The workshop will be virtual and led by Professor Gill Frank, Historian of Sexuality and Religion, and postdoc at the University of Virginia. We are purposely keeping the workshop sizes small, so your spot is a valuable one! Please make sure to mark your calendar and commit to participating in the workshop.
The training will cover:
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Professor Anna Arabindan-Kesson will be speaking at NYU.
DeForrest Brown constructs the history of electronic musicalongside Black experiences in industrialized labor systems.This talk will illuminate the mechanics of American mainstreamcultural production and reinstate electronic music from a Blacktheoretical perspective.
Filmmaker John Akomfrah screens two of his films. The Call of Mist (Redux), set on a remote Scottish island, is an elegy to his late mother and a vivid meditation on death, memory and cloning. Initially commissioned in 1998 for the BBC, the 2012 re-edited version incorporates additional images that were removed from the television version,…
This seminar examines the multiple iterations of the plantation, and to draw from Katherine McKittrick, the kinds of futures it brings forth for us now. The plantation might be, to paraphrase Krista Thompson and Huey…
About the Symposium
The symposium centers on the theme of changes at a time of global crises. More specifically, it calls on participants to consider the effects of COVID-19 on scholarship in the humanities. Contributors to the symposium investigate how people and institutions must adapt to changing global…
A Lecture with J. Kameron Carter
An epic in its time, The Song of Hiawatha by Henry W Longfellow had a long afterlife in visual art. Anna Arabindan-Kesson's paper focuses on the work of Robert S Duncanson, Robert Douglass Jr. and Edmonia Lewis, three artists who included representations of Native Americans in their artistic production. Thinking of these works as sites of…
How to do the History of Trans Femininity
Is trans femininity part of the history of women, or the history of gay people? Is trans womanhood one subdivision of a general category of transgender, or does it have its own unique history? Is the trans prefix ultimately a Western word, or does it bear a global history in Black…
Is it necessary and urgent to reach beyond disciplinary formations that silo the thought and being of black, indigenous and other peoples of color into discrete frameworks of knowledge in order to imagine and build new solidarities and resistance movements for the future?
The Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Visual Arts presents the final two events in the Black Earth Film Series organized by Princeton professor Deana Lawson in collaboration with Visiting Professor Tina Campt. The first event, on Tuesday, March 22 at 6:00 p.m., will feature a conversation with filmmakers Kahlil Joseph, Onye Anyanwu, and…
- Kahlil JosephAffiliationFilmmaker
- Onye AnyanwuAffiliationFilm producer
- Bradford YoungAffiliationCinematographer
Learn helpful information to integrate a normative component into your thesis prospectus and your thesis. The thesis prospectus is due in early fall -- you can get a head start on formulating your normative component now. It will save you time this summer and lighten your early fall semester load!
Chair: …
- Stephen MacedoAffiliationLaurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics
- Anna StilzAffiliationLaurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics
- Kathryn JoyceAffiliationPostdoctoral Research in Values and Public Policy and Values
- Ethan KahnAffiliationValues and Public Life Certificate senior
The intellectual legacy and era of Albert Raboteau and his contemporaries profoundly shaped the field of African American religion. His groundbreaking classic book, Slave Religion: The “Invisible Institution” in the Antebellum South (1979), transformed how scholars and students understand enslaved people’s religious…
Interested in concentrating or getting a certificate in African American Studies? Curious about what you can do with your African American Studies degree?
Please join our concentrators along with our Director of Undergraduate Studies as we discuss our Department's culture, curriculum, advising, and opportunities as…
- AffiliationAssociate Professor and Director of Undergraduate StudiesPresentationDepartment of African American Studies
- AffiliationDoctoral Student in Sociology & Social Policy, Harvard UniversityPresentationAAS Alumni
Professor Anna Arabindan-Kesson will be discussing her book Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World as part of the On Speculation lecture series at Brown University. The series aims to "provoke new questions about and imagine visionary new approaches to,…
Tyehimba Jess, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and current Holmes Visiting Professor, presents the 2021-2022 Theodore H. Holmes ’51 and Bernice Holmes Lecture. Jess will give a reading and meditation on “What it be like? Docupoetics of the Failing Empire.”
ABOUT TYEHIMBA JESSTyehimba Jess is the author of two books of poetry,…
This seminar examines the multiple iterations of the plantation, and to draw from Katherine McKittrick, the kinds of futures it brings forth for us now. The plantation might be, to paraphrase Krista Thompson and Huey…
A reading by Brandon Taylor, whose novel Real Life was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, and eight creative writing seniors. The C.K. Williams Reading Series showcases senior thesis students of the Program in Creative Writing with established writers as special guests.
Featured Student Readers:…
British-Bahamian curator and cultural worker Natalie Willis will discuss her curatorial practice, how it is shaped by a motivation to care for people and histories, and a recent exhibition she organized on medicine, memory, and public health in the Bahamas.
This event is organized as a part of Art Hx: Visual and Medical Legacies of…
Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s presentation will examine the ways that housing policies inspired and shaped by private sector organizations undermined the federal government's ability to enforce fair housing rules and regulations long after the passage of the Fair Housing Act.
This event is part of the Institute's…
Professor Anna Arabindan-Kesson will be giving a two-part lecture at University College London.
Professor Anna Arabindan-Kesson will be giving a two-part lecture at University College London.
The celebrated Nigerian author discusses his newly released fable "Every Leaf a Hallelujah" and the reprint of his classic novel "Astonishing the Gods" with Princeton University's Chika Okeke-Agulu.
One of Nigeria’s most celebrated authors, Ben Okri is the author of many post-colonial novels, poetry, short story…
- AffiliationProfessorPresentationDepartment of African American Studies, Department of Art & Archaeology
- AffiliationPoet, Novelist, and Playwright
Ancient Egyptian art is full of bodies, a fact that has not been lost on modern Western audiences who have long delighted in mummies, reliefs of kings “walking like an Egyptian”, and the miniature proportions of shabti figurines, workers for the afterlife who were included by the hundred in tombs.
This talk will argue that the…
Join our first event this Spring for a dynamic workshop featuring Professor Catherine Knight Steele in conversation with cultural critic and writer Jamilah Lemieux about feminism’s archives. Over the course of the event, the two speakers will draw from their political experiences to discuss what it means to…
- Catherine Knight SteeleAffiliationAssistant Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland
- Jamilah LemieuxAffiliationCultural Critic and Writer
In this lecture, Dr. Navid Farnia analyzes how U.S. officials developed a modernized security apparatus to contest movements for national liberation in the 1960s and 1970s. The movements which erupted across the globe during this period decimated the old regimes of racial and imperial power. In the U.S., the Black liberation struggle affected…
This seminar examines the multiple iterations of the plantation, and to draw from Katherine McKittrick, the kinds of futures it brings forth for us now. The plantation might be, to paraphrase Krista Thompson and Huey…
Starting from the 25th of February at 9PM, the student-founded exhibition entitled “stitching” will be taking place in the Colab Space in the Lewis Art Center. Come to see the various mediums (photographs, paintings, textile, etc.) that your fellow students have created. stitching is a…
What does it mean for classrooms to be inclusive spaces? How can Princeton’s community enhance learning by more fully engaging with diversity? The Inclusive Teaching at Princeton series invites undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral associates, faculty, and staff to come together to discuss diversity in teaching and learning at…
- AffiliationAssistant Professor of English and American StudiesPresentationDepartment of English
- AffiliationAssistant Professor of English and American StudiesPresentationDepartment of English
- AffiliationAssistant Professor of African American Studies and EnglishPresentationDepartment of English
The annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by presenting speakers who discuss the civil rights issues of equality, freedom, justice, and opportunity. The convocation also seeks to build partnerships and develop dialogue within the campus community and with the local communities served by the university.
Princeton’s University Center for Human Values invites the Princeton community to join us for a poetry reading and dialogue with award-winning poet Nicole Sealey.
Nicole Sealey is the author of Ordinary Beast (Ecco, 2017), and The Animal After…
Dawn Lundy Martin is an American poet and essayist. She is the author of four books of poems: Good Stock Strange Blood, winner of the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry; Life in a Box is a Pretty Life, which won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry; DISCIPLINE, A…
This seminar examines the multiple iterations of the plantation, and to draw from Katherine McKittrick, the kinds of futures it brings forth for us now. The plantation might be, to paraphrase Krista Thompson and Huey…
This seminar examines the multiple iterations of the plantation, and to draw from Katherine McKittrick, the kinds of futures it brings forth for us now. The plantation might be, to paraphrase Krista Thompson and Huey…
This talk focuses on Anna Arabindan-Kesson’s new book, Black Bodies, White Gold. It examines the visual relationship between the cotton trade and the representation of the Black body in American culture, using historical case studies and contemporary art. Juxtaposing contemporary interventions with historical moments, it examines…
The SPIA Undergraduate program will be taking over the administration of the Liman Fellowship.There will be a virtual information session on Thursday,…
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, a scholar of anti-Black racism, public policy, radical politics, and social movements, will give a talk as part of the Center for Africana Studies' Speaker Series: The Challenges of Africana…
Loyalty is incredibly honored to welcome Imani Perry and Eddie S. Glaude Jr. for a virtual celebration of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation! This event will be held digitally via Crowdcast. Click…
The Intersections Lecture Series this year represents a department wide collaboration to bring to campus scholars whose work on race, difference, and social justice has remapped disciplinary boundaries and redefined how we think about the relationship between critical theory and social activism.
The Friends of Princeton University Library welcome Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, who will discuss her book, “Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership.” The book examines the ways that housing policies inspired and shaped by the private sector undermined the federal government’s ability to…
Who would you be most surprised to find in conversation together on stage? An anthropologist and a chemist? An athlete and a rabbi? A television host and a historian? During the Unexpected Conversation Series, anything is possible!
Join Professor Eddie Glaude, Chair and James S. McDonnell Distinguished Professor in the Department…
- AffiliationJames S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor
- AffiliationCo-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe
- AffiliationCreator and Co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe
UNC Asheville’s annual commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. for 2022 will feature a keynote address by New York Times bestselling author and Chair of Princeton’s Department of African American Studies, Eddie Glaude Jr., on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022. The free virtual event begins at 7 p.m. and is open to everyone…
Please join the African American Studies department for our spring colloquium, “Queering Black Studies” as we discuss historical, literary, and cultural analyses of Black queer life throughout the African diaspora with esteemed panelists:
- AffiliationProfessor of Black Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
- AffiliationAssociate Professor of Anthropology, University of Miami
- AffiliationAssistant Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, University of Washington
Come learn what distinguishes a dissertation from a book manuscript, what editors are looking for in book proposals, what to expect from the process, how to think about the market/readership for your book and more.
Join us for a panel discussion with academic press editors:
Join us virtually as we explore the components of acquiring a certificate in African American Studies at Princeton University.
Join us at BAM or via livestream for this beloved Brooklyn tradition, which rings in a new year with music, dance, and an invigorating call to action. Led by keynote speaker Dr. Imani Perry, this year’s tribute encourages us to continue in Dr. King’s radical spirit: relentlessly pressing forward in pursuit of justice—even against the odds—and…
On Monday, Jan 17 from 10am-12pm, we’ll safely gather here at the ACP for a free, outdoor event featuring:
Grab-and-go bagel breakfast Emblem-making and protest history with the Historical Society of Princeton Canned food drive benefiting NJ Rise Your chance to participate in a community-wide project: we’ve created lawn…
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, a professor of African American Studies at Princeton University who is among this year's MacArthur 'genius grant' winners, will deliver the keynote address for Duke University's annual Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration on Sunday, Jan. 16, at 3 p.m.
Join members of the Duke and Durham community at Duke…