News

• March 30, 2022

  From the page to the stage

  In collaboration with author Amitav Ghosh, musician Ali Sethi, and Penn’s Brooke O’Harra, 14 students brought to life a parable Ghosh wrote about the world’s largest mangrove forest, human greed, and the environment.

• March 25, 2022

  A view both ancient and modern

  Penn Museum Director Christopher Woods speaks about his background and his first year leading the institution.

• March 24, 2022

  Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka on art and culture

  Wole Soyinka, the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, spoke as the inaugural guest for the Distinguished Lecture in African Studies.

• March 23, 2022

  Dean’s Forum with filmmaker Jon Chu

  Chu joined David Eng of the School of Arts & Sciences in the 2022 Stephen A. Levin Family Dean’s Forum to discuss art and the power of representation.

• March 18, 2022

  Pulitzer-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen speaks on migration and ‘multitudes’

  In a wide-ranging conversation sponsored by the Wolf Humanities Center, author and professor Viet Thanh Nguyen visited Penn to discuss his work, representation, and more.