Saladin Ambar joined the Eagleton Institute of Politics in 2017. Dr. Ambar is a Senior Scholar at Eagleton’s Center on the American Governor and Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He is the author of four books, including Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era (Oxford University Press), which […]
Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, will be in conversation with Rashad Robinson, President of Color of Change on how The 1619 Project has become a catalyst for America’s most recent wave of challenges and bans. Click here to register.
Part memoir, part manifesto, Viral Justice by Dr. Ruha Benjamin is a sweeping and deeply personal exploration of how we can transform society through the choices we make every day. Vividly recounting her personal experiences and those of her family, Benjamin shows how seemingly minor decisions and habits could spread virally and have exponentially positive effects. […]
This spin on the traditional Mexican bingo game is a chance for community members to get to know each other through fun and interesting questions. Residents of Princeton are invited to meet their neighbors, discover their differences and embrace their similarities. Weather permitting, the loteria will be played in the community room with twenty participants […]
Speakers: Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel (University of Miami), Jocelyn Fenton Stitt (St. Catherine’s University), Marisa J. Fuentes (Rutgers University) Discussant: Rachel Price (Princeton University) Chair: Andy Alfonso (DCE1, Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University) Moderator: Jannia Gómez González (G5, Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University) Second panel of the Caribbean Studies Speakers Series (CSSS), which represents a collective […]
Photographer Dawoud Bey will discuss his artistic practice, including The Birmingham Project (2012), a series of poignant portraits that responds to the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Join us in person or over Zoom to hear Bey—whose works feature in Time’s Relentless Melt—in conversation with Curator Katherine A. Bussard. Details here. Reception to follow […]
On October 31, 2022, the United States Supreme Court heard oral argument on the cases challenging affirmative action and race-conscious admissions: SFFA v. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC) and SFFA v. Harvard. These cases are a reminder that education has always been a battleground for civil rights and it is imperative that we press […]
Rex Goreleigh, Spring Pruning, 1966. Courtesy of Malcolm Peyton and Barbara Winchester A 2019 Williams College survey of the collections of 18 major US museums found that, of a selection from works by 9,000 named artists, just 1.2% of works were made by Black artists. A panel of museum curators and directors will consider how […]
A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emancipation. In this definitive biography, the first full-scale life of Dunbar in half a century, Gene Andrew Jarrett offers a revelatory account of a writer whose Gilded Age celebrity as the “poet […]
The New Jersey History Conference is an annual program that highlights the importance of studying and sharing state and local history and invites established and emerging scholars, educators, public historians, and a broad spectrum of social science and humanities researchers to present new research that facilitates greater public awareness of New Jersey history. The 2022 […]
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