Past Events
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Black American Studies and History at the University of Delaware
Please join us for a book talk by Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar, a Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Black American Studies and History at the University of Delaware, University of Pennsylvania…
Penn Museum’s 28th Annual Celebration of African Cultures
Traditional African music and contemporary African dance, storytelling, a drumming workshop, arts, crafts, an African marketplace, games, family gallery tours, film, and more—it all comes alive at…
Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., Africa's Great Civilizations
In his new documentary, Africa’s Great Civilizations, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and cultural critic Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the epic stories of both celebrated and…
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…
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.…
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…
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.
…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…