Past Events



Unveiling the Intersections of Human Rights and Child Removal from a First Nations Perspective: Family Policing and the Ongoing impact on Sovereignty in Australia

Nov 29, 2023 at | Max Kade Center: 3401 Walnut Street, Room 329-A
 

This talk aims to explore the profound impact of First Nations child removal, family policing, and intergenerational trauma on the sovereignty of Indigenous communities within the Australian context.

This…



Higginbotham Memorial Lecture featuring Professor Sir Hilary Beckles

Nov 20, 2023 at | Fitts Auditorium Carey Law School

Professor Sir Hilary Beckles is Vice Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (The UWI). He is a distinguished academic, international thought leader, United Nations committee official, and global public…



Human Genomic Diversity and Medicine: Challenges and Solutions to Reduce Health Disparities

May 22, 2023 at |

On behalf of Drs. Sarah Tishkoff (PRSS Faculty Working Group member) and Marylyn Ritchie, the Center for Global Genomics & Health Equity and the Institute for Biomedical Informatics at the University of…



Until We Are Free: Racism, Child Welfare, and the Enduring Promise of Abolition

Apr 24, 2023 at | Penn Hillel Auditorium, 2nd Floor
215 S39th Street

On Monday, April 24, Alan Dettlaff, Professor of Social Work at the University of Houston will speak on racism, child welfare, and the enduring promise of abolition. PRSS Director and author of Torn Apart,…



Book Talk w/PRSS Director Dorothy Roberts: "Torn Apart"

Nov 9, 2022 at | Penn Bookstore at 3601 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104

On Nov. 9th at 5:00pm at the Penn Bookstore, PIK Professor & PRSS Director Dorothy Roberts will discuss her new book project: "Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families - And How Abolition…



PRSS Spring 2022 Symposium: Medicine & the Afterlives of Slavery

Apr 14, 2022 at - | Location: University of Pennsylvania | Virtual

Penn Medical Hall, 1872



Provost’s Distinguished Visiting Faculty Fellow ft. Michele Goodwin

Mar 16, 2022 at | Class of 1978 Orrery PavilionRoom 602, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
 

Talk & Reception

The Preservation of Racial Order Through Legal Transformations

Michele Goodwin
Chancellor’s Professor of Law
Founding Director…



Dorothy Roberts Will Speak at Yale & Slavery in Historical Perspective Conference

Oct 29, 2021 at |

On October 29, Professor Dorothy Roberts will be a panelist at the Yale & Slavery in Historical Perspective Conference, hosted by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.…



(Partner Event) A Discussion with Georges C. Benjamin, M.D.

Mar 18, 2021 at |

The Office of Inclusion Diversity and Equity (OIDE) and the Special Interest Group (SIG) for Health Disparities and Health Equity invite you to join us for a discussion with…



(Partner Event) Decolonizing the City-Making Professions: Learning from the Dreams and Defeats of the 1960s

Mar 17, 2021 at |

Dr. Sharon E. Sutton, “Decolonizing the City-Making Professions: Learning from the Dreams and Defeats of the 1960s”