Upcoming Events

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. Participants will have the opportunity to ask in-depth questions and are sure to learn something new in each one hour session.

After more than a century, the Egyptian galleries at the Penn Museum are set for a remarkable reinstallation.Go to event

Celebrate Homecoming Weekend with Penn Arts & Sciences!

Virtual Homecoming Lightbulb Café: Everyday Utopia featuring Kristen Ghodsee

Thursday, November 2
12 PM
Penn Arts & Sciences YouTube Channel

Would you like to be in a book group with fellow alums from around the world, reading works by Penn Arts & Sciences faculty? Hit the books and get ready to join us for the Penn Arts & Sciences Virtual Lightbulb Café: Faculty Book Series!Go to event

The term “homosexual” was coined in 1869 by the Hungarian writer Karl-Maria Kertbeny, materializing a shift in understanding same-sex desire from verb to noun, from something you did to something you were. "Homosexuality" actually preceded the "discovery" of "heterosexuality," but they were soon paired, producing a new account of sexuality as necessarily binary, structured by two opposing polarities.  (Previously same-sex and different-sex sexuality were not seen in opposition, and many people experienced both.)

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. Participants will have the opportunity to ask in-depth questions and are sure to learn something new in each one hour session.

The term “homosexual” was coined in 1869 by the Hungarian writer Karl-Maria Kertbeny, materializing a shift in understanding same-sex desire from verb to noun, from something you did to something you were.Go to event

For centuries, the Bishnoi of Rajasthan in India have been stewarding and preserving the biodiversity of their land. They follow a 500-year-old philosophy that all living beings have the right to survive and share all resources. Filmmakers Franck Vogel and Benoit Segur share the stories of three Bishnoi people: Khamu Ram Bishnoi, who fights against plastic pollution; Rana Ram Bishnoi, who has planted over 22,000 trees in the desert; and Ranveer Bishnoi, who hopes to become a priest.

Pili Ka Mo‘o Dir. Justyn Ah Chong with Malia Akutagawa, 2022, 14 min.

Pili Ka Mo‘o follows the Fukumitsu ʻOhana, native Hawaiian taro farmers who live in Hakipuʻu, a traditional land district where ancestors once resided and their bones still remain. When Kualoa Ranch, the large foreign corporation that already owns 95% of Hakipu‘u, acquires and destroys more land that contains precious family burials, the Fukumitsus are tossed into a world of complex real estate and judicial proceedings.