Upcoming Events

Join us on the Penn campus for an enthralling dialogue between the incredible poet and Penn alumnus Joshua Bennett and the dynamic communicator Carlos Andrés Gómez!

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The Nova music festival attack left deep scars on countless survivors and their families, compounded by the added complexity of experiencing trauma while under the influence of psychedelics. Join us for a thought-provoking conversation with Professor Roy Salomon, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Haifa and co-founder of SafeHeart, an organization providing psychological aid to survivors of the Nova music festival attack.

Over the last half of the 20th century, a steady increase in government and contractual allocations to carceral facilities, such as jails and prisons, has evolved alongside increasing immigrant detention at the federal level. This talk will examine the relationship between prison building, privatization, and the expansion of the immigrant detention system in towns and counties across the United States since 1980.

Since photography's invention, black life has been presented as fraught, short, agonizingly filled with violence, and indifferent to intervention: living death—mortevivum—in a series of still frames that refuse a complex humanity. In Mortevivum, Kimberly Juanita Brown shows us how the visual logic of documentary photography and the cultural legacy of empire have come together to produce the understanding that blackness and suffering—and death—are inextricable.Go to event

The 2025 presidential transition continues to generate strong reactions across a diverse spectrum of American voters, along with heightened scrutiny of the vulnerabilities and strengths of U.S. democracy.

Join Peter Struck, Stephen A. Levin Family Dean of the College, and a panel of faculty experts at The Times Center for a wide-ranging and nuanced discussion of what makes for a democracy, whether democracies today—nationally and internationally—are imperiled, and what can be done to strengthen democracy. 
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On February 6th, join us for a compelling dialogue with Jenny Andersson, Professor at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Dr. Troels Skadhauge, a recent PhD graduate from the University of Pennsylvania, for a conversation titled, "Scandinavian Social Democracy as an Alternative to Liberal Democracy?" This event offers an opportunity to explore the distinct principles underlying Scandinavian social democracy and how it diverges from liberal democracy in its approach to economic policy, political organization, and cultural priorities.Go to event

This talk explores the transnational aspects of K-pop, Korean popular music, and the complicated meaning of “K” in K-pop. While K-pop constantly represents a specific ethnic-national identity, it is now common to see non-Korean and non-Asian musicians in the field. There are even K-pop groups consisting entirely of non-Asian members who promote themselves as K-pop. This raises several questions: What is K-pop? What does the K in K-pop mean if there is no Koreanness? How does the expanding ethnic boundary of K-pop affect the way people view the genre? What constitutes K-pop today?Go to event

This event is a segment of the Healing Women in Jewish History lecture series.

New histories of medicine and the body offer a more direct vantage on women’s experiences than traditional approaches mediated through the sources and concerns of men. This series explores what we know about women as both practitioners and patients throughout Jewish history, and what we stand to learn from such scholarship about women’s lives more generally.

This event is the 3rd Annual Howard Jay Reiter Memorial Lecture.

Established by family and friends in memory of beloved Katz Center board member Howard Jay Reiter z''l, this lecture series shares insights and discoveries from Israeli scholarship with the University of Pennsylvania community.

Historic hurricanes, weeks of fires in major metropolises, the warmest year on record... Climate change has become a unifying crisis in not only the United States but across the globe. Join us to talk to acclaimed writer Malcolm Harris about his new book What's Left, which takes up several alternative ways through the climate crisis. From liberal marketcraft to communist revolution, Harris explores various alternatives for resolving the seemingly unresolvable tensions between the environment and global capitalism today.Go to event