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10.26

Remembering the 2018 Synagogue Shooting

Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program at Penn, four scholars join to remember and reflect on the 2018 Tree of Life Synagogue service in Pittsburgh, during which a gunman killed eleven people.

7:30p.m. - 9:00p.m.

Zoom

10.28

Damon Linker

A yellow and green victorian house

Sponsored by the Povich Journalism Program and hosted by Kelly Writers House, Damon Linker, a lecturer in the Critical Writing Program at Penn, discusses his work at TheWeek.com and as a consulting editor at the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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

Online

11.4

Shared Responsibility

Michel Rojkind, senior vice president of architecture at WeWork and founding principal of Rojkind Arquitectos, delivers a lecture about his work. He is currently working on a 200,000-square-foot building in Bentonville, Arkansas, and is considered one of the most influential architects in Mexico. This virtual lecture is a reschedule of a canceled event in April at the onset of the pandemic.

6:30p.m.

Online

11.6

Sen. Elizabeth Warren

The Fels Public Policy in Practice speaker series features a conversation between Fels Distinguished Fellow Elizabeth Vale and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren. The speaker series is intended to offer students a variety of personal narratives to help them form opinions on important issues, and also help shape their careers.

6:00p.m. - 7:00p.m.

Online

Announcement

All on-campus events have been canceled or postponed. Unless otherwise noted, all events listed are virtual.

Latinx Activism

La Casa Latina welcomes Erika Guadalupe, Juntos? Executive Director Evelyne Laurent Perault, and Obed Arango, founder and executive director of the Centro de Cultura, Arte, Trabajo y Educacion. Together, they will discuss activism and insights from the past few months of demonstrations.

For more information, visit vpul.upenn.edu.

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

6:00p.m.

Zoom

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