September 12 - November 19, 2024 A contemporary art exhibition that will open the two-day Transnational Feminist Networks Symposium from September 12-13, 2024, at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
The exhibition will be on display in The Plaza and The Forum of the Annenberg School for Communication during the fall semester.
April 12 - October 18, 2024 Gain insight into Mexican religious folk practices through these selections from the Dr. William H. Helfand collection of ex-votos and devotional paintings on medical subjects. The display is located on the main level of the Holman Biotech Commons, outside the Holman Reading Room.
A CASI Nand & Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture in partnership with the Center for Global Health.
About the Speaker: Dr. Gagandeep (Cherry) Kang is responsible for leading the newly formed team at the Gates Foundation and executing against its three strategic focus areas: Enteric & Diarrheal Diseases, Diagnostics, and Genomics, Epidemiology, & Modeling. Previously, in addition to serving on the foundation’s Scientific Advisory Committee, Cherry has been a Professor in the Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College (CMC) in Vellore, India. She is a physician scientist working on vaccines and public health, particularly focused on children and enteric infectious disease in India. Her research ranges from water and sanitation to vaccines and nutrition, and her team is one of the strongest multidisciplinary research groups in India, internationally recognized and consistently funded by the Wellcome Trust, the National Institutes of Health, and more recently, the foundation. While based at CMC for most of her career, she also worked for the Government of India, leading and building India's first translational health science institute. She has served on WHO headquarters, WHO Southeast Asia and Indian committees related to vaccines, covering policies and introductions, and in more technical areas, safety, new product development, modeling and biological standardization. She has been a mentor and guide for women at work and outside of work.
PANELISTS: Dr. Glen N. Gaulton, PSOM Vice Dean and Director, Center for Global Health, Professor of Pathology and Lab Medicine; Dr. Sara Cherry, John W. Eckman Professor of Medical Science; and Dr. Surbhi Grover, Associate Professor of Radiology and Oncology, HUP.
Healthcare Advocacy for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilties (IDD) will cover... - Advocacy for populations with disabilities - The historical context of disability and medicine - The importance of Home/Community-Based Disability Services (HCBS) - Health disparities and inequities among the population with IDD - The influence of the Social Determinants of Health for communities with disabilities - Strategies to provide “inclusive healthcare” for people with IDD.
Shane Janick, MPH - Shane is the Executive Director at The Arc of Philadelphia where his passion advocating for, and with, the community with IDD has grown from having an older brother with a variety of complex disabilities. He has previously coordinated the Adult Advocacy and Healthcare Advocacy programs at The Arc of Philadelphia, and worked as a Teaching and Research Assistant at Temple University where he earned a Master's in Public Health.
Africana Lecture Series: Rogers Orock is currently an Assistant Professor in the Program in Africana Studies at Lafayette College. Previously, he taught in the Department of African and African American Studies at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge as well as at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Dr. Orock's work focuses on moral discourses on power about elites, postcolonial sexualities, and the politics of suspicion and conspiracy theories in Central African societies. He is co-editor of Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa (2021, University of Michigan Press, with Wale Adebanwi) and co-author of a forthcoming book, Conspiracy Narratives from Postcolonial Africa: Freemasonry, Homosexuality, and Illicit Wealth (2024, University Chicago Press, with Peter Geschiere).
In this presentation, Ms. Shreya Shah, a 3rd year dental student at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine will share her personal journey of being a dental student as a person with severe hearing loss. Her presentation aims to raise awareness of treating patients with hearing loss. Following Ms. Shah's presentation, Dean Mark Wolff will engage in conversation with her to discuss the current state of deaf patient care, representation of deaf healthcare providers in the dental field and the role of dental schools in educating and supporting deaf applicants and students.
David C. Driskell and Friends: Creativity, Collaboration, and Friendship highlights the artistic legacy of David C. Driskell and the importance of his relationships with fellow artists, many of whom hold a significant place in the art canon. In 1976, Driskell curated the groundbreaking traveling exhibition Two Centuries of Black American Art: 1750–1950, which has been a foundation for the field of African American art history. Many of the artists that were featured are included in this exhibition.
The exhibition explores the work of, and Driskell’s relationships with, such figures as Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, Keith Morrison, James Porter, Kara Walker, Hale Woodruff, and more. Original works of art created by Driskell are also featured, as well as ephemera from the Driskell Papers that exemplify the artists’ wide range of friendships.
David C. Driskell (1931-2020) was a leading American artist, scholar and curator who organized more than 35 exhibitions of work by fellow Black artists and was central to establishing African-American art as a field of study. He worked primarily in collage, mixed media, and printmaking. He retired from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1998 as Distinguished University Professor of Art and also taught for more than a decade at Fisk University, where he curated numerous shows highlighting Black artists. He received a National Humanities Medal in 2000. In 2001, the University of Maryland established the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of Visual Arts and the Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, which now holds a majority of Driskell’s original artworks and papers.
Pray the Devil Back to Hell chronicles the remarkable story of the Liberian women who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to their shattered country.
Thousands of women - ordinary mothers, grandmothers, aunts and daughters, both Christian and Muslim - came together to pray for peace and then staged a silent protest outside of the Presidential Palace. Armed only with white T-shirts and the courage of their convictions, they demanded a resolution to the country's civil war. Their actions were a critical element in bringing about a agreement during the stalled peace talks. Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee was a leading figure in this movement and will also be our Distinguished Lecturer in October, 2024.
A story of sacrifice, unity and transcendence, Pray the Devil Back to Hell honors the strength and perseverance of the women of Liberia. Inspiring, uplifting, and most of all motivating, it is a compelling testimony of how grassroots activism can alter the history of nations.
The Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies and The Center for Africana Studies are pleased to present African Narratives, a new film series that showcases global African cinema. The series features films that explore the diverse complexity of African life and culture and highlight the work of its new and established filmmakers. Each showing includes light refreshments and a post-film discussion/Q&A.
Chilean singer-songwriter Víctor Jara (1932-1973) is widely known as an international icon of protest song. A member of the Communist Party of Chile and a leading figure in the New Song movement that was deeply entwined with the presidency of democratically-elected socialist Salvador Allende, Jara sang in favor of leftist revolutions and workers’ rights, and against social inequality, capitalism, and imperialism. In the days following the 1973 coup d’etat, Jara was detained, tortured, and shot, first in a macabre game of Russian roulette, and later riddled with over forty bullets. While other New Song artists were detained and tortured, Jara was the only one killed. Through this heinous act, Jara became a martyr—the martyr—of Chilean New Song.
Half a century after his death, one aspect of his life remains largely unexplored: Jara was a queer man. Within the theatre and music worlds he inhabited, his queerness was for the most part accepted or tolerated. Within the ranks of the Communist Party, however, things were more complicated. Queer men could join the Party as long as they could pass as heterosexual, but their access to leadership positions was limited. Defying expectations, Jara became a Party leader in 1972 as well as one of the Party's best-known cultural ambassadors. In this presentation I explore the multiple tensions that his queerness generated vis-à-vis the Communist Party and suggest ways in which we can listen queerly to some of his songs.
ATTENDANCE & REGISTRATION - This event is free and open to the public. If you attend in person, there is no need to register. We ask that you join us in person if at all possible, but for those of you who are unable to physically attend we encourage you to participate via Zoom. Please use the link to attend virtually.
A talk by David Kirk, Professor of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania.
The Penn Population Studies Colloquium Series co-sponsored by the Population Aging Research Center at the University of Pennsylvania meets most Mondays from 12-1 PM during the academic year. Contact Dawn Ryan.
The Penn Bookstore invites you to a special guest author event featuring Rogers Smith, the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Political Science, in conversation with Desmond King, the Andrew Mellon Professor of American Government at the University of Oxford, discussing their new book, America's New Racial Battle Lines: Protect Versus Repair.
Rogers Smith, the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and Desmond King, the Andrew Mellon Professor of American Government at the University of Oxford, in conversation hosted and moderated by Daniel Gillion, the Platt Presidential Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, discussing: America's New Racial Battle Lines: Protect Versus Repair
A sobering portrait of the United States' divided racial politics.
For nearly two decades, Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King have charted the shifting racial policy alliances that have shaped American politics across different eras. In America's New Racial Battle Lines, they show that US racial policy debates are undergoing fundamental change. Disputes over colorblind versus race-conscious policies have given way to new lines of conflict. Today's conservatives promise to protect traditionalist, predominantly white, Christian Americans against what they call the "radical" Left. Meanwhile, today's progressives seek not just to integrate American institutions but to more fully transform and "repair" pervasive systemic racism.
Drawing on interviews with activists, surveys, social network analyses, and comprehensive reviews of federal, state, and local policies and advocacy groups, Smith and King map the memberships and goals of two rival racial policy alliances and delineate the contrasting stories each side tells. They also show that these increasingly polarized racial policy alliances are substantially funded on both the Left and Right.
Placing today's conflicts in theoretical and historical perspectives, Smith and King analyze where these intensifying clashes may take the nation in the years ahead. They highlight the great potential for mounting violence, as well as the remaining possibilities for finding common ground.