Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

Penn Abroad and Penn Summer Abroad are co-hosting The Third Annual Travel Arts Festival!

The Penn Libraries is excited to announce the debut of the online home for their Holy Land collections.

Three University of Pennsylvania sophomores have received John Thouron Prizes to pursue summer studies at Pembroke College, Cambridge University

Expanding the Audience for Art in the Nineteenth Century at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Artsat University of Pennsylvania’s Arthur Ross Gallery 

The Penn Libraries is proud to announce the 2016 Lorraine Beitler Collection Lecture by Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Trudy Rubin.

WHO:            Marcia Ferguson                      Program Director

The field of Queer studies has its roots in defiance and rebellion. The activists and academics who founded the discipline were revolting against a heteronormative nation and complete and total assimilation, breaking the rules of how to be scholars, and reshaping popular notions about sexuality.

There’s no doubt about it. Philadelphia weather is getting hotter and wetter each year influencing public concern about climate change.

The Penn Libraries’ Kislak Center for Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts has won an Association of College and Research Libraries award for its catalog for the 2015 exhibition “The Images Affair: Dreyfus in the M

Expressions of unrequited desire quoted in romantic comedies and in poems of everlasting devotion read at weddings have their roots in centuries-old texts. Melissa E. Sanchez says a careful look at the language and history of 16th- and 17th-century poetry provides insights on issues of gender, sexuality and romance both past and modern-day.