Upcoming Events

Join us for a captivating evening celebrating the Abayudaya Jewish community of Uganda through the lens of photographer and filmmaker Peter Decherney. This program will feature an exhibition of Decherney’s stunning portraits and films, followed by an engaging panel discussion on the Abayudaya’s rich history, religious practices, and vibrant culture.

In conjunction with the Wolf Humanities Center’s 2024–2025 Forum on Keywords, this symposium engages mobile concepts and their genealogies, histories, structures of meaning, translations, and adaptations across time and space. In three panels curated around the Raymond Williams keywords of “Aesthetics,” “Imperialism,” and “Humanity,” we focus on themes that drive cultural and social concepts and inspire global interlocution across languages, perspectives, and temporalities. 

Join the Asian American Studies Program at Penn for a panel discussion on career and volunteer pathways to our local Philadelphia community nonprofits. Learn from our panelists and moderator Mohan Seshadri about their career paths and way you can get involved! Coming Home panelists will discuss the different careers that brought them to today's impactful work.

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The Scholar for a Day is a day-long seminar, organized by Penn graduate students of all disciplines, designed to provide students and faculty with exposure to a leading scholar in African Studies. The event allows for intensive engagement with authors of significant theoretical approaches to Africanist scholarship as well as providing an opportunity to gain insight into the professional process--the evolution of new empirical and theoretical interests, the methodologies of research and writing, and the process of collaboration between scholars. This year's keynote speaker is Prof.Go to 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. Refreshments, including vegan and vegetarian options, will be served throughout the day.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This keynote talk explores the form of Persianate politics across Central, South, and West Asia. Using 18th century South Asia as a case study, Columbia University scholar Mana Kia considers the social bonds that linked people and collectives of different origins, religions, social status, occupations, and positions of power. These bonds, defined by intimacy, were central to the very possibility of good governance before colonialism.Go to event