Children’s Events

Penn Museum
Online events. Info: https://www.penn.museum/calendar/.

23        At-Home Anthro Live: Weaving Memories of Wampum; 1 p.m.

Exhibits
 

Penn Museum
Online and in-person events. Info: https://www.penn.museum/calendar/.

19        Graduate Guide Highlights Tour; 2 p.m.

            Virtual Global Guide Tour: Asia Galleries; 2:30 p.m.

20        Rome Gallery Tour; 11 a.m.

            Global Guide Tour: Mexico & Central America Gallery; 2:30 p.m. Also November 21, 2:30 p.m.

21        Mexico & Central America Gallery Tour; 11 a.m.

Fitness & Learning

16        Wharton Global Youth: Upcoming Programs and Summer Opportunities; discussing and answering questions about our variety of programs designed for high school students, including on-campus, online and for credit opportunities offered during the academic year and summer months; 7 p.m.; to join: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/register/bkcdxrpf (Wharton Global Youth).

17        Designing a More Inclusive Class for Students with Disabilities; Zahra Fakhraai, chemistry and Heather Love, English will discuss multiple modes for presenting information, encouraging student engagement, and assessing what students learn; 1 p.m.; Zoom meeting; register: https://tinyurl.com/disabilities-workshop-nov-17 (Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies).

            ODEI and SHPE Celebrate Hispanic and Native American Heritage; student and faculty speakers and cultural presentations by Penn Engineering students and opening remarks by Dean Vijay Kumar; 4:30 p.m.; Quain Courtyard, Skirkanich Hall (Penn Engineering).

Graduate School of Education (GSE)
Online and in-person events. Info: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/news/events-calendar.

16        How Mental Health Affects Physical Health; 12:30 p.m.; Zoom meeting.

17        Penn GSE's Food for Thought with Sigal Ben-Porath; noon; online event.

            Thanksgiving Gathering; for staff and faculty; 3:30 p.m.; GSE courtyard.

18        Compassion Fatigue Workshop; for staff and faculty; 10 a.m.; Zoom meeting.

23        Literary Lunch with Juliana; for staff and faculty; noon; BlueJeans meeting.

LGBT Center
Unless noted, online events. Info: https://tinyurl.com/lgbt-center-calendar.

18        LGBTQ+ Parent Check-In; 11 a.m.

19        Lambda Grads Happy Hour; 5-7 p.m.; LGBT Center.

Nursing
Online events. Info: https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/calendar/.

17        Admissions Webinar - Accelerated Nursing Program; 6 p.m.

19        Restorative Circles for Penn Nursing Community Building; 4 p.m.

Penn Carey Law
Online events. Info: https://www.law.upenn.edu/newsevents/calendar.php.

17        Carey JD/MBA Overview Webinar; 6 p.m.

On Stage

19        Soundworks Tap Factory: It’s Tappening; Penn’s one and only strictly tap dancing group performs a work that includes rhythm tap, Broadway-style tap, hip-hop, jazz and more, plus a vocal solo from Penn senior Natalie Doppelt; 8:30 p.m.; Harold Prince Theater, Penn Live Arts Annenberg Center; tickets: https://pennlivearts.org/event/soundworks-tap-factory. Also November 20, 6 p.m.

Talks

16        Interrogating Without Coercion: How Police and Policymakers Are Reforming Interrogations to Eliminate Coercion and Prevent False Confessions; panel of speakers; noon; online event; register: https://tinyurl.com/law-talk-nov-16 (Penn Carey Law).

            MEMS: the Transition from “Four-Letter-Word” to “Trendy”; Kurt Petersen, Silicon Valley Band of Angels; 3 p.m.; Glandt Forum, Singh Center and Zoom meeting; join: https://tinyurl.com/petersen-talk-nov-16 (Electrical & Systems Engineering).

17        Displaced Children: Photography and Postmemory in Liquid Time; Marianne Hirsch, Columbia; 5 p.m.; room 545, Williams Hall (Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies).

            The Muridiyya on the Move: Islam, Migration, and Place Making; Cheikh Anta Babou, history; 5:30 p.m.; room 401, Fisher-Bennett Hall; register: https://tinyurl.com/babou-talk-nov-17 (Africana Studies).

            The City of Imagination; panel of speakers; 6 p.m.; upper gallery, Meyerson Hall; register: https://tinyurl.com/landscape-arch-nov-17 (Landscape Architecture).

18        Special Briefing on Climate Change, Federal Aid and State and Local Strategies; Timothy Coffin, Breckinridge Capital Advisors; Hughey Newsome, CFO of Wayne County, Michigan; Nora Wittstruck, S&P Global; 11 a.m.; online event; register: https://tinyurl.com/iur-talk-nov-18 (Penn Institute for Urban Research).

            Virtual Dialogue; Shannon Zenk, National Institute of Nursing Research; 1 p.m.; online event; register: https://tinyurl.com/48znxnt4 (Nursing).

            Ionic Liquid-Based Therapeutics; Samir Mitragotri, Harvard; 3:30 p.m.; Zoom meeting; info: be@seas.upenn.edu (Bioengineering).

            The Lung Microbiome from HIV to ARDS; Alison Morris, University of Pittsburgh; 4 p.m.; room 11-146, Smilow Center (Penn-CHOP Lung Biology Institute).

            Sensory Physiology and Ecology of Rapid Adaptive Coloration in Cephalopods; Roger Hanlon, University of Chicago; 4 p.m.; Zoom meeting; join: https://tinyurl.com/hanlon-talk-nov-18 (Biology).

            Abolition Geographies in the Black Mediterranean; Camilla Hawthorne, UC Santa Cruz; 5 p.m.; Zoom meeting; register: https://tinyurl.com/hawthorne-talk-nov-18 (Italian Studies).

            A Whiff of Civil War in the Air: Can American Pluralism Survive Negative Partisanship? David French, The Dispatch; 7 p.m.; Zoom meeting; register: https://tinyurl.com/french-talk-nov-18 (Paideia Program).

19        Learning and Influencing Conventions in Interactive Robotics; Dorsa Sadigh, Stanford; 10:30 a.m.; Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Building and Zoom meeting; join: https://tinyurl.com/sadigh-talk-nov-19 (GRASP Lab).

            Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation’s Health; Laura Wherry, NYU Wagner; noon; Colonial Penn Auditorium, 3641 Locust Walk and Zoom meeting; register: https://tinyurl.com/wherry-talk-nov-19 (Leonard Davis Institute).

23        The Wa People Between China and Southeast Asia; Magnus Fiskesjö, Cornell; 12:30 p.m.; Zoom meeting; register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/208758340817 (Center for East Asian Studies).

            Origins of the RNA-Protein World - Lost in Translation? John Sutherland, MRC Lab, Cambridge; 3 p.m.; Zoom meeting; join: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/97682459971 (Chemistry).

            From Seeing to Doing: Understanding and Interacting with the Real World; Fei-Fei Li, Stanford; 3:30 p.m.; location TBA; info: cis-info@cis.upenn.edu (Computer & Information Science).

Annenberg School for Communication
Online events. Info: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/events.

17        Rethinking the Limits: Provocative and Extreme Speech; Cherian George, Hong Kong Baptist University; Sahana Udupa, LMU Munich; Signe Wilkinson, cartoonist; 12:30 p.m.

22        The Struggle for Positive Freedoms in Historical and International Perspective; Damian Tambini, London School of Economics; Andrew Kenyon, University of Melbourne; Ellen P. Goodman, Rutgers; 2 p.m.

Anthropology
Unless noted, in-person events at room 345, Penn Museum. Info: https://anthropology.sas.upenn.edu/events.

22        Reconstructing the Experience of the Divine in Ancient Mesopotamia: An Argument for Direct Perception, Decentralized Cognition, and Sensorial Plasticity; Anastasia Amrhein, Bryn Mawr; noon.

Penn Dental
Online events. Info: https://www.dental.upenn.edu/news-events/events/.

16        When Minimally Invasive Restorative Dentistry Meets Digital Workflow; Anabell Bologna, DentalXP; 6 p.m.

17        Arginine-Based Therapies for Management of Caries and Periodontitis; Marcelle Nascimento, University of Florida; noon.

18        Success by Design: Optimizing of the Transition Zone in Reconstructive Therapy; Henry Salama, Smile Center of Linwood; 6 p.m.; Arthur E. Corby Auditorium, Penn Dental, and online.

22        The Global Response to Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) and Oral Health: The Common Ground and Opportunities for Collaboration; Katie Dain, George Institute for Global Health; 1 p.m.

23        How to Use Stains to Create a Color Solution with Composite Resin; Thiago Ottoboni, restorative dentist; 6 p.m.

Economics
Info: https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/events.

16        Monotone Additive Statistics; Omer Tamuz, Caltech; 4 p.m.; room 101, PCPSE.

19        Worker Turnover and Employment Fluctuations; Jinfeng Luo, economics; noon; room 100, PCPSE.

23        Innovation in Decentralized Markets; Marzena Rostek, University of Wisconsin-Madison; 4 p.m.; room 101, PCPSE.

Mathematics
Online and in-person events. Info: https://www.math.upenn.edu/events.

18        Stretch Factors of Free Group Automorphisms; Radhika Gupta, Temple University; 5:15 p.m.; Zoom meeting.

22        An Algebraic Model for the Free Loop Space; Manuel Rivera, Purdue; 2 p.m.; Zoom meeting.

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