We are more than the circumstances of our lives, and what we do matters. In We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For, one of the nation’s preeminent scholars and ...

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...

Program in Journalism; Department of African American Studies; Program in Latin American Studies; Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies

In 1972, a group of Aboriginal activists planted an umbrella in the lawn of the the Australian Parliament in Canberra proclaiming it the Aboriginal Tent Embassy...

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!

Joy Returns Home: Dance of the African Diaspora and Traditions of Unity, is a three day workshop series featuring Princeton Alumni Terrie Ajile Axam ‘73. Centering Afro-diasporic dance traditions of unity through the cultural arts, the series features the Sympoh Urban Arts breakdancing crew, Ethiopian and Eritrean traditional styles, and Axam’s…

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…

Focusing on the relational and transnational experiences of people who identify as Black and immigrant (or descendants of immigrants) and who are living in diasporic communities in Europe and the Americas, the symposium...

Joy Returns Home: Dance of the African Diaspora and Traditions of Unity, is a three day workshop series featuring Princeton Alumni Terrie Ajile Axam ‘73. Centering Afro-diasporic dance traditions of unity through the cultural arts, the series features the Sympoh Urban Arts breakdancing crew, Ethiopian and Eritrean traditional styles, and Axam’s…

Joy Returns Home: Dance of the African Diaspora and Traditions of Unity, is a three day workshop series featuring Princeton Alumni Terrie Ajile Axam ‘73. Centering Afro-diasporic dance traditions of unity through the cultural arts, the series features the Sympoh Urban Arts breakdancing crew, Ethiopian and Eritrean traditional styles, and Axam’s…

Hanif Abdurraqib is an award-winning poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His newest release, A Little Devil In America (Random House, 2021) was a winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and the Gordon Burn Prize. In 2021, Abdurraqib was named a MacArthur Fellow. His first collection of…

This event is a provocation, a loose polemic, that probes into the necessity & place of politics in aesthetics. what forms rise to the occasion of narrating our ongoing post/colonial present?

Crystal Wilkinson, a recent fellowship recipient of the Academy of American Poets, is the award-winning author of Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts, a culinary memoir, Perfect Black, a collection of poems...

On April 3, 4, and 5^th, 2024, the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES), formerly the Community-Based Learning Initiative (CBLI), will celebrate 25 years of the program’s life at Princeton University...

This discussion will focus on the unique challenges and policy issues impacting queer individuals, particularly queer Black people and people of color, in New Jersey...

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…

Founded by YWCA Trenton and YWCA Princeton in 2007, Stand Against Racism quickly grew to a national presence by 2010, when an additional 80 YWCA local associations across the nation participated...

On April 3, 4, and 5^th, 2024, the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES), formerly the Community-Based Learning Initiative (CBLI), will celebrate 25 years of the program’s life at Princeton University...

Jason Cyrus is a curator of visual and material culture. His exhibitions use fashion and textile history to explore questions of creativity, identity, cultural exchange, and agency...

On April 3, 4, and 5^th, 2024, the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES), formerly the Community-Based Learning Initiative (CBLI), will celebrate 25 years of the program’s life at Princeton University...

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...

Malachi McIntosh is the Barbara Pym Tutorial Fellow in English at St. Hilda’s. Prior to joining St Hilda’s, Malachi was  editor and publishing director of Wasafiri, the magazine...

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…

In conjunction with the exhibition Reciting Women: Alia Bensliman & Khalilah Sabree, join the artist Alia Bensliman for a conversation with May Kosba, postdoctoral research associate...

Please join our Majors along with Prof. Kinohi Nishikawa, our Director of Undergraduate Studies, as we discuss our Department's culture, curriculum, advising, and opportunities as you take the next step to your degree and career.

Courtney Thorsson teaches, studies, and writes about African American literature from beginnings to present using Black feminist methods. Her new book The Sisterhood: How A Network of Black Women Writers...

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...

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…

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!

Marcus Lee is currently a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in LGBT Studies in the Society of Fellows and Visiting Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and African American Studies. Lee is a social scientist and writer, with…

Early Haitian historian, scientist, and poet Charles Hérard-Dumesle’s massive natural history Voyage dans le nord d’Hayti (1824) proposes that colonialism’s best trick was...

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

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…

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…

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...

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

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…

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…

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…

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...

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…

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…

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…

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 Negra, written by MPP Natasha Alford.

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…

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.”

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...