Wolf Humanities CenterAll Events 2017-18
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September 15, 2:00pm—September 16, 7:00pm
Friday: 402 Cohen Hall / Saturday: 345 Penn Museum
Making and Materiality: Studio Arts in a Liberal Arts Education
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September 27, 5:00pm—6:30pm
Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Ghosts, Zombies, and the Afterlives of Slavery
Colson Whitehead, Salamishah Tillet
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October 4, 7:00pm—9:00pm
International House Philadelphia, 3701 Chestnut Street
Documenting Nuclear Afterlives
Adam Diller, Fathima Nizaruddin, Thorsten Trimpop
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October 11, 5:00pm—6:30pm
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
The Psychology of Soul and Afterlife
Gordon Bermant, Paul Rozin
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October 12, 12:30pm
Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut Street
A Conversation with Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk, Robert Finn
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October 18, 5:00pm—6:30pm
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
The Ancient Greeks and the Future of the Human Race
Edith Hall
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October 25, 12:00pm—1:00pm
Wolf Auditorium, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk
The Legacy of the Reformation after 500 Years
Carlos Eire
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October 25, 5:00pm—6:30pm
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
The Afterlives of Babies: A View from West Africa
Alma Gottlieb
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October 26, 5:00pm—6:30pm
Claire M. Fagin Hall, 418 Curie Blvd.
Language for a Protactile World
Terra Edwards
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November 5, 12:00pm—1:00pm
International House, 1414 E 59th St., Chicago, IL
Conspiracies and Common Sense: From Founding to the Trump Era
Sophia Rosenfeld
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November 8, 5:00pm—6:30pm
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Democracy After Populism
Jan-Werner Mueller
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November 12, 2:00pm
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Forever, Chinatown
Film Screening
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November 15, 5:00pm—6:30pm
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Why We Are (Still) Posthuman
N. Katherine Hayles
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January 14, 2:00pm
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
The Venice Syndrome
Film Screening
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January 24, 5:00pm—6:30pm
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Urban Life in the Era of Climate Change
Ashley Dawson, Daniel Aldana Cohen
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January 25, 5:00pm
Wolf Room, McNeil Center, 3355 Woodland Walk
A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain
Christina Crosby, Janet Jakobsen
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January 31, 7:00pm
Lightbox Film Center, International House Philadelphia, 3701 Chestnut Street
The Blood of Jesus
Film Screening
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February 7, 7:00pm
Lightbox Film Center, International House Philadelphia, 3701 Chestnut Street
Body and Soul
Film Screening
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February 14, 7:00pm
Lightbox Film Center, International House Philadelphia, 3701 Chestnut Street
Borderline
Film Screening
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February 15, 5:00pm—7:00pm
Max Kade Center, 3401 Walnut Street, Room 329A
Where Did the Villain Get His Mustache? An Excavation
Peter Schwartz
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February 16, 9:00am—6:30pm
Kislak Center, 6th floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
After Matter: Rupture, Persistence, Survival
Conference
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February 21, 7:00pm
Lightbox Film Center, International House Philadelphia, 3701 Chestnut Street
The Watermelon Woman
Film Screening
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February 28, 5:00pm—6:30pm
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Cultured Meat and Three Futures for Flesh
Benjamin Wurgaft
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March 11, 2:00pm
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Have You Seen the Arana?
Film Screening
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March 15, 12:45pm—March 16, 7:30pm
Max Kade Center and Slought Foundation
Contested Bodies
Conference
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March 16, 9:00am—3:15pm
Kislak Center, 6th floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Pushing Daisies
Conference
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March 16, 5:30pm—6:15pm
Perry World House, 3803 Locust Walk
Death, Writing, Race, and Freedom
Edwidge Danticat
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March 19, 10:00am—11:30am
Class of '55, 2nd Fl, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, 3420 Walnut St
Teaching Race: A Roundtable
David Eng, Sebastián Gil-Riaño, Susan Lindee, Quayshawn Spencer
Conference
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March 23, 10:00am—7:00pm
Carolyn Hoff Lynch Lecture Hall, Chemistry Building, 231 S. 34th St.
Seeing More in the Work of Art
Conference
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March 23, 3:00pm—5:00pm
Max Kade Center, 3401 Walnut Street, Room 329A
The Virtue of Play: Games and Stories for Children in the German Enlightenment
Elliott Schreiber
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March 23, 3:00pm—4:00pm
Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut St
Weathering the Environments of Modernity
John Durham Peters
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March 27, 7:00pm—8:30pm
International House Philadelphia, 3701 Chestnut St
Rebirths, Returns, and Comebacks
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March 28, 5:00pm—6:30pm
Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Environmental Science and the Post-Apocalyptic Novel
Lydia Millet
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April 2, 12:00pm—1:00pm
Meyerson Confrence Room, 2nd fl, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Publishing for Early Career Authors
Jerry Singerman
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April 4, 5:00pm—6:30pm
Williams Hall, 6th Floor, Humanities Conference Room, 255 S. 36th St
Post-Carbon Futures in a Fact-Challenged Present
Brian Black, Christine Knapp, John Quigley, Pouné Saberi, MD, MPH
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April 12, 5:00pm—7:00pm
Max Kade Center, 3401 Walnut Street, Room 329A
Aural Philology: Listening, Reading, and Cultural Difference in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Tanvi Solanki
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April 19, 5:00pm—April 21, 2:30pm
Class of 1978 Pavilion, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
Reading, Writing, Printing
Conference
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April 25, 5:00pm—6:30pm
Widener Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Death, Burial, and the Afterlife in Early Mesopotamia
Holly Pittman