Past Events
The Hexagon and the Triangle: Navigating Blackness/Africanness in both Color-Blind and Hyper-Racialized Sites of the Atlantic
Maboula Soumahoro, Université François Rabelais de Tours (France), Bennington College, Columbia University
A study composed of both personal and academic reflections devoted to the processes of racialization and expressions of blackness, in their relation to citizenship in contemporary, metropolitan France…
Monday Poets Series featuring Dr. Herman Beavers
Dr. Herman Beavers and Janice A. Lowe
Herman Beaver’s latest poetry project turns to Toni Morrison’s Beloved as a source for a cycle of poems on Sethe’s two sons, Howard and Buglar that will situate them in circumstances ranging from the…
The 16th Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture in Social Justice Featuring Charles Blow and Joy Reid
Charles Blow, Op-Ed Columnist at The New York Times, and Joy Reid, host of AM Joy on MSNBC, will be sitting down for a conversation with Dr. Camille Charles, the …
Foreign Languages and Area Studies Fellowships
Interested in applying to the Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowships?
Please join us at the FLAS Information Session!
Representatives from the Center for Africana Studies, South Asia Center…
When Black Lives Matter: A Historical Perspective
Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, National President of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History; and the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at…
A Signaling Theory of Distributive Policy Choice: Evidence from Senegal
Guy Grossman
The Department of Africana Studies and the Center for Africana Studies present the next installment of the African Lecture Series. This event is free and open to the public.
Lunch will be…
The Current Political Events in Ethiopia
Penn Habesha Student Association
During times of political strife, some governments respond by imposing severe measures to suppress dissent for what is perceived as a threat to the state.
This event…
Harriet Millan and Michael Majok Kuch, How Fast Can You Run: A Novel by Harriet Levin Millan Based on the Life of Michael Majok Kuch
Harriet Millan and Michael Majok Kuch
Set across a backdrop of refugee migration that spans Africa, America and Australia, How Fast Can You Run is the inspiring story of Michael Majok Kuch and his journey to find his mother. In…
Life in Circulation: Global Health, Urban Space, and Gendered Care in Maputo, Mozambique
Ramah McKay
Drawing analyses of global health together with scholarship on life in African cities, this talk focuses on the gendered urban and transnational circuits through which young urban residents seek and…