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Film Screening: "This Body, Too" (Y Este uer o También)
Mar 18, 2024, 1:30 pm
Location
James Stewart Theater (185 Nassau St.), Rutgers University
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  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
Co-Writing Lab
Mar 8, 2024, 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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Gauss Seminars in Criticism: Denise Ferreira da Silva
Mar 6, 2024, 5:00 pm

The Humanities Council’s Spring 2024 Gauss Seminars in Criticism will be presented by Denise Ferreira da Silva, Samuel Rudin Professor in the Humanities Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Co-Director of…

Location
Betts Auditorium
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  • Faculty & Staff
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AY24 Faculty-Graduate Seminar: "Black Movement :: Black Stillness" ft. Zahyr Lauren (Artist)
Mar 5, 2024, 5:00 pm

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 hesitance...

Location
Hobson-Rogers Seminar Room, 104 Morrison Hall
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Nat Turner and the Late Emancipation Novel
Mar 5, 2024, 4:30 pm

A public lecture in connection with the graduate seminar, “Postwar New York,” organized by Joshua Kotin and sponsored by Postwar New York: Workshops, a…

Location
McCosh Hall, Room 40
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i, heresy: A new dance work by Storm Stokes ’24
Mar 2, 2024, 8:30 pm

i, heresy, a new dance work by Princeton senior Storm Stokes, speaks to the ontology of the Black spirit ‘in liberation’ from the oppressive constrictions of colonial religious traditions. Combining dynamic and percussive movement, body casting, and projection, Stokes’ capstone work captures a critical discourse between the residue of…

Location
Hearst Dance Theater, Lewis Arts Complex
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i, heresy: A new dance work by Storm Stokes ’24
Mar 1, 2024, 8:30 pm

i, heresy, a new dance work by Princeton senior Storm Stokes, speaks to the ontology of the Black spirit ‘in liberation’ from the oppressive constrictions of colonial religious traditions. Combining dynamic and percussive movement, body casting, and projection, Stokes’ capstone work captures a critical discourse between the residue of…

Location
Hearst Dance Theater, Lewis Arts Complex
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Princeton University Orchestra's Concerto Concerts
Mar 1, 2024, 7:30 pm

Princeton University Orchestra (PUO) presents – Concerto Concerts in collaboration with Princeton’s African Music Ensemble. Featuring winners of the PUO Concerto Competition performing works by Vaughan Williams, Schumann, and Tchaikovsky. Following, Princeton University’s African Music Ensemble, Dafra Kura Band, and PUO to…

Location
Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall
Contemporary Poetry and Postcolonial Colloquium
Mar 1, 2024, 4:30 pm

Whereas the historical trauma of the Middle Passage and enslavement has been a prominent subject of Caribbeanist scholarship, there is surprisingly little sustained consideration of how poems and other imaginative...

Location
Chancellor Green 105
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
Co-Writing Lab
Mar 1, 2024, 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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Race and Capitalism in the Twenty -First Century: An Interdisciplinary and Community-Engaged Workshop
Mar 1, 2024, 9:00 am
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i, heresy: A new dance work by Storm Stokes ’24
Feb 29, 2024, 8:30 pm

i, heresy, a new dance work by Princeton senior Storm Stokes, speaks to the ontology of the Black spirit ‘in liberation’ from the oppressive constrictions of colonial religious traditions. Combining dynamic and percussive movement, body casting, and projection, Stokes’ capstone work captures a critical discourse between the residue of…

Location
Hearst Dance Theater, Lewis Arts Complex
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Ancient, Indigenous, and Modern Plays from Africa and the Diaspora
Feb 29, 2024, 6:00 pm

The power of theatrical performance is universal, but the style and concerns of theatre are specific to individual cultures. Join us as we celebrate and discuss a new volume in the Global Theatre Perspectives series, which presents a reconstructed ancient performance text, four one-act indigenous African plays and five modern…

Location
Labyrinth Books
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Identity & Belonging: A Conversation with Natasha S. Alford
Feb 29, 2024, 6:00 pm

We welcome you to our next DEI Dinner on Thursday, February 29th at 6:00pm in Maeder Auditorium. For this week's dinner, we continue our Black History Month programming by celebrating the book release of American Negrawritten by MPP Natasha Alford.

Location
Maeder Auditorium
  • Alumni
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Reparations & White Indemnity: The Memory of Slavery in Anti-trafficking Campaigns
Feb 29, 2024, 5:00 pm

Lyndsey P. Beutin will share the contours of her new book Trafficking in Antiblackness, which argues that campaigns to end human trafficking use modern-day slavery rhetoric and imagery to circumvent Western historical responsibility for racial chattel slavery. Narratives and figures like ‘slavery in Africa,’ ‘Arab slave traders,’ ‘bad Black…

Location
Barfield-Johnson Seminar Room 201, Morrison Hall
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Screening event: PBS American Experience "Freedom Riders"
Feb 29, 2024, 4:00 pm

The 1961 Freedom Rides are a focus of the current exhibition at Seeley Mudd Manuscript Library, “Nobody Turn Us Around: The Freedom Rides and Selma to Montgomery Marches– Selections from the John Doar Papers.”

Location
Friend Center - The Convocation Room (Friend 113)
  • Alumni
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Victorian Colloquium, "Moving Stones: About the Art of Edmonia Lewis"
Feb 28, 2024, 12:00 pm

This talk approaches the Victorian sculptor Edmonia Lewis (1844-1907) as an artist whose neoclassical works and life narrative transform our understanding of art, materiality...

Location
McCosh B14 (Hinds Library)
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  • Faculty & Staff
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AY24 Faculty-Graduate Seminar: "Black Movement :: Black Stillness" ft. Joshua Myers (Howard University)
Feb 27, 2024, 5:30 pm

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 hesitance...

Location
Hobson-Rogers Seminar Room, 104 Morrison Hall
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Edward Said ’57 Memorial Lecture: "Radiance in Pain and Resilience: The Global Reverberation of Palestinian Historical Trauma"
Feb 27, 2024, 4:30 pm

Samah Jabr is a Palestinian Jerusalemite psychiatrist, psychotherapist and writer, and chair, since 2016, of the Mental Health Unit at the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Inspired by anticolonial...

Location
McCosh Hall, 10
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Black History Month Book Talk
Feb 27, 2024, 12:30 pm

Join us for a Black History Month ERG event with the Black Employee Network (BEN). This book event will feature Dean Gene Jarrett's book entitled, Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times...

Location
Fields Multipurpose Room
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Malcolm X" Screening Event
Feb 25, 2024, 12:00 pm

This screening MALCOLM X is co-sponsored by the YWCA Princeton. Dr. Zakiya Adair from the College of New Jersey will introduce and lead a short discussion after the film...

Location
Princeton Garden
  • Alumni
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Reaching Across Generations with Kamil Ali-Jackson ’81 and Karen Ali ‘78, February 24
Feb 24, 2024, 8:00 am

This year's event is sponsored by the Association of Black Princeton Alumni, Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, and the Black Student Union, with generous support from the Office of the Vice President of Campus Life...

Location
Mathey Common Room (Lower Madison Hall)
  • Alumni
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Redefining Risk and Deploying Capital to Advance Racial, Economic, and Environmental Justice
Feb 23, 2024, 1:30 pm

We'll explore how to redefine risk to strategically deploy capital and support grassroots projects advancing racial, economic, and environmental justice. Delve into the dynamic relationship between financial systems and pursuing a just society as we navigate the complexities of capital allocation and risk assessment through a unique justice…

Location
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building 201
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  • Graduate Affairs
  • Undergraduate
Networking Career Fair Preparation
Feb 23, 2024, 11:00 am

Meet with organizations and alumni to network and discuss recruiting for full-time employment and summer internships. Registration opens on February 1...

Location
Dillon Gym
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
Co-Writing Lab
Feb 23, 2024, 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
AAS Faculty Brown Bag, "Spaceship USA"
Feb 22, 2024, 12:00 pm

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...

Location
Hobson-Rogers Seminar Room 104, Morrison Hall
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  • Graduate Affairs
  • Undergraduate
Networking Career Fair Preparation
Feb 21, 2024, 4:30 pm

Learn how to find and research companies that interest you, how to dress for the fair and how to network and introduce yourself to employers...

Location
Lewis Library, room 120
  • Alumni
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UCHV Moffett Lecture with Paul Taylor
Feb 21, 2024, 4:30 pm

The idea that racism is objectionable has become a fixture in US public discourse. Some people oppose racism only in public, for reasons of decorum, while either endorsing it or ignoring in private...

Location
Friend Center Lecture Hall 101
  • Alumni
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The 44th Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series: "The Power of Black Voices: Afrolatin Identities in the Americas"
Feb 17, 2024, 9:30 am

We look forward to seeing you at the 2024 Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series "La Fuerza de las Voces Negras: Afrolatinidades en las Americas; The Power of Black Voices: Afrolatin Identities in the Americas" on Saturday, February 17, 2024...

Location
Paul Robeson Campus Center
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
Co-Writing Lab
Feb 16, 2024, 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. Akil Fletcher (Princeton University)
Feb 13, 2024, 5:00 pm

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 hesitance...

Location
Hobson-Rogers Seminar Room, 104 Morrison Hall
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2023-24 Old Dominion Public Lecture Series – Story as Survival
Feb 13, 2024, 4:30 pm

Sarah Rivett is professor of English and American studies at Princeton University. She is the author of The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England (2011), Unscripted America: Indigenous ...

Location
East Pyne 010
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Intersections Working Group
Feb 13, 2024, 12:00 pm

In King’s Vibrato Maurice Wallace explores the sonic character of Martin Luther King Jr.’s voice and its power to move the world. Providing a cultural history and critical theory...

Location
McCosh Hall B14 (Hinds Library)
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2024 Sports, Race & Society Lecture: LeadHERS
Feb 12, 2024, 7:30 pm

The Sports, Race, and Society Lecture explores the integration of sports with the American experience, emphasizing the responsibilities of sports executives to athletes and communities, and the impact of athletes as influential citizens.

Location
McCosh Hall, Room 50
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
Co-Writing Lab
Feb 9, 2024, 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
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  • Undergraduate
Introducing Princeton’s new Criminal Justice Initiative
Feb 8, 2024, 10:30 am

Meet the faculty members of Princeton SPIA’s new Criminal Justice Initiative. Each faculty member will give a short overview of their work related to criminal justice, followed by time for questions and discussion...

Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room 144
  • Alumni
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  • Graduate Affairs
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The Modern Surface: Celebrating Anne Anlin Cheng’s Second Skin
Feb 7, 2024, 6:00 pm

What is the relation between race, modernism, architecture, and performance? Through the figure of Josephine Baker, Anne Anlin Cheng’s Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface (2013) tells...

Location
The Celeste Bartos Theater
  • Alumni
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In Conversation: Ruha Benjamin with Lorgia García Peña
Feb 5, 2024, 7:00 pm

This program will be held in person at the library and will also be available to view as livestream on the library's YouTube channel...

Location
Princeton Public Library
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
Co-Writing Lab
Feb 2, 2024, 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
Graduate Affairs
Translating Against the Archive: Translation as Violence in 'Moi, Tituba, Sorcière... Noire de Salem'
Jan 29, 2024, 12:00 pm

This paper focuses on Maryse Condé's "Moi, Tituba, Sorcière... Noire de Salem," a novel based on the historical person, Tituba Indian.

An enslaved woman from Barbados, Tituba was one of the first three to be accused in the infamous witch trials of Salem Village, Massachusetts in February of 1692. Inspired by this incident, …

Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building
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  • Alumni
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Artist and Curator Conversation: Renée Cox and Klaudia Ofwona Draber
Jan 18, 2024, 5:30 pm

Join the artist Renée Cox for a conversation with guest curator Klaudia Ofwona Draber. On view at Art on Hulfish, The Ten Commandments of Renée Cox explores four decades of works across a range of media in which Cox uses her own...

Location
Art on Hulfish
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UCHV Workshop on Race in the Public Sphere at Princeton University
Dec 14, 2023, 2:30 pm

The "Workshop on Race in the Public Sphere" at Princeton University focused on the roles of race in new and digital public spheres, featuring expert speakers and interactive discussions...

Location
Laura Wooten Hall, Room 301
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Undergraduate
The Material Of The Thing
Dec 8, 2023, 6:00 pm
Location
Hobson-Rogers Seminar Room, 104 Morrison Hall
AAS Holiday Luncheon
Dec 8, 2023, 12:00 pm

Join us for delicious food and good company as we celebrate the season with colleagues and friends...

  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
Co-Writing Lab
Dec 8, 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
UBA Presents: Faculty & Student Dinner
Dec 7, 2023, 5:30 pm

The AAS Undergraduate Board of Advisers invites you to join us for dinner and to learn more about majoring in AAS...

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  • Graduate Affairs
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Modern America Workshop
Dec 7, 2023, 12:00 pm

This workshop will be hosted in a hybrid format with attendees both in-person and online. Registration is required for either format...

Location
Halee Robinson
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
AY24 Faculty-Graduate Seminar: "Black Movement :: Black Stillness" ft. Kyra Gaunt (University at Albany)
Dec 5, 2023, 5:00 pm

Assistant Professor Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D. is a notable ethnomusicologist and innovative pedagog whose ethnography The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop published by New York University...

Location
Hobson-Rogers Seminar Room, 104 Morrison Hall
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  • Alumni
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  • Graduate Affairs
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  • Undergraduate
Reflections on Solidarity
Dec 5, 2023, 5:00 pm

Join us for 'Reflections on Solidarity,' a thought-provoking evening featuring a discussion on solidarity with Palestine. Enjoy a live poetry ...

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To be sent to the registered