Events

Nikole Hannah-Jones, an award-winning journalist who writes about civil rights and racial injustice for the New York Times Magazine, will be discussing the ongoing segregation in public education at the biennial Steven S. Goldberg and Jolley Bruce Christman Lecture in Education Law. Her talk is entitled Why Integration Matters: The Ongoing Segregation of Schools in the 21st Century. Following her remarks, she will be joined by Dr. Rand Quinn, Associate Professor of Education, for continued dialogue. 

A talk by Jason de León, Professor of Anthropology and Chicana/o Studies, the University of California, Los Angeles.  Transnational gangs such as the notorious MS-13 have recently become directly involved in the human smuggling economy in Latin America. Award-winning anthropologist Jason De León is renowned for his field studies on how clandestine migration has become a complicated, often violent social relationship between smugglers and their clients. His latest work follows the daily lives of Honduran gang members in Mexico whose notions of kinship, race, and gender are crucial for understanding how smuggling systems adapt to changes in U.S. immigration security strategies, and for making sense of the seemingly senseless violence that people find themselves in.

La Casa Latina is celebrating 20 years at Penn!  Gilbert F Casellas, Law'77, Emeritus Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, co-founder of La Casa Latina, and Wendy de la Rosa, Wharton'11, co-founder of Common Cents Lab, provide a personal perspective of their journeys at Penn, La Casa Latina, and beyond.

Join us for the opening conference of the Mitchell Center 2019-20 theme year, REVERBERATIONS OF INEQUALITY. Inequality has emerged as a key political issue. But more than that, there are signs that inequality harms health, diminishes political engagement, and ripples across social life throughout the world. 

Dr. Nancy Ryan Gray, President and CEO of the Gordon Research Conferences (GRC) will be visiting Penn. Dr. Gray has been in the forefront of efforts to address the challenges that women in STEM face with regard to issues of diversity and inclusion. During her visit Dr. Gray will deliver a lecture on her own professional experiences in STEM, entitled “The Keys to Success…Are Somewhere at the Bottom of My Purse.”

The story of racial hierarchy in the American film industry featuring Maryann Erigha.

Join StateImpact Pennsylvania and WHYY in a local discussion about the intersection of environmental justice, social equity and climate change as we explore what the potential damage to infrastructure, agriculture and the environment could mean for the public — especially among vulnerable communities.

Drinks and hors d'oeuvres will be available before the event, starting at 5pm. Registration is required.

Book Talk by Sean Jacobs, The New School.  Lunch begins at 11:45. Space is limited, RSVP to marina.krikorian@asc.upenn.edu

Wreath Laying Ceremony with prayer by Chaplain Chaz Howard and a reading by Tayna O’Neill, USAF veteran.

Presented by Penn English and the Center for Italian Studies

This conference asks scholars to consider the Gothic's function across differing "states"—as a language both for addressing incipient nationalisms, and for representing divided consciousness, whether sexual, political, filial, or religious. The most powerful Gothic texts, in fact, place these concerns in dialogue with one another, depicting individuals and communities under duress in times of upheaval. Plenary speakers will be Maurizio Ascari (University of Bologna), Robin Furth (Marvel Comics), Diego Saglia (University of Parma), and Angela Wright (University of Sheffield).