Making their journey to South Asia as sailors, soldiers, scholars, and slaves, Africans have a long and distinguished history on the subcontinent. Some rose to positions of power as rulers, generals, leaders of freedom struggles, and artists while others have more recently found connections within the respective African and South Asian diasporas around the world. This Zoom discussion will feature a distinguished set of experts on this broad topic and will include a presentation by Dr. Ken Robbins of some of the material in his renowned collection of South Asian material which will one day reside in the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Speakers

• Dr. Jazmin Graves Eyssallenne
  African American and African Diaspora Studies Program, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
• Dr. Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, MBE
  Independent scholar and author
• Dr. Rupa Pillai
  Asian American Studies, University of Pennsylvania
• Dr. Ken Robbins
  Collector and author