Update: February AT PENN
Exhibits
Penn Museum
Online and in-person events. Info: https://www.penn.museum/calendar.
18 Virtual Global Guide Tour: Mexico & Central America Gallery; 2:30 p.m.
19 Greece Gallery Tour; 11 a.m.
Global Guide Tour: Middle East Galleries; 2:30 p.m.
20 Mexico & Central America Gallery Tour; 11 a.m.
Global Guide Tour: Mexico & Central America Gallery; 2:30 p.m.
Fitness & Learning
18 Publishing Workshop for Early Career Scholars; Walter Biggins, Penn Press, leads a workshop discussing how to prepare manuscripts, how to select a publisher, and more useful information for burgeoning academic authors; noon; online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/wolf-workshop-feb-18 (Wolf Humanities Center).
Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships (CURF)
Zoom webinars. Info: https://www.curf.upenn.edu/curf-events.
17 Behind the CV: Stories from Faculty - Joshua Gold; 4 p.m.
Graduate School of Education (GSE)
Unless noted, online events. Info: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/news/events-calendar.
18 Penn GSE Live Webinar: What Creative Drama Can Do for You and Your Students; 12:30 p.m.
Penn GSE LGBTQAI+ Community Engagement; 4 p.m.
22 Resilience Workshop: Avoid Thinking Traps; for staff and faculty; 12:30 p.m.
Music
18 Penn Symphony Orchestra: Schubert & Belioz; performance of Schubert’s sublime Symphony No. 5, featuring Penn's own chamber orchestra musicians, and Belioz’s Harold in Italy performed by the Penn Symphony Orchestra featuring Rachel Ku of the Philadelphia Orchestra; 8 p.m.; Irvine Auditorium (Music).
On Stage
17 The Kitchen Sink; a tender comedy about family, class and dreaming of better things - even when there’s no running water; 7 p.m.; Bruce Montgomery Theater, Annenberg Center; tickets: https://pennlivearts.org/event/the-kitchen-sink (Penn Live Arts). Also February 18, 7 p.m.; February 19, 7 p.m.; February 20, 2 p.m.
22 No Ocean Between Us: Performance by the Pan-Asian Dance Troupe; 5:30 p.m.; Arthur Ross Gallery; RSVP: sabrady@upenn.edu; Zoom screening; register: https://tinyurl.com/padt-performance-feb-22 (Arthur Ross Gallery).
Readings & Signings
21 Taking Stock of Shock: Social Consequences of the 1989 Revolutions; reading by Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell Orenstein, Russian & East European Studies; 6 p.m.; room 209, College Hall (Russian & East European Studies).
Talks
16 Health Equity: A Call for Action in Health Systems; Marshall Chin, University of Chicago; 9:30 a.m.; BlueJeans webinar; register: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/udpkazcv (Penn Nursing).
17 Robot-Assisted Imaging of Neuromuscular Function: New Insights on the Neural Substrates of Motor Control; Fabrizio Sergi, University of Delaware; 10 a.m.; Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology (Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics).
Certifiable Outlier-Robust Geometric Perception: Robots that See through the Clutter with Confidence; Heng Yang, MIT; 11 a.m.; room 225, Towne Building, and Zoom webinar; join: https://tinyurl.com/yang-talk-feb-17(Electrical & Systems Engineering).
Improving Forensic Decision Making: A Human-Cognitive Perspective; Itiel Dror, University College London; 1 p.m.; online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/dror-talk-feb-17 (Criminology).
End-to-End Precision Medicine: Personalized Sensing, Targeted Diagnostics, and Therapeutic Discovery; Ava Soleimany, Microsoft Research; 3:30 p.m.; room 337, Towne Building (Bioengineering).
So-and-so Made This: A Research Methodology for Finding and Being with the Potters and Painters of Ancient Athens; Sanchita Balachandran, Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum; 4:45 p.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/classical-studies-spring-2022 (Classical Studies).
Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Itch, Pain and Inflammation; Diana Bautista, UC Berkeley; 5 p.m.; GoToWebinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/bautista-talk-feb-17 (Wistar Institute).
Design With, Not For; Dennis Milam and Paola Aguirre Serrano, Borderless; 6 p.m.; room B3, Meyerson Hall; register: https://tinyurl.com/milam-serrano-feb-17 (Landscape Architecture).
18 From Surveying Farms to Tidying Our Homes with Robots; Volkan Isler, University of Minnesota; 10:30 a.m.; Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (GRASP Lab).
Quantitative Social Media Research Practices; Deen Freelon, University of North Carolina; noon; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/freelon-talk-feb-18 (Annenberg School for Communication).
21 Type 2 Immunity: Learning from Helminths; Judith Allen, University of Manchester; noon; Zoom webinar; join: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/91921012177 (Penn Vet).
22 The Once and Future Kings: A History of the Frustrating (and Futile) Search for the Next Martin Luther King, Jr.; Marcia Chatelain, Georgetown; 3:30 p.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/chatelain-talk-feb-22 (Africana Studies).
Deprovincializing the Police: Towards a Transnational Solidarity Against Brutality; Daniel Agbiboa, Harvard; 5:30 p.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/agbiboa-talk-feb-22 (Africana Studies).
Asian American Studies (ASAM)
Online and in-person events. Info: https://asam.sas.upenn.edu/events.
22 Race and Faith; Kameelah, Mu'min Rashad, Muslim Wellness Foundation; noon; Zoom webinar.
Computer and Information Science (CIS)
Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall, and Zoom webinars. Info: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/events/.
16 Principled Algorithm Design in the Era of Deep Learning; Surbhi Goel, Microsoft Research; 3:30 p.m.
17 Learning-Based Program Synthesis: Learning for Program Synthesis and Program Synthesis for Learning; Xinyun Chen, UC Berkeley; 3:30 p.m.
22 Modern Fine-grained Algorithms for Classic Problems; Saeed Seddighn, Toyota Technological Institute; 3:30 p.m.
Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies (CLALS)
Unless noted, Zoom webinars. Info: https://clals.sas.upenn.edu/events.
17 Challenges to Democracy in the Andes; Maxwell A. Cameron, University of British Columbia; 3:30 p.m.; room 473, McNeil Building.
Mathematics
Online and in-person events. Info: https://www.math.upenn.edu/events.
15 Scaling Limits of the Laguerre Unitary Ensemble; Xuan Wu, University of Chicago; 3:30 p.m.; room 4C8, DRL.
Accumulation and Maintenance of Information in Evolution; Michal Hledik, IST Austria; 4 p.m.; online webinar.
16 Topological Defects in Smectic Liquid Crystals: Applied Measured Foliations; Randy Kamien, mathematics; 3:45 p.m.; room A6, DRL.
Middle East Center
Unless noted, online webinars. Info: https://mec.sas.upenn.edu/events.
22 British Power and the Shaping of Iranian Identity in Early 20th-Century Bahrain; Lindsey Stephenson, Princeton; 5:30 p.m.
Sociology
Unless noted, in-person events at room 367, McNeil Building. Info: https://sociology.sas.upenn.edu/events.
18 Geneticizing Tropicality: Malaria, Monkeys and Mahars in Early Postcolonial India; Projit Mukharji, history and sociology of science; noon.