Update: February AT PENN
Conferences
22 Caribbean Borderlands and Sonic Encounter; the first conference in the five-year Balzan Foundation project, “Borderlands of Sonic Encounter”; invites participants to engage with the various registers at which borderlands operate, connect, interrupt, energize, and otherwise inform and shape Caribbean musical lives and sonic encounters; 3-5:30 p.m.; room 329A, Max Kade Center (Music Department). Also February 23, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Exhibits
21 What Does LOVE Mean to You? oSTEM's pop-up art installation celebrates love in all forms; share your unique perspectives on love in a note on the LOVE Sculpture for a chance to win a fancy dinner for yourself and three loved ones; 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; LOVE Sculpture (oSTEM).
Films
21 No Hard Feelings; 7 p.m.; room 543, Williams Hall (Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies).
22 Supernova: The Music Festival Massacre; features Q&A with the film’s directors, Yossi Bloch and Duki Dror; 4:30 p.m.; location TBA; register: http://tinyurl.com/cerl-film-feb-22 (Center for Ethics & the Rule of Law).
Perfect Days; advanced screening of Wim Wenders' new Oscar-nominated film; 7 p.m.; Sky Lounge, Harrison College House (Cinema & Media Studies).
Fitness & Learning
20 Computational Thinking & Board Games; open to Penn students only; see how computer science concepts show up in games like Catan, Ticket to Ride, etc.; no programming experience required; RSVP: https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/11757110 (Penn Libraries).
Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships
Info: https://curf.upenn.edu/events.
22 Faculty in Research Panel; 5 p.m.; Ben Franklin Room, Houston Hall.
23 Research & Entrepreneurship Panel; 1:30 p.m.; room 102, 3539 Locust Walk.
27 Behind the CV: Stories from Faculty; 4 p.m.; room 200, ARCH.
On Stage
23 Be Holding Project; an original performance created by poet Ross Gay, composer Tyshawn Sorey, new music ensemble Yarn/Wire, and director Brooke O’Harra, inspired by Philadelphia 76ers basketball legend “Dr. J” and his iconic baseline scoop in the 1980 NBA Finals; noon; online webinar; register: https://www.ceepenn.org/events/be-holding-in-search-of-black-genius-justice-and-joy (Center for Experimental Ethnography).
Readings & Signings
22 Digital Unsettling: Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media; Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan, New York University; 12:15 p.m.; room 500, Annenberg School; register: http://tinyurl.com/dattatreyan-talk-feb-22 (Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication).
23 Book Club: The Color Purple by Alice Walker; meeting of a bi-weekly book club in honor of Black History Month; 3 p.m.; Penn Women’s Center (Penn Women’s Center; Makuu).
Special Events
26 Penn4C Awardee Celebration; Community Collaboratory for CoCreation (Penn4C) invites you to attend a special kick-off event to recognize their pilot grant awardees; 5:30 p.m.; Houston Hall; RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/penn4c-celebration-feb-26 (Penn4C).
Talks
21 Activity-Based Protein Profiling of the Human Rhomboid Intramembrane Proteases; William Parsons, Oberlin College; noon; Carolyn Hoff Lynch Lecture Hall, Chemistry Complex (Chemistry).
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: Orientational Order in Biological Development - Superfluid Shrimp; Mark Bowick, University of California, Santa Barbara; 3:30 p.m.; room A8, DRL (Physics & Astronomy).
How to Lose the Hounds: Maroon Geographies and a World Beyond Policing; Celeste Winston, Temple University; 5:30 p.m.; English faculty lounge, Fisher-Bennett Hall (Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies).
22 Ultra-High-Throughput Computational Imaging: Towards a Trillion Voxels Per Second; Kevin Zhou, University of California Berkeley; 11 a.m.; room 225, Towne Building (Bioengineering, Electrical & Systems Engineering).
From Zhuangzi’s Gourd to Cinderella’s Pumpkin: Gua 瓜 as a Vehicle for the Imagination; Christopher Rea, Princeton University; noon; room 623, Williams Hall (East Asian Languages & Civilizations).
Heat, Harvest, and Health: Unraveling the Impact of Environmental Exposures on Farmworkers and Their Families; Daniel J. Smith, Villanova University; 3 p.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/93589578996 (Philadelphia Regional Center for Children’s Environmental Health).
SPHEREx: An All-Sky Near-Infrared Spectral Survey; Howard Hui, California Institute of Technology; 3:30 p.m.; Center for Particle Cosmology Lounge, DRL (Physics & Astronomy).
Finding Sarah Everard: A Critical Discourse Analysis Exploring the First Two Weeks of News Media Coverage Following Her Disappearance and Murder; Sim Gill, GSWS; The City of Sexual Deviancy: Race, Rodents, and the Queerness of Single Motherhood; M.C. Overholt, GSWS; 4 p.m.; room 345, Fisher-Bennett Hall (Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies).
Fels Racial Equity and Social Justice Conversation Series; David Byerman, Council on Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation and Byerman Solutions Group; 6 p.m.; online webinar; register: http://tinyurl.com/byerman-talk-feb-22 (Fels Institute of Government).
23 Genetic Testing and Adverse Selection; Eduardo Azevedo, Wharton; 2 p.m.; room 534, 3401 Walnut Street (Penn Institute for Computational Science).
Photosculpture: Machine Made Portraiture in the 1860s; André Dombrowski, history of art; 3 p.m.; room 401, Fisher-Bennett Hall (History of Art).
26 Being an Arab Imperialist in Late 19th Century Istanbul; Mostafa Minawi, Cornell University; noon; room 108, ARCH (History).
“Is There Room for Me?” The Praxis of Shifting Power and Inclusive Collaboration; Ifeoma Ike, New York University; 3 p.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://bit.ly/sprk24 (School of Social Policy & Practice).
Events in Mind and Language; Anna Papafragou, linguistics; 3:30 p.m.; auditorium, Levin Building (Psychology).
The Structure of Scientific Progress: The Case of Roger Bacon; Elly Truitt, history & sociology of science; 3:30 p.m.; room 392, Cohen Hall (History & Sociology of Science).
27 AI-Accelerated Assessments of Climate and Weather Risks; Tapio Schneider, California Institute of Technology; noon; Kleinman Energy Forum, Fisher Fine Arts Library; register: http://tinyurl.com/schneider-talk-feb-27 (Penn Program on Regulation).
The Problems with Free Trade; Jamieson Greer and Stephen P. Vaughn, King & Spalding’s International Trade practice group; noon; room 213, Gittis Hall; RSVP: https://forms.gle/ydL4uQXbvSHUFvkZ9 (Federalist Society).
Ecuador in Crisis; Andres Mejia Acosta, University of Notre Dame; Jane Esberg, political science; 4 p.m.; room 473, McNeil Building (Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies).
On Grace and Indignity: German Realism and the Obscenification of Matter; Erica Weitzman, Northwestern University; 5:15 p.m.; room 543, Williams Hall (Germanic Languages & Literatures).
Asian American Studies
Various locations. Info: https://asam.sas.upenn.edu/events.
21 Asian America Across the Disciplines; Frank Abe, writer and director; 6:30 p.m.; Amado Recital Hall, Irvine Auditorium.
22 Asian America Across the Disciplines; Rorng Sorn and Naw Doh, activists; noon; Zoom webinar.
Economics
In-person events. Info: https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/events.
22 Assortative Matching and Household Income Inequality: A Structural Approach; Laura Pilossoph, Duke University; 3:30 p.m.; room 100, PCPSE.
Mathematics
In-person events. Info: https://www.math.upenn.edu/events.
21 Local-Global Principles in Orbits and Applications; Alex Kontorovich, Rutgers University; 3:45 p.m.; room A2, DRL.
22 Sharp Furstenberg Sets Estimate in the Plane; Kevin Ren, Princeton University; 3:30 p.m.; room 4E19, DRL.
Medical Ethics & Health Policy
Hybrid events. Info: https://medicalethicshealthpolicy.med.upenn.edu/events.
22 Cumulative Opportunities: Advancing Health in a Changing Climate; Sonia Angell, Johns Hopkins University; noon; room 1104, Blockley Hall, and Zoom webinar.
This is an update to the February AT PENN calendar. To submit an event for a future calendar or weekly update, email almanac@upenn.edu.