All events listed are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC unless otherwise noted.

2008 Spring Events

Thursday, March 27th

12noon - 2:00 pm

Smut/Slackness in Caribbean Music

Carolyn Cooper
University of the West Indies

Shannon Dudley
University of Washington

Wayne Marshall
Brandeis University

Raquel Rivera
Hunter College


Moderated by
Timothy Rommen
Assistant Professor of Music

4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Violence in Caribbean

Alissa Trotz
University of Toronto

Imani Tafari Ama
University of the West Indies

Amanda Romero
Legal Advocate for Afro-Colombians facing removal from their land

Moderated by

Ann Farnsworth-Alvear
Associate Professor of History
Director, Latin American and Latino Studies Program

Class of 1955 Conference Room ( Room 241)
2nd Floor Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
3420 Walnut Street

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Friday, April 11th

The Africana Classics Lecture Series
features presentations of the work of influential intellectuals in Africana Studies

Melville J. Herskovits'
The Myth of the Negro Past

presented by

Timothy Rommen
Assistant Professor of Music

12 noon

Seminar Room
Center for Africana Studies
Suite 330A
3401 Walnut Street

RSVPs are required and seating is limited

Please RSVP by Tuesday, April 8th
215-898-4965 or africana@sas.upenn.edu

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Wednesday, April 16th

Brave Testimony

A celebration of poetry from the African diaspora

Linton Kwesi Johnson
Dub Poet

6:00pm
The Rotunda
4014 Walnut Street

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Thursday, April 24th

A joint venture with The Wharton Sports Business Initiative

The Race and Sports Lecture

Established in 2002 to discuss issues of race and racism in American athletics

Commorating the 40th Anniversary of the 1968 Summer Olympics Protest

John Carlos


Harry Edwards


and

Tommy Smith

5:30pm

The Auditorium (G06)
Jon M. Huntsman Hall
38th and Walnut Streets

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