Past Events
Africa Lecture Series
David Amponsah
Join us as we kick off our Africa Lecture Series with a lecture by Africana Studies professor David Amponsah titled “Kwame Nkrumah and the Politics of Religion in Early Postcolonial Ghana."
David Amponsah is…
Unapologetically Femme: Queering Black Genders in Beyonce's "Sorry”
Unapologetically Femme: Queering Black Genders in Beyonce's "Sorry”
by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley
Associate Director, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies
Associate…
Acts, Facts, and Artifacts: The Stuff of Black Culture
Kevin Young / Herman Beavers
The Wolf Humanities Center's yearlong program on Stuff kicks off with Kevin Young, award-winning poet, New Yorker editor, author of the bestselling Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts…
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying our Democracy
Reading and discussion of One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying our Democracy by Carol Anderson. She will be joined in conversation by Professor Camille Z. Charles. Event hosted by…
Race and Sports
A Conversation on "The Miseducation of the Student Athlete: How to Fix College Sports"
featuring:
Kenneth Shropshire
Adidas Distinguished Professor of Global Sport, Arizona State…
Penn Alumni Reading Club: Obsidian Blues
Herman Beavers
Join Penn Professor Herman Beavers for an interactive discussion of his newly-released poetry chapbook, Obsidian Blues. You can download this work for free at…
African Languages & Culture Day
Hosted by Department of Africana Studies & Center for Africana
Brave Testimony: A Celebration of Poetry of Africa and the African Diaspora
A celebration of poetry of Africa and the African diaspora featuring Alysia Harris, Award-winning poet and Husnaa Hashim, Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate.
Doors open at 5:30 pm. The program starts at 6:00…
Death, Writing, Race, and Freedom
Edwidge Danticat
KEYNOTE ADDRESS "IMAGINING THE RACED SPACE OF FREEDOM: SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF THADIOUS M. DAVIS"
Presented by the Departments of Africana Studies and English / Cosponsored by the Wolf Humanities Center and the…