Curating and Hosting #IWonderU40 Hybrid Prince Symposium Save The Dates Join us on April 17–19, 2026 (Friday–Sunday) for #IWonderU40, a HYBRID symposium, celebrating two landmark anniversaries: ten years since Prince’s passing and forty years since his visionary 1986 releases, the Parade album and his second narrative film Under the Cherry Moon . The speakers and schedule at a glance are on the…
Organizing and Hosting NYU’s 6th Teaching and Learning with Generative AI Virtual Symposium Join us for NYU’s 6th Teaching and Learning with Generative AI Virtual Symposium: Group Conversations Across NYU Units, hosted by the Office of the Provost. Friday, March 6, 2026 8–11:30am NYC | 4–7:30pm Abu Dhabi | 9pm–12:30am Shanghai This semester, we’re spotlighting group conversations across NYU units…
Speaking at Google’s # EduOnAir Webinar Join us on February 26 for Google’s # EduOnAir, where I’ll share insights from NYU’s 5th Teaching and Learning with Generative AI Virtual Symposium ( https://wp.nyu.edu/2025notebooklm ). I’ll highlight real-world use cases of NotebookLM across teaching, learning, research, and administration from NYU faculty, staff, administrators, and students. My NYU…
Interviewed on When Doves Podcast Parts 1 & 2 If you want to hear two people geek out about Prince, listen below: The conversation was so rich it had to be split into two parts. Part two will be released next Sunday. Sometimes you meet someone for the first time and discover they are also a massive Prince head and when that happens, the conversation simply flows. That’s exactly what happened when…
Spoke at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture about Prince Like Cynthia Erivo says in her book Simply More : “What’s the dream that you don’t even know you have?” Speaking at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library , during its centennial about Prince was one of De Angela s. She was honored to speak at the Schomburg on Tuesday, January 27, 2026,…
Interviewed on WNYC s All of It with Alison Stewart (2026) De Angela was invited to WNYC s All of It with Alison Stewart for a second time to promote the screening and talkback for the iconic concert film, Prince and The Revolution: Live , presented as part of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture s centennial series, Black on Screen: A Century of Radical Visual Culture. She also…
Organized and Hosted #LTT2026 Learning To Teach: (Re)Designing Creative Tech Pedagogy for the GenAI Era, A Virtual UnSymposium De Angela curated, organized, and hosted Learning To Teach: (Re)Designing Creative Tech Pedagogy for the GenAI Era, A Virtual UnSymposium hosted by Integrated Design and Media (IDM) at NYU Tandon School of Engineering on Friday, January 16, 2026 • 8:45am – 6:45pm ET. Eight…
#EroticCity40 Featured in the Journal of Popular Music Studies Massive gratitude to the Journal of Popular Music Studies (JPMS) for featuring last year’s Prince #EroticCity40 Symposium in the Field Notes section of their September 2025 edition! Volume 37, Number 3 (pp. 3–20) Published by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, U.S. Branch (IASPM-US) DOI:…
Do U No 90s Prince? Over 2 days, “ Gaze Deeply and U will C. ” The Exodus has begun. Save the dates and join us on September 20–21, 2025 (Saturday–Sunday) for #Shhh30 , a *VIRTUAL* symposium celebrating the 30th anniversary of Prince’s The Gold Experience and The NPG’s Exodus . Press “ come ” 2 pre-register for FREE. In the meantime, Xplore the schedule at a glance , speakers + more here on the…
At the #PopLife40 virtual symposium on April 11-13, 2025 (Fri-Sun), we celebrated 40 years of Prince’s Around The World In A Day (ATWIAD) , The Family , and Sheila E.’s Romance 1600, all of which Prince produced, arranged, composed, and performed with the assistance of some amazing musical collaborators! ATWIAD marked the bold and unexpected left turn Prince took while still riding the wave of…
While it premiered on Tuesday, April 8, the doc can be currently streamed from the PBS YouTube channel or the PBS website . De Angela is thrilled to be featured as a scholar and cultural critic in We Want the Funk! , a brand-new documentary from Emmy® Award-winner Stanley Nelson (who is also the Director of the equally important, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool documentary) and Co-Director/Producer…
Curated and Moderated Prince Panel for PopCon 2025 At the 23rd Annual #PopConference (PopCon 2025), held at USC Thornton School of Music on Friday, March 14, 2025, I curated and moderated a multidisciplinary panel titled Dressed to Thrill: Tracing the Cultural Impact of Prince s Iconic Fashion and Style . As Prince s influence on popular culture continues to resonate across generations, this panel…
De Angela joins Arthur Turnbull on ENTRY POINTS . They dive deep into her work in higher education, focusing on the future of teaching and learning with generative AI. Of course, the discussion wouldn’t be complete without talking about… drumroll… Prince! Audio Join them on Apple Podcasts, Spotify & elsewhere Video You can watch a video of the conversation on YouTube .
Symposium website: https://come.polishedsolid.com The Prince #Come30 virtual symposium, celebrating 30 years of Prince’s Come, was held on August 10-11, 2024 (Sat-Sun)! Over 2 days, there were 41 speakers over a total of 8 sessions, featuring 12 presentations over 3 presentation panels, 4 roundtable discussions, and an integrated segment of the weekly What Did Prince Do This Week? on the…
De Angela is presenting at the Prince on Screen: Images and Ideology Conference at the University of Minnesota on June 17-18, 2024 ! This conference is curated by the International Centre 4 Prince Studies! De Angela s presentation is “ Life Is Just A Party, And Parties Weren’t Meant To Last: Life, Death, And Celebration In Prince s Cinematic And Musical Odyssey, by De Angela Duff on the “Brave New…
Symposium website: https://eroticcity.polishedsolid.com The #EroticCity40 symposium was held at NYU 370 Jay Street, Rm 202, Brooklyn, NY & livestreamed on April 12–14, 2024 (Friday through Sunday) to celebrate the four albums that defined 1984—Prince’s Purple Rain , The Time’s Ice Cream Castle , Apollonia 6 , and Sheila E’s The Glamorous Life —alongside the Purple Rain film. Over 3 days, there…
De Angela presented and moderated at the 22nd annual Pop Conference at the USC Thornton School of Music, March 7-9, 2024! Her presentation was “Wax ‘N Facts: A Musical Odyssey of an Avid Record Collector and a Liner Notes Junkie! on the Legacy Junkies and Collectors: The Archive and the Personal panel! Abstract: Record collecting and music listening practices are more than hobbies; they are sacred…
#DPSDVC Diamonds and Pearls Super Deluxe Virtual Celebration #DPSDVC Diamonds and Pearls Super Deluxe Virtual Celebration was a 2-day virtual celebration on Saturday, December 9, 2023, and Sunday, December 10, 2023, for the release of Prince’s Diamonds and Pearls Super Deluxe . This event was in the spirit of the #W2AVC Welcome 2 America Virtual Celebration (2021), #SOTTSDC Sign O’ The Times Super…
Wrote Essay for Prince s Grammy-Nominated Diamonds and Pearls Super Deluxe box set How can I convey the unlanguageable (as my brother in Lovesexy would say)? It s nearly impossible as I struggle to find words to express this singular moment. So, I ll tell you a quick story instead. When I got my copies of the Prince s Grammy-nominated Diamonds and Pearls Super Deluxe Box Set, I thought once I had…
What Did Prince Do This Week? Virtual Book Club Series What Did Prince Do This Week? #WDPDTW New Year! New Prince project! What Did Prince Do This Week? #WDPDTW Hope you’ll join De Angela, co-host Michael Dean, and various guests for a very, very, very slow read of Duane Tudahl s entire Prince Studio Sessions book series through a weekly, online book club, beginning Sat, 7 January 2023. They are…