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REGISTER HEREPrograms on Africa
The Africa Programs at the Center for Africana Studies provides members of the University of Pennsylvania, local, national, and international communities with information on faculty, researchers, activities, and programming on historical and contemporary Africa.
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This intensive one-week course of study is taught by standing Penn faculty and exposes students to major intellectual and cultural themes and currents in 19th, 20th, and 21st century African and African Diaspora studies.
Click to learn moreThe international conference organized by the Center for Africana Studies in collaboration with the Provost’s Office, Department of South Asia Studies, Department of Anthropology, Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies, Department of Africana Studies, Department of Sociology and the Marginalized Populations Program on ‘Everyday Lives of Instability in the Global South’ will focus on the tactics, strategies, and coping mechanisms that people and communities have developed in the face of the contemporary crisis of (social, economic, and political) instability—manifesting as uncertainty, precarity, insecurity, and/or vulnerability.
Upcoming Events
24th Annual MLK Jr. Social Justice Lecture & Award
Slavery and Genocide: The U.S., Jamaica and the Historical Sociology of Evil
Prof. Orlando Patterson
Join us as we honor Prof. Orlando Patterson's commitment to social justice and he has a conversation with Prof. Michael Hanchard discussing “Slavery and Genocide: The U.S., Jamaica and the Historical Sociology of…
Learn Your History: Ballroom, Femme Queen Performance, and Appropriation Today
Presented by Public Trust
Niambi Stanley, Eva Pensis
Join Public Trust on Friday, January 31, 2025 from 5:30-7pm for Learn Your History: Ballroom, Femme Queen Performance and Appropriation Today, an intergenerational discussion about house ball culture and femme queen…
Artist in Residence: Joshua Bennett in Conversation with Carlos Andrés Gómez
Joshua Bennett, Carlos Andrés Gómez
Join us on the Penn campus for an enthralling dialogue between the incredible poet and Penn alumnus Joshua Bennett and the dynamic communicator Carlos Andrés Gómez!
REGISTER HEREDr. Joshua Bennett is the…
