Join us at the Phoenix of Gaza VR Exhibit + Symposium, connecting everyday acts of resistance with longer term world-building and freedom dreaming. 

In this teach-in, participants will explore the complex ways surveillance companies operate across borders, exploiting legal loopholes & regulatory gaps to evade accountability…

Join us at the Phoenix of Gaza VR Exhibit + Symposium, connecting everyday acts of resistance with longer term world-building and freedom dreaming. 

The Faculty-Graduate seminar is an intimate intellectual community that comes together to discuss work in progress around a common theme across a wide range of disciplines. Our goal is to establish a small but intellectually diverse and committed group of scholars who will attend all meetings and engage in sustained discourse during the year.

Christina is a dedicated police officer investigating a murder on a remote farm. As she delves deeper into the case…
 

African American residents have lived in Princeton since the town was settled in the late 17th century. During this early period, enslaved individuals worked on farms and in domestic homes, including those owned by presidents and trustees of Princeton University. At the turn of the 20th century, many African Americans from the South…

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

Winners of a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 14th Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2022, the New York City-based Isidore String Quartet was formed in 2019 with a vision to revisit…

The Faculty-Graduate seminar is an intimate intellectual community that comes together to discuss work in progress around a common theme across a wide range of disciplines. Our goal is to establish a small but intellectually diverse and committed group of scholars who will attend all meetings and engage in sustained discourse during the year.

The Pace Center is hosting an information session about Projects for Peace on Thursday, November 14th in the Frist MPR from 6:00-7:30 PM. The event will highlight Max Jakobsen '24 and Collin Riggins '24 and their work launching the Imag(in)e photography education program in the Bronx. They will be in…

The Faculty-Graduate seminar is an intimate intellectual community that comes together to discuss work in progress around a common theme across a wide range of disciplines. Our goal is to establish a small but intellectually diverse and committed group of scholars who will attend all meetings and engage in sustained discourse during the year.

As part of the Baldwin Circles project, the Humanities Council and the UCHV Film Forum present a film screening of the newly restored documentary I Heard It Through the Grapevine followed by a conversation with co-director and co-producer Pat Hartley…

Attendees will engage in a brief presentation by the artist, who will discuss her journey toward embracing her voice and the significance of her work.

Global literary and academic culture since the eighteenth century has been shaped by colonial histories. In our global moment, we continue to grapple with the residual colonial matrix of power structures steeped in…

The Faculty-Graduate seminar is an intimate intellectual community that comes together to discuss work in progress around a common theme across a wide range of disciplines. Our goal is to establish a small but intellectually diverse and committed group of scholars who will attend all meetings and engage in sustained discourse during the year.

This year, the Princeton Caribbean Connection (PCC) is thrilled to celebrate Caribbean Studies by expanding our annual conference into a three-day event, running from Friday, November 1st, to Sunday, November 3rd, 2024…

The group will provide a shared space on campus for AAS faculty, visiting fellows, postdocs, and graduate students to gather for dedicated writing time each week. We envision the writing group as a way to facilitate writing productivity while building community among AAS scholars at various stages in their academic careers. 

This year, the Princeton Caribbean Connection (PCC) is thrilled to celebrate Caribbean Studies by expanding our annual conference into a three-day event, running from Friday, November 1st, to Sunday, November 3rd, 2024…

Bandung to Berlin explores the radical imagination of the global Cold War, the aesthetics of Non-Alignment, and the role of art in the era of decolonization. Though these topics are often treated as separate paradigms, their points of interconnection are deeply entangled…

The concept of reparative justice has taken hold in various policy circles, but with so much to heal and repair, how do we make progress without feeling overwhelmed? As the old saying goes, you can’t eat a whole elephant in one bite…

Presenting the second Africa World Lecture, Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian-born British novelist and academic, known for his novels about the effects of colonialism and displacement in the world…

While both Black and Queer studies have frequently theorized the domestic and its interiors (e.g., the closet) as paradigmatic spaces from which (Black) queer subjects should flee, Black feminist critical and creative archives have historically reimagined the Black home as a crucial locus of gender and sexual freedom in the face of state…

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

Day of the Dead is an Indigenous and Catholic syncretic practice in Mexico and Latin America that remembers and honors the deceased. Day of the Dead in the United States is a place where Latina/o/x communities can gather…

In Life Beside Bars, Heath Pearson showcases dynamic, interdependent community as the best hope for undoing the systems of confinement that reproduce capital in Cumberland County, New Jersey—a place that is home to three state prisons, one federal prison, and the regional jail. Pearson places today’s prisons within the region’s longer…

Wealth is” a mode of value production that places art at the intersection of economic, social, and cultural development. This session addresses how African art is utilized, valued, and leveraged within the realms of commodity exchange, wealth building, and resource production—drawing from the perspective and experiences of African art…

The group will provide a shared space on campus for AAS faculty, visiting fellows, postdocs, and graduate students to gather for dedicated writing time each week. We envision the writing group as a way to facilitate writing productivity while building community among AAS scholars at various stages in their academic careers. 

Cleaster Cotton is an American artist, educator, inventor, and cultural conservationist, with ancestors spanning the African diaspora. Born into a large, close-knit family, she was lovingly raised by southern parents in the heart of Brooklyn, New York. 

This event focuses on the historical and ongoing exploitation of the Congo's people and imperialist extraction of its resources. Amid current crises of hunger…

Sponsored by the G.S. Beckwith Gilbert '63 Lecture Series, join the Program in Teacher Preparation for a presentation by Dr. Gholdy Muhammad, award-winning author of Cultivating Genius: An Equity Model for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy. Dr. Muhammad is an internationally known speaker and Professor of Literacy,…

As part of the Photo History’s Futures lecture series highlighting exciting voices in the field, the Department of Art & Archaeology and the Princeton University Art Museum welcome Mark Sealy to speak about his scholarship and exhibition practice. Sealy is the author of…

Angela Y. Davis is professor emerita of history of consciousness and feminist studies at University of California, Santa Cruz…

The group will provide a shared space on campus for AAS faculty, visiting fellows, postdocs, and graduate students to gather for dedicated writing time each week. We envision the writing group as a way to facilitate writing productivity while building community among AAS scholars at various stages in their academic careers. 

Please join us for the Black Asian American Solidarity Professional Development Conference happening at the Carl A. Fields Center on Thursday, October 11, 2024!

This hybrid event is an opportunity to learn Black history, Asian American history and the history of solidarity between Black and Asian Americans in the movement for civil rights…

A two-day symposium and concurrent photographic exhibition in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Hurley Gallery that will gather photo-based artists, writers, curators, historians, and students to explore the poetics of photography, its instability, and its latent potential. Organized by Deana Lawson, Princeton University’s Dorothy Krauklis ’78…

The Faculty-Graduate seminar is an intimate intellectual community that comes together to discuss work in progress around a common theme across a wide range of disciplines. Our goal is to establish a small but intellectually diverse and committed group of scholars who will attend all meetings and engage in sustained discourse during the year.

Please note: This event has been postponed. A new date will be announced soon. Attendees will engage in a brief presentation by the artist, who will discuss her journey toward embracing her voice and the significance of her work.

Kamala Harris’ nomination as the first Black and South Asian (Indian) American woman to run for President of the United States is unprecedented and historic. What do her candidacy and campaign tell us about who we are as Americans? How are we engaging in conversations around multiracial, immigrant and gender identities? How do these social…

See Me is a collection of intimate dialogues about collective experiences in the context of prison theater workshops. Each essay is a collaboration between two or three people who connected profoundly in the temporary community of a workshop. Part I is an exchange grounded in the prison theater workshop between the author and one of…

The group will provide a shared space on campus for AAS faculty, visiting fellows, postdocs, and graduate students to gather for dedicated writing time each week. We envision the writing group as a way to facilitate writing productivity while building community among AAS scholars at various stages in their academic careers. 

Join us for dinner and learn about majoring in African American Studies! Meet faculty and current majors while exploring opportunities within the program. ** Please RSVP by Monday, Sept 30th. **

This informal workshop is aimed particularly at graduate students who are considering how to navigate the post PhD landscape…

Jill Jarvisspecializes in the aesthetics and politics of North Africa, specifically questioning the assumptions of area studies and methodological orthodoxies…

There are as many as 34 million low-income Americans who rarely vote and have the ability to swing the 2024 presidential election. In his new book, “White Poverty,” Bishop William Barber II, along with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, lays out an effective strategy to reach them…

Rocío Zambrana writes about the epistemic and historical-material bases of capitalist modernity and its racial/gender order, especially from decolonial thought and praxis, particularly in the context of financial capitalism in the Caribbean. She is currently writing a book entitled Metamorphosis of Value:…

Dr. Chris T. Pernell is a dynamic physician leader and social change agent. In her practice, she focuses on health justice, community-based advocacy, and population-wide health promotion and disease prevention. A celebrated visionary and apostle of public health, Dr. Chris serves as Director of a Center for Health Equity. The Center is charged with driving equitable health outcomes and transforming healthcare systems while valuing…

The group will provide a shared space on campus for AAS faculty, visiting fellows, postdocs, and graduate students to gather for dedicated writing time each week. We envision the writing group as a way to facilitate writing productivity while building community among AAS scholars at various stages in their academic careers. 

Kadett C Three is about the speed and the specs of an Opel car. (Kevin Jerome Everson, US, 2021, 2:35, b&w)…