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February 15, 2022
Lance Freeman appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge University ProfessorUniversity of Pennsylvania Interim President Wendell Pritchett and Interim Provost Beth Winkelstein announced the appointment of Lance Freeman as the University of Pennsylvania’s 29th Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor. Freeman, one of the world’s leading scholars of urban housing and gentrification, is the James W. Effron University Professor, with joint appointments in the Department of City and Regional Planning in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design and the Department of Sociology in the School of Arts & Sciences.
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February 14, 2022
After completing drawing ‘marathon,’ Mark Stockton displays 100 portraits in Arts LoungeOn display at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts is the Arts Lounge’s spring exhibition, “Mark Stockton: 100 Portraits.” The collection of pencil-drawn portraits, which Stockton views as a single artwork, captures the likenesses of 100 iconic figures selected by Stockton over a three-year period.
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February 1, 2022
Studying the past through a modern-day lensIn a Q&A, archaeologist and PIK Professor Lynn Meskell discusses her background, the subjects that interest her—from espionage to World Heritage sites—and collaborations that have organically arisen at Penn despite the pandemic and a mostly remote first year.
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January 31, 2022
A call for tools to navigate the future of the Delaware River watershedThe Penn Program in Environmental Humanities is partnering with Philadelphia’s Independence Seaport Museum to solicit designs for tools to help Delaware River watershed residents adapt and respond to climate change and other ecological challenges.
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January 31, 2022
The ‘music’ of one poet’s words, translatedWith help from her daughter, scholar Huda Fakhreddine published an English version of 30 poems for children written by her father in Arabic, paying tribute to their endearing and enduring subject matter and to the musicality and richness of their sound.