Update: March AT PENN
Children’s Events
31 At-Home Anthro Live: The Ziggurat at Ur: Design Your Own City; students will learn about the lives of people in the ancient Sumerian city of Ur, then get the chance to play city planner and design their own cities; 1:45 p.m.; online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/anthro-live-mar-31 (Penn Museum).
Conferences
31 Locality in Theory, Processing and Acquisition Workshop; brings together experts to study locality phenomena, which can be found in different domains of syntax (e.g., filler-gap dependencies, agreement, and binding) and have played a prominent role in linguistics and in cognitive science more generally; 8:45 a.m.-5 p.m.; SAIL classroom 111, Levin Building; register: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/workshop-locality/ (Syntax Lab). Also April 1.
The Arc of Chinese Economy; will examine China’s wildly successful economy, focusing on macroeconomic issues; micro issues at the industry, firm and household levels; and forward-looking factors; 8:45 a.m.-4 p.m.; 2nd floor forum, PCPSE, and Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/cscc-conf-mar-31 (Center for the Study of Contemporary China). Also April 1, 8:45 a.m.-noon.
Transgender-Affirming Pedagogies Symposium; will help departments imagine what transgender-inclusive pedagogies can look like in their respective fields while positioning gender-affirming pedagogies as co-constituted with anti-racist methodologies, accessible course design, and other intersectional approaches in the classroom; 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; room 108, ARCH; register: https://tinyurl.com/gsws-conf-mar-31 (Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies).
Exhibits
30 Unsovereign Elements: Geological Poetics in Contemporary Art from the Caribbean and its Diaspora; examines the ambiguous role of geological elements in the (re)production of the archipelago — certainly exhausted by modernity as discursive instruments, yet always retaining a poetic potential that far exceeds their materiality; Brodsky Gallery, Kelly Writers House. Opening reception: March 30, 6 p.m.
Penn Museum
In-person tours. Info: https://www.penn.museum/calendar.
30 Global Guide Tour: Asia Galleries; 2:30 p.m.
Fitness & Learning
28 Student-Run Journal Information Session & Happy Hour; information session for 1L students interested in being part of a student-run journal next year; noon; Zoom webinar; join: https://tinyurl.com/law-journal-info-mar-28; 5:30 p.m.; Goat/Haga Lounge (Penn Carey Law).
30 Compassionate Conversations: Building Skills for Dialogue Around Abortion; attendees will learn best practices for engaging in conversation about abortion with peers and loved ones; all political leanings welcome; 6:30 p.m.; forum, PCPSE; register: https://tinyurl.com/paideia-workshop-mar-30 (Paideia Program).
Graduate School of Education
Info: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/news/events-calendar.
30 Failing Forward: Overcoming the Fear of Failure; noon; room B10, Stiteler Hall.
LGBT Center
Info: https://lgbtcenter.universitylife.upenn.edu/.
28 QPenn: Wear Your Pride; noon-3 p.m.; reading room, Houston Hall. Also March 30, 3-5 p.m.
QPenn: LGBTQIA Pre-Professional Panel; 7 p.m.; LGBT Center.
29 Graduate Writers Rooms; 4-7 p.m.; LGBT Center.
QPenn: Kink Workshop; 7:30 p.m.; LGBT Center.
30 QPenn: Game Night; 6:30-8:30 p.m.; LGBT Center.
31 Queer Sex, Sexuality, & Relationships Workshop Series: Exploring Queer and Transgender Pleasure; 3 p.m.; Goodhand Room, LGBT Center.
QPenn: Shabbat Bread Making; 3 p.m.; kitchen, Gutmann College House.
On Stage
Penn Live Arts
In-person events. Info and tickets: https://pennlivearts.org/events/.
29 Wharton Dance Studio: Dance Dance Revolution; spring showcase of a co-ed, fun, relaxed dance performance group; 8 p.m.; Zellerbach Theater, Annenberg Center.
Talks
28 Agile Robot Autonomy; Antonio Loquercio, University of California, Berkeley; 12:30 p.m.; room 225, Towne Building (Electrical & Systems Engineering).
29 ‘As a Rond of Flesche Yschore’: The King of Tars, Race, and Transgender Childhood; Nat Rivkin, GSWS; In Excess of Empire: Black Feminist Mothering and Transgender Temporalities in Intergalactic Travels: Poems from a Fugitive Alien by Alan Pelaez Lopez; Liz Rose, GSWS; noon; room 345, Fisher-Bennett Hall (Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies).
Global Impact: Africa & the Americas; Katherine Renée Buhikire and Alison Ercole, Penn Global Nursing Fellowship Program; noon; online webinar; register: https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/details/forms.php?id=188 (Penn Nursing).
Can’t Touch This: Real-Time, Provably Safe Motion Planning and Control for High Dimensional Autonomous Systems; Ram Vasudevan, University of Michigan; 3 p.m.; room 307, Levine Hall, and Zoom webinar; join: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/98723817934 (GRASP Lab).
From the Humanities to the Media Business; Richard Lorber, Kino-Lorber; Jesse Jacobs, Chernin Group; 3:30 p.m.; room 110, Annenberg School (Cinema & Media Studies).
30 Natural Structural Materials: Lessons on Toughening Mechanisms, Weight Reduction, and Multifunctionality; Ling Li, Virginia Tech; 10:30 a.m.; room 101, Levine Hall (Materials Science & Engineering).
Heritage, Precarity, and Livelihoods; Amy Gadsden, Global Initiatives; Justin McDaniel, religious studies; Lynn Meskell, PIK professor; noon; Kleinman Forum, Fisher Fine Arts Library; register: https://tinyurl.com/preservation-talk-mar-30 (Historic Preservation).
Immigrant Place Entrepreneurs: Ethnicity and Growth Politics in Koreatown, Los Angeles; Angie Chung, University at Albany; noon; room 623, Williams Hall (Korean Studies).
Enabling Self-Sufficient Robot Learning; Rika Antonova, Stanford University; 12:30 p.m.; room 225, Towne Building (Electrical & Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics).
Racism, Midwifery, and Healthcare; Lucinda Canty, University of Massachusetts Amherst; 3 p.m.; online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/canty-talk-mar-30 (Penn Nursing).
Engineering Therapeutic Immunity Using (Nano)Biomaterials; Natalie Artzi, Harvard Medical School; 3:30 p.m.; Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology (Bioengineering).
A Conversation on the 1619 Project; Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine; 4 p.m.; Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall; register: https://tinyurl.com/hannah-jones-mar-30 (Penn Carey Law, Annenberg School; School of Social Policy & Practice).
The Evolutionary Origins of Cortical Cell Types; Maria Antonietta Tosches, Columbia University; 4 p.m.; Tedori Family Auditorium, Levin Building (Biology).
31 Fun with Robots and Machine Learning; Pulkit Agrawal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 10:30 a.m.; Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall, and Zoom webinar; join: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/92908473406 (GRASP Lab).
In Practice; Gretchen Hilyard Boyce, Groundwork Planning & Preservation; noon; room 3N, Meyerson Hall; register: https://tinyurl.com/boyce-talk-mar-31 (Historic Preservation).
Autonomous Mobility in Mars Exploration: Recent Achievements and Future Prospects; Larry Matthies, California Institute of Technology; 1:30 p.m.; Berger Auditorium, Skirkanich Hall, and Zoom webinar; join: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/92898101817 (GRASP Lab).
Economics
In-person events. Info: https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/events.
28 Uncovering the Separate (Latent) Contributions of Family, School, and Neighborhood Heterogeneity to Variations in Academic Performance; Lucienne (Lucy) Disch, economics; noon; room 101, PCPSE.
29 Fertility in Places with Location-Specific Housing Prices and Educational Resources; David Mao, economics; noon; room 100, PCPSE.
Elasticity and Curvature of Discrete Choice Demand Models; Katja Seim, Yale University; 3:30 p.m.; room 100, PCPSE.
31 Idiosyncratic Consumption Risk and Wealth Dynamics; Luigi Maria Briglia, CEMFI; noon; room 101, PCPSE.
This is an update to the March AT PENN calendar, which is online now. To submit an event for a future AT PENN calendar or update, submit the salient details to almanac@upenn.edu.