Past Events



Africana Classics Lecture Series featuring Dr. Imani Perry Wed. Feb. 6, 2013

Feb 6, 2013 at

 

 



A fiction reading by Olympia Vernon - A Killing in This Town - Tues. Jan. 22 - 6 PM

Jan 17, 2013 at

 

 

 



The 12th Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture in Social Justice featuring John Legend, C'99

Jan 16, 2013 at

Mr. John Legend, nine time Grammy Award winning recording artist, University of Penn alumnus and humanitarian
Co-sponsored with the Office of the President and the Annenberg School for Communication.  …



A lecture by Dr. Ruth Gilmore - The Prison Industrial Complex in flux: race, gender, sexuality, and place today

Nov 30, 2012 at



Book Talk: Professor Thadious Davis - Tues. Dec. 4, 2012 | Penn Bookstore | 6 PM

Nov 27, 2012 at

 

 



The Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. Memorial Lecture

Nov 13, 2012 at

Presented by Dr. Dorothy Roberts, the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology

Co-sponsored with the University of Pennsylvania Law School

 

 



Book Talk: Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature

Nov 1, 2012 at

Dr. Thadious M. Davis, the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania

Co-sponsored with the University of Pennsylvania Bookstore



Reading: A Killing In This Town

Oct 30, 2012 at

By Olympia Vernon
Co-sponsored with The Kelly Writers House and the Department of English



Book Talk: Prof. Salamishah Tillet

Oct 25, 2012 at

Penn Professor Salamishah Tillet Presenting:



Film Screening & Discussion: The Prodigal Son

Sep 27, 2012 at

The Center for Africana Studies presents
A Film Screening and Discussion

South African filmmaker Kurt Orderson retraces the lost history of his great-grandfather, Joseph Orderson. He soon discovers that…