Event Archive

Please keep in mind that all the events listed below have since past. As a reference, we created a space for past AAS events to be archived.

Black Poetry: A Conference

Sat, Feb 16, 2019, 10:00 am to 9:00 pm

FEATURING:

Location: The Lewis Center

Audience: Alumni, Faculty & Staff, Graduate Students, Public / Open To All, Undergraduate Students

Tags: Co-Sponsorship, Featured Event

Living a Creative Life: A Conversation with Questlove and Imani Perry

Living a Creative Life: A Conversation with Questlove and Imani Perry

Fri, Feb 15, 2019, 9:30 pm

Princeton University Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students is honored to host iconic musician and author Questlove, the drummer and joint frontman for...

Location: McCarter Theatre Center

Audience: Public / Open To All

Speaker(s):

Questlove

The Roots

Imani Perry

Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies

Tags: Featured Event, Lecture

Black Poetry: A Conference

Fri, Feb 15, 2019, 10:00 am to 9:00 pm

FEATURING:

Location: The Lewis Center

Audience: Alumni, Faculty & Staff, Graduate Students, Public / Open To All, Undergraduate Students

Tags: Co-Sponsorship, Featured Event

Black Poetry: A Gala Reading

Thu, Feb 14, 2019, 7:00 pm

Location: Matthews Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center

Audience: Public / Open To All

Tags: Co-Sponsorship

Simon Gikandi: On Art and Suffering

Simon Gikandi: On Art and Suffering

Wed, Feb 13, 2019, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Old Dominion Public Lecture Series in the Humanities Council

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.

Location: 010 East Pyne Hall, Princeton NJ 08544

Audience: Public / Open To All

Speaker(s):

Simon Gikandi

Robert Schirmer Professor of English Department of English

Tags: Lecture

Faculty-Graduate Seminar Featuring Elizabeth Hinton, Harvard University

Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 4:30 pm

This Faculty-Graduate Seminar will feature Elizabeth Hinton, Associate Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

Location: Barfield - Johnson (201)

Audience: Faculty & Staff, Graduate Students

Speaker(s):

Elizabeth Hinton

Naomi Murakawa

Precarious Ph.D: Academic Labor and the Changing University

Thu, Feb 7, 2019, 5:00 pm

It is now more than two decades since academics, workers, students, and organizers first began to name the “crisis” of labor in higher education. In the years since, universities have continued to contract, reorganize, and redistribute resources in ways that have made traditional models of academic labor increasingly untenable for all but the...

Location: Barfield - Johnson (201)

Audience: Faculty & Staff, Graduate Students, Alumni, Undergraduate Students

Speaker(s):

Dr. Tami Navarro

Associate Director, Barnard’s Center for Research on Women

Heath Pearson

Ph.D Candidate, Department of Anthropology & the Department of African American Studies

Dr. Tamara Nopper

Sociology Professor & Union Representative

Prof. Joshua Guild

Department of History and Department of African American Studies, Princeton University

Moderator

Tags: Graduate Affairs Workshop

Race, Walls, & Capitalism: A Social History of the Border Wall

Wed, Feb 6, 2019, 12:00 pm

Today the national border wall is the highest symbol of American identity, freedom, and security. This lecture uncovers how walls and fences were the founding infrastructure of the United States that oriented and consolidated emergent ideas of race, racial hierarchies, and labor in the landscape, marking the spatial shifts of global capitalism...

Location: Seminar Room 201, Stanhope Hall

Audience: Alumni, Faculty & Staff, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students

Speaker(s):

Dr. Olivia Mena

Department of African American Studies

Postdoctoral Research Associate