CONFERENCE

25 Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Global Challenges of Urbanization and Migration; 1-6 p.m.; rm. G14, Claudia Cohen Hall; free; register: http://tinyurl.com/zzvsuf9 (Perry World House; Penn IUR; PennDesign; Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality & Women; SAS).

SPECIAL EVENT

29 Rare Disease Day; join Keswick Cycle to recognize the rare disease community and kick off the 2016 Million Dollar Bike Ride; 5:30 p.m.; Keswick Cycle, 4040 Locust St.; free; for questions, contact Samantha Charleston: scharle@mail.med.upenn.edu (Penn Medicine Orphan Disease Center).

TALKS

24 Mechanisms of resistance to endocrine therapy: Insights from translational studies in breast cancer; Carlos Arteaga, Center for Targeted Therapies, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center; 10 a.m.; Sarah and Matthew Caplan Auditorium, Wistar Institute (Wistar).

25 Othering Machines: Alienation, Apocalyptic Anxiety and Colonial Violence in the Italian Cinema of the 1960s; Valentina Fulginiti, Cornell; 5 p.m.; Cherpack Seminar Room, rm. 543, Williams Hall (Center for Italian Studies).

29 Making Poetry out of Industrial Alienation: Troubled Narrators in Paolo Volponi’s Memoriale and Michelangelo Antonioni’s Deserto Rosso; Eleonora Lima, University of Wisconsin-Madison; 6:15 p.m.; Cherpack Seminar Room, rm. 543, Williams Hall (Center for Italian Studies).