Update

September AT PENN

Changes

The following Learning and Education programs are sold out:  FOCUS: Achieving Your Highest Priorities scheduled for September 15 and Words at Work: The Latest in Business Writing scheduled for September 21. See www.hr.upenn.edu/training_coursecatalog/ for future dates when these programs are offered.

Fitness/Learning

19  Going on the Academic Job Market: Faculty Members Speak to Humanities and Social Sciences Doctoral Students;  4 p.m.; Golkin Room, Houston Hall (Career Services).

On Stage

15  Margaret Garner; an American opera; 7 p.m.; Harold Prince Theatre, Annenberg Center; free/no tickets required (Penn Presents).

Talks

13 U.S. Foreign Policy and the Promotion of Global Democracy; Ambassador Richard A. Boucher, assistant secretary of state for public affairs and former State Department spokesman; 4 p.m.; Penn Humanities Forum, 3619 Locust Walk (Middle East Center).

16  Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Reachability on a Simplex; Mireille Broucke, University of Toronto; 11 a.m.; rm. 307, Levine Hall  (GRASP).

20  Why They Don’t Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil; Mark LeVine, University of California, Irvine; 7 p.m.; rm. 17, Logan Hall (Middle East Center).

Deadlines:The deadline for the weekly Update is every Tuesday, for the following Tuesday’s issue. The deadline for the October AT PENN calendar is today, September 13. For information see www.upenn.edu/almanac/calendar.