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Register Now For the Our Right to Care International Conference!

Save the Date: Thursday, April 10 - Friday, April 11
Dorothy Roberts, Selma James, Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI)
Apr 10, 2025 - Apr 11, 2025 at - | Thursday, April 10, 2025
University of Pennsylvania, Penn Carey Law, Fitts Auditorium
3501 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Friday, April 11, 2025
Crossroads Women’s Center
5011/5013 Wayne Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19144

Caregiving for family members and other loved ones including children, older, ill and disabled people, overwhelmingly done by women inside and outside the home, keeps economies and society going but…



Book Talk: Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis

Professor Dorothy Roberts, Professor Elizabeth Chiarello
Dec 5, 2024 at - | Making Worlds Cooperative Bookstore & Social Center
210 S 45th St, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Sociologists Elizabeth Chiarello and Dorothy Roberts discuss Chiarello’s Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis, a book that…



Global Justice & Human Rights Seminar: All of Reproductive Justice

Perry World House
PRSS Director Dorothy Roberts
Dec 2, 2024 at - | In-person & Virtual

Join Perry World House for the Global Justice & Human Rights Seminar featuring Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor and 2024 MacArthur Fellow Dorothy Roberts.



Higginbotham Memorial Lecture 2024

Featuring Damon T. Hewitt, the President and Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Nov 14, 2024 at | 3501 Sansom Street Philadelphia, PA 19104
Penn Carey Law, Fitts Auditorium

Presenting this year’s Higginbotham Memorial Lecture will be Damon T. Hewitt, the President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. This lecture will be moderated by Professor…



The Holmesburg Prison Experiments and the Call for Restorative Justice

A Panel Hosted by the Jones Foundation for Returning Citizens
Oct 23, 2024 at - | Penn Carey Law
3501 Sansom Street
Fitts Auditorium

Join us for a panel hosted by the Jones Foundation for Returning Citizens, as we discuss the legacy, human rights violations, and impact of the prison experiments that late Penn dermatologist Albert Kligman conducted…



Beyond Salvage: Development and Ethnocide in the Scientific Study of Indigenous Groups in Cold War Paraguay with Dr. Sebastián Gil-Riano

Faculty Working Group Meeting and Colloquium
Dr. Sebastián Gil-Riano
Oct 17, 2024 at - | Center for Africana Studies | Max Kade Room
3401 Walnut Street, Room 331A

Dr. Sebastián Gil-Riano is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and…



Genetic Ancestry and Perceptions of Race: Impacts in Social and Medical Contexts Symposium

Keynote Speaker: Professor Dorothy Roberts
May 9, 2024 (All Day) | The Population Studies Center Library, 403 McNeil | University of Pennsylvania
3718 Locust Walk | Philadelphia, PA 19104

The symposium brings medical researchers, clinicians, health scholars, and social scientists into conversation about the way that genetic ancestry information may influence observers' perceptions of others'…



Film Screening & Panel Discussion: TO BE INVISIBLE

A Look Inside the Family Policing System
Moderated by Professor Dorothy Roberts with Director Myah Overstreet
Apr 12, 2024 at - | Jon M. Huntsman Hall Rm G65

Please join the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society (PRSS) as we host the screening of the documentary TO BE INVISIBLE, produced by journalist, filmmaker, and UC Berkeley graduate student Myah Overstreet…



Black Hospitals, White Caps: How Philadelphia’s Black Community Confronted Segregation in Healthcare

Feb 7, 2024 at - | Claire Fagin Hall, room 114

Discover the story of Mercy-Douglass Hospital, created by and for the Black community in Philadelphia. Founded in 1895, Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital, and Mercy Hospital, founded in 1907, merged to form…



African American Lecture Series: Professor Ruha Benjamin

Jan 31, 2024 at | 4fl Commons, McNeil Building, 3718 Locust Walk