Programs on Africa
The Programs on Africa 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.
Learn MoreSummer Institute for Pre-Freshmen
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 more.This year's MLK Lecture features Alexis McGill Johnson, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, in conversation with Dorothy Roberts
Upcoming Events
Black Reconstructions: Archival Assembly and Histories of American Education
A Book Talk with Dr. Jarvis R. Givens
Jarvis R. Givens is an associate professor of education and African & African American studies at Harvard University. He is the author of Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching (…
The Inaugural W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture in Public Social Science
A Conversation Dr.Brent Staples. Moderated by Dr.Tukufu Zuberi
The Inaugural W.E.B. Lecture in Public Social Science: A Conversation with Dr. Brent Staples, New York Times. Moderated by Dr. Tukufu Zuberi, University of Pennsylvania Lasry Professor of Race Relations.
The…
