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Movable Feast: Live lunch
When World Café Live opened in University City’s Hajoca Building last summer, promoters of the new music venue hoped the one-of-a-kind hotspot would tap into two of Philadelphia’s loves: Great music and great food.
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Staff Q&A: Kusum Soin
A decade and a half ago, Kusum Soin was living the good life in prosperous Kuwait. She and her husband, Devinder, were successful professionals. They owned a large home. They had a maid. And Soin says she didn’t have to lift a finger around the house. Then, in 1990, just as the family was preparing to leave so Devinder could pursue a graduate degree at Penn, Kuwait was invaded by Iraq. As Iraq swooped into Kuwait, the Soins and their two young daughters were heading out‹first to Baghdad, then Amman, and eventually, West Philadelphia. And a whole new life.
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Bookquick/“Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World”
This collection begins by exploring the initial encounters between the Jamestown settlers and the Powhatan Indians and the relations of both these groups with London. It goes on to examine the international context that defined English colonialism in this period relations with Spain, the Turks, North Africa and Ireland. Finally, it turns to the ways both settlers and Natives were transformed over the course of the 17th century, considering conflicts and exchanges over food, property, slavery and colonial identity.
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Leading Experts on Leonardo daVinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti to Gather at Penn for Two-Day Conference
PHILADELPHIA -- Scholars from across the United States and Europe will visit the University of Pennsylvania for the second annual Coccia Centennial Celebration of Italian Culture, hosted by Penn's Center for Italian Studies. The two-day conference, which is free and open to the public, will commence at 3 p.m., April 1, in the Terrace Room in Logan Hall. Papers will be presented on Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti's mural projects.
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Annan to speak
Nobel Prize winner Kofi Annan will speak at Penn’s 249th Commencement ceremony May 16. Annan, secretary general of the United Nations, has found himself at the center of some of the modern world’s most pressing crises—from weapons searches in Iraq to efforts to the promotion of civilian rule in Nigeria to the ongoing Israel-Palestine peace process—and his vast experience makes him an outstanding choice to speak to Penn graduates, Penn President Amy Gutmann said.
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’XPN moves out, Penn Press moves in
FACILITIES/The historic mansion that WXPN vacated last summer will soon be home to Penn Press. It’s musical chairs time on campus. And when the music stops—or rather, when the dust settles—several Penn staffers will be reporting to work at a new address and a stately old mansion on Pine Street will reopen its doors as a luxury condo.
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Ask Benny: Is Eakins' famous painting still on campus?
Dear Benny, Is “The Agnew Clinic” by Thomas Eakins still hanging in one of the School of Medicine buildings? How did we come to have that painting? Is there some connection between Penn and Eakins? —Avid About Art
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A new focus
Q&A/When Becky Young started teaching at Penn, she was the only photography lecturer in the Fine Arts Department. Now photography is thriving at Penn, and for Young, it’s time to move on.
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Corporate scandals, past and present
David Skeel remembers being asked the same two questions, over and over, in the wake of the corporate scandals that unhinged the business world in 2001 and 2002. “I started getting a lot of calls, and people were asking, first, ‘Have we ever seen these kind of scandals before?’ said Skeel, a Penn Law professor and expert in corporate and bankruptcy law. “Then they were asking, ‘And do these scandals have anything in common?’”