at penn Calendar February 2023

25        Up Late with the Sphinx; an evening filled with games and gallery activities; drop into a hands-on workshop and make something special to take home, then finish your evening with a flashlight tour through the museum; 5-10 p.m.; Penn Museum; tickets: $30/general, $25/member; register: https://www.penn.museum/calendar/1446/up-late-with-the-sphinx (Penn Museum).

2          The Crisis This Time: Media, Movements, and Abolition in a Time of Rupture; a conference exploring methods to articulate critical interconnections between crises and forms of resistance; 5 p.m.; the Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street; register: https://t.co/JOAnsmqsmk (Media, Inequality & Change Center). Also February 3, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

9          Boardman Symposium: The Scholar of Religion in the Public Sphere; conference that brings together a wide range of leading scholars of religion to consider what it means to study religion in public; 3:30-7:30 p.m.; Ben Franklin Room, Houston Hall; register: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/boardmansymposium/ (Religious Studies). Also February 10, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

11       Future of Cybersecurity: Regulatory Impacts on Conglomerates, Silent Warfare, and Global Cooperation Efforts; annual conference of the Penn Asian-Pacific American Law Students Association, the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition, and the Asian Law Review; 9:15 a.m.-6 p.m.; Fitts Auditorium, Carey Law School; register: https://tinyurl.com/carey-conf-feb-11 (Carey Law School).

            Wolf Conference 2023: Temporal Mediations in Digital Capitalism; seeks to interrogate temporal practices and time-based media forms shaped in the current technological environment of digital capitalism; 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Kislak Center, Van Pelt Library; info: https://tinyurl.com/wolf-conference-2023 (Cinema & Media Studies).

17        Digital Assets and Cryptocurrency; topics will include FTX and other crypto exchange bankruptcies, crypto regulation and the SEC’s crypto division, cross-border VC transactions, and central bank digital asset projects; 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.; room 100, Golkin Hall; register: https://penncareylaw.cventevents.com/d/flqrh4 (Carey Law School).

19        Penn Carey Law Lambda Symposium; will explore recent and upcoming Supreme Court cases, such as Masterpiece Cakeshop and 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, which cast doubt on the strength of antidiscrimination and public accommodations laws protecting LGBTQ+ people; 1-7 p.m.; room TBA, Carey Law School, and Zoom webinar; register: https://forms.gle/CD9m8s8VmyiGoXYNA (Carey Law School).

24        Wistar Trainee Research Symposium; all-day event showcasing the excellence and diversity of academic research in the Philadelphia area, including keynote by Scott Waldman, Thomas Jefferson University; 8 a.m.-6 p.m.; Caplan Auditorium, Wistar Institute; register: https://tinyurl.com/wistar-conference-feb-24 (Wistar Institute).

            Heritage and Presence: Humanities Symposium; scholars, community organizers, and artists come together to unsettle the demarcations between heritage as an object of study and heritage as a site of ongoing practice and contestation; 9:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m.; Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Van Pelt Library; register: https://tinyurl.com/wolf-conference-feb-24 (Wolf Humanities Center).

Upcoming

4          At the Source: A Courbet Landscape Rediscovered; sparked by the discovery of a Gustave Courbet painting of the source of the French river Lison in Penn’s collection, this exhibition showcases the infamous painter’s modern landscape practice and emphasizes the process of authenticating and conserving this historic work; Arthur Ross Gallery. Through May 28. Opening reception: February 3, 5 p.m.

8          12@12 with André Dombrowski; 12-minute talk about a work in the Arthur Ross Gallery collection with André Dombrowski, history of art; noon; Arthur Ross Gallery, Fisher Fine Arts Library.

27        Marian Anderson Birthday Pop-Up Exhibit; celebrate Marian Anderson’s 126th birthday with a display of materials from her archive, including photographs, programs, correspondence, contracts, publicity posters, music manuscripts, sheet music, and more; 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Henry Charles Lea Library, Van Pelt Library.

 

Penn Museum

In-person events at Penn Museum. Info: https://www.penn.museum/calendar.

3          Global Guide Tour: Africa Galleries; 2:30 p.m. Also February 17.

4          Middle East Galleries Tour; 11 a.m. Also February 11, 19.  

            Global Guide Tour: Asia Galleries; 2:30 p.m. Also February 10, 11, 18, 24, 25.

5          Mexico & Central America Gallery Tour; 11 a.m. Also February 26.

            Global Guide Tour: Middle East Galleries; 2:30 p.m. Also February 12, 19, 26.

12        Rome Gallery Tour; 11 a.m. Also February 25.

18        Highlights of the Penn Museum Tour; 11 a.m.

26        Native American Voices Tour; 11 a.m.

 

Now

            Book.Data.File.; explores digitized books and resources and answers the question of what it takes to make digital objects useful for research; pushes the boundaries of data-driven research and scholarship with library collections; Kamin Gallery, first floor, Van Pelt Library. Through March 7, 2023.

            Shadow and Light; memorializes Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003 and 2012, a timeframe that roughly parallels the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq, via 20 pieces selected by Heather Hughes, Middle East Studies librarian, and Huda Fakhreddine, Arabic literature; Fisher Fine Arts Library. Through April 14, 2023.

            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 31, 2023.

 

Ongoing Special Exhibits

            Artwork from the “I Am” Collective; various artists from the “I Am” Collective, a storytelling initiative showcasing the diversity of social identities that exist within Penn, finish the sentence “I am…”, creating a blend of ink, paint, words, passion, and power; Brodsky Gallery.

            Ancient Egypt: From Discovery to Display; provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to walk in the shoes of an archaeologist; includes more than 200 fascinating objects, many of which have never been on view before, throughout a three-part, 6,000-square-foot exhibition; Penn Museum.

            Eastern Mediterranean Gallery; contains 400 artifacts from the Eastern Mediterranean, which has been a crossroads of cultural exchange between diverse peoples, where merchants, migrants, and soldiers met to raise monuments to kings and gods, sail ships across the vast Mediterranean Sea, and share ideas in unexpected ways; Penn Museum.

            U-2 Spy Planes & Aerial Archaeology; offers a look at the United States military’s top-secret aerial reconnaissance during the 1950s and 1960s, the key geographic features and lost landscapes they captured accidentally, and the role of “aerial archaeology”, using large-scale printed images and a small selection of objects from the Penn collection; West Merle-Smith Gallery, Penn Museum.

1          Dialogue Lab: America; film documenting a 2021 experiment in which twelve people of differing political views were brought together for conversations as a microcosm of the U.S.; 10 a.m.; Lauder College House; register: https://tinyurl.com/dialogue-lab-feb-1 (SNF Paideia Program).

            Premiere: Dr. Bernardine Mays Lacey: Leading the Way; includes discussion with Ashley Graham-Perel, Columbia University; 1 p.m.; Ann Roy Auditorium, Fagin Hall; register: https://tinyurl.com/lacey-film-feb-1 (Nursing).

9          Flee; follows the story of a man under the alias Amin Nawabi, who shares his hidden past of fleeing his home country of Afghanistan to Denmark for the first time; 7:30 p.m.; room 543, Williams Hall (Cinema & Media Studies).

12        Second Sunday Culture Films: Wall Stories & The Calligrapher of Old Delhi; screening of two films that celebrate Indian culture, featuring conversation with Harjant Gill, Towson University, and the filmmakers; 2 p.m.; Penn Museum and online screening; info: https://tinyurl.com/museum-films-feb-12 (Penn Museum).

13        Aftershock Processing; discussion about Aftershock, a story of two families joined by the preventable deaths of their loved ones due to childbirth complications (view movie before the session); 3 p.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/aftershock-feb-13 (Nursing).

16        TikTok, Boom; explores some of the controversy surrounding the popular social media app, including privacy issues, mental health ramifications, and lack of transparency around content moderation; features conversation with director Shalini Kantayya; 6 p.m.; rooftop lounge, Harrison College House (Cinema & Media Studies, SNF Paideia, Asian American Studies, Fine Arts).

22        Dollars and Sense: The ABCs of Financial Caregiving; discusses the financial aspects of caregiving and how to improve the bottom line for caregivers; noon; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/nursing-workshop-feb-22 (Nursing).

            Best Practices for Professional and Leadership Development, Promotion, and Advancement of Diverse Legal Professionals; virtual conversations about best practices in DEI, featuring Penn Carey Law alumni who are actively engaged in DEI efforts around the country; noon; online webinar; register: https://pennlaw.cvent.com/d/9lq4yg (Carey Law School).

            As Far as They Can Run; a fascinating look at those in rural Pakistan who are struggling to find acceptance and worth in a society that has relegated them to the margins; 5:30 p.m.; room 401, Fisher-Bennett Hall (Cinema & Media Studies, Middle East Center).

24        Master in Law Information Session for Penn Faculty, Staff, and Students; Penn faculty and staff who wish to incorporate a legal perspective on the issues that intersect with their professional fields and academic interests are invited to learn more about the benefits of pursuing a master in law; noon; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/carey-workshop-feb-24 (Carey Law School).

28        Juneteenth: Exploring Freedom’s Stories; an exploration of Juneteenth’s freedom stories  via an award-winning documentary by the Constitution Project; includes conversation with filmmakers; noon; Zoom screening; register: https://tinyurl.com/juneteenth-film-feb-28 (Annenberg Public Policy Center).

           Connecting Conversations: Strengthening LGBTQ+ Families; hear from experts from research, policy, and startups about how we can strengthen LGBTQ+ family formation through community, healthcare, and policy; 3:30 p.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/nursing-workshop-feb-28 (Nursing).

2          Gender and Jewish Philosophy; three-part course that will explore the intersection of gender and the Jewish philosophical tradition, considering how gendered concepts and ideas have shaped the history of Jewish philosophy and how Jewish philosophers have approached gender; taught by Sarah Zager, St. Olaf College; Zoom webinars; registration: $60; register: https://tinyurl.com/katz-center-course-feb-2 (Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies). Also February 8 and 16.

            The Deep Dig: King Tut’s Tomb and Treasures; David Silverman, curator of the Egyptian Section at the Penn Museum, discusses the excavation of this ancient tomb, revealed to be the richest in Egypt's Valley of the Kings; dig deep into the life and times of King Tut and the religious and cultural revolution his father Akhenaten introduced to his people; 6:30 p.m.; online webinar; registration: $175/general, $125/member; register: https://www.penn.museum/calendar/1462/the-deep-dig (Penn Museum). Also February 9, 16, 23.  

16        Working Dog Center Tour; see firsthand what it takes to train our nation’s leading detection dogs; watch as the Working Dog Center staff explains the step-by-step process to preparing a dog to serve as in explosive detection, search & rescue, cancer detection, and more; 2 p.m.; Penn Working Dog Center; RSVP: pvwdcoutreach@vet.upenn.edu (Penn Vet).

20        Black Health + Wellness; come take a pause for wellness; 1 p.m.; room 208, ARCH; RSVP: sarcraig@upenn.edu (Makuu: The Black Cultural Center).

24        2023 Design Career Fair; career fair for students interested in the design field; 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; Houston Hall; info: https://careerservices.upenn.edu/career-fairs/ (Weitzman School, Career Services). Also February 28, noon-4 p.m.; virtual webinar on Handshake.

             Recruiting and Supporting Underrepresented Minority PhD Students; discussion on challenges and strategies in the recruitment of URM PhD students and supporting them in graduate study; 1:30 p.m.; Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall, and Zoom webinar; join: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/98620440148 (Center for Engineering MechanoBiology).

 

African American Resource Center

Locations TBA. Info: https://aarc.upenn.edu/events.

15        Women of Color at Penn Noon Lunch Series; noon.

16        Men of Color Monthly Huddle Meeting; 1 p.m.

24        Community Lunch Program: Open Forum with AARC and Penn Women’s Center; noon.

 

Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships

Unless noted, online events. Info: https://curf.upenn.edu/events.

7          Summer Humanities Internship Program (SHIP) Info Session; 11 a.m.

            PURM Information Session; 3 p.m. Also February 14, 1:30 p.m.; fireside room, ARCH.

15        Summer Humanities Internship Program (SHIP) Info Session; 4 p.m.; 1^st floor, 3539 Locust Walk.

            Careers in Cancer Research; 7 p.m.; Zoom webinar and multipurpose room, Gutmann College House.

17        Relax into Research; 1 p.m.; multipurpose room, Gutmann College House.

            Meet Recent Penn Rhodes, Marshall, and Fulbright Scholars as They Discuss "Learning from Failure"; 3 p.m.; room 242, Van Pelt Library.

22        Grant-Writing Workshop; 4 p.m.; room 242, Van Pelt Library.

 

College of Liberal and Professional Studies

Online webinars. Unless noted, info: www.upenn.edu/lps-events.

1          Master of Environmental Studies Virtual Information Session; noon.

2          Master of Science in Applied Geosciences Virtual Café; noon.

7          Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences Virtual Information Session; noon; info: https://lpsonline.sas.upenn.edu/events. Also February 21, 6 p.m.

            Master of Environmental Studies Virtual Café; noon.

8          Fels Institute of Government Virtual Information Session; noon.

15        Organizational Dynamics Virtual Information Session; noon.

            Pre-Health Post-Baccalaureate Programs Virtual Information Session; noon.

16        Master of Chemical Sciences Virtual Information Session; 5 p.m.

            Master of Liberal Arts Virtual Information Session; 7 p.m.

21        Master of Science in Applied Geosciences Virtual Information Session; noon.

 

Graduate School of Education

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

3          First Friday Virtual Info Sessions: International Educational Development Program; 12:30 p.m.

7          Executive Doctorate in Higher Education Management Information Session; 4 p.m.

16        Leading When the Context Is Chaos; noon.

23        Education Entrepreneurship Program Information Session; noon.

 

Human Resources Workshops

Unless noted, online webinars. Info and register: https://www.hr.upenn.edu/.

            Virtual Chair Yoga Plus Core; asynchronous recording available all month.

1          Express Workout: Deskercize; noon. Also February 15.

            6-Session Resilience and Well-Being Series; 12:30 p.m.

            Resilience and Well-Being Workshop: Resilience and Optimism; 12:30 p.m.

2          Workshop with PNC Bank: Building On Your Solid Financial Foundation - How Can I Put It To Work; noon.

            Emotional Wellness: Stick With It; 1 p.m.

3          30-Minute Guided Meditation; noon. Also February 10, 17, 24.

6          30-Minute Chair Yoga Plus Core; noon. Also February 13, 20, 27.

7          Financial Footsteps Part II with MetLife; noon.

            Adapting Your Leadership Style; 12:30 p.m.

8          Chair Yoga; noon. Also February 22.

9          Self-Compassion: Being Your Own Best Valentine; noon.

14        Indoor Monthly Wellness Walk - Go Red for Heart Health; meet at 11 a.m. at the Palestra.

            Raising Children with Disabilities: The Importance of Nutrition and Exercise; 1 p.m.

15        Resilience and Well-Being Workshop: Avoid Thinking Traps; 12:30 p.m.

            Strategies for Fostering Positive Attitudes and Embracing Change; 12:30 p.m.

            Caring for Aging Loved Ones: Brain Plus Heart Health Connection 12 Ways to Reduce Alzheimer's and Heart Disease Risk; 1 p.m.

16        Guided Mindful Meditation; noon.

            Student Loan 101 – Presented by Lovejoy; noon.

            Succeed at Work: Unconscious Bias; 1 p.m.

22        Confident Parenting: Raising Children to Respect Diversity; 1 p.m.

23        Your Healthy Lifestyle: Healthy Heart; 1 p.m.

28        Strengthening Your Relationships; 12:30 p.m.

 

Morris Arboretum

In-person events at Morris Arboretum. Info: https://www.morrisarboretum.org/.

4          Winter Wellness Walks; 10:30 a.m. Weekends.

            Garden Highlights Tour; 1 p.m. Weekends.

11        Bare Naked Trees Tour; 11 a.m. Also February 25.

16        Wildlife Ponds; John Janick, Good Host Plants Native Plant Nursery; 6-8 p.m.

 

Penn Libraries

Unless noted, online events. Info: https://www.library.upenn.edu/events.

            Support for Publishing; learn the ins and outs of the publishing process through a series of workshops covering citation management, impact metrics, promoting your work, selecting the right publishing venue, fair use, and more. Sessions throughout February.

2          Coffee with a Codex; Dot Porter, curator of the Kislak Center, hosts an informal Zoom meeting to present a manuscript from Penn’s collections; noon. Thursdays.

14        Douglass Day; a celebration of 19th-century Black achievement held annually on February 14, the day Frederick Douglass chose to celebrate his birthday; noon-3 p.m.; Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Van Pelt Library.

 

Penn Nursing

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

16        Penn Nursing & Project Knitwell - A Discussion of the Evolution of Knitting in Culture; 7 p.m.

17        Graduate Programs Virtual Open House; 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

22        The Ins & Outs of an Innovation Accelerator; noon.

3          Arcana New Music Ensemble: After Shiraz; an ode to the Shiraz Arts Festival, which brought together an array of contemporary classical and avant-garde composers from Europe and the United States from 1967 to 1977; 6:15 p.m.; Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Van Pelt Library; register: https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/calendar/kislak/arcana (Music).

 

Penn Live Arts

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

3          Sō Percussion & Caroline Shaw; Ms. Shaw’s faultless ear for melody and harmony pairs with Sō Percussion’s menagerie of instruments and techniques, offering a powerful program of Philadelphia premieres; 8 p.m.; Zellerbach Theater, Annenberg Center.

9          VOCES8; Britain’s VOCES8 take a cappella to the next level in their Penn Live Arts debut, featuring a diverse repertoire and charming stage presence; 7:30 p.m.; Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, 19 South 38th Street.

25        Ulysses Owens Jr. & Generation Y; debut Penn Live Arts performance by one of the most sought-after drummers of his generation; 8 p.m.; Harold Prince Theatre, Annenberg Center, and online livestream.

20        Step Afrika: Honoring Our Roots; Black History Month theater production featuring Penn performing arts groups; 6:30 p.m.; Irvine Auditorium; register: https://bit.ly/step-afrika-upenn (Makuu: The Black Cultural Center, Platt House).

 

Penn Live Arts

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

10        Martha Graham Dance Company; the most celebrated modern dance company in the U.S. returns to Penn Live Arts’ stage with a wondrous classic and two exciting Philadelphia premieres; 8 p.m.; Zellerbach Theatre, Annenberg Center. Also February 11, 2 and 7 p.m.

15        Negro Ensemble Company: Mecca is Burning; renowned Black theater group performs a world premiere play that examines our current social climate through the perspective of four Harlem families; 7:30 p.m.; Harold Prince Theatre, Annenberg Center. Also February 16, 7:30 p.m.; February 17, 8 p.m.; February 18, 2 and 8 p.m.

23        Wharton Follies: 21 Walnut Street; an original musical comedy parodying (and celebrating) the MBA experience, entirely written, produced and performed by students; 8 p.m.; Zellerbach Theater, Annenberg Center. Also February 24, 8 p.m.

2          Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy SEALs; David Philipps, The New York Times; 4 p.m.; Annenberg Public Policy Center; register: https://tinyurl.com/philipps-reading-feb-2 (Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law).

9         Book Launch: Fool Proof; Tess Wilkinson-Ryan, Carey Law School; noon; room 100, Golkin Hall; register: https://tinyurl.com/wilkinson-ryan-launch-feb-9 (Carey Law School).

           China Urbanizing: Book Talk and Panel Discussion; incudes discussion with editors Qin Gao and Weiping Wu, Columbia University; noon; online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/gao-wu-reading-feb-9 (Penn Institute of Urban Research).

16        Vernacular Law: Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France; Ada Kuskowski, history; noon; room 209, College Hall (History).

17        Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation; Sophie Lewis, GSWS; 3 p.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/lewis-reading-feb-17 (Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies).

22        Black Reconstructions: Archival Assembly and Histories of American Education; Jarvis Givens, Harvard University; 5 p.m.; room 329A, Max Cade Center, 3401 Walnut Street (Africana Studies).

23        The Case for Cancel Culture: How This Democratic Tool Works to Liberate Us All; Ernest Owen, C’14 and Ernest Media Empire; 5:30 p.m.; Penn Bookstore (Penn Bookstore).

27        The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media; Emily Hund, Center on Digital Culture and Society; noon; room 300, Annenberg School; register: https://tinyurl.com/hund-reading-feb-27 (Center on Digital Culture and Society).

28        Nation’s Metropolis; Royce Hanson and Harold Wolman, George Washington University; noon; online livestream; register: https://tinyurl.com/hanson-wolman-feb-28 (Penn Institute of Urban Research).

 

Kelly Writers House

Unless noted, hybrid events at Arts Café, Kelly Writers House, and YouTube livestream. Info: https://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/0223.php.

1          Beyond America's Racial Fault Line; Ben Jealous, politician; 6:30 p.m.

2          Poem Talk on June Jordan; noon.

7          Lucid Fiction Program; Ling Ma, author; 6 p.m.

8          Speakeasy Open Mic Night; 7:30 p.m.

9          Chili Cook-Off; 5:30 p.m.

13        Whenever We Feel Like It; Chris Martin, poet, and Adam Wolfond, author; 6 p.m.

14        Dance and the Poetics of Nothingness; Takahiro Yamamoto, choreographer, and Dahlia Li, English; 6 p.m.

15        Lunch with Playwright Cris Eli Blak; noon.

            A Conversation; John Hendrickson, The Atlantic; 6 p.m.

16        A Conversation; Michael Imperioli, actor, musician, director and producer; 6 p.m.

20        A Reading; Joan Retallack, poet and author; 6:30 p.m.

21        A Conversation; Joan Retallack, poet and author; 10 a.m.

22        Performance and Conversation; José Olivarez, author; 6 p.m.

27        Live at the Writers House; 6:30 p.m.; WXPN radio broadcast.

28        A Reading; Hoa Nguyen, poet; 6 p.m.

13        Kashmir Week; a week-long series of events to give a voice to the Kashmiri people, who have been subject to dispossessions throughout history; all day; rooms 108 and 208, ARCH; full schedule: https://tinyurl.com/kashmir-week-schedule (Radical South Asian Collaborative). Through February 17.

15        Plaintain Party; Black History Month event celebrating a favorite food of the African diaspora; 12:30 p.m.; fireside lounge, ARCH; RSVP: sarcraig@upenn.edu (Makuu: The Black Cultural Center).

28        Black History Celebration Closing Dinner; celebration with food that honors the African diaspora; 5 p.m.; room 108, ARCH (Makuu: The Black Cultural Center).

Home games only. Info and tickets: https://pennathletics.com/.

3          Men’s Tennis vs. Navy; 2 p.m.; Hecht/Hamlin Tennis Centers.

            Men’s Basketball vs. Columbia; 7 p.m.; the Palestra.

4          Women’s Tennis vs. LIU; noon; Hecht/Hamlin Tennis Centers.

            Men’s Squash vs. Princeton; noon; Penn Squash Center.

            Women’s Squash vs. Princeton; 1 p.m.; Penn Squash Center.

            Men’s Basketball vs. Cornell; 6 p.m.; the Palestra.

10        Women’s Squash vs. Virginia; 4 p.m.; Penn Squash Center.

            Wrestling vs. Princeton; 7 p.m.; the Palestra.

11        Women’s Basketball vs. Harvard; 2 p.m.; the Palestra.

12        Gymnastics vs. Towson/Ursinus/West Chester; 2 p.m.; the Palestra.

17        Women’s Squash hosts CSA National Team Championships (Howe Cup); all day; Penn Squash Center. Through February 19.

            Men’s Basketball vs. Yale; 7 p.m.; the Palestra.

18        Women’s Lacrosse vs. La Salle; 1 p.m.; Franklin Field.

            Men’s Basketball vs. Brown; 6 p.m.; the Palestra.

19        Wrestling vs. American; 1 p.m.; the Palestra.

22        Women’s Tennis vs. Villanova; 11:30 a.m.; Hecht/Hamlin Tennis Centers.

25        Men’s Lacrosse vs. Duke; 1 p.m.; Penn Park.

            Men’s Basketball vs. Dartmouth; 2 p.m.; the Palestra.

26        Men’s Tennis vs. William & Mary; 11 a.m.; Hecht/Hamlin Tennis Centers.

1          The Marriage of Logic and Learning: Will it Be a Happily Ever After? Jyotirmoy Deshmukh, University of Southern California; noon; room 307, Levine Hall and Zoom webinar; join: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96530544744 (Computer & Information Science).

            Dirty Books 2.0; Kate Rudy, Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies; 5:15 p.m.; Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Van Pelt Library (Penn Libraries).

            Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States; Randall Mason, Weitzman School of Design; 6 p.m.; Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum, and online webinar; tickets: $15/general, $10/member, $5/virtual; register: https://tinyurl.com/mason-talk-feb-1 (Penn Museum).

2          Among Women Across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War; Suzy Kim, Rutgers University; noon; location TBA (Korean Studies).

            The Muslim Difference: Defining the Line Between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present; Youshaa Patel, Lafayette College; 3:30 p.m.; room 237, Cohen Hall (Religious Studies).

            Role of the SWI/SNF Family Members Arid1a and Arid1b in Lung Epithelial Development; Daniel Swarr, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital; 4 p.m.; room 11-146, Smilow Center (Penn-CHOP Lung Biology Institute).

            Reconceptualizing Colonial Neo-Latin Epic; Joshua Hartman, Bowdoin College; 4:45 p.m.; room 402, Cohen Hall (Classical Studies).

3          Carbon, Water, and Life in the Oceanic Crust; Susan Lang, National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry; 3 p.m.; room 358, Hayden Hall (Earth & Environmental Science).

6          Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity; Lisa Berkman, Harvard University; Victor Mwapasa, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences; noon, room 150, McNeil Building, and Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/berkman-mwapasa-feb-6 (Population Studies Center).

7         Designing Interfacial Phenomena for Water, Energy, and Sustainability; Samantha McBride, Princeton University; 10 a.m.; Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics).

            Electrifying Nitrogen Splitting for Ammonia Synthesis; Alexander Miller, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; noon; Carolyn Hoff Lynch Lecture Hall, Chemistry Complex; noon (Chemistry).

            A Rediscovered Courbet Landscape at Penn; André Dombrowski, history of art; noon; online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/dombrowski-talk-feb-7 (Global Discovery Series).

            Demography and Infectious Disease; Jessica Metcalf, Princeton University; 4 p.m.; room 3C8, DRL, and Zoom webinar; join: https://tinyurl.com/metcalf-talk-feb-7 (Mathematics).

            The Future of the Indo-Pacific: Insight from the U.S. and Australian Militaries; Tony Bennett, U.S. Army War College; Joseph England, U.S. Army; Rachel Sullivan, civil affairs officer; 4 p.m.; Perry World House; register: https://tinyurl.com/pwh-talk-feb-7 (Perry World House).

            First Tuesday Equine Lecture Series: Subtle Signs of Stress: What to Look for and How to Help; Sue McDonnell, Penn Vet; 6:30 p.m.; online webinar; register: https://www.vet.upenn.edu/about/penn-vet-events-calendar (Penn Vet).

8         Navigating Competing Norms: Reflections from Conducting Behavioral Science Research in Global Health; Harsha Thirumurthy, medical ethics & health policy; noon; room B102AB, Richards Building, and Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/thirumurthy-talk-feb-8 (Medical Ethics & Health Policy).

            Between Starshine and Clay: Navigating Resistance and Building Partnerships Toward Criticality in Secondary English Language Arts; Chandra Alston, North Carolina State University; 12:15 p.m.; Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Van Pelt Library (Graduate School of Education).

            Ukrainian Journalists’ Experience and Self-Perception in Times of War; Dariya Orlova, National University of Kyiv; 12:15 p.m.; room 300, Annenberg School (Center for Media at Risk).

            Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage; Jennifer Eun-Jung Row, University of Minnesota; 3:30 p.m.; room 344, Fisher-Bennett Hall (Grnder, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies).

            What Can Be the Fixed-Point Set of Which Groups Acting on What Spaces?; Sylvain Cappell, New York University; 3:45 p.m.; room A4, DRL (Mathematics).

           The '60s at Sixty: Protest Poetry Takes Center Stage; Herman Beavers, English; Karen Brown, Negro Ensemble Company; Cris Eli Blak, State University of New York; 4:30 p.m.; online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/beavers-brown-blak-feb-8 (Inspiring Impact Virtual Series).

            Ranking Legal Scholarship; Amanda Watson, University of Houston; 5:30 p.m.; room 240A, Silverman Hall; register: https://tinyurl.com/watson-talk-feb-8 (Carey Law School).

9         Intelligentsia of Nano-Architected Hierarchical Materials; Julia Greer, California Institute of Technology; 10:30 a.m.; Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (Materials Science & Engineering).

           Scorecards, Benchmarking, and the Search for Unusual Hospitals, Communities, and Cops; Greg Ridgeway, criminology and statistics; noon; Zoom webinar; info: mailto:pasef@pobox.upenn.edu (Penn Association for Senior & Emeritus Faculty).

            The Shape of Time: Korean Art After 1989; Hyunsoo Woo and Elisabeth Agro, Philadelphia Museum of Art; noon; room 623, Williams Hall (Korean Studies).

            Combining Causal and Joint Modeling Methods to Address Practical Issues in HIV Clinical Trials; Byan Blette, DBEI; 2 p.m.; room 701, Blockley Hall (Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics).

            Software Security Challenges in the Era of Modern Hardware; Riccardo Paccagnella, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; 3:30 p.m.; Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (Computer & Information Science).

            Context Dependent Switch in Fibroblast Function; Anne Karina Perl, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital; 4 p.m.; room 11-146, Smilow Center (Penn-CHOP Lung Biology Institute).

            Leveraging Evolutionary Mismatches to Study Gene-by-Environment Interactions; Julien Ayroles, Princeton University; 4 p.m.; Tedori Auditorium, Levin Building, and Zoom webinar; join: https://tinyurl.com/ayroles-talk-feb-9 (Biology).

            Mettle, Metal, and Medal or Autotheorizing Contemporary Classical Scholarship; Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Brown University; 4:45 p.m.; room 402, Cohen Hall (Classical Studies).

            Origins and Epistemes; Paul Galvez, University of Texas, Dallas; 5:30 p.m.; Arthur Ross Gallery, Fisher Fine Arts Library (Arthur Ross Gallery).

            Dinner & Career Talk; Kalyne Coleman, TV and stage actor; 6 p.m.; room 208, ARCH; RSVP: https://bit.ly/kalyne-at-penn (Makuu).

            Fels Public Policy in Practice Speaker Series; Joseph Pierce, state director for U.S. Senator John Fetterman; 6 p.m.; online webinar; register: https://www.fels.upenn.edu/events/ppp-speaker-series-joseph-pierce (Fels Institute of Government).

10        How to Optimize the Opioid Settlements; panel of speakers; noon; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/ldi-talk-feb-10 (Leonard Davis Institute).

            The Role of Media In Interpreting Election Outcomes, And How To Improve It; John Lapinski and Diana Mutz, political science; 12:15 p.m.; room 500, Annenberg School, and Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/lapinski-mutz-feb-10 (Annenberg School).

            Executive Leadership Dialogue; Dayle Steinberg, Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania; 12:30 p.m.; location TBA; info: https://www.fels.upenn.edu/events-eld/dayle-steinberg (Fels Institute of Government).

            Xi Jinping’s Power Concentration and Implications for Chinese Foreign Policy; Suisheng Zhao, University of Denver; 12:30 p.m.; room 418, PCPSE (Center for the Study of Contemporary China).

            Building and Using Virtual Models of the Tricuspid Valve Toward Better Understanding, Diagnosis, and Treatment of its Diseases; Manuel Rausch, University of Texas at Austin; 2 p.m.; room 534, 3401 Walnut Street (Penn Institute for Computational Science).

            Quantitative Constraints on Earth's Past Climate from Inert Gases in Ice; Sarah Shackleton, Higgins Research Laboratory; 3 p.m.; room 358, Hayden Hall (Earth & Environmental Science).

            The Limoges Champlevé Enamel Industry: Hierarchies of Power and Taste; Ryan Eisenman, history of art; 3:30 p.m.; room B3, Meyerson Hall (History of Art).

            Animism and Underdevelopment in One Hundred Years of Solitude; Hector Hoyos, Stanford University; 4:30 p.m.; room 543, Williams Hall (Spanish & Portuguese).

13        When Does a Pandemic End? Bounding COVID-19 Through Rapid Response Collecting; Frances Corry, University of Pittsburgh; noon; room 108, Annenberg School; register: https://tinyurl.com/corry-talk-feb-13 (Center on Digital Culture and Society).

            Multidimensional Immunoengineering Approaches to Enhanced Cancer Immunotherapy; Li Tang, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; 1 p.m.; room 225, Towne Building, and Zoom webinar; info: manu@seas.upenn.edu (Physical Sciences Oncology Center).

            Language Experience Drives Language Understanding; Duane Watson, Vanderbilt University; 3:30 p.m.; auditorium, Levin Building (Psychology).

14       Painted Valentines: The Artful Love Affair Between Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg; Jonathan Katz, history of art; noon; Café 58, Irvine Auditorium (Knowledge By the Slice).

            Targeting Signaling Vulnerabilities in Uveal and Cutaneous Melanoma: New Multimodal Precision Therapies; J. Silvio Gutkind, University of California San Diego; noon; Caplan Auditorium, Wistar Institute; RSVP: djohnson@wistar.org (Wistar Institute).

            Decarbonizing Cities with Smart City Technologies in Korea; Albert Tonghoon Han, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; 1 p.m.; Kleinman Forum, Fisher Fine Arts Library; register: https://tinyurl.com/han-talk-feb-14 (City & Regional Planning).

            Schooling Against the Prison: Education Policy in the Age of Incarceration; Marc Lamont Hill, Temple University; 4 p.m.; Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall; register: https://forms.office.com/r/w8KC31fCiJ (SP2).

            The Noomechanics of Theater: Brecht and Tret’iakov; Devin Fore, Princeton University; 5 p.m.; room 543, Williams Hall (Germanic Languages & Literatures).

15        Decision-Aware Learning for Global Health Supply Chains; Osbert Bastani, computer & information science; noon; room 307, Levine Hall and Zoom webinar; join: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/94822127061 (Computer & Information Science).

             GSWS Graduate Research Colloquium; Grading Progress: Secondary Schoolboys’ Perspectives on Gender and Inequalities in Sierra Leone by Christiana Kallon Kelly, GSE, and  “It Said the Quiet Part Out Loud”: Gendered Shame-As-Discipline in the Teaching Hospital by Penelope Lusk, GSE; noon; room 345, Fisher-Bennett Hall (Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies).

            Spaghetti Westerns and Soundsystems: Black and Chinese Reggae Media Infrastructures in Rural Jamaica; Tao Leigh Goffe, Cornell University; noon; room 330, Fisher-Bennett Hall (Cinema & Media Studies).

            A New Phase of Biological Controls: A Design Framework for Programmable Synthetic Biomolecular Condensates and the Mechanisms of a Functional Liquid-Liquid Interface; Yifan Dai, Duke University; 3:30 p.m.; Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering).

            Even the Bread Was White: Race, Space, and the Transformation of Fast Food Over the 20th Century; Naa Oyo Kwate, Rutgers University; 4 p.m.; online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/kwate-talk-feb-15 (Nursing).

            The Latest Insurrection: Brazilian Right-Wing Populism and its Implications; Mariana Felix de Quadros, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and John French, Duke University; 4 p.m.; World Forum, Perry World House; register: https://tinyurl.com/quadros-french-feb-15 (Perry World House).

            Dental Management Strategies for Individuals with Cerebral Palsy; Robert William Frare, dentist; 5:30 p.m.; online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/frare-talk-feb-15 (Penn Dental Medicine).

            Public Opinion After Islamic State: The Arab Barometer Project and the Remaking of Heritage in Mosul and Aleppo; Amaney Jamal and Michael Robbins, Arab Barometer; 5:30 p.m.; Kislak Center, Van Pelt Library (Middle East Center, Wolf Humanities Center).

16        Asian Urbanism; Eugenie Birch, urban studies; Randall Mason, historic preservation; Nancy Steinhardt, Penn Museum; noon; room B4, Meyerson Hall; register: https://tinyurl.com/mason-steinhardt-feb-16 (Historic Preservation).

            Dopamine Levels Induced by Substances of Misuse Enhance HIV Infection in Macrophages; Peter Gaskill, Drexel University; noon; Zoom webinar; info: https://www.dental.upenn.edu/news-events/events/ (Penn Dental).

            Epigenetic Regulation of Lung Morphogenesis; Derek Liberti, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; noon; room 213, Stemmler Hall (Penn-CHOP Lung Biology Institute).

           The Evolution of Sleep Loss in Mexican Cavefish; Alex Keene, Texas A&M University; 4 p.m.; Tedori Auditorium, Levin Building (Biology).

            Making Technologies Emerge: Commercialized Military Power Since 1945; Susan Lindee, history & sociology of science; Rebecca Slayton, Cornell University; Melissa Flagg, Perry World House; 4:30 p.m.; Perry World House (Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy).

            Dance as History in the Roman Provinces; Felipe Rojas, Brown University; 4:45 p.m.; room 402, Cohen Hall (Classical Studies).

            The Aesthetics of Being; Sara Zewde, Studio Zewde; 6 p.m.; room B3, Meyerson Hall (Landscape Architecture).

17        Understanding the Utility of Haptic Feedback in Telerobotic Devices; Jeremy Brown, Johns Hopkins University; 10:30 a.m.; Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (GRASP Lab).

            Penn Alumni Water Forum Speaker Spotlight; Andrea Cheng, City of Chicago Water Management; Neal Jain, Spins, Inc.; noon; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/cheng-jain-feb-17 (Water Center).

            Doing High-Quality Qualitative Research: A Practical Guide; Annette Lareau, sociology; 12:30 p.m.; Spady Room, Fox-Fels Hall, and Zoom webinar; info: bbowden@upenn.edu (Graduate School of Education).

            Walking the (Respondentia) Walk: Instruments for Trade Finance in the Early Modern Global Economy; Alejandra Irigoin, London School of Economics; 2 p.m.; room 209, College Hall (History).

            Our Evolving Understanding of the Flow, Deformation, and Fracture of Glacier Ice; Brent Minchew, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 3 p.m.; room 358, Hayden Hall (Earth & Environmental Science).

            Black Like Me: A Case for Nigerian Collegians; Ifeyinwa Anugom, Delta Air Lines; 7 p.m.; multipurpose room, DuBois College House (Makuu: The Black Cultural Center).

18        A Fireside Chat: Culture, Career, and Family: A Daughter of Nigerian Immigrants’ Perspective; Amalia Dache, Graduate School of Education; Ifeyinwa Anugom, Delta Air Lines; 11 a.m.; multipurpose room, DuBois College House (Makuu: The Black Cultural Center).

20        Goodbye Norway: Testing Neoclassical Versus Other Theories of Emigration; Amelie Constant, Population Studies Center; noon; room 150, McNeil Building (Population Studies Center).

            Engineered CRISPR Systems for Disease Treatment and Diagnostics; Xue Sherry Gao, Rice University; 1 p.m.; Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering).

21        Leveraging Unsteady Flows for Enhanced Performance in Wind-Energy Systems; Nathaniel Wei, California Institute of Technology; 10 a.m.; Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics).

            Designing Organic Photoswitches for the Optically-Controlled Phase Transition and a Sustainable Future; Grace Han, Brandeis University; noon; Carolyn Hoff Lynch Lecture Hall, Chemistry Complex; noon (Chemistry).

            Structural Determinants of (Unequal) Exposure to Injury and Violence; Sara Jacoby, Nursing; noon; room 1402, Blockley Hall, and Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/jacoby-talk-feb-21 (Deans’ Distinguished Visiting Professorship Seminar; Medical Ethics & Health Policy).

            In Pursuit of Entanglement: XXZ Interactions for Spin-Squeezing in Atomic and Solid-State Spin Ensembles; Emily Davis, University of California Berkeley; 12:30 p.m.; room 225, Towne Building (Electrical & Systems Engineering).

            Japan’s New Geopolitics in a Post-Abe World; Mikio Mori, Consulate General of Japan in New York; Nobukatsu Kanehara, former chief cabinet secretary to Prime Minister Abe; Frederick Dickinson, history; 4 p.m.; World Forum, Perry World House; register: https://tinyurl.com/pwh-talk-feb-21 (Perry World House).

            Listening Incommensurably: Sounding “Out” and Queer Taiwanese Toronto’s Multiple Sexual Modernities; Yun Emily Wang, Duke University; 5:15 p.m.; room 101, Lerner Center, and Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/wang-talk-feb-21 (Music).

22        Model-Robust and Efficient Covariate Adjustment for Cluster-Randomized Trials; Bingkai Wang, Wharton; 11 a.m.; Brian L. Strom Conference Room, Blockley Hall; (Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics).

            Agile Regulation: Governance in a Changing World; panel of speakers; noon; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/ppr-talk-feb-22 (Penn Program on Regulation).

            Ethical Approaches to Documentary Filmmaking; Olena Lysenko, Ukrainian documentary filmmaker; 12:15 p.m.; room 300, Annenberg School (Center for Media at Risk).

            Seeing 3D with Polarized Light; Jinwei Ye, George Mason University; room 307, Levine Hall, and Zoom webinar; join: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/98723817934 (GRASP Lab).

            Developing Strategies for Polymer Redesign and Recycling Using Reaction Pathway Analysis; Linda Broadbelt, Northwestern University; 3:30 p.m.; Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering).

            Stability of Planar Fronts of the Bidomain Allen-Cahn Equation; Yoichiro Mori, mathematics; 3:45 p.m.; room A2, DRL (Mathematics).

            Negotiating Passions: On Film, Literature, and Perlocutionary Responsibility; Daniele Lorenzini, philosophy; 5:15 p.m.; room 543, Williams Hall (French & Francophone Studies).  

23       Mechanics for Energy Sustainability: From Fatigue of 2D Materials to Dendrites in Solid-state Batteries; Teng Cui, Stanford University; 10 a.m.; Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology (Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics).

            The Arta Polyandrion: Recreating Memory in the Landscape; Jeremy McInerney, classical studies; noon; Zoom webinar; register: https://webapps.unitn.it/form/it/Web/Application/convegni/spacezoom (Classical Studies).

            Good News and Bad News: International Law, Public Opinion, and Human Security; Charli Carpenter, University of Massachusetts Amherst; noon; forum, PCPSE (Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics).

            Shamanic Chant and Contemporary Korean Elegy: Kim Hyesoon's "Autobiography of Death;" Ivanna Sang Een Yi, Cornell University; noon; room 623, Williams Hall (Korean Studies).

            Engineering Tissues and Transducers for Future Bionics; Subramanian Sundaram, Boston University and Harvard University; 12:30 p.m.; room 225, Towne Building (Bioengineering; Electrical & Systems Engineering).

            Mechanisms of Injury Response in Distal Lung Epithelium; Jaymin Kathiriya, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai; 4 p.m.; room 11-146, Smilow Center (Penn-CHOP Lung Biology Institute).

            Regulation and Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity: Insights from Horned Beetles and Predatory Nematodes; Sofia Casasa, Boston University; 4 p.m.; Tedori Family Auditorium, Levin Building (Biology).

            The Inaugural W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture in Public Social Science; Brent Staples, The New York Times; 5 p.m.; room 110, Annenberg School, and online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/staples-talk-feb-23 (Annenberg School).

            Transitions from Jail/Prison to the Community; Carrie Langley, University of Arizona; John Pace, Sentencing Project; 6 p.m.; Zoom webinar; join: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/92015121264 (Nursing).

24       Robots that Learn and Adapt; Jitendra Malik, University of California Berkeley; 10:30 a.m.; Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (GRASP Lab).

            Elizabeth Fee, Illustrated: Encountering Her Through Art and Manuscripts in the Fee Papers; Kelin Baldridge, Kislak Center; noon; online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/baldridge-talk-feb-24 (Penn Libraries).

            Message Fatigue and Uptake of COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters in the U.S.; Xiaoquan Zhao, George Mason University; noon; room 500, Annenberg School, and Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/zhao-talk-feb-24 (Annenberg School Elihu Katz Colloquium).

            Penn Grad Talks; Penn SAs grad students give TED Talk-style talks; noon-3 p.m.; Widener Lecture Hall, Penn Museum; info: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/penn-grad-talks (School of Arts and Sciences).

            A Bad Commute: Does Travel Time to Work Predict Teacher and Leader Turnover and Other Workplace Outcomes?; Jason Grissom, Vanderbilt University; 12:30 p.m.; Spady Room, Fox-Fels Hall, and Zoom webinar; info: bbowden@upenn.edu (Graduate School of Education).

            The Vulgairty of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India; Shailaja Paik, University of Cincinnati; 4 p.m.; Meyerson Conference Room, Van Pelt Library (South Asia Center).

27       Intergenerational Inequality: Biocultural Pathways in Infancy; Elizabeth Holdsworth, Washington State University; noon; room 345, Penn Museum (Anthropology).

            The Unequal Battle Against Infertility: Theory and Evidence from IVF Success and Drop-Out Rates; Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis, economics; noon; room 150, McNeil Building (Population Studies Center).

            Wright Saving Wright: Preserving Robie 1957 and Beyond; Daniel Bluestone, Boston University; noon; Kleinman Forum, Fisher Fine Arts Library (Historic Preservation).

            Mechanical Checkpoint of Monocyte Fate in Viscoelastic Extracellular Matrix; Kyle Vining, Penn Dental Medicine; 1 p.m.; room 225, Towne Building, and Zoom webinar; info: manu@seas.upenn.edu (Physical Sciences Oncology Center).

            From Congress to the Vatican: The Promotion of Maternal-Fetal Surgery & Perinatal Palliative Care as Alternatives to Abortion Care; Abigail Wilpers, Nursing; 3 p.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/wilpers-talk-feb-27 (Nursing; Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies).

            Who Hears Hear? Black Music; Guy Ramsey, music; 6 p.m.; room 108/109, ARCH (Makuu: The Black Cultural Center).

28       Solid Interfaces in Electrochemical Devices; Victor Venturi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 10 a.m.; Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall (Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics).

           Achieving Health Equity Requires Ending Mass Incarceration; Emily Wang, Yale University; noon; auditorium, Colonial Penn Center, and Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/wang-talk-feb-28 (Leonard Davis Institute).

            Does Race Theory Rest on a Mistake?; Quayshawn Spencer, philosophy; noon; room 1402, Blockley Hall, and Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/spencer-talk-feb-28 (Medical Ethics & Health Policy).

            Rules Toward Molecular Cavity Polaritonics; Aaron Rury, Wayne State University; noon; Carol Lynch Lecture Hall, Chemistry Complex (Chemistry).

            Why Does Merkel Cell Polyomavirus Cause the Neuroendocrine Merkel Cell Carcinoma? James DeCaprio, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; noon; Caplan Auditorium, Wistar Institute; RSVP: djohnson@wistar.org (Wistar Institute).

            An Architect’s Perspective on Quantum Computer Scaling: Why, What, and How?; Kaitlin Smith, super.tech; 12:30 p.m.; room 225, Towne Building (Electrical & Systems Engineering).

            Proposals for Peace on the Korean Peninsula (한반도 평화를 위한 제안); Lee Nakyon, former Prime Minister of South Korea; 3 p.m.; auditorium, PCPSE (Korean Studies).

 

Anthropology

In-person events at room 345, Penn Museum. Info: https://anthropology.sas.upenn.edu/events.

6          (Re)emergent Legionnaires’ Disease: Water Supply Systems, Infrastructural Violence, and Afflicted Lives in the South Bronx, NY; Eduardo Piqueiras, University of California Los Angeles; noon.

8          Human Remains: Entangling Epistemology, Ontology, and Ethics; Pamela Geller, University of Miami; noon.

13        The Connector: An Anthropology of Experimental Neuroprosthetic Science and its Bodies and Homes; Alexandra Middleton, Lund University; noon.

15        Scientific Annotation and Redaction: Towards a Black Feminist Methodological Ethics for Bioanthropology; Rachel Watkins, American University; noon.

 

Asian American Studies

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

6          American Race: A Philadelphia Story - Media and Race; Maori Holmes, BlackStar; 2 p.m.; room 216, Fagin Hall.

8          The Third Space: Unfurling Diasporic Arts of South Asia; Aisha Khan, New York University; noon; room 473, McNeil Building.

13        American Race: A Philadelphia Story - Race and Immigration; Naw Doh, Burmese/Bhutanese community activist; 1:30 p.m.; room 216, Fagin Hall.

20        American Race: A Philadelphia Story - Labor and Race; Jennifer Lee, Temple University; 2 p.m.; room 216, Fagin Hall.

            Asian America Across the Disciplines; Sam Mihara, University of California, Los Angeles; 6 p.m.; room 208, ARCH.

22        The Third Space: Unfurling Diasporic Arts of South Asia; Ruby Chishti, artist; 4:30 p.m.; room 108, ARCH.

27        American Race: A Philadelphia Story - Race and Food; Noelle Warford, Urban Tree Connection; Duong Ly and Lan Dinh, VietLead; noon; room 216, Fagin Hall.

 

Center for East Asian Studies

Unless noted, in-person events at room 231, Fisher-Bennett Hall. Info: https://ceas.sas.upenn.edu/events.

6          Voters, Candidates, and Gender Representation in Japan; Daniel Smith, Columbia University; 5:15 p.m.

9          Higher Education, Elite Formation and Social Stratification: Recruitment of College Students into the Chinese Communist Party; Xiaogang Wu, NYU Shanghai; 5:15 p.m.

20        The Politics of Security in East Asia; Nobukatsu Kanehara, former chief cabinet secretary to Prime Minister Abe; noon.; location TBA.

23        Rocks and Bugs: Developmentalism and the Environment in Early Twentieth Century China; Stephen Halsey, University of Miami; 5:15 p.m.

28        Alternative Indigeneities: Human Life in the Multiethnic Vietnamese Empire; Bradley Camp Davis, Eastern Connecticut State University; 5:15 p.m.; room 200, PCPSE.

 

Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies

Unless noted, hybrid events at room 473, McNeil Building, and Zoom webinars. Info: https://clals.sas.upenn.edu/events.

7          Fictions of the Museum: Memory and Cultural Heritage in the 21st-Century Latin American Novel; Jorge Téllez, Spanish and Portuguese; noon.

9          Sedimented Stories: Fluvial Forces and Natural Archives in an Unstable World; Alejandro Camargo, Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia; 4 p.m.

14        Comparative Politics Workshop; Gabriel Ondetti, Missouri State University; noon; forum, PCPSE.

21        Emotions and Collective Memory. A Panic Attack in Quito in 1815; Juan Pablo Ardila, CLALS; noon.

24        Interculturality as Cultural Justice in Peruvian Universities; Luis Martín Valdiviezo, Harvard University; noon.

 

Computer & Information Science

Unless noted, in-person events in Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall. Info: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/events/.

14        Rethinking System Design for Expressive Cryptography; Sam Kumar, University of California, Berkeley; 3:30 p.m.

15        Methods of Data Lookup with Hashing; Ethan Ordentlich, University of California, Berkeley; 1:30 p.m.; room 307, Levine Hall.

16        Birds of a Feather Flock Together: How Homophily Leads to Segregation, Inequality, and Inefficiency and What We Can Do About It; Nicole Immorlica, Microsoft; 3:30 p.m.

21        Secure Computation with Minimal Interaction; Akshayaram Srinivasan, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai; 3:30 p.m.

23        Cryptography, Security, and Law; Sunoo Park, Columbia University; 3:30 p.m.

28        Privacy-Preserving Accountability Online; Nirvan Tyagi, Cornell University; 3:30 p.m.

 

Economics

In-person events at room 101, PCPSE. Info: https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/events.

1          Why Don’t Poor Families Move? A Spatial Equilibrium Analysis of Parental Decisions with Social Learning; Suzanne Bellue, Mannheim University; 4 p.m.

3          How Competition Shapes Information in Auctions; Agathe Pernoud, Stanford University; 4 p.m.

6          Upgrade or Migrate: The Consequences of Input Subsidies on Household Labor Allocation; Binta Zahra Diop, University of Oxford; 4 p.m.

7          Spatial Mobility, Sorting, and Inequality in Higher Education; Anais Fabre, Toulouse School of Economics; noon.

            Redistribution Through Agricultural Interventions in India; Sagar Saxena, Harvard University; 4 p.m.

8          The Pass-Through of Productivity Shocks to Wages and the Cyclical Competition for Workers; Martin Souchier, Stanford University; 4 p.m.

9          Consumer Search and Firm Location: Theory and Evidence from the Garment Sector in Uganda; Anna Vitali, University of College London; 4 p.m.

10        Monopsony and Gender; Garima Sharma, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 3:30 p.m.

14        Non-Price Competition and Risk Selection Through Hospital Networks; Natalia Serna, University of Wisconsin; 4 p.m.

15        Long-Term Relationships and the Spot Market: Evidence from U.S. Trucking; Thi Mai Anh Nguyen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 4 p.m.

17        Adam Smith and Sympathetic Individualism; Maria Pia Paganelli, Trinity University; 4 p.m.

20        How Can I Know How Much I Like You? Valuation and V-stability for Matching Markets with Incomplete Information; Laure Goursat, Paris School of Economics; noon; room 203, PCPSE.

21        Dynamic Price Competition: Theory and Evidence from Airline Markets; Aniko Öry, Yale University; 4 p.m.

23        Identification and Estimation of Continuous-Time Job Search Models with Preference Shocks; Arnaud Maurel, Duke University; 3:30 p.m.

27        Competing Narratives in Action: Belief Cycles Throughout the Pandemic; Ricardo Serrano-Padial, Drexel University; noon; room 203, PCPSE.

28        Advisors with Hidden Motives; Paula Onuchic, Nuffield College, Oxford University; 4 p.m.

            Returns to Pre-College Investments: The Case of Advanced Placement; Cung Truong Hoang, economics; 12:30 p.m.

 

GRASP Lab

Hybrid events in various locations and Zoom webinars. Info: https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/.

7          Augmented Reality Glasses: A 50-Year Adventure; Henry Fuchs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; 3 p.m.; room 225, Towne Building.

8          System Resilience and Guaranteed Performance in the Face of Unexpected Adversity; Melkior Ornik, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; 3 p.m.; room 307, Levine Hall.

10        Academic Research: Exploration vs Exploitation; Rodney Brooks, Robust.AI; 10:30 a.m.; Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall.

 

Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

Online webinars. Info: https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/events.

7          Disproportional Representation and the Myth of the Shyster; Britt Tevis, Katz Center; noon.

8          The Sassoons’ Philanthropy: The Interaction of Politics, Business, and Charity; Joseph Sassoon, Georgetown University; noon.

14        Church State Corporation: How the Church-in-Law Limits Religious Freedom; Winni Sullivan, Indiana University Bloomington; noon.

21        Does the First Amendment Protect Jewish Objections to Abortion Bans? Anne Dailey, University of Connecticut; noon.

22        Herodian Jerusalem; Jodi Magness, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; noon.

28        Redefining Parenthood; Avishalom Westreich, College of Law and Business, Israel; noon.

 

Microbiology

Hybrid events at Austrian Auditorium, CRB, and BlueJeans webinars. Register: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/xqbzwhrb.

1          Mosquito Megacytes Mediate Immunity Against Plasmodium and Viruses; Carolina Barillas-Mury, National Institutes of Health; noon.

8          Viral Exploitations of the Host - From Cell Biology to Coinfection; Tiffany Reese, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; noon.

15        Salmonella Infection as a Neglected Tropical Disease; Renee Tsolis, University of California, Davis; noon.

 

Penn Dental

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

7          Oral Health as a Window on Your Overall Health: The Problem of Integrating Oral Health Services into the Health System; Angus Corbett, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Alicia Risner-Bauman, Care Center for Persons With Disabilities; 5:30 p.m.

9          Comparing Neural and Structural Drivers of In Vivo Bite Force Production; Myra Laird, basic & translational sciences; noon.

10        Granulomatous Disease in Veterinary Oral Medicine; Jamie Anderson, dentist; noon.

13        Roots of Wisdom; Lisa Askie, University of Sydney; 5:30 p.m.

 

Sociology

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

3          The Role of Non-State Actors in Education Globally: Conceptualization, Trends and Evidence; Priyadarshani Joshi, UNESCO; noon.

10        Learning and Unlearning Race: How Cross-Boundary Relationships Influence East Asian Women’s Conceptualizations of Racial Difference; Olivia Hu, sociology; noon.

13        A Tale of Two Racisms: Exclusion and Exploitation in U.S. Public Education, 1966-1970; Ashleigh Cartwright, sociology; 10 a.m.

15        The Role of Organizational Policies and Practices in Hiring Discrimination; David Pedulla, Harvard University; noon; room 150, McNeil Building.

20        Varieties of Capitalism and Income Inequality; Masoud Movahed, sociology; 10 a.m.

            Causal Mediation Analysis; Nick Graetz, Princeton University; 2 p.m.

22        The Nonlinear and Heterogeneous Effects of Parental Income on Children's Educational Attainment; Ian Lundberg, Cornell University; noon; room 150, McNeil Building.

27        The Effects of Repeated Exposure to Climate Disasters on Child Health: Evidence from Indonesia; Jaclyn Yap, Population Studies Center; 10 a.m.

            Polynomial Regression with Response Surface Analysis; Kuo Zhao, Renmin University of China; 2 p.m.

28        Anti-Asian Discrimination Two Years into The Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Survey Experiments; Yao Lu, Columbia University; noon; Zoom webinar.

 

Workshop in the History of Material Texts

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

6          “Preserved as a Relic”: What Happened to Edwin Forrest’s Burned First Folio? Zachary Lesser and Whitney Trettien, English; 5:15 p.m.

13        Adalbert Stifter and Pantheon Illustrated Editions; Vance Byrd, Germanic languages and literatures; 5:15 p.m.

20        Talking Back to the Philosophes: The Case of Claude-Rigobert Lefebvre de Beauvray; David Bell, Princeton University; 5:15 p.m.

27        A Scripture-Centered Practice of Jewish Material Devotion in Medieval Spain and Its Cultural Setting; Talya Fishman, history; 5:15 p.m.