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CAMPUS EVENTS
Upcoming Events
Events this month
February 7, 2013
12:00pm
John Huntsman Hall, Room G60
Year of Proof: Dimiter Kenarov
Dimiter Kenarov, a journalist from Bulgaria and a Pulitzer Centre grantee, will be speaking at Penn on the political, economic, and environmental dimensions of shale gas exploration in Poland, Pennsylvania, and beyond. For more information, please check http://bit.ly/WzSgBF. Lunch will be served.
RSVP: Email theme@gsc.upenn.edu, space is limited.
February 14, 2013
4:30pm
Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum
Year of Proof: Malcolm Gladwell
The author of four books, including The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference (2000) and Outliers: The Story of Success (2008). All four books were New York Times Bestsellers. Gladwell's books and articles often deal with the unexpected implications of research in the social sciences and make frequent and extended use of academic work, particularly in the areas of sociology, psychology and social psychology. This event is open to the public and has free admission. For inquires contact: eheaney@upenn.edu VIP Seating Lottery: 10 winners will be selected. Click here to enter lottery.
Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/364515020323154/
February 22, 2013
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Nevil Classroom, Pen Museum
Graduate humanities forum symposium
Peripheral Visions: Space, Hierarchy, and Power in Humanistic Research
Keller Easterling, Professor of Architecture, Yale; Jane Guyer, Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins; Eric Hayot, Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies, Penn State; Rene Marquez, Associate Professor of Visual Art, University of Delaware
Social and cultural peripheries—spatial, political, economic, or relating to identity, age or ability—are frequent objects of humanistic research. Yet the study of the periphery, especially from the privileged "central" position of the academy in the United States, is ethically and methodologically fraught.
February 27, 2013
6:00pm
Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum
Year of Proof: Robert K. Wittman
Former Senior Investigator/Founder of the FBI’s National Art Crime Team and author of the New York Times best–seller, Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures, is responsible for the recovery of more than $300 million worth of stolen art and cultural property. As an FBI Special Agent, Wittman conducted investigations throughout the world, often working undercover to rescue artifacts that ran the gamut from stolen Rembrandt’s, to tomb–robbed ancient Peruvian golden artifacts, to Geronimo’s eagle–feathered war bonnet. In this engrossing lecture, Wittman discusses the lengths investigators must go to solve these types of cases. For more information, call 215.898.2680. RSVP: Free tickets at www.penn.museum/priceless
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Upcoming Events
February 7, 2013
12:00pm
John Huntsman Hall, Room G60
Year of Proof: Dimiter Kenarov
Dimiter Kenarov, a journalist from Bulgaria and a Pulitzer Centre grantee, will be speaking at Penn on the political, economic, and environmental dimensions of shale gas exploration in Poland, Pennsylvania, and beyond. For more information, please check http://bit.ly/WzSgBF. Lunch will be served.
RSVP: Email theme@gsc.upenn.edu, space is limited.
February 14, 2013
4:30pm
Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum
Year of Proof: Malcolm Gladwell
The author of four books, including The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference (2000) and Outliers: The Story of Success (2008). All four books were New York Times Bestsellers. Gladwell's books and articles often deal with the unexpected implications of research in the social sciences and make frequent and extended use of academic work, particularly in the areas of sociology, psychology and social psychology. This event is open to the public and has free admission. For inquires contact: eheaney@upenn.edu VIP Seating Lottery: 10 winners will be selected. Click here to enter lottery.
Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/364515020323154/
February 22, 2013
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Nevil Classroom, Pen Museum
Graduate humanities forum symposium
Peripheral Visions: Space, Hierarchy, and Power in Humanistic Research
Keller Easterling, Professor of Architecture, Yale; Jane Guyer, Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins; Eric Hayot, Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies, Penn State; Rene Marquez, Associate Professor of Visual Art, University of Delaware
Social and cultural peripheries—spatial, political, economic, or relating to identity, age or ability—are frequent objects of humanistic research. Yet the study of the periphery, especially from the privileged "central" position of the academy in the United States, is ethically and methodologically fraught.
February 27, 2013
6:00pm
Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum
Year of Proof: Robert K. Wittman
Former Senior Investigator/Founder of the FBI’s National Art Crime Team and author of the New York Times best–seller, Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures, is responsible for the recovery of more than $300 million worth of stolen art and cultural property. As an FBI Special Agent, Wittman conducted investigations throughout the world, often working undercover to rescue artifacts that ran the gamut from stolen Rembrandt’s, to tomb–robbed ancient Peruvian golden artifacts, to Geronimo’s eagle–feathered war bonnet. In this engrossing lecture, Wittman discusses the lengths investigators must go to solve these types of cases. For more information, call 215.898.2680. RSVP: Free tickets at www.penn.museum/priceless
March 12, 2013
6:30pm
Irvine Auditorium
Year of Proof: Dr. Richard Dawkins
The 2013 Philomathean Annual Oration "Proof, Science, and Skepticism" with Dr. Richard Dawkins, former Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford and the author of the Selfish Gene and the God Delusion, will address the Penn community on the role of skepticism and science in the modern world. For more information, contact paulmit@sas.upenn.edu
VIP Seating Lottery: 10 winners will be selected. Click here to enter lottery.
March 20, 2013
5:00–6:30 p.m.
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Penn Humanities Forum
Urban Itineraries and Peripheral Spaces
Swati Chattopadhyay, Professor and Chair, History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara Architectural historian Swati Chattopadhyay invites us to rethink how we see and write about cities. Rather than assuming a geography of centers, suburbs, and exurbs, her work explores the many small, scattered, and generally neglected spaces—those that make up the fabric of our cities yet remain at the farthest edges of awareness and understanding. Taking the ex-colonial city in India as her locale, she discusses the exceptional moments when these unseen spaces become apparent.
March 29, 2013
9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Penn Humanities Forum
Mapping Cultural History, Visualizing Cultural Information
Peter Bol, Historian of China, Harvard; Elijah Meeks, Digital Humanities Specialist, Stanford; Ruth Mostern, Cultural Historian, University of California, MercedScholars in the digital humanities are pioneering new techniques for mapping and visualizing cultural information. Using geographic information systems, they are presenting complex data about cultural histories and cultural practices around the world. Three distinguished exponents, Peter Bol, Elijah Meeks, and Ruth Mostern, discuss the future of digital mapping in the humanities.
April 17, 2013
5:00–6:30 p.m.
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Penn Humanities Forum
Medicine at the Margins
Steven Feierman, Professor of History, Penn; Harvey Friedman, Chief of Infectious Diseases Division, Penn Medicine; Julie Livingston, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers
What are the practical and ethical challenges of taking medical practices and technologies developed in metropolitan centers and extending them into remote communities where modern health care resources are scarce? Join us for a lively conversation featuring reports and reflections on recent field work in southern Africa by Harvey Friedman, director of the Botswana-UPenn Partnership, Steven Feierman, historian of African science and medicine, and Julie Livingston, African historian and ethnographer.
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Past Events
January 23, 2013
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum
Penn Humanities Forum
The Edges of the Visible Universe
David Spergel, Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy, Professor and Chair of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University
Because light travels at a finite speed, cosmologists observing the farthest peripheries of visible space are also looking backwards in time, seeing the universe in its earliest moments after the Big Bang. These observations enable them to tackle the most daunting questions that drive modern cosmology. What is the universe made of? What existed before the Big Bang? And, given the vast scales and durations at issue, what difference does the fact of human life make? MacArthur Award-winning astrophysicist David Spergel shares his latest thinking on these matters.
November 15, 2012
12-1pm
Webinar
The 2012 Election: What just happened?
Presented by the School of Arts & Sciences
With the 2012 presidential election just days behind us, Penn’s political science faculty experts will recount the final moments leading up to Election Day, eleventh-hour campaign twists, and, ultimately, the results. Attend the discussion on campus in Houston Hall’s Benjamin Franklin Room or watch live online here.
November 14, 2012
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Penn Humanities Forum
On the Caribbean Periphery of American Letters
Junot Díaz, Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor or Writing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Junot Díaz calls his building blocks "African diasporic, migrant, Caribbean, Dominican, Jersey Boy." Raised in the Dominican Republic and a working-class neighborhood of northern New Jersey, Díaz published his first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, to tremendous acclaim, winning the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2007, the Pulitzer Prize in 2008, and a host of other awards. The New Yorker has named him one of the 20 most important writers of the 21st century.
December 4, 2012
6:00pm
Penn Bookstore, 2nd floor
Penn Professor Thadious Davis
Thadious Davis will discuss her book "Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region & Literature." Professor Davis analyzes how black southern writers use their location to articulate the connections between society and environment, particularly under segregation and its legacies.
October 24, 2012
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Penn Humanities Forum
What Art Can Tell Us About How We See
Margaret Livingstone, Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Margaret Livingstone's work places art history into a fascinating conversation with neurobiology. She argues that artists have over the centuries developed a kind of working theory of how we see, which anticipates contemporary scientific research on the neuro-processing of visual information. Drawing on examples that include da Vinci, Matisse, Chuck Close, and others, she shows how the great painters intuitively grasped such crucial features of human visual processing as the separate pathways for color versus luminance or the different resolutions of central versus peripheral vision.
October 10, 2012
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Penn Humanities Forum
Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities: Cores and Peripheries in the 21st Century
Immanuel Wallerstien, Senior Research Scholar in Sociology, Yale University
Few authors have contributed more to our thinking about globalization than Immanuel Wallerstein, the great pioneer and proponent of world systems theory. His seminal works map the complex relations among countries and regions as a dynamic system of flows between a core and its peripheries. In this talk, Wallerstein addresses both the continuing relevance and the limitations of the world systems model. Are we still at the center? If so, where are the peripheries, and what is happening there?
October 10, 2012
1:00pm-2:00pm
Webinar
Office Hours with Professor Angela Duckworth: Got Grit? Get More?
It’s the one million dollar question for every parent: what are the crucial determinants of achievement and success? In this review of the psychological factors that determine achievement, Penn psychologist Angela Duckworth places a special emphasis on effort, as opposed to talent. Duckworth will review data from her lab on high achievers and share suggestions for cultivating the character trait she dubs “grit.”
September 19, 2012
12:00pm-1:00pm
Webinar
Office Hours with Professor Joseph Turow: The Rise of Tailored Political Advertising – and What Americans Say About it
The 2012 election marks a watershed moment for online advertising. In unprecedented ways, and to an unprecedented extent, campaign organizations across the American political spectrum are using hundreds of pieces of information about individuals’ online and offline lives to ensure the “right” people are being targeted with the “right” advertising. Join Annenberg Professor Joseph Turow as he sketches the development of the new world of tailored political marketing and reports on the first national survey, conducted by a team at Annenberg, to explore Americans’ responses to these developments.
September 28, 2012
9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Penn Humanities Forum
Libraries, Labs, and Classrooms: Locating the Digital Humanities
Nicole Coleman, Academic Technologist, Stanford; Neil Fraistat, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities; John Unsworth, Vice Provost and Chief Information Officer, Brandeis
Where does the digital humanities fit in today's research university? What changes need to be made by the faculty, libraries, and administration to accommodate recent digital innovations? Can the rise of digital tools and methods help to foster traditional fields of research? Who are the critics of digital humanities, and how might their objections be addressed? Join us for public presentations by three leaders of the digital revolution in humanistic disciplines.
May 26, 2012
6:30pm
Penn Book Store, 2nd level
The Lost and Found Box: A Provocative Exploration about Rediscovering Happiness and THE REAL YOU!
“The Lost and Found Box” is a tool that will help readers to explore self-identity – past, present and future. Wadley offers tools and strategies aimed at empowering the individual to set free their best self.
May 12, 2012
3:30-4:30pm
Penn Book Store, 2nd level Café
Alumni Weekend Author Event: Ed Keller
Please join us as we welcome Penn Alumnus Ked Keller for a special discussion based on this book, “The Face-to-Face Book: Why Real Relationships Rule in a Digital Marketplace.” A look at how consumers make their buying decisions.
May 3, 2012
4:30-7:00 PM
The Penn Club of New York, 30 West 44th Street
The Spirit of Compromise
The University of Pennsylvania invites you to join New York area alumni and friends for an election-season conversation with Amy Gutmann and Dennis F. Thompson to discuss their new book, The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It. Moderated by David Remnick, Editor, The New Yorker. Space is limited. RSVP here. For additional questions, please contact Lauren Graham at 215.746.1772
April 19, 2012
6:00-7:00pm
Penn Book Store, 2nd level Café
Penn Professor Peter Decherney: Copy Right Wars
Join us for a discussion led by Cinema Studies professor Peter Decherney. Based on his new book, “Hollywood’s Copyrights Wars: From Edison to the Internet.”
April 18, 2012
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET
Office Hours with Anthea Butler
Faith Matters: Religious and Rhetoric in the 2012 Election
Who says religion and politics don’t mix? Recent surveys indicate that the 2012 presidential contest could be the most religiously based presidential race in recent history, making it all the more important for voters to educate themselves about the religious rhetoric and strategies used by the Republicans, Democrats and Independents. Join Anthea Butler, Professor of Religious Studies, for a discussion of the crucial role religion is already playing in the forthcoming election. A sought after media commentator, Professor Butler blogs about religion and politics at the daily online magazine “Religion Dispatches.” She is currently completing her book The Gospel According to Sarah: How Sarah Palin and the Tea Party are Galvanizing the Religious Right (The New Press) to be published in Spring 2012.
Additional information about these and other upcoming Office Hours webinars available at http://www.alumni.upenn.edu/education/officehours.html.
April 18, 2012
4:00-5:00pm
Penn Book Store, 2nd level Café
Faculty Discussion: Law Professor Stephanos Bibas
Please join us for a discussion and book signing featuring Penn Law Professor Stephanos Bibas. Bibas will be discussing themes based on his new book, “The Machinery of Criminal Justice”. Bibas is director of Penn’s Supreme Court Clinic and specializes in criminal procedure.
April 17, 2012
6:00pm
Penn Book Store
“Hemingway’s Boat” with Paul Hendrickson, Professor of English
This even is part of the Penn Science Café. To RSVP, contact Gina Bryan at bryangm@upenn.edu .
April 12, 2012
5:00pm
Annenberg School for Communication, Room 110
“Confederate Reckoning” with Stephanie McCurry, Professor of Art History
This even is part of the Thinking with the Past lecture series. For more information contact Nari Baughman at nlinette@sas.upenn.edu .
April 6, 2012
4:00-5:00pm
Penn Book Store, 2nd level Café
GSE Professor Marybeth Gasman: The Morehouse Mystique
Dr. Gasman and co-author Louis W. Sullivan will present highlights from their book, “The Morehouse Mystique: Becoming a Doctor at the Nation’s Newest African American Medical School.” A complete history of the Morehouse School of Medicine, one of only four predominantly black medical schools in the US.
April 4, 2012
12:00pm
Claudia Cohen Hall, Terrace Room
“Oracles, Omens, and Dreams: A cognitive Approach to Divination in Antiquity,”
With Peter Struck, Associate Professor of Classical Studies. This lecture is part of Knowledge by the Slice lecture series and is free and open to the public. No tickets or RSVP required.
March 30, 2012
School of Nursing, Claire Fagin Hall
Room 218
Pharmacology & Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Practice Nurses
Designed for Advanced Practice Nurses including clinical nurse specialist, nurse practitioners and nurse midwives who currently work in primary care setting and are eligible for prescriptive authority. Click here for more information and to register.
March 19, 2012
4:30-6:00 PM
Irvine Auditorium (3401 Spruce Street)
David and Lyn Silfen University Forum: “Is America Broken? A Conversation on the 2012 Elections and Beyond.
Dr. Gutmann will moderate the discussion with a distinguished group of experts including New York Times columnist Charles Blow, Penn Associate Professor of Political Science and NBC News Election Analyst John Lapinski, former White House speechwriter and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, former Philadelphia Mayor and Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, and former U.S. Senator Alan Simpson. After what is sure to be a stimulating conversation, our panelists will field questions from the audience. Please visit http://www.upenn.edu/silfenforum for more detailed event information and to get ticket.
For those who cannot attend the event in person, a live webcast of the event will be available on the Silfen Forum website at http://www.upenn.edu/silfenforum/webcast.html
March 14, 2012
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET
Office Hours with John Gearhart
Regenerative Medicine: Stem Cell Tourism and Athletic Enhancements.
John Gearhart was one of the first scientists to identify and isolate human embryonic stem cells and is a leading expert in regenerative medicine. He is often quoted in the popular press and has testified in front of Congress numerous times regarding stem cell research and treatments. As the Director of the Penn Institute for Regenerative Medicine, John overseas and coordinates stem cell research across campus. Join John for a lively discussion where he will discuss the complex topic of stem cell tourism: when patients travel to other countries to undergo stem cell therapies that are not approved in the United States. John will also discuss the contentious issue of stem cell enhancements for athletes giving them a competitive edge!
Additional resources:
About John Gearhart
Penn Institute for Regnerative Medicine > Research areas
Chasing the Miracle Cure > ESPN article touching on the use of stem cell treatments for professional athletes (October 5, 2011)
March 7-8, 2012
8am-6pm
Ryan Hospital, 39th Street and Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA
112th Penn Annual Vet Conference
Conference information and registration details located here.
February 23
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. EST
Challenges for Retirement in the 21st Century
Led by: Olivia Mitchell, International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor; Professor of Business and Public Policy; Professor of Insurance and Risk Management; Executive Director, Pension Research Council
Wharton Alumni Relations is pleased to announce our 2011–2012 Webinar Series, featuring renowned Wharton faculty. Nearly 3000 alumni took part in this exciting new lifelong learning opportunity last year. Click here to see their feedback. Registration will open for each session two weeks in advance of the event date. Capacity is limited, so be sure to stay tuned for your email invitation!For further information, please contact alumni.relations@wharton.upenn.edu
Feb. 21, 2012
6:00pm
Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 401
“Full Circle: From Penn Student to Penn Faculty”
A conversation with Salamishah Tillet, Ph.D., C'96, G'04 Penn alumna Dr. Salamishah Tillet is now Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies. Hear about Dr. Tillet’s path to teaching in the very departments in which she majored as a student at Penn. Learn how she found her interdisciplinary academic focus, which issues are drawing her much sought-after commentary so far in 2012, and what response she has received since interviewing Gloria Steinem as part of the December 2011 TEDx Women conference. Learn more and register now!
February 15, 2012
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET
Office Hours with Peter Decherney
Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet
Copyright law guides filmmakers’ artistic decisions; it underlies Hollywood’s corporate structure; and it determines how audiences consume media. Since the widespread adoption of the internet in the 1990s, copyright law has begun to affect an ever-expanding range of media producers and consumers, including amateur video makers, file sharers, and internet entrepreneurs. As a result, even high school students now hold strong opinions about copy protection, the public domain, and other complex areas of cultural policy that had previously been the obscure domain of legal experts. Join Peter Decherney, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and English, for a discussion about copyright's influence over the art and business of film. Learn how copyright disputes involving Edison, Chaplin, Spielberg, and others shaped the studio system. And discuss how digital intellectual property is changing the industry today.
Additional resources:
Copyright Wars > Decherney reacts to recent Supreme Court case
Will Copyright Stifle Hollywood? > New York Times op-ed (October 4, 2011)
January 31
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. EST
Strategic Persuasion: Winning Others Over to Your Ideas One Person at a Time
Led By: G. Richard Shell, Thomas Gerrity Professor; Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics; Professor of Management
Wharton Alumni Relations is pleased to announce our 2011–2012 Webinar Series, featuring renowned Wharton faculty. Nearly 3000 alumni took part in this exciting new lifelong learning opportunity last year. Click here to see their feedback. Registration will open for each session two weeks in advance of the event date. Capacity is limited, so be sure to stay tuned for your email invitation!For further information, please contact alumni.relations@wharton.upenn.edu
January 24, 2012
5:30-7:00pm
Irvine Auditorium
Year of Games: The World of Enigmatology
Featuring Will Shortz, the crossword puzzle editor of The New York Times since 1993. He is also the puzzlemaster on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday and is founder and director of the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. For more Year of Games events and information, click here.
January 24, 2012
5:30-7PM
Ben Franklin Room, Houston Hall
Penn IUR Public Interest Event, Urban Book Talk: "Women's Health and the World's Cities" Co-sponsored with Penn Press and the School of Nursing, the volume editors and contributors of Women's Health and the World's Cities (Penn Press, 2011) will discuss the key issues presented in the book. Women's Health and the World's Cities illuminates the intersection of gender, health, and urban environments. From the interdisciplinary perspective of urban planners, scholars, health practitioners, and activists, this collection of essays examines the impact of urban living on the physical and psychological states of women and girls in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the United States. The event will be followed by a book signing and reception. Speakers included Afaf I. Meleis, Dean of the School of Nursing; Jeane Ann Grisso, Professor of Public Health, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Perelman School of Medicine; Kat Rosqueta, Founding Executive Director of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy at University of Pennsylvania; Lynn Sommers, Director, Penn's School of Nursing Center for Global Women's Health, and Eugenie Birch, Co-Director, Penn Institute for Urban Research. Click here for more information.
January 17, 2012
5:30pm
Zellerbach Theater, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
The 11th Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture in Social Justice
This lecture features Donna Brazile, Political Commentator & Strategist/Author in conversation with Camille Z. Charles, Professor of Sociology & Education and Director of the Center for Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania. Click here for more information.
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