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SUMMARY:Unlocking the Truth: Undergraduate Humanities Forum Research Conference
DESCRIPTION:Each year the Wolf Humanities Center’s Undergraduate Humanities Forum brings together undergraduate students from across the humanities and beyond to explore a common theme. Join us on March 27th as the Wolf Humanities Center’s 2025–2026 Undergraduate Research Fellows present their research on “Truth.”
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/unlocking-the-truth-undergraduate-humanities-forum-research-conference/
LOCATION:University of Pennsylvania\, College Green\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Truth in Crisis
DESCRIPTION:An interdisciplinary symposium that engages experts in an exploration of truth(s) contested or revealed in crises.\n\n\nIn conjunction with the Wolf Humanities Center’s 2025–2026 Forum on Truth\, this interdisciplinary symposium engages experts in an exploration of truth(s) contested or revealed in crises across panels on (1) Institutions of Learning\, (2) Land and its Technologies\, and (3) Borders. In the framing\, we take our cue from Sara Ahmed (2010)\, who understands crisis\, perceived and described\, as constructed; a crisis necessitates the identification and defense of shared norms and values\, a world and its inhabitants\, against that which threatens. The articulation of crisis thus reveals and contests truth(s) that are\, by presentation\, matters of survival. Held at the University of Pennsylvania’s Kislak Center for Special Collections\, Rare Books and Manuscripts\, this one-day symposium will begin with a highly anticipated keynote featuring Dr. Althea Wasow from University of California\, Santa Barbara. The day’s discussions will bring together scholars from various disciplines to expand upon questions of crisis\, its meanings and manifestations in the modern and contemporary world\, and the role of truth in surviving. \nFor more info\, visit https://wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/truth-crisis \nSymposium Agenda \n8:30 am–9:20 amBreakfast \n9:20 am–9:30 amWelcome Remarks \n\nAyako Kano\, Director\, Wolf Humanities Center; Professor\, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations\, University of Pennsylvania\nJulia Verkholantsev\, Topic Director\, Forum on Truth\, Wolf Humanities Center; Associate Professor of Russian and East European Studies\, University of Pennsylvania\n\n9:30 am–10:45 amKeynoteModerated by Jennifer Sierra\, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow\, Wolf Humanities Center \n\nAlthea Wasow\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Film and Media Studies\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\n\n11:00 am–12:30 pmInstitutions of LearningModerator: Chris Halsted\, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow\, Wolf Humanities Center \n\nJulia Alekseyeva\, Assistant Professor\, Department of English and Cinema and Media Studies\, University of Pennsylvania\nEmily Ng\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, University of PennsylvaniaPlease note this presentation will not be streamed\nEge Yumusak\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Philosophy\, University of Pennsylvania\n\n1:45 pm–3:15 pmLand and its TechnologiesModerator: Delbar Khakzad\, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow\, Wolf Humanities Center \n\nNikhil Anand\, Daniel Braun Silvers and Robert Peter Silvers Family Presidential Professor of Anthropology\, University of PennsylvaniaPlease note this presentation will not be streamed\nSamuel Driver\, Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian\, Dickinson College\nM. Susan Lindee\, Janice and Julian Bers Professor of the History and Sociology of Science\, University of Pennsylvania\n\n3:30 pm–5:00 pmBordersModerator: Spencer Small\, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow\, Wolf Humanities Center \n\nAlex Brostoff\, Assistant Professor\, Department of English and Women’s and Gender Studies\, Georgetown University\nHardeep Dhillon\, Assistant Professor\, Department of History\, University of PennsylvaniaPlease note this presentation will not be streamed\nMina Magda\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis\, New York UniversityPlease note this presentation will not be streamed\n\n5:00 pm–5:15 pmClosing Remarks \n\nCaitlin Adkins\, Research Associate\, Wolf Humanities Center; Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of East Asian Civilizations and Languages\, University of Pennsylvania\n\n5:15 pmReception
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/truth-in-crisis/
LOCATION:Kislak Center for Special Collections\, Rare Books and Manuscripts\, 3420 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Truth about Sign Language Acquisition
DESCRIPTION:The natural sign languages used in deaf communities are rich and structured\, in the same way that languages around the world are. Even still\, there are many misconceptions about whether or not it is appropriate for hearing parents of deaf children to sign with them. This presentation will show what it looks like for a child to become a bimodal bilingual\, using two languages in two modalities (speech and sign)\, and how hearing parents can be part of this journey.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/the-truth-about-sign-language-acquisition/
LOCATION:University of Pennsylvania\, College Green\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education/Lecture
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SUMMARY:The Woman's Film; Inside Women Inside
DESCRIPTION:Screening two classic feminist documentaries produced at bookends of the 1970s\n\n\nThe Woman’s Film: Dir. Jennifer Gauthier\, 1971\, 40 min. \nInside Women Inside: Dir. Christine Choy and Cynthia Maurizio\, 1978\, 21 min. \nAs a mode of action and as a way of thinking\, feminism constantly interrogates truth. Whose actions\, language\, and experience constitute truth? How would/could a feminist truth be gathered\, recorded\, presented\, and claimed? These questions erupt in two classic feminist documentaries produced at bookends of the 1970s: The Woman’s Film (1971) and Inside Women Inside (1978). Screened together\, we hope these films will facilitate a conversation about the relationship between feminism\, activism\, documentary practice\, and truth. \nFollowed by a conversation with Shilyh Warren\, Associate Professor of Visual and Performing Arts & Film Studies\, University of Texas\, and Asher Guthertz\, Ph.D Student\, Cinema & Media Studies\, University of Pennsylvania \nA program of the Wolf Humanities Center’s Forum on Truth\, the Perspectives film series is presented in collaboration with Penn’s Department of Cinema & Media Studies and Public Trust. \nFor more information visit https://wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/womans-film-inside-women-inside
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/the-womans-film-inside-women-inside/
LOCATION:Public Trust\, 4017 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Hero
DESCRIPTION:Screening followed by a conversation with Penn’s Meta Mazaj (Cinema & Media Studies) & Mahyar Entezari (Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures)\n\n\nDir. Asghar Farhadi\, 2021\, 127 min. \nA Hero is a 2021 film by a master of Iranian cinema\, two-time Oscar winner\, Asghar Farhadi. It tells a deceptively simple tale of a man on a two-day leave from a debtors’ prison\, who chances upon a pile of gold coins. Should he return the money to its owner\, or use it to pay off some of his debt? An ordinary predicament and simple moral judgement\, once confronted with complex layers of circumstances and perspectives\, results in a narrative of epic proportions and multifaceted truth. Simple dilemmas give rise to difficult philosophical questions: What is the difference between doing good and not doing bad? Between lying and not telling the truth? The truth and a truth? \nScreening followed by a conversation with Meta Mazaj\, Senior Lecturer of Cinema & Media Studies\, University of Pennsylvania\, and Mahyar Entezari\, Lecturer and Director\, Persian Language Program\, University of Pennsylvania. \nA program of the Wolf Humanities Center’s Forum on Truth\, the Perspectives film series is presented in collaboration with Penn’s Department of Cinema & Media Studies and Public Trust.  \nFor more information visit https://wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/a-hero.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/a-hero/
LOCATION:Public Trust\, 4017 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Truth and the Novel\, author Geraldine Brooks
DESCRIPTION:Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth\, said Albert Camus. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks spent half her life as a journalist\, running after the truth in difficult places where despots and warlords were desperate to obfuscate. Later she turned to fiction\, but her novels always hew as closely as possible to historical truth. In the Wolf Humanities Center’s 2025 Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities\, Brooks will discuss her process as a novelist and how it is informed by the toolkit she acquired as a foreign correspondent covering conflicts in the Middle East\, Africa\, and the Balkans. \nA book signing will follow the lecture and Q&A.\n——\nAustralian-born Geraldine Brooks is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist renowned for her deeply immersive\, character-driven historical novels. Her fiction debut\, Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague\, became an international bestseller\, translated into more than 25 languages. In 2006\, Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her second novel\, March. Her other bestsellers include People of the Book\, Caleb’s Crossing\, The Secret Chord\, and Horse. In addition to fiction\, Brooks has authored acclaimed nonfiction books\, including Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women\, Foreign Correspondence: A Penpal’s Journey from Down Under to All Over\, and The Idea of Home. Her latest book\, Memorial Days\, was published in 2025.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/truth-and-the-novel-author-geraldine-brooks/
LOCATION:Penn Museum\, 3260 South Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tree of Violence
DESCRIPTION:Screening to be followed by a conversation with artist Victoria Lomasko and Julia Alekseyeva\n\n\nDir. Anna Moiseenko\, 2024\, 52 min. \nTree of Violence is a documentary combining animation and live-action footage to capture the extraordinary artistry of Victoria Lomasko\, an artist known for depicting figures of ordinary Russians not often found in mainstream media. We see her standing still amidst public protests against the regime\, carefully sketching the outlines of individuals which later appear in large-scale paintings and murals. The film chronicles Lomasko’s life just before the 2022 invasion of Ukraine\, when she had to leave Russia in order to protect herself and her artistic integrity. Overlaying historical and personal memory\, state violence and familial violence\, the film shows to what extent one artist\, with a single pen on paper\, can engage in truth-telling at moments of tremendous political tension. \nScreening followed by a conversation artist Victoria Lomasko\, and Julia Alekseyeva\, Assistant Professor of English and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. \nA program of the Wolf Humanities Center’s Forum on Truth\, the Perspectives film series is presented in collaboration with Penn’s Department of Cinema & Media Studies and Public Trust. \nMore information: https://wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/tree-violence
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/tree-of-violence/
LOCATION:Public Trust\, 4017 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:“It’s Your Curse\,” and Other Lessons in Repairing Historical Harm
DESCRIPTION:Anthropologist Deirdre de la Cruz on the efforts to develop and enact reparative approaches to her institutions’s Philippines collections.\n\n\nWolf Humanities Center • University of Pennsylvania \n2024–2025 FORUM ON KEYWORDS \n“It’s Your Curse\,” and Other Lessons in Repairing Historical Harm\nDeirdre de la CruzAssociate Professor of History and Asian Languages and Cultures\, University of Michigan \nThe University of Michigan possesses extensive archival\, photographic\, archaeological and natural history collections from the Philippines\, many of which were built during the American colonial period from objects\, images\, and ancestors taken without the consent of local source communities. In this talk\, historical anthropologist Deirdre de la Cruz introduces a multi-year\, collaborative effort by Michigan faculty\, curators\, collection managers\, students\, and community partners to develop and enact reparative approaches to these collections. Professor de la Cruz reflects on how the historical and contemporary specificities of the Philippines and its diaspora both contribute to and complicate on-going conversations around museums and historical justice\, including its associated lexicon of keywords like repatriation\, affiliation\, reciprocity\, and even\, refusal. \nCosponsored by Penn’s Department of Anthropology\, Department of History\, Department of South Asia Studies\, Center for East Asian Studies\, South East Asia Working Group\, and the Penn Museum. \n––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– \nDeirdre de la Cruz is a historian and anthropologist whose work examines global formations and global relations from the historical and cultural vantage point of the Philippines. Her first and second books (Mother Figured: Marian Apparitions and the Making of a Filipino Universal  and God’s Magicians: Philippine Centers of the Global Occult ) trace the discursive\, material and performative processes through which the Philippine emerges as a major spiritual and religious center over the long twentieth century. For the last several years\, de la Cruz has also served as co-PI of ReConnect/ReCollect: Reparative Connections to Philippine Collections at the University of Michigan\, a collaborative work of public scholarship that seeks to repair historical harm by creating models for more ethical and equitable Philippine colonial collections by introducing Filipino and Indigenous agency to their stewardship. De la Cruz is Associate Professor of History and Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan\, and currently serves as Director of the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History. \nMore information: https://wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/delacruz \n–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. \nPhoto by Jeffrey Smith\, courtesy of the University of Michigan Special Collections Research Center. \nThe Wolf Humanities Center values inclusivity and we aim to create a welcoming environment for people of all backgrounds. Please feel free to note any accessibility needs or concerns in your registration\, or connect with us by email or phone (215.573.8280).
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/its-your-curse-and-other-lessons-in-repairing-historical-harm/
LOCATION:Penn Museum\, 3260 South Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Beauty of Choice
DESCRIPTION:Renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner offers a dazzling new account of aesthetics grounded in female agency\n\n\nIn The Beauty of Choice\, the renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner offers a dazzling new account of aesthetics grounded in female agency. Through a series of linked meditations on canonical and contemporary literature and art\, she casts women’s taste as the engine of liberal values. \nSteiner reframes long-standing questions surrounding desire\, art\, sexual assault\, and beauty in light of #MeToo. Beginning with an opera she wrote based on Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath’s Tale\,” she presents women’s sexual choices as fundamentally aesthetic in nature—expressions of their taste—and artworks as stagings of choice in courtship\, coquetry\, consent\, marriage\, and liberation. A merger of art criticism\, evolutionary theory\, political history\, and aesthetics\, this book paints the struggle between female autonomy and patriarchal violence and extremism as the essence of art. \nFollowing a reading from The Beauty of Choice\, Steiner will sit down with Heather Love\, Penn Professor of English\, to discuss the ways in which taste\, beauty\, and pleasure intersect in defense of women’s freedom. \nA book signing and reception will follow. \nCosponsored by Kelly Writers House and the Department of English. \n––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– \nWendy Steiner is the Richard L. Fisher Professor Emerita of English at the University of Pennsylvania\, past Chair of the Penn English Department\, and Founding Director of the Penn Humanities Forum (now\, the Wolf Humanities Center). Her most recent books are The Beauty of Choice: On Women\, Art\, and Freedom (2024); The Real RealThing: The Model in the Mirror of Art (2010); Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art (2001); and The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism (listed in the “NY Times 100 Best Books of 1996”). Steiner’s cultural criticism has appeared widely\, and she is a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation\, NEH\, ACLS\, and Royal Society of Canada. \nSteiner’s six opera libretti have been composed by Paul Richards\, Frances White\, and Mark Rimple. The latest\, using both her text and her photography\, premiered in New York in 2024\, Upon Reflection: An Opera in Ten Images\, starring soprano Sherezade Panthaki and the musicians of Parthenia. Steiner has presented multimedia installations in the 2019 and 2022 Venice Biennales. \nHeather Love\, a Professor in Penn’s English Department\, is the author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard University Press) and Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory (University of Chicago Press). She is the editor of a special issue of GLQ on Gayle Rubin (“Rethinking Sex”) and the co-editor (with Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus) of a special issue of Representations (“Description Across Disciplines”). In 2023\, she published Literary Studies and Human Flourishing\, co-edited with James F. English (Oxford University Press). Love has written on topics including comparative social stigma\, compulsory happiness\, transgender fiction\, spinster aesthetics\, and reading methods in literary studies. She is currently working on a new project (“To Be Real\,”) concerning the uses of the personal in queer writing. \nMore information: https://wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/steiner \n–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. \nThe Wolf Humanities Center values inclusivity and we aim to create a welcoming environment for people of all backgrounds. Please feel free to note any accessibility needs or concerns in your registration\, or connect with us by email or phone (215.573.8280).
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/the-beauty-of-choice/
LOCATION:Kelly Writers House\, 3805 Locust Walk\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Word\, Ink\, Gold\, and Paper: An Exploration of the Art of Illumination
DESCRIPTION:Illumination artist Behnaz Karjoo explores Islamic illumination – or tazhib – in a brief lecture followed by a participatory workshop.\n\n\nWolf Humanities Center • University of Pennsylvania \n2024–2025 FORUM ON KEYWORDS \nWord\, Ink\, Gold\, and Paper\nAn Exploration of the Art of Illumination\nIllumination artist Behnaz Karjoo will explore the evolution of Islamic illumination\, or tazhib\, and its role in manuscript decoration\, providing an overview of the traditional tools and materials involved. Visual images of illuminated manuscripts\, along with the tools and materials\, will illustrate the techniques involved in tazhib\, highlighting the precision and artistry. \nFollowing her lecture\, Karjoo will host a hands-on workshop\, inviting participants to delve into the basic techniques of Islamic illumination and to learn how to paint and outline with fine brushes. Using imitation gold and gouache\, they will paint a small design and bring it to life through traditional methods. By closely engaging with the artistry of tazhib in this session\, participants will deepen their understanding and appreciation of this intricate art. Space is limited for the workshop\, register early! \nPresented in collaboration with Penn’s Forum for Global Islamic Studies. Cosponsored by the Kislak Center for Special Collections\, Rare Books and Manuscripts and the Ibn Sina Fund. \nMore information: https://wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/karjoo \n––––––Before and after Behnaz Karjoo’s lecture and workshop\, view illuminated manuscripts from Kislak Center for Special Collections\, Rare Books and Manuscripts on display in the Lea Library!11:00–11:45am: Lecture1:00–3:00pm: Workshop (space is limited)–––––– \nBorn in Tehran\, Iran\, Behnaz Karjoo moved to the United States at a young age\, where she developed an interest in art. Her creative pursuits took a serious turn later in her life\, when she started to study jewelry design and photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Inspired by her early memories of Iranian mosque architecture\, illumination\, and calligraphy\, she soon pursued training in the classical Islamic arts. Under the mentorship of Mujgan Baskoylu\, a distinguished master in Turkish illumination\, miniature painting\, and paper cutting\, Behnaz began her study of illumination (tazhib) in 2011. Her dedication led her works to be exhibited worldwide\, and in 2016\, she earned her ijazet\, a certificate of mastery in illumination. Expanding her artistic repertoire\, Behnaz pursued the study of miniature painting in 2019\, followed by an exploration of square kufic calligraphy in 2021. These continuous pursuits exemplify her commitment to enriching her knowledge and skill set within the realm of Islamic arts. Behnaz is an active participant in the New York Islamic Arts collective\, founded by Baskoylu\, which is dedicated to preserving and promoting classical Islamic arts in the United States. In her artistic pursuits\, Behnaz holds the belief that while classical arts\, including illumination\, have a timeless foundation\, their potential for evolution and growth is boundless. She continually strives to present these art forms in innovative ways\, embracing experimentation with diverse materials\, colors\, compositions\, and designs. \n––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– \nThis event is free and open to the public. Registration is required for both the lecture and the workshop. Space is limited for the workshop\, register early! \nThe Wolf Humanities Center values inclusivity and we aim to create a welcoming environment for people of all backgrounds. Please feel free to note any accessibility needs or concerns in your registration\, or connect with us by email (wolfhumanities@upenn.edu) or phone (215.573.8280).
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/word-ink-gold-and-paper-an-exploration-of-the-art-of-illumination/
LOCATION:Kislak Center for Special Collections\, Rare Books and Manuscripts\, Van Pelt Library\, 3420 Walnut St\, 6th Floor\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Paradox of Hunger Strikes
DESCRIPTION:Historian Nayan Shah explores the visceral ways that hunger strikes communicate through media and political movements.\n\n\nWolf Humanities Center • University of Pennsylvania \n2024–2025 FORUM ON KEYWORDS \nThe Paradox of Hunger Strikes\nThe talk considers the keyword “hunger strike” and the historical\, social\, and political conditions that motivate the rise and transformations of this puzzling and persistent bodily defiance in the 20th and 21st centuries. Investigating contexts from South Africa\, India\, Ireland\, the United States\, and Iran\, historian Nayan Shah explores the visceral ways that hunger striking communicates through media and political movements\, and how it can turn a personal agony into a call for collective action. \nCosponsored by The Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy\, the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC)\, and the Department of History. \nNayan Shah is a historian whose books uncover how people struggle with incarceration\, migration\, and illness in the United States and across the globe. His latest book\, Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger Strikes (University of California Press\, 2022)\, is the first global history of hunger strikes as a tactic in prisons\, conflicts\, and protest movements. He also wrote Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown (2001) and Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race\, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West (2001). Shah is Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. This year he is L.A. Times‘ Distinguished Fellow at the Huntington Library and Research Center. \nMore information: https://wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/shah \n––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– \nThis event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. \nThe Wolf Humanities Center values inclusivity and we aim to create a welcoming environment for people of all backgrounds. Please feel free to note any accessibility needs or concerns in your registration\, or connect with us by email or phone (215.573.8280).
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/the-paradox-of-hunger-strikes/
LOCATION:Kislak Center for Special Collections\, Rare Books and Manuscripts\, Van Pelt Library\, 3420 Walnut St\, 6th Floor\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Concrete
DESCRIPTION:Professor Anna Tsing launches the Wolf Humanities Center’s 2024-2025 Forum on Keywords with a talk exploring the “concreteness of concrete.”\n\n\nWolf Humanities Center • University of Pennsylvania \n2024–2025 FORUM ON KEYWORDS \nDR. S.T. LEE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE IN THE HUMANITIES \nConcrete\nConcrete is a material—and an adjective pointing to the physical existence of things. To be concrete is to have form in the material world. In this talk\, renowned anthropologist Anna Tsing considers the material form of concrete as a building material\, that is\, the concreteness of concrete. Concrete repels water\, and in the city of Sorong\, Indonesia\, where her current research has taken her\, it calls forth floods\, distributing mud. The concreteness of concrete is foundational to our current condition\, stuck in the infrastructural lock-in of this dangerous time\, the Anthropocene. \nCosponsored by Penn’s Department of Anthropology and EnviroLab. \nAnna Tsing teaches anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and at Aarhus University\, Denmark. Her most recent book (with Jennifer Deger\, Alder Keleman Saxena\, and Feifei Zhou) is Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature (Stanford University Press\, 2024). This same team curated the mammoth digital project Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene (www.feralatlas.org). Tsing is co-director of the Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) at UC Santa Cruz; she leads the center project\, “Fragmented Porosity\,” which considers changing histories\, livelihoods\, and ecologies of the land-water interface. \nMore information: https://wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/tsing \n––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– \nThis event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. \nThe Wolf Humanities Center values inclusivity and we aim to create a welcoming environment for people of all backgrounds. Please feel free to note any accessibility needs or concerns in your registration\, or connect with us by email or phone (215.573.8280).
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/concrete/
LOCATION:Widener Auditorium\, Penn Museum\, 3260 South Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Crafting Revolutions: Undergraduate Humanities Forum Research Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Wolf Humanities Center’s 2023–2024 Undergraduate Research Fellows present their research on “Revolution.”\n\n\nCrafting Revolutions\nUndergraduate Humanities Forum Research Conference\nEach year the Wolf Humanities Center’s Undergraduate Humanities Forum brings together undergraduate students from across the humanities and beyond to explore a common theme. Join us on April 12th as the Wolf Humanities Center’s 2023–2024 Undergraduate Research Fellows present their research on “Revolution.” \n \nCONFERENCE SCHEDULE \n9:00–9:30amBreakfast \n––––––––––– \n9:30–9:45amOpening RemarksHertha Torre Gallego and Zhangyang (Charlie) Xie\, Executive Board and Research Fellows\, Undergraduate Humanities Forum \n––––––––––– \n9:45–11:30amRevolutionary ThoughtsModerator: Dagmawi Woubshet\, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Associate Professor of English\, University of Pennsylvania \nJiayi Li\, Intellectual History\, Economics; CAS 2025Translating the Marxist Teleology into Rural China: The Conceptualization of the ‘Feudal Relation of Land’ and the Agrarian Revolution under the United Front\, 1924-1927 \nJean Paik\, English; CAS 2024Free(dom) Zones: Collectivizing the Body in the Literature of Korean Women Factory Workers \nYijian (Davie) Zhou\, Philosophy and Psychology; CAS 2024Revolutionary Subjectivity \nAlex Yim\, English; CAS 2025Kubo: Korean Flâneurs as Anti-Colonial Artistic and Political Emblems \n––––––––––– \n1:00–2:45pmRevolutionary BodiesModerator: Ramah McKay\, Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science\, University of Pennsylvania \nDhivya Arasappan\, Health & Societies\, Biology; CAS 2024A Climate-Health Revolution: Examining Novel Framings of Climate Change as a Health Crisis \nSergio Emilio Carballido Murcio\, Religious Studies and Mathematical Economics; CAS 2026La Santa Muerte: A Revolution to Mexico’s Popular Religiosity and its National Identity \nHertha Torre Gallego\, Health and Societies\, Hispanic Studies; CAS 2024A Partial Revolution: Engaging with Realities of Abortion Reform in Argentina \nZhangyang (Charlie) Xie\, Africana Studies; Science\, Technology\, and Society; CAS 2024Grappling Culture: How the Black Panther Party Addressed Colonial and Urban Anxieties through Martial Arts \n––––––––––– \n2:45–3:00pmBreak \n––––––––––– \n3:00–4:30pmRevolutionary DimensionsModerator: Kevin M.F. Platt\, Professor of Russian and East European Studies\, University of Pennsylvania \nVictoria Avanesov\, Comparative Literature\, History of Art; CAS 2026Victory Over the Sun: Reimagining Russian Suprematist Works Through Visual and Linguistic Reconstruction \nLiam Phillips\,Comparative Literature\, Russian and East European Studies; CAS 2024In Search of a New Russian Readership: Communal Experience and Literary Form in Mikhail Kuzmin’s Wings \nTova Tachau\, Biochemistry\, Comparative Literature; CAS 2025Embryos of Possibility in Malevich and Khlebnikov: Russian Futurist Revolutions Beyond Time\, Space\, and Language\, 1913–1917 \n––––––––––– \n4:30pmClosing RemarksJosephine Park\, Director\, Undergraduate Humanities Forum; School of Arts and Sciences President’s Distinguished Professor of English; University of Pennsylvania
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/crafting-revolutions-undergraduate-humanities-forum-research-conference/
LOCATION:Kislak Center for Special Collections\, Rare Books and Manuscripts\, Van Pelt Library\, 3420 Walnut St\, 6th Floor\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T173000
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SUMMARY:Amazigh Poetics: An Emerging Indigenous Literary Field
DESCRIPTION:A panel combining poetic readings in both Tamazight and English with a scholarly intervention on the construction of Amazigh literature.\n\n\nBrahim El Guabli\, Associate Professor of Arabic Studies and Comparative Literature\, Williams College \nKhadija Ikan\, Moroccan writer \nAtlas Phoenix\, Translator \nThis panel combines poetic readings in both Tamazight and English with a scholarly intervention on the construction of Amazigh literature. The participants will discuss the imbrication of Indigeneity and literary concerns in Amazigh people’s struggle for recognition of their language and culture in their indigenous homeland in Tamazgha (the broader North Africa). \n______________ \nA Black and Amazigh Indigenous scholar from Morocco\, Brahim El Guabli is an Associate Professor of Arabic Studies and Comparative Literature at Williams College. His first book is entitled Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship after State Violence (Fordham University Press\, 2023). He’s currently completing a second book entitled Desert Imaginations: Saharanism and its Discontents. His journal articles have appeared in LA Review of Books\, PMLA\, Interventions\, The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry\, Arab Studies Journal\, History in Africa\, META\, and the Journal of North African Studies\, among others. He is co-editor of the two volumes of Lamalif: A Critical Anthology of Societal Debates in Morocco During the “Years of Lead” (1966-1988) (Liverpool University Press\, 2022) and Refiguring Loss: Jews in Maghrebi and Middle Eastern Cultural Production (Pennsylvania State University Press\, forthcoming). El Guabli is co-founder and co-editor of Tamazgha Studies Journal\, a peer-reviewed journal that seeks to place the Tamazgha at the heart of academic conversations. \n______________ \nKhadija Ikan is a Moroccan writer. She has literary works in Arabic and Amazigh. She is Founding member of the league of women writers of morocco\, responsible for the Amazigh literary file in the league’s office (2012 – 2018). In 1996\, ISESCO Award for Short Story in the Islamic World for the story “When the Carmina Burana Flows”. 2010\, Appreciation Award from the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture. Later published the short stories “Bosnian Days”\, which won the Sudanese Altayeb Salih Prize for Written Creativity” in 2018.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/amazigh-poetics-an-emerging-indigenous-literary-field/
LOCATION:Kislak Center for Special Collections\, Rare Books and Manuscripts\, Van Pelt Library\, 3420 Walnut St\, 6th Floor\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240223T094500
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SUMMARY:Time and Revolution Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Scholars\, artists\, & activists reflect on how the time of revolution & impasse disrupts neat boundaries between past\, present\, & future.\n\n\nWhat is the relationship between revolution—as the tipping point of a project that ushers a new order—and our lived experience of time? How does the unique temporality of revolution\, as a disruption followed by a taking of accounts\, compel convictions that transform intimate and individual projects into shared investments and collective commitments? As genocidal warfare\, mass incarceration\, climate catastrophes\, and global inequality increasingly become normalized aspects of everyday life\, societies everywhere have experienced the formidable organizing of movements demanding social change and institutions of all kinds that sustain themselves by suppressing and coercing new potentials. In other words\, we live in a contemporary moment that alternates between revolution and impasse. How can the humanities help us make sense of this peculiar oscillation that rips apart ideal conceptions of linear progress\, ever more urgent given the violence implied by its ongoing movement? In this multidisciplinary symposium hosted as part of the Wolf Humanities Center’s 2023–2024 Forum on Revolution\, scholars\, artists\, and activists will come together to reflect on how the time of revolution and impasse disrupts neat boundaries between past\, present\, and future. \nSymposium organized by the Wolf Humanities Center’s 2023–2024 Research Associate Josué Chávez; Doctoral Fellows Allison Brooks-Conrad\, Kirby Sokolow\, and Rawad Wehbe; and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows Alessandra Amin\, José Carlos Díaz Zanelli\, Alex Kreger\, Timothy Malone\, and Melissa Reynolds. \n \nCosponsored by Penn’s Departments of English\, History and Sociology of Science\, History of Art\, Music\, and Spanish and Portuguese; Center for Research in Feminist\, Queer\, and Transgender Studies; and Program in Gender\, Sexuality\, and Women’s Studies.2 \n \n \nAGENDA\n \n10:00 am–10:015 amWelcome Remarks \n\nJamal J. Elias\, Director\, Wolf Humanities Center; Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor of the Humanities; Professor of Religious Studies\, University of Pennsylvania\nHuda Fakhreddine\, Topic Director\, Wolf Humanities Center; Associate Professor of Arabic Literature\, University of Pennsylvania\n\n \n10:15 am–11:45 amVital PastsModerator: Melissa Reynolds\, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow\, Wolf Humanities Center \nHow does the past inform our thinking about practices of revolution? Through artistic and scholarly reflections on the relation between revolution and suffering\, participants in this panel discuss the role of the past in the experience and imagination of revolutionary times. \n\nCarlos Barberena\, Artist\nHannah Feldman\, Associate Professor\, Art History\, Northwestern University\nSpencer Weinreich\, Junior Fellow\, Harvard Society of Fellows; Lecturer on the History of Science\, Harvard University\n\n \n1:00 pm–2:30 pmUnruly PresentsModerator: Allison Brooks-Conrad and Rawad Wehbe\, Doctoral Fellows\, Wolf Humanities Center \nHow do critical interventions potentially revolutionize our experience of the present? The speakers in this session explore how transformations in artistic and food production redefine the parameters of what is possible in the present. \n\nFlannery Cunningham\, Composer and Musicologist\nNadine Fattaleh\, Ph.D. Student\, Media Culture\, and Communication\, New York University\nFatemeh Shams\, Associate Professor\, Persian Literature\, University of Pennsylvania\n\n \n2:45 pm–4:30 pmRevolutionary HorizonsModerator: Timothy Malone\, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow\, Wolf Humanities Center \nWhat is the relation between future horizons and the re-assigning of agency? This panel examines how new structures of feelings and the public debate of mass incarceration put at the forefront of revolutionary futurity the reconfiguration of margin and center in all aspects of social life. \n\nOrisanmi Burton\, Assistant Professor\, Anthropology\, American University\nNour El Rayes\, Assistant Professor\, Ethnomusicology\, Johns Hopkins University\nRobert Saleem Holbrook\, Executive Director\, Abolitionist Law Center; Lecturer in Law\, University of Pennsylvania\nGeo Maher\, Abolitionist educator\, organizer\, and writer\n\n \n4:30 pmClosing Remarks \n\nJosué Chávez\, Research Associate\, Wolf Humanities Center; Ph.D. Candidate\, Hispanic Studies\, University of Pennsylvania\n\n \n5:00 pm–6:00 pmKeynote \nHamed Sinno\, Multi-disciplinary artist
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/time-and-revolution-symposium/
LOCATION:Kislak Center for Special Collections\, Rare Books and Manuscripts\, Van Pelt Library\, 3420 Walnut St\, 6th Floor\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:To Sing the Truth and Name the Liars: Bearing Witness Under Erasure
DESCRIPTION:Egyptian writer and activist Abdelrahman ElGendy reflects on his experience as a political  prisoner.\n\n\nAbdelrahman ElGendy\, Egyptian writer and activist \nAbdulrahman Atta\, Lecturer in Arabic\, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations\, University of Pennsylvania \nIn the heart of the 2011 Egyptian revolution\, Abdelrahman ElGendy’s journey from a Cairo marathon runner to a six-year political prisoner at the age of 17 intertwines with both tragedy and resistance. His story transcends mere survival; it is an exploration of language\, love\, and the relentless pursuit of justice in a world turned upside down by political upheaval. \nThrough Abdelrahman ElGendy’s eyes\, we will experience the transformation from a bystander to an active participant in the Arab Spring\, a change that leads to his unjust imprisonment for over six years. In prison\, writing becomes a significant tool for his survival and continued activism. \nThe special conversation between ElGendy and Penn Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations’ Lecturer in Arabic Abdulrahman Atta invites us to explore critical questions: What does it mean to inhabit a space designed to erase you and insist on being? Where do untold stories go? How do we bear witness and speak into archival silences? \nA program of the Wolf Humanities Center’s 2023–2024 Forum on Revolution \n_____________________________ \nAbdelrahman ElGendy is an Egyptian writer and activist. For six years—between 2013 and 2020—he was a political prisoner in Egypt. ElGendy’s writing engages with creative counter-narratives of history as a form of resistance to erasure and cultural genocide. His work appears in The Washington Post\, Foreign Policy\, AGNI\, Truthout\, New Lines Magazine\, Mada Masr\, and elsewhere. ElGendy is a Dietrich fellow at the University of Pittsburgh’s Nonfiction Writing MFA\, a Heinz fellow at Pitt’s Global Studies Center\, a 2021 Logan Nonfiction fellow\, a 2023 Tin House scholar\, an awardee of the 2023 Katharine Bakeless Nason Award in Nonfiction by Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, and a finalist for the 2021 and 2023 Margolis Award for Social Justice Journalism. \n_____________________________ \nAbdulrahman Atta is a Lecturer of Arabic Language and Culture in the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. As a senior at Al Azhar University in December 2013\, Abdulrahman was arrested during a demonstration against the military coup in Egypt. After his request to take the prior year’s exams was approved\, he managed to graduate in 2015 and finish his sentence in December 2016 . During his time at Wadi al Netron Prison\, Abdulrahman and a group of Al Azhar and Ain Shams university students cofounded Almadrasa school in an effort to help students graduate\, and to learn about what is going on in the world at the time of their sentence. In 2017\, two months after his release\, Abdulrahman was accepted at College of The Holy Cross Foreign Language Assistants Program and moved to Massachusetts\, where he finished his Graduate studies at Framingham State University and taught at Boston University and College of The Holy Cross.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/to-sing-the-truth-and-name-the-liars-bearing-witness-under-erasure/
LOCATION:Humanities Conference Room\, 623 Williams Hall\, 255 South 36th Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Imag(in)ing Revolutions Traditions of Unrest for an Anticolonial Art Praxis
DESCRIPTION:Artists & scholars convene for a cross-cultural conversation exploring art praxis as a means to redefine\, bring about\, & document revolution\n\n\nGanzeer\, Multi-disciplinary artist \nTessa Mars\, \, Multi-disciplinary artist \nCarlos Martiel\, Installation and performance artist \nAisha Mershani\, Photographer; Assistant Professor\, Interdsciplinary Studies\, Gettysburg College \nCorine Labridy\, Assistant Professor\, French and Francophone Studies\, University of Pennsylvania \nGwendalynn Roebke\, Graduate student\, Department of Philosophy\, University of Pennsylvania \nArtists and scholars convene for a cross-cultural conversation exploring art praxis as means to redefine\, bring about\, and document revolution\, attending to its afterlives on the margins of institutional memory. Moderators Corine Labridy and Gwendalynn Roebke will highlight the connection between the Arab world and Latin America in a wide-ranging discussion with accomplished artists from across the globe and disciplines: Ganzeer\, Tessa Mars\, Carlos Martiel\, and Aisha Mershani. \n_____________________________ \nDescribed as a “chameleon” by Carlo McCormick in the New York Times\, Ganzeer operates seamlessly between art\, design\, and storytelling\, creating what he has coined: Concept Pop. His medium of choice according to Artforum is “a little bit of everything: stencils\, murals\, paintings\, pamphlets\, comics\, installations\, and graphic design.” \nWith over 40 exhibitions to his name\, Ganzeer’s work has been seen in a wide variety of art galleries\, impromptu spaces\, alleyways\, and major museums around the world\, such as The Brooklyn Museum in New York\, The Palace of the Arts in Cairo\, Greek State Museum in Thessaloniki\, the V&A in London\, and the Edith Russ Haus in Oldenburg. Born in Cairo\, he is based in Houston\, TX. \n_____________________________ \nCorine Labridy is a native Guadeloupean and an assistant professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in French Caribbean and continental French Black cultures\, and her current research focuses on laughter as a counter-universalist critique. She is a co-founder of Kwazman Vwa\, a digital humanities project that invites new and established Caribbean authors and scholars to discuss their latest works. She is also assistant editor for Imaginaries\, an online publication affiliated with H-France that is concerned with the many ways that literature and history can and do intersect. She has written for Public Books\, Small Axe\, and the CLR James Journal. \n_____________________________ \nTessa Mars is a Haitian visual artist born and raised in Port-au-Prince. She completed a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts at Rennes 2 University in France in 2006 before returning to live and work in Haiti. Her work has been shown recently in the exhibitions “Your presence does not escape me” at Tiwani Gallery in London and “Who Tells a Tale adds a Tail” (2022) at the Denver Art Museum. Tessa Mars is an Alumn of the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten (2020-2022). She currently resides in Puerto Rico. \n_____________________________ \nArtist Carlos Martiel (born 1989\, Havana) lives and works in New York. He graduated in 2009 from the National Academy of Fine Arts “San Alejandro\,” in Havana. From 2008–2010\, he studied in the Cátedra Arte de Conducta\, directed by artist Tania Bruguera. \nMartiel’s works have been included in 57th Venice Biennale\, Italy. He has had performances at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville\, The Solomon R Guggenheim Museum\, The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art and El Museo del Barrio in New York. He has received several awards\, including Grants to Artists from Foundation for Contemporary Arts in New York and the Latinx Artist Fellowship from US Latinx Art Forum. His work has been exhibited at The São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) in São Paulo\, The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam\, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH)\, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and his works are in public collections such as The Solomon R Guggenheim Museum\, The Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts (AEIVA)\, the ASU Art Museum. \n_____________________________ \nAisha Mershani (they/them) was born in Las Vegas\, Nevada to an American Jewish mother and a Moroccan Muslim father. Mershani completed their Ph.D. degree (2015) from the UNESCO program in International Peace\, Conflict\, and Development Studies at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón de la Plana\, Spain. Mershani’s dissertation\, entitled Palestinian Civil Resistance: A Case Study of the Popular Struggle Against the Wall from 2002-2013\, focused on life in the Occupied West Bank since the establishment of the Israeli Apartheid Wall\, and the Palestinian popular struggle to nonviolently remain on their lands. \nMershani’s scholarship utilizes photography as data\, a vital way to analyze contemporary violence. From 2003-2022\, Mershani focused on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. They have photographed military checkpoints\, popular demonstrations\, house demolitions\, destroyed villages\, and the daily lives of Palestinians living under the violence of the Israeli Apartheid. Mershani’s photographs have been exhibited in numerous galleries and multiple publications\, including many internet news sites. Mershani is a featured artist in the reference book\, “Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists.” Their new show\, La La Lil Jidar; 20 Years Behind the Apartheid Wall\, is a traveling solo photography exhibit by way of a collaborative work with a collective of artists and activists. \nAisha Mershani is currently an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Gettysburg College and combines their scholarly work with their media activism. \n_____________________________ \nGwendalynn Roebke (they/them) is an interdisciplinary scholar currently in their 2nd year of Penn’s philosophy PhD program. Their research interests center around trauma/learned helplessness\, structural oppression\, identity construction (of individuals and communities)\, and culpability of the action or inaction of marginalized peoples given what reality has presented them with (this also has to do with their involvement with knowledge creation through narratives built around shared “in group”identities that are the product of harmful practices of othering through subjugation). \nThe richer world anchored parts of their interests involve cross-examining attitudes in the wake of colonialism and imperialism from the SWANA region (more specifically North Africa) with those in Latin America (more specifically Colombia and its other coastal neighbors). \nFor a brief stint of time\, Gwendalynn was an active poet\, performing around the Denver metro area. In the summer of 2021\, they had a small chapbook released\, titled “A Bruxist Manifesto”. They hope to incorporate poetics into their academic work more\, and they currently coordinate the Anti-Colonial Poetry and Philosophy Working/Reading Group.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/imagining-revolutions-traditions-of-unrest-for-an-anticolonial-art-praxis/
LOCATION:Fisher-Bennett Hall 401\, 3401 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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