PHILADELPHIA -- A conversation with Harry Belafonte and University of Pennsylvania Professor Mary Frances Berry at 5:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 19, will be the 2007 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice, highlighting  two weeks of special MLK events on the Penn campus.

Moderated by Tukufu Zuberi, professor of sociology and director of Penn's Center for Africana Studies, the free event will be in Irvine Auditorium, 3401 Spruce St., Philadelphia.  It is co-sponsored by the Center for Africana Studies and Penn's Annenberg School for Communication.  Seating is limited, and tickets are available from the Annenberg Center box office, 215-898-3900.

A host of volunteer opportunities are planned at Penn to celebrate King's legacy, beginning with a variety of open-to-the-public service activities on Monday, Jan. 15, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.  Additional information as well as information on volunteering opportunities are available from Isabel Mapp at 215-898-2020 or Pamela Robinson at 215-898-5551.  

Penn's Civic House plans a community service meal preparation with MANNA, which provides meals for people living with HIV/AIDS, cancer or other life-threatening illnesses, 5 p.m.Friday, Jan. 19.  Volunteers may call 215-898-4831.

Events open to the public include:

• Annual White Dog dinner-discussion of King's work, 6 p.m.  Sunday, Jan. 14.
• Candlelight vigil reflecting on the lives of King, his wife, Coretta Scott King, and the civil rights movement, 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 15.
• "Inspired by Heroes" panel discussion on the King legacy and how it relates to careers and social activism, 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 16.
• "Political Economy of School Reform" panel discussion and workshop on public education, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 16.
• Latino youth and education panel discussion, noon Wednesday, Jan. 17.
• A panel discussion on the future of black leadership, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 17.
• Guest preacher Beverly Dale will speak on white privilege, guilt and racial justice at the Tabernacle United Church, 10 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 21.
• "Apartheid and Beyond:  South African Literary Culture" with Rita Barnard, 5 p.m. Monday, Jan. 22.
• Viewing and discussion of "The Jungle," a documentary film depicting gang life, 5:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 22.
• Asian-Americans working for social change, 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 22.
• King's impact on the contemporary movement for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights, with Mary Frances Berry, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 23.
• Violence in the black community, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 23.
• Race in the Academy Series: "Teaching Around Race," with author David Roediger, noon, Wednesday, Jan. 24.
• Impacts of racism on health and well being, with epidemiologist Camara Phyllis Jones, 4 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 24.
• Former Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode will speak on the city's future, 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 24.
• A conversation with Philadelphia Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson, 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 25.
• LGBT leaders for civil rights, featuring an examination of the life of Bayard Rustin, 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 25.

Other activities include:

• "HUP Celebrates Dr. King," featuring the Penn Inspiration Choir, 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 17.
• Interfaith program featuring the Rev. Vernon Byrd of Grant Chapel AME Church, Trenton, N.J., corporate counsel for Johnson & Johnson and former general counsel for the New York Times, as guest speaker, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 18. 
• Performance of "Let Freedom Ring: So We Shall Overcome," tracing the black experience in America, 7 p..m. Wednesday, Jan. 24.
• "Jazz for King" celebration/poetry reading, 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 26.

While most of these activities are free, others do involve a cost.  Complete details are available by calling 215-898-0104 or at www.upenn.edu/aarc/mlk.