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The Department of African American Studies will co-organize a weekly writing group with Reena Goldtree and Shatema Threadcraft. Shatema is an Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Vanderbilt…

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Join us for an enlightening virtual seminar hosted by the Princeton University IHUM Reading Group, titled Arts and (re)Creation from Africa to the world"...

This talk examines the history and fears of enslaved people practicing medicine, nursing their master’s children, and waging revolt through poisoning. The talk, based on Wailoo's book in progress, raises broad questions of enslavement, identity, knowledge, and premeditation, through the lens of one case; the murder trial of an…

Addressing the scaffolding of reparations, WAI Think Tank proposes to redefine the post-colonial, not as life after the colony (since Puerto Rico continues being one after more than 500 years), but...

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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…

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Want to learn more about what kinds of careers are possible in academic publishing? Join the English Department and the staff at Princeton University Press to...

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The Department of African American Studies will co-organize a weekly writing group with Reena Goldtree and Shatema Threadcraft. Shatema is an Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Vanderbilt…

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Join us for an enlightening talk that delves into the often overlooked yet significant role of American Muslims during the civil rights era in shaping the understanding of Sharia in the United States...

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Join Assistant Curator Perrin Lathrop and Director Jamaal B. Sheats of Fisk University Galleries, co-curators of African Modernism in America, alongside Princeton Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu for...

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In this online presentation, Dr. Crystal Moten explores the problems and possibilities of curating business history exhibitions that focus on the entrepreneurial contributions of Black women...

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We hope you can attend the upcoming LGBTQIA+ conference focus group lunch conversation. Due to scheduling conflicts, we have moved this event to Wednesday, November 15, at Frist Campus Center. This gathering will be an opportunity to share ideas to help build a conference program that will be both meaningful and exciting.

This would be an informal workshop, aimed particularly at graduate students who are going on the academic job market or applying for postdoctoral fellowships. AAS faculty (Core, Associated or Visiting Faculty) will discuss various aspects of the application and evaluation process...
- AffiliationProfessor at The Department of African American Studies & Department of Comparative Literature
- AffiliationVisiting Ressearch Scholar
- AffiliationAssistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, The University of British Columbia

This original Public Works adaptation of The Winter’s Tale, with music and new lyrics by Todd Almond, was originally conceived and directed by Lear deBessonet based on the play by William Shakespeare.

This original Public Works adaptation of The Winter’s Tale, with music and new lyrics by Todd Almond, was originally conceived and directed by Lear deBessonet based on the play by William Shakespeare.

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Commencing in 2004 as ‘A Taste of Carnival’, the Princeton Caribbean Connection (PCC) held three annual academic conferences engaging Princeton undergraduate...

This original Public Works adaptation of The Winter’s Tale, with music and new lyrics by Todd Almond, was originally conceived and directed by Lear deBessonet based on the play by William Shakespeare.

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The Department of African American Studies will co-organize a weekly writing group with Reena Goldtree and Shatema Threadcraft. Shatema is an Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Vanderbilt…

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Fall 2023 Anschutz Lecture with Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies Melanye T. Price.Activism at the Intersections of Race and Youth: Prairie View A&M University, Black Colleges & the Fight for Voting Rights

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José Lingna Nafafé is Associate Professor of Lusophone Early Modern African History, Culture and Identity, co-Director of Teaching for the Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, and co-Director of the MA in Black Humanities at the University of Bristol. His academic interests embrace a number of inter…

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Experience a mesmerizing fusion of dance and film crafted by the talented Storm Stokes and Kirsten Pardo. Join us at LCA Colab on November 7 & 8, with an opening night performance at 6:30 PM.

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From its inception in the 18th century with Freedom's Journal and on to the present day, the Black Press has been in business to advance the fight for civil and human rights. Most newspapers have struggled...

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Experience a mesmerizing fusion of dance and film crafted by the talented Storm Stokes and Kirsten Pardo. Join us at LCA Colab on November 7 & 8, with an opening night performance at 6:30 PM.

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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…

High Meadows Fellowship Info Session
Are you a senior interested in making a genuine contribution towards protecting the environment, promoting environmental sustainability, and building environmentally focused communities? Join us at the High Meadows…

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Il Moro - The Moor is a captivating film that delves into the extraordinary life of the first Duke of Florence in 1530, Alessandro de' Medici, who happens to be the first black man to ascend to the position of head of state in modern Western Europe. The film presents a compelling narrative, shedding light on…

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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…

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Patricia Smith
Professor of Creative Writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts
Patricia Smith is the winner of the 2021 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, an award for lifetime achievement from the Poetry Foundation. She is the author of nine books of poetry, including Unshuttered (2023)…

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The Department of African American Studies will co-organize a weekly writing group with Reena Goldtree and Shatema Threadcraft. Shatema is an Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Vanderbilt…

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Enugu, Nigeria in 1977. She grew up on the campus of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where her father was a Professor and her mother was the first female Registrar.
She studied medicine for a year at Nsukka and then left for the US at the age of 19 to continue her…

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Kevon Rhiney, the 2023 Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities in the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI), traces post-Irma hurricane disaster relief and rebuilding efforts on the eastern…

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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.
- AffiliationAssistant Professor, English, University of Notre Dame
- AffiliationHughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies

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Sara Marcus discusses her new book Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis and its origins in her Princeton dissertation, along with discussion of her time as a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Princeton. Diana Fuss serves as interlocutor.
Political…- AffiliationAssistant Professor of English, University of Notre Dame
- AffiliationLouis W. Fairchild Class of ’24 Professor of English

Do you want to be a more effective and inclusive leader within a 21st century workforce? Are you interested in the role religious literacy plays in professional development and career preparation? Join the Princeton Religious Literacy Program (PRLP) on October 23rd from 11-1pm in Wooten 201 for a lunchtime discussion with Princeton alumni,…

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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…

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The Department of African American Studies will co-organize a weekly writing group with Reena Goldtree and Shatema Threadcraft. Shatema is an Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Vanderbilt…

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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.
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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…

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Please join us for our inaugural Black Asian American Solidarity Professional Development Event!
- AffiliationProfessor of African American Studies
- Beth Lew-WilliamsAffiliationProfessor of History

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Jean-Pierre Brutus is a senior counsel in the Economic Justice Program at the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice. He leads the Institute’s reparations advocacy and housing advocacy. Prior to joining the Institute, Jean-Pierre worked at Legal…

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The Department of African American Studies will co-organize a weekly writing group with Reena Goldtree and Shatema Threadcraft. Shatema is an Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Vanderbilt…

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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…

Princeton University’s Africa World Initiative and Program in African Studies in partnership with The Christie and Chinua Achebe Foundation are hosting the Chinua Achebe Symposium and 10th Anniversary Memorial celebration on September 29th and 30th.
The Achebe Colloquium on Africa, the legacy project established by the famed Nigerian…

The purpose of the workshop is to discuss the promise of, and strategize around supports for, the academic study of Buddhism for Black students and faculty. Friday is to be dedicated to thinking through topics, with panelists either presenting or simply helping to facilitate discussion. Saturday is to be a more hands-on practical planning…

Arts and (re)Creation from Africas to the World
This reading group seeks to answer the question “what is African arts” beyond the geographic boundaries imposed on it. From Africas to the Worlds, this reading group will attempt to survey the representations of African arts by Africans from Africa and its diasporas, by…

Princeton University’s Africa World Initiative and Program in African Studies in partnership with The Christie and Chinua Achebe Foundation are hosting the Chinua Achebe Symposium and 10th Anniversary Memorial celebration on September 29th and 30th.
The Achebe Colloquium on Africa, the legacy project established by the famed Nigerian…

The purpose of the workshop is to discuss the promise of, and strategize around supports for, the academic study of Buddhism for Black students and faculty. Friday is to be dedicated to thinking through topics, with panelists either presenting or simply helping to facilitate discussion. Saturday is to be a more hands-on practical planning…

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Princeton’s Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab 2022-23 Artist-in-Residence Chanika Svetvilas presents a culminating exhibition from her year-long project, Anonymous Was the Data, which uplifts the individual lived experiences of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who have a mental health difference or condition through mapping…

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Princeton’s Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab 2022-23 Artist-in-Residence Chanika Svetvilas presents a culminating exhibition from her year-long project, Anonymous Was the Data, which uplifts the individual lived experiences of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who have a mental health difference or condition through mapping…

After introductory remarks by Princeton University Provost Jennifer Rexford, over a dozen faculty associated with PLI will present short talks around the following themes: “How Large AI Models Work,” “Societal Impacts of AI,” and “AI for Research: Applications Across Disciplines.”
All PU ID holders welcome.
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