Past Events
2022 A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. Memorial Lecture
Feat. Dean Linda Sheryl Greene
Linda Sheryl Greene is Dean and MSU Foundation Professor of Law at Michigan State University College of Law and an elected life member of The American Law Institute.
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Penn Alumni Reading Club with Akira Drake Rodriguez
Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta's Public Housing
Join author and Weitzman School of Design Professor Akira Drake Rodriguez for an interactive online discussion of her new book Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta's Public Housing…
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…