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“Books and Readers in Early Modern England”
“Books and Readers in Early Modern England” examines readers, reading and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. The essays draw on an array of documentary evidence to explore individual reading habits in a period of religious dissent, political instability and cultural transformation. This new book is the third in the Material Texts Series, edited by Penn Professor of English Peter Stallybrass et al.
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U.S., Canadian And Mexican Representatives Meet To Combat Sexual Exploitation Of Children
PHILADELPHIA -- Representatives from the U.S., Canada and Mexico will meet Dec. 2-3 to develop a plan to combat the commercial sexual exploitation of children, including the problems of child prostitution, pornography and sexual trafficking.The North American Regional Consultation on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children will include 100 governmental and non-governmental representatives from law-enforcement, human-services and child-advocacy groups in the three nations. The conference is being held at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Penn Names Deputy Director For Fels Center Of Government
PHILADELPHIA -- Christopher Patusky has been named deputy director of the University of Pennsylvania's Fels Center of Government and its master degree program. Patusky, a founding partner of the Washington, D.C. law firm Mahon Patusky, Rothblatt & Fisher, will serve as the chief operating officer of Penn postgraduate education program for government leaders.
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Drowsy Fruit Flies Illuminate First Molecular Pathway, In Any Species, Known To Regular Rest And Wakefulness
PHILADELPHIA - Working with sleep-deprived fruit flies, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have uncovered the first molecular pathway, in any species, implicated in the shift between rest and wakefulness.
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Reforms come and go, Fuhrman warns
As the city and state continue to butt heads over the future of Philadelphia’s public schools, the dean of the Graduate School of Education had a thing or two to say about the history of urban school reform. In an Oct. 24 talk titled “Urban Education Challenges: Is Reform the Way?” Susan Fuhrman said that the reflexive need to look towards reform as the answer to failing schools must end. This year’s speaker for the GSE’s Constance E. Clayton Lecture, Fuhrman talked about the prevalence of “disappointing” reforms.
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Editor's Pick: Edgar Allan Poe visits his mummy
Americans’ fascination with all things Egyptian has a long and rich history, going back to the early 19th century. Egypt even caught the eye of Edgar Allan Poe, America’s first master of the macabre, who wrote the short story “Some Words with a Mummy” in 1845. On Nov. 10 and 11, renowned actor and Poe impersonator David Keltz stages his new one-man show, “Some Words with a Mummy: Edgar Allan Poe and Egyptology” in a most appropriate setting: the University of Pennsylvania Museum’s Lower Egyptian Gallery.
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"Uplift: The Bra in America "
The bra has been stereotyped as an object of seduction, glamour and even oppression. In “Uplift: The Bra in America,” Jane Farrell-Beck and Colleen Gau use this clothing item to illuminate the effect the brassiere has had on women—their fashions, health and economic opportunity—and to understand the business history of fashion.
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Buckle up or else...
The Penn Police Department will be looking to see if you’re wearing seatbelts Thanksgiving weekend as part of a statewide safety campaign, “Buckle Up Pennsylvania.” The police recently received a grant of $7,700 from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) to encourage seatbelt use, making Penn the first university ever to be included in the “Buckle Up” program, said Lt. Thomas C. Messner, who is coordinating the police efforts.
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For What It's Worth: A weapon against extremism
Cass Sunstein, professor at the University of Chicago Law School, spoke Oct. 18 at the Annenberg School for Communication about the roots of extremist activities. Sunstein has been involved in constitution-making and law reform activities in a number of nations, including Ukraine, Poland, China, South Africa and Russia. This excerpt from his lecture discusses the role that democracy and First Amendment rights play in preventing extremism from flourishing.
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Studies provide international view
As anyone who’s read the papers recently knows, education has become a make-or-break issue for politicians at all levels. Municipal fortunes rise and fall on the quality of the local schools. Elected officials rush to implement pet theories, all intended to improve the fortunes of children trapped in bad schools. But nagging questions persist. Does all this stuff really work? And is there any way we can find out if it does?