Nov 13: Nayan Shah
Historian Nayan Shah explores the visceral ways that hunger strikes communicate through media and political movements, and how they can turn a personal agony into a call for collective action.
2024–2025 Forum on Keywords
How do keywords point to the movement of ideas and concepts and to the shifts in their meanings and impacts as they travel across time, languages, and contexts? Join us as we track ideas in motion!
Event Cosponsorship and Promotion
Funding and promotional support are available for humanities events at Penn. Apply for 2024-25 events now.
Humanities Against Discrimination
Funding is available to help support anti-discriminatory humanities education projects. Applications are considered on a rolling basis. Open to the Penn community.
Humanities Manuscript Development Workshops
Funding and administrative support for a manuscript workshop are available for humanities faculty in SAS who are preparing to publish an in-process book. Applications are considered on a rolling basis. Now considering applications for Spring 2026 workshops.
Humanities Project Development
Funding is available for tenured humanities faculty in SAS who are about to launch or kickstart a project. Reach out to see how we can help!
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Spring 2025 Courses
Each year, the Center's Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows teach a course inspired by our annual topic. Learn about our 2024–25 Fellows' Spring courses rostered across Penn's humanities departments.
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Event Video on YouTube
Nearly 200 events are available for streaming on YouTube. Many videos are available with captions and ASL interpretation.
Undergraduate Humanities Forum
Penn undergraduate students who join the Wolf Humanities Center as Fellows of the Undergraduate Humanities Forum (UHF) conduct research in the humanities on the Center's annual topic and become part of a group of interdisciplinary scholars and the greater Wolf Center community, which also includes Penn and Regional Faculty, Postdoctoral, and Doctoral Research Fellows.