Upcoming Events

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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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.

Can't make it to the event? Watch the Penn Grad Talks livestream on YouTube (link coming soon). 

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

Water is essential for human life, yet governments frequently leave vulnerable citizens to rely on informal channels for access. What can motivate governments to provide public services such as water to citizens trapped in informality? In this seminar, Prof. Gaikwad theorizes how accessing state services involves distinct strategic interactions between citizens, bureaucrats, and politicians at different formalization stages.Go to event

Join the Penn Center for Africana Studies to hear Melanie White discuss her latest book project, Sovereign Mosquitia: Intimate Colonial Violence and Black Feminist Refusal!

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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.

Join us for a lecture with Akemi Kochiyama, hosted by ASAM Lecturer Rob Buscher in his course Asian American Activism.

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What does it mean to push for democracy through performance? How would a history of democratization in South Korea look different if we utilize the body and affect as a critical analytic in writing history?

When five cyclones hit the Arabian seas in 2019, the Maharashtra Government sought to deal with each in isolation as a spectacular climate event in line with its ahistorical, technocratic approach to the climate crisis. But fishers across the region organized politically to articulate their experience of this slow disaster through what they called matsya dushkal (fish drought).Go to event

The Global Discovery Lecture Series lets you explore the world virtually, both far and near, with Penn faculty members and your fellow alumni community. Each live, interactive lecture features Penn professors sharing new and innovative research on a variety of topics. Participants will have the opportunity to ask in-depth questions and are sure to learn something new in each one hour session.

Calling all Quaker film buffs and Oscar enthusiasts!Go to event