Juan Jose Ponce Vázquez: Smuggling for a Living in the Early Spanish Caribbean
Join us for an external speaker talk (CLALSES) on October 7 at 12pm with historian Juan José Ponce Vázquez, hosted by Marcy Norton, Associate Professor of History at Penn. In this presentation Vazquez will speak of how a marginalized colony in the Spanish Caribbean managed to subvert colonial institutions to become an important contraband center, transforming the lives of its inhabitants, their neighbors, and having an impact in the inter-imperial battles to supremacy in the Caribbean throughout the seventeenth century.
Go to eventYa-Wen Lei: Coding Elites in China
This talk explores the pivotal role of software engineers within China’s techno-developmental regime. As China’s internet-related sectors expand, software engineers have emerged as critical players, building the infrastructure that underpins both digital governance and economic growth. The talk delves into the dual status of these engineers as both highly valued professionals and subjects of intense labor exploitation.Go to event
Film Screening: Plan 75
Plan 75 is a 2022 drama film directed by Chie Hayakawa, starring Chieko Baisho, Hayato Isomura and Stefanie Arianne. In a dystopian alternate reality, the Japanese government creates a program called "Plan 75" that offers free euthanasia to all Japanese citizens 75 and older in order to deal with its rapidly aging population.
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Documenting October 7: Collecting for the Sake of History
How will people in the future understand our times as the present becomes the past?
The recollection and memory of historians and the public alike depends on the careful work of recording, collection, and preservation that allow those who come after us to make sense of this moment.
The creation of an archive is therefore a powerful responsibility. Important in ordinary times, it becomes more urgent in moments of crisis. How, during critical historical junctures, are decisions made about what will be important for that critical work in the near and distant futures?
Go to eventLexical Sleuthing in the Digital Age: On the Trail of Keywords and their Cultural Worlds
The Wolf Humanities Center presents Forum on Keywords Series featuring Ben Zimmer, language columnist at The Wall Street Journal.
Go to eventGlobal Discovery Series: The Remnants of Race Science
The Global Discovery Lecture Series lets you explore the world virtually, both far and near, with Penn faculty members and your fellow alumni community. Each live, interactive lecture features Penn professors sharing new and innovative research on a variety of topics.Go to event
A Conversation with Professor Mary Frances Berry: Civil Rights 1964
Listen to the insight of the singular Mary Frances Berry in a new installment in the African-American branch of our Africana Lecture Series.
Historian and activist Mary Frances Berry will have a conversation on the work of civil rights in 1964. Register today for this event in the Agora Room of the Annenberg Public Policy Center on Penn’s campus!
This is a hosted by the Center of Africana Studies.
The Global Discovery Series | October Events
The Global Discovery Lecture Series lets you explore the world virtually, both far and near, with Penn faculty members and your fellow alumni community. Each live, interactive lecture features Penn professors sharing new and innovative research on a variety of topics.Go to event
Deadly Decision in Beijing: Succession Politics, Protest Repression and the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre
Professor Su discussed his recent book Deadly Decision in Beijing: Succession Politics, Protest Repression and the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre (Cambridge University Press, 2023). In a play-by-play account of the elite politics that led to the military crackdown, Yang Su addresses the repression of the protest in the context of political leadership succession.Go to event
Global Discovery Series: Drastic Measures: Planning for Sea Level Rise in the Netherlands