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AY24 Faculty-Graduate Seminar: "Black Movement :: Black Stillness" ft. Ayana Jamieson (Cal Poly Pomona)
Tuesday, October 3, 2023, 5:00 pm
Black Movement :: Black Stillness

This year-long seminar explores quiet, rest, imagination, and play as essential for Black aliveness. What does it mean to imagine Black culture beyond resistance, Black labor buoyed by leisure, Black thought marked by…

Location
Hobson-Rogers Seminar Room, 104 Morrison Hall
Speaker
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
Black Asian American Solidarity Professional Development Event
Wednesday, October 11, 2023, 9:00 am

Please join us for our inaugural Black Asian American Solidarity Professional Development Event!

Location
Carl A. Fields Center
Speakers
Sponsors
  • The E Pluribus Unum Project
  • NJEA Consortium
  • Paul Robeson House of Princeton
  • Not In Our Town Princeton
  • Witherspoon Jackson Cultural and Historical Society
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
Science and Social Justice Salon
Wednesday, October 11, 2023, 4:30 pm

Are you a STEM graduate student, post-doc, or faculty member interested in thinking more concretely about the social, political and ethical dimensions of your research? Maybe the climate crisis or the Covid-19 pandemic have left you wishing for new ways of thinking about how values and politics impact science? Perhaps you’ve wondered about how…

Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building
Sponsor
Future Values@UCHV
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Undergraduate
"Necessary Trouble: Growing Up At Mid-century" with Drew Gilpin Faust & Shirley Tilghman
Thursday, October 12, 2023, 4:30 pm

Join us for a conversation between two presidents emerita of Harvard and Princeton respectively about Drew Gilpin’s new memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America.

Location
Labyrinth Books
Speakers
Sponsors
  • Labyrinth Books
  • Princeton Public Library
  • Princeton University's Humanities Council
  • Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Department of African American Studies
  • Department of History
  • SPIA in NJ
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
Hughes Prize Winner 2023 online Lecture, "Pushing Cool by Keith Wailoo"
Tuesday, October 17, 2023, 10:00 am

BSHS Reveals the winner of the BSHS Hughes Prize for 2023

The 2023 Hughes Prize for an accessible book in the history of science is awarded to Keith Wailoo for the book Pushing Cool. Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette.

The Jury of the BSHS…

  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
"Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis" with Sara Marcus & Keenga Yamahtta-Taylor
Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 6:00 pm

In her new cultural history of the United States, Sara Marcus shows how artists, intellectuals, and activists turned political disappointment—the unfulfilled desire for change—into a basis for solidarity.

Location
Labyrinth Books
Speakers
Sponsors
  • Princeton University’s Humanities Council
  • Department of English
  • Department of Music
  • Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • SPIA in NJ
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
AY24 Faculty-Graduate Seminar: "Black Movement :: Black Stillness" ft. Kevin Quashie (Brown University)
Tuesday, October 31, 2023, 5:00 pm
Black Movement :: Black Stillness

This year-long seminar explores quiet, rest, imagination, and play as essential for Black aliveness. What does it mean to imagine Black culture beyond resistance, Black labor buoyed by leisure, Black thought marked by…

Location
Hobson-Rogers Seminar Room, 104 Morrison Hall
Speaker
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
AY24 Faculty-Graduate Seminar: "Black Movement :: Black Stillness" ft. Shaun Ossei-Owusu (University of Pennsylvania)
Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 5:00 pm
Black Movement :: Black Stillness

This year-long seminar explores quiet, rest, imagination, and play as essential for Black aliveness. What does it mean to imagine Black culture beyond resistance, Black labor buoyed by leisure, Black thought marked by…

Location
Hobson-Rogers Seminar Room, 104 Morrison Hall
Speaker
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
AY24 Faculty-Graduate Seminar: "Black Movement :: Black Stillness" ft. Sabrina Strings (University of California, Irvine)
Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 5:00 pm
Black Movement :: Black Stillness

This year-long seminar explores quiet, rest, imagination, and play as essential for Black aliveness. What does it mean to imagine Black culture beyond resistance, Black labor buoyed by leisure, Black thought marked by…

Location
Hobson-Rogers Seminar Room, 104 Morrison Hall
Speaker
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
AY24 Faculty-Graduate Seminar: "Black Movement :: Black Stillness" ft. Ariana Brazier (University of Pittsburgh)
Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 5:00 pm
Black Movement :: Black Stillness

This year-long seminar explores quiet, rest, imagination, and play as essential for Black aliveness. What does it mean to imagine Black culture beyond resistance, Black labor buoyed by leisure, Black thought marked by…

Location
Hobson-Rogers Seminar Room, 104 Morrison Hall
Speaker
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • By Invite Only

 


 

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