Center Events

Date Event
Tues., Sept. 15
1 pm
Freshman Open House
Stanhope 201
Alternating Wednesdays
starting Sept. 30
4:30 pm
Faculty-Graduate Seminar
201 Stanhope Hall
Thurs., Oct. 8
7:00 pm
Latina Moves: New Adventures in Performance
Alexandra Vazquez
Marie and Edward Matthews ’53 Acting Studio, Lewis Center for the Arts, 185 Nassau Street
Fri., Oct. 16
12 pm
The Kobolo’s Poetics: Discourse Ecologies and Street Life in Accra, Ghana
Ato Quayson
127 East Pyne
Mon., Oct. 19
4:30 pm
Cornel West Book Reading
Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir
McCosh 10
Thurs., Nov. 12
4:30 pm
Reggaeton: Critical Perspectives
Sponsored by the Center for African American Studies and Program in Latin American Studies
McCormick 101
Thurs., Dec. 10
4:30 pm
Black Studies at 40
Betts Auditorium, Architecture School
Mon., Jan. 18
4:30 pm
Public lecture on Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jonathan Rieder, author of The Word of the Lord is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Co-sponsor: Program in American Studies
Mar. 3–5 "Too Cute: American Style and the New Asian Cool" Conference
Anne Cheng
Tues., Mar. 9
5:30 pm
James Baldwin Lecture
Shirley Tilghman, President of Princeton University
Richardson Auditorium
Tues., April 13 Race & Politics Conference
April 23–25 Akwaaba: African Showcase and Colloquium
May 7 Geri Allen performance
Mon., May 31
1–3 pm
Class Day
Stanhope Hall/Maclean House Garden
West-Belafonte Party

The center sponsors talks and other special events throughout the year. Above, guests attend a reception following a discussion by entertainer and activist Harry Belafonte and Professor Cornel West.


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