Penn Grad Talks - Humanities Category

Join us for a day of TED Talk-style presentations by Penn Arts & Sciences graduate students representing the Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Professional Master’s programs as they compete for first place and audience choice prizes within their category. 

This event is open to the Penn community and the general public. Refreshments, including vegan and vegetarian options, will be served throughout the day.

Can't make it to the event? Watch the Penn Grad Talks livestream on YouTube. 

Participate by voting for the overall AUDIENCE CHOICE winner! 

Voting will be open from 2-3 p.m. ET for the Humanities category. 

Text your selection to (502) 805-4724 - One vote per category.

Featured Speakers:

Text 15 - Peter Greenaway’s Reanimation of the Last Supper
Juliette Bellacosa, French and Francophone, Italian and Germanic Studies

Text 16 - A Mythology of Ends and Origins: The American Desert in Contemporary French and Francophone Fictions
Marie Bellec, French and Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies 

Text 17 - Veneration, Destruction, and Debate: The Contested History of Graves, Tombs, and Shrines in Bilād as-Ṣūmāl
Mohamud Mohamed, History

Text 18 - Creative Music Practices as Embodied Multimodal Research
Susanna Payne-Passmore, Music

Text 19 - Aging Virtuously: Cicero on Old Age, Disability, and Character
Kyle West, Ancient History

If a phone is not available, votes also accepted here for the Humanities category: https://www.tallyspace.com/63ecce0469c4c.

LIVESTREAM

Click HERE to see the full event schedule and a listing of this year's Penn Grad Talks finalist speakers.