Empowering Community Voices
Karen Redrobe (Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Endowed Professor in Film Studies, History of Art)
Collaboration between Penn and Scribe Video Center in support of Scribe's humanities, social science, and arts production consultants program.
Community Justice & The Ivory Tower
Ramah McKay (Assistant Professor, History and Sociology of Science)
Panel discussion about the university’s role in gentrifying and policing neighborhoods in cities across the country, with a focus on Penn and West Philly. Presented by AAUP-Penn featuring Davarian L. Baldwin, Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad, Krysta Strong, and Jolyon Baraka Thomas.
Claudia Jones Project
Farrah Rahaman (Ph.D. student, Annenberg School for Communication)
An experimental study circle, performance group, and grounding space for deep reflection and interpretation of the life and legacy of the Trinidadian Marxist cultural worker, Claudia Jones.
Unexpected Symphony: American Jewish Musical Encounters
Anne Albert (Director for Public Programs, Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)
Panel discussion exploring forms of Jewish music in America highlighting Judaism's religious, ethnic, and musical diversity. Presented by the Katz Center featuring Galeet Dardashti, Josh Kun, Shaul Magid, and Anthony Russell.
Mobilizing Decolonial Arts and Practice
Elyan Hill (Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Wolf Humanities Center)
Guest lectures by Jasmine McNeal, Elaine Sullivan, Alessandra Williams, and Umi Vaughan as part of Prof. Hill’s class rostered by the Department of Africana Studies.
Arts of Decarceration
Chi-Ming Yang (Associate Professor of English)
Guest lecture by Philadelphia-based artists Mary Baxter and Russell Craig as part of Prof. Yang and Prof. Julia Alekseyeva's class, Arts of Abolition & Liberation.
Penn Museum and Black History Untold
Zoe Evans (Collaborative Programs Manager, Penn Museum)
Series of events presented by the Penn Museum and award-winning journalist and founder of Black History Untold, Sofiya Ballin, exploring representation, stewardship, and what it means to balance the two.
Mental Health and Abolition
Jessa Lingel (Associate Professor, Annenberg School of Communication)
Reading group and panel discussion, featuring Carmel Brown, Ras Cutlas Mashramani, Michael O'Bryan, and Kee Tobar, committed to collaborative learning around the connections between abolition, intersectional identity, and mental health.
PO Box 34
Jessa Lingel (Associate Professor, Annenberg School of Communication)
A project that combines digital and analog media to build a network of correspondence between Penn students and incarcerated artists and media makers at jails and prisons in the Philadelphia area.