Category Archives: Past Events

Past Event: Afternoon Tea with Janet Monge

4 PM, 9 April, 2010 | 4th floor, College Hall Join the Philomathean Society and Janet Monge, Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology for an afternoon discussion on topics of intellectual and personal interest. Come to relax, learn, reflect or simply … Continue reading

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Past Event: Afternoon Tea with Frederick Dickinson

4 PM, 2 April, 2010 | 4th floor College Hall Join the Philomathean Society and Frederick Dickinson, Associate Professor of History for an afternoon discussion on topics of intellectual and personal interest. Come to relax, learn, reflect or simply to … Continue reading

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Past Event: Afternoon Tea with Felicity Paxton

4 PM, 26 February, 2010 | 4th floor College Hall Join the Philomathean Society and Dr. Felicity Paxton, director of the Penn Women’s Center, for an afternoon discussion on topics of intellectual and personal interest. Come to relax, learn, reflect … Continue reading

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Past Event: On Mathematics and Mermaids: The Crazy Wisdom of the Russian Avant-Garde

6 PM, 31 March, 2010 | 4th floor, College Hall The Utopian ideas of the Russian avant-garde were directly influenced by the “apocalyptic events” of the first twenty years of the twentieth century: the First World War (1914-1918), the two … Continue reading

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Past Event: Our Money: Community Currency and Social Change

3.30 PM, 20 April, 2010 | 4th floor, College Hall How many Ithaca Hours do you have in your wallet? Communities around the world have begun tackling social and economic problems by printing their own money. These community currency systems … Continue reading

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Past Event: Philadelphia After Copenhagen

6 PM, 18 February 2010| 4th floor, College Hall What happened and what’s next for climate change? How did the Copenhagen conference change the future of environmentalism and what issues emerged as a result of it? How can students make … Continue reading

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Past Event: Talking about Nationalism and Identity in the Middle East (Or, Twenty Puns On Edward Said)

A Panel Discussion with Dr Eve Troutt Powell, Dr Ian Lustick, and Dr Robert Vitalis 6 PM, 22 April, 2010 | 4th floor, College Hall The Egyptian diplomat Tahseen Bashir once described the nations of the Middle East as mere … Continue reading

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Past Event: Foucault vs Chomsky: Human Nature and Justice

6 PM, 16 February, 2010 | 4th floor, College Hall In 1971 Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky sat down in a dark lecture hall somewhere in Holland and talked for an hour about human nature, justice, the Vietnam War and … Continue reading

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Past Event: Judith Butler – Annual Oration 2010

6 PM, 3 March, 2010 | Hall of Flags The Annual Orator for 2010 was Dr. Judith Butler, who delivered her oration on “From Performativity to Precarity” in 
the Hall of Flags, Houston Hall, on Wednesday, March 3, 2010. For … Continue reading

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