The Center for Africana Studies is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of the peoples of Africa and their diasporas.
Our intellectual work and programing highlight the impact of Africa and the African diasporas on humanity. Through its research, academic initiatives and public programming, the Center’s work seeks to explore the profound ways in which African peoples have functioned on a global scale and how their experiences have resonated around the world throughout history.
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Upcoming Events
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…
Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual (On Seeing)
Africana Lecture Series: African-American
Kimberly J. Brown
Since photography's invention, black life has been presented as fraught, short, agonizingly filled with violence, and indifferent to intervention: living death—mortevivum—in a series of still frames that refuse a…