Past 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…
24th Annual MLK Jr. Social Justice Lecture & Award
Slavery and Genocide: The U.S., Jamaica and the Historical Sociology of Evil
Prof. Orlando Patterson
Join us as we honor Prof. Orlando Patterson's commitment to social justice and he has a conversation with Prof. Michael Hanchard discussing “Slavery and Genocide: The U.S.,…
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 Liberation.…
Events at a Glance
2024-2025
2024 A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. Memorial Lecture
A Third Reconstruction: Toward a New Vision of Racial Justice
Damon T. Hewitt
Damon T. Hewitt, the President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, will be presenting this year’s Higginbotham Memorial Lecture “A Third Reconstruction: Toward a New Vision of…
Malês: Film Screening and Director Discussion
Roquinaldo Ferreira, Antonio Pitanga, Camila Pitanga
Malês, a soon-to-be-released movie out of Brazil, tells the story of the Malês Revolt, a slave revolt that took place in Salvador, Brazil, in 1835 led by Muslim people who had been enslaved in the Bight of…
Global African Cinema
African Narratives Film Series
This screening will feature 3 short films, In the Language of Our Mothers, Is It Because I'm A Girl, and Echoes From Home. The films' crews were made up of Penn students and students of the FilmAid Kenya film…
The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento
Africana Lecture Series: Diaspora
Christen Smith
Join us as Prof. Christen Smith explores “The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento.”
Beatriz Nascimento was arguably one of the most influential Black radical thinkers of the 20th century. An historian…
Screening | Seeking Mavis Beacon
Jazmin Jones
UPenn's Cinema and Media Studies, Makuu: Black Cultural Center, and Du Bois College House invite you to a special screening of NEON's latest documentary, Seeking Mavis Beacon, …
Gulf Capital, Land and Empire Making in Central Sudan
Presented by Penn Anthropology
Nisrin Elamin
This talk focuses ethnographic attention on Emirati land and port investments in Sudan, to argue that they form part of a project of empire-making, which relies on racialized processes of capital accumulation to…