Happenings
The University of Pennsylvania has recently released a set of guidelines pertaining to COVID-19, which include restrictions on events and campus access, and the temporary closure of Penn’s arts centers. The Sachs Program will do its best to update our website to reflect any resultant cancellations. We also encourage you to visit the host sites for all events to confirm details. Ongoing events, such as exhibitions, will remain listed on our site for the time being.
Through our website and newsletter, The Sachs Program highlights events, performances, exhibitions, and other forms of public engagement on and off campus. Most of what we list is neither produced nor directly supported by The Sachs Program. Our intent is to point you to the great things happening at Penn and driven by Penn faculty, staff, students, and alumni. Penn is a destination for the arts. Happenings are what we think you should be experiencing now.
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Wednesday 27 JanuaryFreedom and Choice in Art and Literature with Risa Puno, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, and Sophia Rosenfeld
Wolf Humanities presents a live online event, that explores how and why freedom and choice in art and literature is generative for them, as well as their own aesthetic choices in an era of renewed attention to various forms of inequality and privilege. Cosponsored by the Department of Africana Studies and the Program in Comparative Literature.
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Wednesday 27 JanuarySue Mobley Explores Designing Dissenting Histories
Sue Mobley is a New Orleans-based urbanist, organizer, and advocate. She is currently director of research at Monument Lab; visiting scholar at the Center for Public Art and Space at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design; and a member of the New Orleans City Planning Commission. Mobley was co-director of Paper Monuments, a public art and public history project that invited residents to imagine new monuments for New Orleans.
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Wednesday 27 JanuaryJeanne Gang Architecture Lecture
Jeanne Gang, FAIA, is the founding principal and partner of Studio Gang, an international architecture and urban design practice headquartered in Chicago. Known for an inquisitive, forward-looking approach to design that unfolds new technical and material possibilities and expands the active role of designers in society, she creates striking places that connect people with each other, their communities, and the environment.
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Thursday 28 JanuaryDepartment of Landscape Architecture Virtual Lecture Series
Interdisciplinarity: Right Here, Right Now is a virtual lecture series hosted by the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Weitzman School of Design throughout the spring semester. The Earth Architect, Diana Agrest, The Artist, Orkan Telhan, The Planner, Julian Agyeman, The Preservationist, Randy Mason, The Systems Thinker, Ellen Neises, The CEO, Cindy Sanders, abd the Architectural Historian, Daniel Barber.
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Thursday 4 FebruaryDepartment of Landscape Architecture Virtual Lecture Series
Interdisciplinarity: Right Here, Right Now is a virtual lecture series hosted by the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Weitzman School of Design throughout the spring semester. The Earth Architect, Diana Agrest, The Artist, Orkan Telhan, The Planner, Julian Agyeman, The Preservationist, Randy Mason, The Systems Thinker, Ellen Neises, The CEO, Cindy Sanders, abd the Architectural Historian, Daniel Barber.
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Wednesday 10 FebruaryThe Ethical Algorithm and the Future of Choice with Michael Kearns
Michael Kearns is a professor in the Computer and Information Science department at the University of Pennsylvania, where he holds the National Center Chair and has joint appointments in the Wharton School. He is the founder of Penn’s Networked and Social Systems Engineering (NETS) program, and director of Penn’s Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences. Michael explores growing concerns about machine learning and artificial intelligence include the potential for discrimination, leaks of personal data, and inscrutable decisions made by unintelligible models. LIve online!