Past Events
For an Authentic Racial Democracy!
Amilcar Pereira
The Brazilian Black Movement's Struggles in Schools and Curricula
by Amilcar Pereira, Associate Professor of the School of Education, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ - Federal…
Beyond Expectations: Second-Generation Nigerians in the United States and Britain
Onoso Imoagene
In Beyond Expectations, Onoso Imoagene delves into the multifaceted identities of second-generation Nigerian adults in the United States and Britain. She argues that they conceive of an alternative notion of "black"…
Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility
Ashon T. Crawley
In author Ashon Crawley's own words:
Female Empowerment for Global Social Change: A Panel Discussion
Kiera Kenney graduated from the School of Social Policy and Practice with her MSW in 2013. She is Manager of Health and Social Services at the African Family Health Organization in Philadelphia, where she works with…
Identity & the 2016 U.S. Election
This program will gather a panel of scholars who will engage the Penn community in conversation around: a) the role of identity in shaping the 2016 US presidential election and b) how we might expect issues of…
Ghosts, Zombies, and the Afterlives of Slavery
Colson Whitehead with Salamishah Tillet
Colson Whitehead
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad
Salamishah Tillet
Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies, University of…
History Doesn't Have To Repeat Itself
Film screening of the documentary "History Doesn't Have to Repeat Itself" and a Q&A with the award-winning filmmaker, Stéphane Gérard and Africana Studies PhD student, Sydney Baloue.
The screening is free…
Cinema's Peculiar Institution: Screening Slavery in 1939
Ellen Scott
When we think of depictions of slavery on screen in 1939, one film most likely to come to mind: David O. Selznick’s epic adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind. The film famously raised questions for…
Penn Alumni Reading Club
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Join Penn alumna and Professor at the University of Delaware Erica Armstrong Dunbar for an interactive discussion of her new book, Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge.…