Expert faculty shed light on their research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences at the Penn Lightbulb Café. It's an evening of engaging, stimulating conversation, with a Q&A session following each talk.

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Past Lightbulb Cafe Events


Looted Jewish Books, Nazi Collections, and Their American Afterlives

Speaker: Kathy Peiss

Penn Lightbulb Café

This event is free an open to the public. 

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Tools of the Trade: Geometry, Pharmacy, Medicine and Alchemy

Speaker: Renata Holod

Penn Lightbulb Café

Based on artifacts excavated from archaeological sites in Iran, this talk will consider the problem of identifying tools and their users, which would have been used in professions and crafts in the 7th - 13th centuries.

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