Forum on Choice

All Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 events will be presented online.

Film still from Ishaare: Signs and Gestures in Mumbai
October 11, 2020 / 2:00 pm
Ishaare: Gestures and Signs in Mumbai

Penn Museum Culture Films on Syncretism

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Sheena Iyengar headshot
October 14, 2020 / 5:00 pm
The Art of Choosing
Sheena Iyengar
Allison Hoffman
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Portrait of Prof. Teresa Blankmeyer Burke
October 21, 2020 / 5:00 pm
Parent Choices, Language Choice, and Deaf Flourishing
Teresa Blankmeyer Burke
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Film still from Her Words, woman writing calligraphy on a yellow hand fan
November 8, 2020 / 2:00 pm
Her Words

Penn Museum Culture Films on Syncretism

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Alex Guerrero headshot
November 11, 2020 / 5:00 pm
Lottocracy: A New Kind of Democracy
Alex Guerrero
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Renata Salecl headshot
November 18, 2020 / 5:00 pm
Choice in the Time of a Pandemic
Renata Salecl
David L. Eng
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Portrait of Todd Gitlin
December 9, 2020 / 5:00 pm
The Pathos of Chosenness: Who are the Jews if not Exceptional?
Todd Gitlin
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Film still from Vanishing Chinatown. Antique photo collage of Chinese family in a photography studio.
December 13, 2020 / 2:00 pm
Vanishing Chinatown: The World of May's Photo Studio

Penn Museum Culture Films on Syncretism

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Film still from The Wandering Chef. A man sitting on the right next to an elderly woman to his left in Korea.
January 10, 2021 / 2:00 pm
The Wandering Chef

Penn Museum Culture Films on Syncretism

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Headshots of Risa Puno and Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
January 27, 2021 / 5:00 pm
Freedom and Choice in Art and Literature
Risa Puno
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Sophia Rosenfeld
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Michael Kearns lecturing
February 10, 2021 / 5:00 pm
The Ethical Algorithm and the Future of Choice
Michael Kearns
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Film still from Welcome Valentine. A Hindu priest in India uses a hose to spray down a court yard.
February 14, 2021 / 2:00 pm
Welcome Valentine; Asho

Penn Museum Culture Films on Syncretism

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Headshots of Linda Greenhouse and Reva Siegel
February 24, 2021 / 5:00 pm
The Past and Future of Reproductive Choice
Linda Greenhouse
Reva Siegel
Serena Mayeri
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March 3, 2021 / 5:00 pm
Dancers' Choices, Choreographers' Choices
PHILADANCO!
Dawn Marie Bazemore
Jasmine E. Johnson
Deborah A. Thomas
Dixon Li
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Film still from For My Father's Kingdom. Women in Tonga sit at a table alongside a festive cake.
March 14, 2021 / 2:00 pm
For My Father’s Kingdom

Penn Museum Culture Films on Syncretism

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Headshots of Abosede George and Sarah Maza
March 17, 2021 / 5:00 pm
What Kids Can't Do: Youth, Historical Agency, and Authority
Abosede George
Sarah Maza
Mia Bay
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Marilyn Crispell at piano and Tyshawn Sorey at drums
March 24, 2021 / 5:00 pm
Improvisation
Tyshawn Sorey
Marilyn Crispell
Guthrie Ramsey

Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities

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portrait of author Alejandro Zambra
March 31, 2021 / 5:00 pm
Multiple Choice
Alejandro Zambra
Ericka Beckman
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