Past Events
PRSS Event: “Peanut Panacea: The Medical Ideas of George Washington Carver”
Natalie Shibley
Natalie Shibley will discuss the health politics of George Washington Carver, including ideas about nutrition, cough medicine, and peanut oil massage.
Reading and Conversation with Professor Saidiya Hartman
In conjunction with 'Colored People Time: Mundane Futures', ICA curator Meg Onli will be in conversation with Professor Saidiya Hartman on the occasion of the release of her new volume, 'Wayward Lives,…
Shattering Refuge
A Film by Sonari Chidi
Introduction by Camille Z. CharlesDirector, Center for Africana Studies
Distinguished Panel & Audience Q+A with
| Prince Zeid Ra'ad Al HusseinFormer UN High…
Feminista Jones in conversation w/ Tanji Gilliam
Please join us for a reading and discussion with FEMINISTA JONES—author of Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets—in conversation with TANJI GILLIAM!
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MLK: An Interfaith Commemoration and Conversation in Social Justice
Reverend Dr. William Barber II
PRSS Event: “Race, Medicine, and Justice”
Dorothy Roberts
Dorothy Roberts will deliver the keynote address for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration for the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
PRSS Event: Martin Luther King, Jr. Health Equity Symposium
PRSS is co-sponsoring this event, hosted by the Penn Medicine Office of Inclusion and Diversity. The symposium will feature a keynote address from Dr. Jonathan Woodson, former Assistant Secretary of Health Affairs…
Strong Island
Directed by Yance Ford, the Oscar-nominated documentary Strong Island (2018) examines the 1992 murder of the filmmaker’s brother and the judicial system that allowed his killer to go free. This special screening will…
Hopscotch Translation Series: Zahra Patterson's CHRONOLOGY
Zahra Patterson & Steve Vásquez Dolph
Taking as its starting point an ultimately failed attempt to translate a Sesotho short story into English, Chronology explores the spaces language occupies in relationships, colonial history, and the postcolonial…
A TREASURY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN CHRISTMAS STORIES
Bettye Collier-Thomas
Back in print after more than a decade, A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories is a collection of little-known short stories and narrative poems written by black-writers, journalists, and political…