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February 16, 2021
The Penn and Slavery Project Launched a New Augmented Reality App, Which Unveils the University’s Historical Ties to SlaveryThe newly released Penn and Slavery Project app is meant to challenge and transform everyday experiences on Penn’s campus, revealing through augmented reality the devastating—but necessary to understand—truths behind the University’s early connections to slavery and scientific racism. The app can be downloaded for free from the Apple Store and the Google Play Store. It can be used on or off campus. Created by a dedicated, interdisciplinary team of historians, librarians, developers, and designers, the app builds upon years of mostly undergraduate research, which has been compiled so far on the Penn and Slavery Project website.
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February 13, 2021
The Penn Museum presents ‘Through our own lens’: ‘Black History Untold: Revolution’Over the course of 30 minutes, 14 people—artists and academics, activists, and wrongly imprisoned inmates—sit in front of a draped black backdrop to share stories in Sofiya Ballin’s film “Black History Untold: Revolution.” Throughout history, Black people have continuously resisted oppression.
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February 12, 2021
Benjamin Shestakofsky Finds Interconnections Between Humans and MachinesThe question of whether artificial intelligence will replace human workers has taken on renewed urgency during the COVID-19 pandemic. But while you may now find robots delivering your food or cleaning your hotel room, it’s unlikely that automation will take over the workforce anytime soon.
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February 9, 2021
The School of Arts & Sciences’ Tulia Falleti Directs Interdisciplinary Grant Addressing InequalitiesThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the University of Pennsylvania a grant to support “Dispossessions in the Americas: The Extraction of Bodies, Land, and Heritage from La Conquista to the Present,” a project directed by Tulia Falleti. Tulia Falleti is the Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science, Director of Latin American and Latinx Studies Program and Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. “Dispossessions in the Americas” is an interdisciplinary project that aims to document territorial, embodied, and cultural heritage dispossessions in the Americas from 1492 to the present, and to outline how the restoration of land, embodiments, and cultural values can recover histories and promote restorative justice.
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February 5, 2021
Senior Tsemone Ogbemi is Bringing the Humanities into Climate EducationSenior Tsemone Ogbemi is sharing the important role of the arts in comprehending climate through her work at the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities and in an environmental conference. "Tsemone is the perfect person to speak to the importance of arts education in science,” Wiggin says. “She understands the power of words, the power of poetry, both intellectually and emotionally, and she also just gets it that engaging with climate change is not just an academic endeavor but requires a way to make sense of how this big global story of a hot planet has diverse impacts on individuals’ lives.”