Conferences

8          Street and Sanctuary: Jews and Visibility in American Public Spaces; symposium that considers Jewish spaces like synagogues and cemeteries and how Jewishness is “performed” in them; 10:45 a.m.-4:15 p.m.; Zoom meeting; register by December 7: dajana@upenn.edu (Katz Center).

Exhibits

Upcoming

2          12@12 with Curator Heather Moqtaderi; noon; Zoom meeting; join: https://tinyurl.com/12-at-12-dec-2 (Arthur Ross Gallery)

Fitness & Learning

3          Webinar: Support to Asian and Asian- American Students and Scholars at Penn; raising awareness of University resources available; 8 p.m.; online event; register: https://tinyurl.com/sp2-webinar-dec-3 (SP2).

4          Health Law Info Session; noon; Zoom meeting; register: https://tinyurl.com/health-info-session-dec-4 (Penn Law).

8          Videoconferencing Tools at Nursing - Features, Options, and Best Practices; members of the ITS team will discuss the various videoconferencing tools at Nursing; noon; online event; register: https://tinyurl.com/video-conferencing-dec-8 (Nursing).

Graduate School of Education (GSE)

Info and to register: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/news/events-calendar  

8          Executive Doctorate in Higher Education Management Program Information Session; noon.

Penn Libraries

Info and to register: https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/events

4          Virtual Engineering Librarian Office Hours; 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Music

4          String Quartets at a Distance; performance by the Daedalus Quartet; 10 a.m.; online event; info: https://music.sas.upenn.edu/ (Music).

Readings & Signings

3          Book Launch: Crunch Time; Aliya Hamid Rao, London School of Economics; noon; Zoom meeting; info: https://sociology.sas.upenn.edu/events (Sociology).

Kelly Writers House

Online events. Info and to register: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/1220.php

2          Edible Books Virtual Party; 7 p.m.

8          Stories from the Deep; readings by students in Kathryn Watterson's memoir workshop; 6 p.m.

9          Narrative Collage; reading by students of Karen Rile; 6 p.m.

10        Mournings We Collect for One Another: Whatever Sky Awaits Us; reading by students of Laynie Browne; 6 p.m.

Special Events

2          Fifth Annual Celebration of Innovation; celebrate Penn researchers and innovators who were awarded a patent this past fiscal year; noon; online event; register: https://tinyurl.com/pci-dec-2 (Penn Center For Innovation).

Talks

1          Challenges of Incorporating Algorithms into Decision Making: Fairness, Welfare and Disparate Interactions; Yiling Chen, Harvard; 3 p.m.; Zoom meeting; info: cis-info@cis.upenn.edu (CIS).

Persuasion via Weak Institutions; Denis Shishkin, UC San Diego; 4 p.m.; Zoom meeting; info: https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/events/ (Economics).

Models of Gene Regulatory Networks in Bacteria, Plants, and Roundworms; Cody FitzGerald, University of Utah; 4 p.m.; Zoom meeting; join: https://tinyurl.com/fitzgerald-talk-dec-2 (Biology).

2          Assembly Bias of Cosmic Neutral Hydrogen with Neural Networks and Symbolic Regression; Jay Wadekar, NYU; 2 p.m.; Zoom meeting; join: https://tinyurl.com/wadekar-talk-dec-2 (Physics & Astronomy).

Is Police Reform Possible? Police Commissioner Perspectives; Dave Davies, Fresh Air, leads discussion; 4:30 p.m.; Zoom meeting; register: https://tinyurl.com/davies-talk-dec-2 (Penn Law).

3          Endogenous Demand Composition and Earnings Inequality over the Business Cycle; Sara Casella, economics; 12:30 p.m.; Zoom meeting; info: https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/events/ (Economics).

Microparameters in a Tiny Space—Stranding at the Edge; Jim McCloskey, UC Santa Cruz; 3:30 p.m.; Zoom meeting; info: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/events/ (Linguistics).

Vaccines in the Age of Misinformation; Paul Offit, CHOP; 4 p.m.; Zoom meeting; info: rcara@upenn.edu (Penn Libraries; Penn Alumni).

The Biology of Mitochondrial Genome Cheaters; Maulik Patel, Vanderbilt; 4 p.m.; Zoom meeting; join: https://tinyurl.com/patel-talk-dec-3 (Biology).

Graduate Fine Arts Lecture; Maria Hassabi, artist and choreographer; 6 p.m.; online event; info: news@design.upenn.edu (Fine Arts).

4          Colonialism and Environmental Precarity; Wayne Modest, Research Center for Material Culture, Netherlands; noon; Zoom meeting; join: https://tinyurl.com/modest-talk-dec-4 (Arthur Ross Gallery). 

Distant Views: Visualising Central European Cities in Late Medieval and Early Modern Sources; Zoë Opačić, Birkbeck University of London; 1 p.m.; online event; register: https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/7280909 (Penn Libraries).

5          Elective Affinities: Reading Benjamin Reading Kafka; Michael Levine, Rutgers; Annie Pfeifer, Columbia; 9 a.m.; Zoom meeting; register: https://tinyurl.com/elective-affinities-dec-5 (Germanic Languages and Literatures). Also December 5, noon; speakers: Rochelle Tobias, Johns Hopkins; Dominik Zechner, Rutgers.

7          Talk and Studio Tour of Carriage Creative Co.; Erica Ehrenbard, Carriage Creative Co.; 6 p.m.; Zoom meeting; https://tinyurl.com/ehrenbard-talk-dec-7 (Weitzman School).

8          Creative Collaborators; Wendy Evans Joseph, Studio Joseph; Stuart Weitzman, designer; noon; online event; register: https://tinyurl.com/weitzman-talk-dec-8 (Weitzman School; Penn Alumni).

9          What to Expect for Penn’s COVID-Era Spring Semester; Harvey Rubin, medicine; Benoit Dubé, chief wellness officer; Mark Dingfield, associate provost; Jennifer Pinto-Martin, Center for Public Health Initiatives; 4 p.m.; Zoom meeting; register: https://tinyurl.com/penn-covid-spring-21 (Faculty Senate).

Penn Dental

BlueJeans meetings. For info and to register: https://www.dental.upenn.edu/news-events/events/

1          Advanced Topics in Dental Zirconia; Nathaniel Lawson, University of Alabama at Birmingham; 6 p.m.

8          The Secrets of White Spots; Erik-Jan Muts, restorative dentist; 5 p.m.