Upcoming Events

The Penn Museum, in collaboration with the Center for Africana Studies, is excited to present "Designing Blackness in Brazil," an interdisciplinary and international workshop dedicated to reimagining museums as inclusive, dynamic spaces that authentically represent African and African Diasporic identities.Go to event

Overruled follows the lives and aspirations of male refugees from Afghanistan who work as “ball boys” in tennis clubs in Iran. While excelling at tennis, they come to realize that, no matter how skilled they are, they will be excluded from the sport and barred from participating in games simply because they are “Afghan.” They face discrimination, are denied permanent residency and citizenship in Iran, and live under the constant threat of detention and deportation. Should they undertake the dangerous journey and flee by land to Europe?Go to event

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Get ready for a lively, interactive Science Café with Penn math professor Robin Pemantle and Penn physics senior lecturer Bill Ashmanskas, both members of Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Innovation’s active learning seminar! 

Join us for an engaging, interactive conversation about Pemantle’s new book, There Is No One Way to Teach Math, in which he and his co-author, veteran high-school teacher Henri Picciotto, share their collaborative insights.Go to event

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. 

On December 3, 2024, in a surprising move, President Yoon of South Korea declared emergency martial law, which was revoked six hours later after lawmakers blocked the order with a Parliament vote. Along with the indictment of the president on insurrection charges, the Constitutional Court is conducting the impeachment trial.
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The “newly mobile” and “newly banked” (erstwhile “unbanked”) populations, particularly in the Global South, have been targeted with financial solutions in payment, lending, and insurance by start-up funded fintech companies and super platforms, entangling entire lifeworlds within digital markets and transactions. Telecom companies and state-backed biometric identity schemes enable fintech to authenticate and procure new financial customers.Go to event

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Asian America Across the Disciplines Series presents Read behind Images: How Picture Books Reinforce Stereotypes with Professor and Author Dr. Juwen Zhang, Willamette University.

In this talk, based on his personal experience and recently published book, Translating, Interpreting, and Decolonizing Chinese Fairy Tales, Dr. Juwen Zhang explores how racist stereotypes have deeply ingrained themselves into our lives.Go to event

The Yoonmee Chang Memorial Lecture welcomes author, filmmaker and activist Curtis Chin.

Please join us for a special evening on Wednesday, March 26, 2025 at 5PM for a conversation about Curtis Chin recent award-winning memoir, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant.

Meet the author and get your copy signed after the lecture.

On Wednesday, March 26th, join author and professor Juan Llamas Rodriguez, University of Pennsylvania's Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies, Mexican Cultural Center and Community College of Philadelphia for a screening of Y Tu Mamá También and the release of Llamas-Rodriguez' book on the film.