Sites of Memory: A Symposium on Toni Morrison and the Archive brings together scholars, artists, writers, and activists to celebrate, interrogate, and reflect upon the archive in relation to Toni Morrison’s writing, her teaching, and her public intellectual work. This symposium breaks new ground about her archive, the Toni Morrison Papers, about less recognized aspects of her art: her composition practices, her unpublished writings, and her daily life as a teacher at Princeton.
***Registration for Sites of Memory has reached full capacity. We are working to make more tickets available and are releasing tickets to the waitlist as spots become available.***
Register for the Sites of Memory Symposium here. Please note that each day of the Symposium has a separate registration page. If one or more days that you would like to attend are currently sold out please add yourself to the waitlist(s) through the respective Eventbrite pages. In the event of cancellations or additional seats becoming available, we will register as many waitlisted attendees as possible.
Symposium schedule
Unless Noted, all Symposium events will be held in the Lewis Center for the Arts Complex, 122 Alexander Street, Princeton, NJ, 08544.
Thursday, March 23, 2023
2pm Cyanotype Workshop: Archiving Alison Saar and Toni Morrison w/Nesanet Abegaze
185 Nassau (registration required)
4:00pm-5:00pm Registration
5:00pm-6:30pm Keynote Event: No one told me it was like this: Toni Morrison and The Habit of Art. Edwidge Danticat
6:30pm-8:00pm Opening Reception
Friday, March 24, 2023
9:30am-10:15am Coffee and Continental Breakfast/Registration
10:15am-10:30am Opening Remarks and Welcome
10:30am-12:00pm Looking After Morrison
12:00pm-1:15pm Lunch
1:30pm-3:00pm Writing the Archive
3:15pm-4:45pm Morrison’s Classicism
5:00pm Gallery Visits and Tours
8:00pm The Toni Morrison Project
Berlind Rehearsal Room, McCarter Theatre Center (ticketed event)
Saturday, March 25, 2023
9:30am-10:15am Coffee and Continental Breakfast/Registration
10:30am-12:00pm “nobody knew for what”: Toni Morrison’s Clearings of Earth for Art and Art for Earth
12:00pm-1:15pm Lunch
1:30pm-3:00pm Archival Imaginaries
3:30pm-5:00pm Closing Plenary: A Conversation between Evie Shockley and Alison Saar
5:00pm-6:30pm Closing Reception
8:00pm The Toni Morrison Project: Daniel Alexander Jones and Mame Diarra Speis
Berlind Rehearsal Room, McCarter Theatre Center (ticketed event)