Exhibits

15        Excluded/Inclusion: The Work of Chen Lok Lee; 18 prints, watercolors, and lithographs show the journey of Chen Lok Lee, a political refugee who swam to Hong Kong to escape Chinese political persecution; shows the human spirit of determination, personal agency, and the power of choice to survive; Arts Lounge, Annenberg Center. Through May 2023. Opening reception: September 15, 5 p.m.; register: https://tinyurl.com/chen-exhibit-opening-sept-15.  

Films

Middle East Film Festival 2022
In-person screenings at Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum. Sponsored by Cinema Studies and Middle East Center. Info: https://tinyurl.com/middle-east-film-festival-2022.

19        Between Heaven and Earth; 6:30 p.m.

20        Ovacik; 6:30 p.m.

21        How to Be Alone; How to Say Silence; 6:30 p.m.

22        The Silhouettes; 6:30 p.m.

23        Costa Brava; 6:30 p.m.

Fitness & Learning

14        SP2 Master’s Online Information Session; learn more about the School of Social Policy & Practice’s Master of Social Work, Master of Science in Social Policy, and Master of Science in Nonprofit Leadership degree programs; 2 p.m.; online webinar; info: https://tinyurl.com/sp2-info-session-sept-14 (SP2).

20        Philadelphia, PA Information Session; nursing schools at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and Johns Hopkins University will host an information session to learn more about accelerated, MSN, DNP and PhD programs; 6 p.m.; room 118, Fagin Hall; register: https://tinyurl.com/nursing-info-session-sept-20 (Nursing).

Graduate School of Education (GSE)
Unless noted, online webinars. Info: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/news/events-calendar.

13        GSE Staff & Faculty Break with TLL; 9:30 a.m.; room TBA, 3700 Walnut St.

14        GSE Staff & Faculty Picnic; for faculty and staff; 3:30 p.m.; Penn Park Picnic Grove.

15        GSE Staff & Faculty Break for Hispanic Heritage Month; 9:30 a.m.; room TBA, 3440 Market St.

            Education Entrepreneurship Program Information Session; noon.

            Executive Doctorate in Higher Education Management Program Information Session; noon.

            Teaching About 9/11, War, and Empire; 5:15 p.m.

20        GSE Staff & Faculty Break with ELX; 9:30 a.m.; room TBA, 3700 Walnut St.

Readings & Signings

13        Mother of Strangers; Suad Amiry, Palestinian novelist, essayist, and architect; 5:30 p.m.; room B6, Stiteler Hall (Middle East Center).

Talks

13        MEAM Faculty Research Overview; panel of mechanical engineering & applied mechanics faculty; 10 a.m.; Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (MEAM).

14        Abortion Access: Implications for Institutions of Higher Education; Jackie Radford, GSE; Desegregating Empire: Household Registration and Women's Nationality in Imperial Japan; Genevieve Tan, history; noon; room 345, Fisher-Bennett Hall (Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies).

            When Will You Become the Best Reviewer of Your Own Papers? A Truthful Owner-Assisted Scoring Mechanism; Weijie Su, Wharton; noon; room 307, Levine Hall (Computer & Information Science).

            Characterizing Distant Worlds: Atmospheric Observations of Exoplanets with Hubble & JWST; Munazza Alam, Carnegie Earth & Planets Laboratory; 3:30 p.m.; room 4C6, DRL (Physics & Astronomy).

            Semiconductor Moiré Materials: A New Platform for Strong Correlation and Topology; Jie Shan, Cornell University; 3:30 p.m.; room A8, DRL (Physics & Astronomy).

            The Unseen Body: A Doctor’s Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy; Jonathan Reisman, physician; 3:30 p.m.; Holman Reading Room, Biotech Commons; register: https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/9559651 (Penn Libraries).

15        The Worms Crawl In But They Don’t Crawl Out: Blocking Parasites in Their Mosquito Vector; Michael Povelones, Penn Vet; 8 a.m.; Zoom webinar; join: https://tinyurl.com/povelones-talk-sept-15 (Deans’ Distinguished Visiting Professorship Seminar).

            Steampunk Data Science; Benjamin Recht, University of California Berkeley; 10:30 a.m.; room 225, Towne Building (Electrical & Systems Engineering).

            Special Briefing: Stagflation Ahead? Inflation and Recession; panel of speakers; 11 a.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/iur-talk-sept-15 (Penn Institute for Urban Research).

            Roots of Wisdom; Sir Michael Marmot, University College London; noon; online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/marmot-talk-sept-15 (Penn Dental).

            Symptoms and Submergence: A Media History of Shipwrecks; Debashree Mukherjee, Columbia University; 12:15 p.m.; room 500, Annenberg School, and online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/mukherjee-talk-sept-15 (Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication).

            Religious Studies Colloquium: Comparing Gods and Things – Looking at and Beyond Korea; Laurel Kendall, American Museum of Natural History; 3:30 p.m.; room 204, Cohen Hall (Religious Studies).

            Painting and Pose in Aeschylus and Beyond; Ava Shirazi, Haverford College; 4:45 p.m.; room 392, Cohen Hall (Classical Studies).

            Inflation and the Independence of the Turkish Central Bank Since 1923; Bülent Gültekin, Wharton; 5:30 p.m.; room 111, Annenberg School (Middle East Center).

16        Power Takes Practice: How Elite College Students Learn to Manage One Another; Jack Thornton, sociology; noon; room 367, McNeil Building (Sociology).

            China's Two-Child Policy and the Gender Implication; Yuying Tong, Chinese University of Hong Kong; 12:30 p.m.; room 418, PCPSE (Center for the Study of Contemporary China).

            Why Afro Asia? Joan Kee, history of art; 3:30 p.m.; room 602, Van Pelt Library (History of Art).

19        Making Introductory Statistics Accessible; Xi Song, sociology; 11 a.m.; room 367, McNeil Building (Sociology).

            Return Migration Selection and its Impact on the Migrant Mortality Advantage: New Evidence Using French Pension Data; Michel Guillot, Population Studies Center; noon; room 309, McNeil Building (Population Studies Center).

20        Open Access Benchmark Datasets and Metamodels for Problems in Mechanics; Emma Lejeune, Boston University; 10 a.m.; Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics).

            Distinguished Lectures in Cancer Research Series: PARPs and ADP-ribosylation in Gene Regulation and Cancer; W. Lee Kraus, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; noon; Caplan Auditorium, Wistar Institute (Wistar Institute).

            Unseeing Empire; Bakirathi Mani, English; 1:45 p.m.; room 419, Fisher-Bennett Hall (Asian American Studies).

Economics
In-person events. Info: https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/events.

15        Knowledge Teams, Careers, and Gender; Guido Friebel, Goethe University in Frankfurt; 3:30 p.m.; room 101, PCPSE.

Korean Studies
In-person events at room 623, Williams Hall. Info: https://korea.sas.upenn.edu/events.

15        The Korean Family: A 'Luxury Good' - Growing Educational Differentials in Family Behavior; Hyunjoon Park, sociology; noon.

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

13        Micro-Swimmers Moving in Complex Confinement; Enkeleida Lushi, New Jersey Institute of Technology; 4 p.m.; room 2C8, DRL, and Zoom webinar.

This is an update to the September AT PENN calendar, which is online now. The October AT PENN calendar will be published on Tuesday, September 27. To submit an event for an upcoming calendar or weekly update, email the salient details to almanac@upenn.edu.