Forum on Peripheries
Fall 2012
10.10
Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities
Cores and Peripheries in the 21st Century
Immanuel Wallerstein
Sociologist, Yale
10.24
What Art Can Tell Us About How We See
Margaret Livingstone
Neurobiologist, Harvard
11.27
On the Caribbean Periphery of
American Letters
Junot Diaz
Pulitzer Prize-winning Author
Spring 2013
01.23
The Edges of the Visible Universe
David Spergel
Theoretical Astrophysicist, Princeton
02.22
Graduate Humanities Forum Symposium
Space, Hierarchy, and Power in
Humanistic Research
Jane Guyer, Eric Hayot, Rene Marquez, and Kazys Varnelis
03.20
Urban Itineraries and Peripheral Spaces
Swati Chattopadhyay
Architectural Historian, UCSB
03.22
Marginalia
Undergraduate Humanities Forum
Research Conference
04.17
Medicine at the Margins
Steven Feierman, Harvey Friedman,
and Julie Livingston

 
Events are free and open to the public,
unless otherwise noted
.
Event Registration

 
Digital Humanities Forum
09.28.12
Libraries, Labs, and Classrooms:
Locating the Digital Humanities
Nicole Coleman, Neil Fraistat,
and John Unsworth

03.29.13
Mapping Cultural History, Visualizing Cultural Information
Peter Bol, Elijah Meeks, and Ruth Mostern

Penn Humanities Forum at the Chicago Humanities Festival
11.03.12
The Ethics of American Health Care ($)
Ezekial Emanuel
Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, Penn

Cultural Peripheries Film Series
03.13.13
New Ways of Reading
Stephen Best, Heather Love,
and Sharon Marcus

03.14 -
03.15.13
Disability & Modernism
Penn Graduate Conference
03.15 -
03.16.13
Things That Quicken the Heart
Chris Marker: A Symposium
04.05.13
Academic Publishing in the 21st Century
Josie Dixon
04.25.13
Curious Subjects
Hilary M. Schor

Cultural Peripheries Film Series
Penn Museum Second Sunday
Culture Film Series
($)
Second Sunday of the month, September–February