Mark your calendars for April 17–19, 2026, and subscribe to the symposium newsletter to pre-register and stay up to date on all the latest news about the symposium.

We’ll be celebrating iconic fan favorites from 1986, including Prince’s Parade album, the Parade Tour, and his second narrative film, Under the Cherry Moon.

It will also mark ten years since Prince’s passing in 2016.

This will be our first hybrid symposium:

• Friday will be fully virtual on Zoom Events to accommodate our international lovers, while
• Saturday and Sunday will take place in person at NYU Tandon in Brooklyn, where we previously celebrated both #TripleThreat40 and #EroticCity40.

No Livestreaming

This time around, the in-person sessions will not be livestreamed, but they will be professionally recorded and posted later to YouTube and/or Vimeo.

The schedule at a glance, speakers + more are forthcoming!

This event is FREE, but please consider donating to DIVAS (Digital Interactive Visual Arts Sciences) for Social Justice, a 501(c) nonprofit that empowers and inspires youth living in underserved communities in NYC and very soon MPLS to use tech and visual arts to promote social justice and become change makers in their communities. On Juneteenth 2024, DIVAS opened its first satellite office in South Minneapolis. The organization launched a social justice makerspace designed by the community. To learn more about DIVAS, watch this trailer and visit divasforsocialjustice.org.

MASSIVE THANKS to our wonderful sponsors from NYU and Rev3rend for the INCREDIBLE graphics!

This symposium is dedicated to De Angela’s dearest friend Ricky Wyatt (1971–2025)!

In 2017, De Angela L. Duff was introduced to Mable Ivory by Deanna Martin in front of Webster Hall in NYC, after a performance by The Revolution. Spontaneously, they decided to grab some dinner. De Angela casually mentioned that she very much wanted to watch the Sign O’ The Times film together with some Prince friends in a small screening room at NYU. Mable responded, “Why do you want to do that, when it can be much bigger?” And that is how it all began.

De Angela owes immense gratitude to Mable for encouraging her to think on a grander scale and to Deanna for introducing her to Mable. She is grateful for the journey and indebted to Mable Ivory for getting her to dream bigger. With Ron Worthy also on board, the Peach + Black panel and screening was born within weeks.

In response to the reception of the event, De Angela realized that this work was important to the Prince community and for exposing new people to Prince’s full body of work.

The original peach + black panel of Zaheer Ali, Anil Dash, Miles Marshall Lewis, and Elliott Powell, moderated by De Angela herself, has convened in every Prince symposium that De Angela has created since. She is eternally grateful for their continued participation and Prince passion.

#IWonderU40 marks De Angela’s 16th Prince event. Her mission is to keep Prince’s name on the lips of the children and in constant and critical dialogue.