Firestone Library
Firestone Library self-guided tours
Location: Firestone Library
Conference attendees will have access to visit Firestone Library during its regular opening hours. Opened in 1948, the Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library serves as the main library on campus and assumes primary responsibility for humanities and social sciences collections and specialized research support services. It also houses many of the Library’s centralized operations, Special Collections rare books and manuscripts department, and other services, including the Data and Statistical Services Lab, Cotsen Children’s Library, and the Center for Digital Humanities. A renovation of the building was completed in 2019. Self-guided tour guides providing highlights of each of the six floors of Firestone will be available.
Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
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“Living Forever: The Archive of The Great Gatsby”
Location: Tiger Tea Room, Firestone Library
Through large-scale reproductions, a variety of items that trace the creation, reception, and impact of “The Great Gatsby” around the world are featured. Included are copies of the earliest surviving draft of the novel with edits by Maxwell Perkins, covers of the book from foreign editions, and borrower cards from Sylvia Beach’s bookshop and lending library, Shakespeare and Co.
Hours: Monday -Friday, 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
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Lewis Center for the Arts
spinnerets: Exhibition by Gi (Ginny) Huo
Location: Hurley Gallery, Lewis Arts Complex
2024-26 Princeton Arts Fellow Gi (Ginny) Huo’s work considers the legacies of belief systems and their geopolitical impact through mapping narratives of land and sites, tracing Huo’s lineages and religious upbringing. The title of the exhibition, spinnerets, refers to the organ of the spider that creates the silk. Inspired by survival techniques found in nature, such as spiders’ camouflaging, trapping prey, and ballooning—a method spider’s use to float distances on currents of air—the work draws parallels practiced in human form. The spider ballooning becomes a metaphor for the ballooning of messages between North and South Korea, which began as a military technique. The work includes imagery of plants and aerial-drawn perspectives of northern O’ahu Hawai’i, retracing back to where Huo was born. With various art mediums such as drawings, steel sculptures, archival photographs, and 16mm film, Huo’s work navigates through perception/truth, translation/interpretation, and the systematic mechanisms of selling a fantasy.
Hours: Open Daily 10:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.
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Coaxial Rotor Performance and Wake Scaling in Axial Flight
Maeder Hall
Dr. Mark Miller of Penn State University will give a seminar titled “Coaxial Rotor Performance and Wake Scaling in Axial Flight,” followed by a social gathering.
Hours: Friday, Oct. 10, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Lakeside and Meadows Open House
Alumni are invited to explore Princeton’s newest graduate student communities, Lakeside and Meadows, at their leisure throughout the weekend. These vibrant residential areas reflect the University’s ongoing commitment to creating dynamic and inclusive living environments for graduate students. Staff will be available on Friday, October 10, from 2:00–4:00 p.m. to offer tours of the common areas.
Getting there: Alumni can take the TigerTransit shuttle and disembark at the Goheen Walk stop. From there, it’s a short walk to the Goheen Walk Southbound stop, where buses run every 15 minutes on Friday to the Meadows Drive Garage, a brief walk from both graduate housing and the nearby athletic complexes. On Saturday, buses run approximately every 45 minutes between Goheen Walk, Meadows Drive Garage, and Princeton Station. Alumni are encouraged to look for Route 1 buses or ask the driver if the next stop is Meadows to ensure they are on the correct route.