How Can Cities Advance Climate Action?
During Donald Trump's presidency from 2017 to 2021, cities played a critical role in advancing the climate change agenda, often stepping in to fill the leadership vacuum left by national rollbacks on environmental policies. Urban centers like New York City and Bristol, England, as well as many others, spearheaded ambitious initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, invest in renewable energy, and promote climate resilience. Many cities reaffirmed their commitment to the Paris Agreement through coalitions like the We Are Still In campaign and the Climate Mayors network.Go to event
Flamboyant Fictions: The Failed Art of Passing by Dr. Fleishman
Dr. Ian Fleishman, Chair of the Cinema & Media Studies Department and a member of the Executive Board at GSWS, will be launching a monograph on queer film and literature, Flamboyant Fictions: The Failed Art of Passing.
Go to eventMary Frances Berry discusses Slavery After Slavery
An acclaimed historian narrates the stories of newly emancipated children who were re-enslaved by white masters through apprenticeships and their parents fights to free them.
While the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, white southerners established a system of apprenticeship after the Civil War that entrapped Black children and their families, leading to undue hardships for generations to come.Go to event
A Conversation With Hilal Chouman
The Arabic Program brings you a conversation with Canadian-Lebanese novelist Hilal Chouman and Dr. Radwa El Barouni.
Ben Talks Palo Alto: Discourse and Democracy
The last year has caused many Americans to reassess the vulnerabilities and strengths of democracy in the United States.
Join Penn Arts & Sciences faculty Beth Wenger, Jeffrey Green, and Donovan Schaefer for a wide-ranging and nuanced look at U.S. democracy, past and present; the forces and emotional undercurrents that are driving our discourse; and the state of citizenship today.
A dinner reception and warm conversation with fellow alums open the evening, followed by our faculty panel and post-reception dessert.
Medicine by and for Medieval Women (as Told by Men)
This event is a segment of the Healing Women in Jewish History lecture series.
New histories of medicine and the body offer a more direct vantage on women’s experiences than traditional approaches mediated through the sources and concerns of men. This series explores what we know about women as both practitioners and patients throughout Jewish history, and what we stand to learn from such scholarship about women’s lives more generally.
Go to eventThe Birth of Indian Liberalism
Little is as misunderstood as the origin of liberalism in India. It has long been derided as an ideal imposed by the British and championed by their local collaborators. But both of these criticisms are mistaken, as Prof. Sagar will show by examining Letters to an Indian Raja (1891), the first work of political theory published in modern India. This long-lost work reveals that Indian liberalism was a form of liberal perfectionism—the view that political authority should be exercised paternalistically to promote a liberal vision of human flourishing.Go to event
Conservative and Concerned about Climate Change? You’re Not Alone – A Conversation with Bob Inglis and Michael Mann
This speaker event is a part of Energy Week 2025, a week of energy-focused events across campus.
Please join the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media (PCSSM) and Kleinman Center for Energy Policy (KCEP) for this conversation between Bob Inglis and Michael Mann with Sanya Carley moderating during Energy Week at Penn. This discussion will focus on the importance of having good faith conservative voices in the conversation over climate and sustainability.
Go to eventModern Day Abolitionism
Attend the Center for Africana Studies Spring Colloquium, entitled Modern Day Abolitionism: Carcerality and Black Radical Resistance through Grassroots Organizing, Prison Activism, and Spiritual Liberation.
Go to eventFilm Screening with Director Persis Karim
"The Dawn Is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life" — a 55-min. documentary shares the complex personal and social histories that have brought Iranians to the San Francisco Bay Area for more than fifty years.
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