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AAS 2023 Class Day Reception
May 29, 2023, 2:00 pm

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

Location
Patio, Morrison Hall
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Undergraduate
AAS 2023 Class Day Ceremony
May 29, 2023, 1:00 pm

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

Location
The Class of 1936 Garden (between Maclean House and Stanhope Hall)
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Undergraduate
AAS Class of 2023 Group Photo
May 29, 2023, 12:45 pm
Location
Front of Morrison Hall
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Undergraduate
AAS Alumni Mix & Mingle
May 26, 2023, 2:30 pm

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

Location
Morrison Hall
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
CITP Special Event: Tech In Conversation – Critical Technology Ecologies and the Future of Repair
May 16, 2023, 4:30 pm

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…

  • Alumni
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  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
Arc of Interference: Medical Anthropology for Worlds on Edge
May 2, 2023, 6:00 pm

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.

Location
Labyrinth Books and Online
Speakers
Public
Princeton Collaboratorium for Radical Aesthetics
Apr 27, 2023, 7:00 pm
Who/What

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

Location
Forum, Lewis Arts Complex
Speakers
By Invite Only
New AAS Majors Welcome Lunch
Apr 27, 2023, 12:00 pm
Undergraduate
Art Up Close: Topics In Restitution and Repatriation
Apr 21, 2023, 2:10 pm

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

Location
Off-site Classroom, Art Museum
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
John Witherspoon in Historical Context
Apr 21, 2023, 1:30 pm

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.

Location
Room 010, East Pyne Building
Public
Princeton Collaboratorium for Radical Aesthetics
Apr 20, 2023, 7:00 pm
Who/What

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

Location
Forum, Lewis Arts Complex
Speakers
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
Environmental Humanities Colloquium: “How do we see beyond the petrochemical-plantation horizon?”
Apr 20, 2023, 4:30 pm

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.

Location
220 Guyot Hall
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
Research and Policy to Support Health Equity in Africa - Day 1
Apr 20, 2023, 8:30 am

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.

Location
Carl Fields Center, Multi-Purpose Room
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
2022-2023 Faculty-Graduate Seminar: "Black Speculative Futures"
Apr 19, 2023, 4:30 pm
Black Speculative Futures

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…

Location
Barfield-Johnson Seminar Room 201, Morrison Hall
Speaker
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
Artist Talk: Chanika Svetvilas
Apr 17, 2023, 4:30 pm

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…

  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
Princeton French Film Festival
Apr 16, 2023

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.

  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
Liminality: New Dance Works by Michael Garcia and Camryn Stafford
Apr 15, 2023, 8:30 pm

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.

Location
Hearst Dance Theater, Lewis Arts Complex
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
The History Of Value In The Nineteenth Century North America
Apr 15, 2023

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

Location
211 Dickinson Hall & Zoom
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
Liminality: New Dance Works by Michael Garcia and Camryn Stafford
Apr 14, 2023, 8:30 pm

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.

Location
Hearst Dance Theater, Lewis Arts Complex
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
The History Of Value In The Nineteenth Century North America
Apr 14, 2023

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

Location
211 Dickinson Hall & Zoom
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
Liminality: New Dance Works by Michael Garcia and Camryn Stafford
Apr 13, 2023, 8:30 pm

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.

Location
Hearst Dance Theater, Lewis Arts Complex
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
Spring 2023 Anschutz Lecture: "Talk to Me: A Story of Racial Capitalism, Coup, and Democracy”
Apr 13, 2023, 4:00 pm

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.

Location
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, A17
Speaker
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
Art Hx Presents | Collectives in Crisis: Healing Through Storytelling with Neil Bardhan
Apr 13, 2023, 12:30 pm

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. 

Location
Online Only
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
"Afrocentrism as Racial Science" with Prof. Ayah Nuriddin
Apr 13, 2023, 12:00 pm

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.

Location
Hobson-Rogers Seminar Room 104, Morrison Hall
Speaker
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
Performances Up Close: Cécile McLorin Salvant, Vocals Sullivan Fortner, Piano
Apr 12, 2023, 6:00 pm

General: $40 | Student: $10

Program An hour-long program with an audience seated on the stage New commission inspired by Toni Morrison archives About the Event

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…

Location
Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
BLACK RENAISSANCE
Apr 8, 2023, 5:00 pm

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. 

  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
BLACK RENAISSANCE
Apr 7, 2023, 7:00 pm

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. 

  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Undergraduate
Meredith Miller Memorial Lecture with Dorothy E. Roberts (University of Pennsylvania)
Apr 6, 2023, 4:30 pm

Dorothy Roberts, an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law, joined the University of Pennsylvania as its 14th 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.

Location
100 Arthur Lewis Auditorium
Speaker
Undergraduate
Black Professionals in the Workplace
Apr 4, 2023, 6:00 pm

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

Location
Center for Career Development
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
Book Talk: Sarah Quesada
Apr 3, 2023, 4:30 pm

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.

Location
East Pyne Building, 010
Speaker
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
Fashioning New Worlds
Apr 2, 2023, 4:00 pm

A senior thesis exhibition by Payton Croskey.
Email [email protected] for more information.

Location
Robert's Studio, Lewis Arts Complex
Speaker
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
ON THE FAR SIDE: GLOBALIZATION IN MORRISON'S WORLD
Mar 30, 2023, 5:00 pm

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.

Location
McCosh Hall, Room 10
Speaker
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
HERE STANDS A MAN: MORRISON'S (FEMINIST?) MOLDING OF BLACK MASCULINITY
Mar 29, 2023, 5:00 pm

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.

Location
McCosh Hall, Room 10
Speaker
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
DEAR TONI: MORRISON EDITS A GENERATION OF BLACK MEN
Mar 28, 2023, 5:00 pm

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.

Location
McCosh Hall, Room 10
Speaker
Undergraduate
AAS Sophomore Open House
Mar 27, 2023, 5:00 pm

Please Join Us To Learn More About African American Studies!

Location
Hobson-Rogers Seminar Room 104
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
Art and Devotion: New Accounts of Religious Culture, Race, and Gender in the US
Mar 25, 2023, 8:30 am

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

Location
Lewis Library 120
Speakers
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
Poverty, by America: Matthew Desmond & Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor; Introduced by Andrea Elliott
Mar 23, 2023, 6:00 pm

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…

Location
Nassau Presbyterian Church, Princeton
Speakers
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
Sites of Memory: A Symposium on Toni Morrison and the Archive
Mar 23, 2023

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…

Location
Princeton University
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
2022-2023 Faculty-Graduate Seminar: "Black Speculative Futures"
Mar 22, 2023, 4:30 pm
Black Speculative Futures

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…

Location
Barfield-Johnson Seminar Room 201, Morrison Hall
Speaker
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
Evictions and Convictions
Mar 20, 2023, 4:30 pm

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.

Location
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, Room A17
Speaker
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
The Abolitionist Struggle to Stop Cop City
Mar 14, 2023, 5:00 pm

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

Location
Online
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America (CANCELED)
Mar 9, 2023, 6:30 pm

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. 

Location
Labyrinth Books and Online
Speakers
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
Black Women Writers at Work
Mar 6, 2023, 6:30 pm

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

Location
Online
Speakers
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Undergraduate
AAS Visiting Research Scholar Lecture "Breaking the World" with Justin Mann
Mar 6, 2023, 5:00 pm

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.

Location
East Pyne 010
Speaker
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
Kaepernick & America: Documentary and Discussion
Mar 1, 2023, 7:30 pm

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…

Location
Arthur Lewis Auditorium, 100 Robertson Hall
Speaker
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
2022-2023 Faculty-Graduate Seminar: "Black Speculative Futures"
Mar 1, 2023, 4:30 pm
Black Speculative Futures

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…

Location
Barfield-Johnson Seminar Room 201, Morrison Hall
Speaker
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
Art Hx Presents: A Conversation with Artist Nate Lewis
Feb 28, 2023, 4:30 pm

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

Location
James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau Street Princeton, NJ 08544
Speakers
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • By Invite Only
The Search for Our Bayard: 1987 – 2013
Feb 27, 2023, 12:00 pm

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.

Location
Barfield-Johnson Seminar Room 201, Morrison Hall
Speaker
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
Dr. Chris Gilliard in conversation with Professor Ruha Benjamin
Feb 24, 2023, 4:00 pm

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.  

Location
Chancellor Green Rotunda
Speakers