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Penn Arts & Sciences' long-running Knowledge by the Slice lunchtime series offers educational talks led by our insightful faculty experts. Did we mention there’s pizza? So come for the discussion and have a slice on us.  To watch past Knowledge by the Slice lectures, please click here. 

Join us for a special Earth Edition of Knowledge by the Slice, featuring Simon Richter. 

Featured Speaker

Simon Richter is the Class of 1942 Endowed Term Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and member of the Graduate Group in Comparative Literature, a Perry World House faculty fellow and faculty fellow of the Penn Institute of Urban Research, faculty advisory board member of the Water Center at Penn and affiliated with the Programs in Cinema and Media Studies and Environmental Humanities. Courses he has recently taught include: Water Worlds: Cultural Responses to Sea Level Rise and Catastrophic Flooding; Forest Worlds: Mapping the Arboreal Imaginary; and Writing in Dark Times. This Spring Semester 2023, he has been teaching a Penn Global Seminar on Comparative Cultures of Resilience and Sustainability in the Netherlands and the United States. Together with Fine Arts Professor Joshua Mosley and a team of undergrad artists, he produces animated videos about climate adaptation, known as Project Poldergeist.