends of the Library and guests the
opportunity to underwrite the cost of acquiring and conserving selected rare
books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and coins in the Princeton University
Library’s special collections. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet the
Library’s curators and conservators and learn from them about the items
available for adoption. The cost of these items will range from $15 to $3,000.
Your reservation or contribution will entitle you to receive an advance copy of
the event catalogue, or you may view it online at http://www.fpul.org/bae.
FPUL Spring Dinner
Date: 25 March 2012, 6:00 p.m.
Location: Schultz Dining Room, Robertson Hall
Speaker: Kati Marton, journalist, human rights activist, and author of several books including Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America, (2009).
Location: Schultz Dining Room, Robertson Hall
Cost: $75.00 per person, reservations required. FPUL members and their guests only
Exhibition: "Alan Turing and Early Computing at Princeton"
Date: 15 April 2012 - 5 June 2012
Location: Lobby Cases, Firestone Library
Alan Turing’s 1938 Princeton Ph.D. thesis on “ordinal logics” may be one of the two most notable (along with John Nash's) and is itself a manifestation of the strength of mathematics at Princeton during the 1930s. . This exhibition, which coincides with publication of a new book on Turing edited by Andrew Appel, Eugene Higgins Professor and Chair of Computer Science, and by Soloman Feferman of Stanford University, will contain pages from the thesis, showing Turing’s own occasional markups, as well as several pages from his graduate file, including the telegram that informed him of his acceptance to Princeton.
“Observational and Imaginary Anatomy”
A lecture in conjunction with the exhibition"A Fine Addition: New and Notable Acquisitions in Princeton's Special Collections.
Speaker: Eugene S. Flamm, Class of 1958
Date and Time: April 22, 2012 at 2:30 p.m.
Location: Betts Auditorium, Architecture Building,Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
Map: http://etcweb.princeton.edu/pumap/#109
Reception in Firestone Library immediately following the lecture
A lecture in conjunction with “Capping Liberty: the Invention of a Numismatic Iconography for the New American Republic”
Speaker: Louis Jordan, from the University of Notre Dame
Date and Time: May 6, 2011 at 4:00 p.m.
Location: 101 McCormick Hall, Princeton University
Reception in Firestone Library immediately following the lecture
Annual Dinner Meeting
Date: May 6, 2011 at 6:00 p.m.
Location: Prospect
Princeton Bibliophiles and Collectors
Every third Sunday from September through May at
2:30 pm
Location: West Classroom, Firestone Library
Highlights of Past Years
The Friends of the Princeton University Library sponsor a variety of events and activities throughout the academic year, and many available exclusively for members. Friends receive event calendars twice a year, as well as invitations to exhibition openings, dinners, and other special events. A list of past Friends events is below.
Highlights of 2010-2011
SPECIAL EVENTS
Morven Tour of "The Kennedys | Portrait of a Family: Photographs by Richard Avedon"
Annual Winter Dinner with Colm Toibin
Conversations with Curators event
EXHIBITIONS
"Little Lord Fauntleroy Comes to Princeton"
"Money on Paper:
An Exhibition of
Bank Notes
and Related Graphic
Arts"
"Strait Through:
Magellan to Cook & the Pacific"
"The Cracked Lookingglass:
Highlights From The Leonard L. Milberg Collection of Irish Prose Writers"
LECTURES
“What Happened to Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Harry Potter?:
The Rise and Fall of a Nineteenth-Century Children’s Classic” given by Professor U. C. Knoepflmacher *61
"The Art of Bank Note
Engraving" given by Mark D. Tomasko
"Ferdinand Magellan: Then and Now" given by Laurence Bergreen
"The Library of Dust: On Antiquarianism and Other Lost Things" given by Stephen Enniss
SYMPOSIUM
"The Cracked Lookingglass" Lectures and readings featuring novelists and critics John Banville, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, R.F. Foster, Jennifer Johnston, Claire Keegan, Patrick McCabe, Colum McCann, Belinda McKeon, Colm Tóibín and Deborah Treisman and Princeton faculty Paul Muldoon and Michael Wood.
SMALL TALKS
This year's speakers included James Steward, Leonard Barkan, and Judith Weisenfeld
Highlights of 2009-2010
SPECIAL EVENTS
Annual Winter Dinner with Mark Dimunation
Book Adoption Event
Recital with The Practitioners of Musick
EXHIBITIONS
"Liberty & the American Revolution: Selections from the Collection of Sid Lapidus ’59"
“‘The Best Old Place of All’: Treasures From the Princeton University Archives”
"Imagerie populaire: French Illustrated Broadsides for Children
in the Cotsen Children's Library"
“‘The Author’s Portrait: “O, could he but have drawne his Wit”
"From the Collection of Henry Wendt ’55: Envisioning the World: The First Printed Maps 1472-1700"
LECTURES
“Popular Prints for Children…and Everyone Else” given by Patricia Mainardi
“The Ideal Pencil: Poetry, Portraiture, and Prejudice”given by Dr. Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
“Galileo: The Starry Messenger” given by Eileen Reeves
Highlights of 2008-2009
SPECIAL EVENTS
Tour of Morven’s exhibit “Picturing Princeton 1783: The Nation’s Capital”
Symposium – “Arts of the East-Byzantine Studies in Princeton”
Annual Winter Dinner with Tavis Smiley
Library Roadshow - more information can be found at http://www.fpul.org/lrs/
EXHIBITIONS
“Honoring Secretary of State John Foster Dulles: The Centennial of His Princeton Graduation”
“The Greek Book from Papyrus to Printing”
“Sketching Their Characters: 150 Years of Political Cartoons”
"Egypt Unveiled: The Mission of Napoleon's Savants"
"Beauty & Bravado in Japanese Woodblock Prints: Highlights from the Gillett G. Griffin Collection Given in Honor of Dale Roylance "
"Liberty & the American Revolution: Selections from the Collection of Sid Lapidus ’59"
LECTURES
“Greek Books and their Readers: From Antiquity to the Renaissance” given by Prof. Anthony Grafton
“Sketching Their Characters: 150 Years of Political Cartoons” given by David Greenberg
"The Truth is Our Weapon: The Rhetorical Diplomacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles" given by Chris Tudda
"All the Art that's Fit to Print (and some that wasn't): Inside the New York Times Op-Ed Page" given by Jerrelle Kraus
"Making Pictures for the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Artists and Publishers" given by Julie Davis
Highlights of 2007-2008
SPECIAL EVENTS
· Trip to Philadelphia and Delaware to visit the Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts Co., Winterthur, and the University of Delaware Library
·Book Adoption Party Fundraiser - Photographs and other information can be found at www.fpul.org/bae
·Annual Winter Dinner
EXHIBITIONS
·"El Taller de Gráfica Popular: The Workshop for Popular Graphic Art"
·"Capturing China, 1913 - 1929: Photographs, Films, and Letters of Diplomat John van Antwerp MacMurray"
·"Numismatics in the Renaissance"
·"Notre livre”: À toute épreuve: A Collaboration between Joan Miró and Paul Éluard"
LECTURES
·"Paul DuChaillu and the 'Discovery' of the Gorilla or The Science Behind 'King Kong'", given by Robert McCracken Peck
·"The Surrealist Artist's Book: Beyond the Page”, given by Elza Adamowiez
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
· "Writers, Editors, and Literary Magazines, 1947-2007: A Conversation in Honor of "The Hudson Review"
· "The Rebirth of Antiquity: Numismatics, Archaeology, and Classical Studies in the Culture of the Renaissance"
SMALL TALKS
·This year's speakers included David H. Orr '95, James Axtell, A. Scott Berg '71, Julian Zelizer, Sophie Gee
Highlights of 2006-2007
SPECIAL EVENTS
· Trip to New York for behind-the-scenes tour of the Morgan Library and the private library of Sid Lapidus
·Annual Winter Dinner: A Tribute to Lynne and Bob Fagles
·Cotsen Pajama Party
SYMPOSIUMS
·"Players and Painted Stage: the Leonard L. Milberg Collection of Irish Theater"
·"Sharpening the Subtle Knife: Cutting New Paths Through Children's Literature"
EXHIBITIONS
·"Players and Painted Stage: the Leonard L. Milberg Collection of Irish Theater"
·"Boris Godunov"
·"To The Mountains of the Moon: Mapping African Exploration, 1541-1880"
SMALL TALKS
·This year's speakers were D. Graham Burnett, Prof. John Fleming, and Phyllis Billington
Highlights of 2005-2006
SPECIAL EVENTS
· Trips to Philadelphia and Washington, DC for behind-the-scenes tours, and tours of private libraries
·A Book in the Works: The Arts in Book Production Lecture and Workshop Series
· Treasures of the Princeton University Library: On Display by the Curators Who Collect and Care for Them
·Annual Winter Dinner with Paul Muldoon and C.K. Williams
· Monthly Book Collectors meetings
EXHIBITIONS
· "The Lure of the Library: The Friends at 75"
·"Lessons in Roman Epigraphy: Princeton's Lateran Epitaphs"
·"O, What a Place for a Lake: The Centenial of the Construction of Loch Carnegie"
·"Framing the Frontier: Photographers and the American West, 1850-1920"
· "Wonderful Stories for Pictures: H.C. Andersen and His Illustrators"
CONFERENCES
· Hidden but not Forgotten: The Legacy of Hans Christian Andersen in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries"
·"Framing the Frontier: A Day of Lectures in Honor of Alfred L. Bush"
SMALL TALKS
·This year's speakers were Sean Wilentz, John Sacret Young '69, Robert P. George, Daniel T. Rogers, Emily Mann, Anthony T. Grafton, Steven Mackey, Donald C. Skemer.
Highlights of 2004-2005
Lecture: Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison opened the Friends’ 75 th Anniversary celebration on April 3d with a lecture entitled "Overdue: A Writer's Debt; a Reader's Interest," followed by a dinner at Prospect House.
Exhibition and gallery talk : "Derso & Kelen: cartoons & caricatures"
Film: "The Lost Generation," introduced by Professor Maria DiBattista (Fast-Talking Dames)
A lecture by Professor Simon Morrison about his team's recreation of Serge Prokofiev's 1925 ballet, Le Pas D’Acier, staged at the Roger S. Berlind Theater at Princeton University.
Exhibition and gallery talk: “Portraits Of The Lost Generation"
Small talks:
- Susan Naquin, "In Search of Old Peking."
- David Maraniss, “Reflections On Vietnam And Its Lessons For Iraq."
- Landon Y. Jones, Jr., "William Clark And The Shaping Of The West."
Highlights of 2003-2004
SPECIAL EVENTS
· Trips to Philadelphia and Baltimore for behind-the-scenes tours, and tours of private libraries
· Tour of literary landmarks of Princeton
· Private Tour of the Scheide Library conducted by William H. Scheide '36 and his librarian, Paul Needham
· One day Scheide Bible Exhibition
· Annual Winter Dinner Robert Caro on Lyndon Johnson (2002) and Harold Shapiro on libraries and collecting (2003), and Frank Deford on the sports industry (2004)
· Monthly Book Collectors meetings
WORKSHOPS
· "Preserving Works on Paper"
·"Collecting" and "Preserving Family Heirlooms" (with the Historical Society of Princeton)
SPECIAL LECTURES
· Anthony T. Grafton, Edward H. Tenner, and James Axtell on Woodrow Wilson
· Barbara Baden on 20th Century Children's Books
· Colin Powell and John Lewis Gaddis on George Kennan
· Nell Irvin Painter, Jean and Robert Hollander, Samuel Hynes
· Illustrated lecture on aviation with past president of the Tuskegee Airmen’s Assn.
COTSEN CHILDREN'S LIBRARY EVENTS
· Middle Earth Theater at Communiversity
· Chinese Bookbinding Workshop
· Visiting authors and storytellers
· Young Curators program and Cotsen Players theater productions
· Conference: “Under Fire: Childhood in the Shadow of War”
EXHIBITION OPENINGS AND TOURS
·“Brave New World: 20th Century Children's Books from the Cotsen Children's Library.”
·“Woodrow Wilson at Princeton: The Path to the Presidency.”
·“The Life and Times of George F. Kennan: A Centennial Exhibition.”
·“Jonathan Edwards: The Life of a Master Preacher.”
·“The Romance of Flight”
·“Of Maps and Men: In Pursuit of a Northwest Passage”
·“The Bible in English: Before and After the Hampton Court Conference, 1604”
