Upcoming Events

Be sure to stop by the Penn Arts & Sciences Tent for an opportunity to reconnect with other College alumni, take pictures at our fun photobooth, pick up some unique Penn swag, and find out about opportunities to get involved.Go to event

The 2025 biennial fellows’ conference explores how the surge in political violence, the ongoing genocide and its subsequent censorship, conditions knowledge production in the field of global media and communication studies. In 2024, student activists across college campuses raised awareness about what the United Nations and the International Court of Justice believe to be a genocide in Gaza. One year later, this conference asks not what a global approach to media and communication can achieve today, but rather, what it should strive to accomplish?
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For Indian economic thinkers at the dawn of the 20th century—and their sympathetic observers abroad—India's industrial ascendance seemed inevitable. The nation's textile workers operated the same spinning frames and mule spindles used in England, signaling what many believed would be India's imminent mechanized transformation. Yet India's "failure" to fully industrialize remains one of development economics' most perplexing puzzles.Go to event