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.

No upcoming lectures at this time. Please check back later.

Past Lightbulb Cafe Events


Penn Lightbulb Café - Songs of Dissent: Poetry and Antiracist Solidarity

Speaker: Josephine Park

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Speaker: Herman Beavers

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Poetry is personal and public, political and social.

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Penn Lightbulb Café: This Land is My/Our/Their Land

Speaker: Jared Farmer, Professor of History

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Speaker: Bethany Wiggin, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Director of the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities

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With storm surges and wildfires causing heartbreaking property damage, the environmental is the emotional. But that’s always been the case.

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CANCELLED: Israel and Palestine: Man Plans and God Laughs

Speaker: Ian Lustick

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We regret to inform you that this Lightbulb Cafe, scheduled for June 17, has been cancelled. 

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