Events

Join Discussant Jason Orne, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Drexel University and Presenter Tyler Baldor, PhD Candidate, Sociology for a virtual event hosted by the Urban Studies Program at University of Pennsylvania.

Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) is hosting The Nand & Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture by Professor Rohini Pande, Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics and Director, Economic Growth Center at Yale University. The lecture will discuss the role of gender norms and extant power structures in limiting Indian women’s access to labor markets and, using the example of India’s rural workfare program, demonstrate how public policy can be designed to strengthen women’s ability to challenge these norms and enter the labor market. The Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series is an endowed program of CASI.

Workshop and book reading with FARIHA RÓISÍN is an Australian-Canadian writer, editor and podcaster based in Brooklyn.

Viet Nguyen will be discussing his Pulitzer Prize- winning novel The Sympathizer.

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, PhD, Graduate School of Education - Associate Professor: Literacy, Culture, and International Education.

You are cordially invited to this most timely and informative virtual presentation featuring a renowned scholar focused on children’s and adolescent texts, the teaching of African American literature, history, and culture in K-12 classrooms, and the roles that race, class, and gender play in classroom discourse and interaction.

Please RSVP to deluciar@upenn.edu

 ASL Lecture, co-presented by the Wolf Humanities Center.  Dr. Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, Professor of Philosophy, Gallaudet University, will present “Parent Choices, Language Choice, and Deaf Flourishing.”

One of the oldest debates in deaf education revolves around the question of whether a deaf child should learn a signed language or not. Another is about nonsigning/hearing parents’ role in this decision. Teresa Blankmeyer Burke proposes that all deaf and hard of hearing people ought to be given the opportunity to learn a signed language. She argues that this experience is a necessary component of deaf flourishing, and, as such, parents have a moral obligation to provide this to their deaf children.

Do protest events matter? The answer is that they do. The pioneering work of Daniel Gillion, Platt Presidential Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Penn, reimagines how protestors and voters interact in American democracy and illustrates how voters are informed and influenced by protest activism. Voters now see protests, and the issues that activists champion, as ideological, belonging to the Democratic or Republican Party. Consequently, as protests grow in America, they push more voters to turn out to the polls, donate to political campaigns, and run for office - benefiting the political party perceived to more supportive of protestors' messages. Thus, protests are the canaries in the coal mines that warn of future political and electoral change. In the end, the pleas for racial equality that ring out in protests do not fall on deaf ears; rather they mobilize the nation to become a more perfect union. 

You're invited to attend the Penn-Wharton virtual conference on Race and Economics in honor of the upcoming 100th anniversary of Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander’s receipt of her PhD in economics from the Penn Economics Department.

The goal of the conference is two-fold: to promote current academic research by Black economists with an emphasis on topics of race in the United States, and to host panel discussions on racial inclusion in the profession and questions about how economics studies issues of race as a discipline. William Darity, the Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Duke University, and author of "From Here to Equality", will deliver the keynote address.

2020 is a moment when we find an increased awareness of systemic racism and police brutality growing across demographic lines during the Presidency of Donald J. Trump, whose race baiting and divisiveness has sought to characterize political dissent as anarchy, delegitimizing one of the bedrock values of U.S. citizenship. But 2020 also marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Toni Morrison’s first novel, The Bluest Eye, which told the story of a little girl whose deepest desire was to have blue eyes. Readers of Morrison’s novel were invited to reflect on the impact white supremacy could exert on Black lives. In this talk Herman Beavers attempts to parse what it means to read Morrison’s novel in the age of neoliberal democracy and autocratic leadership.

Is there something seriously wrong with public debate in America?  And, if so, can the problem be remedied? Join Penn President Amy Gutmann and Penn Professor Michael Delli Carpini as they and a panel of distinguished guests confront these and other questions at the 2020 David and Lyn Silfen University Forum.