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Co-Writing Lab
Dec 1, 2023, 10:00 am

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…

Location
Barfield-Johnson Seminar Room, 201 Morrison Hall
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Exploring African Arts and Museum Culture: IHUM Reading Group's Virtual Seminar
Dec 1, 2023, 10:00 am

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"...

Faculty & Staff
AAS Faculty Brown Bag, "Poison: Slavery, Plantation Knowledge, and a Trial for Murder in 1850 Tennessee"
Nov 30, 2023, 12:00 pm

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…

Location
Barfield-Johnson Seminar Room 201, Morrison Hall
Speaker
WAI Think Tank
Nov 28, 2023, 6:00 pm

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...

Location
Morrison Hall, 201
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AY24 Faculty-Graduate Seminar: "Black Movement :: Black Stillness" ft. Sabrina Strings (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Nov 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
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Academic Publishing: With Princeton University Press
Nov 28, 2023, 12:30 pm

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...

Location
Robertson Hall, Bowl 016
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
Co-Writing Lab
Nov 17, 2023, 10:00 am

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…

Location
Barfield-Johnson Seminar Room, 201 Morrison Hall
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Invitation to public lecture by Dr. Intisar Rabb - Civil Rights Shari'a
Nov 16, 2023, 7:00 pm

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...

Location
Friend Center, 101
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Panel Discussion: Pan-African Collecting at HBCUs and Beyond
Nov 16, 2023, 5:30 pm

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...

Location
Robertson Hall, Room 001
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Making Change: Black Business Public HERstory
Nov 15, 2023, 1:00 pm

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... 

Location
Online
Speaker
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LGBTQIA+ Conference Focus Group Lunch
Nov 15, 2023, 11:30 am

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.

Location
Frist Campus Center, MPR B
Graduate Affairs
Job Market Workshop
Nov 14, 2023, 5:00 pm

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...

Location
Barfield-Johnson Seminar Room 201, Morrison Hall
Speakers
The Winter’s Tale — A Public Works Musical
Nov 12, 2023, 3:00 pm

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.

Location
Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Cente
The Winter’s Tale — A Public Works Musical
Nov 11, 2023, 8:00 pm

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.

Location
Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Cente
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Princeton Caribbean Connection
Nov 11, 2023, 10:00 am

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

Location
Robertson Hall
The Winter’s Tale — A Public Works Musical
Nov 10, 2023, 8:00 pm

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.

Location
Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Cente
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
Co-Writing Lab
Nov 10, 2023, 10:00 am

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…

Location
Barfield-Johnson Seminar Room, 201 Morrison Hall
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Fall 2023 Anschutz Lecture
Nov 9, 2023, 4:30 pm

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

Location
East Pyne Building 010
Speaker
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Global History Workshop | José Lingna Nafafé, University of Bristol
Nov 9, 2023, 4:30 pm

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…

Location
Dickinson Hall, Room 211
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REMEMBERING(s)
Nov 8, 2023, 6:30 pm

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.

Location
LCA COLAB
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Power to the People
Nov 8, 2023, 1:00 pm

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...

Location
Online
Speaker
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REMEMBERING(s)
Nov 7, 2023, 6:30 pm

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.

Location
LCA COLAB
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
AY24 Faculty-Graduate Seminar: "Black Movement :: Black Stillness" ft. Shaun Ossei-Owusu (University of Pennsylvania)
Nov 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
High Meadows Fellowship Program Info Session
Nov 3, 2023, 4:30 pm

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…

Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building / Room A71
  • Alumni
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"Il Moro - The Moor", A Film Screening and Conversation with the Film Director, Daphne Di Cinto
Nov 2, 2023, 1:30 pm

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…

Location
James Stewart Theater, 185 Nassau Street
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  • Graduate Affairs
AY24 Faculty-Graduate Seminar: "Black Movement :: Black Stillness" ft. Kevin Quashie (Brown University) (CANCELED)
Oct 31, 2023, 5:00 pmCanceled
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
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An Evening with Patricia Smith: Acclaimed Poet and Lifetime Achievement Awardee
Oct 30, 2023, 6:00 pm

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)…

Location
Thorp Library in McCosh Hall (Entry 2)
Speaker
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Co-Writing Lab
Oct 27, 2023, 10:00 am

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…

Location
Barfield-Johnson Seminar Room, 201 Morrison Hall
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  • Undergraduate
Africa World Lectures: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Oct 25, 2023, 4:30 pm

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…

Location
Richardson Auditorium
  • Alumni
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Environmental Humanities Colloquium: “Hurricane Riskscapes, Island Survivalism, and the Post/Colonial Dilemma in the Caribbean”
Oct 25, 2023, 4:30 pm

 

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…

Location
Aaron Burr Hall, Room 219
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"Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis" with Sara Marcus & Keenga Yamahtta-Taylor
Oct 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
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Intersections Working Group: Sara Marcus
Oct 24, 2023, 12:00 pm

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…
Location
McCosh Hall, , Room B14 (Hinds Library)
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"Religious Literacy in Professional Careers: A Princeton Alumni Panel Discussion"
Oct 23, 2023, 11:00 am

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,…

Location
Wooten 201
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Hughes Prize Winner 2023 online Lecture, "Pushing Cool by Keith Wailoo"
Oct 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…

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Co-Writing Lab
Oct 13, 2023, 10:00 am

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…

Location
Barfield-Johnson Seminar Room, 201 Morrison Hall
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
"Necessary Trouble: Growing Up At Mid-century" with Drew Gilpin Faust & Shirley Tilghman
Oct 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
  • Faculty & Staff
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  • Undergraduate
Science and Social Justice Salon
Oct 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
  • Alumni
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Black Asian American Solidarity Professional Development Event
Oct 11, 2023, 9:00 am

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

Location
Carl A. Fields Center
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SPIA in NJ Workshop Series: The New Jersey Reparations Council and the Future Promise of a New New Jersey
Oct 6, 2023, 11:00 am

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…

Location
1-C-4C Green Hall
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
Co-Writing Lab
Oct 6, 2023, 10:00 am

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…

Location
Barfield-Johnson Seminar Room, 201 Morrison Hall
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
AY24 Faculty-Graduate Seminar: "Black Movement :: Black Stillness" ft. Ayana Jamieson (Cal Poly Pomona)
Oct 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
The Chinua Achebe Symposium and 10th Anniversary Memorial Celebration, Day 2
Sep 30, 2023, 3:00 pm

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…

Location
McCosh Hall
Black Buddhism Faculty Project
Sep 30, 2023

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…

Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building
Arts and (re)Creation from Africas to the World
Sep 29, 2023, 10:00 am

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…

The Chinua Achebe Symposium and 10th Anniversary Memorial Celebration, Day 1
Sep 29, 2023, 9:00 am

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…

Location
Robertson Hall
Black Buddhism Faculty Project
Sep 29, 2023

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…

Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building
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Mindscapes Unveiled, an exhibition by Chanika Svetvilas
Sep 28, 2023, 10:00 am

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…

Location
Hurley Gallery, Lewis Arts Complex
Speaker
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Mindscapes Unveiled, an exhibition by Chanika Svetvilas
Sep 27, 2023, 10:00 am

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…

Location
Hurley Gallery, Lewis Arts Complex
Speaker
AI@Princeton: Launch event for Princeton Language and Intelligence
Sep 26, 2023, 3:00 pm

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.

Location:…

Location
McCosh Hall