“It’s Your Curse,” and Other Lessons in Repairing Historical Harm
University of Michigan historical anthropologist Deirdre de la Cruz discusses the efforts to develop and enact reparative approaches to her institution's extensive collections from the Philipines.
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!
Manuscript Development Workshops
The Wolf Humanities Center offers funding and administrative support for a Manuscript Workshop for a Penn humanities scholar/author, an invited senior scholar, and Penn colleagues. Now considering applications for 2026–2027.
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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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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.