Event Archive

Lynchings in the American South left in their wake deep psychological scars and unshakeable, and often unspeakable, memories that haunted generations of African Americans.

The Spring 2021 Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment is organized by Sophie Hochhäusl, Princeton Mellon Fellow, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, African American Studies. The Mellon Forum is supported by the Andrew W.

PIIRS regularly provides funding to support doctoral students interested in conducting pre-dissertation or dissertation research during the winter recess.

The 41st Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture

Register here for From Chaos to Community: A Conversation with Dr. Eddie S. Glaude Jr. on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy, Our Racial Reckoning, and the Path Forward

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.