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Afro-Futurism and the Graphics of Octavia Butler
Jul 31, 2020, 2:00 pm

Please join us for the latest live webinar in our series highlighting Special Collections at Princeton University Library, focusing on black speculative fiction, also called Afro-futurism, of Octavia E. Butler.

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Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Jul 1, 2020, 7:00 pm

Eddie Glaude Jr. and Cornel West discuss the enduring legacy of James Baldwin and lessons from his work for confronting racism today.

This event is co-sponsored by Labyrinth Books

To order Glaude’s Begin Again and other books by Eddie Glaude and Cornel West from…

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Online Event

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Virtual Event — Conversation with a Black Female Theater Maker
Jun 26, 2020, 4:45 pm

You're invited! FRIDAY June 26th - Award-winning costume designer TONI-LESLIE JAMES in conversation with alumnae Abigail Jean-Baptiste '18 and Victoria Davidjohn '19 

The Program in Theatre is creating space for Princeton African American Studies alum 

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Virtual Event

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Race in the COVID Era: What America's Racism and Xenophobia Means for Today
Jun 8, 2020, 4:00 pm

As COVID-19 has swept across the United States, it has unmasked and amplified existing racial inequities.  Rampant fear and misinformation has provoked a wave of discrimination, harassment, and hate targeting those of Chinese and Asian descent.  The disease has also had a disproportionate toll on historically marginalized…

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[RESCHEDULED] Global Plantation Series: A Land of Extraordinary Quarantines
Jun 5, 2020, 12:00 pm

A conversation between Shiraz Bayjoo and Anna Arabindan-Kesson

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Women and Migration(s)
Jun 3, 2020, 1:00 pm

Join NYU Washington, DC in welcoming NYU Tisch'sDeb Willis and Ellyn Toscano with Cheryl Finley of Spelman's AUC Art Collective for this special DC Dialogues program on Women and Migration(s)webinar. This event is also sponsored by NYU's Office of Global…

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The Power of Mentors: Blazing Paths for Underrepresented Minorities in STEM
Jun 3, 2020, 9:15 am

Since his selection as Princeton’s first black valedictorian, Nicholas Johnson has spoken eloquently about the importance of role models and mentors to his success at the University. In this conversation, The Power of Mentors: Blazing Paths for Underrepresented Minorities in STEM, Johnson will explore this topic in greater depth with:

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2020 AAS Virtual Class Day
Jun 1, 2020, 1:00 pm

Join the Department of African American Studies as we virtually celebrate the achievements of our 2020 graduates.

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Virtual Commencement 2020
May 31, 2020, 1:00 pm

Princeton University will hold a virtual Commencement ceremony to honor the GREAT Class of 2020 on Sunday, May 31, 2020, 1 p.m. ET. Many of the University’s academic departments, programs, institutes, centers, and student organizations also are 

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Online via livestream
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Carl A. Fields Center Virtual Cultural Graduations
May 30, 2020, 11:00 am

Join us in celebrating Princeton's Class of 2020! The Carl A. Fields Center's Cultural Graduation videos will be released this Saturday, May 30, 2020 at 11 am EST on CAF's website.

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Staying Alive, But Also Staying Alive: Reflections on how the "Pandemic is a Portal"
May 15, 2020, 2:00 pm

The global spread of COVID-19 has laid bare the ravages of systemic racism and inequity. Dr. Ruha Benjamin situates this data within the broader context of social inequity and the longer history of scientific and medical racism. After Dr. Benjamin's presentation, commenting will be Dr. Nicole Fleetwood and Dr. Monica McLemore, who will engage…

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Facebook.com/PriceInstitute

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#DOCUHISTORY: PBS'S RECONSTRUCTION
May 14, 2020, 5:00 pm

Join us Thursday, May 14, 2020, for a screening and Twitter discussion of the final hour of the PBS documentary, Reconstruction: After the Civil War (2019). The turn of the century is known as the "nadir" of race relations, when white supremacy was ascendant and African Americans faced both physical and psychological oppression…

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Watch Party & Twitter Conversation

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Labyrinth and the Library Live-Streaming: Nicole Fleetwood and Ruha Benjamin Discuss Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
May 13, 2020, 6:00 pm

Nicole Fleetwood's new book is a powerful document of the inner lives and creative visions of men and women rendered invisible by Americas prison system. We invite you out for a conversation between her and acclaimed scholar and critic Ruha Benjamin.

More than two million people are currently behind bars in the…

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Right to Health Web-In "Racial Capitalism and the COVID-19 Catastrophe"
May 9, 2020, 3:00 pm

In our next Right to Health Web-In "Racial Capitalism and the COVID-19 Catastrophe,” we hope to unpack what’s led to the appalling inequalities in COVID-19 outcomes along many social fault lines, but perhaps most perniciously along the lines of race in America.

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Pandemic, Creating a Usable Past: Epidemic History, COVID-19, and the Future of Health
May 8, 2020, 12:00 am

In the face of COVID-19, historians of public health, nursing, and medicine come together to reflect on past epidemics and their implications for how we confront today’s unfolding crisis.

Those who study epidemics and pandemics in the past see powerful echoes in the present crisis. In the past as today, families and societies…

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2019-2020 Faculty-Graduate Seminar Featuring Antionette D. Carroll (Creative Reaction Lab)
Apr 29, 2020, 4:30 pm

As our media-saturated culture exhausts every possible angle of consuming race, a new generation of scholars, activists, and artists has turned to investigating the structuring conditions of how blackness is experienced in everyday life.

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2019-2020 Faculty-Graduate Seminar Featuring Akira Drake Rodriguez (University of Pennsylvania)
Apr 22, 2020, 4:30 pm

As our media-saturated culture exhausts every possible angle of consuming race, a new generation of scholars, activists, and artists has turned to investigating the structuring conditions of how blackness is experienced in everyday life.

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2019-2020 Faculty-Graduate Seminar Featuring TreaAndrea Russworm (University of Massachusetts)
Apr 8, 2020, 4:30 pm

As our media-saturated culture exhausts every possible angle of consuming race, a new generation of scholars, activists, and artists has turned to investigating the structuring conditions of how blackness is experienced in everyday life.

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The Antislavery Moment: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Origins of the Abolitionist Impulse
Mar 27, 2020, 10:15 am

This conference will feature prominent scholars who work on abolition, anti-slavery politics, capitalism, and slavery, and will attempt to revisit the classic questions about the relationship between the marketplace and abolition in light of the new historiographical trends.

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Dickinson Hall, Room 211
2019-2020 Faculty-Graduate Seminar Featuring Korey Garibaldi (University of Notre Dame)
Mar 25, 2020, 4:30 pm
  Black Design: History, Theory & Practice

We explore what it means to “do” Black Studies in practice-based fields.

As our media-saturated culture exhausts every possible angle of consuming race, a new generation of scholars, activists, and artists has…

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Inaugural PPPR Panel: "Religion in the Modern University."
Mar 23, 2020, 4:30 pm

What is religion’s place in the academy today? Are religious perspectives viable in a pluralistic academic setting? In his lucid and penetrating essay Religion in the University," prominent philosopher of religion Nicholas Wolterstorff draws on authors ranging from Max Weber and John Locke to Ludwig Wittgenstein and Charles Taylor to argue that religious orientations and voices do have a home in modern academic discussion. He also offers a sketch of what that home should look like. This author-meets-critics panel discussion is the inaugural event for Princeton’s new Project in Philosophy and Religion (https://pppr.princeton.edu). Reception to follow.

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McCormick 101, Princeton University

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CALL FOR ENTRIES: Undergraduate Prize Submissions, Dept. of English (Due 3/11/19)
Mar 13, 2020, 11:59 pm

The Department of English has Class Day Prizes for Creative Writers! All undergraduate students are welcome to enter poetry, essays and short stories for these awards. Prizes will be awarded at the end of the term. To submit a prize entry, click on the prize descriptions below or visit our website.

2019-2020 Faculty-Graduate Seminar Featuring Sara Zewde (Studio Zewde)
Mar 11, 2020, 4:30 pm

As our media-saturated culture exhausts every possible angle of consuming race, a new generation of scholars, activists, and artists has turned to investigating the structuring conditions of how blackness is experienced in everyday life.

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Barfield-Johnson Seminar Room (201) , Stanhope Hall, Princeton University

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TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPES: Memory and Slavery across the Americas
Mar 5, 2020, 8:00 am

Students in Professor Anna Arabindan-Kesson’s fall 2019 course, “Seeing to Remember: Representing Slavery Across the Black Atlantic,” curated this exhibition, which includes photographs recently acquired by the Museum to expand its engagement with the visual history of slavery in the United States.
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Art Museum
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Malachi Crawford - U.S. Courts and African-American Free Speech in the Nation of Islam
Feb 28, 2020, 10:15 am

Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies Presents: Why Muslims Wear Bow Ties — Commentator: Imani Perry, Princeton University

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211 Dickinson Hall

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Debate with the Rikers Debate Project
Feb 27, 2020, 7:00 pm

A special public debate between members of the Princeton Debate Panel and Rikers Debate Project Alumni recorded by the New Yorker! The Rikers Debate Project is a volunteer run organization that teaches competitive debate skills to current and formerly incarcerated debaters across the country.

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The American Whig-Cliosophic Society, 1 Whig Hall, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
2019-2020 Faculty-Graduate Seminar Featuring Toni L. Griffin, Harvard University
Feb 26, 2020, 12:00 am

As our media-saturated culture exhausts every possible angle of consuming race, a new generation of scholars, activists, and artists has turned to investigating the structuring conditions of how blackness is experienced in everyday life.

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Barfield - Johnson Seminar Room (201) , Stanhope Hall, Princeton University

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Black Voters Matter: 2020 Election
Feb 25, 2020, 5:00 pm

A conversation about the 2020 Election with LaTosha Brown and Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., moderated by Imani Perry.

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101 McCormick Hall, Princeton University

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Serving the Last Plantation
Feb 24, 2020, 12:00 pm

In this lecture, Dr. Jones analyzes how federal lawmakers, as overseers of the congressional workplace, retreat from the very principles they promulgate in federal workplace law, and alternatively, maintain a workplace that is above the law.

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Barfield - Johnson Seminar Room (201) , Stanhope Hall, Princeton University

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C.K. Williams Reading Series: Aaron Robertson
Feb 21, 2020, 5:00 pm

Fiction translator and Princeton alum Aaron Robertson ’17 reads from his work along with creative writing seniors Liza Milov, Abbie Minard, Richard Peng, Rasheeda Saka, and Destiny Salter '20. Book sales and signing will follow the readings.

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William Greaves: Psychodrama, Interruption, and Circulation
Feb 21, 2020, 1:00 pm

 

The Program in Visual Arts presents a day-long symposium centered on the work of William Greaves, a key figure in American filmmaking. This symposium shares Greaves’ work with a new generation and gives access to some of his films that have rarely been screened. The events, organized by artists Fia…

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Hurley Gallery
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Film Screening of Say Amen, Somebody By George T. Nierenberg
Feb 20, 2020, 6:00 pm

One of the most acclaimed music documentaries of all time, Say Amen, Somebody is George Nierenberg’s masterpiece — a joyous, funny, deeply emotional celebration of African American culture, featuring the father of Gospel, Thomas A. Dorsey (“Precious Lord, Take My Hand”); its matron, Mother Willie Mae Ford Smith; and earth-shaking…

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McCORMICK 101
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Conversation: Hugh Hayden and Chika Okeke-Agulu
Feb 20, 2020, 5:30 pm

Artist Hugh Hayden explores history, race and the creation of the America we know today through a series of site-responsive installations at [email protected], the Princeton University Art Museum’s gallery space in downtown Princeton. In this talk, Hayden will join Princeton Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu, who specializes in African and African Diasporic art history and theory, for a conversation about Creation Myths on Thursday, Feb. 20, at 5:30 p.m. in 50 McCosh Hall, followed by a reception at the Museum.

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Princeton University Art Museum

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Caste and Race: Global Marginality and Solidarity
Feb 19, 2020, 12:00 pm

Caste matters, and not just in South Asia. This discussion will examine casteist and racist logics of oppression and discrimination, and explore possibilities of global solidarity across social justice movements. The event features Suraj Yengde, author…

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SoA South Gallery, Princeton University

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2019-2020 Faculty-Graduate Seminar Featuring Jomo Tariku (Designer)
Feb 12, 2020, 4:30 pm

As our media-saturated culture exhausts every possible angle of consuming race, a new generation of scholars, activists, and artists has turned to investigating the structuring conditions of how blackness is experienced in everyday life.

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Barfield - Johnson Seminar Room (201) Stanhope Hall, Princeton University

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Space, Time, and Religion in Early America - Keynote Address featuring Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
Feb 6, 2020, 4:30 pm

Twenty years after the publication of his foundational first book, Dr. Glaude reflects on the intellectual currents shaping the book and how they have informed his subsequent scholarly work and his public interventions.

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Lewis Library, Room 120
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The Toni Morrison Conversations: Anna Deavere Smith and Marlon James
Feb 4, 2020, 7:30 pm

Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts presents The Toni Morrison Conversations — Artists Reflect on Toni Morrison’s Gifts to Life, Art and Culture - Anna Deavere Smith and Marlon James join Tracy K. Smith in the second in a series of Princeton Atelier events featuring artists engaging with themes, questions and possibilities relevant to the work and legacy of writer Toni Morrison

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Richardson Auditorium

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Vision and Value: Cotton and the Materiality of Race
Jan 20, 2020, 5:00 pm

This talk 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 how cotton materially influenced the way black bodies were seen,…

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Research Forum Seminar Room, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square, Penton Rise, King’s Cross, London, WC1X 9EW

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PIIRS Undergraduate Fellowship
Dec 15, 2019, 12:00 am

The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) administers a program aimed at facilitating summer international research for the senior thesis. These fellowships are available to students working in any discipline who are about to begin the second semester of their junior year on campus, and are interested in…

2019-2020 Faculty-Graduate Seminar Featuring Kortney Ryan Ziegler, Ph.D.
Dec 11, 2019, 4:30 pm

As our media-saturated culture exhausts every possible angle of consuming race, a new generation of scholars, activists, and artists has turned to investigating the structuring conditions of how blackness is experienced in everyday life.

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Barfield - Johnson Seminar Room (201) Stanhope Hall, Princeton University

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The Spirit of Truth-Seeking II: Art Exhibition Opening
Dec 7, 2019, 9:00 am

The Arts Council of Princeton will host an exhibit of pieces commissioned from “The Spirit of Truth-Seeking I,” in which Being Human invited local artists using any medium to capture the Friday, October 11 conversation among Princeton…

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Arts Council of Princeton

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Sentenced to Science: One Man's Story and the History of Prison Experimentation
Dec 3, 2019, 4:19 pm

For much of the 20th century, incarcerated individuals were exploited by medical researchers. In an enlightening talk, Allen Hornblum, a criminal justice expert and author of Acres of Skin, and Yusef Anthony, a formerly incarcerated man who was repeatedly subjected to medical experimentation, will present this sordid history and take questions on this once widespread and disturbing American practice. This event will be held on Tuesday, December 3rd at 4:30 p.m. in McCormick 101 (Architecture Building), and is generously sponsored by the Princeton Progressives.

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McCormick 101
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An Evening with Dr. Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated "Central Park Five"
Nov 20, 2019, 6:30 pm

Dr. Yusef Salaam is a member of the exonerated five (featured on the Netflix series ‘When They See Us’), a group of black and Latino teens falsely convicted of the brutal attack and rape of a young…

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McCosh Hall, Room 10

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AAS Course Event: Artist Talk for AAS 245: “Twentieth-Century African American Art”
Nov 15, 2019, 4:30 pm

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The Toni Morrison Conversations – Bill T. Jones and Deana Lawson
Nov 13, 2019, 7:30 pm

The Toni Morrison Conversations – Artists Reflect on Toni Morrison’s Gifts to Life, Art and Culture.

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The Lewis Center

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2019-2020 Faculty-Graduate Seminar Featuring Tanisha C. Ford (University of Delaware)
Nov 13, 2019, 4:30 pm

Tanisha C. Ford is an award-winning writer, cultural critic, and historian, and a former Postdoctoral Fellow in African American Studies at Princeton. Ford is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History at the University of Delaware, where she teaches courses on Black feminism, fashion and beauty, movements for social justice, youth culture, and material culture.

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Barfield - Johnson Seminar Room (201) Stanhope Hall, Princeton University

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Princeton Public Library and the Paul Robeson House Present: Eddie Glaude & Steve Shapiro in Conversation
Nov 12, 2019, 6:00 pm

It is an honor to invite you to an event with the renowned photographer, documentarian, and activist Steve Shapiro, who will be discussing the illustrated version of Baldwin's The Fire Next Time, to which he contributed the photographs, with Eddie Glaude. Glaude's eagerly awaited book on Baldwin will be out…

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Labyrinth Books Princeton

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Hustlers Across Africa: How We Can Catapult African Ingenuity into Modern Ubiquity
Nov 5, 2019, 6:30 pm

During an impromptu trip to Accra, Ghana, Wilglory Tanjong ‘18 built the African Hustle Series. The Series is an online media platform that showcases the businesses young Africans are building across…

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Carl A. Fields Center, Multipurpose Room 104

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Translating Poetry, Translating Blackness
Nov 5, 2019, 12:00 pm

Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities (IHUM); Program in Creative Writing Over the last 50 years the field of translation studies has developed a substantial discourse around the topic of translation, in all of its forms. Yet the topic of “race” in relation to…
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399 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, Princeton University

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