In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Perry World House’s Distinguished Global Leaders-in-Residence Program invites internationally-recognized dignitaries to Penn, including current or former heads of state, cabinet officials, and Nobel Prize winners.
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To help get in the back-to-school spirit, this month’s Featured Books are all about Philadelphia.
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Arts and cultural institutions in both countries were deployed to support wartime efforts between 1980 to 1988, often evoking religious imagery and symbols to glorify the war and martyrdom. In contrast to such glorifications of war, a number of works have honed in on the grimmer realities of war that contest these state narratives. It is important to look beyond the two states of Iran and Iraq and consider how marginalized groups experienced the war, particularly the Kurds.
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The South African daily newspaper, Sowetan, has been digitized from its start as a commercial newspaper in 1981 through 2018 by Newsbank.
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Penn Libraries highlights four librarians from across the University: Deborah Stewart, head of the Penn Museum Library; Judith Currano, head of the Chemistry Library; Emily Esten, Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica Curator of Digital Humanities; and Lynn Ransom, curator of SIMS Programs and Schoenberg Database Manager.
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On July 1, the University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press) took over managing the distribution of Wharton School Press’s (WSP) frontlist and backlist titles, expanding the channels through which WSP sells and providing strategic sales and marketing support related to distribution.
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To help celebrate Pride Month, staff, students, and faculty of Penn’s LGBT Center have put together a selection of books and films that explore the LGBTQ experience through fiction and nonfiction, both joyful and tragic, written for children, adults, and everyone in between.
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One of the newest additions to the collections of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts is also the oldest printed book in the Penn Libraries—the 48th volume of the Daihannya haramitta-kyō (also known as Mahāprajñāpāramitā sūtra, or the Sūtra of Perfection of Wisdom).
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The Penn Libraries have acquired several digitized primary-source collections on British colonial Africa, Apartheid-era South Africa, and British missionary activities in African countries. These collections have been digitized from original sources by British Online Archives.
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Informed by the literary underrepresentation, the Penn Libraries is actively expanding its collection of children’s and young adult literature with the goal of privileging underrepresented voices, cultures, and perspectives.
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