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• January 31, 2022

  The ‘music’ of one poet’s words, translated

  With 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.

• November 24, 2021

  A more just world

  With over 30 years of Latin American and Latinx Studies at Penn, the academic program was established as a center in July. The Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies (CLALS) offers a certification for graduate students as well as an undergraduate major and minor, the popularity of which has doubled in the last five years.

• November 22, 2021

  Learning to listen in troubled times

  A recent lecture and set of workshops presented by SNF Paideia in partnership with the Weitzman School of Design and the Center for Experimental Ethnography took on the issue of listening together with two speakers who have transformed what it means to listen and what the act of listening can achieve.

• November 18, 2021

  Alternative literary history

  A decade of research by Emily Steiner has resulted in new book about the work of John Trevisa, a 14th century author who translated encyclopedias and other informational texts.

• October 29, 2021

  Gender and identity: A lecture on diversity

  In the first in a series of diversity lectures offered through the Office of Affirmative Action & Equal Opportunity Programs, Melissa E. Sanchez of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke on “Addressing a More Complex and Encompassing Understanding of Identity.”