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‘Bartok’s Monster’ challenges conventions of theater
A cellist performing on stage.

“Bartok’s Monster” is a fusion of lecture, concert, and theater.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Live Arts)

‘Bartok’s Monster’ challenges conventions of theater

In “Bartok’s Monster,” an interdisciplinary collaboration, Daedalus Quartet will perform Bartok’s String Quartet No. 3 and other string pieces mixed with acting, choreography, and an array of striking visuals.
Through first-year seminar, a glimpse of Black queer traditions
Dag Woubshet leading a class of students.

Associate professor of English Dag Woubshet leads students of the course “Black Queer Traditions” in Fisher-Bennett Hall. 

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Through first-year seminar, a glimpse of Black queer traditions

Dagmawi Woubshet, an associate professor of English, led a new first-year seminar in the fall that explores Black queer media and its intersection with history and politics.
‘PoemTalk’ podcast at 200 episodes
five people sitting at a table with microphones and books in front of a wall of windows

The 200th episode of PoemTalk was filmed at the Kelly Writers House on Nov. 30. From left: Host Al Filreis and poets William J. (Billy Joe) Harris, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, and Tyrone Williams, and featured poet Evie Shockley. 

(Image: Zach Carduner)

‘PoemTalk’ podcast at 200 episodes

The 200th episode of the pioneering poetry podcast “PoemTalk” was recorded at the Kelly Writers House last week, 16 years after the first. Founder Al Filreis (left) of the School of Arts & Sciences is the creator and host of the discussion-based monthly podcast that features a “close, but not too close” reading of a poem.

Louisa Shepard

Coca-Cola in Africa
Sara Byala portrait and book cover for Bottled How Coca-Cola Became African by Sara Byala

Sara Byala, a senior lecturer in creative writing and associate director of the Penn Global Documentary Institute, is the author of a new book, "Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African." 

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    • Coca-Cola in Africa

    A new book by Sara Byala of the School of Arts & Sciences examines the century-long history of Coca-Cola and its local social, commercial, and environmental impact in Africa.

    Louisa Shepard

    An inauspicious arrival for the ambitious Benjamin Franklin
    The young Ben Franklin statue on Penn’s campus.

    The “Young Benjamin Franklin” statue in front of Weightman Hall on 33rd street depicts Penn’s founder as the 17-year-old who arrived in Philadelphia 300 years ago.

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    An inauspicious arrival for the ambitious Benjamin Franklin

    Penn’s founder arrived in Philadelphia on Oct. 6 300 years ago as a nearly penniless 17-year-old looking for a job as a printer.

    Louisa Shepard

    From the classroom to the international stage
    Two actors in fencing gear performing on stage.

    (Image: Noah Levine)

    From the classroom to the international stage

    At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland, Penn students perform a play they learned in class.

    Louisa Shepard

    Amy Paeth on the ‘poetry industrial complex’
    Book cover for The American Poet Laureate at left, Amy Paeth at right.

    Image: Courtesy of Amy Paeth/OMNIA

    Amy Paeth on the ‘poetry industrial complex’

    In her new book, the lecturer in critical writing in the School of Arts & Sciences uses the history of the U.S. poet laureate as a window into how the arts, government, industry, and private donors interact and shape culture.

    Susan Ahlborn

    Starstruck on the Cannes red carpet
    two students standing on the red carpet steps with many people behind them

    Naiburg-Smith (left) and Sweeney on the fabled Lumière Theater red-carpet stairs at Cannes.

    (Image: Courtesy of Isabel Sweeney)

    Starstruck on the Cannes red carpet

    The 30 students who attended the Cannes Film Festival through a Penn Summer Abroad course were able to watch screenings of at least three to four films a day. For the most sought-after American film premieres they waited in “last-minute” lines for hours.

    Louisa Shepard