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SUMMARY:Practicing Attention—But Why?
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on themes from her bestselling 2019 book How to Do Nothing\, Jenny Odell will examine anxieties about our ability to focus and the way that the issue is often emptied of social\, political\, and spiritual content. Like anything else\, the practice of paying attention can be aimed at increased productivity for productivity’s sake—or worse\, an abstract valuing of mental “performance.” She will argue that much of modern advice regarding the practice of attention is inadequate because it misses the role of purpose\, commitment\, and love. \nA book signing will follow the lecture and Q&A.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/practicing-attention-but-why/
LOCATION:Penn Museum\, 3260 South Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education/Lecture
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SUMMARY:After Rumi: Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:After Rumi: The Mevlevis and Their World by Jamal J. Elias is the first major book since the mid-20th century to focus on Rumi’s religious\, social and literary legacy. In this book talk\, the author will briefly introduce important aspects of Rumi’s impact on Sufism\, language and society in Turkey and beyond. The talk will be followed by a discussion with Ahmet T. Karamustafa\, one of the world’s foremost experts on the history of medieval Sufism.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/after-rumi-book-talk/
LOCATION:University of Pennsylvania\, College Green\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education/Lecture
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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
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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
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Education/Lecture,Family Activities,family and kid friendly,Free,Lecture,Programs for Children,Special Event,Webinar
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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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