Update: February AT PENN
Conferences
17 Digital Assets and Cryptocurrency; topics will include FTX and other crypto exchange bankruptcies, crypto regulation and the SEC’s crypto division, cross-border VC transactions, and central bank digital asset projects; 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.; room 100, Golkin Hall; register: https://penncareylaw.cventevents.com/d/flqrh4 (Carey Law School).
19 Penn Carey Law Lambda Symposium; will explore recent and upcoming Supreme Court cases, such as Masterpiece Cakeshop and 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, which cast doubt on the strength of antidiscrimination and public accommodations laws protecting LGBTQ+ people; 1-7 p.m.; room TBA, Carey Law School, and Zoom webinar; register: https://forms.gle/CD9m8s8VmyiGoXYNA (Carey Law School).
Films
16 TikTok, Boom; explores some of the controversy surrounding the popular social media app, including privacy issues, mental health ramifications, and lack of transparency around content moderation; features conversation with director Shalini Kantayya; 6 p.m.; rooftop lounge, Harrison College House (Cinema & Media Studies, SNF Paideia, Asian American Studies, Fine Arts).
Fitness & Learning
20 Black Health + Wellness; come take a pause for wellness; 1 p.m.; room 208, ARCH; RSVP: sarcraig@upenn.edu (Makuu: The Black Cultural Center).
Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships
In-person events. Info: https://curf.upenn.edu/events.
15 Summer Humanities Internship Program (SHIP) Info Session; 4 p.m.; 1st floor, 3539 Locust Walk.
Careers in Cancer Research; 7 p.m.; Zoom webinar and multipurpose room, Gutmann College House.
17 Relax into Research; 1 p.m.; multipurpose room, Gutmann College House.
Meet Recent Penn Rhodes, Marshall, and Fulbright Scholars as They Discuss "Learning from Failure"; 3 p.m.; room 242, Van Pelt Library.
On Stage
20 Step Afrika: Honoring Our Roots; Black History Month theater production featuring Penn performing arts groups; 6:30 p.m.; Irvine Auditorium; register: https://bit.ly/step-afrika-upenn (Makuu: The Black Cultural Center, Platt House).
Readings & Signings
16 Vernacular Law: Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France; Ada Kuskowski, history; noon; room 209, College Hall (History).
17 Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation; Sophie Lewis, GSWS; 3 p.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/lewis-reading-feb-17 (Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies).
Special Events
15 Plaintain Party; Black History Month event celebrating a favorite food of the African diaspora; 12:30 p.m.; fireside lounge, ARCH; RSVP: sarcraig@upenn.edu (Makuu: The Black Cultural Center).
Talks
14 The Noomechanics of Theater: Brecht and Tret’iakov; Devin Fore, Princeton University; 5 p.m.; room 543, Williams Hall (Germanic Languages & Literatures).
15 GSWS Graduate Research Colloquium; Grading Progress: Secondary Schoolboys’ Perspectives on Gender and Inequalities in Sierra Leone by Christiana Kallon Kelly, GSE, and “It Said the Quiet Part Out Loud”: Gendered Shame-As-Discipline in the Teaching Hospital by Penelope Lusk, GSE; noon; room 345, Fisher-Bennett Hall (Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies).
Spaghetti Westerns and Soundsystems: Black and Chinese Reggae Media Infrastructures in Rural Jamaica; Tao Leigh Goffe, Cornell University; noon; room 330, Fisher-Bennett Hall (Cinema & Media Studies).
A New Phase of Biological Controls: A Design Framework for Programmable Synthetic Biomolecular Condensates and the Mechanisms of a Functional Liquid-Liquid Interface; Yifan Dai, Duke University; 3:30 p.m.; Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering).
The Latest Insurrection: Brazilian Right-Wing Populism and its Implications; Mariana Felix de Quadros, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and John French, Duke University; 4 p.m.; World Forum, Perry World House; register: https://tinyurl.com/quadros-french-feb-15 (Perry World House).
16 Asian Urbanism; Eugenie Birch, urban studies; Randall Mason, historic preservation; Nancy Steinhardt, Penn Museum; noon; room B4, Meyerson Hall; register: https://tinyurl.com/mason-steinhardt-feb-16 (Historic Preservation).
Dopamine Levels Induced by Substances of Misuse Enhance HIV Infection in Macrophages; Peter Gaskill, Drexel University; noon; Zoom webinar; info: https://www.dental.upenn.edu/news-events/events/ (Penn Dental).
Epigenetic Regulation of Lung Morphogenesis; Derek Liberti, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; noon; room 213, Stemmler Hall (Penn-CHOP Lung Biology Institute).
Dance as History in the Roman Provinces; Felipe Rojas, Brown University; 4:45 p.m.; room 402, Cohen Hall (Classical Studies).
The Aesthetics of Being; Sara Zewde, Studio Zewde; 6 p.m.; room B3, Meyerson Hall (Landscape Architecture).
17 Understanding the Utility of Haptic Feedback in Telerobotic Devices; Jeremy Brown, Johns Hopkins University; 10:30 a.m.; Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (GRASP Lab).
Doing High-Quality Qualitative Research: A Practical Guide; Annette Lareau, sociology; 12:30 p.m.; Spady Room, Fox-Fels Hall, and Zoom webinar; info: bbowden@upenn.edu (Graduate School of Education).
Walking the (Respondentia) Walk: Instruments for Trade Finance in the Early Modern Global Economy; Alejandra Irigoin, London School of Economics; 2 p.m.; room 209, College Hall (History).
Our Evolving Understanding of the Flow, Deformation, and Fracture of Glacier Ice; Brent Minchew, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 3 p.m.; room 358, Hayden Hall (Earth & Environmental Science).
Black Like Me: A Case for Nigerian Collegians; Ifeyinwa Anugom, Delta Air Lines; 7 p.m.; multipurpose room, DuBois College House (Makuu: The Black Cultural Center).
18 A Fireside Chat: Culture, Career, and Family: A Daughter of Nigerian Immigrants’ Perspective; Amalia Dache, Graduate School of Education; Ifeyinwa Anugom, Delta Air Lines; 11 a.m.; multipurpose room, DuBois College House (Makuu: The Black Cultural Center).
20 Engineered CRISPR Systems for Disease Treatment and Diagnostics; Xue Sherry Gao, Rice University; 1 p.m.; Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering).
21 Leveraging Unsteady Flows for Enhanced Performance in Wind-Energy Systems; Nathaniel Wei, California Institute of Technology; 10 a.m.; Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics).
Japan’s New Geopolitics in a Post-Abe World; Mikio Mori, Consulate General of Japan in New York; Nobukatsu Kanehara, former chief cabinet secretary to Prime Minister Abe; Frederick Dickinson, history; 4 p.m.; World Forum, Perry World House; register: https://tinyurl.com/pwh-talk-feb-21 (Perry World House).
Asian American Studies
In-person events. Info: https://asam.sas.upenn.edu/events.
20 Asian America Across the Disciplines; Sam Mihara, University of California, Los Angeles; 6 p.m.; room 208, ARCH.
Computer & Information Science
Unless noted, in-person events in Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall. Info: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/events/.
14 Rethinking System Design for Expressive Cryptography; Sam Kumar, University of California, Berkeley; 3:30 p.m.
15 Methods of Data Lookup with Hashing; Ethan Ordentlich, University of California, Berkeley; 1:30 p.m.; room 307, Levine Hall.
16 Birds of a Feather Flock Together: How Homophily Leads to Segregation, Inequality, and Inefficiency and What We Can Do About It; Nicole Immorlica, Microsoft; 3:30 p.m.
21 Secure Computation with Minimal Interaction; Akshayaram Srinivasan, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai; 3:30 p.m.
Economics
Unless noted, in-person events at room 101, PCPSE. Info: https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/events.
17 Adam Smith and Sympathetic Individualism; Maria Pia Paganelli, Trinity University; 4 p.m.
20 How Can I Know How Much I Like You? Valuation and V-stability for Matching Markets with Incomplete Information; Laure Goursat, Paris School of Economics; noon; room 203, PCPSE.
21 Dynamic Price Competition: Theory and Evidence from Airline Markets; Aniko Öry, Yale University; 4 p.m.
Sociology
Unless noted, in-person events at room 367, McNeil Building. Info: https://sociology.sas.upenn.edu/events.
15 The Role of Organizational Policies and Practices in Hiring Discrimination; David Pedulla, Harvard University; noon; room 150, McNeil Building.
20 Varieties of Capitalism and Income Inequality; Masoud Movahed, sociology; 10 a.m.
Causal Mediation Analysis; Nick Graetz, Princeton University; 2 p.m.
This is an update to the February AT PENN calendar, which is online now. Submit events for future AT PENN calendars and weekly updates to almanac@upenn.edu.