Past Events
Creating a New Narrative in the Africa Galleries
Join lead curator and professor Tukufu Zuberi, Ph.D., along with consulting scholars, Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz, Ph.D., Monique Scott, Ph.D., Salah Hassan, Ph.D., and Vaniclea Silva Santos, Ph.D., for a discussion about…
Daedalus Quartet Performance
Daedalus Quartet: Migration through Music
Higginbotham Lecture:
Brittany K. Barnett
Brittany K. Barnett is an attorney and entrepreneur focusing on social impact investing. When Alice Marie Johnson was granted clemency by the Trump administration, Kim Kardashian…
FORUM:Disrupting Sexual Violence
NO! The Rape Documentary is the 2006-released, Ford Foundation-funded, groundbreaking feature length film that explores the international atrocity of rape of cisgender women by cisgender men, and other forms of…
Alumni Reading Club:
Lorene Cary
Join Penn Senior Lecturer in English Lorene Cary and Houston A. Baker, Jr., Distinguished University Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, formerly PENN Professor of English…
Artists in Residence
Master Class with Amadou Kane Sy and Muhsana Ali
The Senegal-based artist team, Amadou Kane Sy and Muhsana Ali, Center of Africana Studies Fall 2019 Artists in Residence, will discuss their creative process…
"AND SHE WAS LOVED": IN MEMORY OF TONI MORRISON
An open forum in memory of Toni Morrison, with time for speaking, reading, and other sharing.
Sponsored by the Kelly Writers House and the Center for Africana Studies
The Legacy of 1619
Four hundred years ago, 20–30 Africans landed at Point Comfort, Virginia, as the first enslaved Africans to arrive in the American colonies. What is the global significance of this historical event?
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Africa Lecture Series
Saheed Aderinto
The City is Beyond Human:In Search of Animals inAfrican Urban Studies
This lecture renders some theoretical and empirical overview of the place of animals in African urban studies. It argues that animals…
Africana StudiesFaculty Colloquium
Adia Benton
Adia Benton is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at Northwestern University, where she is affiliated with the Science in Human Culture Program. Her first book, HIV Exceptionalism: Development…