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Africana and Latin American Studies Program

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Africana and Latin American Studies Program
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  • Summer Frazier

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ALST Alumni Event

Mon, Nov 10, 2025 4pm to 6pm

Curious about where an Africana and Latin American Studies major can take you? Join us for a special panel featuring alumni from across different industries who have successfully leveraged their...

ALANA Cultural Center, Multipurpose room

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Deborah Thomas Deborah A. Thomas is Chair and the R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology, and the Director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent book, Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair, was awarded the Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Award from the Caribbean Studies Association in 2021, the Senior Book Prize from the American Ethnological Society in 2020, and was the runner-up for the Gregory Bateson Prize in the same year. She is also the author of Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica (2011), and Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and The Politics of Culture in Jamaica (2004). She is co-editor of the volumes Sovereignty Unhinged: An Illustrated Primer for the Study of Present Intensities, Disavowals, and Temporal Derangements (2023), Citizenship on the Edge: Sex, Gender, Race (2022); Changing Continuities and the Scholar-Activist Anthropology of Constance R. Sutton (2022); and Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness (2006). Thomas co-directed and co-produced the documentary films Bad Friday, and Four Days in May, and she is the co-curator of a multi-media installation titled Bearing Witness: Four Days in West Kingston, which was on view at the Penn Museum from November 2017 to October 2020. She is the recipient of several awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship (2024), and she is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2024). From 2016-2020, Thomas was the Editor-in-Chief of American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), and she co-chaired the AAA Commission on the Ethical Treatment of Human Remains. Prior to Thomas’s life as an academic, she was a professional dancer with the New York-based Urban Bush Women. Her new book, Exorbitance: A Speculative Ethnography of Inheritance, will be released this fall by Duke University Press.

Shirley Graham and W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series: Deborah Thomas

Thu, Oct 30, 2025 4:30pm to 6pm

Join us for the Shirley Graham and W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series with Deborah Thomas, who will be discussing The Question of Bodily Sovereignty. What does the body know? What can bodies tell us...

Persson Hall, Auditorium - Room 27

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Art Department Lecture: Cosmo Whyte

Wed, Sep 10, 2025 4:30pm

Cosmo Whyte holds a BFA from Bennington College, a post-baccalaureate from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and an MFA from the University of Michigan. His interdisciplinary practice explores...

Little Hall, 105 (Golden Auditorium)

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Migratory Journeys to the United States as Seen Through Contemporary Mexican Theater

Thu, Apr 10, 2025 4:30pm

The era of refugees and migrants, encompassing most of the 20th and 21st centuries, is characterized by displaced and transient human masses. They come crowded in boats, trains, trucks, cars, on...

Lawrence Hall, 020

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Catching Breeze with Staceyann Chin

Fri, Mar 28, 2025 11:30am to 1:30pm

Join Africana and Latin American Studies, Film and Media Studies, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in Celebration of Carribean Week! Meet Staceyann Chin, poet, performer, and activist,...

Center for Women's Studies, The Lounge at East Hall

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A Mother Apart

Thu, Mar 27, 2025 7pm to 9pm

Staceyann Chin in person How do you raise a child when your own mother abandoned you? In a remarkable story of healing and forgiveness, Jamaican American poet and LGBTQ+ activist Staceyann Chin,...

Little Hall, Golden Auditorium

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