Past Events
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…
Modern Day Abolitionism
Africana Studies Spring 2025 Colloquium
Timothy Malone, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Laura McTighe, Rima Vesley-Flad
Attend the Center for Africana Studies Spring Colloquium, entitled Modern Day Abolitionism: Carcerality and Black Radical Resistance through Grassroots Organizing, Prison Activism, and Spiritual…
African Narratives: Mambar Pierette
African Narratives Film Series
The screening on this date will be Mambar Pierrette.
Film Synopsis: The city of Douala is in trepidation for the start of the new school year. A long line of customers come to…
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…
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!
The Question of Bodily Sovereignty, or, Anthropology as Vulnerable Praxis
Presented by Penn Anthropology
Deborah Thomas
What does the body know? What can bodies tell us about ontologies that cannot be recuperated or resolved into Western ways of knowing? What can they tell us about the forms of collective world-…
PBS Books Conversation with Mary Frances Berry
Presented by ASALH
Mary Frances Berry
Listen to the illustrious Dr. Mary Frances Berry speak during ASALH's 99th annual Black History Month Festival. Watch this virtual event on ASALH TV!
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…