July 29, 2024 For over a century, Princeton University has presented public lectures featuring intellectuals, academics, artists and writers. This fall, the University again welcomes to campus some of the most well-regarded international authors, scholars and speakers to lead discourse on various world-shaping topics.Princeton Public Lectures offers both in-person and virtual participation to ensure that events are accessible to all. All events are free and open to the public and will be held from 5 to 6:15 p.m. in McCosh 50 unless otherwise specified. Fall 2024 Public Lectures ScheduleCass R. Sunstein“Free Speech on Campus”Constitution Day LectureTuesday, Sept. 17Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School.Sunstein is working on various projects involving the regulatory state, “sludge” (defined to include paperwork and similar burdens), fake news, and freedom of speech.This lecture is sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and Labyrinth Books. It is part of the Walter E. Edge Lectures. Arlie Hochschild“Lightning in the Jar: Understanding the Maga Movement and What To Do with What We Know”Monday, Sept. 23Arlie Hochschild is professor emerita of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a writer. She has long focused on family, market culture, global patterns of care work and social psychology, with a recent focus on the relationship between culture, politics and emotion.Her latest book, “Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame and the Rise of the American Right,” delves more deeply into the importance of pride and shame in relation to economic and cultural loss.This lecture is sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Labyrinth Books. It is part of the Spencer Trask Lectures.Free copies of “Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame and the Rise of the American Right” will be distributed at the event. Javier Zamora“Solito: Understanding Migration Through the Voice of Migrants”Wednesday, Sept. 25In his award-winning memoir, “Solito,” memoirist, poet and speaker Javier Zamora explores his harrowing journey to the United States as an unaccompanied 9-year-old that gives a unique and unforgettable glimpse into the realities of child migration.In his talks, he shares the story of his trek to reunite with his family and how therapy and writing were able to help him heal from the trauma that has haunted him ever since.This lecture is sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, Effron Center for the Study of America, Labyrinth Books, Pace Center for Civic Engagement, Princeton Latin American Student Association, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship, Program in Latin American Studies, and the University Center for Human Values. It is part of the Spencer Trask Lectures.Free copies of “Solito” will be distributed to the first 350 in-person attendees. Ted Chiang“Do You Really Want to Live Forever?”Wednesday, Oct. 23Ted Chiang's fiction has won four Hugo, four Nebula and six Locus awards and has been reprinted in “Best American Short Stories.”His first collection, “Stories of Your Life and Others,” has been translated into 21 languages, and the title story was the basis for the Oscar-nominated film “Arrival.” His second collection, “Exhalation,” was chosen by The New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2019.Chiang's lecture is part of the Spencer Trask Lectures.
