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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.

Why are we so mesmerized by stories like the cave rescue in Thailand?

Deborah Small of the Wharton School discussed the public’s fascination with dramatic news stories with the possibility of a narrative conclusion. Small said that chronic social issues like poverty or malnutrition were less likely to captivate the public’s attention. (Audio)

July 11, 2018 ・ From NPR