Events

David Brownlee, Frances Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Professor of 19th-Century European Art, University of Pennsylvania and Ken Lum, Artist and Professor of Fine Arts, Univeristy of Pennsylvania

The role of monuments and their representation of the past as it extends to the present has recently become a site of discussion, engagement, and conflict. Now that Philadelphia has become the first UNESCO World Heritage city, the meaning of monuments—to make, reflect, frame, and hide our city, its history, and its diversity—has become all the more important. How might we reimagine the monument to be more inclusive, more representative, and more meaningful to us all?

Diversity Lecture Series featuring Dr. Dagmawi Woubshet.

The University of Pennsylvania invites you to the 18th Annual Disability Symposium on Friday, April 12th, 2019. Our theme, Strengthening Partnerships, highlights the critical value of collaboration and communication while offering strategies to reinforce those connections. Join us as we explore this topic with students, university partners and colleagues, service providers, and families in mind

Diversity Lecture Series featuring Daniel Q. Gillion, Ph.D.

Jessica Mertz, director of the Penn Violence Prevention program (PVP) which engages the Penn community in the prevention of sexual violence, relationship violence, stalking and sexual harassment on campus. It fosters collaborative relationships across campus to ensure a survivor-centered, multi-faceted approach to support services and primary prevention. Through collective community action, PVP is committed to ending interpersonal violence by addressing gender inequity, social injustice and oppression through outreach and education.

Presented by the Gen/Sex Reading Group

In a moment when the legal recognition of gay and lesbian subjects in the United States coincides with the increased precarity of queer and/or raced bodies globally, this conference queries the possibilities and provocations of queer politics. By putting the term "urgent" next to the term "queer," we hope to ask not only what's urgent about queer studies now, but also what urges, emergencies, and insurgencies queer studies—with its specific critical methods and resources—should prioritize.

Dorothy Roberts will give the keynote speech for Penn Medicine's Health Equity Week.

This symposium, co-hosted by the Penn & Slavery Project and the Program on Race, Science & Society (housed in the Center for Africana Studies) with support from the Office of the Provost, the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, The Penn Medicine Office of Inclusion and Diversity, and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, will provide a space for presenting research and discussions regarding Penn’s relationship with the institution of slavery. The symposium will feature presentations by undergraduates currently conducting research as part of the P&SP, as well as roundtable and panel discussions by some of the nation’s leading scholars of slavery, race, and medicine. Especially in 2019, given the significance of the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to British North America, this symposium affirms Penn’s commitment to engaging with the history of slavery. The symposium, which will be open not only to the Penn community but to the Philadelphia community more broadly, responds to President Gutmann’s call to offer educational and cultural programming which illuminates Penn’s connections to slavery.

This symposium, co-hosted by the Penn & Slavery Project and the Program on Race, Science & Society, with support from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, will provide a space for presenting research and discussions regarding Penn’s relationship with the institution of slavery. The symposium will feature presentations by undergraduates currently conducting research as part of the Penn & Slavery Project, as well as roundtable and panel discussions by some of the nation's leading scholars of slavery, race, and medicine.

Keisha Johnson, Director of the PennKIPP program. KIPP – the Knowledge Is Power Program – is a national network of open-enrollment, college-preparatory public charter schools with a track record of preparing students in underserved communities for success in college and in life.  KIPP was founded in Houston in 1994 and has grown to 109 schools serving more than 33,000 students in 20 states and Washington, D.C. Penn began its partnership with KIPP in 2012. It is the first Ivy League institution and the 10th higher ed institution to work with KIPP. Come find out more about this dynamic program.