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Intersections Working Group
Thursday, March 28, 2024, 12:00 pm

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...

Location
McCosh Hall B14
Speaker
Sponsor
Department of English
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
AAS Event
AAS Sophomore Open House
Thursday, March 28, 2024, 5:00 pm

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.

Location
Hobson-Rogers Seminar Room 104, Morrison Hall
Undergraduate
AAS Recommended Event
Artist Conversation: Alia Bensliman and May Kosba
Thursday, March 28, 2024, 5:30 pm

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...

Location
Art on Hulfish
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
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Co-Writing Lab
Friday, March 29, 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
AAS Co-Sponsored Event
The Caribbean Artists Movement: New Perspectives
Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 4:30 pm

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...

Location
McCosh Hall, 40
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Department of English
  • Humanities Council
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
AAS Event
AY24 Faculty-Graduate Seminar: "Black Movement :: Black Stillness" ft. Bettina Judd (University of Washington)
Tuesday, April 2, 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...

Location
Hobson-Rogers Seminar Room, 104 Morrison Hall
Speaker
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
AAS Co-Sponsored Event
Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES)
Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 12:00 pm

On April 3, 4, and 5th, 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...

  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
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More Than Just Clothes: Fashioning Narratives in Public-Facing Research
Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 6:00 pm

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...

Location
Barfield-Johnson Seminar Room, 201 Morrison Hall
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Undergraduate
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Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES)
Thursday, April 4, 2024, 6:00 pm

On April 3, 4, and 5th, 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...

  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
AAS Recommended Event
YWCA Princeton's Stand Against Racism 2024
Thursday, April 4, 2024, 7:00 pm

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...

Location
ETS Rosedale Road
Speaker
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
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Co-Writing Lab
Friday, April 5, 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
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Democracy in Action Series: Queer Black Advocacy in New Jersey
Friday, April 5, 2024, 12:00 pm

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...

Location
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, A17
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
AAS Co-Sponsored Event
Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES)
Friday, April 5, 2024, 6:30 pm

On April 3, 4, and 5th, 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...

  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
AAS Co-Sponsored Event
Crystal Wilkinson, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts
Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 5:00 pm

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...

  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
AAS Event
Joy Returns Home: Dance of the African Diaspora and Traditions of Unity
Thursday, April 11, 2024

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…

Location
Lewis Center for the Arts, Ellie's Studio
Speakers
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
AAS Event
Joy Returns Home: Dance of the African Diaspora and Traditions of Unity
Friday, April 12, 2024

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…

Location
Lewis Center for the Arts, Ellie's Studio
Speakers
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
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Undocumented Black Citizen Symposium
Friday, April 12, 2024, 8:30 am

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...

Location
Chancellor Green Rotunda
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
AAS Co-Sponsored Event
Co-Writing Lab
Friday, April 12, 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
AAS Event
Joy Returns Home: Dance of the African Diaspora and Traditions of Unity
Saturday, April 13, 2024

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…

Location
Lewis Center for the Arts, Ellie's Studio
Speakers
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
AAS Event
AAS Spring Term Study Breaks
Saturday, April 13, 2024, 10:00 am

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!

Location
Morrison Hall, Gathering Space
Undergraduate
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Still We Rise: Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion
Monday, April 15, 2024, 5:30 pm

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...

Location
James Stewart Film Theater
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
AAS Event
AY24 Faculty-Graduate Seminar: "Black Movement :: Black Stillness" ft.Crystal Fleming (Stony Brook University)
Tuesday, April 16, 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...

Location
Hobson-Rogers Seminar Room, 104 Morrison Hall
Speaker
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
AAS Recommended Event
In conversation Eddie Glaude Jr & Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: "We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For"
Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 6:00 pm

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 ...

Location
Princeton Public Library
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
AAS Co-Sponsored Event
Co-Writing Lab
Friday, April 19, 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
AAS Event
AAS Spring Term Study Breaks
Monday, April 22, 2024, 4:30 pm

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!

Location
Morrison Hall, Gathering Space
Undergraduate
AAS Recommended Event
Nell Irvin Painter & Ruha Benjamin In Conversation, "I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays"
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 6:00 pm

New York Times bestselling author of The History of White People and Old in Art School, presents a comprehensive new collection of essays spanning art, politics, and the legacy of racism that shapes American history as we know it...

Location
Labyrinth Books
Speakers
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
AAS Co-Sponsored Event
Co-Writing Lab
Friday, April 26, 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
AAS Co-Sponsored Event
Abolition Geography Student Symposium
Saturday, April 27, 2024, 10:00 am
Speaker
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
AAS Recommended Event
Ruha Benjamin & Lorgia García Peña In Conversation, "Imagination: A Manifesto"
Thursday, May 2, 2024, 7:00 pm

The award-winning author is joined in conversation by Lorgia García Peña to discuss Benjamin’s new, revelatory work, in which she calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future.

A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child?…

Location
Pinceton Public library
Speakers
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Affairs
  • Public
  • Undergraduate
AAS Recommended Event
Nat Turner and the Late Emancipation Novel
Sunday, May 5, 2024, 4:30 pm

The Book of Black Culture” is Christopher Freeburg’s current book in progress. This book tells the story of how enslaved Africans and their...

Location
McCosh Hall, Room 40
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Department of English
  • Humanities Council
AAS Event
AAS Spring Term Study Breaks
Monday, May 6, 2024, 9:00 am

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!

Location
Morrison Hall, Gathering Space
Undergraduate

 


 

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