Past Events

Past Events

3401 Walnut Street 
Africana Studies Seminar Room, 330A 
Sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies  

Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi l Africa for the Africans?: Reimagining Space, Place & Possibility in 1860s Lagos 

3401 Walnut Street 
Africana Studies Seminar Room, 330A 
Sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies  

Trained as both historian and computer engineer, Ademideʼs research into the history of west African cities combines a set of interdisciplinary interests in urban history, technology, cartography and spatial humanities. She joined UC Riversideʼs History department in July 2015…

3401 Walnut Street 
Africana Studies Seminar Room, 330A 
Sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies 

David Amponsah l Enchanted Geography: India in the West African Popular Imagination, 1900-Recent Times 

3401 Walnut Street 
Africana Studies Seminar Room, 330A 
Sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies 

David Amponsah is an assistant professor in the Religious Studies Department at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2015. He is a historian who researches the intersection of religion and society in Africa and its diaspora, with…

Penn Museum 
First Floor, Merle-Smith Gallery West 
3260 South St. 

Bearing Witness:

Four Days in West Kingston

Penn Museum 
First Floor, Merle-Smith Gallery West 
3260 South St. 

This new exhibition—part art installation, part memorial, and part call to action—sheds light on the “Tivoli Incursion” through compelling video and audio footage featuring firsthand accounts of people directly impacted by the violence.

Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall
208 s 37th St. 

This location is ADA Accessible. 

Laura Sjoberg l Critiquing the Feminist Peace

Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall
208 s 37th St. 

This location is ADA Accessible. 

Is there a “feminist peace?” Are states that exhibit domestic gender equality more peaceful internationally? Seemingly with little engagement with existing literature on women, peace and security, recent quantitative work has looked to evaluate the relationship between gender…

Zellerbach Theater, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
3680 Walnut St. 
This location is ADA Accesible. 
The event is sponsored by Penn's Annenberg School for Communication; Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, & Women; Political Science Department; History of Sociology and Science Department; Government and Politics Association; LGBT Center; Lambda Grads; and Black Graduate and Professional Students Assembly.

A Conversation with Chelsea Manning 

Zellerbach Theater, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
3680 Walnut St. 
This location is ADA Accesible. 
The event is sponsored by Penn's Annenberg School for Communication; Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, & Women; Political Science Department; History of Sociology and Science Department; Government and Politics Association; LGBT Center; Lambda Grads; and Black Graduate and Professional Students Assembly.

As an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Department of Defense, Chelsea Manning disclosed classified documents to WikiLeaks that revealed human rights abuses and corruption connected to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She was convicted and sentenced to 35 years in a…