Salon on Stockton Street Brings Four Writers to Princeton Friday Princeton’s own literary festival, the Salon on Stockton Street, returns for its second year from Friday, March 31, through Sunday April 2. Two neighbors on Stockton Street, Morven Museum and Garden, and the Center of Theological Inquiry (CTI), are collaborating once again to host a varied international program of book interviews with authors from Ireland, the U.S.A., New Zealand, Scotland, and the Netherlands, a one-man play on Charles Darwin, and a private tour of Morven’s Bruce Springsteen photographic exhibition. The Salon opens at 5:30 p.m. on Friday evening with a reception at Morven to meet the authors and enjoy a private tour of the Bruce Springsteen exhibition with Morven curator Beth Allan. On Saturday, BBC broadcaster Sally Magnusson will interview four very different authors from around the world at CTI’s Luce Hall. Philip McDonagh, the former Irish ambassador to Russia and a published poet in his native Ireland, will discuss Gondla, his own translation of a Russian play about an Irish legend set in Iceland. David Grinspoon is an American planetary scientist whose book, Earth in Human Hands, tells the story of how humans are changing the planet for both good and ill. A prize-winning crime novelist in New Zealand, Liam McIlvanney will discuss the first two novels in his Conway Trilogy about a Glasgow journalist in the world of crime and politics in Scotland and Northern Ireland. In closing, Ms. Magnusson will discuss the challenge of writing family memoirs with Pia de Jong, a Dutch writer now living in Princeton. Local Princeton businesses are also part of the Salon on Saturday. Labyrinth Books will run book sales and author signings at Luce Hall, and Jammin’ Crepes will have its food truck at Morven for lunch.
Pakistanti Diaspora Discussed March 30
Sally Magnusson The Salon’s last day will begin at 2 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, April 2, at Luce Hall, with the performance of Murray Watts’s one-man play on the life of Charles Darwin, Mr. Darwin’s Tree, with British actor Andrew Harrison. The performance will be followed by tea and a reception. For questions about the Salon, specific times and ticket costs, contact salon @ctinquiry.org. ———
Dorothea’s House Hosts Program of Italian Tales
The Power of Love, a program of Italian tales told in the oral tradition by storyteller Maria LoBiondo, will be presented at Dorothea’s House on Sunday, April 2, at 5 p.m. Italian folk and fairy tales have roots in ancient myths, the earthy wisdom of peasant experience, and literary works such as Giambattista Basile’s Pentamerone. Ms. LoBiondo will tell stories in which love conquers all — for hard-working families, royal heroes, and clever heroines. For more than 20 years, Ms. LoBiondo has shared international folktales in area schools, libraries, and festivals, including the New Jersey Storytelling Festival. She is a member of the Princeton Storytelling Circle and an affiliated artist with Storytelling Arts, Inc.
Lalaie Ameeriar and feminist historian Joan Scott will be talking about Ms. Ameeriar’s book, Downwardly Global: Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani D ia sp ora on T hu r s d ay, March 30 at 6 p.m. at Labyrinth Books. In Downwardly Global, Lalaie Ameeriar examines the transnational labor migration of Pakistani women to Toronto, where, despite being trained professionals in fields including engineering, law, medicine, and education, they experience high levels of unemployment and poverty. Rather than addressing this downward mobility as the result of bureaucratic failures, in practice their unemployment is treated as a problem of culture and racialized bodily difference. In Toronto, a city that prides itself on multicultural inclusion, women are subjected to two distinct cultural contexts revealing that integration in Canada represents not the erasure of all differences, but the celebration of some differences and the eradication of others. Downwardly Global juxtaposes the experiences of these women in state-funded unemployment workshops, where they are instructed not to smell like Indian food or wear ethnic clothing, with their experiences at cultural festivals in which they are encouraged to promote these same differences. This form of multiculturalism, Ms. Ameeriar reveals, privileges whiteness while using race, gender, and cultural difference as a scapegoat for the failures of Canadian neoliberal policies. L alaie A meeriar is as sistant professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Joan Wallach Scott is professor emerita at the Institute for Advanced Study
and the author of many books, including Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man; Parité: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism; The Politics of the Veil; and The Fantasy of Feminist History. She is also a founding editor of History of the Present, a journal of theoretically-informed history. ———
Jean Hanff Korelitz Reading Here Sunday
New York Times bestselling author Jean Hanff Korelitz will be at Labyrinth Books Sunday, April 2 at 12:30 p.m. to read from her new book, The Devil and Webster: a Novel ( Grand Central $27). From the author of You Should Have Known and Admission, the new novel is about a college president, a baffling student protest, and some of the hotbutton issues on today’s college campuses. According to The Wall Street Journal, The Devil and Webster is “A sharp and insightful novel … with a clever plot twist …. This ought to be the start of a golden age for the campus novel.” Booklist obser ves that “Korelitz taps into the current unsettled campus and cultural zeitgeist with eerie precision.” Jean Hanff Korelitz is the author of five novels and the creator of BOOKTHEWRITER, a New York City based service that sends authors to book groups. In 2016, with her husband, poet, Lewis Center faculty member, and The New York-
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MONDAY APRIL 3 4:30 PM BOWL 016 ROBERTSON HALL
Jacob Appel will be discussing his book, co-authored with Dean Karlan, Failing in the Field: What We Can Learn When Field Research Goes Wrong with social scientists Christopher Neilson and Betsy Levy Paluck at Labyrinth Books on Wednesday, March 29 at 6 p.m. All across the social sciences, from development economics to political science departments, researchers are going into the field to collect data and learn about the world. While much has been gained from the successes of randomized controlled trials, stories of failed projects often do not get told. In Failing in the Field, Jacob Appel and Dean Karlan examine the common causes of failure in field research, so that researchers might avoid similar pitfalls in future work. Drawing on the experiences of top social scientists working in developing countries, Failure in the Field examines failed projects and helps guide practitioners as they embark on their research. From experimental design and implementation to analysis and partnership agreements, Karlan and Appel show that there are important lessons to be learned from failures at every stage. They describe five common
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World Development Report 2017: Governance and the Law Ezequiel Molina Economist, Education Global Practice, the World Bank, Ph.D. ’14 Luis F. Lopez Calva Co-Director, World Development Report 2017; Lead Economist in the Poverty and Equity Global Practice, the World Bank Jennifer Widner Professor of Politics and International Affairs; Director, Innovations for Successful Societies, Princeton University Moderator: Carles Boix Robert Garrett Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University
TUESDAY APRIL 4 4:30 PM ROBERTSON HALL
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Daniel K. Tarullo Member, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System Appointed to the Board in 2009 by President Obama, Tarullo served as Chairman of the Board’s Committee on Supervision and Regulation, which was responsible for regulating Wall Street banks in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. This talk is Tarullo’s farewell address to the Federal Reserve; he submitted his resignation Feb. 10 to President Trump.
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“Failing in the Field” Subject at Labyrinth
categories of failures, review six case studies in detail, and conclude with some reflections on best (and worst) practices for designing and running field projects, with an emphasis on randomized controlled trials. There is much to be gained from investigating what has previously not worked, from misunderstandings by staff to errors in data collection. Jacob Appel previously worked with Innovations for Poverty Action, and is currently pursuing his MPA at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Karlan and Appel are the coauthors of More Than G ood Intentions : How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty. Betsy Levy Paluck is professor in the psychology department and at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. She is the author of Prejudice Reduction: What Works? Christopher Neilson is assistant professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. His general fields of study include public economics, labor economics, and industrial organizations.
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er poetry editor Paul Muldoon, she adapted and coproduced The Dead, 1904, an immersive adaptation of James Joyce’s The Dead, for New York’s Irish Repertory Theatre. ———
THURSDAY APRIL 6 4:30 PM ROBERTSON HALL
Up to the Minute Talk: General Michael V. Hayden Gen. Michael V. Hayden (U.S. Air Force, Retired) Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency Hayden currently is a Principal at The Chertoff Group. He is visiting the School as this year’s Gilbert S. Omenn ’61 Lecturer in Science Policy. A book sale and signing will follow the talk.
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Dorothea’s House is located at 120 John Street. Programs are free and open to the public. Doors open at 4:45 p.m. Participants are encouraged to bring refreshments to share at the reception following the presentation. Seating is limited and programs frequently fill to capacity. ———