I’m pleased to announce this event to take place Tuesday, Sept 23rd, 6:30-8 pm in 010 East Pyne Hall at Princeton University, sponsored by Princeton Alumni for Palestine and co-sponsored by Princeton’s Department of African American Studies, along with the Africa World Initiative, the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab, Princeton Israeli Apartheid Divest, Seminarians for Peace and Justice, Princeton Students for Justice in Palestine, Sunrise Princeton, the Alliance of Jewish Progressives, Princeton MASJID, and Not in Our Town Princeton. The event is open to the public, first come, first served.

Robert Massie‘s talk aims to bring together a lifetime’s work on divestment, with particular reference to the anti-apartheid struggle, by discussing divestment as an instrument of social justice and moral change. What challenges do activists face when invoking divestment? What can divestment accomplish? What are its limits? Where can it work, and where not?

Massie is the author of Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South Africa During the Apartheid Years (1998). He is a Princeton graduate (’78), and an architect and chronicler of the struggle for divestment at Princeton and throughout the country. He is currently Senior Research Scholar and Co-Director of SIRI Pathways to Consensus at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Here’s a link to his Wikipedia page, and to a profile in the alumni magazine of Harvard Business School.

Many thanks to Ruha Benjamin for helping to put this event together.

PS. Apologies for the fact that the talk was scheduled on Rosh Hashana. Efforts were made to avoid that day, but given our scheduling constraints, Tuesday the 23rd ended up being the only available day.