Since 2017, undergraduates of the University of Pennsylvania have been conducting research to uncover the connections between their university and the institution of slavery. The project began with 5 members researching the university’s early founders and early faculty who owned enslaved people. Since then, the project has grown in size and scope. Students have investigated the university’s financial connections to slavery, and the scientific racism researched and taught in Penn’s early medical school. Penn’s relationship to slavery is complicated, and calls into question our understanding of ‘complicity.’ Please join us for an educational tour through campus led by Penn & Slavery Project graduate student VanJessica Gladney and Professor Katherine Brown.

Time for reflection and conversation will be held afterward in the Graduate Student Center with ice cream. Please register to reserve your spot!

Register here: https://upenn-gsc.libcal.com/event/13204307