Widener Auditorium

Professor Anna Tsing launches the Wolf Humanities Center's 2024-2025 Forum on Keywords with a talk exploring the "concreteness of concrete."Wolf Humanities Center • University of Pennsylvania2024–2025 FORUM ON KEYWORDSDR. S.T. LEE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE IN THE HUMANITIESConcreteConcrete 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

Discussion highlighting tribal relationships to Lenapehoking, the ancestral and spiritual homeland of Lenni-Lenape and Delaware peoples.Wolf Humanities Center • University of Pennsylvania2022–2023 FORUM ON HERITAGELenapehokingArchaeology, Heritage, and the Power of Place for Lenape Tribal NationsJeremy Johnson, (Delaware), Director of Cultural Education, Delaware Tribe of Indians, OKGregory D. Lattanzi, Curator and State Archaeologist, New Jersey State MuseumKatelyn Lucas, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for Delaware NationDaniel StrongWalker Thomas, Hereditary Chief, Delaware Nation Lenni LenapePresented in collaboration with Penn Museum.This panel discussion highlights tribal relationships to Lenapehoking, the ancestral and spiritual homeland of Lenni-Lenape and Delaware peoples of the Delaware Valley. Archaeologists and