You'll find a wealth of interesting perspectives, in an array of lectures, lively discussions, and engaging tours.
Friday, November 1 8:45
am - 2 pm Women: Expectations & Reality,
Looking Forward & Looking Back Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
3680 Walnut Street In 2001, the University celebrated 125 Years of Women at Penn. Join us as we celebrate again, and hear a panel of distinguished alumnae representing law, medicine, athletics, and media/public policy discuss how women's ambitions, idealism, knowledge, experience, and wisdom evolve and change through time.
8:45 am : Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:40 am : Program
Noon : Lunch
2 pm : Dedication of new pavers on The Women's Walkway and Class of
1949 Generational Bridge
Awarding of the first "Celebration of 125 Years of Women at Penn Endowed
Scholarship Fund for Undergraduate Women." To participate or learn more,
contact Bonnie A. Eisner,
Associate Director of Special Projects.
Friday, November 1 1:30
- 3 pm "Not Necessarily Retirement:
The Next Chapter for Senior Alumni" Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Studio Theater, Lower Level
3680 Walnut Street What are your expectations as you approach the traditional age
of retirement? Penn Professors Ram Cnann of the School of Social Work and Mary
Elizabeth Soldo, Director of the Population Aging Research Center, will lead a
panel discussion, suggested by the Class
of 1962.
Friday, November 1
2 - 3 pm Muriel Pfaelzer Bodek Library
Public Events Lecture
"Let's Roll: America's Post 9/11 Middle East Policy" Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Robert Vitalis, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Middle East Center, will discuss U.S. policy in the Middle East. Free and open to the public. Call (800) 390-1829 for reservations and information.
Friday, November 1, 2:30 pm
Saturday, November 2, 1 pm The Buildings of Penn:
An Architectural Walking Tour Starts from the main entrance of the Penn Bookstore, 36th and Walnut Streets Explore the architecture of Penn's campus, old and new, with
Penn experts as your guides. See buildings and landmarks by renowned architects
Frank Furness, McKim, Mead & White, Paul Cret, Eero Saarinen, Louis Kahn, and
Venturi Scott Brown and Associates. Friday's tour will be led by Dr. George Thomas,
an instructor at Penn and founding principal of George E. Thomas Associates, an
architectural and preservation consulting firm. Saturday's tour will be led by
William Whitaker, Collections Manager of the Kroiz Gallery, Architectural Archives
of the University of Pennsylvania.
Friday, November 1 3
- 4:30 pm Justice Talking - LIVE from Penn
"Age Discrimination" Wistar Institute, 36th and Spruce Streets Veteran National Public Radio Correspondent Margot Adler will
moderate a debate on age discrimination before a live audience for this edition
of Justice Talking. The nationally syndicated radio program is produced by the
Annenberg Public Policy Center. To learn more, visit www.justice
talking.org.
Friday, November 1
3 pm Alumni/Faculty Exchange:
"Talking with Penn Professors" Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk Exchange ideas with top Penn professors and writers, including Nina Auerbach, John Welsh Centennial Professor of History and Literature; Tom Childers, Professor of History; Millicent (Penny) Marcus, Director of the Center for Italian Studies; Tukufu Zuberi, Director of the Afro-American Studies Program; Sheldon Hackney, Professor of History; and Michael Zuckerman, Professor of History. Reception and informal discussion will follow presentations.
Sponsored by the Office of Alumni Relations and Kelly Writers House.
Friday, November 1
4:30 pm SAS Homecoming Lecture
"The Materiality of Reading" Logan Hall, Room 17
36th and Spruce Streets Is it wrong to skip around in a book instead of pursuing a continuous
narrative? Did the scroll evolve into the book precisely so readers could pick
and choose what they read? Penn English Professor Peter Stallybrass, co-author
of Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory, will explore these questions
in the context of the long history of the book. A reception will follow. For information
and to RSVP, email Carrie Stavrakos.
Saturday, November 2
11 am - Noon "Nanotechnology: The Latest Technological Revolution"
Heilmeier Hall, Room 100 Towne Building, 220 South 33rd Street Learn about nanotechnology — the atom-by-atom approach
to building products of infinitesimal size — and Penn's leadership in this
pathbreaking research. David Luzzi, Director of Penn's Nanotechnology Institute,
will lead a discussion. Reservations are encouraged. RSVP by email: alumni@seas.upenn.edu.
Saturday, November 2 11 am - Noon ICA Museum Tour: Damián Ortega Institute of Contemporary Art
118 South 36th Street Explore Mexican artist Damián Ortega's work, which employs photography and a
sculptural decomposition in the style of Dada and political cartooning.
Co-sponsored by the Association of Latino Alumni and the Office of Alumni Relations.
Make
Your Reservations Now! Call Fran Abrahamer Rosenstock, CW’62, GED’64 at Monarch Travel
at (800) 458-7177 to reserve rooms and make travel arrangements.
Make
Your Reservations Now! Call Fran Abrahamer Rosenstock, CW’62, GED’64 at Monarch Travel
at (800) 458-7177 to reserve rooms and make travel arrangements.
Knowledge, Culture and Perspectives
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am - 2 pm
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