Update: November AT PENN
Children’s Events
Penn Museum
Online events. Info: https://www.penn.museum/calendar/.
16 At-Home Anthro Live: Step-By-Step: The Meaning and Making of Moccasins; 1 p.m.
Conferences
12 Learning to Listen in Troubled Times; Ernesto Pujol, fine arts; Aaron Levy and Teya Sepinuck, the Listening Lab, give a series of talks about the art and science of listening; noon-4:30 p.m.; Upper Gallery and room B1 Meyerson Hall; info and to register: https://snfpaideia.upenn.edu/engage/events/ (SNF Paideia Program).
Exhibits
Penn Museum
Online and in-person events. Info: https://www.penn.museum/calendar/.
12 Graduate Guide Highlights Tour; 11 a.m.
Virtual Global Guide Tour: Asia Galleries; 2:30 p.m.
13 Egypt Galleries Tour; 11 a.m.
Global Galleries Tour: Africa Galleries; 2:30 p.m.
14 Rome Gallery Tour; 11 a.m.
Global Guide Tour: Middle East Galleries; 2:30 p.m.
Fitness & Learning
9 CURF Majors & More; grab-and-go dinner and a question-and-answer session about Penn’s Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships; 6 p.m.; Rodin College House; register: https://upenn.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0D1RHoJgkWICLcy (CURF).
10 Dentistry & Oral Surgery CE Series - X-Ray, Block, & Extract; describes how to perform tooth extractions in cats and dogs by first taking a radiograph, then performing a nerve block, and finally removing a tooth; noon; Zoom meeting; register: https://www.alumni.upenn.edu/PVDentistryNov10 (Penn Vet).
Re-Membering Ancient Futures Workshop; introduces the genre of Indigenous futurism as a decolonizing technology in the context of Black and Brown colonized realities in the U.S.; 3-5 p.m.; online event; register: https://ppeh.sas.upenn.edu/events/re-memberingancientfutures (Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies).
The Classroom in the City; Chi-Ming Yang, English; will consider why and how to engage the city of Philadelphia through your syllabus, assignments, and class discussions; 4 p.m.; tent outside Fisher-Bennett Hall (English).
Graduate School of Education (GSE)
Online and in-person events. Info: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/news/events-calendar.
9 Managing Holiday Stress; 12:30 p.m.; Zoom meeting.
10 Healthy Aging Brain with Penn Memory Center; noon; location TBA.
11 #teachtruth: Making Black Lives Matter at School and in Educational Policy; 4 p.m.; Zoom meeting.
13 Mid-Career Doctoral Program’s Annual Open House; 1-3 p.m.; floor 5, 3440 Market Street.
16 Penn Employee Information Session; 12:30 p.m.; Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall.
Nursing
Online events. Info: https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/calendar/.
10 Executive Leadership DNP Webinar; 6 p.m.
11 Admissions Webinar - Accelerated Nursing Program; 3 p.m.
Music
12 Counterparts: Blue Since the Day We Parted; performance by famous Penn acappella group in its 40th year, featuring hits by Dua Lipa, Charlie Puth, John Legend, Bill Withers, Aretha Franklin and many more; 6 p.m.; Harold Prince Theater, Penn Live Arts Annenberg Center; tickets: https://pennlivearts.org/event/counterparts. Also November 13, 9 p.m.
Onstage
12 Mamma Mia; Penn Singers perform the famous show that heavily features ABBA’s hits; 8:30 p.m.; Harold Prince Theater, Penn Live Arts Annenberg Center; tickets: https://pennlivearts.org/event/penn-singers-1042. Also November 13, 12:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.
13 Legacy On Broad; college dance teams compete in the largest Bollywood-fusion dance competition on the east coast; 6 p.m.; Zellerbach Theater, Penn Live Arts Annenberg Center; tickets: https://pennlivearts.org/event/legacy-on-broad-1036.
Readings & Signings
15 Choose Your Medicine; Lewis Grossman, American University; Fitts Auditorium, Gittis Hall and online event; register: https://tinyurl.com/grossman-reading-nov-15 (Penn Carey Law).
Kelly Writers House
Online and in-person events. Info: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/1121.php.
10 A Poetry Reading By Erica Kaufman; 6 p.m.; garden, Kelly Writers House and YouTube livestream.
11 A Conversation with Clayton Neuman; 5 p.m.; YouTube livestream.
Special Events
11 Virtual Veterans Day Flag Raising Ceremony; features Penn's NROTC Midshipmen, presentation of colors from the Hollenback Center, and speech by Vincent John Ciuccoli, Philadelphia Consortium NROTC; 9 a.m.; location TBA (Office of Affirmative Action).
12 Asian Pacific American Heritage Week: ASAM Sharing Our Roots; kickoff celebration for the University of Pennsylvania's week-long celebration of Asian Pacific-Islander American (APIA) heritage and culture, featuring grab-and-go food; 5 p.m.; room 208, ARCH; register: https://tinyurl.com/apahw-nov-12 (Asian American Studies).
Talks
9 Taking It to the Streets: The First Amendment Right to Gather and Report the News in the Aftermath of the 2020 Protests and Beyond; Nimra Azmi and Rob Balin, Davis Wright Tremaine; 4 p.m.; online event; register: https://tinyurl.com/azmi-balin-nov-9 (Penn Carey Law).
The Ecology of Homicide: Race, Place, and Space in Post-War Philadelphia; Howard Gillette, Rutgers; 5:30 p.m.; Zoom meeting; register: https://tinyurl.com/gillette-talk-nov-9 (Penn Carey Law).
10 Higher Education in Prison: The Precarious Promise of Second Chance Pell; Sarah Tahamont, University of Maryland; noon; room 410, McNeil Building (Criminology).
What I Learned After Writing “Learning from the Germans”; Susan Neiman, Einstein Forum; noon; Zoom meeting; register: https://tinyurl.com/neiman-talk-nov-10 (Germanic Languages & Literatures).
Earthen Poetics: The Intersections of Haptics, Mined Materials, and the Black Body; Kirsten Pai Buick, University of New Mexico; Alexandra Moore, UC Santa Cruz; Levester Williams, artist; 5:30 p.m.; Zoom meeting; register: https://tinyurl.com/africana-studies-nov-10 (Africana Studies).
11 Beyond Curve-Fitting: What’s Next for Deep Learning in Biomedical Imaging? Mert Sabuncu, Cornell; 11 a.m.; Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology and Zoom; join: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/2822214402 (Electrical & Systems Engineering).
Local to Meso-Scale Order in Electronic Ceramics Characterized by Aberration-Corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy; Elizabeth Dickey, Carnegie Mellon University; 12:30 p.m.; Auditorium, LRSM Building (Materials Science & Engineering).
More Than an Altar: Faith, Culture, and Resilience of Asian/American Business Owners in Philadelphia During COVID-19; Rupa Pillai, Asian American Studies; 3:30 p.m.; room 204, Cohen Hall (Religious Studies).
Single-Cell Multi-Omic Velocity Infers Dynamic and Decoupled Gene Regulation; Joshua Welch, University of Michigan; 3:30 p.m.; BlueJeans meeting; join: https://bluejeans.com/812676289/1348 (CCEB).
Endothelial Cell Heterogeneity During Sprouting Angiogenesis; Georgia Zarkada, Yale; 4 p.m.; Austrian Auditorium, CRB and Zoom meeting; join: https://tinyurl.com/zarkada-talk-nov-11 (Physiology).
12 Approaches to Grounded Language Acquisition from Human Interaction; Cynthia Matuszek, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; 10:30 a.m.; Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Building and Zoom meeting; join: https://tinyurl.com/matuszek-talk-nov-12 (GRASP Lab).
Superdeep Diamonds: Sampling Plate Tectonics at 400 to 700 km Depths in Earth’s Mantle; Steve Shirley, Carnegie Institution for Science; 3 p.m.; room 358, Hayden Hall (Earth & Environmental Science).
15 Cell Learning; Jeremy Gunawardena, Harvard; noon; room 225, Towne Building (PSOC).
Beauty; Anjan Chatterjee, neurology; 3:30 p.m.; auditorium, Levin Building (Psychology).
16 Serving Our Veterans: Moving Forward the “I Serve 2” Initiative in Health Care; Margaret Wilmoth, University of North Carolina; noon; online event; info: https://tinyurl.com/nursing-veterans-2021 (Nursing).
DNA Origami – From Nanoagents and Nanosensors to Artificial Fossils; Amelie Heuer-Jungemann, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry; 3:30 p.m.; Zoom meeting; join: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/97682459971 (Chemistry).
Sensitivity Analysis for Evaluating Principal Surrogate Endpoints in Vaccine Trials Relaxing the Equal Early Clinical Risk Assumption; Ying Huang, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; 3:30 p.m.; BlueJeans meeting; join: https://bluejeans.com/812676289/1348 (CCEB).
Refashioning AfroLatinidad: Garifuna New Yorkers in Diaspora; Paul Joseph López Oro, Smith College; 5:30 p.m.; Zoom meeting; register: https://tinyurl.com/lopez-oro-nov-16 (Africana Studies).
Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies (CLALS)
Online and in-person events. Info: https://clals.sas.upenn.edu/events.
12 Policing, Prisons, and Abolition in Latin America; George Ciccariello-Maher, Vassar College; 3 p.m.; room 473, McNeil Building.
Economics
Info: https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/events.
9 Show Me the Amenity: Are Higher-Paying Firms Better All Around? Jason Sockin, economics; noon; room 101, PCPSE.
10 Redrawing the Map of Global Capital Flows: The Role of Cross-Border Financing and Tax Havens; Matteo Maggiori, Stanford; noon; room 101, PCPSE.
Bargaining and International Reference Pricing in the Pharmaceutical Industry with Ashvin Gandhi and Shoshana Vasserman; Pierre Dubois, Toulouse School of Economics; 3:30 p.m.; room F45, Huntsman Hall.
12 Experienced Labor Reallocation in an Incomplete Markets Economy; Joao Ritto, economics; noon; room 100, PCPSE.
15 Bounding Treatment Effects by Pooling Limited Information Across Observations; Simon Lee, Columbia University; 4:30 p.m.; room 100, PCPSE.
English
Online and in-person events. Info: https://www.english.upenn.edu/events.
10 Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron: Feminist and Queer Returns; Carla Freccero, UC Santa Cruz; 4:30 p.m.; Zoom meeting.
Mathematics
Online and in-person events. Info: https://www.math.upenn.edu/events.
11 A Tale of Two W-Algebras (Part 1); Angela Gibney, mathematics; 5:15 p.m.; room 4C4, DRL.
15 Moisil’s Modal Logic and Related Systems; Sergei Odintsov, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics and Novosibirsk State University; 8 p.m.; online event.
16 The Skew Brownian Permuton; Jacopo Borga, Stanford; 3:30 p.m.; room A1, DRL.
A Tale of Two W-Algebras (Part 2); Angela Gibney, mathematics; 3:30 p.m.; room 4C4, DRL.
Penn Dental
Online events. Info: https://www.dental.upenn.edu/news-events/events/.
9 Improving the “Digital Transition Phase” in Contemporary Restorative Dentistry; Oswaldo Scopin de Andrade, gIDE Dental; 6 p.m.
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The deadline to submit events for the December AT PENN calendar is today, November 9. To submit an event for that calendar or a future update, email the details to almanac@upenn.edu.