Update: March AT PENN
Films
15 Memorialization and Repair: Ancestral Reburial on St. Helena, West Africa; documents the reburial of approximately 9,000 formerly enslaved persons on St. Helena, a British Overseas Territory about 1,000 miles off the coast of South Africa; 6 p.m.; Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum; register: https://www.penn.museum/calendar/448/memorialization-and-repair (Penn Museum).
Fitness & Learning
18 So You Want to Go to Grad School? Graduate Student Panel Discussion; will allow community members to connect on conversations around cultural heritage, exciting research opportunities, shared experiences, and more; noon; room 108, ARCH (Makuu: The Black Cultural Center).
Graduate School of Education
Various locations. Info and to register: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/news/events-calendar.
12 Education Entrepreneurship MSEd Virtual Information Session; 9 a.m.; online webinar.
Spring 2025 Penn GSE Employee Information Session; 12:30 p.m.; 3rd floor, 3700 Walnut Street.
17 Urban Education (Online) MSEd Virtual Information Session; 7 p.m.; online webinar.
Urban Teaching Residency MSEd Virtual Information Session; 7 p.m.; online webinar.
Penn Libraries
Workshops open to the Penn community. Various locations. Info and to register: https://www.library.upenn.edu/events.
12 Copyright v. Generative AI: New Developments; modern generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Sora, Midjourney, Github Copilot, and Claude, raise many complex questions under copyright law; 2 p.m.; room 241, Van Pelt Library.
Suminagashi Paper Marbling; learn about a Japanese paper marbling process that uses sumi ink; 2 p.m.; Common Press, Fisher Fine Arts Library.
13 Studio Use Training: Letterpress Printing; learn and practice the basics of letterpress printing and typesetting; 4-7 p.m.; Common Press, Fisher Fine Arts Library.
Readings & Signings
11 Black, Queer, and Untold; Jon Key, artist and designer; 6 p.m.; Institute of Contemporary Art; register: https://tinyurl.com/ica-reading-mar-11 (Institute of Contemporary Art).
18 Antifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960s; Julia Alekseyeva, English; 5:30 p.m.; room 135, Fisher-Bennett Hall (English).
On Raising a Digital Human: A Personal Evolution; Norman Badler, computer & information science; 5:30 p.m.; 2nd floor conference room, Penn Bookstore (Penn Bookstore).
Talks
12 Mixed Up Mixed Effects: Estimands, Estimators, and Informative Sizes in Cluster Randomized Trials; Kenneth Lee, PSOM; 9 a.m.; room 701, Blockley Hall, and Zoom webinar; join: https://pennmedicine.zoom.us/j/96442998641 (Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics).
Molecular Glue Discovery Enabled by Targeted Degron Display; Zhe Zhuang, Stanford University; 10 a.m.; auditorium, John Morgan Building, and Zoom webinar; join: https://tinyurl.com/cancer-biology-spring-2025 (Cancer Biology).
Merging Bio-Integrated Materials and Devices with Ultrasound: Opportunities in Sensing, Modulation and Actuation; Jiaqi Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; 10:30 a.m.; reading room, LRSM (Materials Science & Engineering).
Novel Mechanisms for Resolution of Type 2 Pulmonary Inflammation; Nandini Krishnamoorthy, Harvard University; noon; room 213, Stemmler Hall (Penn-CHOP Lung Biology Institute).
One Health @Penn: Climate and Education; Sarah Kagan, Penn Nursing; Andrew Hoffman, Penn Vet; noon; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/cancer-biology-spring-2025 (Penn Environmental Innovations Initiative).
Quantum Control of Quantum Materials; Matteo Mitrano, Harvard University; 3:30 p.m.; room 2N3, DRL (Physics & Astronomy).
13 Reconstructing and Generating 3D; Shubham Tulsiani, Carnegie Mellon University; 2:30 p.m.; room 225, Towne Building, and Zoom webinar; join: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/94105988005 (GRASP Lab).
17 Immigrant Philadelphia: A Portrait of a Re-Emerging Gateway City; Thomas Ginsberg and Maridarlyn Gonzalez, Pew Charitable Trusts; noon; room 403, McNeil Building (Population Studies Center).
The Climate of Architectural History and Theory; Norman Brosterman, author; 12:30 p.m.; Lower Gallery, Meyerson Hall (Architecture).
The Philomathean Society Annual Oration 2025; Slavoj Žižek, philosopher; 6 p.m.; Hall of Flags, Houston Hall; register: https://tinyurl.com/zizek-talk-mar-17 (Philomathean Society).
18 Generalization, Memorization, and Privacy in Trustworthy Machine Learning; Mahdi Haghifam, Northeastern University; 11 a.m.; room 225, Towne Building (Electrical & Systems Engineering).
Special Briefing: The Future of Mass Transportation Under Trump and the GOP; panel of speakers; 11 a.m.; online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/iur-talk-mar-18 (Penn Institute for Urban Research).
Synthetic G Protein-Coupled Receptors for Programmable Sensing and Control of Cell Behavior; Nicholas Kalogrioloulos, Stanford University; 11 a.m.; Austrian Auditorium, CRB, and Zoom webinar; join: https://tinyurl.com/kalogrioloulos-talk-mar-18 (Cancer Biology).
The Ethics of Personal Energy Consumption Choices; Travis Rieder, John Hopkins University; 4 p.m.; room 100, Golkin Hall; register: https://tinyurl.com/rieder-talk-mar-18 (Carey Law School).
Audience Construction, Institutional Power, and the Hidden Curriculum: From the Book Industry to Marketers’ AI; Joseph Turow, Annenberg School; 5 p.m.; room 109, Annenberg School (Annenberg School).
Spoils of War: Church Bells after Nazism and the Toll of Culture in Modern German History; Alice Goff, University of Chicago; 5:15 p.m.; room 543, Williams Hall (Germanic Languages & Literatures).
There is No One Way to Teach Math; Robin Pemantle, mathematics; 5:30 p.m.; Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology; register: https://tinyurl.com/pemantle-talk-mar-18 (Penn Science Café).
Economics
In-person events. Info: https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/events.
17 Efficient Difference-in-Differences and Event-Study Estimators; Xiaohong Chen. Yale University; 4:30 p.m.; room 101, PCPSE.
This is an update to the March AT PENN calendar. To contribute events to upcoming Almanac monthly AT PENN calendars and weekly updates, email almanac@upenn.edu.