Past Events
The Bluest Eye at 50: Reading Toni Morrison in the Age of Trump
CO-SPONSORED EVENT
Herman Beavers
2020 is a moment when we find an increased awareness of systemic racism and police brutality growing across demographic lines during the Presidency of Donald J. Trump, whose race baiting and divisiveness has sought…
Africana Studies Presents
“The Toponym of ‘Good Governance’: Racialization and Street (Re)naming in Post-Apartheid South Africa”
Wale Adebanwi
Wale Adebanwi is the Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at the African Studies Centre and Fellow of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. He is also an associate member of the Oxford Department…
Africana Studies Presents
"Landing in the Familiar": Occupation and Belonging in Urban Brazil
Keisha-Khan Y. Perry
Join us for Africana Studies Presents featuring Keisha-Khan Y. Perry. The title of the talk is "Landing in the Familiar": Occupation and Belonging in Urban Brazil.
Center for Africana Studies Faculty Research Colloquium
ft. Guthrie Ramsey and Shana Redmond
Join Penn’s Guthrie Ramsey, Jr., Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music, in conversation with Shana Redmond, Professor of Musicology and African American Studies at the University of California, Los…
Africana Studies Presents
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Join us for Africana Studies Presents featuring Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. The title of the talk is Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Blackness in the Middle East
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,…
"Abolition Constitutionalism"
Dorothy Roberts
Africa Scholar for a Day:
Amal Hassan Fadlalla
Professor Fadlalla's Biography:
Amal Hassan Fadlalla is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Women’s Studies, and Afroamerican and African studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research…
A Reading by Major Jackson
Major Jackson is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Absurd Man (2020). His edited volumes include: Best American Poetry 2019, Renga for Obama, and Library of…
Black Women Writing Across Genres in the Late 20th Century
The 2020 Kislak Symposium looks at the flourishing of Black women writers as a cultural force in late twentieth century America. Combining panels, roundtables, talks, and readings,…