Past Events
MORE THAN PEACE CORPS: GAP YEAR FELLOWSHIPS AND SERVICE CORPS OPPORTUNITIES
Co-Sponsored by Career Services and Civic House
Do you want to make the world a better place? Are you looking for a job during the "gap year" between college and graduate school? There are a plethora of community service fellowships out there that…
Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America
Penn Bookstore
“Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America”
Biddle and Dubin chronicle the life of Catto in Philadelphia, his fight to educate newly freed slaves and the events…
Graduate Colloquium:"People out of Place or a Home for the Homeless?"
Dr. Andrew Deener, a visiting scholar in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health and Society program, will be presenting his work entitled, "People out of Place or a Home for the Homeless…
Graduate Colloquium: "Ideas, Coalition Building, and Political Development in the City: Urban Policy and Politics in the U.S. and the UK, 1976-2000"
Tim Weaver, a graduate student in Political Science, will be presenting his work entitled,…
Globalization & Inner-city Economic Development
Asian American Studies Program
A virtual live lecture with Dr. Derek S. Hyra, Urban Affairs and Planning at Virginia Tech
in the course Ethnic Economies and Globalization*
Wednesday, December 8
7-8:15pm
McNeil Bldg. Room 309…
VENEZUELA Photographic Exhibit and Panel Discussion
Join us for a glimpse in the life of ordinary people, trying to live their lives in the precarious Barrios of Venezuela.
Panel:
Carlos Beltran, Photographer and Director
Philippe…
"Philadelphia: The Great Experiment" -- A Special Movie Event
East Falls Community and William Penn Charter School
Thanks to the generosity of producer Sam Katz, William Penn Charter School, and the East Falls Community Council, East Falls will have its own screening of the pilot episode of "Philadelphia: The Great Experiment"…
America in 2050: How Housing Preferences Will Shape Our Urban Landscape
Penn IUR Public Interest Series
By mid-century, the U.S. will have half a billion people. Two-thirds of the built environment seen in 2050 does not currently exist.
Join the Penn IUR for a conversation with Arthur C. Nelson, Presidential…