60-Second Lectures
Time and Location
This fall semester's 60-Second Lectures will take place at this year's New Student Orientation Expo. Join us for a virtual screening on Wednesday, August 28 at 12 pm ET.
To see a line-up of this semester's faculty presenters, and to register for the virtual screening, please click HERE.
Featured Lectures
Josephine Park, School of Arts and Sciences President's Distinguished Professor of English
Paula Fomby, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology
William Sturkey, Associate Professor of History
Special 60 Second Lectures
Penn Arts & Sciences’ long-running 60-Second Lectures presents a special series of Living the Hard Promise themed lectures. See our faculty talks on “Asian America and the Hard Promise,” “Why Listening Matters,” and “The Liberating Arts.”
60-Second Lectures on Racial Injustice.
This set of short talks spotlights the history and contemporary manifestations of racism in the U.S., Black lives and culture, and the range of factors that have contributed to this moment.
1.5 Minute Climate Lectures to sound the alarm about the climate emergency, to call for large-scale climate action, and to share a vision of constructive and comprehensive response.
No upcoming lectures at this time. Please check back later.
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Paul Sniegowski, Stephen A. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Biology
Marsha Lester, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Susanna Berkouwer, Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, The Wharton School
William W. Braham, Professor of Architecture and Director of the Master of Environmental Building Design and of the Center for Environmental Building + Design, Stuart Weitzman School of Design
Akira Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Graduate City and Regional Planning, Stuart Weitzman School of Design
Daniel Nothaft, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering