Princeton University

Paul Berman
Anschutz Distinguished Fellow

Nathaniel Hawthorne and American Exceptionalism

Thursday, April 18
April 18
4:30 p.m.
219 Aaron Burr Hall

Conference is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
See here for more information.

Sexuality, Immigration, and the Racial State: Towards an Effective Queer Politic
A Talk by Chandan Reddy

Tuesday, Mar 26, 12:00 p.m.– 1:00 p.m.
Women's Center Conference Room (Frist Campus Center, Room 243)

In this talk, American Studies scholar Chandan Reddy reviews the many different moments during which the state regulation of homosexuality and immigration have intersected with one another since the middle of the 20th century. Charting these intersections can allow policy makers, advocates, and LGBTQ of color activists to see and pursue a distinct trajectory of anti-state politics within the current "Immigrant Rights" movement. Lunch provided.
Sponsored by the Center for Human Values, Department of English, LGBT Center, Program in American Studies, and Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies

Franklin Odo
The Asian American Experience in the Nation's Service
Public Service and Public History in America

Tuesday, March 5
4:30 p.m.
Whig Hall Senate Chamber

Sponsored by Asian American Student Association and The American Whig-Cliosophic Society

FFR LGBTQ Spring Lecture
Building an Irresistible Revolution: A Conversation with Urvashi Vaid

Tuesday, Mar 5, 7:00 p.m.– 8:00 p.m.
Robertson Hall, Dodds Auditorium

Urvashi Vaid is a community organizer, scholar, writer, and attorney who has been a leader in the LGBTQA movement for nearly three decades. The former executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, founder of their policy institute, and current Director of the Engaging Tradition Project at Columbia Law School will talk about her new book, Irresistible Revolution, as well as the history, present state, and future opportunities for the LGBTQA Movement.
Sponsored by the Fund for Reunion/Princeton BTGALA, the LGBT Center, Program in American Studies, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Program in Law and Public Affairs, and Woodrow Wilson School

AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY SEMINAR
4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
February 7, 2013

Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University

“The Uses of Alarmism: Threat Inflation and American Foreign Policy since 1945”

Screening of “The Outs”

Discussion with Adam Goldman (one of Out Magazine's Out100 in 2012)! 

The co-creator, writer, and star, Mr. Goldman will be screening portions of his webseries “The Outs” over dinner. 

Sponsored by the Queer Graduate Caucus, with support from the LGBT Center, Program in American Studies, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Program in Visual Arts

December 4
6:00 p.m.
Whig Oakes Lounge

Anschutz Lecture

David Binder

Adventures in the Theater
a conversation with Karen Fricker

Intersections
An Inaugural Black Queer Sexuality Studies
Graduate Student Conference

October 20, 2012
9:00
Dodds Auditorium (Woodrow Wilson School)

Princeton University's first annual Black Queer Sexuality Studies Conference was held on October 20, 2012. The conference created a public forum for dialogue on innovative research across the many disciplines and fields that interrogate sites of blackness and queerness and the intersections between the two. We invited graduate students from within and outside of Princeton University to present original work in a multi-panel, one-day conference. Professor Kara Keeling (USC) served as our keynote speaker.

The inaugural theme, "Intersections," aimed to illumine the interdisciplinary work characteristic of black queer sexuality studies. In the seminal anthology, Black Queer Studies, E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson introduced the field and the volume with a host of claims about how to embrace the intersectionality at its core: "[work in the field should] endorse the double cross of affirming the inclusivity mobilized under the sign of 'queer' while claiming the racial, historical and cultural specificity attached to the marker black." Johnson and Henderson sought to open up space for academic inquiry that married the methodologies and activist impulses of black studies and queer studies in order to finally animate the study of a number of traditional disciplines. Honoring the crucial work of pioneering scholars of black queer studies, our conference seeked to foster dialogue between emerging scholars whose work engages both black and queer studies.

Co-sponsored by The Center for African American Studies, The Program in American Studies, The Graduate School of Princeton University, The Department of History, The Davis Center for Historical Studies, The University Center for Human Values, and the Lewis Center for the Arts.

Possessive Collectivism: Ownership and the Politics of Credit Access in Late-Twentieth Century America
Greta Krippner, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan

Monday, October 15
12:15 - 1:30
Marvin Bressler Conference Room (165 Wallace Hall)

Culture and Inequality Workshop
Sponsored by Department of Sociology

OCTOBER EVENTS

Join us for the reading, to be followed by a conversation with the playwright.  4:30pm to 6:00pm. 

Constitution Day Lecture

The Belief in Things Unseen:
Frederick Douglass and the Constitutional Imagination

Thursday
September 13, 2012
4:30 p.m.
Dodds Auditorium
Robertson Hall

Imani Perry
Professor of African American  Studies

Commentators:
Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Professor of Politics
Nell Painter, Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita

For more information on the presenters, see here.

For web media, see here.