THIRD THURSDAY WITH KEISHA-KHAN PERRY AND SONIA VAS BORGES

Feb 16th                                             12pm


​ Virtual Event 

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Join us on February 16th at 12:00PM for an exciting conversation with Keisha-Khan Perry residential Penn Compact Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Sónia Vaz Borges, an interdisciplinary militant historian and social-political. The two will discuss " Mangrove School" a film directed by ​Sónia Vaz Borges and Filipa César. A virtual screening of  "Mangrove School" will be available on Feb 13th with the conversation following on Feb 16th. 

"We recently went to Guinea Bissau to research the guerrilla schools of the mangroves. Instead, we soon became ourselves the apprentices and the first lesson we had to learn was how to walk. If you walk straight, placing your heels on the ground first, you promptly slip and fall in the dams of the flooded mangrove rice field or you get stuck in the mangrove mud. You need to lower your body, flex your knees and stick your toes vertically into the mud, extend your arms forwards in a conscious and present movement. In the mangrove school the learning happens with the whole body." - Sonia Borges

Keisha-khan Perry

Keisha-Khan Y. Perry is the Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor of Africana Studies. Perry comes to Penn from Brown University, where she was Associate Professor of Africana Studies. Her research is focused on race, gender and politics in the Americas, urban geography and questions of citizenship, intellectual history and disciplinary formation, and the interrelationship between scholarship, pedagogy and political engagement. Her first book, Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil, won the 2014 National Women’s Studies Association Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize. She is currently at work on her second book, which is focused on the ways in which state violence limits activist research and writing.

Sónia Vaz Borges

Sónia Vaz Borges is an interdisciplinary militant historian and social-political organizer. Her book Militant  Education, Liberation Struggle, Consciousness: The PAIGC education in Guinea Bissau 1963-1978 (Peter Lang, 2019) focuses on liberation schools and the concept and praxis developed by the PAIGC. She was also the editor of the booklets Cadernos Consciência e Resistência Negra(2007-2011) and author of the book Na Pó di Spéra. Percursos nos Bairros da Estrada Militar, Santa Filomena e Encosta Nascente (2014). Vaz Borges co-authored two short films Navigating the Pilot School (2016) and Mangrove School (2022). She is currently teaching at Drexel University in Philadelphia and developing a new project focused on her concept of the walking archive and the processes of memory and imagination.

Virtual screening of "MANGROVE SCHOOL"

Feb 13-19th 

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A virtual screening of " Mangrove School" will take place between February 13-19th. The film will be made available only during the screening days. Enter the screening with the password:screenmangrove
(lowercase and one word)  on Feb 13th 2023.  Please note this password will be active during screening dates only.