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Two Penn faculty named Hastings Center Fellows
Two Penn faculty named Hastings Center Fellows
Scott D. Halpern and Jennifer Prah Ruger are acknowledged for their outstanding accomplishments in ethics and health.
26th annual MLK symposium goes online
26th annual MLK symposium goes online
Virtual events over three weeks offer opportunities to reflect, engage, and celebrate with family, colleagues, and friends.
Out with the dust, in with the new
Out with the dust, in with the new
In Japan, New Year's preparations start with a big cleaning in December for good luck in January.
Place-making and mythmaking: A virtual lecture
Place-making and mythmaking: A virtual lecture
In American history, one place can be the site of multiple—and sometimes conflicting— attachments. Jared Farmer and Bethany Wiggin of the School of Arts & Sciences discuss place-making and myth-making.
Sensuality in Latin American literature and film
Sensuality in Latin American literature and film
Ph.D. student Dana Khromov presented her research on the body as the site of sensuality in Latin American literature and film as part of the Latin American and Latinx Studies Internal Speakers series.
‘What makes us human’: Amy Lutz on autism and community
‘What makes us human’: Amy Lutz on autism and community
In “We Walk: Life with Severe Autism,” doctoral candidate Amy Lutz examines what it means to be in community.
‘Then and Now: Black-Jewish Relations in the Civil Rights Movement’
‘Then and Now: Black-Jewish Relations in the Civil Rights Movement’
Professor of religious studies Anthea Butler gave an overview of shared history and discussed next steps in “Then and Now: Black-Jewish Relations in the Civil Rights Movement,” an event hosted by the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies.
‘Workplace Diversity, Culture, and Leadership’
‘Workplace Diversity, Culture, and Leadership’
In the second of 13 conversations in the preceptorial course Racism and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America, a discussion on “The Economic System: Workplace Diversity, Culture, and Leadership.”
‘You Voted. But Did it Really Matter?’
‘You Voted. But Did it Really Matter?’
On Nov. 7, Pennsylvania’s electoral votes secured Joseph Biden the presidency. Anticipating news of a Biden win, Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and professor of history and Africana studies, called it a time to push forward for change with renewed force.
New seminar series addresses Racism and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America
New seminar series addresses Racism and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America
A new series organized by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Paideia Program at Penn includes 13 conversations focusing on inequalities across on economic, political, social, and cultural systems. (Pre-pandemic image)