What do ghosts have to do with religion? What does it mean to exist in the world amongst other beings who have radically different perspectives and experiences? To find out, join the Princeton Religious Literacy Program on March 27th from 12 to 1:30 pm in Rel 137 to discuss! Lunch will be served.…

Join us for a lively, joyful focus on what makes research and scholarship come alive! You will leave this workshop with strategies for articulating your values and your passions, as well as practical steps for how to connect with a range of audiences within and beyond the academy…

Sidik Fofana (debut short story collection Stories from the Tenants Downstairs) reads from his work along with several creative writing seniors. The C.K. Williams Reading Series showcases senior thesis students…

New York based artist Kara Walker is best known for her candid investigation of race, gender, power, and national mythologies via her signature cut-paper silhouettes. Born in Stockton, California in 1969, Kara Walker was raised in Atlanta, Georgia from the age…

Prison abolition is an ongoing process of remaking the world—a necessarily imaginative endeavor. I propose that the Black feminist literary imagination is ripe for this work because it fruitfully engages the contradiction between historical anti-prison and anti-violence organizing. Through a reading of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970), I…

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. 

In recent years, many historians have examined freedom suits to understand African Americans’ experiences participating in legal systems across the antebellum South…

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.

Screening of the documentary We Were Here (2024), the untold history of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe, directed by Fred Kuwornu.

Screening of the documentary We Were Here (2024), the untold history of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe, directed by Fred Kuwornu…

Trinidad-based artist, Shannon Alonzo, will lead participants through a multi-sensory, participatory workshop about washing, mark-making, and how hands think.

Join us in Morrison Hall's first-floor Gathering Space!

Take a breather and unwind with fellow students during these refreshing sessions. Don't miss out on the chance to recharge and connect. Food and beverages will be provided!

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 talk focuses on how nonbinary, as an analytic, becomes a portal for rethinking dominant conceptions of temporality, territory, and form within and across social difference. Beginning with literary and media depictions of the Green Swamp and Honey Island Swamp monsters — swamp tales that bring the 18th and 19th century into the contemporary…

Are you planning to do research in an archive? Are you unsure where to begin when it comes to archival research?

Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature(Link is external) is a digital-born project that retraces and remaps the global story of Palestinian literature in the 20^th century, starting from the Arab world and going through Europe, North America, and Latin America…

An event in celebration of Black hair, beauty, community, and more…

This roundtable centers on the interplay between the personal and the social, exploring how personal narratives, family histories, and intimate encounters with structural injustices illuminate broader societal problems…

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. 

Global Haiti: The International Gang Problem is an event centered on discussing the historic and current violence that has been perpetuated against Haiti for the past century. The event seeks to address…

Eddie Glaude Jr., PhD, is an author, political commentator, public intellectual and educator who examines the complex dynamics of the American experience…

This talk investigates theories of ecological relationality and authorship embedded in Shona praise poetry. As a widely-recited genre in Zimbabwe, detembo dzemadzinza engages a broad community in the work of literary curation…

Join us for a Black History Month forum exploring the current challenges to racial justice initiatives in the U.S., what’s at stake, and how we can take action in response.

This roundtable centers on the interplay between the personal and the social, exploring how personal narratives, family histories, and intimate encounters with structural injustices illuminate broader societal problems. ..

In this Baldwin Circles special event, Eddie Glaude Jr. (African American Studies) will discuss his 2020 New York Times bestselling book, “Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own” in conversation with Brian Eugenio Herrera (Lewis Center…

In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. My Brother, My Land is the story of Sireen's family in the decades that followed and their…

Join us on Sunday, February 23 at 12 PM as we mark the opening weekend of American Lawn with a conversation with artist Alex Callender and art scholar Anna Arabindan-Kesson…

To commemorate and allow students, staff, and faculty to celebrate and learn more about Black American History, movement, resilience, and leaders, we will attend the Smithsonian in DC. Stay tuned for updates about registration/sign ups for this event.

University Organist Eric Plutz presents a program of works by Black composers, elevating these historically marginalized voices in recognition of Black History Month. Come join the celebration in the soaring acoustics of the Chapel…

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. 

Since 2005, Gaza has been enclosed within a complex of drones, robotic weapons, and artificial intelligences that convert the Palestinian lifeworld into endless streams of data that drive Israeli siege warfare…

A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in this “coming of age story that captures the soul of America” (The Washington Post), the debut novel from The New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Vinson Cunningham.

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The…

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 FREE screening of ALMA’S RAINBOW is underwritten by the YWCA Princeton. Director of Mission Advancement at the YWCA, Brigitte Jean-Louis, will be introducing the film and Dr. Dominique Jean-Louis, Chief Historian of the Center for Brooklyn History at the Brooklyn Public Library, will be doing a Q&A with the audience following the screening…

Princeton Jazz Vocal Ensemble, directed by Michelle Lordi, returns to Richardson Auditorium for their winter concert with special guest, Becca Stevens…

GRAMMY Award-winning artist Meshell Ndegeocello brings her new album to life in an unforgettable live performance. Nearly a decade in the making, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin is a profound musical journey…

Drop by the Lobby of Firestone Library at Princeton University for a pop-up Special Collections Showcase, featuring objects by and about Frederick Douglass and other significant works featuring African American perspectives…

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. 

Perfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal―an ode to the steadfastness of a nation.Palestine is a microcosm of the world: on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified…

Jelani Cobb, Dean of the Columbia Journalism School and staff writer for The New Yorker, will be in conversation with Steve Coll, former Dean and visiting senior editor for The Economist…

The Princeton Council on Academic Freedom welcomes all Princeton faculty to a conversation about academic freedom featuring Gene Jarrett, Dean of the Faculty and William S. Tod Professor of English. We will discuss what academic freedom…

This AAS Postdoctoral Researcher Lecture will discuss The Feet magazine (1970–1973), the first periodical dedicated entirely to the subject of Black dance, as the key forum for theorizing dance within the Black Arts Movement…

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. 

The Thomas Edison Film Festival and Lewis Center for the Arts honor Black History Month with Themes and Journeys of Artists and Filmmakers in New Jersey…

"Ladder of Heaven: The Miracles of the Virgin Mary in Medieval African Literature and Art" 

The Virgin Mary is the world’s most storied person. For two millennia, countless stories have been told about the miracles the Mother of Jesus Christ has performed for the faithful who call upon her name. Africans were among the first to…