Conferences

27        UNESCO at 50: What Future for the Past?; features speakers and panels relating to UNESCO’s 50^th anniversary, focusing on UNESCO and the global order, conservation, and world heritage in conflict; 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Perry World House; register: lmeskell@upenn.edu (Perry World House).

28        Penn-CHOP Kidney Innovation Center Inaugural Symposium; will promote a culture of cooperation in an effort to improve the lives of children and adults with kidney disease; 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; 14^th floor, BRB; info: greens10@chop.edu (Penn-CHOP Kidney Innovation Center).

29        The Fierce Urgency of Now; a symposium celebrating Black LGBTQ+ faith-based communities and leaders; 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; the ARCH and LGBT Center; register: www.bit.ly/fireceurgency2022 (LGBT Center, Makuu, Office of the Chaplain, Christian Association).

Films

26        A Foolproof Guide to Relationships; includes a discussion about asexuality, amatonormativity, and relationships with Penn senior Tamia Harvey-Martin; 6 p.m.; upstairs reading room, LGBT Center (LGBT Center).

28        Rocky Horror Picture Show; screening of the classic film; costumes encouraged, and snacks provided; 7 p.m.; lobby, Platt Performing Arts House (LGBT Center, Penn Dental Pride Alliance, Platt House).

Fitness & Learning

Graduate School of Education

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

29        Fall Open House; 9:30 a.m.; Houston Hall.

Penn Nursing

Info: https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/calendar/.

29        Spooky Zumba: Hosted by Nursing Wellness; 11 a.m.; Pottruck Fitness Center.

Readings & Signings

26        Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution; Yasmin El-Rifae, Palestine Festival of Literature; 5:30 p.m.; room 402, Cohen Hall (Middle East Center).

            Rivers that Feed Us: Heritage in Poetry; Herman Beavers, English and Africana studies; Airea Matthews, Bryn Mawr College; Raquel Salas Rivera, poet; Syd Zolf, Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing; 6 p.m.; Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum; register: https://tinyurl.com/rivers-oct-26 (Wolf Humanities Center).

27        Passionate Work: Endurance After the Good Life; Renyi Hong, National University of Singapore; 11 a.m.; room 300, Annenberg School and online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/hong-reading-oct-27 (Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication).

Special Events

25        Celebrating Queer History Month: An Evening with Kalki Subramaniam; celebration of Queer History of Month that includes discussion with author and activist Kalki Subramaniam; 6:30 p.m.; ARCH (LGBT Center).

Talks

25        Distinguished Lectures in Cancer Research Series: Germline TP53 Variants and Cancer – Lessons Learned from Li-Fraumeni Syndrome; Sharon Savage, National Cancer Institute; noon; Caplan Auditorium, Wistar Institute (Wistar Institute).

            Truth Be Told: Black Women and the Making of a Democracy; Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Rutgers University; 6 p.m.; Irvine Auditorium (Penn Libraries).

26        Short Stories in Fluid Dynamics: Thin Films, Self-Similarity, An N-Body Problem, and Particle Motions Near Rough Surfaces; Howard Stone, Princeton University; 3:30 p.m.; room A8, DRL (Physics & Astronomy).

            Regulating Digital Assets: Law, Policy, and Economic Implications; Kristin Johnson, Commodity Futures Trading Commission; 4:30 p.m.; room 240B, Silverman Hall; register: https://tinyurl.com/johnson-talk-oct-26 (Institute for Law & Economics).

            The Patent Form: Black Romanticism and the Production of Means in the Atlantic World; Ethan Plaue, English; 5 p.m.; room 330, Fisher-Bennett Hall, and Zoom webinar; info: plaue@sas.upenn.edu (English).

            Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1640; Miguel Valerio, Washington University in St. Louis; 5:15 p.m.; room 209, College Hall (History, Spanish & Portuguese).

            Everyday General Practice – Laser Assisted Dental Care; Juan Carlos Mora, Penn Dental; 5:30 p.m.; online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/mora-talk-oct-26 (Penn Dental).

27        A More Sustainable Future via Polymer Circularity; Kathryn Beers, NIST; 10:30 a.m.; room 101, Levine Hall (Materials Science & Engineering).

            Surgeons Who Wrote: Making a Public Discourse of Plastic Surgery in South Korea; So-Rim Lee, East Asian languages & civilizations; noon; room 623, Williams Hall (Korean Studies).

            Quilting Islam: Pakistan as an Islamic Republic; Ali Usman Qasmi, Royal Holloway College, University of London; 3:30 p.m.; room 204, Cohen Hall (Religious Studies).

            Coral Reef Resilience and Vulnerability Under Global Change; Kristen Brown, biology; 4 p.m.; auditorium, Claire Fagin Hall (Biology).

            The Many Modes of Lung Repair after Severe Viral Pneumonia; Andy Vaughan, Penn Vet; 4 p.m.; room 11-146, Smilow Center (Penn-CHOP Lung Biology Institute).

            From Ethics to Philology and Back: The Fortune of Taddeo Alderotti’s Liber ethicorum between the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance; Riccardo Saccenti, Università degli Studi di Bergamo; 5:15 p.m.; Meyerson Conference Room, Van Pelt Library; register: https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/9757753 (Penn Libraries, Italian Studies).

            Reaganism to Trumpism: How Conservatives Decided It Was Evening in America; Ross Douthat, New York Times; 7 p.m.; auditorium, PCPSE; register: https://tinyurl.com/douthat-talk-oct-27 (Paideia Program).

28        Building Multidisciplinary Teams for Surgical Translation of Artificial Intelligence; Daniel Hashimoto, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; 10:30 a.m.; Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall, and Zoom webinar; join: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/99134830552 (GRASP Lab).

            Toward Ancestral Domain: Indigenous Sovereignty Amidst U.S. Neocolonial Expansion in the Philippines; Vernon Wells, Asian American studies; noon; room 473, McNeil Building; register: https://tinyurl.com/wells-inperson-oct-28; Zoom webinar; join: https://tinyurl.com/wells-zoom-oct-28 (Asian American Studies).

            Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics; Chandan Deuskar, World Bank; noon; Kleinman Energy Forum, Fisher Fine Arts Library; register: https://tinyurl.com/deuskar-talk-oct-28 (City & Regional Planning)

            Constrain Bureaucratic Zealot for Zero-Covid: Conflicting Goals in China’s Policymaking; Hongshen Zhu, Center for the Study of Contemporary China; 12:30 p.m.; room 418, PCPSE (CSCC). 

            Monumentality Without Monuments; Cat Dawson; Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies; 2 p.m.; in-person location TBA and Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/dawson-talk-oct-28 (Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies).

            AAPI Women in Writing: Academia and Fiction; I.W. Gregorio, author and urologist; Fariha Khan, Asian American studies; 4 p.m.; Goodhand Room, LGBT Center; register: https://tinyurl.com/aapi-women-writing (Asian American Studies).

            Scholarly Profiles on the Web to Track and Promote; Manuel de la Cruz Gutiérrez, Biotech Commons; 7 p.m.; online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/gutierrez-talk-oct-28 (Penn Dental).

31        An Optimized Orthogonal Multi-Omics Approach to Improve Clinical Variant Interpretation for Diverse Populations; Latrice Landry, genetics; 3 p.m.; Zoom webinar; join: https://pennmedicine.zoom.us/j/96457558509 (Center for Global Genomics & Health Equity).

Economics

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

26        Structural Change and the Rise in Markups; Ricardo Vieira Marto, economics; 4:45 p.m.; room 101, PCPSE.

Mathematics

In-person events at various locations. Info: https://www.math.upenn.edu/events.

25        Perverse Microsheaves; Vivek Shende, Southern Denmark University; 3:30 p.m.; room 4C6, DRL.

            Multi-Scale Complexity in Anatomical and Functional Cortical Networks; Hannah Choi, Georgia Institute of Technology; 4 p.m.; room 2C8, DRL, and Zoom webinar.

31        The Weil Representation; Akshay Venkatesh, Institute for Advanced Study; 3:45 p.m.; room 200, PCPSE.

Sociology

Unless noted, in-person events at room 367, McNeil Building. Info: https://sociology.sas.upenn.edu/events.

26        Municipal Trouble: Punitive Finance, White Flight and the New Chocolate City; John Robinson III, Princeton University; noon; room 150, McNeil Building.

28        “We Represent a Definite Social Class:” American Religion and Class Identity, 1918-1935; Melissa Wilde and Tessa Huttenlocher, sociology; noon.

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