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4.20

Jeremy Nowak Lecture

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The Penn Institute for Urban Research presents the third annual Jeremy Nowak Memorial Lecture, celebrating Nowak's work to integrate public, private, and nonprofit expertise to further collective urban prosperity. This year's program includes a panel that will discuss community development financial institutions and equitable economic recovery in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.

12:00p.m. - 1:30p.m.

Virtual

4.21

Strawberry Fields

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The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts presents this virtual screening of 1997 film "Strawberry Fields," which explores cultural history and personal memory set in the backdrop of the Vietnam War.

7:00p.m.

Virtual

4.22

Water Policy

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In recognition of Earth Day, this special 60-Second Lecture from the School of Arts & Sciences will feature Howard Neukrug, a professor of practice and executive director of the Water Center. Neukrug will talk about water policy in relation to climate policy.

12:00p.m.

Virtual

4.22

Health Sciences and Black Lives Matter

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The Penn Biomedical Library hosts this discussion about Black Lives Matter in Philadelphia from the perspective of the health sciences. Topics will include COVID-19 vaccine equity and gun violence prevention. In addition to a roundtable conversation, Eugenia South, assistant professor of emergency medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine, will present a keynote address.

3:00p.m.

Virtual

4.26

Gabrielle Hamilton

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Gabrielle Hamilton, a renowned chef and owner of the restaurant Prune in New York City, discusses her cookbook of the same name. Registration is not required to attend.

6:30p.m.

Virtual

4.8

Timescales

This virtual celebration marks the launch of "Timescales: Thinking across Ecological Temporalities," a new publication edited by Carolyn Fornoff, Patricia E. Kim, and Bethany Wiggin. The book aims to provide a clearer view of the relationship between climate change and the past, present, and future. Contributors will speak and a moderated Q&A will follow.

6:00p.m.

3.31

Biomeditations

James Karlawish discusses the multi-dimensional problem of Alzheimer's disease. Karlawishis a professor of medicine, medical ethics, health policy, and neurology at the Perelman School of Medicine and author of "The Problem of Alzheimer's."

3:00p.m.

Virtual

2.22

A Reading by Erica Hunt

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Poet and essayist Erica Hunt, a Kelly Writers House Fellow, delivers a reading. Her newest work "Jump The Clock: New and Selected Poems," released with Nightboat Books in October 2020.

6:30p.m.

Virtual

1.28

Mind of Winter 2021

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Kelly Writers House Faculty Director Al Filreis leads an annual discussion of the 1921 poem by Wallace Stevens, “The Snow Man.”

6:00p.m.

Virtual

12.8

Stories from the Deep

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Students from Kathryn Watterson's course Writing & Remembering: A Memoir Workshop read their work live on YouTube.

6:00p.m.

YouTube

11.30

Amir Ahmadi Arian

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Kelly Writers House and the Bob Lucid Memorial Program in Fiction present this virtual reading with Amir Ahmadi Arian, author of a collection of stories, a nonfiction book, and two novels in Persian.

12:00p.m.

Virtual

9.16

Speakeasy Open-Mic

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The Penn community is invited to listen in on or participate in readings of poetry, essays, and more, sponsored by the Kelly Writers House.

7:30p.m.

YouTube

9.17

Whitman's Election Day

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Kelly Writers House, #VoteThatJawn, and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society host this virtual reading of poetry by Philadelphia Youth Poets Laureate. Poems read are responses to Walt Whitman's poem, "Election Day: November 1884."

7:00p.m.

Online

9.9

New Student Speakeasy

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New students in the Class of 2024 are encouraged to perform or participate as audience members in the first Kelly Writers House open mic of the school year.

7:30p.m.

Online