Upcoming Events

Open expression is a hard promise: it is both a firm commitment and an extraordinarily difficult one. The mission of a great university requires that we question our assumptions and try to look through the eyes of others. Only through such dialogue can we begin to wrestle with the most challenging issues of our times.
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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.Go to event

A roundtable discussion with:

Duong Ly, Operations Director of VietLead (Penn‘15)

Howie Tam, Assistant Professor of English at Brandeis University (Penn‘19)

Linda Pheng, Assistant Professor at Penn Graduate School of Education

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.Go to event

NoBeC (Norms and Behavioral Change) Talks showcase interdisciplinary early career and senior researchers working on norms and behavioral change around the world.

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Join the Penn Alumni Water Forum on Friday, May 16th for the next edition of our Speaker Spotlight series which will feature a preview of our next Corporate Roundtable White Paper focused on Water Systems Structures and Governance.

This Alumni Weekend, join Penn Arts & Sciences’ Interim Dean and renowned Chopin scholar Jeffrey Kallberg for the inside story behind the recent identification of a lost Chopin waltz, a find that has captivated scholars and music lovers alike. Kallberg will perform the piece, discuss its significance, and take audience questions. Coffee and light breakfast will be served from 9–9:30 a.m. and the lecture will follow.

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