Update: January AT PENN
Conferences
22 South Asian Law Students Association Conference: Activism in the Law; panels and keynotes will cover topics like U.S. government detainment camps; hate crimes and civil rights; reproductive justice and women’s rights; and careers in law; 9 a.m.-2 p.m.; room 100, Golkin Hall; register: https://forms.gle/fdC3F19ty2zLTans8 (Carey Law School; SALSA). Also January 23, 6:30-9 p.m.
Exhibits
Penn Museum
Info: https://www.penn.museum/calendar.
20 Global Guide Tour: Middle East Galleries; 2:30 p.m.
22 Mexico & Central America Gallery Tour; 11 a.m.
Global Guide Tour: Africa Galleries; 2:30 p.m.
Fitness & Learning
19 Master in Law Information Session; session for members of the public who wish to incorporate a legal perspective on the issues that intersect with their professional fields and academic interests; noon; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/law-info-session-jan-19 (Penn Carey Law School).
Virtual Information Session: Accelerated Nursing Program; learn more about Penn Nursing’s accelerated program, including the application requirements, admissions timeline, graduate program options and more; 6 p.m.; online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/nursing-info-session-jan-19 (Penn Nursing).
20 Paideia Fellows Information Session; current SNF Paideia fellows and staff will share their experience in the SNF Paideia Program and be available to answer your questions; first-year students from all four undergraduate schools welcome to attend; 3 p.m.; room G09F, College Hall; register: https://tinyurl.com/paideia-info-session-jan-20 (Paideia Program).
Graduate School of Education
Online events. Info: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/news/events-calendar.
21 School Leadership MSEd Program Virtual Information Session; 10 a.m.
Readings & Signings
18 Digesting Metabolism: Artificial Land in Japan 1954-2202; Casey Mack, Public Architecture, and Ivan Rupnik, Northeastern University; 6:30 p.m.; Plaza Gallery, Meyerson Hall (Architecture).
19 Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty; Aynne Kokas, University of Virginia; 12:15 p.m.; room 500, Annenberg School; register: https://tinyurl.com/kokas-reading-jan-19 (Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication).
20 Reading Pleasures: Everyday Living in Black America; Tara Bynum, University of Iowa; 4-6 p.m.; McNeil Center for Early American Studies; RSVP: mceas@sas.upenn.edu (Africana Studies, McNeil Center).
Talks
17 Linguistically Relevant Assessments for Early Literacy Development: Insights from the Multitudes Project; Mónica Zegers, UCSF Dyslexia Center; 10 a.m.; forum, PCPSE (Graduate School of Education).
18 Disruptive Anthropology? Biocultural Approaches to Inequity; Heather Edgar, University of New Mexico; noon; room 345, Penn Museum (Anthropology).
Domain Adaptation Under Causally Structured Distribution Shifts; Zachary Lipton, Carnegie Mellon University; noon; room 307, Levine Hall (Computer & Information Science).
Location Location Location: The Physical Properties of Microbial Ligands Dictate the Immune Response; Ivan Zanoni, Harvard Medical School; noon; Austrian Auditorium, CRB, and BlueJeans webinar; join: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/xqbzwhrb (Microbiology).
Using Deep Learning as a Last Resort?! Shirley Ho, Flatiron Institute; 3:30 p.m.; room A8, DRL (Physics & Astronomy).
The FTX Fiasco: Unpacking the Most Complex Bankruptcy in History; Christy Goldsmith Romero, CFTC Commissioner; 4:30 p.m.; room 100, Golkin Hall; register: https://tinyurl.com/romero-talk-jan-18 (Carey Law School).
19 Special Briefing: The Future of Downtowns; panel of speakers; 11 a.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/iur-talk-jan-19 (Penn Institute for Urban Research).
Public Space, Identity, and Public Production; Ken Lum, fine arts; Guobin Yang, Center for the Study of Contemporary China; Fariha Khan, Asian American studies; noon; Kleinman Forum, Fisher Fine Arts Library (Historic Preservation).
Translocated Microbiome Composition Determines Immunological Outcome in Treated HIV Infection; Daniel Douek, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; noon; Austrian Auditorium, CRB, and BlueJeans webinar; info: https://www.med.upenn.edu/cfar/seminar-series.html (Center for AIDS Research).
Tissue Architecture Driven by Immune Cells; John Hickey, Stanford University; 3:30 p.m.; Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology (Bioengineering).
Autopsy of a Satirist; Kate Meng Brassel, classical studies; 4:45 p.m.; room 402, Cohen Hall (Classical Studies).
Digital Humanities & Black Digital Heritage; Dorothy Berry, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture; 5 p.m.; 3401 Walnut Street; register: https://tinyurl.com/berry-talk-jan-19 (Africana Studies, Price Digital Humanities Lab).
20 CBCT Join Space Consideration for the TMD Patient; Wendy Yu, Helen Jeon, and Normand Boucher, dentists; 7 a.m.; online webinar; register: https://www.dental.upenn.edu/news-events/events/ (Penn Dental).
Rooted in Research: Greening Cities for Health, Safety, and Well-Being; panel of speakers; noon; online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/iur-talk-jan-20-2023 (Penn Institute for Urban Research).
A Low Rank Tensor Approach for Nonlinear Vlasov Simulations; Jingmei Qiu, University of Delaware; 2 p.m.; room 534, 3401 Walnut Street (Penn Institute for Computational Science).
Rivers Flow Not Past, But Through: A Fluvial Perspective on Earth’s Elemental Cycles; Mark Torres, Rice University; 3 p.m.; room 358, Hayden Hall (Earth & Environmental Science).
23 Class, Dismissed: Navigating Racial and Socioeconomic Inequality in an Affluent, Diverse Suburban School; Nadirah Farah Foley, New York University; 10 a.m.; forum, PCPSE (Graduate School of Education).
The Blessings of Federation for Causal Inference; Larry Han, Harvard University; 11 a.m.; Brian Strom Conference Room, Blockley Hall (Biostatistics).
Madness, Mediumship, and the Politics of Psychic Life in “Post”-Mao China; Emily Ng, University of Amsterdam; noon; room 345, Penn Museum (Anthropology).
World Population Prospects 2022: Estimation Challenges and Analytical Strategies to Reconstruct Demographic Levels and Trends Since 1950 for 237 Countries/Areas; Patrick Gerland, United Nations; noon; room 150, McNeil Building (Population Studies Center).
Defense of the Intestinal Barrier Across Species; Elizabeth Lennon, Penn Vet; 2 p.m.; Austrian Auditorium, CRB, and Zoom webinar; join: https://pennmedicine.zoom.us/j/99219477102 (PSOM Deans’ Distinguished Visiting Professorship Seminar).
Mass Shift in lattice Hamiltonian Approach to Schwinger Model; Silviu Pufu, Princeton University; 2 p.m.; room 3C6, DRL (Physics & Astronomy).
After Permanence: A Future History of Monuments; Paul Farber, Penn Monument Lab; 5:15 p.m.; Class of 1978 Pavilion, Van Pelt Library (Workshop in the History of Material Texts).
Roots of Wisdom; Gordon Guyatt, McMaster University; 5:30 p.m.; online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/guyatt-interview-jan-23 (Penn Dental).
24 Shifting Paradigms in a Deprived, Cold, and Undruggable Tumor; Ben Stanger, PSOM; noon; Caplan Auditorium, Wistar Institute (Wistar Institute).
3D Functional Mesostructures: From Neural Interfaces to Environmental Monitors; John Rogers, Northwestern University; 12:30 p.m.; Raisler Lounge, Towne Building (Electrical & Systems Engineering).
Connecting Conversations: Culturally Competent Care & LGBTQ+ Communities; Kellan Baker, Gaurang Choksi, and David (Hyunmin) Yu, Penn Nursing; 3 p.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/nursing-talk-jan-24 (Penn Nursing).
Economics
In-person events. Info: https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/events.
17 Dynamic Concern for Misspecification; Giacomo Lanzani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 4 p.m.; room 101, PCPSE.
18 A Hayekian Theory of Resilience; Stefan Kolev, University of Applied Sciences Zwickau; 4:15 p.m.; forum, PCPSE.
20 Belief Disagreement and Business Cycles; Joao Guerreiro, Northwestern University; 4 p.m.; room 101, PCPSE.
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