CAMPUS EVENTS

The Pauline Shaw Holsaert Research Colloquium Series 2009-2010
Wednesdays 4-5:30pm
Caster Building, D26
3701 Locust Walk

The Pauline Shaw Holsaert Research Colloquium Series is sponsored by the School of Social Policy and Practice (SP2) at the University of Pennsylvania. The series is aimed at providing a forum for faculty and students to learn and exchange ideas about new and cutting-edge social work and social welfare research carried out by leading scholars from SP2, the Penn community, and other institutions throughout the US and internationally. www.sp2.upenn.edu/colloquium

October 13, 2009

Penn Club of Philadelphia Event with Professor Guy Ramsey
Time: Preshow talk with Dr. Guy Ramsey: 7pm - 8pm, Performance 8pm-10pm
Location: Chris' Jazz Café, 1421 Sansom St
Cost: $10 for general admission, $5 for students
RSVP: RSVP here for the reception, tickets to the performance can be purchased as the door
http://www.pennclubphilly.org/article.html?aid=442

October 14, 2009
5:00–6:30pm
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street

Rain Englishes Past, Present, and Future
David Crystal
Honorary Professor of Linguistics, University of Wales
Four hundred years ago, English was believed to be a language without a future. Today it is a global code shared by people of all nations. Acclaimed linguist David Crystal explains this change and assesses its future.
http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/registration.shtml

October 14, 2009
5:30pm
BRB, 421Curie Blvd.

Penn Medicine Advances Series
Conversation & Cocktail Reception
This lively panel will feature Penn doctors discussing pioneering research and innovative approaches to a range of women's health issues, including:  

·         Healthy female aging
·         Heart disease
·         Bone health
·         Optimal nutrition and fitness
·         Depression
For more information click here

October 17, 2009
9am to 6pm
Penn Museum

GLOBALIZATION IN PROGRESS: Understanding and Working with World Urbanization
Sponsored by the Faculty Forum on Globalization and Cities and the Penn Institute for Urban Research (PIUR)
Information available online at www.globalizationstudies.upenn.edu. 

Immigration, Race and the Academy
Part of PennGSE's Race in the Academy Series
Featuring Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Ph. D., The Courtney Sale Ross University Professor at NYU and Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2009-2010). For additional information, visit www.gse.upenn.edu/event.

Alumna Dr. Marie Answers Your Health Questions
Written by a woman for women, "Ask Dr. Marie" puts serious medical information into a format that's accessible, easy to read and empathetic. Dr. Marie is a medical correspondent for ABC News and one of America's most trusted voices on women's health and wellness.

October 27, 2009
6:45 pm
Annenberg Center for Performing Art

Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’s Production of Love’s Labour’s Lost
Join Dr. Cary Mazer, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and English for a pre-show talk on Love, Poems, Masques and Pageants: An Exploration of Love’s Labour’s Lost, followed by the performance at 7:30 pm.  Show also runs 10/28, 29 and 30 and 31 (28/29 pre-show talks with faculty, 30 post show talk with the cast).  For more information and tickets, visit www.annenbergcenter.org. 

October 29, 2009
4:30pm
College Hall, Room 200

Developing & Redeveloping Public Housing: The Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities
The Urban Studies Program announces its 25th Annual Public Lecture
Lawrence Vale is the Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at MIT.  The lecture will draw on Professor Vale’s current research for his third book on public housing that looks across seven American cities to compare the historic efforts of “slum clearance,” officially called urban renewal with current efforts to clear public housing on those same sites. Free and open to the public; no RSVP required.

October 29, 2009
4:30pm
Levy Conference Center, The Law School                

Private Securities Litigation-Time for a Fresh Start?
Hon. Lewis A. Kaplan, United Sates District Judge
Southern District of New York
Reception to Follow –All Are Welcome
Inforation: 215-898-7719 or vhewitt@law.upenn.eduhttp://www.law.upenn.edu/ile/calendar.html

October 30, 2009
9:30am-6:30pm
Houston Hall

The Penn Women’s Studies Program is pleased to invite you to it
35th Anniversary Conference
Please join us for a stimulating day of panels with Penn faculty on:

Gender, Work, and Health
Gender and Literature
Gender and Education
Gender and Violence
Gender and Sexuality
Sexuality, Film, and the Media
Feminist Historiographies
Gendered Bodies

For full details, including faculty panelists, see: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/wstudies/events/35anniversaryconference.html

November 4, 2009
 5:00–6:30pm
Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street

Killing Flesh? Can the Semi-Living Die?
Oron Catts
Cofounder, SymbioticA, University of Western Australia
Oron Catts, a pioneer in the field of bio-art, has created victimless leather, a living coat made of mouse stem cells. Join us as he discusses this and other fascinating works that redefine the relation between art and life. http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/registration.shtml

November 5-8, 2009

Homecoming Weekend 2009 Featuring Arts & Culture at Penn
Show your Penn spirit by joining fellow alumni at our traditional Homecoming Weekend for events and programs devoted to highlighting Penn's academic, artistic, cultural, and team spirit. Attend all of your favorites — the Penn vs. Princeton football game, Taste of Penn, Quakerfest, the Gallery Hop — as well as a new robust artistic and cultural program, including hands-on arts classes, student rehearsals of Our Town, a premiere screening of Accidental Occurrences, and lectures and symposia by world-renowned Penn faculty. Most programs are free to Penn alumni and their families.

November 11, 2009
5:30 pm
Gittis Hall 214, Penn Law School (3400 Chestnut Street)

The Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. Memorial Lecture
Winning While Losing? The Civil Rights Predicament in the Obama Era [http://www.sas.upenn.edu/africana/calendar.html]
Presented by Dr. Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History of Pennsylvania and former Chair of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission Free.  This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the Center for Africana Studies at 215.898-4965 or africana@sas.upenn.edu

November 11, 2009
5:00–6:30pm
Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street

Politics and Pandemics
Helen Epstein
Author of The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight
Against AIDS in Africa
Public health advocate and AIDS expert Helen Epstein examines the politics of one of the great anxieties spurred by globalization: the specter of new and deadly diseases sweeping uncontrolled across the world.
http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/registration.shtml

Panel- November 13, 2009
Workshop-November 14, 2009

Eco-Municipalities: What does a Sustainable City Look Like?
Claudia Cohen Hall
http://www.organizationaldynamics.upenn.edu/od/images/100916.PDF

November 18, 2009
5:00–6:30pm (lecture), 3:30–4:30 (tour)
Lecture: APS, Benjamin Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut Street
Tour: APS, Philosophical Hall, 104 S. Fifth Street

Darwin, Hooker, and Empire
Jim Endersby
Senior Lecturer, History, University of Sussex
Cosponsored by the American Philosophical Society
Renowned historian and Darwin authority Jim Endersby introduces us to the global network of correspondents who proved essential to Darwin's work, ultimately shaping the language and philosophy of Origin of Species. A guided tour of the exhibition "Dialogues with Darwin" precedes the lecture.
http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/registration.shtml

November 19, 2009
5 pm
Platt Student Performing Arts House

Broadway Producer David Stone ‘88David Stone is currently represented by Wicked and Next to Normal. He has produced The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Three Days of Rain, Man of La Mancha, The Vagina Monologues, Fully Committed, Lifegame, The Diary of Anne Frank, Full Gallop, The Santaland Diaries and Family Secrets. David serves on the boards of The Broadway League and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids. He also serves on the advisory boards of V-Day and Second Stage Theatre. David has lectured on theatre at the Juilliard School, NYU, Yale, Columbia and his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania.

November 20, 2009
ALL DAY

Penn Arts Crawl
More than two dozen art & culture happenings (nearly all free!) on and near campus.  For details go to -http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/platthouse/artscrawl.php

November 20, 2009
6:30pm
Institute of Contemporary Art (118 S. 36th Street)

Book Talk & Signing with Steven Conn: Do Museums Still Need Objects?
Part of Penn’s Fall Arts Crawl.  More info at http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/platthouse/artscrawl.php

December 2, 2009
 7:00–8:30pm
Audtiorium, 2nd floor, ARCH Building, 3601 Locust Walk

Cassandra Float Can
Anne Carson
Professor of Classical Studies, Comparative Literature, and English
University of Michigan
Classical scholar, MacArthur Fellow, and celebrated poet and translator
Anne Carson connects ancient drama to modern philosophy and painting in this performance piece, Cassandra Float Can. http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/registration.shtml