Events

Center for Africana Studies programs reflect our commitment to meaningful scholarship for the academy and the public—scholarship that has an impact on national, cultural, policy, and scholarly discourses.



Blackness in the Middle East

Sep 16, 2020 at -

Join the Middle East Center of the University of Pennsylvania for an important conversation on blackness in the Middle East. Panelists will address themes including the greater history of blackness in the region,…



Africa Lecture Series: Dr. Kalala Ngalamulume

Apr 10, 2019 at

Beyond Resistance: Making Sense of the Therapeutic Itinerary of the Africans in the Nineteenth-Century Saint-Louis-du-Senegal

Dr. Kalala Ngalamulume
Associate Professor of History & Africana Studies…



PRSS Event: “Mistreating Health Inequities in the Genomic Age”

Dorothy Roberts
Apr 5, 2019 at

Dorothy Roberts will give the keynote speech for Penn Medicine's Health Equity Week.



PRSS Event: Penn and Slavery Symposium

Apr 3, 2019 at

This symposium, co-hosted by the Penn & Slavery Project and the Program on Race, Science & Society, with support from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Kislak Center for Special Collections…