Past Events
Artist in Residence: Joshua Bennett in Conversation with Carlos Andrés Gómez
Joshua Bennett, Carlos Andrés Gómez
Join us on the Penn campus for an enthralling dialogue between the incredible poet and Penn alumnus Joshua Bennett and the dynamic communicator Carlos Andrés Gómez!
The Question of Bodily Sovereignty, or, Anthropology as Vulnerable Praxis
Presented by Penn Anthropology
Deborah Thomas
What does the body know? What can bodies tell us about ontologies that cannot be recuperated or resolved into Western ways of knowing? What can they tell us about the forms of collective world-…
PBS Books Conversation with Mary Frances Berry
Presented by ASALH
Mary Frances Berry
Listen to the illustrious Dr. Mary Frances Berry speak during ASALH's 99th annual Black History Month Festival. Watch this virtual event on ASALH TV!
Learn Your History: Ballroom, Femme Queen Performance, and Appropriation Today
Presented by Public Trust
Niambi Stanley, Eva Pensis
Join Public Trust on Friday, January 31, 2025 from 5:30-7pm for Learn Your History: Ballroom, Femme Queen Performance and Appropriation Today, an intergenerational discussion about house ball…
24th Annual MLK Jr. Social Justice Lecture & Award
Slavery and Genocide: The U.S., Jamaica and the Historical Sociology of Evil
Prof. Orlando Patterson
Join us as we honor Prof. Orlando Patterson's commitment to social justice and he has a conversation with Prof. Michael Hanchard discussing “Slavery and Genocide:…
2024 A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. Memorial Lecture
A Third Reconstruction: Toward a New Vision of Racial Justice
Damon T. Hewitt
Damon T. Hewitt, the President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, will be presenting this year’s Higginbotham Memorial Lecture “A Third Reconstruction: Toward a New Vision of…
Malês: Film Screening and Director Discussion
Roquinaldo Ferreira, Antonio Pitanga, Camila Pitanga
Malês, a soon-to-be-released movie out of Brazil, tells the story of the Malês Revolt, a slave revolt that took place in Salvador, Brazil, in 1835 led by Muslim people who had been enslaved in the Bight of…
African Narratives: Global African Cinema
African Narratives Film Series
This screening will feature 3 short films, In the Language of Our Mothers, Is It Because I'm A Girl, and Echoes From Home. The films' crews were made up of Penn students and students of the FilmAid Kenya film…
The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento
Africana Lecture Series: Diaspora
Christen Smith
Join us as Prof. Christen Smith explores “The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento.”
Beatriz Nascimento was arguably one of the most influential Black radical thinkers of the 20th century. An historian…
Screening | Seeking Mavis Beacon
Jazmin Jones
UPenn's Cinema and Media Studies, Makuu: Black Cultural Center, and Du Bois College House invite you to a special screening of NEON's latest documentary, Seeking Mavis Beacon,…