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August 10, 2020
Free Speech Advocate Discusses Growing Talk of ‘Cancel Culture’Sigal Ben-Porath, a professor of education, political science, and philosophy, talks de-platforming, toppling statues, rescinding admissions, Twitter, the First Amendment, and hate speech.
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August 10, 2020
‘Avoid the Day’ In His New Nonfiction Book, Jay Kirk Writes About a Mystery that Involves Penn faculty, Staff, and the Libraries.“Avoid the Day: A New Nonfiction in Two Movements” is the second book by Kirk, who has been teaching nonfiction creative writing in the School of Arts & Sciences for 15 years. He has been a writer primarily for magazines, with long-form narratives in publications including Harpers, GQ, and The New York Times Magazine. Pursuing the mystery of a missing music manuscript has been an eight-year odyssey that took Penn lecturer Jay Kirk from Vermont to Europe to the Arctic Circle, with Philadelphia at the center of the search.
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August 10, 2020
Expressions of Color, Comfort, and Creativity in the Fight Against COVID-19the Architecture Department at Penn partnered with Surface magazine to create the Summer School at Penn, a month-long virtual lecture series and design competition. During the four-week program, 76 students from the Stuart Weitzman School of Design listened to public lectures by world-renowned architects, educators, graphic and industrial designers, and doctors and submitted their designs for a mobile-testing unit.
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August 4, 2020
A Book A Day’s Writing Contest Offers Kids’ Views of the PandemicA Book a Day, a West Philadelphia community-based initiative founded and organized by Sibylla Benatova - Senior Conservation Technician for Paper for Penn Libraries - launched a contest this spring, asking children ages 6 to 10 to write a story, memoir or cartoon about what it’s like to live under a pandemic shutdown.
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August 1, 2020
Sophie Hochhäusl, Has Been Named a Princeton Mellon Fellow for the 2020-2021 Academic Year