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, 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
Location TBA
A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain
Christina Crosby, Janet Jakobsen
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January 31, 7:00pm
International House Philadelphia, 3701 Chestnut Street
Blood of Jesus
Film Screening
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February 4, 3:00pm
Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut Street
"After This, What's Left to Write?"
Daedalus Quartet
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February 7, 2:00pm
International House Philadelphia, 3701 Chestnut Street
Body and Soul
Film Screening
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February 14, 7:00pm
International House Philadelphia, 3701 Chestnut Street
Borderline
Film Screening
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February 21, 7:00pm
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 24, 7:00pm—9:00pm
Upstairs Live at World Cafe, 3025 Walnut Street
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 25, 5:00pm—6:30pm
Widener Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Death, Burial, and the Afterlife in Early Mesopotamia
Holly Pittman