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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.
Learn MoreSummer Institute for Pre-First Years
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
Toward Home: Toni Morrison and the Adventure of the 21st Century
Student & Community Member Led
Jaimee Martin, Qamar Coleman, Bernita Mapp
"Toward Home", named in honor of Toni Morrison's 10th novel, will bring together West Philadelphia community members, students, and Penn's Africana studies department to discuss themes from Morrison's writing in…
Living the Hard Promise | Challenges to Higher Education: Faculty Perspectives on Our Shifting Landscape
Daniel Hopkins, Douglas Jerolmack, Tukufu Zuberi, Jeffrey Kallberg
Join us for a timely discussion of the impacts of recent federal actions across higher education and here at Penn. Faculty panelists Daniel Hopkins, Douglas Jerolmack, and Tukufu Zuberi will join Interim Dean Jeffrey…
50 Years of African History at Penn: A conference in honor of the retirement of Lee Cassanelli
Professor Lee Cassanelli is retiring from the University of Pennsylvania this Spring after a half century of service. To celebrate his dedication to his students—both graduate and undergraduate—and to his academic…
