Events

In Monumental Lies, Robert Bevan examines the weaponization and manipulation of the past in culture wars around the globe. This talk considers monuments, architecture, and cities as material evidence of human history, reflecting on how our understanding of this heritage impacts our lives.

A book signing by the author will follow immediately after his lecture.

Renowned professor, author, and diplomat, Arturo Valenzuela, will join CLALS, Perry World House, and the Penn community for a discussion about the legacy and impact of the coup that overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973 in Chile.

Please join us for this important conversation on Monday, September 11, 1973 in Perry World House (3803 Locust Walk).

Heritage West is a community-informed archaeological project created with the goal of using archaeology to highlight the stories of individuals who lived in the Black Bottom neighborhood of West Philadelphia from the 19th century to the present.

We’ll be excavating at the CEC most Fridays during the Fall, please fill out this form if you’d like to participate.

Please join us on Friday, September 8, 2023 at 12PM to learn more about the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies and its programming and opportunities for 2023-2024!

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Encourages young scholars conducting cutting-edge research by offering them an opportunity to workshop their research and job talk on Chinese politics with peers, conference co-organizers, and invited senior scholars.

The 2021 Higginbotham lecturer will be Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.

Judge A. Leon Higginbotham—often called the “conscience” of the judiciary—urged African American judges to be deeply concerned about, and speak out against, racial bias. He famously argued that Justice Clarence Thomas, indifferent to black suffering, missed the mark. But on other occasions Judge Higginbotham claimed that black judges had no “special role” to play on courts; the facts and the law must guide black jurists’ decisions, just the same as other judges. Moreover, Higginbotham lamented the identity-based scrutiny that African American jurists faced in cases alleging racial discrimination. Higginbotham’s worldview presents a conundrum: how to reconcile the professional norm of impartiality and his commitment to empathy for the marginalized. “Justice and the Judicial Role” will explore how Judge Higginbotham and other pioneering black jurists sought to reconcile competing norms and values.  

Black Families Matter: How the U.S. Family Regulation System Punishes Poor People of Color (Race & Regulation Lecture Series). 

A lecture by Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, University of Pennsylvania.

This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare, the groundbreaking study of family regulation by acclaimed scholar of race, gender, and the law, Professor Dorothy E. Roberts. Drawing on her forthcoming book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World, Professor Roberts will examine in this lecture the fundamental racism of the child welfare system, which collaborates with law enforcement to police families in ways that disproportionately and negatively affect people of color, and she will discuss why this system of family regulation should be dismantled.

Empty Desert.  Dir. Silvia Boarini and Linda Paganelli, 2016, 56 min. Though the Bedouin are traditionally nomadic shepherds moving through territories to provide water for their flocks, they have gradually been forced to settle – but they are not necessarily allowed to settle permanently. Documentary to be followed by discussion with filmmakers Silvia Boarini and Linda Paganelli and Penn Middle East Center Assistant Director Ibrahim Bakri.

Join in celebrating the Asian Pacific-Islander American (APIA) community at Penn.

Asian-Pacific American Heritage Week - Join us for our signature closing event! Come out to support your friends at an amazing show and an even greater cause.  For those of you new to Big Asian, we'll run it "talent-show" style, except between every performer our MCs will ask for bids within the audience. Pair up with friends, groups, and clubs to support your friends - plus, we'll have free food!