Wolf Humanities Center welcomes new director Ayako Kano
No stranger to Penn's humanities center, East Asian Languages and Civilzations Professor Ayako Kano was a Penn Faculty Research Fellow in 2011–12 and 2014–15 and director of the Undergraduate Humanities Forum from 2018 to 2020.
2025–2026 Forum on Truth
Join us as we tackle the multifaceted challenges involved in recognizing, defining, and grappling with both absolute and relative notions of truth.
2026–2027 Research Fellowships
The Wolf Humanities Center invites applications for 2026–27 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships and Penn Faculty Fellowships on the topic of Practice.
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 workshops.
Event Cosponsorship
Penn faculty and students are invited to apply for financial and promotional support for their 2025–2026 humanities events.
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2024–2025 Research Fellows
Last year, the Wolf Humanities Center hosted over 30 Penn and regional faculty, postdoctoral, doctoral, and undergraduate scholars working on our annual topic, Keywords.
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Events on YouTube
Nearly 200 Wolf Humanities Center events are available for streaming on YouTube. Many videos are available with captions and ASL interpretation.
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September 5Hung Liu: Happy and Gay Opening Reception
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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 humanities research on the Center's annual topic and become part of a group of interdisciplinary scholars who meet regularly to share and workshop their projects, pursue cultural activities of common interest, and occasionally meet in special receptions with the Wolf Humanities Center's distinguished guest speakers. The year's program culminates in a spring research conference.