Update: January AT PENN
Children’s Activities
19 At-Home Anthro Live: Cartouches; students will learn to identify cartouches of ancient Egyptian pharaohs inscribed on several artifacts in the Penn Museum collection, then get the chance to design and show off their own cartouches; 1 p.m.; Zoom webinar; register: http://tinyurl.com/anthro-live-jan-19 (Penn Museum).
23 K-12 Archaeology Talk with Dr. Steve: Is Archaeology Really Like Indiana Jones?; this presentation gives students exclusive, behind-the-scenes access to Dr. Phillips’ own work as a team member excavating Petra’s Temple of the Winged Lions; 11 a.m.; Penn Museum; tickets: $15/person; register: https://pennmuseum.wufoo.com/forms/znmtq2l1t1czci/ (Penn Museum).
Conferences
19 APS Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics; provides undergraduate women in physics the opportunity to experience a professional conference, gather information about graduate school and professions in physics, and network with a diverse set of physicists of all ages, races and genders; full program and to register: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/cuwip-2024/ (Physics & Astronomy). Through January 21.
23 1924: Asian Exclusion and the Making of Immigrant America Symposium; Hardeep Dhillon and Eiichiro Azuma, history; will consist of two panels, "Asian American History and the Making of US Citizenship" and "Empire, Racial Formations, and 1920s Immigration Control”; 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; location TBA; register: http://tinyurl.com/asam-conference-jan-23 (Asian American Studies).
Exhibits
Now
Time of Change: Civil Rights Photography of Bruce Davidson; see six important Civil Rights era photographs by renowned American photographer Bruce Davidson, who traveled from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi in 1961 along with the Freedom Riders to document their experiences as they challenged segregation within the interstate bus routes in the South; East Elevator Bay, fifth floor Van Pelt Library. Through May 20.
Fitness & Learning
17 Masterclass: BODYTRAFFIC; 90-minute class in which intermediate to advanced dancers will learn selections from BODYTRAFFIC’s eclectic repertory; 6:30 p.m.; Annenberg Center; register: https://forms.gle/kftkkXGFw7uoW4UM7 (Penn Live Arts).
18 Master of Health Care Innovation Virtual Info Session; program managers will address how the MHCI has spurred career advancement for students and alumni and describe the basic components of the curriculum and the online learning experience; 4 p.m.; Zoom webinar; register: herosenb@pennmedicine.upenn.edu (Perelman School of Medicine).
Graduate School of Education
Online webinars. Info and to register: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/news/events-calendar.
17 Urban Teaching Residency & Urban Education (Online) Virtual Information Session; 7 p.m.
18 Penn Chief Learning Officer Virtual Information Session; noon.
Education, Culture and Society MSEd Spring Virtual Information Session; 4 p.m.
Urban Teaching Apprenticeship Virtual Information Session; 7 p.m.
23 Executive Doctorate in Higher Education Management Virtual Information Session; 4 p.m.
Penn Ice Rink
In-person events at Class of 1923 Ice Skating Rink. Info and to register: https://icerink.business-services.upenn.edu/calendar-page.
17 2023-2024 Wednesday Open Hockey - All Levels; 8:15-9:45 a.m.
Weekday Public Skate; 12:30-2 p.m. Also January 19, 22.
Freestyle - Monday and Wednesday; 2:15-3:15 p.m. Also January 22.
18 Freestyle - Tuesdays and Thursdays; 3:20-4:20 p.m. Also January 23.
19 2023-2024 Friday Open Hockey - All Levels; 7:30-9 a.m.
2023-2024 Friday Open Hockey – Novice; 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
2023-2024 Open Hockey - Stick and Puck; 2-3 p.m.
20 Public Skating Saturday; 6-7 p.m.
21 Learn to Skate - Sesson 3; noon-1 p.m.
Talks
16 Regulation of Lung Inflammation by Antibody Glycosylation; Taia Wang, Stanford University; 4 p.m.; Austrian Auditorium, CRB (Penn Institute for Immunology).
17 Community Assembly in Skin Microbiomes; Tami Lieberman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; noon; Austrian Auditorium, CRB (Microbiology).
Trauma Informed Care: Lessons Learned and New Approaches; Olivia Sheridan, Penn Dental Medicine; 5:30 p.m.; online webinar; register: http://tinyurl.com/sheridan-talk-jan-17 (Penn Dental Medicine).
18 Innate Immune-Mediated Inflammation - From Anti-Bacterial Defense to Sepsis; Ling Wu, pulmonary, allergy, & critical care; noon; room 213, Stemmler Hall (Penn-CHOP Lung Biology Institute).
Lessons Learned From a Citywide Abandoned Housing Experiment; John MacDonald, criminology and sociology; noon; 4th floor library, McNeil Building; RSVP: breyanam@sas.upenn.edu (Criminology).
Living in the Moment – Or Not? Past and Future Experience in Graeco-Roman Thought; Peter N. Singer, Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin; 4:45 p.m.; room 402, Cohen Hall (Classical Studies).
19 Penn Alumni Water Forum Webinar; Nathan Sell, American Cleaning Institute; Martin Wolf, Seventh Generation, Inc.; Mark Hughes, Church & Dwight, Co.; noon; Zoom webinar; register: http://tinyurl.com/water-center-talk-jan-19 (Water Center at Penn).
Fires, Ferns and Squirrels: Controls on Nonlocal Hillslope Sediment Transport; Danica Roth, Colorado School of Mines; 3 p.m.; room 358, Hayden Hall (Earth & Environmental Studies).
22 Adversity & HIV Risk in Adolescents: Longitudinal findings from Malawi and South Africa; Rachel Kidman, Stony Brook Medicine; noon; room 403, McNeil Building (Population Studies Center).
The Kidney and the Cane: Planetary Health and the Limits of Life Support in Nicaragua’s Sugarcane Zone; Alex Nading, Cornell University; noon; room 345, Penn Museum (Anthropology).
High Energy Theory: Amplitudes & CFT Meet Cosmology; Hayden Lee, University of Chicago; 2 p.m.; room 3W2, DRL (Physics & Astronomy).
Beyond the Classroom: Unraveling the Interplay of Mother's Education, Academic Achievement, and Private Supplementary Education in Educational Inequalities; Abby Lim, sociology; 4 p.m.; room 367, McNeil Building (Sociology).
Walt Whitman’s Inferno, Bryn Mawr College, and the American Civil War; David Wallace, English; 5:15 p.m.; Class of 1978 Pavilion, Van Pelt Library (Workshop in the History of Material Texts).
23 Protein Self-Assembly at the Right Place and Time; Margaret Johnson, Johns Hopkins University; noon; room TBA, Chemistry Complex (Chemistry).
Impact of Inflammation on Steady State and Clonal Hematopoiesis; Katherine King, Baylor University; 4 p.m.; Austrian Auditorium, CRB (Penn Institute for Immunology).
Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
Unless noted, online webinars. Info and to register: https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/events.
23 On Antisemitism and Education; Dara Horn, Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History; 7 p.m.; Shotel Dubin Auditorium, Penn Hillel
Biology
In-person events at room 109, Leidy Lab. Info: https://www.bio.upenn.edu/events.
17 The Continuum of Gene Regulation at Single-Cell Resolution, from Drosophila to Human Complex Traits; Diego Calderon, University of Washington; 10:30 a.m.
22 Social Strategies and Social Resilience in Changing Environments; Madeleine Ostwald, University of California, Santa Barbara; 10:30 a.m.
Economics
In-person events. Info: https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/events.
19 Causal Inference Under Interference Through Designed Markets; Evan Munro, Stanford University; 4 p.m.; room 100, PCPSE.
22 An Identification and Dimensionality Robust Test for Linear IV Models; Manu Navjeevan, University of California, Los Angeles; 4 p.m.; room 202, PCPSE.
23 Bounding the Child Penalty; Julius Ilciukas, economics; noon; room 100, PCPSE.
Minimum Wages and Automation Responses by Heterogeneous Firms; Jordan Peeples, economics; 12:30 p.m.; room 100, PCPSE.
This is an update to the January AT PENN calendar, which is online now. To submit an event for a future calendar or weekly update, email almanac@upenn.edu.