Calendar  /  Forum on Choice


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Past Events

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
Sheena Iyengar headshot
October 14, 2020 / 5:00 pm
Rethinking the Value of Individual Choice
Sheena Iyengar
Allison Hoffman
Video
Portrait of Prof. Teresa Blankmeyer Burke
October 21, 2020 / 5:00 pm
Parent Choices, Language Choice, and Deaf Flourishing
Teresa Blankmeyer Burke
Video
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
Alex Guerrero headshot
November 11, 2020 / 5:00 pm
Lottocracy: A New Kind of Democracy
Alex Guerrero
Video
Renata Salecl headshot
November 18, 2020 / 5:00 pm
Choice in the Time of a Pandemic
Renata Salecl
David L. Eng
Video
Portrait of Todd Gitlin
December 9, 2020 / 5:00 pm
The Pathos of Chosenness: Who are the Jews if not Exceptional?
Todd Gitlin
Video
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 The May's Photo Studio
Penn Museum Culture Films on Syncretism
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
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
Video
Michael Kearns lecturing
February 10, 2021 / 5:00 pm
The Ethical Algorithm and the Future of Choice
Michael Kearns
Video
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
Underwater cave in shades of blue, purple, and yellow
February 19, 2021 / 11:00 am
Terra/Forms of Choice
Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone
Chelsea Frazier
Zina Saro-Wiwa
Himali Singh-Soin

(Re)Constitutions of Choice Symposium
Image of cloudy nebula in the cosmos
February 19, 2021 / 3:15 pm
Temporalities of Choice
Carlos Rojas
Karen Thornber

(Re)Constitutions of Choice Symposium
Abstracted image for water drops frozen in the air in shades of lilac yellow and grey
February 20, 2021 / 2:00 pm
Ideologies and Materialities of Choice
Jorge L. A. Garcia
Nancy H. Kwak
Heonik Kwon

(Re)Constitutions of Choice Symposium
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
Video
Headshot of Dawn Marie Bazemore
March 3, 2021 / 1:00 pm
Participatory Dance & Choreography Workshop on "Choice"
Dawn Marie Bazemore
PHILADANCO!
March 3, 2021 / 5:00 pm
Dancers' Choices, Choreographers' Choices
PHILADANCO!
Dawn Marie Bazemore
Jasmine E. Johnson
Deborah A. Thomas
Dixon Li
Video
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
Abosede George in front of books
March 17, 2021 / 5:00 pm
What Kids Can't Do: Youth, Historical Agency, and Authority
Abosede George
Sophia Rosenfeld
Video
mind map of handwritten words and lines stemming from the word Choice
March 26, 2021—March 27, 2021
Choice Making

Undergraduate Humanities Forum Research Conference
portrait of author Alejandro Zambra
March 31, 2021 / 5:00 pm
Multiple Choice
Alejandro Zambra
Ericka Beckman
Tyshawn Sorey at drums and Marilyn Crispell at piano
October 21, 2021 / 5:00 pm
Improvisation
Tyshawn Sorey
Marilyn Crispell
Guthrie Ramsey

Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture
February 19, 2023—February 20, 2023 / 11:00 am
(Re)Constitutions of Choice
Chelsea Frazier
Jorge L. A. Garcia
Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone
Nancy H. Kwak
Heonik Kwon
Carlos Rojas
Zina Saro-Wiwa
Himali Singh-Soin
Karen Thornber