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9.20

Brett Topche Chat

Brett Topche leads this fireside chat about the startup work grind, sponsored by Google for Entrepreneurs.

5:30p.m. - 8:00p.m.

The Pennovation Center, 3401 Grays Ferry Ave.

9.20

Newsreel '68: Part Three

The series of Newsreel ’68 short-film screenings continues, marking the 50th anniversary of the year of social protest. This showing features 1969 Vietnam clip “People's War,” about Vietnamese society that fought colonialism, and “Young Puppeteers of Vietnam,” a clip about arts and music in the midst of the turmoil of the Vietnam War.

7:00p.m.

Lightbox Film Center, 3701 Chestnut St.

9.24

Fossils, Apes, Humans

Part of the A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography series, historian Carlo Ginzburg delivers a series of three lectures from Sept. 24-25, and on Sept. 27.

5:30p.m.

Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, 3420 Walnut St.

9.26

Acts, Facts, and Artifacts

Marking the launch of Wolf Humanities Center's yearlong theme of “Stuff,” Kevin Young, an award-winning poet, and director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at New York Public Libraries, will converse with English and Africana Studies Professor Herman Beavers the material forms of Black culture.

5:00p.m. - 6:30p.m.

Wolf Humanities Center, 255 S. 36th St.

New York has world-class hospitals. Why is it so bad for people in need of transplants?

David Goldberg of the Perelman School of Medicine estimated that New York-area hospitals could be transplanting organs from 100-200 more people per year than they are currently, each of which could benefit as many as eight recipients.

July 11, 2018 ・ From The New York Times