Category Archives: Events

Afternoon Tea with Dr. Larry Jameson

Friday December 2nd, 4:00pm | 4th floor College Hall Join Philo for tea this week with Dean Larry Jameson, the newly appointed head of the school of medicine as well as the executive vice president of the UPenn Health system! … Continue reading

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Meeting VII: “Rachmaninov’s Updates”

Friday November 18th, 8:00pm | 4th floor College Hall Join us for the penultimate meeting of the 521st session! LitEx, “Rachmaninov’s Updates: an analysis of his revisions and their reception”, by The James Kwak. (Mr. Kwak’s entrance music.)

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Examining Occupy : Panel Discussion and Open Forum

Thursday November 17th, 6:30pm | 4th floor College Hall Prof. Andy Lamas (Urban Studies) Prof. Ania Loomba (English) Prof. Phil Nichols (Legal Studies) The recent, rapid growth of the Occupy movement worldwide has directed attention to widespread discontent with social … Continue reading

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Typography: Conversation and Demonstration

Tuesday November 15th, 6:00pm | the Common Press The ubiquity of text in today’s world surpasses that of any other time in history. Are you interested in learning how fonts are designed? Join Philo and Mr. David Comberg at the … Continue reading

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Afternoon Tea with Dr. Jennifer Wegner

Friday November 11th, 4:00pm | 4th floor College Hall Please join the Philomathean Society and Dr. Jennifer Wegner this Friday at 4:00 for our weekly afternoon tea. Dr. Wegner is the Egyptian Curator for the Penn Museum. Sundry eatables and … Continue reading

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Disasters! Panel Discussion

Thursday November 10th, 6:00pm | 4th floor College Hall Dr. Erwann Michel-Kerjan (Operations and Information Management) Dr. Ben Horton (Earth and Environmental Sciences) Dr. Adriana Petryna (Anthropology) In our modern age, we like to believe that human beings maintain some … Continue reading

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Meeting VI: “Out of Many, One”

Friday November 4th, 8:00pm | 4th floor College Hall Join us for the 6th meeting of the 521st session! LitEx, by P.I. M. Chiarello, will “investigate the federalization of the European Union, and whether such a program is feasible.”

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Afternoon Tea with Prof. Dennis DeTurck

Friday November 4th, 4:00pm | 4th floor College Hall Please join the Philomathean Society and Professor Dennis DeTurck this Friday at 4:00 for our weekly afternoon tea! In addition to being a member of Penn’s Math faculty, Professor DeTurck is … Continue reading

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Strategic Studies: History of RAND with Abe Shulsky (Hudson Institute)

Thursday November 3rd, 4:30pm | 4th floor College Hall Strategic Studies is a weekly non-credit seminar series hosted by Professors Anne-Louise Antonoff and Arthur Waldron that explores questions of international strategy and international security. In honor of the Year of … Continue reading

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Biology of Race Panel

Thursday November 3rd, 6:30pm | 4th floor College Hall Dr. Janet Monge (Anthropology) Dr. Sarah Tishkoff (Biology) Dr. Michael Weisberg (Philosophy) Only within the past five hundred years has the concept of distinct biological human “races” been used to classify … Continue reading

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