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Our fall 2024 Global Discovery Series schedule is up! Check out our exciting line-up of Penn Professors who will spend their lunchtime break discussing new and innovative research from across campus. Click here for more information and to register: www.alumni.upenn.edu/globaldiscoveryseries

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Join us Friday, May 17th during a special Alumni Weekend symposium sponsored by the Class of 1974. Ethan Mollick, Ralph J. Roberts Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Academic Director, Wharton Interactive, will take the stage at Irvine Auditorium to explore the implications of AI for work, education, and life. Click here to register for this event and all Alumni Weekend festivities: https://www.alumni.upenn.edu/s/1587/gid2/16/interior.aspx?sid=1587&gid=2&pgid=40110

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Join us next Tuesday, May 14th at noon ET for a virtual look at the Arthur Ross Gallery's current exhibition, "Illuminated Body: The Portraits of Barbara Earl Thomas." Click here to register for this free discussion with the gallery's director, Emily Zimmerman: https://www.alumni.upenn.edu/s/1587/gid2/16/interior.aspx?sid=1587&gid=2&pgid=43770&content_id=59790

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Are you in the Miami area? Join Penn Professor Peter Decherney tomorrow, April 13th at 1 p.m. at the Jewish Museum of Florida for a tour of the exhibition: Operation Moses. Details below.

Congratulations to Professor André Dombrowski, the 2024 Faculty Award of Merit Presented by Penn Alumni honoree!

The Penn Alumni Faculty Award of Merit recognizes a faculty member who has made outstanding contributions to alumni lifelong learning and engagement at Penn by sharing his/her/their unique scholarship work with the alumni community. Professor Dombrowski has been a long-time travel faculty host, a many-time alumni webinar presenter, and the first faculty member to lead a Penn Alumni Lifelong Learning Seminar. To our alumni, he is simply the best!

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Join us next Tuesday, March 26th at noon ET for a discussion about the Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites and the work they're doing in Philadelphia to document and contextualize these threatened community assets. Click here to register for this free virtual event: https://www.alumni.upenn.edu/s/1587/gid2/16/interior.aspx?sid=1587&gid=2&pgid=42914&content_id=58994

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The 2025 Penn Alumni Travel schedule is here! Click here to check out the five fantastic itineraries we're offering next year and email [email protected] to be added to a tour's interest list: https://www.alumni.upenn.edu/s/1587/gid2/16/interior.aspx?sid=1587&gid=2&pgid=18261

Hope to see you in 2025!

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Join us next Tuesday (Feb 27) for a live virtual conversation with Penn Professor Dan Richter, editor of the new book "Philadelphia Stories: People and Their Place in Early America." Looking beyond the famed founders, this book chronicles the lives of 12 Philadelphians from the colonial era to the years before the Civil War. This collective portrait includes men and women, Black and white Americans, immigrants and native born, examining their rich lives as well as those of others who shaped the city’s past. Click here to register: https://www.alumni.upenn.edu/s/1587/gid2/16/interior.aspx?sid=1587&gid=2&pgid=43096&content_id=59163

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It’s not too late! Register for A Long Talk About The Uncomfortable Truth, an anti-racism activation experience here: https://www.alumni.upenn.edu/s/1587/gid2/16/interior.aspx?sid=1587&gid=2&pgid=42549&cid=88324&ecid=88324&crid=0&calpgid=421&calcid=82123

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Registration is now open for our 10th annual alumni online course with Professor Peter Decherney entitled Hollywood: History, Industry, and Art. Click here for more information and to register. Space is limited: https://www.alumni.upenn.edu/s/1587/gid2/16/interior_specEvent.aspx?sid=1587&gid=2&pgid=2320

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The new Penn Global Documentary Institute serves as a hub for fostering documentary collaborations among faculty, students, and global partners. Tomorrow at noon ET, join one of its founders, Penn Professor Peter Decherney, as he shares work from the Institute’s first 6 months, which has included projects in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Philadelphia, and New York. Click here to register for this live one-hour session: https://www.alumni.upenn.edu/s/1587/gid2/16/interior.aspx?sid=1587&gid=2&pgid=41845&content_id=57770

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Join Professor Jonathan Katz this Thursday at noon ET for a virtual discussion about his upcoming art exhibition "The First Homosexuals." The talk will investigate the historical context of the word "homosexual" and the identities produced in the 19th-century. Register here for this free virtual talk: https://www.alumni.upenn.edu/s/1587/gid2/16/interior.aspx?sid=1587&gid=2&pgid=41865&content_id=57804

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Congratulations to the 2023 Faculty Award of Merit honoree Dr. Camille Z. Charles! Tonight she is honored at the Alumni Award of Merit Gala.

Join us next week (October 31 at noon ET) for a look at the Penn Museum's new ancient Egypt and Nubia galleries with Penn Egyptologists Josef and Jennifer Wegner. Click to register for this free virtual event here: https://www.alumni.upenn.edu/s/1587/gid2/16/interior.aspx?sid=1587&gid=2&pgid=42109&content_id=58105

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Date change! Professor Peter Decherney's webinar on "Film, Photography, and Virtual Reality" has been postponed until January 9, 2024 at noon ET. To register for this talk or any of our remaining 2023 Global Discovery webinars, please click here: https://www.alumni.upenn.edu/s/1587/gid2/16/interior.aspx?sid=1587&gid=2&pgid=30471

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Au revoir, Alsace! 🇫🇷

Penn Alumni Travel has spent the past 9 days in Colmar, a town in the Grand Est region of northeastern France. Where would you spend a week and a half if you could travel anywhere?

Don’t know what a halberd is? The Quaker and Penn Alumni Travel have got you covered! This past week, the Quaker spent some time in the arms and amour section of Alsatian castles 🏰.

Penn alumni and friends visit the Château du Haut-Koenigsbourg, a medieval castle in Alsace, France. It was used by successive powers from the Middle Ages until the Thirty Years’ War when it was abandoned.

3 countries in one day! Penn alumni and friends spent time in France, Switzerland, AND Germany.

Join Professor Kathleen Brown on October 12th at noon ET for a conversation about her new book "Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Right in the Age of Abolition" which takes a take fresh look at the campaign to end slavery. Register for this free virtual event here: https://www.alumni.upenn.edu/s/1587/gid2/16/interior.aspx?sid=1587&gid=2&pgid=41829&content_id=57749

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These Penn alumni and friends are looking good in Alsace, France 🇫🇷!

Today Penn alumni and friends visited Strasbourg and its beautiful gothic cathedral. The cathedral is a fine example of gothic architecture and was completed in 1439.

Penn alumni and friends (and our little Quaker!) are touring the quaint villages and vast vineyards of Alsace, France. Last night they enjoyed a lecture from Prof. André Dombrowski on art after the Franco-Prussian War.

Penn alumni and friends have arrived in Colmar, France. They’ll spend the next 8 days touring the Alsace region and learning from Art History Professor André Dombrowski. Link in bio to view future Penn Alumni trips.

Join Penn Alumni Lifelong Learning for live lectures on November 7th and 14th as Professor Ezekiel Emanuel expands on the topics covered in his Coursera course Benjamin Franklin and His World!

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3PwkmQn

Join Christina Sharpe, C'87, writer, professor, Penn alumna, and professor at York University in Toronto, and Penn alumna Sara M. Lomax, C’87 (who were roommates while at Penn), for an interactive online discussion of Sharpe’s new book Ordinary Notes. In this book, Sharpe explores profound questions about art, literature, loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake of slavery and colonialism. Click here to register for this free event on Sept. 27 at 6:30 p.m. ET: https://www.alumni.upenn.edu/s/1587/gid2/16/interior.aspx?sid=1587&gid=2&pgid=42062&content_id=58064

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Great news from the Arthur Ross Gallery!

Climate Week at Penn is next week (September 18-22) and everyone is invited to participate! Penn Alumni Lifelong Learning will be hosting a webinar on Tuesday (9/19) at noon ET with Professor Michael Weisberg. Join us to learn more about allocating climate finance to "particularly vulnerable" countries: https://www.alumni.upenn.edu/s/1587/gid2/16/interior.aspx?sid=1587&gid=2&pgid=42026&content_id=57999

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GDS: Allocating Climate Finance to The 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2022 decided to establish new funding arrangements for assisting developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate-related loss and damage. However, the decision d...