at penn Calendar March 2022
Print Calendar At Penn Deadlines Download latest month's PDF5 Spring Term Break. Through March 13.
14 Classes resume.
18 Grade type change deadline.
28 Last day to withdraw from a course.
Penn Museum
Online events. Info: https://www.penn.museum/calendar.
1 Global Voyagers: Journey Around the World; 11 a.m.
8 At-Home Anthro Live: Holi: A Carnival of Colors; 1 p.m.
15 At-Home Anthro Live: Celebrate the Spring Equinox; 1 p.m.
18 Virtual Passport Day: Celebrate Across Asia; 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
22 At-Home Anthro Live: Star Navigation; 1 p.m.
29 At-Home Anthro Live: Can Trees Be Calendars?; 1 p.m.
3 Unseen Struggles: Women’s Rights in the Criminal Justice System; includes four panels examining the various hurdles that women—particularly women of color—face during, and after, incarceration; 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Zoom webinars; register: https://tinyurl.com/law-conference-mar-3 (Carey Law School; Journal of Law & Public Affairs).
17 Ninth Annual Penn Law Entertainment and Sports Law Symposium; exploring cutting-edge topics in entertainment and sports law in a rapidly changing environment for both; 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; room 100, Golkin Hall, and Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/esls-symposium-2022 (Penn Carey Law School).
18 46th Penn Linguistic Conference; series of presentations on Sociophonetics and Human-computer Interactions, including a keynote by Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh; all day; online event; info: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/events/2022/03/18/46th-penn-linguistic-conference (Linguistics). Through March 20.
Latinx Community Contributions in American Legal Culture; 25th annual conference of the Latinx Law Students Association (LALSA); all day; location TBA; info: lalsa.penn@gmail.com (LALSA). Through March 19.
19 ASAM 25th Anniversary: Visualizing Asian American Futures; celebration of Penn’s Asian American Studies program, featuring keynote by Cathy Park Hong, author, and several panels including ASAM alumni; 11 am.-4 p.m.; The Study at University City; 20 S 33rd Street; register for conference: https://bit.ly/asam25conference; register for conference and reception: https://bit.ly/asam25celebration (Asian American Studies).
23 Financing Urban Adaptation to Address Climate Change; will highlight the implementation and financing of subnational programs and projects designed to adapt to global warming-induced hazards that threaten urban lives and livelihoods; 8:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m.; online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/iur-conf-mar-23 (Penn Institute for Urban Research). Also March 24, 8:30 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
Women in STEM 2022; focuses on the intersectionality between emotional wellness and success, featuring a keynote by Maria Oquendo, psychiatry; noon-2 p.m.; online event; register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-in-stem-2022-tickets-262072173927 (Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Programs).
24 Women of Color in Higher Education Summit; seeks to unite and strengthen networks and form mentorships for the Penn GSE and SP2 community of both women of color and non-binary people of color; 3-7 p.m.; Houston Hall; register: https://tinyurl.com/gse-conf-mar-24 (Graduate School of Education).
25 Migrant Subjects Across & Within; brings together undergraduate students from across the humanities and beyond to explore various research topics; 9 a.m.-2:15 p.m.; room 623, Williams Hall (Wolf Humanities Center).
Privacy & Law in the Modern Age: An ACS Symposium; will feature panels by leading privacy experts and scholars, including special guest Sheldon Whitehouse, U.S. Senator; 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m.; in-person; register: https://acsprivacysymposium.eventbrite.com (Carey Law School).
America 250 at Penn: Teaching Independence; will consider the challenges of teaching the Declaration of Independence, the history of the American Revolution, and the nation's founding, in the 21st century; 3 p.m.; location TBA; info: https://tinyurl.com/libraries-conference-march-25 (Penn Libraries, McNeil Center, GSE, Museum of the American Revolution). Also March 26, all day.
26 Hermogenes and Hellenistic-Roman Temple Building in Greece and Asia Minor: Messon – Teos – Magnesia – Sardis; brings together specialists from Turkey, Greece, and the U.S. in order to contextualize this renewed attention on Hermogenes in view of current research on temple architecture in both Greece and Turkey; 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Widener Lecture Hall, Penn Museum, and Zoom webinar; join: https://tinyurl.com/art-history-conf-mar-24 (History of Art).
30 Health Law and Anti-Racism: Reckoning and Response; will explore the dual nature of health law, with attention to policing, industry, the environment, and diverse inclusion in research; 12:30-6:30 p.m.; World Forum, Perry World House, and Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/mehp-conference-mar-30 (Medical Ethics & Health Policy).
Museums Near Campus
For up-to-date information about, exhibits, prices, hours and COVID-19 restrictions for several museums on and near Penn’s campus, visit these websites.
Arthur Ross Gallery: http://www.arthurrossgallery.org/visit/schedule-your-visit/
Brodsky Gallery: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/involved/series/brodskygallery/
Esther Klein Gallery: https://sciencecenter.org/discover/ekg
ICA: https://icaphila.org
Kroiz Gallery, Fisher Fine Arts Library: http://tinyurl.com/hvrlct4
Meyerson Hall: https://tinyurl.com/y27c5dty
Morris Arboretum: http://www.morrisarboretum.org/visit_hours.shtml
Penn Museum: https://www.penn.museum/visit/plan-your-visit
Quorum: https://sciencecenter.org/discover/quorum
Slought: https://slought.org/
Van Pelt Library: https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/hours/vp
Wistar Institute: https://wistar.org/
Now
Sense<&-#:>Antisense by Talia Greene; visualizes how facts about the pandemic “mutated” through the media and envisions a misinformation vaccine to act as the antidote; Esther Klein Gallery. Through March 22.
Building in China: A Century of Dialogues on Modern Architecture; an exhibition tracing China’s shifting design practices over a century in which many of its leading practitioners and scholars were educated at Penn; Architectural Archives, Fisher Fine Arts Gallery. Through April 22.
No Ocean Between Us: Art of Asian Diasporas in Latin America & The Caribbean, 1945–Present; features modern and contemporary art by Latin American and Caribbean artists of Asian descent, highlighting artists whose work reflects the global dialogues between their Asian heritages and their Latin American or Caribbean identities; Arthur Ross Gallery. Through May 23.
Mark Stockton: 100 People; examines who and how we venerate and connect, using a group of 100 hand drawn portraits, photo-referent, made with graphite on paper, and intended to be received as a single work in form and experience; Feintuch Family Lobby, Annenberg Center. Through May 31.
The Stories We Wear; reveals how clothing and accessories offer powerful expressions of identity and examines the purpose and meaning behind what we wear, showcasing 2,500 years of style via 250 objects; Penn Museum. Through June 12.
FCC On 6, 7, 8: Na Kim; installation comprising bold colors, shapes, and patterns inspired by everyday life, designed by conceptually-driven graphic designer Na Kim; ICA. Through July 10.
Ongoing
Art By Mail; display of art made by community members with kits distributed by Kelly Writers House in January; Brodsky Gallery, Kelly Writers House.
Late for Revision, drawings by Jen Wroblewski; a group of small graphite drawings by Jen Wroblewski that investigate the peculiar capacity of line and mark to cohere into narrative that exists outside of syntactic structures; Brodsky Gallery.
Martha Rich: It Goes By Fast; an exuberant and joyful splash of energy that takes full advantage of a 75' by 20' brick wall, painted by Martha Rich, MFA’11; Feintuch Family Lobby, Penn Live Arts Annenberg Center.
Morris Arboretum
Loop de Loop: Patrick Dougherty installation; stick-work sculpture. Ongoing until deterioration.
Out on a Limb; tree adventure exhibit celebrating its 11th year.
Penn Museum
Africa Galleries: From Maker to Museum; explore the origins of African civilizations.
Ancient Egypt: From Discovery to Display; examines the process of building an exhibit.
Asia Galleries; view ancient Asian artifacts, many of which show the development of Buddhism.
Canaan & Ancient Israel Gallery; explore ancient artifacts from several civilizations that have inhabited this land.
Egypt Galleries; view highlights from the Museum’s mummy collection and more.
Etruscan Italy Gallery; learn about the first great rulers of central Italy.
Greece Gallery; explore the ancient history of the Greek empire.
Living with the Sea: Charting the Pacific; highlights Penn Museum’s rarely-seen Oceanian collection.
Mexico and Central America Gallery; examine several distinct societies and collections.
Middle East Galleries; trace the histories of Mesopotamian civilizations.
Native American Voices; see ancient Native American artifacts alongside contemporary perspectives.
Rome Gallery; explore everyday items from the Roman Republic and Empire.
Sphinx Gallery; view the Sphinx among sympathetic objects from across the globe.
Upcoming
2 12@12; 12-minute presentation about a piece of art by Lynn Marsden-Atlass, curator of Arthur Ross Gallery; noon; Zoom webinar; info: https://tinyurl.com/12-at-12-mar-2 (Arthur Ross Gallery).
Penn Museum
In-person and online events. Info: https://penn.museum/calendar.
4 Virtual Global Guide Tour: Middle East Galleries; 2:30 p.m. Also March 11, 2:30 p.m.
5 Rome Gallery Tour; 11 a.m.
Global Guide Tour: Middle East Galleries; 2:30 p.m.
6 Egypt Galleries Tour; 11 a.m. Also March 13, 11 a.m.
Global Guide Tour: Africa Galleries; 2:30 p.m. Also March 13, 2:30 p.m.
12 Middle East Galleries Tour; 11 a.m.
Global Guide Tour: Mexico & Central America Gallery; 2:30 p.m.
13 The Stories We Wear Guided Tour; 1 p.m.
18 Virtual Global Guide Tour: Asia Galleries; 2:30 p.m.
19 Middle East Galleries Tour; 11 a.m.
Global Guide Tour: Middle East Galleries; 2:30 p.m.
20 Rome Gallery Tour; 11 a.m.
Global Guide Tour: Mexico & Central America Gallery; 2:30 p.m.
24 The Stories We Wear Virtual Tour; 6 p.m.
25 Virtual Global Guide Tour: Asia Galleries; 2:30 p.m.
26 Africa Galleries Tour; 11 a.m.
Global Guide Tour: Mexico & Central America Gallery; 2:30 p.m.
27 Mexico & Central American Gallery Tour; 11 a.m.
Global Guide Tour: Middle East Galleries; 2:30 p.m.
30 Curator-Led Tour: RAW Academie at ICA: Infrastructure; 6 p.m.; Institute of Contemporary Art.
2 Shusenjo - The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue; a deep dive into the issue of “comfort women” in Japan and this practice’s use of sexual slavery; includes panel discussion with director Miki Dezaki; 5 p.m.; Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum (Cinema Studies; Korean Studies; Center for East Asian Studies).
13 Second Sunday Culture Film: Wild Honey; explores the island of Timor, which has been split in two by a colonial border, separating the Tetum-speaking people, and the honeybees that unite them; 2-4 p.m.; online screening; info: https://www.penn.museum/calendar/862/second-sunday-culture-film (Penn Museum).
17 Cursed Be Your Name, Freedom: Rock and Aids in 1990s Cuba; includes discussion with director Vladimir Ceballos; 5:15 p.m.; room 401, Fisher-Bennett Hall (Cinema Studies, CLALS).
18 The Donut King; includes discussion with director Alice Gu; 5 p.m.; room 111, Annenberg School; register: https://upenn.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0iVWQrpfhhODW74 (Asian American Studies).
25 Memory Box; includes discussion with directors Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige; 5:15 p.m.; Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum (Cinema Studies).
31 Lina Wertmüller, the Woman in White Glasses; spotlight on Lina Wertmüller, the visionary and groundbreaking Italian director, who went on to make more than 30 films becoming the first woman ever to receive Academy Award nominations for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Film; 5:30 p.m.; room 401, Fisher-Bennett Hall (Cinema Studies).
Penn Live Arts
In-person screenings at Montgomery Theater, Annenberg Center, and online screenings. Info: https://pennlivearts.org/events/.
17 La Casa de Mama Icha; 7 p.m.
18 Chèche Lavi; 7 p.m.
19 Mija; 7 p.m.
2 Managing Difficult Interactions During the Pandemic; hear Jody Foster, professionalism program at PSOM, speak about how to deal with difficult people, especially given the additional challenges of the pandemic; 3:30 p.m.; online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/pfwf-event-mar-2 (Penn Forum for Women Faculty).
Wednesday Nights with ASAM Alumni; informal conversations among alumni of Asian American Studies (ASAM) program, offering lively memories and shared experiences of undergraduate and graduate life; 7 p.m.; Zoom webinar; join: https://bit.ly/Wednights-asamalumni (Asian American Studies). Also March 16, 23, 30.
3 What Penn Owes Philadelphia Families: A Teach-in on Housing and Education Justice; a conversation about Penn’s impact on West Philadelphia, including information about Coalition to Save the University Townhomes and Penn for PILOTs; 5:30 p.m.; online event; register: https://tinyurl.com/C78FTVU6 (Penn AAUP).
5 Spring Break Skate; buy one admission at the Penn Ice Rink and get one free; 6-7 p.m.; info: www.upenn.edu/icerink (Penn Ice Rink).
15 Managing and Leading Teams Remotely; hear Nancy Rothbard, Wharton, speak about the challenges of leading teams remotely and some approaches for effective remote management; noon; online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/pfwf-event-mar-15 (Penn Forum for Women Faculty).
16 RAW Académie at ICA: Infrastructure Program; dialogue series that brings together national and international perspectives around the issue of arts infrastructure and asks us to think critically about how institutions can be reimagined; 6 p.m.; online event; info: https://icaphila.org/events/upcoming-raw-programs/ (Institute of Contemporary Art). Also March 18, 23.
22 Master in Law Information Webinar for General Audiences; will give an overview of the Master in Law (ML) degree, application instructions, highlight various courses of study available, and provide insight into the student experience as an ML degree candidate; noon; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/ml-info-mar-22 (Penn Carey Law School).
23 Navigating the New Diagnosis of Food Allergy: A Workshop for Parents and Caregivers; will provide evidence-based information about food avoidance, myths around food allergy, label reading, and preparedness for allergic reactions; 5:30 p.m.; online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/food-allergies-mar-23 (CHOP).
30 Overview of Penn's Accreditation with Middle States 2024; Karen Detlefsen, Vice Provost for Education; 3 p.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/pfwf-event-march-30 (Penn Forum for Women Faculty).
CODE_A_WEBSITE; part of a series of student-led workshops that offer students a chance to share skills with their peers; 5 p.m.; room 320, Addams Hall; register: https://tinyurl.com/code-a-website-march-30 (Fine Arts).
African American Resource Center (AARC)
In-person and online events. Info: https://aarc.upenn.edu/events.
3 AARC Black Movie Night; 7-9 p.m. Also March 10, 17, 24, 31.
8 Planning for Your Appraisal; noon.
16 Women of Color at Penn (WOCAP) Noontime Lunch Series; noon.
17 Men of Color (Monthly Huddle Meeting) Presents: Mind Blowing Decisions: Mindfulness Class; 1 p.m.
23 MLK Symposium Interfaith Commemorative and Awards Presentation; 6-8 p.m.
25 Community Lunch Program: Open Forum with AARC and PWC; noon.
Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CURF)
Zoom webinars. Info: https://www.curf.upenn.edu/curf-events.
1 Grant Writing Workshop; 4 p.m.
Kick-Off Fulbright U.S. Student Scholar Program: General Presentation Session (GPS); 4 p.m.
3 Behind the CV: Stories from Faculty; Jennifer Morton, philosophy; 4 p.m.
17 Fulbright U.S. Student Program Information Session; 3 p.m.
Behind the CV: Stories from Faculty - Anjan Chatterjee; 4 p.m.
How to Build an Effective Fellowship Application; 4 p.m.
22 Schwarzman Scholars Program Information Session; 5 p.m.
College of Liberal and Professional Studies (LPS)
Online events. Info: www.upenn.edu/lps-events.
1 Master of Environmental Studies Virtual Café; noon.
2 Fels Institute of Government Virtual Information Session; 6 p.m.
3 Master of Science in Applied Geosciences Virtual Café; noon.
8 Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences Virtual Information Session; 6 p.m. Also March 22, noon.
15 Master of Liberal Arts Virtual Information Session; noon.
Pre-Health Post-Baccalaureate Programs Virtual Information Session; 5 p.m.
Organizational Dynamics Virtual Information Session; 6 p.m.
17 Post-Baccalaureate Studies Virtual Information Session; noon.
Graduate School of Education (GSE)
Unless noted, online events. Info: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/news/events-calendar.
1 GSE-IT Ticketing System (Freshservice) Training; for faculty and staff; noon.
Yoga and Meditation Sessions with Dr. Charru Sharma; noon-5 p.m.; room TBA, GSE.
2 New Canvas Course Creation Form Training; for faculty and staff; 11 a.m.
3 Art of Effective Communication; for faculty and staff; 12:30 p.m.
4 Friday Virtual Chats with Admissions; noon. Also March 11, 9 a.m.; March 18, noon; March 25, 9 a.m.
9 Radical Resilience Workshop; for faculty and staff; 10 a.m.
10 Caring for the Caregiver; for faculty and staff; 10:15 a.m.
15 Coffee Break with ISHD/Counseling Team; for faculty and staff; 9:30 a.m.; GSE tent.
Submatriculation Information Session; noon; Amado Recital Room, Irvine Auditorium.
Avoiding Burnout; for faculty and staff; 12:30 p.m.
16 Education Entrepreneurship - Virtual Information Session; 2 p.m.
17 Monthly Wellness Walk - St. Patrick's Day; for faculty and staff; noon; meet at Palestra.
Penn GSE Live with Laronnda Thompson; 12:30 p.m.
18 Effective Communication; for faculty and staff; 12:30 p.m.
22 Fostering Positive Attitudes and Embracing Change; for faculty and staff; 11 a.m.
Resilience Workshop: IDEAL Model for Difficult Conversations; for faculty and staff; 12:30 p.m.
30 Intensifying Instruction to Strengthen Student Success; 1 p.m.
Human Resources Workshops
For faculty and staff. Unless noted, online events. Info: https://tinyurl.com/penn-hr-programs.
3 Guided Mindful Meditation; noon.
Art of Effective Communication; 12:30 p.m.
4 30-Minute Guided Meditation; noon. Also March 11, 18, 25.
7 30-Minute Chair Yoga Plus Core; noon. Also March 14, 21, 28.
8 Opening Doors to the Future: Save in a 529 College Savings Plan; noon.
Resilience Workshop: Real-Time Resilience; 12:30 p.m.
9 Chair Yoga; noon. Also March 23.
10 Caring for the Caregiver; 10:15 a.m. Also 4:15 p.m.
New and Expectant Parent Briefing; 11 a.m.
Retirement Income Planning with MetLife; noon.
15 Avoiding Burnout; 12:30 p.m.
16 Navigating the Penn Tuition Benefit Program and Financial Aid for Your College Age Dependents; noon.
17 Monthly Wellness Walk - St. Patrick's Day; noon; meet at Palestra.
18 Effective Communication; 12:30 p.m.
21 Cooking Demonstration with Corporate Wellness Nutrition; noon.
22 Strategies for Fostering Positive Attitudes and Embracing Change: Ideas for Sustainable Life Balance; 11 a.m.
Resilience Workshop: IDEAL Model for Difficult Conversations; 12:30 p.m.
28 It's A Balancing Act: The Sandwich Generation with PNC Bank; noon.
29 Mindful Communication; noon.
LGBT Center
Unless noted, in-person events at LGBT Center. Info: https://www.vpul.upenn.edu/secure/calendar/host/LGBT-Center/24.
18 Chinese Queer Women’s Groups; 4 p.m.
20 QPenn Kickoff: Opening Speaker and Mixer; 4-6:30 p.m.
21 Lambda Grads Open Forum; 5 p.m.; Zoom webinar.
RP&P Event; 5:15 p.m.
Queer Interfaith Game Night; 7-9 p.m.
22 Pocket Sewing Workshop; 2 p.m.
“I Am” Collective Workshop; 7 p.m.
23 QPenn: Ice Skating with Penn Q&APenn; 9-11 p.m.; Penn Ice Rink.
24 QPenn Speaker Spotlight; Angela Chen, author; noon.; Zoom webinar.
QPenn: Trans Protection, Equity, and Visibility: A Conversation with Ceyenne Doroshow and Ladonna Smith; 6 p.m.; Zoom webinar.
QPenn: Art and Writing Zines with Q-INE; 7:30 p.m.
25 QPenn: Latin “X”: Inclusive Language in Spanish; 4 p.m.
QPenn: Lambda Grads Happy Hour; 5 p.m.
26 QPenn: Cycling and Yoga Fun with Campus Recreation; noon-4 p.m.; Pottruck Gym.
QPenn: QSA Drag Show; 7:30 p.m.; Platt Performing Arts House.
Morris Arboretum
In-person events. Info: https://www.morrisarboretum.org/events_special.shtml#simple3.
5 Wellness Walk; 10:30 a.m. Weekends.
Garden Highlights Tour; 1 p.m. Weekends.
12 Witchhazels Tour; 11 a.m.
17 Pruning for the Homeowner; Vince Marrocco, Morris Arboretum; 9 a.m.-noon.
19 Propagating Ferns; Kyra Matin, Morris Arboretum; 10:30 a.m.
Penn Libraries
Unless noted, online events. Info: https://www.library.upenn.edu/.
1 Workshop Series: Support for Publishing; 11 a.m. Also March 8, 15, 22, 29.
7 Coffee with a Codex; noon. Also March 14, 21, 28.
18 From the Kislak Stacks: Regulating the Poor: Ephemeral Printing and Poor Relief Tickets in the Long Nineteenth Century; Mitch Fraas, Kislak Center; noon; Class of 1978 Pavilion, Van Pelt Library.
Penn Museum
Online events. Info: https://www.penn.museum/calendar/.
3 The Deep Dig: The Real Housewives of Ancient Egypt; 6:30 p.m. Also March 10, 17, 24.
22 Penn Museum Anthropology Camp Virtual Open House; 6 p.m.
29 The Deep Dig: Uncovering Archaeology Under the Waves; 6:30 p.m.
Penn Nursing
Info: https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/calendar/.
2 Admissions Webinar for High School Students; 6 p.m. Weekly.
A Journey Through the Psychedelic Revival: The Current Landscape of Psychedelic Medicine; 6:30 p.m.
9 Accelerated BSN and Graduate Programs Admissions Webinar; noon.
14 Anti-Bias Curriculum Project: Dialogues to Advance Health Equity; all day. Through March 16.
16 A Journey Through the Psychedelic Revival: The Future of Psychedelic Medicine; 6:30 p.m.
18 Restorative Circles for Penn Nursing Community Building; 4 p.m.
30 A Journey Through the Psychedelic Revival: Access to Psychedelic Medicine; 6:30 p.m.
23 WXPN Policy Board; noon; World Café; info: email tess@xpn.org or call (215) 898-0628 (WXPN).
Penn Live Arts
Info and tickets: https://pennlivearts.org/events/.
5 Nora Brown; a young banjo prodigy plays and sings her captivating renditions of old-time traditional music from Kentucky and Tennessee; 7:30 p.m.; Harold Prince Theater, Annenberg Center.
23 Marian Anderson Performance Program Concert; 7 p.m.; Amado Recital Hall, Irvine Auditorium (Music department).
26 Ravi Coltrane; Grammy-nominated musician saxophonist continues the legacy he inherited by carving out his own individual sound, making for a fascinating musical journey; 8 p.m; Zellerbach Theater, Annenberg Center, and online livestream.
2 Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban; the first English stage performance of Amitav Ghosh's adaptation of an episode from the legend of Bon Bibi that was composed in a Bengali verse meter known as dwipodi poyar; 7-9 p.m.; Bruce Montgomery Theater, Annenberg Center; register: https://tinyurl.com/jungle-nama-mar-2 (Center for Experimental Ethnography; Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies).
31 Frontline Digital Theater Series; uses the viewpoints of those working in the hospital setting as inspiration for virtual theatrical performances created by playwrights from Elevate Theater Company; 7-9 p.m.; online event; register: https://tinyurl.com/frontline-theater-mar-31 (Nursing).
Penn Live Arts
Info and tickets: https://pennlivearts.org/events/.
11 Circa: Humans 2.0; Australia’s bold, contemporary circus troupe, Circa, makes an exhilarating return with a new love letter to humanity; 8 p.m.; Zellerbach Theater, Annenberg Center. Also March 12, 2 p.m.
17 Penn Players: Small Mouth Sounds; bi-annual show from an esteemed Penn theater group asks how we address life’s biggest questions when words fail us; 8:30 p.m.; Harold Prince Theater, Annenberg Center. Also March 18, 8:30 p.m.; March 19, 2:30 p.m.
18 Rennie Harris: Lifted; Philadelphia premiere of hip hop choreographer Rennie Harris’s theatre production that merges the rhythms of house music with the moving vocals of a live gospel choir to explore community and spirituality through dance; 8 p.m.; Zellerbach Theater, Annenberg Center. Also March 19, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
25 InterNAACHional; dance show that will include pieces involving choreography from Bollywood fusion, bhangra, hip hop, contemporary, Bharatanatyam and more; 8:30 p.m.; Harold Prince Theatre, Annenberg Center. Also March 26, 6 p.m.
30 Wharton Dance Studio: Decadance; popular student group’s 10th anniversary showcase with 11 dances, 250+ dancers and surprise bonus performances; 7 p.m.; Zellerbach Theater, Annenberg Center.
Amplify Nursing; created and hosted by Penn Nursing’s Marion Leary, director of innovation, and Angelarosa DiDonato, associate program administrator, features nurses who are leading the way in nursing science, policy and innovation; available every other Wednesday; https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/research/innovation/amplify-nursing-podcast/
Case in Point; produced by the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, this podcast provides smart, informative conversations about the law, society, and culture. By bringing together top scholars with experts on politics, business, health, education, and science, Case in Point gives an in-depth look at how the law touches every part of our lives; https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/case-in-point/id969189587
Energy Policy Now; produced by the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and hosted by energy journalist Andy Stone, who speaks with leaders from industry, government and academia as they shed light on today’s pressing energy policy debates; https://kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/energy-policy-now
Future of the Business World; created and hosted by the Wharton Global Youth Program, this podcast features high school entrepreneurs from around the world discussing their ventures and exploring themes related to innovation and business, such as ideation, grit, design thinking and collaboration; new episodes available monthly; https://kwhs.wharton.upenn.edu/category/podcasts/
MES and MSAG podcasts: Podcasts about environmental issues from the master of environmental studies and master of science in applied geosciences programs in the College of Liberal and Professional Studies are available on Soundcloud.
Momentum 2020: The Power of Penn Women; podcast associated with a three-day conference in October celebrating the power of Penn women; https://pennmomentum.libsyn.com/
No Stupid Questions; Stephen Dubner (co-author of the Freakonomics book series) and Angela Duckworth (Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor of Psychology and Senior Scientific Advisor of the Positive Psychology Center) really like to ask people questions, and came to believe there's no such thing as a stupid one. So they made a podcast where they can ask each other as many “stupid questions” as they want; https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-stupid-questions/id1510056899
Office Hours; produced by the Office of University Communications, this podcast series explores the minds of the Penn’s academic talents in a more unbuttoned and freewheeling setting outside of the lecture hall; https://penntoday.upenn.edu/subtopic/office-hours?page=0
OMNIA; produced by the School of Arts and Sciences, this series provides insights and perspectives from the home of the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences at Penn; https://web.sas.upenn.edu/in-these-times/
Organizational Dynamics Programs Learning Aloud: Listen to Learning Aloud, a podcast from the Organizational Dynamics community at the University of Pennsylvania hosted by Steve Hart.
Poem Talk; Kelly Writers House impresario Al Filreis leads a roundtable discussion of a single poem with a series of rotating guests; https://jacket2.org/content/poem-talk
The Daily Pennsylvanian podcasts; The DP produces several podcasts; https://www.thedp.com/section/podcasts
The Global Cable; produced by Perry World House, this podcast discusses “the world’s biggest issues with the people who work on them;” https://tinyurl.com/globalcablepodcast
The Media at Risk Podcast; produced by the Center for Media at Risk at the Annenberg School, this podcast gives voice to media practitioners and the dilemmas they face when political threat undermines their activity; https://www.ascmediarisk.org/ideas/podcasts/
Tradeoffs; Hosted by Dan Gorenstein, mediamaker-in-residence at the Annenberg School; episodes air every other Wednesday; https://tradeoffs.org/
Wharton Business Radio; a variety of shows and podcasts are produced at Wharton; visit https://businessradio.wharton.upenn.edu/shows/ for a full list.
Work-Life with Adam Grant; this TED original podcast takes you inside some truly unusual places, and helps make work not suck; https://www.adamgrant.net/worklife
16 Seeing Human Rights: Video Activism as a Proxy Profession; Sandra Ristovska, University of Colorado Boulder; 12:30 p.m.; Zoom webinar; join: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/5172747925%25C2%25A0 (Annenberg School).
The Afghanistan Papers; Craig Whitlock, Washington Post; 5 p.m.; room TBA, Annenberg Public Policy Center; register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/274213288327 (Annenberg Public Policy Center).
CERL Book Talk with Craig Whitlock; Washington Post reporter and three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Craig Whitlock in conversation with CERL Interim Executive Director Mark Fallon on his book The Afghanistan Papers; 5 p.m.; APPC, Agora; register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/274213288327 (CERL).
17 Megaregions and America's Future; book launch for a book co-authored by Weitzman School of Design faculty members Robert Yaro and Fritz Steiner; 6 p.m.; Meyerson Hall; register: https://tinyurl.com/yaro-steiner-mar-17 (City & Regional Planning).
18 Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance After Communism; Jelena Subotic, Georgia State University; noon; Forum Room, PCPSE (Russian & East European Studies).
29 HEARD Book Group: Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman; meeting of a book club that aims to discuss cutting-edge, challenging theoretical and philosophical scholarship on social justice in a more relaxed, conversational manner; noon; location TBA; register: https://tinyurl.com/heard-book-group-mar-29 (GSE).
30 The Poetry of Migration; reading by Ahmad Almallah, creative writing; Herman Beavers, English; Fatemeh Shams, near eastern languages & civilizations; Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Cornell; Simone White, English; 5 p.m.; Class of 1978 Pavilion, Van Pelt Library; register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/207948017117 (Wolf Humanities Center).
Kelly Writers House
Hybrid events at Arts Café, Kelly Writers House, and YouTube livestreams. Info: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/0322.php.
1 A Reading; Alice McDermott, author; 6 p.m.
14 A Conversation; Anna Orso, Philadelphia Inquirer; noon.
15 A Poetry Reading; Julia Bloch, Maxe Crandall, and Larissa Lai, poets; 6 p.m.
16 Black Radical Comics; Ben Passmore, artist; 6 p.m.
17 Diasporic Poetics; Timothy Yu, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Josephine Park and Al Filreis, English; noon.
21 Live at the Writers House; six writers from the class of 2022; 6 p.m.
22 Ladan Osman: A Reading and Conversation; 6 p.m.
23 Speakeasy Open Mic Night; 7:30 p.m.
24 The Claw: A Reading; 6 p.m.
28 A Reading; Caroline Bergvall, poet; 6:30 p.m.
29 A Conversation; Caroline Bergvall, poet; 10 a.m.
30 Art, Lyric, and Movement; Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, poet; noon.
31 Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care; Wendy Bach, University of Tennessee; noon.
The Music of David Bowie; David Barone, recording artist and author; 5 p.m.
19 CultureFest! Nowruz; celebrate the Persian New Year with friends and family and learn how the holiday is observed by people in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and beyond; 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; Penn Museum; info: https://www.penn.museum/calendar/1116/culturefest-nowruz (Penn Museum).
29 The Penn Nursing Renfield Foundation Award for Global Women’s Health; celebration of the winner of the 2022 Penn Nursing Renfield Foundation Award for Global Women’s Health, Gabriela Meléndez-Peláez, a Guatemalan nurse-midwife, maternal health advocate, and the Founder of Asociación Corazón del Agua; 3-5 p.m.; online event; info: https://tinyurl.com/renfield-award-mar-29 (Penn Nursing).
Home games only. For information about attending or viewing games online, visit: https://pennathletics.com/index.aspx.
2 Women’s Lacrosse vs. Loyola; 5 p.m.
5 Women’s Lacrosse vs. Harvard; noon.
Men’s Basketball vs. Princeton; 6 p.m.
16 Baseball vs. Monmouth; 3 p.m.
18 Women’s Tennis vs. Temple; 1 p.m.
19 M/W Track host Penn Challenge; all day.
Baseball vs. Wagner; 11:30 a.m.
Softball vs. Columbia; 12:30 p.m.
20 Baseball vs. Wagner; noon.
Softball vs. Columbia; 12:30 p.m.
22 Women’s Tennis vs. Maryland; noon.
23 Baseball vs. Lehigh; 3 p.m.
Softball vs. Maryland-Eastern Shore; 3 p.m.
26 Men’s Lacrosse vs. Cornell; 1 p.m.
27 Men’s Tennis vs. Georgetown; 1 p.m.
30 Baseball vs. Lafayette; 3 p.m.
Softball vs. Lehigh; 3 p.m.
1 The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th Century Central Asia; Scott Levi, Ohio State University; 5 p.m.; Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies (History).
The “Grand Experiment”: Sato Eisaku and The Remaking of Postwar Japan; Ryota Murai, Komazawa University; 5:15 p.m.; room 402, Cohen Hall; register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/274270268757 (Center for East Asian Studies).
Vernacularizing Agendas: Signposts from African Languages, Writing, and Literature; Moradewun Adejunmobi, UC Davis; 5:30 p.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/adejunmobi-talk-mar-1 (Africana Studies).
2 The Water We Swim In: A Discussion on Water and Equity; panel of speakers; noon; online webinar; register: https:// https://tinyurl.com/water-center-talk-mar-2 (Water Center at Penn).
Octavian, Mark Antony, and Cleopatra and the Battle of Actium; C. Brian Rose, Penn Museum; 6 p.m.; Penn Museum and online livestream; tickets: $5/virtual, $9/member, $15/general; register: https://tinyurl.com/rose-talk-mar-2 (Penn Museum).
Learning to Interact With the World: When Generality Meets Precision; Maria Bauza Villalonga, MIT; 11 a.m.; room 225, Towne Building, and Zoom webinar; join: https://tinyurl.com/villalonga-talk-mar-3 (Electrical & Systems Engineering).
3 Cell-Intrinsic Resistance to CTL in the HIV Reservoir; R. Brad Jones, Cornell; noon; BlueJeans webinar; info: https://www.med.upenn.edu/cfar/seminar-series.html (Center for AIDS Research).
Promoting Resilience in the Brain to Early Life Stress; Catherine Jensen Peña, Princeton; 4:30 p.m.; room 218, Houston Hall; RSVP: info@neuroethics.upenn.edu (Center for Neuroscience and Society).
The Many Faces of Credulitas: Belief, Credibility, and Credulity in Seventeenth-Century Catholicism; Stefania Tutino, UCLA; 5 p.m.; Zoom webinar; https://tinyurl.com/tutino-talk-mar-3 (Italian Studies).
4 Why Black Women Media Makers Matter; Sarah Jackson, Annenberg School; Sara Lomax-Reese, WURD Radio; noon; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/lomax-reese-mar-4 (Annenberg School).
Mechanics of Polymeric Gels; Shawn Chester, New Jersey Institute of Technology; 2 p.m.; PICS Conference Room, 3401 Walnut Street (Penn Institute for Computational Science).
Digging Deeper to Understand How Soils Respond to Climate Change; Caitlin Hicks Pries, Dartmouth; 3 p.m.; room 358, Hayden Hall (Earth & Environmental Science).
7 Smart Immune Receptor Sequencing in Single Cells; Michael Malone, immunology; noon; room 225, Towne Building, and Zoom webinar; info: manu@seas.upenn.edu (Physical Sciences Oncology Center).
Molecular Regulation of Lipid Droplet Catabolism; David Kast, Washington University in St. Louis; 2 p.m.; Austrian Auditorium, CRB, and BlueJeans webinar; join: https://pennmedicine.bluejeans.com/832338401576/571349048955 (Pennsylvania Muscle Institute).
8 Therapeutic Vulnerabilities in ESR1 Mutant Breast Cancer; Suzanne Fuqua, Baylor Collge of Medicine; noon; GoToMeeting webinar; join: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/227215405 (Wistar Institute).
Trailblazing Discoveries through Imaging and Stem Cell Research; Kyla Ortved and Sarah Ciamillo, Penn Vet; 6:30 p.m.; online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/ciamillo-talk-mar-3 (Penn Vet).
9 Penn & Slavery Project; Kathleen Brown, history; noon; online webinar; info: pasef@pobox.upenn.edu (Penn Association for Senior & Emeritus Faculty).
Impaired Goal-Directed Behavior in Neurodegenerative Disease: Clinical and Neuroscientific Perspectives; Lauren Massimo, Penn Nursing; 4 p.m.; Class of ’62 Auditorium, John Morgan Building, and BlueJeans webinar; join: https://bluejeans.com/9789833127 (PSOM Deans’ Distinguished Visiting Professorship Seminar).
10 Quantum Device Benchmarking from Many-Body Quantum Chaos; Joonhee Choi, Caltech; 11 a.m.; room 225, Towne Building and Zoom webinar; join: https://tinyurl.com/choi-talk-mar-10 (Electrical & Systems Engineering).
The Interface Between Man and Machine: Neural Interfacing for Sensory Feedback and Neuroprosthetic Control; Shriya Srinivasan, Harvard; 3:30 p.m.; room 337, Towne Building (Bioengineering).
14 Unsettling Biomedicine: Indigenous Health and American Empire in Postwar Alaska; Tess Lanzarotta, Northwestern University; 3:30 p.m.; room 392, Cohen Hall (History & Sociology of Science).
The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography: The Secret Life of Books; Peter McDonald, University of Oxford; 5:30 p.m.; hybrid event; info and to register: https://tinyurl.com/McDonald-talks (Penn Libraries). Also March 15 and March 17, 5:30 p.m.
15 The Queer Atlantic Triangle; Jill Richards, Yale; 5 p.m.; Zoom webinar; info: https://www.english.upenn.edu/events (English).
Susan T. Marx Distinguished Lecture; Shirin Neshat, artist and filmmaker; 5:30 p.m.; Perry World House and online webinar; info: sabrady@upenn.edu (Arthur Ross Gallery).
Humans and Alcohol: The Archaeology of a Deeply Entangled Relationship; Michael Dietler, University of Chicago; 6:15 p.m.; Penn Museum and online webinar; register: https://www.penn.museum/calendar/1147/humans-and-alcohol (Penn Museum).
16 Multiscale Computational Modeling of Vascular Adaptation and Homeostasis; Linda Irons, Yale; 11 a.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/mechanobiology-seminars (Center for Engineering MechanoBiology).
The Entropy of Hawking Radiation; Juan Maldacena, Institute for Advanced Study; 3:30 p.m.; room A4, DRL, and Zoom meeting; join: https://tinyurl.com/maldacena-talk-mar-16 (Physics & Astronomy).
The Life and Letters of Migration; Viet Thanh Nguyen, author; Josephine Park, English; Dagmawi Woubshet, English; 5 p.m.; Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum, and online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/nguyen-talk-mar-16 (Wolf Humanities Center).
The Preservation of Racial Order Through Legal Transformations; Michele Goodwin, UC Irvine; 5:30 p.m.; Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Van Pelt Library; register: https://tinyurl.com/goodwin-talk-mar-16 (Africana Studies).
Just Architecture; Nanako Umemoto and Jesse Reiser, RUR Architecture; 6:30 p.m.; Plaza Gallery, Meyerson Hall; register: https://tinyurl.com/umemoto-reiser-mar-16 (Architecture).
17 Special Briefing on Work from Home: What it Means for State and Local Economies and Revenues; panel of speakers; 11 a.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/iur-talk-mar-17 (Penn Institute for Urban Research).
Estimating the Effects of Shrinking the Criminal Justice System on Criminal Recidivism; Charles Loeffler, criminology; noon; room 200, Education Building (Criminology).
Affective Attachment and Detachment: Queer Cultural Production That Reconfigures “'Good Life” and Citizenship in Korea; Woori Han, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication; 1 p.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/han-talk-mar-17 (CARGC).
Androgen Receptor Splice Variants; Cynthia Sprenger, University of Washington; 3 p.m.; Zoom webinar; join: https://pennmedicine.zoom.us/j/95935762965 (Center of Excellence in Environmental Technology).
When Homeostatic Responses Become Pathologic: Mechanisms of Type 2 Immunity in the Airway; Maya Kotas, UC San Francisco; 4 p.m.; Zoom webinar; join: https://tinyurl.com/nelson-talk-jan-13 (Penn-CHOP Lung Biology Series).
Crazy Determined Asians; Jon Chu, director of Crazy Rich Asians; 4:30 p.m.; Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum; register: https://tinyurl.com/chu-talk-mar-17 (Stephen A. Levin Family Dean’s Forum).
18 Researching Human Beliefs and Perceptions of AI Decision-Making; Sonia Shaikh, Annenberg School; noon; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/shaikh-talk-mar-18 (Annenberg School).
Wars in the Workshop: Digitizing Manuscript Rolls; Natasha Hodgson, Nottingham Trent University; 1 p.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/calendar/kislak/WarsInTheWorkshop (Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies).
Computational Image Analysis For Individualized Surgical Treatment Planning of Bicuspid Aortic Valves; Alison Pouch, radiology and bioengineering; 2 p.m.; PICS Large Conference Room, 3401 Walnut St. (Penn Institute for Computational Science).
The Fate of Water on Mars: Tracing Water-Rock Interactions Through Isotopic Modelling, Satellites, and Rovers; Eva Scheller, Caltech; 3 p.m.; room 358, Hayden Hall (Earth & Environmental Science).
21 Where the Wild Things Are: Naturalizing Mouse Models for Immunoparasitology; Andrea Graham, Princeton; noon; Zoom webinar; join: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/91921012177 (Penn Vet).
All the News That’s Fit to Click; Caitlin Petre, Rutgers University; 12:30 p.m.; online event; info: https://tinyurl.com/petre-talk-mar-21 (Center on Digital Culture & Society).
Illuminating the Biochemical Activity Architecture of the Cell; Jin Zhang, UC San Diego; 2 p.m.; Austrian Auditorium, CRB, and BlueJeans webinar; join: https://tinyurl.com/zhang-talk-mar-21 (Pennsylvania Muscle Institute).
Practicing Feminist Bibliography; Sarah Werner, English; 5:15 p.m.; Class of 1978 Pavilion, Van Pelt Library (Workshop in the History of Material Texts).
22 Agile Maneuver with Under-Actuated Millirobots; Ronald S. Fearing, UC Berkeley; 10 a.m.; Zoom webinar; info: peterlit@seas.upenn.edu (Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics).
Deciphering the Complexity of Cancer Immunity; Robert Schreiber, Washington University at St. Louis; noon; GoToMeeting webinar; join: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/227215405 (Wistar Institute).
To Adjust or Not to Adjust? Estimating the Average Treatment Effect in Randomized Experiments with Missing Covariates; Peng Ding, UC Berkeley; 3:30 p.m.; Zoom webinar; join: https://tinyurl.com/ding-talk-mar-22 (Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics).
Working with Rivers; Annea Lockwood, Vassar College; 5:15 p.m.; room 101, Lerner Building (Music).
Distinguished Lecture in African Studies; Wole Soyinka, poet and Nobel laureate; 5:30 p.m.; Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum; 5:30 p.m.; register: https://tinyurl.com/soyinka-talk-mar-22 (Africana Studies).
23 African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics; Cajetan Iheka, Yale University; noon; room 330, Fisher-Bennett Hall (Cinema Studies).
Using Cell and Gene-Based Therapies to Prevent Posttraumatic Osteoarthritis; Kyla Ortved, Penn Vet; noon; BlueJeans webinar; join: https://bluejeans.com/4876705489 (PSOM Deans’ Distinguished Visiting Professorship Seminar).
Ukraine and Content Moderation for News Media Sustainability; John Montgomery, Rob Rakowitz and Courtney Radsch, Center for Media at Risk; 12:30 p.m.; Zoom webinar; join: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/5172747925 (Annenberg School).
"The Worst of the Worst": Where Are They Now?; a panel discussion on the failure of the military commissions process at Guantánamo Bay 20 years on; 3-4:30 p.m.; Gittis 1, Carey Law School and online; register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/277564261177 (CERL).
Mechano-Chemical Models of Active Migration and Organoid Morphogenesis; Edouard Hannezo, IST Austria; 3:30 p.m.; Zoom webinar; join: https://tinyurl.com/hannezo-talk-mar-23 (Physics & Astronomy).
Where Vibration and Sound Meet; Liz Phillips, sound-based installation artist; 4:30 p.m.; room 101, Lerner Building (Music).
Flipping the Script | A Director's Role; Kristal Sotomayor, filmmaker; 7 p.m.; room 401, Fisher-Bennett Hall, and Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/sotomayor-talk-mar-24 (Cinema Studies).
24 Next Generation Bioelectronic Medicine: Wireless Microelectronic Systems; Soner Sonmezoglu, UC Berkeley; 11 a.m.; room 225, Towne Building, and Zoom webinar; join: https://tinyurl.com/sonmezoglu-talk-mar-24 (Electrical & Systems Engineering).
Facilitating the Application of Implementation Science in HIV Programs and Research in West/Central Africa; Nadia Sam-Agudu, University of Maryland; noon; BlueJeans meeting; info: https://www.med.upenn.edu/cfar/seminar-series.html (Center for AIDS Research).
Police Legtimacy, Protest, and Racial Injustice; Rod Brunson, University of Maryland; noon; room 150, McNeil Building (Criminology).
Designer Matrices and Measurements of Cell-Matrix Remodeling; Sarah Heilshorn, Stanford University; 3:30 p.m.; Zoom webinar; info: be@seas.upenn.edu (Bioengineering).
The Clocks are Ticking: Circadian Rhythms and Lung Health; Shaon Sengupta, CHOP; 4 p.m.; room 11-146 Smilow Center (Penn-CHOP Lung Biology Institute).
Asian Diaspora and Migration to the Americas and the Caribbean; Fernando Chang-Muy, Carey Law School; Rupa Pillai, ASAM; 5:30 p.m.; Arthur Ross Gallery; RSVP: sabrady@upenn.edu; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/chang-muy-pillai-mar-24 (Arthur Ross Gallery).
Destination Crenshaw and the Importance of Community-Led Design; Jason Foster, Destination Crenshaw; 6 p.m.; room B3, Meyerson Hall; register: https://tinyurl.com/foster-talk-mar-24 (Landscape Architecture).
The Number of Inches Between Them; Gordon Hall, artist; 6 p.m.; Institute of Contemporary Art (Fine Arts).
25 Taking a Layman’s Perspective to Turbulence Modeling; Xiang Yang, Penn State; 2 p.m.; PICS conference room, 3401 Walnut Street (Penn Institute for Computational Science).
Water Data Collaboration in the Delaware Basin and Beyond; Scott Ensign, Stroud Water Research Center; 3 p.m.; room 256, Hayden Hall (Earth & Environmental Science).
On Compromise; Rachel Greenwald-Smith, Saint Louis University; 5 p.m.; Faculty Lounge, Fisher-Bennett Hall (English).
28 Reining in Repeat Offenders; Rohit Chopra, director of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; noon; online webinar; register: https://www.cvent.com/d/l8q6q6 (Penn Program on Regulation).
Spatial Navigation of Membrane Traffic by Septin GTPases; Elias Spiliotis, Drexel; 2 p.m.; 2 p.m.; Austrian Auditorium, CRB, and BlueJeans webinar; join: https://tinyurl.com/spiliotis-talk-mar-28 (Pennsylvania Muscle Institute).
Medieval Jewish Bilingual Charters: Texts, Signs and Sounds; Micha Perry, University of Haifa; 5:15 p.m.; Class of 1978 Pavilion, Van Pelt Library (Workshop in the History of Material Texts).
29 Biomimetic Design of Marine Robots and Sensors; Michael S. Triantafyllou, MIT; 10 a.m.; Zoom webinar; info: peterlit@seas.upenn.edu (Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics).
Herman P. Schwan Distinguished Lecture; Drew Weissman, medicine; 3:30 p.m.; Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall (Penn Engineering).
Composing Under the Sign of Commodity; Thomas Meadowcroft, composer; 5:15 p.m.; room 101, Lerner Building (Music).
30 Get(ting) Out of the American Horror Story; Mia Mask, Vassar College; noon; Zoom webinar; join: https://tinyurl.com/mask-talk-march-30 (Cinema Studies).
Speech and Justice on American Campuses: Examining the Tensions; Greg Lukianoff, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education; 7:15 p.m.; GSE conference center, floor 5, 3440 Market Street; register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/291280426597 (Paideia Program).
31 Resisting and Reversing Western Media Imperialism? Turkey’s Global Communication Outlets; Bilge Yesil, College of Staten Island; 1 p.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/yesil-talk-mar-31 (Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication).
Engineered Systems for Controlling Cellular Microenvironments: From Synthetic Extracellular Matrices to Multidimensional Disease Models; April Kloxin, University of Delaware; 3:30 p.m.; room 337, Towne Building (Bioengineering).
Mongolian “Shock Therapy”: Myths and Reality; Bill Bikales, Kunlun Associates; 5:15 p.m.; Zoom webinar; info: https://ceas.sas.upenn.edu/events (Center for East Asian Studies).
The Cunningham Lecture; John Tuomey, O’Donnell+Tuomey; 6:30 p.m.; online webinar; info: https://tinyurl.com/tuomey-talk-mar-31 (Architecture).
Anthropology
Unless noted, Zoom webinars. Info: https://anthropology.sas.upenn.edu/events.
14 Plumes: Following Movement and Taking Responsibility for Underground Worlds; Andrea Ballestero, USC; noon; room 345, Penn Museum.
21 Sense and Salience: Measuring What Matters in Hair and Skin; Tina Lasisi, Penn State; noon.
28 Homo Attentus: Technological Backlash and the Rise of Attentional Humanism; Nick Seaver, Tufts University; noon.
Asian American Studies
Unless noted, hybrid events at room 473, McNeil Building and Zoom webinars. Info: https://asam.sas.upenn.edu/events.
3 Race and Faith; Noelle Warford, Urban Tree Connection; noon.
17 Race and Work / Labor; Will González, CEIBA; noon.
22 Race and Education; Amalia Daché, GSE; noon.
24 Race and Education; Paige Joki, Education Law Center; noon.
28 Asian America Across the Disciplines; Ahmet Selim Tekelioglu, Council on American Islamic Relations Pennsylvania; 5:15 p.m.; room 315, Williams Hall.
31 Asian America Across the Disciplines: Race and Gender/Youth /Family; Edwin Desamour, The Lighthouse, Inc.; Johnny Irizarry, CLALS; noon.
Race and Gender/ Youth / Family; Edwin Desamour, Men in Motion in the Community, and Johnny Irizarry, CLALS; noon.
Biology
In-person events at Tedori Family Auditorium, Levin Building. Info: https://www.bio.upenn.edu/events.
3 Why and How Aedes Aegypti Mosquitoes Selectively Target Humans; Lindy McBride, Princeton; 4 p.m.
17 Sperm Chromatin and its Role in Embryonic Development; Sue Hammoud, University of Michigan; 4 p.m.
31 Plant-Fungal Interactions Mediate Host Stress Responses; Christine Hawkes, North Carolina State; 4 p.m.
Carey Law School
Unless noted, online webinars. Info: https://www.law.upenn.edu/newsevents/calendar.php#!view/all.
1 Vaccination Equity by Design (With Lessons for Designing Equitable Transportation, Housing, and Education Policy); Olatunde Johnson, Columbia; 5 p.m.
4 The Distinguished Holt Lecture in International Law; Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO; 11 a.m.
23 Race, Citizenship, and Political Inequality; Ming Hsu Chen, UC Hastings; 5 p.m.
28 A Regulatory Toolkit for Digital Policy; Colin Scott, University College Dublin; 4 p.m.
31 The Opioid Crisis: Pain, Profits, and Regulatory Failures; Patrick Radden Keefe, author and journalist; 5 p.m.; Golkin 100, Fitts Auditorium; register: https://pennlaw.cvent.com/c/express/b0568c62-df7e-4ce7-a531-f1b37630edad
Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies (CLALS)
Unless noted, in-person events at room 473, McNeil Building. Info: https://clals.sas.upenn.edu/events.
1 Antiracist Policies in Latin America; Giovani Rocha, political science and Africana studies; noon.
7 Section Series on Indigeneity, Afro-Descendants, and Other Marginalized Populations in Latin America; 4 p.m.
15 Women Transforming the City from the Peripheries: The Case of Rio de Janeiro; Anne-Marie Veillette, CLALS; noon.
22 The Quilombos of Brazil: Historical Struggles for Freedom; Paulo Ramos, Penn-Mellon Initiative; noon.
29 The Coevolution of Norms and Laws Around Waste Picking in Latin America; Giuseppe Danese, philosophy, politics & economics; noon; Zoom webinar.
Cartographies of Afrolatinidad: Limits and Possibilities; Amalia Daché, GSE; 5:30 p.m.; location TBA.
31 Cuba-Afro-Asian Relationship; Martin Tsang, University of Miami; noon.
Center for the Study of Contemporary China (CSCC)
Unless noted, online webinars. Info: https://cscc.sas.upenn.edu/events.
4 Beyond Decoupling: Maintaining America’s High-Tech Advantages over China; Scott Kennedy, U.S.-China Business Council; noon.
14 Can China Stop Climate Change? David Rank, former Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy Beijing; 1:45 p.m.
30 From Poverty Eradication to Common Prosperity; Continuities in Xi Jinping’s Narrow Approach to Key Social Policy Goals; Bill Bikales, Kunlun Associates; 4:30 p.m.; room 418, PCPSE.
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
In-person events at Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall. Info: https://cbe.seas.upenn.edu/events/.
2 Spying on Sugar Transporters: Kinetic Studies of Biomolecular Sensors; Lily Cheung, Georgia Institute of Technology; 3:30 p.m.
23 Too Small is Never Too Small: Utilizing Advanced Path Sampling Techniques to Probe the Kinetics and Mechanism of Rare Events, From Atmospheric Ice
Nucleation to Ion Transport; Amir Haji-Akbari, Yale; 3:30 p.m.
30 Understanding and Designing Complex Materials to Stabilize Proteins and Enable Supra-Biological Properties; Joel Kaar, University of Colorado-Boulder; 3:30 p.m.
Chemistry
Unless noted, in-person events at Carol Lynch Lecture Hall, Chemistry Complex. Info: https://www.chem.upenn.edu/events.
1 Bioinspired Small Molecule Activation for Energy-Related Catalysis; Franc Meyer, Georg-August-University Göttingen; noon.
4 Wood, Light and Electricity – Three Flavors of Synthetic Chemistry; Till Opatz, Institute of Mainz, Germany; noon.
14 New Methods for the Chemoselective Functionalization of Peptides; Caroline Proulx, North Carolina State University; noon; Zoom webinar.
15 Thermodynamic and Mechanistic Studies of CO2 Reduction Catalysts; Caroline Saouma, University of Utah; noon.
16 Reimagining Druggability using Chemoproteomic Platforms; Dan Nomura, UC Berkeley; noon; Zoom webinar.
29 Synthesis and Photophysics of First-Row Transition Metal Oxide Semiconductor Nanomaterials; Kathryn Knowles, University of Rochester; noon; Zoom webinar.
30 Modeling and Design of RNA-Only Structures; Rhiju Das, Stanford University; noon; Zoom webinar.
31 Beyond Batteries: Reimagining the Role of Ions in Electronics; Susan Fullerton, University of Pittsburgh; 1 p.m.
Classical Studies
Hybrid events at room 402, Cohen Hall, and Zoom webinars. Info: https://www.classics.upenn.edu/events.
3 Phoenician Religion and its Adaptations: Between Resilience and Innovation; Carolina López-Ruiz, Ohio State University; 4:45 p.m.
17 The Future Is Very Far Away and We Have Not Arrived There Yet: Early Christian Afterlives and Classical Receptions; Michael Chin, UC Davis; 4:45 p.m.
24 Uprooting Medea; Shivaike Shah, Khameleon Productions; 4:45 p.m.
Computer & Information Science (CIS)
Hybrid events at various locations and Zoom webinars. Info: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/events/.
1 Neural Representation and Rendering of 3D Real-world Scenes; Lingjie Liu, Max Plank Institute; 3:30 p.m.; Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall.
2 Theoretical Foundations of Pre-Trained Models; Qi Lei, Princeton; 3:30 p.m.; room 307, Levine Hall.
3 Privacy and Scalability for Decentralized Cryptographic Systems; Pratyush Mishra, UC Berkeley; 3:30 p.m.; Wu & Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall.
14 Unleashing the Potential of In-Network Computing; Daehyeok Kim, Microsoft; 3:30 p.m.; room 307, Levine Hall.
15 Foundations of Cryptographic Proof Systems; Alex Lombardi, MIT; 3:30 p.m.; room 307, Levine Hall.
16 Principled Algorithm Design in the Era of Deep Learning; Surbhi Goel, Microsoft Research; 3:30 p.m.; room 307, Levine Hall.
17 Learning-Based Program Synthesis: Learning for Program Synthesis and Program Synthesis for Learning; Xinyun Chen, UC Berkeley; 3:30 p.m.; Zoom webinar.
22 Verifiable Machine Learning for Security; Yizheng Chen, UC Berkeley; 3:30 p.m.; Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall.
23 Reasoning and Learning in Interactive Natural Language Systems; Alane Suhr, Cornell; 3:30 p.m.; room 307, Levine Hall.
24 Formal Verification of a Concurrent File System; Tej Chajed, MIT; 3:30 p.m.; Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall.
29 Quantum Computation and Cryptography: A Changing Landscape; Andrea Coladangelo, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing; 3:30 p.m.; Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall.
30 Building the Reliability Stack for Machine Learning; Eric Wong, MIT; 3:30 p.m.; room 307, Levine Hall.
31 Towards a Foundation for Reinforcement Learning; Ruosong Wang, Carnegie Mellon University; 3:30 p.m.; Zoom webinar only.
Penn Dental
Zoom webinars. Info: https://www.dental.upenn.edu/news-events/events/.
10 Ameloblastoma Biology and Management: Are We Making Progress?; Rabie Shanti, oral and maxillofacial surgery; noon.
14 One Patient’s Perspective; Bryan Cole Smith, oral medicine; 5:30 p.m.
17 Trends Between Periodontal Disease and Vascular Calcification in Undiagnosed Type II Diabetes Mellitus; Adeyinka Dayo, oral medicine; noon.
29 Are You Ready to Move from Operative to Non-Operative Treatment of Dental Caries in Your Clinical Practice?; Liviu Steier, Penn Dental; 6 p.m.
Economics
Unless noted, in-person events at room 101, PCPSE. Info: https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/events.
1 Social Choice Under Gradual Learning; Caroline Thomas, University of Texas – Austin; 4 p.m.
2 Constrained Efficient Allocation of Household Financial Sophistication and Wealth; Min Kim, economics; noon; room 200, PCPSE.
What Can Time-Series Regressions Tell Us About Policy Counterfactuals? Alisdair McKay, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis; 4 p.m.
3 Learning Through Repetition? A Dynamic Evaluation of Grade Retention in Portugal; Emilio Borghesan, economics; 3:30 p.m.
14 Testing for the Superior Forecasting Ability of Trading Rules Under Extensive Data Snooping Efforts; Dan Gabriel Anghel, University of Bucharest, Romania; noon.
Bridging Factor and Sparse Models; Ricardo Pereira Masini, Princeton; 4:30 p.m.
15 Who Completes College? The Effect of Eliminating the SAT on College Enrollment and Educational Attainment; Emilio Borghesan, economics; noon; room 202, PCPSE.
Outside Options, Reputations, and the Partial Success of the Coase Conjecture; Jack Fanning, Brown University; 3:30 p.m.
16 Rising Markups and the Role of Consumer Preferences; Nathan Miller, Georgetown; 3:30 p.m.; room 1203, Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall.
The Macroeconomics of Intensive Agriculture; Hannes Malmberg, University of Minnesota; 4 p.m.
17 Social Networks with Unobserved Links; Xun Tang, Rice University; 3:30 p.m.
21 The Quantile Effect of Macroprudential Policy; Hsin-Yi Lin, National Chengchi University, Taiwan; noon.
Constrained Classification and Policy Learning; Toru Kitagawa, Brown University; 3:30 p.m.
22 Growing a Mega City; Xuequan Elsie Peng, economics; noon; room 202, PCPSE.
On the Structure of Informationally Robust Optimal Auctions; Ben Brooks, University of Chicago; 4 p.m.
23 The Bank Distress Amplifier of Recessions; Dohan Kim, economics; noon; room 200, PCPSE.
24 Empirical Microeconomics Seminar Joint with Industrial Organization; Peter Hull, Brown; 3:30 p.m.
28 Deep Learning for Individual Heterogeneity: An Automatic Inference Framework; Max Farrell, University of Chicago; 4:30 p.m.
29 Sequential Veto Bargaining with Incomplete Information; Andreas Kleiner, Arizona State; 4 p.m.
30 Structural Change or Declining Competition?; Ricardo Vieira Marto, economics; noon; room 200, PCPSE.
Spillover Effects of Opening a Market: A Study of the Indian Cellphone and Wireless Service Markets; Ying Fan, University of Michigan; 3:30 p.m.; room 1203, Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall.
Sectoral Shocks and Mismatch Unemployment; Laura Pilossoph, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; 3:30 p.m.
31 Teacher Labor Market Equilibrium and Student Achievement; Isaac Sorkin, Stanford; 3:30 p.m.
Electrical & Systems Engineering (ESE)
Hybrid events at room 225, Towne Building, and Zoom webinars. Info: https://events.seas.upenn.edu/calendar/tag/ese/list/.
29 New Frontiers in Quantum Simulation and Computation with Neutral Atom Arrays; Giulia Semeghini, Harvard; 11 a.m.
30 Building Photonic Systems for Extreme-Scale Computing, Particle Accelerations, and Beyond; Kiyoul Yang, Stanford; 10:30 a.m.
31 From Exact Laws to Design Principles of Quantum Information Machines; Davide Girolami, Politecnico di Torino; 11 a.m.
Graduate School of Education (GSE)
Unless noted, hybrid events at room 203, GSE and Zoom webinars. Info: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/news/events-calendar.
2 Open Education Resources (OER) as Disruptive Innovation; Richard Baraniuk, Rice University; 1 p.m.; online webinar.
4 Unpacking Differences in Outcomes from High School Career & Technical Education; Walter Ecton, GSE; 12:30 p.m.
23 Visiting Faculty Scholars of Color; Savannah Shange, UC Santa Cruz; noon; Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall.
25 The Effects of Teacher Evaluation in the District of Columbia Public Schools; James Wyckoff, University of Virginia; 12:30 p.m.
GRASP Lab
In-person events at Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall. Info: https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/events/month/2022-03/.
4 Multi-Legged Slipping is Simpler Than You Think; Shai Revzen, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; 10:30 a.m.
16 The Reasonable Effectiveness of Dynamic Manipulation for Deformable Objects; Shuran Song, Columbia University; 3 p.m.; room 512, Levine Hall.
18 Observing, Learning and Executing Fine-Grained Manipulation Activities; Gregory Hager, Johns Hopkins University; 10:30 a.m.
25 Bio-Inspired Motion Analysis; Cornelia Fermüller, University of Maryland; 10:30 a.m.
Historic Preservation
Online and in-person events. Info: https://www.design.upenn.edu/historic-preservation/events.
2 The Doubleness of Beirut’s Ruins: Between a Past War and Wars Yet to Come; Hiba Bou Akar, Columbia GSAPP; noon; Kleinman Forum, Fisher Fine Arts Library.
17 Excavating and Re-Creating Color and Texture at Stenton; Catherine Myers, Myers Conservation; noon; upper gallery, Meyerson Hall.
23 Destructive Reconstruction and the Exclusive Rebuilding of Cities; Ammar Azzouz, Arup, noon; Zoom webinar.
31 Cuban Modernism and Challenges for Preservation; Monty Freeman, Belmont Freeman Architects; 5:30 p.m.; Upper Gallery, Meyerson Hall.
History of Art
Hybrid events at room B3, Meyerson Hall and Zoom webinars. Info: https://arth.sas.upenn.edu/calendar/month/2022-03.
4 Olav's Axe: Woodcarving and Structures of Power in Medieval Iceland and Norway; Robyn Barrow, history of art; 3:30 p.m.
18 The Miraculous Circumnavigation: Devotional Objects, Scale, and Geographic Vastness in the Colonial Philippines; Sunghoon Lee, history of art; 3:30 p.m.
25 The Sexuality of a Hard Edge: Leon Polk Smith, Ellsworth Kelly, and Robert Indiana; Jonathan Katz, history of art; 3:30 p.m.
Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
Zoom webinars. Info: https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/events.
3 Designing the Daf: The Creation of the Talmud Page as We Know It; Edward Fram, Ben Gurion University of the Negev; noon.
10 Copyists, Collectors, and Curators: Stocking the Rabbinic Bookshelf; Joshua Teplitsky, Stony Brook University; noon.
15 Legal Knowledge and Everyday Practice in Medieval Ashkenaz; Elisheva Baumgarten, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; 5 p.m.
29 The Israeli Declaration of Independence: Between Prophetic Message and Constitutional Platform; Menahem Ben-Sasson, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; noon.
Korean Studies
In-person events. Info: https://korea.sas.upenn.edu/events.
3 The Topography of Crime and the Desire to Tail: Detective Fiction in Colonial Korea; Jooyeon Rhee, Penn State; noon; room 623, Williams Hall.
17 From Colonial Port to Post-Colonial Exports: Containerization, East Asia, and Re-evaluating Technology Transfer (1945-1973); John Dimoia, Seoul National University; noon; room 543, Williams Hall.
31 Becoming Global Beauty: K-Beauty, Koreanness, and Race; Dasol Kim, CDCS; noon; location TBA.
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI)
Online webinars. Info: https://ldi.upenn.edu/events/.
4 An Action Plan for Reducing Opioid Overdose Deaths; panel of speakers; noon.
16 Implications of Medicare Policy for Older Adult Functioning and Care; Geoffrey Hoffman, University of Houston; noon.
18 Research Seminar; Anupam Jena, Harvard; noon.
Mathematics
Locations vary. Info: https://www.math.upenn.edu/events.
1 Intracellular Droplet Dynamics in Phase Separated Systems; Kelsey Gasior, University of Ottowa; 4 p.m.; room A1, DRL, and Zoom webinar.
2 Beyond the Frontier: Algorithm Design for Fair Machine Learning; Michael Kearns, mathematics; 3:45 p.m.; room A6, DRL.
3 Scalar Curvature, Minimal Surfaces, and Hyperbolizable 3-Manifolds; Ben Lowe, Princeton; 5:15 p.m.; Zoom webinar.
14 Elementary Universal Algebra and Real Analysis; Peter Freyd, mathematics; 3:30 p.m.; online webinar.
On a Refinement of a Conjecture of Colliot-Thelene; Zhaodong Cai, mathematics; 3:30 p.m.; room 4C6, DRL.
15 Metric Growth Dynamics in Liouville Quantum Gravity; Hugo Falconet, Courant Institute; 3:30 p.m.; room 4C8, DRL.
Modeling and Topological Data Analysis for Biological Ring Channel Dynamics; Veronica Ciocanel, Duke University; 4 p.m.; Zoom webinar.
16 p-Adic Geometry and Problems in Algebra; David Harbater, math; 3:45 p.m.; location TBA.
23 Beyond the Frontier: Algorithm Design for Fair Machine Learning; Michael Kearns, mathematics; 3:45 p.m.; room A6, DRL.
24 Area Extremality and Nonnegative Curvature in Dimension 4; Jackson Goodman, UC Berkeley; 5:15 p.m.; room 4C8, DRL.
29 Graphon Dynamical Systems: A Law of Large Numbers, Large Deviations, and Metastability; Georgi Medvedev, Drexel University; 4 p.m.; room A1, DRL, and Zoom webinar.
30 The Math Underlying Proof of Work and Proof of Stake in Blockchains; Tal Rabin, mathematics; 3:45 p.m.; room A6, DRL.
31 Tiered Trees, Theta Operators, Delta Conjectures; Alessandro Iraci, UQAM; 3:30 p.m.; room 4C4, DRL.
Progress on the Canham and Willmore Problems; Rob Kusner, UMass; 5:15 p.m.; Zoom webinar.
Medical Ethics & Health Policy
Online and in-person events. Info: https://medicalethicshealthpolicy.med.upenn.edu/events.
1 Policing the Womb: The Politicization of Reproduction; Michele Bratcher Goodwin, UC Irvine; noon; room 108, ARCH.
7 (R)Evolution of the 3Rs: Reflections on Art, Ethics, and Science; F. Claire Hankenson, Penn Vet; noon, Class of ’62 Auditorium, John Morgan Building, and Zoom webinar.
8 Ethics of Surgical Selection; Casey Jo Humbyrd, medical ethics & health policy; noon; Zoom webinar.
15 COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in Solid Organ Transplant Candidates; Aliza Narva, HUP; noon; Zoom webinar.
29 Incorporating Social Determinants of Health into Clinical and Public Health Practice: Ethical and Policy Challenges; Renuka Tipirneni, University of Michigan; noon; Zoom webinar.
Microbiology
Hybrid events at Austrian Auditorium, CRB, and BlueJeans webinars. Join: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/xqbzwhrb.
2 Role of Standard and Non-Standard Viruses Within a Virus Community; Carolina Lopez, Washington University; noon.
16 Regulation of Neonatal Host-Microbiota Mutualism by Maternal Antibodies; Meghan Koch, University of Washington; noon.
23 Respiratory Viral Infection: From Acute Morbidity to Chronic Sequelae; Jie Sun, Mayo Clinic; noon.
30 Salmonella Under the Microscope; Leigh Knodler, Washington State University; noon.
Middle East Center
Unless noted, online events. Info: https://mec.sas.upenn.edu/events/.
2 Should I Stay or Should I Go: The Arc of American Power in the Middle East; Sean Yom, Temple; 6:30 p.m.
23 Horizons of Israeli-Palestinian Relations After the Peace Process; Nathaniel Shils, political science; 6:30 p.m.
29 The Outlaw Ocean Project: The Migration Crisis Off the Coast of Libya; Ian Urbina, New York Times; 5:30 p.m.
31 Social Change and the Global Middle East; Noura Erakat, Rutgers; Lisa Anderson, Columbia; 4:30 p.m.; room 250, PCPSE.
Nursing
Online webinars. Info: https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/calendar/.
2 Introduction to Design Justice: Community-Led Reflections from the Philly Node; panel of speakers; noon.
16 To Protect the Mother and the Baby: Black Infant Mortality in Historical Perspective; Wangui Muigai, Brandeis University; 4 p.m.
Population Studies Center
Unless noted, in-person events at room 150, McNeil Building. Info: https://www.pop.upenn.edu/.
7 Social Inequalities and the Onset of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: Modeling Assumptions Central to Findings; Sean Clouston, Stony Brook Medicine; noon.
14 Women's Health: Population Patterns and Social Determinants; Susan Short, Brown; noon.
18 Early Life-Conditions and Older Adult Health, Behavior and Well-Being; panel of speakers; 2 p.m.; hybrid event (locations TBA).
21 Cognitive Decline and Dementia Among Older Latinos in the United States: Current Knowledge, Controversies, and Future Directions; Marc Garcia, Syracuse University; noon.
Sociology
Hybrid events at room 367, McNeil Building, and Zoom webinars. Info: https://sociology.sas.upenn.edu/events.
2 How the State Shapes Human Potential; Heba Gowayed, Boston University; noon; room 150, McNeil Building.
3 The Wuhan Lockdown; Guobin Yang, sociology; 9:30 a.m.
14 Wealth Premiums by College Degree and College Sector; Alex Adames, sociology; 10 a.m.
16 Latino Elites as Ethnoracial Capitalists; Jody Agius Vallejo, University of Southern California; noon; room 150, McNeil Building.
17 Understanding Subjective Inequality in China; Xi Song, sociology; 9:30 a.m.
18 His and Hers Earnings Trajectories: Analyzing Links Between Husbands' and Wives' Long-Term Earnings Patterns; Allison Dunatchik, sociology; noon.
21 "She Can Get a Visa": Intersectional Identity Work at a Kenyan NGO; Shaquilla Harrigan, sociology; 10 a.m.
23 The Racism of Omission; Rory Kramer, Villanova University; noon; room 150, McNeil Building.
25 Resegregated Schools, Racial Attitudes, and Long-Run Partisanship: Evidence for White Backlash; Taylor Mattia, CSERI; noon.
28 “Not Nearly as Bad”: Social Comparisons and Responsibility in Debt Management; Ellen Bryer, sociology; 10 a.m.
30 Paradoxes of Survivorhood; Paige Sweet, University of Michigan; noon; room 150, McNeil Building.