Exhibits

9          What’s in a Smell? The Art and Science of Human Perception; Penn professors Anjan Chaterjee, Jay Gottfried, and Ani Liu will each present on their multidisciplinary investigations of the senses and the future implications of smell research; 6 p.m.; Institute of Contemporary Art; info: bclottey@ica.upenn.edu (ICA).

Penn Museum

Info: https://www.penn.museum/calendar.

12        Rome Galleries Tour; 11 a.m.

13        Middle East Galleries Tour; 11 a.m.

Films

10        Filmmaking and Scholarship in Virtual Places; a happy hour screening and research discussion about social life and research on virtual reality platforms; 4:30-7:30 p.m.; room 108, Annenberg School; register: https://tinyurl.com/filmmaking-nov-10 (Annenberg School).

Cinema & Media Studies

In-person events at various locations. Info: https://cinemastudies.sas.upenn.edu/events.

8          Wanted; 6 p.m.; room 401, Fisher-Bennett Hall.

9          I, A Black Woman, Resist; 3:30 p.m.; room 135, Fisher-Bennett Hall.

10        Mascarpone; 7:30 p.m.; room 402, Cohen Hall.

Fitness & Learning

11        Virtual Reality 101; internal ASC workshop for an introduction to virtuality, a hands-on demonstration of some of the technologies available to us, and an opportunity to think about how this all ties to research and theory; 2:30 p.m.; room 500, Annenberg School; register: https://tinyurl.com/vr-workshop-nov-11 (Annenberg School).

Graduate School of Education

Online events. Info: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/news/events-calendar.

15        Information Session: Global Higher Education Management Online MsED; 8 a.m.

On Stage

Penn Live Arts

In-person events. Info and tickets: https://pennlivearts.org/events/.

10        Stimulus Children's Theatre: Matilda The Musical; Matilda is a little girl with astonishing wit, intelligence and psychokinetic powers, unloved by her cruel parents but a beloved companion her schoolteacher, the highly loveable Miss Honey; Matilda has courage and cleverness in equal amounts and could be the school pupils’ saving grace; 8 p.m.; Harold Prince Theater, Annenberg Center. Also November 11, 6 p.m.; November 12, 2 p.m.

Readings & Signings

10        Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent; Jillian Schwedler, City University of New York Hunter College; 5:30 p.m.; room 111, Annenberg School (Middle East Center).

Talks

8          Black Lives: The High Cost of Segregation; Jamein Cunningham, Cornell University; 3:30 p.m.; room 395, McNeil Building, RSVP: breyanam@sas.upenn.edu (Criminology).

9          Decision-Aware Learning for Global Health Supply Chains; Osbert Bastani, computer & information science; noon; room 307, Levine Hall (Computer & Information Science).

            Non-Standard Viral Genomes are Intrinsic Elements of a Virus Community; Carolina López, Washington University; noon; Austrian Auditorium, CRB, and BlueJeans webinar; join: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/xqbzwhrb (Microbiology).

            The Wide Reach of Dobbs: Impacts Beyond Abortion; panel of speakers; noon; room 213, Gittis Hall, and Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/dobbs-talk-nov-9 (Carey Law School).

            The Magic of Moiré Quantum Matter; Pablo Jarillo-Herrera, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 3:30 p.m.; room A8, DRL (Physics & Astronomy).

            Tales that Bodies Tell: The Entangled Paths to Black Lives Matter and the Repeal of Roe v. Wade; Kathleen Brown, history; 5:15 p.m.; room 209, College Hall (History).

            Queer Afghanistan: Where Bombs Drop, Where Men Dance; Ahmad Qais Munhazim, Thomas Jefferson University; 5:30 p.m.; room 402, Cohen Hall (Middle East Center, English). 

            Architecture with a Detour; Abel Perles, Productora; 6:30 p.m.; Plaza Gallery, Meyerson Hall, and YouTube livestream; join: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWcPPoMiS1s (Architecture).

10        HIV Prevention Trials and the Challenges of Success; Deborah Donnell, University of Washington; 9 a.m.; BlueJeans meeting; join: https://bluejeans.com/873734674/4747?src=join_info (Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics).

            Understanding Degradation in Metal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells and Modules; Laura Schelhas, National Renewable Energy Laboratory; 10:30 a.m.; Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (Materials Science and Engineering).

            Phase Transitions, Symmetry, and Reed-Muller Codes on BMS Channels; Henry Pfister, Duke University; 12:30 p.m.; room 225, Towne Building (Electrical & Systems Engineering).

            How Cells Respond to Physical Cues – The Role of Cytoskeletal Dynamics; Arpita Upadhyaya, University of Maryland; 2 p.m.; Austrian Auditorium, CRB, and BlueJeans livestream; join: https://pennmedicine.zoom.us/j/99219477102 (Pennsylvania Muscle Institute).

11        Nella Larsen and Greta Garbo: On (In)Consequence; Pardis Dabashi, Bryn Mawr College; 5 p.m.; room 330, Fisher-Bennett Hall; RSVP: jondick@sas.upenn.edu or elombard@sas.upenn.edu (English).

14        The Criminalization of Reproductive Decision-Making; panel of speakers; noon; room 213, Gittis Hall; register: https://tinyurl.com/law-talk-nov-14 (Carey Law School).

15        Cell Packings and Tissue Flows in Developing Embryos; Karen Kasza, Columbia University; 10 a.m.; Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics).

            Teaching and Researching in the Radical Archive; Brad Duncan, Radical Archive; 2 p.m.; room 345, Fisher-Bennett Hall; RSVP: mhemming@sas.upenn.edu (Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies).

            Generative Multitask Learning Mitigates Target-Causing Confounding; Kyunghyun Cho, New York University; 3:30 p.m.; Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (Computer & Information Science).

Asian American Studies

In-person events at room 473, McNeil Building. Info: https://asam.sas.upenn.edu/events.

9          Migration and Asylum; Jengishbek Karagulov, Kyrgyz activist; 4:30 p.m.

Economics

In-person events at various locations. Info: https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/events.

9          Doing Without Price Rigidities: Steering Employment and Inflation in a Monetary World; Joao Ritto, economics; noon; room 100, PCPSE.

            What Can we Learn from Second Choice Data? Christopher Conlon, New York University; 3:30 p.m.; room F50, Huntsman Hall.

            Accounting for Wealth Concentration in the United States; Markus Poschke, McGill University; 4 p.m.; room 101, PCPSE.

10        To Grandmother’s House We Go: Childcare Time Transfers and Female Labor Mobility; Joanna Venator, Boston College; 3:30 p.m.; room 101, PCPSE.

14        On Binscatter; Matias Cattaneo, Princeton University; 4:30 p.m.; room 100, PCPSE.

Mathematics

In-person and virtual events. Info: https://www.math.upenn.edu/events.

8          Epidemic Spreading on Graphs; Grégory Faye, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse; 10 a.m.; Zoom webinar.

9          Evolutionary Dynamics of Human Behavior; Feng Fu, Dartmouth College; 3 p.m.; room 514, Chemistry Complex.

11        Energetic Variational Approaches (EnVarA) for Active Materials and Reactive Fluids; Chun Liu, Illinois Institute of Technology; 1:45 p.m.; room 200, PCPSE.

15        Substructural Logic Complexities and What We Might Do About It; Revantha Ramanayake, University of Groningen; 2 p.m.; online webinar.

Sociology

Online and in-person events. Info: https://sociology.sas.upenn.edu/events.

11        U.S. Educational Mobility in the Early Twentieth Century; Shariq Mohammed, Northeastern University; noon; room 367, McNeil Hall.

Workshop in the History of Material Texts

In-person events at Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Van Pelt Library. Info: https://pennmaterialtexts.org/about/events/.

14        Indigenous Epistemology and Early Modern Science: The Creation of “De historia animalium Novae Hispaniae” (1571–1577); Marcy Norton, history; 5:15 p.m.

This is an update to the November AT PENN calendar. To submit events for an upcoming AT PENN calendar or weekly update, send the salient details to almanac@upenn.edu.