Event

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. Lunch and 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 1-2 p.m. ET for the Humanities category.

Vote Here

Featured Speakers:

Silent Dissent: How Girls’ Magazines in Wartime Japan Negotiated Empire and Expression
Marina de Melo do Nascimento, East Asian Languages & Civilizations

Mother Has Arrived: Reclaiming Birth from Erasure
Deion Dresser, Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies

How I’ll Study My 12th Language (and Why Duolingo Isn’t It)
Asher Maria, Comparative Literature & Literary Theory

Crowdfunding in Ancient Greece
Peter Satterthwaite, Ancient History

What You Really Ought To Do: The Nature of Law and Other Moral Systems
Max Stainton, Philosophy and Law

Click HERE for a full list of all of this year's Penn Grad Talks finalist speakers.