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SUMMARY:Dinner with Professor Sanjeev Kulkarni
DESCRIPTION:Join us for dinner and discussion with Sanjeev Kulkarni\, professor of electrical engineering and Dean of Faculty at Princeton. We will continue our exploration of meaningful work and vocation.
URL:https://winst.org/event/dinner-with-professor-sanjeev-kalkarni/
LOCATION:Whelan Hall\, 16 Stockton Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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SUMMARY:Macbeth at the Metropolitan Opera
DESCRIPTION:Each semester we invite students to join us for a cultural trip to NYC. This fall\, we will be going to Verdi’s Macebth at the Metropolitan Opera. Limited tickets available. Contact Maura Shea at mshea@winst.org for more information.
URL:https://winst.org/event/macbeth-at-the-metropolitan-opera/
LOCATION:The Metropolitan Opera\, 30 Lincoln Center Plaza\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
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SUMMARY:Finding Life's Meaning: On Work and Vocation
DESCRIPTION:“What is the point of work? An income? Prestige? Meaning? To better the world? Would we be better off if we didn’t need to work\, or is labor a constituent aspect of the good life? \nMany consider their work as closely related to their identity and purpose\, as linked to a sense of self-worth. If that’s true—and not everything thinks it is—then finding “good” work is related to a good life. Moreover\, if our work and our identity relate\, some work might not be “right” for you\, even if it might be right for someone else. Or\, perhaps this is all overblown and it doesn’t much matter what one does\, it’s just a job\, after all. \nThis Fall seminar launches a theme for the year—Finding Life’s Meaning—in which we consider the nature and meaning of work\, with a follow-up spring seminar on the meaning of vocation—and how to discover one’s vocation. \nLike all Witherspoon seminars\, we’ll read important texts—classic and contemporary—not out of curiosity or simply to learn\, but in the attempt to find wisdom\, to know how best to live and think and act so as to live well and flourish. And we try to seek for wisdom collegially\, with friends of the mind\, with any point of view considered. \nOpen to any and every Princeton student.”
URL:https://winst.org/event/finding-lifes-meaning-on-work-and-vocation/
LOCATION:Whelan Hall\, 16 Stockton Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191007T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191007T113000
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SUMMARY:Women's Reading Group: Shopclass as Soulcraft
DESCRIPTION:During the semesters we host a women’s reading group on a contemporary book. This fall we are reading Matthew B. Crawford’s Shopclass as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work. For more information on joining this reading group\, please contact Maura Shea at mshea@winst.org.
URL:https://winst.org/event/womens-reading-group-shopclass-as-soulcraft/
LOCATION:Whelan Hall\, 16 Stockton Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Maura Shea":MAILTO:mshea@winst.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191004T124500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191004T140000
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SUMMARY:Facing Life's Challenges: Loneliness and Solitude
DESCRIPTION:Loneliness has been described by some as an “epidemic\,” with severe consequences for health\, flourishing\, and political society. Further\, despite the flurry of literature and studies on the subject\, the evidence indicates that loneliness is growing\, including for college students—and not just for freshmen who haven’t yet found friends on campus. \nLoneliness is strange. As Olivia Laing puts it in The Lonely City\, which must have hit a cultural nerve since it was named a best book of the year by NPR\, Newsweek\, Slate\, Pop Sugar\, Marie Claire\, Elle\, Publishers Weekly\, and others\, “loneliness doesn’t necessarily require physical solitude\, but rather an absence or paucity of connection\, closeness\, kinship: an inability\, for one reason or another\, to find as much intimacy as desired.” Yet\, as she continues\, even though so many are lonely\, many pretend not to be\, for “loneliness is difficult to confess\,” especially since it’s sometimes (wrongly) “considered a disease.” \nBut loneliness doesn’t seem to be a pathology\, not even a transient experience; rather\, it seems part of the human condition\, part of what it means to be human. Ben Lazare Mijuskovic claims not only that loneliness is an aspect of having consciousness and personal identity\, but that the attempt to overcome loneliness is the primary motivation for everything we do. Classical philosophers claimed that we sought happiness in every action\, but Mijuskovic thinks we’re trying to escape our solitary confinement. \nThis Fall seminar launches one theme for the year—Facing Life’s Challenges—in which we consider loneliness and solitude in the fall\, a lack of social and political trust and capital during Intersession\, and a spring seminar on suffering and loss. Human flourishing isn’t an abstraction but a concrete reality\, and thus it will be found right in the middle our lives\, lives which are sometimes hard\, lonely\, and difficult—and\, yet\, flourishing is still possible. \nLike all Witherspoon seminars\, we’ll read important texts—classic and contemporary—not out of curiosity or simply to learn\, but in the attempt to find wisdom\, to know how best to live and think and act so as to live well and flourish. And we try to seek for wisdom collegially\, with friends of the mind\, with any point of view considered. \nOpen to any and every Princeton student.
URL:https://winst.org/event/facing-lifes-challenges-loneliness-and-solitude/
LOCATION:Whelan Hall\, 16 Stockton Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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SUMMARY:Life After College: Fulfillment in Parenthood and Profession
DESCRIPTION:When it comes to work and family\, young people today have a dizzying array of options available to them. Yet they also face a deafening barrage of contradictory voices\, competing cultural scripts\, and copious amounts of judgement\, no matter what choices they make. Many still see the “family track” as being fundamentally opposed to the “career track.” How do you balance a desire for a meaningful career with a desire for marriage and family life?  \nWhether you’re an undergraduate beginning to think about life after college\, or scholar pursuing graduate studies\, or recent grad. navigating professional life–what steps and approaches can you be taking now? \nIn the spirit of our ongoing investigation this semester into meaningful work and vocation\, you are warmly invited to a dinner and discussion with Serena Sigillito\, editor of Witherspoon’s journal Public Discourse.
URL:https://winst.org/event/life-after-college-fulfillment-in-parenthood-and-profession/
LOCATION:Whelan Hall\, 16 Stockton Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190925T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190925T193000
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SUMMARY:The Defeat of Words: On Lyric Poetry
DESCRIPTION:“I don’t know how to explain it.”\n“I just couldn’t put it into words.”\n“I have no words.” \nMost of us have felt our poverty in relationship to language sometime in our lives\, perhaps rather frequently. Maybe it’s while writing a paper for a class. Maybe it’s in trying to express how we feel about someone dear to us. Maybe we’ve resorted to emojis when our fingers fail to find just the right phrase to text. \nWhat does poetry have to do with this experience? \nEmily Dickinson advises us\, “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.” There is something about lyric poems—often short\, personal\, oblique\, intense—and the way they seek to tell the “truth” about experience in a “slanted\,” sometimes disorienting manner—that refreshes our experience of language\, of others\, of being itself. Lyric poetry invites a unique kind of response from us that other modes of language do not\, and puts into words the kinds of human experiences that other modes of language cannot. \nPeople sometimes struggle to read poetry or to find pleasure in it because of past experiences of being forced to “analyze” it convincingly or come up with some kind of intelligent interpretation of it. Some are frustrated with poetry’s lack of practicality—what is it for\, we wonder? Some are put off by its resistance to clear explanation—it is unnecessarily confusing\, we complain. “I\, too\, dislike it\,” Marianne Moore memorably begins her poem aptly titled “Poetry.” \nThis seminar proposes a friendly\, exploratory engagement with lyric poetry in hopes that\, by contending with its unique demands together\, we might cultivate habits of attention that help us read ourselves and the world around us better. We may even discover language that does some justice to our experiences of loneliness\, gratitude\, wonder—as one poet has noted: “It is by words and the defeat of words” that we learn to read the world anew. \nOpen to any and every Princeton student: lovers of poetry\, new readers and skeptics welcome.
URL:https://winst.org/event/the-defeat-of-words-on-lyric-poetry/
LOCATION:Whelan Hall\, 16 Stockton Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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