60-Second Lectures
Time and Location
This spring semester's 60-Second Lectures will take place at this year's Quaker Days on April 10, 11, and 12.
To see a line-up of this semester's faculty presenters, and to register for the virtual screening, please click HERE.
Featured Lectures
Josephine Park, School of Arts and Sciences President's Distinguished Professor of English
Paula Fomby, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology
William Sturkey, Associate Professor of History
Special 60 Second Lectures
Penn Arts & Sciences’ long-running 60-Second Lectures presents a special series of Living the Hard Promise themed lectures. See our faculty talks on “Asian America and the Hard Promise,” “Why Listening Matters,” and “The Liberating Arts.”
60-Second Lectures on Racial Injustice.
This set of short talks spotlights the history and contemporary manifestations of racism in the U.S., Black lives and culture, and the range of factors that have contributed to this moment.
1.5 Minute Climate Lectures to sound the alarm about the climate emergency, to call for large-scale climate action, and to share a vision of constructive and comprehensive response.
No upcoming lectures at this time. Please check back later.
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Paula Fomby, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology
William Sturkey, Associate Professor of History
Matthew Levendusky, Professor of Political Science and Stephen and Mary Baran Chair in the Institutions of Democracy, Annenberg Public Policy Center