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Q&A with Karen Redrobe, new director of the Wolf Humanities Center
Penn professor Karen Redrobe

Karen Redrobe is the new director of Penn’s Wolf Humanities Center. (Photo by Lua Beckman) 

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    • Q&A with Karen Redrobe, new director of the Wolf Humanities Center

    In her new role, Redrobe will oversee the Center's public programs, and the research work of 29 faculty, graduate, and post-doctoral fellows, and oversee Penn Global collaboration with the Perry World House.
    Third annual Penn Global Week fosters a world-minded campus
    Arts and Culture Penn Global

    Penn Global Week’s 2017 Arts and Culture Showcase at Perry World House. Photo by Eddy Marenco

    Third annual Penn Global Week fosters a world-minded campus

    The four-day celebration, from Sept. 11-14, will feature an arts showcase, a brand-new story slam, a passport program, and an information fair.
    Bringing world leaders together around competing visions of the global order
    Joe Biden, Amy Gutmann, William Burke-White at Perry World House 2017 global order conference

    Joe Biden speaking at the inaugural Perry World House global order conference in 2017, accompanied on stage by PWH Director William Burke-White (left) and Penn President Amy Gutmann. 

    Bringing world leaders together around competing visions of the global order

    Former U.S. National Security Advisors H.R. McMaster and Susan Rice will be the headline speakers at a two-day Perry World House colloquium in September, with former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Nick Clegg participating in the Penn Biden Leaders Dialogue. 
    A New U.S. Policy Makes It (Somewhat) Easier to Export Drones
    The Washington Post

    A New U.S. Policy Makes It (Somewhat) Easier to Export Drones

    Michael Horowitz of the School of Arts and Sciences and Perry World House and Joshua Schwartz, a doctoral candidate in Arts and Sciences, analyzed the administration’s policy changes around drone exports.

    Q&A with Barbie Zelizer
    press
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    • Q&A with Barbie Zelizer

    Members of the media are unable to do their jobs due to creeping authoritarianism or totalitarian rule. The Center for Media at Risk hopes to bring together scholars and journalists to strategize about what can be done to resist it.