Update: March AT PENN
Conferences
27 Women in Higher Education Summit; a transformative day designed exclusively for Penn GSE students, staff, faculty, and alumni identifying as women and non-binary; this year’s theme is prioritizing self-care and professional development — a day dedicated to your growth, well-being, and success; 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Sheraton Philadelphia University City Hotel; register: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/event/women-higher-education-summit (Graduate School of Education).
Films
28 Sankofa; a 1993 Ethiopian-produced drama film directed by Haile Gerima centered on the Atlantic slave trade; 5:30 p.m.; room F55, Huntsman Hall (Cinema & Media Studies).
Fitness & Learning
26 Fulbright U.S. Student Program Kick-Off Event for 2024 Penn Applicants and Future Applicants; an interactive introduction to Fulbright U.S. Student Program award opportunities for U.S. citizens to pursue graduate study, conduct research, or teach English around the world; 4 p.m.; online webinar; register: https://apply.iie.org/register/GPS6 (Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships).
27 Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon; edit-a-thon focusing on important but underrepresented visual artists, curators and art workers of the African Diaspora; training session will be held at the beginning but help is available throughout the event; 12:30-4 p.m.; lobby, Fisher Fine Arts Library (Penn Libraries).
Transgender-Affirming Pedagogy for Graduate Students; will offer applicable strategies for graduate instructors across disciplines to make their classrooms more inclusive of gender expansive students; 3:30 p.m.; room 134, Van Pelt Library; register: https://tinyurl.com/cetli-workshop-mar-27 (Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Innovation).
Music
Music Department
In-person events. Info: https://music.sas.upenn.edu/events.
29 Penn Flutes: Music in the Stacks Concert Series; one of the largest active flute choirs in the United States, delivers a melodic study break; 1:30 p.m.; classroom G16, Holman Biotech Commons.
On Stage
28 Wharton Dance Studio: Showcase 2024: World Tour; a show presenting various forms of dance, including hip-hop, lyrical, jazz, tango, swing, salsa, belly dance, and much more; 8 p.m.; Zellerbach Theatre, Annenberg Center; tickets: $30; register: https://tickets.pennlivearts.org/0/89438 (Penn Live Arts).
Readings & Signings
Kelly Writers House
In-person events at Arts Café, Kelly Writers House. Info: https://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/0324.php.
27 Poetry and Global Justice; Khaled Mattawa, University of Michigan; 5:30 p.m.
Special Events
29 2024 Celebration of Diversity; gathering is intended to showcase students, staff, and faculty from Penn Engineering in their cultural richness and heterogeneity; includes guest speakers, special performances, presentations from student affinity groups, and a variety of cuisines for all to enjoy in the final hour; 3-6 p.m.; Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (Penn Engineering Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion).
Talks
26 Revisiting the French Canon: Beauty and the Beast and the Intersectional Gaze; 5 p.m.; room 543, Williams Hall; (Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies).
Difficulties and Rewards of Paving a Leadership Career in Academia as a Women; Magda Feres, Guarulhos University; 5:15 p.m.; Arthur E. Corby Auditorium, Penn Dental Medicine (Penn Dental Medicine).
27 Microbiome Transmission: A New Era of Molecular Epidemiology and Microbial Therapeutics; Brendan Kelly, medicine; 9 a.m.; room 701, Blockley Hall; join: https://pennmedicine.zoom.us/j/96442998641 (Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics).
Antibiotic Biosynthesis by Pathogenic Bacteria; Bo Li, University of North Carolina; noon; location TBA (Chemistry).
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Power and Expertise in the Women’s Health Movement; Matty Hemming, English; noon; Lea Library, 6th floor, Van Pelt Library (English).
Penn Libraries and Artificial Intelligence; Emily Morton-Owens, Associate Vice Provost for Technology and Digital Initiatives; noon; room 241, Van Pelt Library; register: https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/12214269 (Penn Libraries).
Status, Power, and Peers: The Construction of Elite Femininities in Historically White Greek Life; Simone Ispa-Landa, Northwestern University; noon; room 403, McNeil Building (Sociology).
The Black Pacific: U.S. Empire, the Colored American Magazine, and José Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere in Translation; Edlie Wong, University of Maryland; 1 p.m.; room 330, Fisher-Bennett Hall (English).
Multiplexed Synthetic Immunology: Scaling the Design and Measurement of Engineered Immune Cells for New Biological Insights and Therapies; Daniel Goodman, University of California, San Francisco; 2 p.m.; Class of 1962 Auditorium, John Morgan Building, and Zoom webinar; join: https://tinyurl.com/goodman-talk-mar-27 (Cancer Biology).
Post-Minority Ruptures: Democratic Deepening and Anti-Cas Pasmanda Muslim Politics in India; 4:30 p.m.; Khalid Anis Ansari, Azim Premji University; 4:30 p.m.; Kozloff Center (South Asia Studies).
The Conflict Over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate While Finding Common Ground; Kenneth S. Stern, Bard Center for the Study of Hate; 5 p.m.; Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Van Pelt Library; register: https://tinyurl.com/stern-talk-mar-27 (Paideia Program).
Seemingly Simple; Marcello Galiotto and Alessandra Rampazzo, AMAA; 6:30 p.m.; Plaza Gallery, Meyerson Hall (Architecture).
Yepes’s Late Night Television; Alexander Kellarokos, Saturday Night Live; 7 p.m.; room 401, Fisher-Bennett Hall (Cinema & Media Studies).
28 Physics and Engineering of Moisture-Capturing Hydrogels for Freshwater and Heat Harvesting; Carlos Diaz-Marin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 10 a.m. room 319, Towne Building (Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics).
Special Briefing: America’s Hot Growth States; Alex Adams, budget and regulatory director for Idaho Governor Brad Little; Tom Doe, Municipal Market Analytics; Torsten Slok, Apollo Global Management; 11 a.m.; online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/iur-talk-mar-28 (Penn Institute for Urban Research).
Debt, Fraud and the Making of Countries; Damian Clavel, University of Zurich; Maria Christina Chatziioannou, Institute of Historical Research, NHRF; Anna Gelpern, Georgetown University; Nathaniel Millett, Saint Louis University; noon; Zoom webinar; register: https://www.haiti-seminar.com/ (History).
Multimodal Spectroscopy and Microscopy without Abbe’s Diffraction Limit; Xiaoji Xu, Lehigh University; noon; Carolyn Hoff Lynch Lecture Hall, Chemistry Complex (Chemistry).
Sweeping Section Three Under the Rug: A Comment on Trump vs. Anderson; Michael Stokes Paulsen, University of St. Thomas; noon; room 240B, Silverman Hall; register: https://forms.gle/dZxbVtN92hZosUjeA (Federalist Society).
“Swiping” in South Korea: Tinder and Generation MZ’s Attitudes and Strategies about Dating and Sex; Seung-Kyung Kim, Indiana University Bloomington; noon; suite 310, 3600 Market Street, and Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/kim-talk-mar-28 (Korean Studies).
Perfidy: Assessing the Legality of the Israeli Raid on a West Bank Hospital; Geoffrey S. Corn, Texas Tech University; Shalom Ben Hanan, Reichman University; Ido Rosenzweig, University of Haifa; 1 p.m.; online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/cerl-talk-mar-28 (Center for Ethics & the Rule of Law).
Black Athena/Black Athenians; Maghan Keita, Villanova University; 4:45 p.m.; room 402, Cohen Hall (Classical Studies).
29 Environmental Contexts of Childhood in China; Kai Feng, sociology; Sukie Yang, sociology; Jia Miao, New York University, Shanghai; 10 a.m.; room 403, McNeil Building (Population Studies Center).
The Rise and Fall of the Teaching Profession: Prestige, Interest, Preparation, and Satisfaction over the Last Half Century; Matthew Kraft, Brown University; noon; room 259, Stiteler Hall, and Zoom webinar; info: adiperes@upenn.edu (Graduate School of Education).
“They Had Baby Faces Just Like Me”: How East Asian Women Construct Racialized Masculinities; Olivia Hu, sociology; noon; room 367, McNeil Building (Sociology).
Model Hierarchies for Fluid Process Modeling; Daniel Lecoanet, Northwestern University; 3 p.m.; room 358, Hayden Hall 9Earth & Environmental Science).
Relevant TV and the Institutions of Social Reproduction; Sam Samore, English; 5 p.m.; room 330, Fisher-Bennett Hall; RSVP: elombard@sas.upenn.edu (English).
Economics
In-person events. Info: https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/events.
27 Microentrepreneurship as Insurance Against Unemployment; Daniel Jaar, economics; noon; room 100, PCPSE.
29 Introducing Undergraduates to the Research Process; Aislinn Bohren, economics; 1:30 p.m.; room 200, PCPSE.
Mathematics
In-person events. Info: https://www.math.upenn.edu/events.
26 Combinatorial Expansions for Macdonald and LLT Polynomials; Alex Vetter, mathematics; 10:15 a.m.; room 4C8, DRL. Also March 28, 10:15 a.m.
27 K-Theory and Motivic Filtrations; Matthew Morrow, CNRS Orsay & IAS Princeton; 3:45 p.m.; room A2, DRL.
28 Scattering for Wave Equations with Sources and Slowly Decaying Data; Hans Lindblad, Johns Hopkins University; 3:30 p.m.; room 4E19, DRL.
This is an update to the March AT PENN calendar. The April AT PENN calendar is online now. Submit events for future AT PENN calendars or weekly updates at almanac@upenn.edu.