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Homeland Security and Civil Liberties Conference at Penn Law School
Homeland Security and Civil Liberties Conference at University of Pennsylvania Law School WHO: Eyal Benvenisti, Tel Aviv UniversityMarion Spike Bowman, FBIDavid Cole, Georgetown University Law CenterFrank Dunham, federal public defender, attorney for suspected terrorists Yaser Hamdi and Zacarias MoussaouiMarwan Kreidie, director, Philadelphia Arab American Development CorporationSeth Kreimer, Penn LawKenneth Lassus, Fort Sam HoustonTom McShane, U.S. Army War College
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“Nothing” to see at ICA's new exhibit
Institute of Contemporary Art Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner once put on a show in New York about people who want everything—those who collect material possessions to try to fill their lives. Now, she’s launched a show about nothing. With the help of Associate Curator Bennett Simpson and Whitney-Lauder Curator Tanya Leighton, Schaffner and the ICA are leading “The Big Nothing,” a citywide celebration of, well, nothing, that opened this month and runs through August 1.
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Excerpts from a decade of discourse on the issues that mattered.
Included in this special report: Judith Rodin: Her decade at Penn Excerpts from a decade of discourse on the issues that mattered.
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Piping up for the Curtis Organ
The Curtis Organ is not your church’s organ. . It’s a grand, lush instrument with 161 sets of pipes—10,731 pipes in all—that can mimic the swells of an orchestra, the blare of loud trumpets and yes, even the strains of a church organ.
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Staff Q&A: Alison McGhie
STAFF Q & A/Accomodating the honorary degree recipients is a breeze, says Alison McGhie. After talking with Alison McGhie C’91,GEd’92, the woman who shepherds Penn’s honorary degree recipients through Commencement, we couldn’t help but think: Other event coordinators would probably kill for a job like this. Tales of prima donnas with outlandish demands? She had none. Snafus that arose at the last minute? None of those either—at least not yet; she has only been handling logistics for the Commencement honorees for three years now.
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Sunday, May 16 University-wide events
BACCALAUREATE CEREMONY: Speaker: Dr. Jaroslav Pelikan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale. 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. for students whose last names begin with A-K, 3 to 4 p.m. for students whose last names begin with L-Z, in Irvine Auditorium, 34th and Spruce streets. School Ceremonies WHARTON UNDERGRADUATE/EVENING: Speaker: Amal Devani, C’04, W’04, Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business. 9 a.m. in Franklin Field.
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At Work With...Natalka Swavely
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Philly and Athens: sister cities?
This summer, as the world watches the Summer Olympics in Athens, Philadelphians can ponder the unique bond between their city and that paragon of the ancient world. Professor of the History of Art, Lothar Haselberger explored this connection May 1 during the annual Hellenic University Club of Philadelphia Symposium at the Penn Museum.
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10 things you didn’t know about Judith Rodin
Included in this special report: Judith Rodin: Her decade at Penn Excerpts from a decade of discourse on the issues that mattered.
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Treasures of Ur: tip of the iceberg?
Dear Benny,I read with interest the story about the Iraqi museum curators who came to Penn to look at the “Royal Tombs of Ur” exhibit. What portion of the Museum’s collection of objects from Ur is on display? How many of the finds from the 1922-1934 excavations are in the Museum’s collection? Are any of these on permanent display, or will they be? — Fascinated by Finds