Events

South Asia Studies 2018-2019 Colloquium presents Richard Salomon, William P. and Ruth Gerberding University Professor Emeritus, speaking on Fifteen Buddhas and a Buddha: New Gandharan Biographies of the Buddha(s).

Join us for a book talk with Dr. Mary Frances Berry about her book, "History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times."

Light refreshments will be provided.

This event is free and open to the public. If you require reasonable accommodations, please provide at least 5 days notice.

U.S. Navy Veteran Jill DiSanto, who manages media relations for the School of Social Policy & Practice and the Naval ROTC battalion, among other University organizations, delivers a keynote speech as Platt performing arts students, the Penn Navy ROTC, and U.S. Army veterans Jesse Morgan Raines and Peter Freudenberger raise the U.S. flag in recognition of Veteran's Day.

This exhibition's selection of one hundred and forty-five books, photographs, manuscripts, and memorabilia by one hundred and one women and one man, dating from 1682 to 2015, reflect the sweep of women's experiences in the American wilderness. They range from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (1705), Maria Sibylla Merian's monumental study of the flora and fauna of Surinam, hand-printed and probably hand-colored by her, to sharpshooter and entertainer Annie Oakley's travel trunk and gloves, and a souvenir envelope with a one-inch red heart through which she shot from a distance of twenty feet.

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the School of Library Service at Columbia University, Caroline Schimmel has gathered almost 24,000 narratives and representations of women in the American wilderness—from North Pole to South—over the past forty-five years. The fiction component of her collection, apart from items in this exhibition, was donated to Penn in 2014. She continues to seek and document these known and unknown intrepid women, in both fact and fiction.

Penn Museum Second Sunday Culture Films - Join us as the Penn Museum Second Sunday Culture Films use raw footage of real events, places, and things that reveal important aspects of the social and material world.  Poi E: The Story of Our Song (dir. Tearepa Kahi, 2016, New Zealand, 92 min.)  This fun, high-energy film traces the unlikely trajectory of a hit song that captured the hearts of generations in 1980s New Zealand.

Mandi Magnuson-Hung (Wells Fargo History Museum)
One of the most enduring stereotypes in North America is the emasculated Asian male. Created in the late 19th century, this belief arose partly because early Chinese immigrants often had queues and wore silk gowns, and partly because they were forced to take jobs doing what many White Americans considered “women’s work.” As several recent polls and Steve Harvey’s putdown of Asian men demonstrate, this stereotype is still alive and well today. This panel explores how Asian American musicians and the World War II Museum in New Orleans have dealt with issues of Asian masculinity.

The Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival presents free screenings and programs in ICA’s Tuttleman Auditorium, as part of their 2018 Festival Program.

Join Dr. Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History and Africana Studies, and Penn Professor Camille Charles for an interactive discussion of Dr. Berry's newest book, History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times. This event is co-hosted by Alumni Education and the Center for Africana Studies and co-sponsored by Penn Spectrum Programs, and the Black Alumni Society.

Holocaust testimony is typically associated with the oldest among us. This program asks us to do something counterintuitive: to listen to young people and hear—and respond to—how they find or at least seek hope amid tragedy. Let’s take some time to discuss how the youngest generations are affected by the atrocities of the Holocaust by listening as they bespeak their relationship to the events of the past. How have they have grown up encountering the responsibility (or “response”-ability) to keep intact the long chain of witness. During this intergenerational conversation, we invite our elders to listen to young people as they learn how to connect with their ancestors’ history.

An open rehearsal of DESEGREGATION REMIX: 3 Women Sing the Borders, with text by JANICE A. LOWE and LEE ANN BROWN and Music by Janice A. Lowe is a multimedia play with music that explores the well-meaning altruism of 3 friends who link up to renovate an apartment for a family of recent immigrants to Brooklyn. Emotional brambles surface and intersect when the women, all transplants to New York City, morph into their child selves, meet on a surreal plane and negotiate their shared backgrounds of having lived in the southern U.S. as court ordered busing to achieve integration of public schools was taking effect in the 1970s. The piece evolves into an audience participatory and in-the-moment sound installation interacting with the questions: Do you remember when you were one of a few? How did it feel to be the only one? Performers include Janice Lowe & Namaroon, DJ Manny Ward, Olithea Anglin, Lee Ann Brown, Melanie Dyer, Aliria Johnson, Bi Jean Ngo and Yohann Potico.