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Take a break from your hectic scholastic adventures and come to the last Philo meeting of the semester! Triple the gentle madness will be had as we welcome both a delegation from the Philolexian Society, our Columbia University sister society, and a horde of raucous and racy Senior Members. The Lit-Ex will be given by Mr. Jeremy Berman on the topic of Quadscience:
If you have ever had a group of friends that consists of four people, you have been a part of a quad. Quadscience is a revolutionary method which can be used to evaluate these quads and determine their structure and stability. You can even evaluate trios, quints, and sexts (but not the naughty kind). Find out why you don’t talk to that guy from high school anymore. Find out why the Beatles broke up. Find out why Kim Jong Un is probably screwing North Korea over. Find out your destiny!

Come for the comestibles, stay because you just can’t tear yourself away.

Join the Philomathean Society for the culmination of this semester’s Kojo Minta Afternoon Tea Series: a Tea Party with Dr. Janet Monge in the Philomathean Library this Friday, April 14th, at 4:00 PM.

We are sincerely honored to host Professor Monge at Tea this semester. She is a paleoanthropologist who has done fieldwork in many locations in Europe, Kenya, and Australia. She is the Keeper of Skeletal Collections and Associate Curator of the Physical Anthropology Section at the Museum. Her primary interest is in the development of methodologies to preserve and broadcast datasets to the physical anthropology community, as well as the distribution of the highest quality castings of human fossils to universities and museums all over the world.

Tea and sundry refreshments will be served, so come for the tea party, and stay for the delightful discussion.

Suggestions for tea? Email tea@philomathean.org!

Join the Philomathean Society for our third wine class of the semester, as we travel to France as part of our exploration of Old World wines. Those wishing to sign up should complete the form on this page: http://www.philomathean.org/events/wineclass/.

Accommodations can be made for those wishing to take just one or two classes. Simply contact Mr. Barlow Holley at wine@philomathean.org indicating your interest.

All roads lead to Philo this Friday as we cavort like the Romans of old (you know the ones I mean) and hear a Literary Exercise presented by Ms. Alethea Roe entitled, “Reading and (Re)constructing Identity: Social Contexts in Roman Art”.

Come for the food, stay for the gentle madness!

Join the Philomathean Society for our second wine class of the semester, as we travel to Italy as part of our exploration of Old World wines. Those wishing to sign up should complete the form on this page: http://www.philomathean.org/events/wineclass/.

Accommodations can be made for people who have missed the first class or would like to attend a reduced number of classes. Simply contact Mr. Barlow Holley at wine@philomathean.org indicating your interest.

Join the Philomathean Society and the James Wilson Law Society for a Kojo Minta Afternoon Tea with Professor Kermit Roosevelt III of the Law School for a discussion of automated military-drone strikes.

Professor Roosevelt has a varied resume, including the practice of law, a clerkship for United States Supreme Court Justice David Souter, and the publication of a novel. He is currently a professor at Penn Law, where his interests are constitutional law, conflict of laws, and legal jurisdiction.

The James Wilson Law Society is an undergraduate organization dedicated to the discussion of legal issues. (Past and planned events include trips to Philadelphia law firms and courts, as well as talks with faculty. An online law journal is also in the making. If you are interested in getting involved, please contact Stephan Rihs at rihs@sas.upenn.edu.)

Philo is excited to welcome Professor Roosevelt, the James Wilson Law Society, and you to the halls this Friday. As always, tea and light refreshments will be served.

Suggestions for tea? Email tea@philomathean.org.

Please join the Philomathean Society in welcoming Mitchell Anderson’s “Popular Permutations” to the Art Gallery during our opening gala.

Mitchell, born in Chicago in 1985, currently lives in Switzerland and spends periods in Marfa, Texas. He produces embroidery, paintings and sculpture in abundance. His instillation explores ideas of abstract change by distortion of form, context, and place. Come experience a play on popular ideas of the gloomy, the exciting, the sexy and the scary altered such that they become indistinguishable from one another.

Please join the Philomathean Society for the next lecture of the 2012-2013 Lindback Lecture Series! In the past, it was tradition that an invitation to lecture at the Philomathean Society was extended in conjunction with the Lindback Award, one of the greatest distinctions for faculty members from across the University. However, for reasons not entirely known, the series has not taken place during recent years. Having once been a smash hit amongst members of the Society and greater Penn community, we are excited to formally reinstate the tradition during the Spring of 2013.

This lecture will feature a talk by Dr. Larry Silver on “Bruegel’s Biblical Kings”. Pieter Bruegel the Elder is celebrated for his paintings of Flemish peasants at labor and leisure. But he also produced innovative biblical pictures that also engage with contemporary issues of both politics and religion. On the eve of the Dutch Revolt against the Catholic King of Spain, Bruegel’s biblical images of kingship cast power and pride in a harsh light.

Photo by Danielle Levitt
http://daniellelevitt.com/galleries/27-radical_faeries_nyc_ny

Midterms got you down? Come buoy your spirits with some delectable comestibles and a healthy dose of gentle madness.

The literary exercise, “Faeries, Faggots, and Philosophy” will be delivered by Mr. Andrew Jakubowski. His presentation will delve into the history and evolution of the Radical Faeries and two pertinent philosophies: Gay Consciousness and subject-SUBJECT Consciousness. It will consider how these philosophies manifest themselves at the individual, interpersonal, and societal levels, incorporating a healthy bit of queer and feminist theories as well as some plain old fun.