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*Fellow Spotlight*
2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Regional Faculty Fellow Samuel Proffitt Driver is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian at Dickinson College.
2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Regional Faculty Fellow Samuel Proffitt Driver is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian at Dickinson College.
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
*Fellow Spotlight*
2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Regional Faculty Fellow Samuel Proffitt Driver is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian at Dickinson College.
2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Regional Faculty Fellow Samuel Proffitt Driver is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian at Dickinson College.
Saturday, November 15
NCAAAE Keynote Lecture
42nd Northeast Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
Kukuli Velarde is a Peruvian-American artist based in Philadelphia.
NCAAAE Keynote Lecture
42nd Northeast Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
Kukuli Velarde is a Peruvian-American artist based in Philadelphia.
November 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Saturday, November 15
NCAAAE Keynote Lecture
42nd Northeast Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
Kukuli Velarde is a Peruvian-American artist based in Philadelphia.
NCAAAE Keynote Lecture
42nd Northeast Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
Kukuli Velarde is a Peruvian-American artist based in Philadelphia.
Tomorrow, Nov 12th: Join us at Public Trust for a screening of two classic feminist documentaries of the 1970s: The Woman’s Film (1971) and Inside Women Inside (1978). Followed by a conversation with Shilyh Warren (UT Dallas) and Asher Guthertz (UPenn). wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/woman...
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Tomorrow, Nov 12th: Join us at Public Trust for a screening of two classic feminist documentaries of the 1970s: The Woman’s Film (1971) and Inside Women Inside (1978). Followed by a conversation with Shilyh Warren (UT Dallas) and Asher Guthertz (UPenn). wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/woman...
Tuesday, November 11th
Writer, scholar, and activist Tareq Baconi and Rutgers Professor of African Studies and Criminal Justice Noura Erakat will be in conversation, celebrating Baconi’s new book, Fire in Every Direction.
Writer, scholar, and activist Tareq Baconi and Rutgers Professor of African Studies and Criminal Justice Noura Erakat will be in conversation, celebrating Baconi’s new book, Fire in Every Direction.
November 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Tuesday, November 11th
Writer, scholar, and activist Tareq Baconi and Rutgers Professor of African Studies and Criminal Justice Noura Erakat will be in conversation, celebrating Baconi’s new book, Fire in Every Direction.
Writer, scholar, and activist Tareq Baconi and Rutgers Professor of African Studies and Criminal Justice Noura Erakat will be in conversation, celebrating Baconi’s new book, Fire in Every Direction.
*Fellow Spotlight*
2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Penn Faculty Fellow Ege Yumusak is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania.
2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Penn Faculty Fellow Ege Yumusak is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania.
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
*Fellow Spotlight*
2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Penn Faculty Fellow Ege Yumusak is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania.
2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Penn Faculty Fellow Ege Yumusak is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania.
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There is hope, and we must use it! Join us at our annual symposium next month to envision new possibilities for media research and practice at this time of profound upheaval. Register here: bit.ly/JournalistsUnderFire @asc.upenn.edu
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
There is hope, and we must use it! Join us at our annual symposium next month to envision new possibilities for media research and practice at this time of profound upheaval. Register here: bit.ly/JournalistsUnderFire @asc.upenn.edu
Coming soon! Penn Philosophy welcomes Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam) for a discussion about her forthcoming book, Reason and Power in Argumentation (CUP, 2026).
Thursday, November 13
3:00–5:00pm
Van Pelt Library, Class of 1955 Room
Free & open to all
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/novaes
Thursday, November 13
3:00–5:00pm
Van Pelt Library, Class of 1955 Room
Free & open to all
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/novaes
November 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Coming soon! Penn Philosophy welcomes Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam) for a discussion about her forthcoming book, Reason and Power in Argumentation (CUP, 2026).
Thursday, November 13
3:00–5:00pm
Van Pelt Library, Class of 1955 Room
Free & open to all
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/novaes
Thursday, November 13
3:00–5:00pm
Van Pelt Library, Class of 1955 Room
Free & open to all
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/novaes
Weds 11/19: Harvard Professor of Ukrainian History Serhii Plokhy joins Penn historian Benjamin Nathans to analyze the impact of the Russo-Ukrainian war on academia, explore a project titled The Ukrainian History: A Global Initiative, and discuss Plokhy’s forthcoming publication. bit.ly/3WYJhQr
November 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Weds 11/19: Harvard Professor of Ukrainian History Serhii Plokhy joins Penn historian Benjamin Nathans to analyze the impact of the Russo-Ukrainian war on academia, explore a project titled The Ukrainian History: A Global Initiative, and discuss Plokhy’s forthcoming publication. bit.ly/3WYJhQr
Applications for our 2026–2027 Postdoctoral Fellowships on the theme of "Practice" are due this Sunday, November 2.
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/postdoc
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/postdoc
October 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Applications for our 2026–2027 Postdoctoral Fellowships on the theme of "Practice" are due this Sunday, November 2.
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/postdoc
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/postdoc
Coming up tomorrow, Thursday the 30th!
Thursday, October 30: Poet and novelist Aria Aber will be in conversation with Professor Fatemeh Shams (MELC).
Aber is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at the University of Vermont. Her debut poetry collection, Hard Damage (2019), won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the Whiting Award.
Aber is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at the University of Vermont. Her debut poetry collection, Hard Damage (2019), won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the Whiting Award.
October 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Coming up tomorrow, Thursday the 30th!
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Wednesday, October 29: The Perspectives Film Series continues with A Hero (2021), dir. Asghar Farhadi.
A Hero tells a deceptively simple tale of a man on a two-day leave from a debtors' prison, who chances upon a pile of gold coins and faces a moral dilemma.
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/a-hero
A Hero tells a deceptively simple tale of a man on a two-day leave from a debtors' prison, who chances upon a pile of gold coins and faces a moral dilemma.
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/a-hero
A Hero
Presented in collaboration with Penn's Department of Cinema & Media Studies and Public Trust
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October 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Wednesday, October 29: The Perspectives Film Series continues with A Hero (2021), dir. Asghar Farhadi.
A Hero tells a deceptively simple tale of a man on a two-day leave from a debtors' prison, who chances upon a pile of gold coins and faces a moral dilemma.
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/a-hero
A Hero tells a deceptively simple tale of a man on a two-day leave from a debtors' prison, who chances upon a pile of gold coins and faces a moral dilemma.
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/a-hero
*Fellow Spotlight*
2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Regional Faculty Victor Sierra Matute ( @sierramatute.bsky.social) is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature in the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at Baruch College, The City University of New York.
2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Regional Faculty Victor Sierra Matute ( @sierramatute.bsky.social) is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature in the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at Baruch College, The City University of New York.
October 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
*Fellow Spotlight*
2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Regional Faculty Victor Sierra Matute ( @sierramatute.bsky.social) is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature in the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at Baruch College, The City University of New York.
2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Regional Faculty Victor Sierra Matute ( @sierramatute.bsky.social) is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature in the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at Baruch College, The City University of New York.
Wednesday, October 29: The Perspectives Film Series continues with A Hero (2021), dir. Asghar Farhadi.
A Hero tells a deceptively simple tale of a man on a two-day leave from a debtors' prison, who chances upon a pile of gold coins and faces a moral dilemma.
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/a-hero
A Hero tells a deceptively simple tale of a man on a two-day leave from a debtors' prison, who chances upon a pile of gold coins and faces a moral dilemma.
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/a-hero
A Hero
Presented in collaboration with Penn's Department of Cinema & Media Studies and Public Trust
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu
October 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Wednesday, October 29: The Perspectives Film Series continues with A Hero (2021), dir. Asghar Farhadi.
A Hero tells a deceptively simple tale of a man on a two-day leave from a debtors' prison, who chances upon a pile of gold coins and faces a moral dilemma.
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/a-hero
A Hero tells a deceptively simple tale of a man on a two-day leave from a debtors' prison, who chances upon a pile of gold coins and faces a moral dilemma.
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/a-hero
We’re delighted to introduce Julia Verkholantsev, Topic Director of the Wolf Humanities Center’s 2025-2026 Forum on Truth and Associate Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
October 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
We’re delighted to introduce Julia Verkholantsev, Topic Director of the Wolf Humanities Center’s 2025-2026 Forum on Truth and Associate Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Thursday, October 30: Poet and novelist Aria Aber will be in conversation with Professor Fatemeh Shams (MELC).
Aber is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at the University of Vermont. Her debut poetry collection, Hard Damage (2019), won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the Whiting Award.
Aber is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at the University of Vermont. Her debut poetry collection, Hard Damage (2019), won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the Whiting Award.
October 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Thursday, October 30: Poet and novelist Aria Aber will be in conversation with Professor Fatemeh Shams (MELC).
Aber is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at the University of Vermont. Her debut poetry collection, Hard Damage (2019), won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the Whiting Award.
Aber is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at the University of Vermont. Her debut poetry collection, Hard Damage (2019), won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the Whiting Award.
Penn Music invites proposals for papers & performances for their Feb 13–14 graduate conference, For(u)m: Re-forming Value, Re-valuing Form in Music Studies. Grad students across disciplines are invited to examine the intersection of form & value in music, sound, & performance.
tinyurl.com/2xyhbftx
tinyurl.com/2xyhbftx
October 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Penn Music invites proposals for papers & performances for their Feb 13–14 graduate conference, For(u)m: Re-forming Value, Re-valuing Form in Music Studies. Grad students across disciplines are invited to examine the intersection of form & value in music, sound, & performance.
tinyurl.com/2xyhbftx
tinyurl.com/2xyhbftx
Oct 18: Penn's Department of Cinema & Media Studies hosts a day of conversation at the intersection of film, pedagogy, and freedom, organized in conjunction with the Open Access publication of Course Projections: Film, Pedagogy, Freedom, eds. Full details: cinemastudies.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...
October 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Oct 18: Penn's Department of Cinema & Media Studies hosts a day of conversation at the intersection of film, pedagogy, and freedom, organized in conjunction with the Open Access publication of Course Projections: Film, Pedagogy, Freedom, eds. Full details: cinemastudies.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...
Weds 10/22: Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth, said Albert Camus. Geraldine Brooks spent half her life as a journalist, running after the truth in difficult places. Later she turned to fiction, but her novels always hew as closely as possible to historical truth.
October 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Weds 10/22: Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth, said Albert Camus. Geraldine Brooks spent half her life as a journalist, running after the truth in difficult places. Later she turned to fiction, but her novels always hew as closely as possible to historical truth.
Tonight, October 3, join us at Public Trust for a screening and conversation. Tree of Violence is a documentary that combines animation and live-action footage to capture the artistry of Victoria Lomasko, a Russian artist and journalist.
Register here to attend: www.eventbrite.com/e/tree-of-vi...
Register here to attend: www.eventbrite.com/e/tree-of-vi...
October 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Tonight, October 3, join us at Public Trust for a screening and conversation. Tree of Violence is a documentary that combines animation and live-action footage to capture the artistry of Victoria Lomasko, a Russian artist and journalist.
Register here to attend: www.eventbrite.com/e/tree-of-vi...
Register here to attend: www.eventbrite.com/e/tree-of-vi...
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Friday, October 3: Please join us for the 2024 documentary Tree of Violence, the first screening in the Perspectives Film Series hosted by the Wolf Humanities Center, the Department of Cinema & Media Studies, and Public Trust.
September 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Friday, October 3: Please join us for the 2024 documentary Tree of Violence, the first screening in the Perspectives Film Series hosted by the Wolf Humanities Center, the Department of Cinema & Media Studies, and Public Trust.
Friday, October 3: Please join us for the 2024 documentary Tree of Violence, the first screening in the Perspectives Film Series hosted by the Wolf Humanities Center, the Department of Cinema & Media Studies, and Public Trust.
September 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Friday, October 3: Please join us for the 2024 documentary Tree of Violence, the first screening in the Perspectives Film Series hosted by the Wolf Humanities Center, the Department of Cinema & Media Studies, and Public Trust.
Sept 19–20: Revisiting Language Politics: Historical Perspectives and Current Trends in India. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/revis...
Revisiting Language Politics
Presented by The Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of DemocracyOver the last few years, India has witnessed a resurgence of linguistic tensions nationally. Regional parties more frequently refer to...
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September 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Sept 19–20: Revisiting Language Politics: Historical Perspectives and Current Trends in India. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/revis...
Way to go, Eric!
Eric Ryu joins the Wolf Humanities Center as an Undergraduate Research Fellow this year. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/fellows/eric....
Eric Ryu joins the Wolf Humanities Center as an Undergraduate Research Fellow this year. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/fellows/eric....
September 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Way to go, Eric!
Eric Ryu joins the Wolf Humanities Center as an Undergraduate Research Fellow this year. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/fellows/eric....
Eric Ryu joins the Wolf Humanities Center as an Undergraduate Research Fellow this year. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/fellows/eric....
Sept 18: The Edges of Truth, an all-day conference bringing together scholars across disciplines to explore how what we perceive as truth has been constructed, obscured, misunderstood, contested, and reimagined throughout history. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/edges...
The Edges of Truth
The Edges of Truth: Secrecy, Artifice, and the Limits of Knowledge brings together scholars across disciplines to explore how what we perceive as truth has been constructed, obscured, misunderstood, c...
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu
September 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Sept 18: The Edges of Truth, an all-day conference bringing together scholars across disciplines to explore how what we perceive as truth has been constructed, obscured, misunderstood, contested, and reimagined throughout history. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/edges...
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Sept 17: Michael D. Gordin (Princeton) introduces "The Edges of Truth" Conference with his keynote, "The Persistence of Wretched Subjects."
September 17, 2025
5:30pm
Widener Lecture Hall, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Registration required.
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/gordin
September 17, 2025
5:30pm
Widener Lecture Hall, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Registration required.
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/gordin
The Persistence of Wretched Subjects
CONFERENCE KEYNOTEThe Edges of Truth: Secrecy, Artifice, and the Limits of Knowledge
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu
September 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Sept 17: Michael D. Gordin (Princeton) introduces "The Edges of Truth" Conference with his keynote, "The Persistence of Wretched Subjects."
September 17, 2025
5:30pm
Widener Lecture Hall, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Registration required.
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/gordin
September 17, 2025
5:30pm
Widener Lecture Hall, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Registration required.
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/gordin