Past Events




Higginbotham Lecture

Maya Wiley
Nov 7, 2018 at

Join us for our annual Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. Memorial Lecture featuring Maya Wiley and her lecture titled "Race and Sex in the Time of Trump."

Maya Wiley is the Senior Vice President for Social…



Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century

Kehinde Andrews
Nov 6, 2018 at

Join us for a book talk with Kehinde Andrews, Associate Professor in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at Birmingham City University.

Free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase…



The Spectre of Race

Michael Hanchard
Oct 30, 2018 at

Join us for a book talk with Michael Hanchard about his book, "The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy."

Light refreshments will be provided.

This event is free and open to…



Penn Alumni Reading Club

Daniel Q. Gillon
Oct 17, 2018 at

Join Penn Professor Daniel Gillion for an interactive discussion of his newest book, Governing with Words: The Political Dialogue on Race, Public Policy, and Inequality in America. Penn alumni are invited to join the…



Sexual Harassment from Congressional Testimony to the #MeToo Movement

Anita Hill and Kimberlé Crenshaw
Oct 10, 2018 at

The Anita Hill and Kimberle Crenshaw event is currently sold out. We are in the process of finding a way to accommodate more people. Additional information will be available by the end of next week.…



Africa Lecture Series

David Amponsah
Oct 9, 2018 at

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”

Oct 3, 2018 at

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
Sep 26, 2018 at

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

Sep 17, 2018 at

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

Apr 26, 2018 at

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…