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Just made a queer memory? Drop a pin
The New York Times

Just made a queer memory? Drop a pin

Casey Ross of the School of Arts & Sciences uses Queering the Map, a crowdsourced digital atlas of LGBTQ landmarks, as course material to show that maps can be tools of outreach, storytelling, and “disruption.”

What communes and other radical experiments in living together reveal
The New York Times

What communes and other radical experiments in living together reveal

In her new book, “Everyday Utopia,” Kristen Ghodsee of the School of Arts & Sciences examines radical social experiments like communes and ecovillages while critiquing existing structures of family and community.

Ancient food and flavor
Four people outside looking at a wood planter box filled with plants

The Penn Museum’s new exhibition, “Ancient Food & Flavor,” is both inside and outside, with planter boxes featuring crops from four countries in a courtyard. The exhibition was co-curated by the Museum’s Chantel White (left), who discussed the plant choices with visitors during a recent tour.  

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Ancient food and flavor

Food remains dating back as far as 6,000 years found at archaeological sites are now on view in a new indoor-outdoor exhibition at the Penn Museum, “Ancient Food & Flavor,” through the fall of 2024. 
Penn Museum shows what ancient worlds tasted like
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Penn Museum shows what ancient worlds tasted like

Katherine Moore of the School of Arts & Sciences discusses the Penn Museum’s new “Ancient Food and Flavor” exhibition, which focuses on three archaeological sites that provided unusual amounts of food artifacts.

Truth-teller: Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, anthropologist of Black social movements
Keisha-Khan Perry in her office, surrounded by books

Keisha-Khan Perry, anthropologist of Black social movements in the Americas, is the Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor in Africana Studies.

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Truth-teller: Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, anthropologist of Black social movements

Keisha-Khan Perry, anthropologist of Black social movements in the Americas, is the Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor in Africana Studies.

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Reconsidering world heritage for the modern era
Archaeological site filled with stacked, dusty, aged bricks and surrounded by rocks..

The Archaeological Complex of Pachacamac, listed for the UNESCO Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System, Peru.

(Image: Lynn Meskell)

Reconsidering world heritage for the modern era

Through recent research, archaeologist and Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Lynn Meskell has continued to highlight how World Heritage Sites have become flashpoints for conflict and out of touch with local communities.