Update

January AT PENN

CHANGE

The venue for the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture in Social Justice on January 19 has been changed to the Zellerbach Theatre.

The date of the Jazz for King Celebration featuring Glenn Bryan’s Band Friends, has been changed. They will perform  on January 27, 6-8 p.m., in W.E.B. Du Bois College House. 

Exhibit

Now Whisper Down the Lane; works by various artists that prompt us to think about and connect more fully to the experience of what we are looking at and why; Esther Klein Gallery. Through February 25.

Film

17 Too Wise Wives; 7 p.m.; Cine at Penn, 3925 Walnut St. (Cinema Studies).

Music

19 Arthur Doyle Electro-Acoustic Ensemble; 8 p.m.; The Rotunda (Ars Nova Workshop).

on Stage

21 The Philly Fest Intercollegiate Cultural Dance Competition; 6 p.m.; Zellerbach Theatre, Annenberg Center; $20; tickets/info.: (215) 898-3900 or www.phillyfest.com (Philly Fest).

Special Event

19 Tribute to Bernard S. Bloom; celebrating his contributions during his 30 years at Penn as a research professor of medicine, senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute, and fellow at the Institute of Aging; 1:30 p.m.; St. Mark’s Ballroom, Inn at Penn; rsvp: westsi@wharton.upenn.edu (LDI; Wharton Health Care Systems).

Talks

18 I Was Here; Ingrid Calame, artist; 5 p.m.; ICA (ICA).

19 Penn Distinguished Skull Base Professorship; William Couldwell, University of Utah; Derald Brackmann, University of Southern California; 7 a.m.; BRB II/III (UPHS).

    Crossdressing the Possessive and Other Translational Queries; Christi Merrill, University of Michigan; noon; rm. 826, Williams Hall (South Asia Studies).

     Recent Works; Ben Van Berkel, UN Studio; 6:30 p.m.; rm. B-1, Meyerson Hall (Architecture).

20 How to Catch a Virus in Motion: Structural and Biophysical Studies of Conformational Dynamics in Viral Capsids; Kelly Lee, Scripps; 11 a.m.;rm. 253, BRB II/III (Biochemistry and Biophysics).

23 The Expansion and Contraction of Democracy: Finding Liberation in the Time of the Political Right; Suzanne Pharr, writer/activist; 6 p.m.; Carriage House (LGBT Center).

25 Selection of Eukaryotic Origins on DNA Replication: Molecular Machines at the Origin; Stephen Bell, MIT; 4 p.m.; Grossman Auditorium, Wistar Institute (Wistar).

26 Convicts and Aborigines: Getting Labor From India for the War in Iraq 1916-1920; Radhika Singha, Yale University; noon; rm. 826, Williams Hall (South Asia Studies).

   Protecting the Rights of Women and Children in the World Today; Shirin Ebadi, 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Winner; 7 p.m.; rm. G06, Jon M. Huntsman Hall (South Asia Center).