Event Archive

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?

On the Books: Jim Crow and the Algorithms of Resistance is a collections as data and machine learning project o

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.

DAY ONE

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

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

An event as part of the multi-part conference programme 'British Art and Natural Forces'
Keynote lecture by Anna Arabindan-Kesson

The Program in Visual Arts presents a series of conversations and film screenings that celebrate the work of Black women filmmakers and their unique cinematic contributions to contemporary visual culture.

In this hour-long discussion, African American studies faculty will offer candid reflections on the academic job and fellowship market.

Interested in African American studies and/or education policy? Curious about what the decolonization of the classroom looks like? Do you want to know what the politics of the curriculum vitae are and how we can combat them?

Limited enrollment in each workshop; sign up early.

“Things As They Should Be? A Question for the Humanities”

The Humanities Council kicks off each academic year with an interdisciplinary Colloquium featuring humanities faculty.

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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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.

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.

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 conducting...

“one of America’s leading African-American voices.” — Poetry Foundation

Acclaimed playwright, poet, and essayist Jay Wright reads from his work. Presented by the Program in Creative Writing and the Bain-Swiggett Fund in the Department of English.

This fall, Princeton University will host the USA hub of the international Being Human festival. The public celebration brings together local organizations, including universities, museums, galleries, libraries, schools, and businesses, to engage with research across the humanities.

“The Work of Several Lifetimes,” an exhibition of new work created over the past year by 2018-19 Hodder Fellow Mario Moore, presents etchings, drawings, and large-scale paintings of Black men and women who work at or around the Princeton University campus in blue collar jobs.

In the aftermath of World War I, rumors that the United States was planning to annex the islands of the British West Indies swept across the Caribbean, sparking panics in Trinidad, Jamaica, Barbados, Grenada, and elsewhere.

Join us for a conversation between the Nigerian multimedia artist Taiye Idahor, the 2019 Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artist-in-Residence, and Princeton Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu as they discuss Idahor’s practice, her interest in history, architecture, and popular culture, and the changing art scene in Lagos. A reception in...

A new phrase entered the English lexicon in the late 1960s. Amidst growing calls for “community control” and reparations for slavery the United Methodist Board of Missions announced a $1.3 million grant supporting what they termed “black empowerment”. At the time, few paid attention to what was, in effect, a re-appropriation of Black Power.

Can you imagine how spending a postgraduate year in Asia could be transformative to your future professional career? Learn about the Luce Scholars Program, a yearlong individualized professional postgraduate placement in Asia for U.S. citizens and recent alumni in any concentration except East Asian studies.

Please attend this session to learn about these excellent Princeton fellowship opportunities that undergraduates apply to during the fall semester of their senior year to fund projects undertaken following graduation. This is a great opportunity to design your own project. Please note that both the ReachOut and Dale allow students to undertake...

Dr. Michael Morse, Executive Director of the Churchill Foundation and a Princeton alumnus, will present an overview of the Churchill Scholarship, which funds graduate study in STEM fields at Churchill College, Cambridge. He will discuss the application process and address questions. We will then discuss a range of domestic STEM fellowships,...

Please join fellow concentrators and the Director of Undergraduate Studies who will provide insights into the departmental life, curriculum, advising, and opportunities.  We look forward to meeting you!

Refreshments will be served...

The Marshall Scholarship was established in 1947 to strengthen the U.S.–U.K. relationship by funding U.S. students to undertake postgraduate study and serve as cultural ambassadors throughout the U.K. Marshall Scholars are selected on the basis of their academic achievement and their ability to become leaders in their future fields and to...

Students interested in learning more about the Rhodes and Sachs Worcester Scholarships, both for
postgraduate study at Oxford, are encouraged to attend this information session. We will also speak
about the application process and the benefits of studying in the U.K. We will be joined by recent
Rhodes recipients.

The Humanities Council invites the campus community to join us for a new series of public lectures given by the Council’s Old Dominion Research Professors for 2018-19.