Past Events
The 4th Annual Distinguished Lecture in African Studies
Peace & Security in Africa
Madam Leymah Gbowee
Join us for The 4th Annual Distinguished Lecture in African Studies featuring Madam Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Prize Laureate. She will deliver a talk on the topic of "Peace and Security…
A More Perfect Union: Histories of Voting in America
Hardeep Dhillon, William Sturkey
This symposium will explore the complex history of voting in the United States. Topics to be discussed include the formation of the Electoral College and design of the Executive Branch, the expanding nature of…
Rule of Dons: Criminal Leaders and Political Authority in Jamaica
Presented by Penn Anthropology
Rivke Jaffe
Rivke Jaffe will be visiting Penn to have a conversation about her new book, Rule of Dons: Criminal Leaders and Political Authority in Jamaica. She will be in conversation with Deborah Thomas and Alessandro Angelini…
The Dynamics of Politics in 2024
Africana Lecture Series: African-American
Christopher Sebastian Parker
Christopher Sebastian Parker is professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
A Conversation with Professor Mary Frances Berry: Civil Rights 1964
Africana Lecture Series: African-American
Mary Frances Berry
Listen to the insight of the singular Prof. Mary Frances Berry in a new installment in the African-American branch of our Africana Lecture Series. On October 10, 2024, 4pm,…
Smuggling for a Living in the Early Spanish Caribbean
Presented by the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies
Juan Jose Ponce Vázquez
Join the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies for an external speaker talk (CLALSES) on October 7 at 12pm with historian Juan José Ponce Vázquez. In this presentation, Ponce Vázquez will talk about how a…
Overcoming the Challenge of Youth Unemployment in South Africa
Lessons from Wharton CEO and Afrika Tikkun
Fareeda Griffith, Tukufu Zuberi, Marc Lubner, Takara Lubner, Claudio Lucarelli, Cecilia Värendh Månsson
South Africa has one of the highest youth unemployment rates in the world largely due to a system that fails to provide the basic skills and career guidance necessary for young people to enter the labor market…
The State's Capillaries
Africana Lecture Series: Work In Progress
Michael Hanchard
Join us for a new installment in the Work In Progress branch of our Africana Lecture Series. On October 1, 2024, Dr. Michael Hanchard will speak about “The State's Capillaries,” looking at the various local…
The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized: Cultural Revolution in the Black Power Era
Africana Lecture Series: Book Talk
Errol Henderson
Join us for an installment in our Africana Lecture Series that could transform your view of Black Power.
Conspiracy Narratives from Postcolonial Africa: Freemasonry, Homosexuality, and Illicit Enrichment
Africana Lecture Series: Africa
Rogers Orock
Rogers Orock is currently an Assistant Professor in the Program in Africana Studies at Lafayette College. Previously, he taught in the Department of African and African American Studies at Louisiana State University…