Past Events



29th Annual Public Lecture: Carl Nightingale

"How American Urban Segregation Outlived Apartheid"
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Listen to Dr. Nightingale's talk:
How American Urban Segregation…



"Urban Itineraries and Peripheral Spaces"

Penn Humanities Forum
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The Penn Humanities Forum presents architectural historian Swati Chattopadhyay (Associate Professor and Chair, History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara), who invites…



Graduate Colloquium: "Beyond the Crimson Lily: The Founding of Florence in Medieval Political Propaganda"

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NOTE:  RESCHEDULED FROM MARCH 12

Please join us for the next Urban Studies Graduate Student colloquium, with coffee, croissants and conversation on Tuesday March 19, 9:30-11am, in the Urban Studies…



"The Meadows Neighborhood in Southwest Philadelphia: Recovering a Lost Landscape"

PennDesign
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PennDesign invites Anne Krulikowski, Adjunct Professor and West Chester University and the University of Delaware, for a historic preservation lecture.
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Film Screening: Pull of Gravity

Penn Law
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Penn Law is hosting a screening for the hour-long documentary Pull of Gravity



Graduate Colloquium: "The changing landscape of Hauz Khas: Historical transformations in boundary and land use in ‘rural’ Delhi"

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Author: Sudev Sheth, South Asian Studies

Discussant: Shahana Chattaraj, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Lauder Institute

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The Debate for America's Future: Assessing the Viability of Public Education

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This year’s annual L.E.A.R.N. education innovation conference, The Debate for America’s Future: Assessing the Viability of Public Education Solutions, examines current efforts to improve the American public education…



Graduate Colloquium: "Islands of growth in seas of decline or the engines for takeoff? An Exploration of Increasing Educational Attainment and Labor Markets in Metropolitan America"

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Author: Stuart Andreason, City and Regional Planning

Discussant: Janice F. Madden, Professor Regional Science, Sociology and Real Estate

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From Tehran to Tahrir: Public Space Redefined

Iran Media Program at the Annenberg School for Communication and the University of Pennsylvania School of Design.
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This day long symposium will run from 9:00 am to 5:15pm.



Race in the Academy Series New Directions in Scholarship: Re-Imaging Race in American Education

GSE Student Affairs Office
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This is a Race in the Academy event sponsored by the GSE Student Affairs Office.
Dr. Ernest Morrell is a Professor…