Events

Join Lynn Smith Dolby, University Art Collection Manager, for a gallery talk in 12-minutes flat on the current exhibition Many Voices, Many Visions!

Asian America Across the Disciplines Series Spring 2021 presents Current migration patterns and Philadelphia's Japanese Americans; in conversation with Hiro Nishikawa, Ph.D., Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)

Hiro Nishikawa is a native of San Francisco and a Sansei (third generation Japanese American). During WWII as a three year old, he and his family were sent to Poston, AZ and incarcerated for the duration of the war. Upon returning to California from concentration camp, his family settled in Gilroy, where he finished high school. Hiro received a bachelor degree in biochemistry at U.C.-Berkeley and later a Ph.D. at Oregon State University in Corvallis. He and his wife, Sumie, have a grown daughter and a son. He has a eurasian grandson.

Hiro was engaged for nearly 30 years in biotech pharmaceutical drug discovery and development. He began as a bench scientist and retired as a group director in 1998. Hiro became involved with the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) in 1997. He was installed as president of the Philadelphia Chapter in 2001. A long time avid photographer and lover of classical music, he has also been a studious reader of Japanese American history. More recently he has become active in social justice and anti-racism causes.

Hosted by Dr. Fariha Khan, ASAM Associate Director in ASAM 104-401Asian American Communities.

Please contact ASAM program assistant Anabel Bernal at anabelb@sas.upenn.edu for Zoom registration.

Dr. Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., University of Buffalo and Keeanga-Yamatta Taylor, Princeton
University, will share their perspectives on past, current and future changes in the movements for social justice. Facilitated by Dr. Herman Beavers, University of Pennsylvania.

Cornel West in conversation with Margo Crawford; co-hosted by the Center for Africana Studies and the Annenberg School for Communication. Co-sponsored by the Black Alumni Society.

The annual MLK Community Involvement Awards and annual Interfaith program celebrates our
common humanity and honors individuals whose active service exemplifies Dr. King's vision.

CDCS Colloquium: Britt S. Paris, Rutgers University. Britt S. Paris' talk draws from her research around the politics of evidence manifest in incomplete data with state statistics on police perpetrated homicide, vulnerable data seen in the disappearance of official information on climate change and environmental injustice, and manipulated data in AI-generated deepfakes to discuss the state of play of audiovisual manipulation, both AI-generated and those produced with more unsophisticated means to show that there are many different methods and intentions behind the production of digitized bodies. In so doing, this talk raises questions about broad issues of the harms of algorithmic technology that pushes false, misleading, and misrepresented data as fact, and suggests how we can mitigate these harms with political, not technical solutions.

Be the catalyst for sparking a child's imagination! This project, MLK Day supports Philadelphia preschools/day care centers/local bookstores. Purchase books from a curated list of short multi-cultural, anti-bias children books. Specified book delivery address provided. For more information, https://tinyurl.com/Pennreads2021

Donation deadline: January 23, 2021.

A virtual program as part of the Many Voices, Many Visions exhibition. 

Join Lynn Marsden-Atlass and Andrew Moore, internationally acclaimed photographer and filmmaker, for a conversation on Imagination Station and his large format color photographic series on the city of Detroit.

A dialogue on dealing with how having political power positively affects our communities.

Women of Color at Penn Noontime Network Lunch Series: Financial Series – Surviving the COVID-19 Economy.