PIIRS regularly provides funding to support doctoral students interested in conducting pre-dissertation or dissertation research during the winter recess. Research must be conducted outside of the United States and may include preliminary archival reconnaissance, field-site investigations, interviews, securing official permission for research…

Darren Green is a longtime Trenton activist, public speaker, and former mayoral candidate. As a part of the Organizing Stories workshop series, Green will lead a spirited workshop about the ins-and-outs of local organizing, exploring the integral role storytelling has played in his community outreach.

Moderated by Natalia Cordova *17, the director of studies at Mathey College, this panel will feature alumni discussing the connections between their social sciences concentrations and career journeys.

Spiritual Racialization: Theologies of Race and Slavery in the Colonial Atlantic World

The 41st Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to join us for the 41st Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series, One Begins Again: Organizing & the Historical Imagination, moderated by 

This seminar explores approaches to archival research in the field of African American studies. Archives, as Michel-Rolph Trouillot reminds us, are not passive repositories of historical materials. Rather, the…

A discussion of Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature with Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez, Associate Professor of English, African-American and African Studies at Michigan State University. If you are interested in attending the workshop and being reimbursed for a copy of the book, please register using…

At this panel, students and teachers from Princeton Public Schools and Princeton University undergraduates will discuss their experiences advocating for these renamings. Why did these issues matter to them? What did they learn from being part of these important events? What can others gain from their experiences? As panelists reflect on these transformational moments in their communities, we will all have a chance to look back on a critical year for racial justice advocacy in Princeton and beyond.

As part of Douglass Day 2021, this event will feature presentations by undergraduate Princeton University students on their collaborative, virtual exhibition entitled “Abolition: Then and Now.” The students put this exhibition together as part of a final project for a fall 2020 course on the writings of Frederick Douglass and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Supported by the 250th Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education, the course—taught by Professor Eduardo Cadava and supported by undergraduate Shannon Chaffers ’22—encouraged the students to think about the ways in which the writings of these two towering American figures can be used as resources not only for addressing contemporary socio-political issues but also for doing political work, and especially work that goes in the direction of addressing, engaging, and perhaps even overcoming the history of racial injustice in America.

This seminar explores approaches to archival research in the field of African American studies. Archives, as Michel-Rolph Trouillot reminds us, are not passive repositories of historical materials. Rather, the…

This collective is a space to gather and hold conversations around being a BIPOC* theater maker at Princeton University. We offer this collective with the intention to help center the voices and needs of BIPOC students involved in theater and to build a community that can discuss, create, celebrate, grieve, and organize together.

The African American Studies Program at University of Wisconsin Oshkosh is inviting undergraduate students to participate in a virtual Black History Month on Saturday February 6, 2021 at 2pm CST. Show off your knowledge and school pride will having the opportunity to win a $100 Visa gift card. To play, log into

"Strivers" — students from disadvantaged backgrounds seeking upward mobility through education — face unique challenges in college. What are the ethical costs of higher education for strivers, and what can colleges do to support them? And what can we do as graduate AIs to facilitate learning among students from different…

Learn more about the e-summer seminars available this year at the PIIRS Open House with program faculty. Open to freshmen, sophomores and juniors. Register for the open house

A virtual opportunity to explore a range of certificate programs and get the inside scoop from current certificate holders!

This Is Your Dance is a collaborative and experimental dance thesis project by Princeton seniors Leila Ullmann ’21 and Ysabel Ayala ’21 that explores different ways to use movement and art to connect with ourselves, our surroundings, and other people.

This Is Your Dance is a collaborative and experimental dance thesis project by Princeton seniors Leila Ullmann ’21 and Ysabel Ayala ’21 that explores different ways to use movement and art to connect with ourselves, our surroundings, and other people.

Universities globally are increasingly involved with private corporations. For example, universities develop and help commercialize technology. They also collect, use, and commercialize data, often in partnership with health care and public health.

The incentives to commercialize data and the ever increasing 

A virtual opportunity to explore a range of certificate programs and get the inside scoop from current certificate holders!

Join us for an evening of conversations with Rep. BarbaraLee (CA-13) and other distinguished panelists to examine current efforts in the U.S. to combat and mend systemic racism in the global context!

This Is Your Dance is a collaborative and experimental dance thesis project by Princeton seniors Leila Ullmann ’21 and Ysabel Ayala ’21 that explores different ways to use movement and art to connect with ourselves, our surroundings, and other people.

"Strivers" — students from disadvantaged backgrounds seeking upward mobility through education — face unique challenges in college. What are the ethical costs of higher education for strivers, and what can colleges do to support them? And what can we do as graduate AIs to facilitate learning among students from different…

Register here for From Chaos to Community: A Conversation with Dr. Eddie S. Glaude Jr. on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy, Our Racial Reckoning, and the Path Forward

Join us for the unveiling of the virtual gallery “To Be Known and Heard: Systemic Racism and Princeton University.” This virtual gallery is a vibrant visual narrative experience that confronts the legacy of racism within the University’s history and present, shares historical and contemporary examples of anti-racist work at…

In the wake of Covid-19 and uprisings in response to a climate of anti-blackness, join us for a conversation about time, temporality, and Black life: how time is racialized, how race is temporalized and how time is wielded as a tool of racialized violence. Why are some able to use time, while others are largely used and abused by it? Why is…

In the wake of Covid-19 and uprisings in response to a climate of anti-blackness, join us for a conversation about time, temporality, and Black life: how time is racialized, how race is temporalized and how time is wielded as a tool of racialized violence. Why are some able to use time, while others are largely used and abused by it? Why is…

Join a conversation that will analyze and unpack how COVID-19 is disproportionately impacting and exacerbating health inequities within low-income, Native American, Indigenous, Black and Latinx communities. Panelists will discuss strategies to address inequities and disparities.

On the Books: Jim Crow and the Algorithms of Resistance is a

A panel of professionals will discuss bringing your authentic self to work in regards to your cultural appearance, background and experiences.

If you are a current student, please use your Princeton Zoom account to join this program at

Register for this event:
https://princeton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJErc-2vpjsjHNez5cpYNnth_0-VYGybQ4OB

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about…

The Trans Studies Symposium will bring together artists, scholars, and community organizers to be in dialogue about the current state of trans studies and movement building. Over four conversations, the symposium will help to unfurl the legacies of trans organizing, scholarship, art practices, and histories, and how we…

Lolita Buckner Inniss will be joined in conversation with Miguel Centeno, the Musgrave Professor of Sociology and Vice-Dean at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Inniss is speaking as the Anna and G. Mason Morfit ’97 Distinguished Visitor.

To register, please visit 

The Trans Studies Symposium will bring together artists, scholars, and community organizers to be in dialogue about the current state of trans studies and movement building. Over four conversations, the symposium will help to unfurl the legacies of trans organizing, scholarship, art practices, and histories, and how we…

DAY TWO

PANEL 2: Methods and Sources for African Digital Humanities (November 17, 10am-12pm)

Chao Tayiana – African Digital Heritage – [email protected]

Eleni…

A conversation with Professor Eddie S. Glaude Jr., author of Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, moderated by Keri Day, associate professor of constructive theology and African American religion.

Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is an intellectual who speaks to the…

For a decade, geography has been grappling with a proliferation of cenes: the Anthropocene, the Capitalocene, the Plantationocene. Through the theorization of each of these cenes, human impact on global ecologies is defined in epochs, paying particular attention to industrialization, the…

DAY ONE

KEYNOTE: Address and Responses (November 16, 10am-12pm ET)

Speaker:

Evelyn Fogwe Chibaka – University of Buea/CaPROWN–[email protected]

Respondents:

Angel David Nieves –…

The Annual Convention annually features a separate Undergraduate Research Forum in the form of poster presentations. Students are invited to give 3- to 5-minute presentations on their research followed by a networking event. This is an opportunity for aspiring scholars to discuss their research with peers, graduate students…

Professor of History Christine Kinealy (Quinnipiac University), Colum McCann (author of TransAtlantic), and Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies Autumn Womack (Princeton University) lead a symposium on “The 175th Anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s Tour of Ireland,” moderated…

The Electoral Innovation Lab at Princeton University presents a Friday Forum: A Talk with Leah Aden, Deputy Director of Litigation at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, on Voting Rights and Justice Issues. Please RSVP to [email protected] and join the event via

The Trans Studies Symposium will bring together artists, scholars, and community organizers to be in dialogue about the current state of trans studies and movement building. Over four conversations, the symposium will help to unfurl the legacies of trans organizing, scholarship, art practices, and histories, and how we…

How do the lived experiences of Black Catholic sisters challenge and revise dominant narratives of the U.S. Catholic experience? Join us for a lecture by Shannen Dee Williams, the Albert Lepage Assistant Professor of History at Villanova University. In this talk, Dr. Williams will examine the largely hidden history of anti…

Rokhaya Diallo is a French journalist, writer, and award-winning filmmaker widely recognized for her work which dismantles the barricades of racism and sexism through the promotion of equality and pluralism. TV host and a pundit on several French and international networks, Rokhaya is also a contributor to several…

The Trans Studies Symposium will bring together artists, scholars, and community organizers to be in dialogue about the current state of trans studies and movement building. Over four conversations, the symposium will help to unfurl the legacies of trans organizing, scholarship, art practices, and histories, and how we…

This meeting will be held via Zoom. Registration is required to attend. To register, visit:

https://princeton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwlf…

In the face of conflict and despair, we often console ourselves by saying that history will be the judge. Today’s oppressors may escape being held responsible for their crimes, but the future will condemn them. Those who stand up for progressive values are on the right side of history. As ideas once condemned to the dustbin…

This final panel in the series is dedicated to the pandemic’s impacts on the human geography of the city, as seen from social, economic, racial, architectural, and public health perspectives. Panelists will address the impact of the social effects of epidemiology and public health policy, as well as the diverse…

In this lecture, Huey Copeland will provide an overview of his work on and approach to modern and contemporary art, with a focus on his forthcoming collection of essays, interviews, and reviews, Touched by the Mother: On Black Men, the Aesthetic Field, and other Feminist Horizons (1966-2016). This volume encompasses a range…

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, technology has the potential to hide, speed, and deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racist practices of a previous era. In this talk, Ruha Benjamin explores a range of discriminatory designs that encode inequity -- what she terms the …