Upcoming Events

Trauma and Healing in Israel Today

Join Penn’s Katz Center, the Weitzman Museum, and the Koret Center for Jewish Civilization for an online lecture series exploring contemporary issues related to health and medicine in Israel. Throughout its history, Israel has earned a reputation for innovation and advancement in medical science, and placed a special focus on public health as part of the state-building enterprise.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.

The Office of Academic Excellence and Engagement in the School of Arts & Sciences invites you to join us for breakfast and welcome Dr.Go to event

Since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the U.S. military has been fighting incessantly in conflicts around the globe, often with inconclusive results. The legacies of these conflicts have serious implications for how the United States will wage war in the future. Yet there is a stunning lack of introspection about these conflicts. Never in modern U.S. history has the military been at war for so long. And never in U.S. history have such long wars demanded so much of so few. The legacy of wars without end include a military that feels the painful effects of war but often feels alone.Go to event

Based on six-year fieldwork across China including over 200 in-depth interviews, Qiao’s new book The Authoritarian Commons: Neighborhood Democratization in Urban China provides an ethnographic account of how hundreds of millions of Chinese homeowners practice democracy in and beyond their condominium complexes.Go to event

Cole Rizki, Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, will present a talk titled "Choreographies of Survival, Art of Repair." This talk will draw on Professor Rizki's ethnographic work with travesti and trans survivors of dictatorship focused on their negotiations with the police camera (mug shots) and surveillance, as well as photographic analysis of a recent exhibition by photographer Germán Menna that includes trans portraiture. This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the CLALS Graduate Advisory Board, and GSWS/FQT.

This talk draws on a book project by the same title. It seeks to offer a structural account of the remarkable political and economic transformation of the Chinese working class since 1949. My title is a deliberate reference to E.P. Thompson’s classic Making of the English Working Class.Go to event

The Wolf Humanities Center's 2024–2025 Undergraduate Research Fellows present their research on "Keywords" at the 24th Annual Undergraduate Humanities Forum Research Conference. 

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Is the writing of Jewish history possible without tears and tales of woe? This was the challenge leveled nearly a hundred years ago by perhaps the most influential Jewish historian in the United States, Salo Baron. Since then, scholars have worked to ensure that Jewish history is not reduced to a tale of suffering alone, and rightly so. But in recent years historians of Jewish life—from the Ancient Mediterranean to the modern Americas—have begun to wonder if perhaps we have written suffering and sadness too far out of the stories we tell.Go to event