Join us as we celebrate the achievements of the extraordinary graduates of the Class of 2023.

 Join us as we celebrate the achievements of the extraordinary graduates of the Class of 2023.

It's that time again for our Annual AAS Alumni Mix & Mingle!

Electronic waste, or e-waste, is the fastest growing waste stream in the United States. But there is a way to curb the spread — allowing consumers to repair and repurpose used devices. This solution is the driver behind the Right to Repair — a movement of technologists and climate activists calling for a new tech circular economy that…

The radically humanistic essays of Arc of Interference refigure our sense of the real, the ethical, and the political in the face of mounting social and planetary upheavals. Please join us for a conversation with the coauthor of this visionary new collection and two of today’s leading anthropologists.

Thinking from Black Part II — The Practicing Refusal Collective, will feature a conversation with Dionne Brand, Christina Sharpe, Tina Campt, and Francoise Vergès 

The Princeton University Art Museum Student Advisory Board invites you to a special opportunity to explore artwork from the Museum’s collection of African art, up close and in person. Join

A panel of scholarly experts will explore John Witherspoon’s life in Scotland and America, his theological and political formation, his contributions to Princeton and the US, and his complex relationship to slavery and abolitionism.

Ekphrasis: A Collaborative Experiment in Art, Writing and Thinking, a conversation between longtime collaborators interdisciplinary artist Torkwase Dyson and poet 

Imani Jacqueline Brown, Queen Mary, University of London, will present “How do we see beyond the petrochemical-plantation horizon?” for the last talk in the spring 2023 Environmental Humanities and Social Transformation Colloquium.

This 1.5 day meeting is a joint initiative of Princeton University and the Institute of Global Health Equity Research in Rwanda. Funding is being provided by Princeton’s Center for Health and Wellbeing, and Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs, with additional support from Princeton’s Office of Population Research.

This seminar investigates the enduring interplay between speculation and Blackness. In recent years, speculation has emerged as a key term in Black and African American Studies with speculation emerging as the site where…

Chanika Svetvilas is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural worker whose practice focuses on mental health difference. Her work is an extension of her continued interest in using narratives as a way to challenge stereotypes in contemporary society and to create safe spaces. She has presented her work in a variety of spaces and contexts…

The French and Francophone Society, along with its generous partners at Princeton University and beyond, are thrilled to invite you all to the first-ever Princeton French Film Festival, happening from April 16th to 28th at various venues across our campus.

Liminality is an evening of two distinctive dance works by Camryn Stafford and Michael Garcia that explores the critical point between multiple states and sensory thresholds, internalized and externalized processing, and the process of understanding over time.

This two-day conference will explore the history of the concept of “value” in North America over the course of the long nineteenth century.

Liminality is an evening of two distinctive dance works by Camryn Stafford and Michael Garcia that explores the critical point between multiple states and sensory thresholds, internalized and externalized processing, and the process of understanding over time.

This two-day conference will explore the history of the concept of “value” in North America over the course of the long nineteenth century.

Liminality is an evening of two distinctive dance works by Camryn Stafford and Michael Garcia that explores the critical point between multiple states and sensory thresholds, internalized and externalized processing, and the process of understanding over time.

This lecture delivers a cultural and historical examination of capitalism, democracy, and the Cold War, through the lens of race and the historical figure Daniel Fignolé.

How can storytelling help us mend the social and material fissures that governmental policies often create between individual and collective care? Community integration is central to mental and physical wellbeing, but the healthcare needs of individuals frequently clash with policies crafted for the collective. 

This talk will explore how Black engagements with eugenics and racial science shape the emergence of Afrocentric thought. Prof. Nuriddin argues that Afrocentric thought illustrates the continuities of Black eugenics and racial science, and that Black people continue to find utility in using the intellectual structure of racial science to challenge racism and inequality.

General: $40 | Student: $10

30 years ago, the late author and Princeton University Professor Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize in Literature—the first native-born American to receive…

DoroBucci is Princeton University’s premier African dance company grounded in a mission to use dance as a medium to uplift, celebrate and promote a deeper understanding and appreciation for African culture. 

DoroBucci is Princeton University’s premier African dance company grounded in a mission to use dance as a medium to uplift, celebrate and promote a deeper understanding and appreciation for African culture. 

Dorothy Roberts, an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law, joined the University of Pennsylvania as its 14^th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with joint appointments in the Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology and the Law School where she holds the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander chair. She is also founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science & Society in the Center for Africana Studies.

What role does your identity play in your career journey? Hear directly from alumni about their experiences.

Sarah Margarita Quesada discusses her book The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature, unearthing a buried African archive within widely-read Latinx writers of the last 50 years, and challenging dominant narratives in world literature and transatlantic studies that ignore Africa's impact in broader Latin American culture.

A senior thesis exhibition by Payton Croskey.
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Held over three days March 28 – March 30th, the Toni Morrison Lectures are held bi-annually and spotlight the new and exciting work of scholars and writers who have risen to positions of prominence both in academe and in the broader world of letters.

Held over three days March 28 – March 30th, the Toni Morrison Lectures are held bi-annually and spotlight the new and exciting work of scholars and writers who have risen to positions of prominence both in academe and in the broader world of letters.

Held over three days March 28 – March 30th, the Toni Morrison Lectures are held bi-annually and spotlight the new and exciting work of scholars and writers who have risen to positions of prominence both in academe and in the broader world of letters.

Please Join Us To Learn More About African American Studies!

A Symposium on Lift Every Voice and Swing: Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century, by Vaughn A. Booker and Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg Brooklyn, by Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada

In his new book, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. He is joined in conversation by fellow scholar about housing and poverty in America, author, and activist Keeanga…

Sites of Memory: A Symposium on Toni Morrison and the Archive brings together scholars, artists, writers, and activists to celebrate, interrogate, and reflect upon the archive in relation to Toni Morrison’s writing, her teaching, and her public intellectual work. The event is part of a year of programming surrounding the Spring 2023…

This seminar investigates the enduring interplay between speculation and Blackness. In recent years, speculation has emerged as a key term in Black and African American Studies with speculation emerging as the site where…

This presentation frames Keisha Khan-Perry's book project in progress, "Evictions and Convictions." Her book focuses on Black dispossession (loss of land/territorial rights, housing evictions, gentrification, incarceration) as a form of anti-Black violence devastating Black communities.

Join scholar-activists of the carceral state and of the movement to Stop Cop City in ATL for a discussion of their struggle and its lessons

After Life is a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorated, and ignored mass death and loss during the global COVID-19 pandemic, mass uprisings for racial justice, and the near presidential coup in 2021 following the 2020 election. 

Join Imani Perry and Kaitlyn Greenidge for a discussion of Claudia Tate and Black Women Writers At Work.

In his talk “Breaking the World,” Professor Justin L. Mann examines how Black speculative fictions interrogate the power of security in contemporary Black life. Analyzing works by N.K. Jemisin and Octavia E. Butler, Mann argues that these works exemplify what he terms “worldbreaking,” a narrative, aesthetic, and ethical force that disrupts the logic of securitization.

Colin Kaepernick ignited a firestorm of controversy when he kneeled during the playing of the national anthem at an NFL football game. His act, in response to the violence that Black Americans were facing at the hands of the police, was a critical moment in the Black Lives Matter moment. Kaepernick was effectively kicked out of the NFL, but…

This seminar investigates the enduring interplay between speculation and Blackness. In recent years, speculation has emerged as a key term in Black and African American Studies with speculation emerging as the site where…

Nate Lewis explores history through patterns, textures, and rhythm, creating meditations of celebration and lamentations.

The "Faculty Brown Bag" was created to provide a forum for AAS faculty to present their current work or to workshop new ideas with colleagues over a nice lunch.

Join us for the next installation of the FOCUS Speaker Series in the iconic Chancellor Green Rotunda at 4:00 pm on Friday, Feb 24, 2023. The first FOCUS speaker event of this year will feature writer, professor and speaker Dr. Chris Gilliard in conversation with Professor Ruha Benjamin of the African American Studies Department.