# Video from Past Events
**Source**: https://africana.sas.upenn.edu/center-africana-studies/video-past-events
**Parent**: https://africana.sas.upenn.edu/department-africana-studies/standing-faculty
Past Events
### Summer Institute 2025 Opening Luncheon with Dr. Ala Stanford
### Race & Sports 2025 with N. Jeremi Duru
### African Language & Culture Day 2025
### PRSS Our Right to Care International Conference
### **International Conference on Everyday Lives of Instability in the Global South**
### **"What Do We Owe Our Ancestors?"**
### **with Daniel Black**
### Designing Blackness in Brazil: Future of the Museum
### **"Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual"**
### **with Kimberly J. Brown**
### **The 24th Annual MLK Jr. Social Justice Lecture & Award**
### **featuring Dr. Orlando Patterson**
### **"Slavery and Genocide: The U.S., Jamaica and the Historical Sociology of Evil"**
### **A Conversation with Professor Mary Frances Berry: Civil Rights Act of 1964**
### **2024 Higginbotham Memorial Lecture with Damon Hewitt**
### **The 3rd Annual Distinguished Lecture in African Studies featuring**
### **Madam Leymah Gbowee**
### **"Peace & Security in Africa"**
### Conspiracy Narratives from Postcolonial Africa: Freemasonry, Homosexuality, and Illicit Enrichment with Rogers Orock
### Race & Sports 2024 with William "Bill" Rhoden
### Special Lecture in African Studies with Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe
### **"Reflecting on 30 Years of Freedom & Democracy"**
### **The 3rd Annual Distinguished Lecture in African Studies featuring His Excellency Dr. Julius Maada Bio, President of Sierra Leone**
### **"Navigating the Future: Democracy, Progressive Politics and Inclusive Development in Africa - The Sierra Leone Experience"**
### Scholar For A Day 2024 Keynote: **Moses E. Ochonu**
### **"Reconsidering African Aristocratic Colonial Experiences in the Age of Decoloniality"**
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### Africana Studies 11th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium - Black Queer Placemaking: Methods, Histories, Diasporas
### Book Talk: Prof. Barbara D. Savage - *Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar*
### 2024 The **23rd Annual**MLK Jr. **Social Justice Lecture & Award** ft. Prof. Dorothy Roberts
### **2023 A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. Memorial Lecture: Sir Hilary Beckles: "Reparatory Justice: The Great Political Movement of the 21st Century"**
### Special Lecture in African Studies ft. His Excellency Prof. Yemi Osinbajo
### Book Talk: Dr. Camille Z. Charles - Young, Gifted and Diverse: Origins of the New Black Elite
### The 2nd Annual Distinguished Lecture in African Studies ft. President Mokgweetsi Masisi
### 2023 The **22nd Annual**MLK Lecture in Social Justice ft. Nikole Hannah-Jones
### 2022 Graduate Colloquium: Black Women and Rebellious (Archival) Acts
### 21st Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture in Social Justice
##### *FT. ALEXIS MCGILL JOHNSON W/ DOROTHY ROBERTS*
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### 2021 Higginbotham Lecture: Justice and the Judicial Role: The Quest for Empathy and Impartiality
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### Africa Lecture Series ft. Ebenezer Babatunde Obadare
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### Africa Lecture Series ft. Cheikh Anta Babou
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### Traveling Black: Exploring a History of Race and Resistance FT. MIA BAY
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### New Directions in Afro-Latinx Studies Series ft. PAUL JOSEPH LÓPEZ ORO
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### New Directions in Afro-Latinx Studies SeriesFT. YOMAIRA C. FIGUEROA-VÁSQUEZ
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