We are happy to announce our 2022 Class Day Ceremony and Reception.

It's that time again. Join us to celebrate another year of old friends and new connections. We will raise a glass to the Class of 2020! 

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If you have any special dietary restrictions, please contact Dionne Worthy (dworthy@princeton.edu)…

Reaching Equity in Education is the fourth installment in the IMAGINE MORE: Racial Justice Begins with Us virtual series. This session will explore the root causes of educational segregation and funding disparities in our state's education system and offer solutions, including pending legal action, to ensure all New Jersey students succeed.

Whether the Elgin Marbles should be returned is a perennial question. Amidst increasing scrutiny of symbols of Europe’s colonial past, multiple states and the UN have called for the return of contested cultural property. From the Koh-i-Noor Diamond and the Rosetta Stone, to the Benin Bronzes…

Princeton Research Day celebrates the research and creative endeavors of the campus-wide community. Now in its seventh consecutive year, the event highlights work from across all disciplines, including the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, the arts and humanities.

Eligible presenters include undergraduates, graduate…

Black Panther and Cuban exile Assata Shakur has inspired generations of radical protest, including the contemporary movement for Black lives. Drawing its title from one of Americas foremost revolutionaries, this collection explores how social protest is challenging our current system of state violence and mass incarceration. Join us for a…

As the culmination of a yearlong programming series, Art Hx: Visual and Medical Legacies of British Colonialism presents our 2022 symposium: curative / spaces. 

Bringing together artists, curators, writers, organizers, and academics, …

Join Autumn Womack, in conversation with Imani Perry, to discuss her new book" The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880-1930" at Labyrinth Books.

The Matter of Black Living excavates the dynamic interplay between racial data and Black aesthetic production that shaped late nineteenth-century social,…

Dr. Charles L. Chavis, Jr. is an author, filmmaker, activist, and professor. He is the author of the ground-breaking book The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State, which was praised by …

As the culmination of a yearlong programming series, Art Hx: Visual and Medical Legacies of British Colonialism presents our 2022 symposium: curative / spaces. 

Bringing together artists, curators, writers, organizers…

Professor Anna Arabindan-Kesson will be giving a lecture titled “Plantation Imaginaries: Immigrant Forms and Forms of Enclosure,” as part of UNL's Humanities on Edge lecture series. The series aims to "promote cross-disciplinary conversation and theoretical research in the Humanities."

The artist Elizabeth Colomba and Autumn Womack, assistant professor of English and African American Studies at Princeton University, discuss the significance of Colomba’s portrayal of the eighteenth-century poet Phillis Wheatley (on view in the exhibition Repainting the…

Join us for a conversation with Black students, faculty and staff at Princeton on the benefits and challenges of travel, study, and research abroad.

A livestream for this event is also available via a Zoom webinar. Attendees who are interested in attending virtually much 

9:30 am-11:00 pm – Franklin W. Knight’s Scholarly Project

11:30-1:30 pm- 

In this conversation, renowned movement artists Dianne McIntyre and Dyane Harvey reflect on their remarkable and storied careers in dance. Exploring moments across their nearly five-decade-long relationship, they’ll share their experiences on the stage and beyond. The discussion is moderated by Jasmine Johnson, Visiting Assistant Professor of…

Join us for a discussion of Professor Edwards’ innovative recasting of US legal and economic history through the power of clothing for those who lacked power and status in American society.

What can dresses, bedlinens, waistcoats, pantaloons, shoes, and kerchiefs tell us about the legal status of the least powerful members of American…

This seminar examines the multiple iterations of the plantation, and to draw from Katherine McKittrick, the kinds of futures it brings forth for us now. The plantation might be, to paraphrase Krista Thompson and Huey…

King’s 2022 Anschutz lecture will attend to the keywords “futurity,” “ecologies,” and “experimentation” as they circulate within Black and Indigenous feminist traditions. Reflecting on the spring course “Black and Indigenous Feminist Survival and Experimentation in the Americas” as well as her own practices of ecological reorientation, King…

While scholars often examine the ways in which technologies fail and marginalize communities, this event focuses on an equally critical goal of adopting an abolitionist mindset – one that simultaneously asks how can we build new and life-affirming systems, while tearing down others that inflict harm.

This panel brings together three…

This talk explores the poetry and pedagogy that emerged from organizing spaces of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the Voting Rights Campaign in the US South in 1963 and 1964: namely the SNCC mass meetings and Freedom Schools in Mississippi. Poetic reading practices emerging from this political movement not only shaped…

Join us for a conversation with Professor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Black feminist theorist and theoretical physicist and author of The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

The Intersections Lecture Series this year represents a department wide collaboration to bring to campus scholars whose work on race, difference, and social justice has remapped disciplinary boundaries and redefined how we think about the relationship between critical theory and social activism. 
Join us on April 5, 2022 at 4…

About the Symposium

The symposium centers on the theme of changes at a time of global crises. More specifically, it calls on participants to consider the effects of COVID-19 on scholarship in the humanities. Contributors to the symposium investigate how people and institutions must adapt to changing global…

The workshop will be virtual and led by Professor Gill Frank, Historian of Sexuality and Religion, and postdoc at the University of Virginia. We are purposely keeping the workshop sizes small, so your spot is a valuable one! Please make sure to mark your calendar and commit to participating in the workshop.

The training will cover:

Professor Anna Arabindan-Kesson will be speaking at NYU.

DeForrest Brown constructs the history of electronic musicalongside Black experiences in industrialized labor systems.This talk will illuminate the mechanics of American mainstreamcultural production and reinstate electronic music from a Blacktheoretical perspective.

Filmmaker John Akomfrah screens two of his films. The Call of Mist (Redux), set on a remote Scottish island, is an elegy to his late mother and a vivid meditation on death, memory and cloning. Initially commissioned in 1998 for the BBC, the 2012 re-edited version incorporates additional images that were removed from the television version,…

This seminar examines the multiple iterations of the plantation, and to draw from Katherine McKittrick, the kinds of futures it brings forth for us now. The plantation might be, to paraphrase Krista Thompson and Huey…

About the Symposium

The symposium centers on the theme of changes at a time of global crises. More specifically, it calls on participants to consider the effects of COVID-19 on scholarship in the humanities. Contributors to the symposium investigate how people and institutions must adapt to changing global…

It is with deepest regret that we announce that we must postpone this year’s Baldwin Lecture.  We extend our sincere apologies for any inconvenience this may cause, and will update you as soon as we can reschedule.  Thank you for your continued support of AAS.

A Lecture with J. Kameron Carter

An epic in its time, The Song of Hiawatha by Henry W Longfellow had a long afterlife in visual art. Anna Arabindan-Kesson's paper focuses on the work of Robert S Duncanson, Robert Douglass Jr. and Edmonia Lewis, three artists who included representations of Native Americans in their artistic production. Thinking of these works as sites of…

How to do the History of Trans Femininity

Is trans femininity part of the history of women, or the history of gay people? Is trans womanhood one subdivision of a general category of transgender, or does it have its own unique history? Is the trans prefix ultimately a Western word, or does it bear a global history in Black…

Is it necessary and urgent to reach beyond disciplinary formations that silo the thought and being of black, indigenous and other peoples of color into discrete frameworks of knowledge in order to imagine and build new solidarities and resistance movements for the future? 

The Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Visual Arts presents the final two events in the Black Earth Film Series organized by Princeton professor Deana Lawson in collaboration with Visiting Professor Tina Campt. The first event, on Tuesday, March 22 at 6:00 p.m., will feature a conversation with filmmakers Kahlil Joseph, Onye Anyanwu, and…

Learn helpful information to integrate a normative component into your thesis prospectus and your thesis. The thesis prospectus is due in early fall --  you can get a head start on formulating your normative component now. It will save you time this summer and lighten your early fall semester load!

Chair:  …

The intellectual legacy and era of Albert Raboteau and his contemporaries profoundly shaped the field of African American religion. His groundbreaking classic book, Slave Religion: The “Invisible Institution” in the Antebellum South (1979), transformed how scholars and students understand enslaved people’s religious…

Interested in concentrating or getting a certificate in African American Studies? Curious about what you can do with your African American Studies degree?

Please join our concentrators along with our Director of Undergraduate Studies as we discuss our Department's culture, curriculum, advising, and opportunities as…

Professor Anna Arabindan-Kesson will be discussing her book Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World as part of the On Speculation lecture series at Brown University. The series aims to "provoke new questions about and imagine visionary new approaches to,…

Tyehimba Jess, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and current Holmes Visiting Professor, presents the 2021-2022 Theodore H. Holmes ’51 and Bernice Holmes Lecture. Jess will give a reading and meditation on “What it be like? Docupoetics of the Failing Empire.”

Tyehimba Jess is the author of two books of poetry,…

This seminar examines the multiple iterations of the plantation, and to draw from Katherine McKittrick, the kinds of futures it brings forth for us now. The plantation might be, to paraphrase Krista Thompson and Huey…

A reading by Brandon Taylor, whose novel Real Life was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, and eight creative writing seniors. The C.K. Williams Reading Series showcases senior thesis students of the Program in Creative Writing with established writers as special guests.

Featured Student Readers:…

British-Bahamian curator and cultural worker Natalie Willis will discuss her curatorial practice, how it is shaped by a motivation to care for people and histories, and a recent exhibition she organized on medicine, memory, and public health in the Bahamas.

This event is organized as a part of Art Hx: Visual and Medical Legacies of…

Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s presentation will examine the ways that housing policies inspired and shaped by private sector organizations undermined the federal government's ability to enforce fair housing rules and regulations long after the passage of the Fair Housing Act.

This event is part of the Institute's…

Professor Anna Arabindan-Kesson will be giving a two-part lecture at University College London.

Professor Anna Arabindan-Kesson will be giving a two-part lecture at University College London.

The celebrated Nigerian author discusses his newly released fable "Every Leaf a Hallelujah" and the reprint of his classic novel "Astonishing the Gods" with Princeton University's Chika Okeke-Agulu.

One of Nigeria’s most celebrated authors, Ben Okri is the author of many post-colonial novels, poetry, short story…

Ancient Egyptian art is full of bodies, a fact that has not been lost on modern Western audiences who have long delighted in mummies, reliefs of kings “walking like an Egyptian”, and the miniature proportions of shabti figurines, workers for the afterlife who were included by the hundred in tombs.

This talk will argue that the…