The symposium will be webcast live at: http://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/

The symposium will also be shown on local cable stations (Channel 21 for FiOS customers and Channel 27 for Xfinity customers). A closed-captioning video of the symposium will be available for viewing at a later date on the Princeton & Slavery Project website.

For those viewing the symposium online, we invite you to look through the Princeton & Slavery Project Symposium program.

The Princeton & Slavery Project website is now live. We invite you to explore the site: https://slavery.princeton.edu

Currently both the keynote address by Toni Morrison on Friday, November 17, and the Princeton & Slavery Project Symposium on Saturday, November 18 are all sold out. There are limited tickets remaining for the documentary film screenings.

The Princeton & Slavery Project, a scholarly investigation of Princeton University’s historical engagement with the institution of slavery, will launch its website and host a scholarly symposium on November 17-18, 2017. Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison will deliver the keynote address. Other featured speakers include Project director Martha A. Sandweiss (Princeton University), Ruth Simmons (Brown University), Leslie Harris (Northwestern University), Eric Foner (Columbia University), and Danielle Allen (Harvard University).

Weekend events will also include McCarter Theatre’s world premiere of “The Princeton and Slavery Plays,” seven newly-commissioned short plays based on historical documents uncovered as a part of the research project. Playwrights include:  Nathan Alan Davis, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Dipika Guha, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins ’06, Kwame Kwei-Armah, McCarter Artistic Director and Resident Playwright Emily Mann, and Regina Taylor.

In addition, the Princeton University Art Museum will host a public conversation with Titus Kaphar related to a new sculpture commissioned for the Project that explores the ways in which we create identity, racial structures, and economies in visual form. In the Museum’s galleries, artworks from Kaphar’s existing body of work will be featured in an exhibition that relates more broadly to representations of history in the United States, and in particular how African American identity is constructed and reinforced by their visual representation and/or absence in art.