Past Events
To Fulfill the Unfulfilled, To Answer the Unanswered: The Revolutionary James Baldwin (Screening)
Presented by Lotus at Penn
Join Lotus, a student group dedicated to studying the Black Freedom Tradition at Penn, for the screening of an original documentary called To Fulfill the Unfulfilled, To Answer the Unanswered: The Revolutionary…
African Narratives: Hop
African Narratives Film Series
The Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies, The Center for Africana Studies and Wharton Africa are pleased to present African Narratives, a film series that showcases global…
Africana Studies 12th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium
Gendered Spatiotemporalities: Black Political Assertions of Self
Sherie M. Randolph, Brendane Tynes, Shaka McGlotten
The Department of Africana Studies invites you to our 12th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium, "Gendered Spatiotemporalities: Black Political Assertions of Self”.
For reasons of space, we encourage community…
Unconventional Migrations: Suicide, Self-Harm, and Uncertainty in Nigeria
Brown Bag Series
Iyone Agboraw
The second in the Penn Africanists Brown Bag Series this semester will take place tomorrow, March 19, at noon in Room 328-A, 3401 Walnut Street.
The presenter will be Dr. Iyone Agboraw, who received her Ph.D…
Designing Blackness in Brazil: Future of the Museum
Tukufu Zuberi, Vanicléia Silva-Santos, Jorge dos Anjos, Odette Casamayor-Cisneros, Igor Simões, Lorraine Mendes, Diane Lima, Renata Felinto, Gisele de Paula, Isabel Xavier, Jabari Zuberi, Odette Casamayor-Cisneros, Fernando Lara, Jasmine Johnson, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Ana Ozaki
“Designing Blackness in Brazil” will engage with new paradigms for museums that are inclusive, authentic, and dynamic. These sets of practices are marking a roadmap for curatorial practices that reflect and respect…
Understanding the Recent Wave of Military Coups in West Africa
Brown Bag Series
Marc Papé
The most recent headlines out of Africa have been dominated by the third wave of military coups in the “Francophone” African region of mainly West Africa. Indeed, it is reported that “eight governments have been…
Events at a Glance
2025
Anticolonial Intimacies and Black Feminist Refusal: Theorizing from the Miskitu Coast
Africana Lecture Series: Afro-Latinx
Dr. Melanie White
Melanie White is an interdisciplinary Black Studies scholar and cultural historian of Caribbean Central America. She is currently an ACLS Fellow and Assistant Professor of Afro-Caribbean Studies in the Department of…
Abdias do Nascimento Academic Exchange Program UPenn Fellow Research Presentations
Renato da Silva Souza, Vanessa Rosa
Listen to Renato da Silva Souza’s presentation on “João da Costa Júnior and the Dynamics of the Illegal Slave Trade in Nineteenth Century Bahia” and
Vanessa Rosa’s…
Scholar For A Day 2025
Colonial Medicine and African Societies
Kalala Ngalamulume
The Scholar for a Day is a day-long seminar, organized by Penn graduate students of all disciplines, designed to provide students and faculty with exposure to a leading scholar in African Studies. The event allows…