Events

In these times of widespread recognition of racial injustice, The Urgent Matter of Black Lives panel will examine the urgent work that must be done in order to fight systemic racism. Penn Africana Studies faculty Mary Frances Berry, Dorothy Roberts, and Tukufu Zuberi will discuss the social, legal, economic, and political dynamics of race, nationally and internationally, in this post-Floyd America.

Gabriel de Avilez Rocha, Vasco da Gama Assistant Professor of Early Modern Portuguese History, Brown University, will present on African diaspora and Marroon communities.

Shinhee Han will be discussing Racial Meelancholia, Racial Dissociation.

Featuring Presentation of Colors & Flag Raising: Penn NROTC Color Guard from Hollenbeck Center

Featured Guest Remarks
Megan Duley, US Army – Student, Wharton MBA
Fern S. Billet, Congressional Liaison and Community Relations Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center

Forrest Stuart is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, the director of the Stanford Ethnography Lab, and a 2020 Macarthur 'Genius' Grant winner. The topic of our 37th Annual Lecture will be Stuart's second book, "Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy."

It examines how the proliferation of digital social media is transforming gangs, gang violence, and neighborhood culture in urban poor communities.

Stuart's research examines the causes, contours, and consequences of urban poverty. His first book, "Down, Out, and Under Arrest," is an in-depth ethnography of broken windows policing and the spill-over effects of criminalization on daily life in urban poor communities. The book received the 2017 Robert E. Park Award from the American Sociological Association and the 2019 Michael J. Hindelang Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Criminology.

Native Heritage Month 2020 – Series on Contemporary Native American Issues - This event features Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord, the first Navajo woman surgeon. She is the author of The Scalpel and the Silver Bear and past nominee for US Surgeon General. Dr. Alvord will speak on the subject of COVID and the effects with her native community.

This terrific film is about a secret written language, Nu Shu, developed by women over many centuries in South China. Though as a rule and by custom women were unable to become officially educated, in one region they developed a written language which was passed down from mother to daughter, for female-centric communication.

Speakers: Filmmaker Jing Liu will be joining from China

This roundtable explores how Kim Kardashian West extracts from Black women. In so doing, the panelists will situate the Kardashian enterprise in a long U.S. tradition of extracting and repackaging Black cultural forms for mass (white and violent) consumption, highlighting the particular harm their enterprise of white womanhood does to Black women. The conversation will be moderated by Brandy Monk-Payton.

Political scientists have long documented the ways in which racial group identities matter for political behavior. Yet few have compared the relative effectiveness of two different forms of identity, pan-ethnic and national origin, on political behavior. This presentation investigates the interplay of pan-ethnic (i.e., Asian American) and national origin identity (i.e., Chinese American) appeals among immigrant dominated populations in American politics. I make a novel argument that responsiveness to pan-ethnic identity appeals will be largely determined by levels of acculturation. In this presentation, students will learn about how pan-ethnicity informs Asian American political behavior and will be exposed to social science approaches for studying politics.

A conversation with Michael Jones-Correa, President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science on his book "Holding Fast: Resilience and Civic Engagement Among Latino Immigrants"