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  • Perry World House announces Visiting Fellows for Thakore Family Global Justice and Human Rights Program

    The Global Justice and Human Rights visiting fellows are Philip Alston, the John Norton Pomeroy professor of law at New York University Law School, and Kate Gilmore is a former United Nations deputy high commissioner for human rights, a professor-in-practice with the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an honorary professor with the University of Essex Human Rights Centre.

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  • 2023 PCI Ventures at Pennovation Works showcase

    On Nov. 2, the PCI Ventures at Pennovation Works Showcase took place in celebration of its 13 years of service to the Penn community.

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  • Diversity in the Stacks: A Ukrainian folk art journal in interwar Galicia

    The Penn Libraries has recently acquired several issues of the women’s journal Nova khata (New Home), which offer a unique window into Ukrainian culture as it existed a century ago.

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  • The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at ASU, Penn Global, and the University of Copenhagen, sign an MOU to create the Heritage Warfare Consortium

    The Heritage Warfare Consortium will bring together multidisciplinary experts in the field of cultural property protection and accountability, by identifying threats to communities, the military and strategic value of cultural heritage as predictor of aggression and genocide, and the changing lens of accountability.

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  • Meet the Penn students who help keep the Libraries running smoothly

    Over 250 student workers help run Penn Libraries. A few share their work life and their favorite resources the Libraries can offer.

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  • New resources for the interdisciplinary study of human rights

    The Penn Libraries now provides online access to two of the most comprehensive databases for human rights research.

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  • Announcing Living the Hard Promise: A dialogue series

    The series calls upon Penn to become a campus community that engages all members in empathetic dialogues. It will inform our understanding of today’s most pressing issues—from the concerns of Israelis and Palestinians to the rise of organized hate in the United States to the challenges of upholding free speech while ensuring civility and mutual respect.

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  • Featured Books and DVDs: Native American heritage

    For this month’s selections, the Penn Libraries partnered with Penn Native Community Council, which was formed in 2018 to highlight the histories, heritage, and cultures of the Native American, First Nations, and Indigenous peoples of the Americas.

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  • Penn Libraries acquires two significant collections of Sun Ra Archival materials

    Penn Libraries has acquired two important collections that illuminate Sun Ra’s artistic output and his influence on American music and culture, including the research file of jazz historian John Szwed, author of the biography “Space is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra.”

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  • Dialogue resources from SNF Paideia for addressing current events

    Thinking intentionally about how to create space for emotional processing in gathering spaces is always appropriate, whether the goal is to foster meaningful dialogue or simply to diffuse distractions. It becomes especially important in moments of discernible collective unrest in response to major campus, community, national, or global events. The Paideia Program shares a few resources that may help you think about how to address these moments.

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