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3/28

Conversation with Jason Reynolds

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Join in conversation with Jason Reynolds, author of “Ghost,” a National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature, as well as a Marvel Comic, “Miles Morales: Spider-Man.”

10:00 a.m.

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

3/28

Cancer Interception and Prevention

Cancer metastasis

This talk will explore the potential impact of new cancer interventions that could prevent 50-60 percent of cancers if optimally employed. Scholars who will speak include: Robert Vonderheide, director of the Abramson Cancer Center; Jonathan Epstein, executive vice dean and chief scientific officer at the Perelman School of Medicine; and Susan Domchek, executive director of the Basser Center for BRCA at the Abramson Cancer Center.

4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Virtual

3/29

Origins of the New Black Elite

Entrance of Penn Bookstore with festive decoration.

Camille Z. Charles, the Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Africana Studies, gives a talk on her upcoming book, “Young, Gifted, and Diverse: Origins of the New Black Elite,” which examines the diversity of experiences among Black students in elite higher education and those newly entering the professional field.

5:30 p.m.

Penn Bookstore (Second Floor), 3601 Walnut St.

4/1

TEDxPenn: (R)evolution

Label of TEDxPenn 2023

In the largest student-run TEDx conference in the world, 10-plus speakers are invited to engage with matters such as politics, entertainment, STEM, art, social media influencing, and more. Speakers include Anthony Russo, director of several Marvel films, and Pennsylvania State Representative Jordan Harris, among others.

1:00 p.m.

Zellerbach Theatre, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut St.

Fisher Fine Arts Library

Legacies of Detention, Isolation, and Quarantine

Change Over Time: An International Journal of Conservation and the Built Environment hosts a panel discussion about the contemporary implications of detention, isolation, and quarantine. Panelists examine this by considering the legacy of these concepts while looking at how they're expressed in the design of the built environment. Panelists include Kecia Fong, Sean Kelley, and David Barnes, an associate professor of History & Sociology of Science.

For more information, visit design.upenn.edu.

Thursday, January 26, 2023

12:00 p.m.

Fisher Fine Arts Library, 220 S. 34th St.

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