Past Events
A Reading By Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Co-hosted by the Center for Africana Studies and the Kelly Writers House With additional support from the Creative Writing Program, the Department of English, and the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan (GR'12) is the author of the short story collection Blue Talk and Love (2015), winner of the Judith Markowitz Award for Fiction from Lambda Literary; The Poetics of Difference:…
Africa Lecture Series ft. Kwame Edwin Otu
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Kwame Edwin Otu is currently an Assistant Professor of African…
Penn Alumni Reading Club ft. Elias Rodriques
Elias Rodriques, Assistant Professor of African American Literature, Department of English, Sarah Lawrence College
Co-hosted with Alumni Education. Co-sponsored by Penn Spectrum Programs, Penn Black Alumni…
Brave Testimony: A Celebration of Poetry of the African Diaspora
ft. Patricia Smith
Patricia Smith is the award-winning author of eight critically-acclaimed books of poetry, including Incendiary Art (Triquarterly Books, 2017), winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the…
African Language and Cultural Day
SWAHILI
A. Elementary: national anthems of Tanzania and Kenya; traditional love song (Malaika…
New Directions in Afro-Latinx Studies Series
ft. Amalia Z. Dache
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Cartographies of Afrolatinidad: Limits and Possibilities…
Distinguished Lecture in African Studies
ft. Wole Soyinka in conversation with Wale Adebanwi
Wole Soyinka
Provost’s Distinguished Visiting Faculty Fellow ft. Michele Goodwin
Talk & Reception
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The…
Africa Lecture Series ft. Moradewun Adejunmobi
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Vernacularizing Agendas: Signposts from African Languages, Writing, and Literature…
Penn Alumni Reading Club ft. Donald Bogle
Join author and Penn Senior Lecturer Donald Bogle for an interactive online discussion of his new edition of his book Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography. Donald Bogle is a senior lecturer in the Department of…