Through

4/26

Earth Week 2024

Purple blooms on the verge of opening, backlit by the sun

This is a campuswide week of events, lectures, and volunteer opportunities designed to educate and inspire action related to environmental justice, climate, and nature-based solutions. This year’s theme is Restore & Regenerate.

12:00 a.m.

Various locations

4/25

Excellence in Graduate Teaching Reception

Penn Grad Center brick exterior with foliage

The vice provost for education and the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Innovation celebrate the Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students. The reception will honor the 10 winners in departments ranging from Anthropology to Neuroscience.

5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Penn Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk

4/26

GreenFest

People participate in a painting activity at a table on Penn's campus

At this annual tabling festival, student organizations share their visions and projects related to environmental sustainability and environmental justice.

1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

College Green

Through

4/30

Maggie Nelson

A yellow and green victorian house

Scholar and poet Maggie Nelson reads. Nelson is the author of several poetry collections, including “The Argonauts,” which won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2015. A conversation with her will follow on April 30 at 10 a.m.

6:30 p.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

Kristen de Groot

News Officer

Kristen de Groot covers several subject areas in the School of Arts & Sciences including Political Science, History, Economics, East Asian Languages, Germanic Languages and Literature, Russian & East European Studies, and International Studies, the Penn in Washington Program, the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy, Think Tanks & Civil Societies, Penn Opinion Research & Election Studies (PORES), the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Penn Institute for Economic Research, the Center for Study of Contemporary China and Center for East Asian Studies, the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics, Fels Institute for Government, and the Center for Ethnicity Race and Immigration. She also covers Penn Global’s Research and Engagement Fund, the SNF Paideia Program, and Perry World House.

A man in a facemask uses a marker to ink the finger of a facemasked woman, as ballot containers and the Moroccan flag are seen behind them.

Young voters and online civic education

A collaborative new study by Guy Grossman of the School of Arts & Sciences and co-authors looks at the effects of low-cost online interventions in encouraging young Moroccans to turn out and cast an informed vote in the 2021 elections.

Kristen de Groot ・July 14, 2023

U.S. President Joe Biden and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are seated next to each other, separated by a side table with flowers and in front to the American and Ukrainian flags on each side of them. Behind them is a sign reading NATO/OTAN Vilnius Summit/Sommet.

Unpacking the NATO summit

Alexander Vershbow, the former deputy secretary-general of NATO and current Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Perry World House, offers his takeaways from the two-day gathering.

Kristen de Groot ・July 13, 2023

The United States Supreme Court is seen behind pink and white flowers.

Five takeaways from the Supreme Court’s latest election law decision

Penn Carey Law’s Michael Morse, an expert in voting rights and election law, shares his thoughts on Moore v. Harper and what it means for American democracy.

Kristen de Groot ・July 5, 2023

Man with red curly hair and glasses looks into the camera, which is giving a half-moon glow on the lower right side of the image.

Who, What, Why: Patrick Carland-Echavarria and queer Americans in post-war Japan

Ph.D. candidate Patrick Carland-Echavarria’s research looks at postwar Japanese queer cultures, translation, art, and literature and at how American gay men found refuge there during the Cold War and beyond.

Kristen de Groot ・June 27, 2023

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company sits inside a military vehicle posing for a selfie photo with a local civilian on a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Kimberly St. Julian Varnon on the short-lived insurrection in Russia

The history Ph.D. candidate discusses the shocking weekend revolt and march on Moscow by Wagner Group militia members.

Kristen de Groot ・June 26, 2023

History Ph.D. candidate Arielle Alterwaite leans up against a light brown brick building with her arms crossed, smiling at the camera.

Who, What, Why: History Ph.D. candidate Arielle Alterwaite looks at Haitian debt

Her work on Haiti’s sovereign debt in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution holds lessons for what is currently happening there and more broadly for conversations around reparations.

Kristen de Groot ・June 21, 2023

Mary Frances Berry and Kermit Roosevelt on Juneteenth’s history

A new documentary produced by the Annenberg Public Policy Center explores the history of the holiday and illustrates how and why freedom and citizenship were intertwined. The film features Berry and Roosevelt, among others.

Kristen de Groot ・June 14, 2023

Golfer Phil Mickelson holds a golf club standing on grass and looks into the distance, bending at the waist, in front of a LIV Golf sign and a rock wall.

PGA Tour-LIV Golf merger

In the wake of the controversial golf deal, Benjamin L. Schmitt of the School of Arts & Sciences and the Kleinman Center discusses “sportswashing,” malign influence campaigns, and steps global democracies can take to prevent it all.

Kristen de Groot ・June 12, 2023

Left side of image shows a book cover reading "Undoing Slavery" and the right side of the image shows the author, Kathleen Brown.

‘Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race and Rights in the Age of Abolition’

Historian Kathleen M. Brown’s new book reexamines the antislavery struggle and is the focus of the first episode of a new podcast series from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies.

Kristen de Groot ・June 6, 2023

Supporters of Turkish President Erdogan wave Turkish flags in the street at night after his runoff win.

Harun Küçük on the Turkish elections

Harun Küçük, faculty director of the Middle East Center and associate professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science, shares some takeaways from the runoff elections and what five more years of Erdogan means for Turkey and the world.

Kristen de Groot ・June 2, 2023