Past Events
Immigration Panel & Town Hall
Penn Law, Fitts Auditorium
3501 Sansom Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
http://www.upenn.edu/teachin/#schedule Universities have found themselves enmeshed in debates around immigration policy over the past year, as students, alums, faculty, scholars and researchers have been caught up in Executive Orders seeking to halt entry to the United States of…
Feminist Pedagogy Zine Making Workshop: Session 1
3810 Walnut St, 2nd Floor Conference Room
Zines have been a powerful tool for feminist politics and communities, and for gathering historically-marginalized voices, practices and ideas. How can zines help articulate a feminist set of ethics for teaching? What would a zine for feminist pedagogy be able to teach us? This…
Penn Lightbulb Café presents: "Nudging Women to Run"
World Cafe Live
3025 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Dawn Teele studies the economic and psychological factors that drive women to seek political office. In a new research project, "Nudging Women to Run," Teele, along with scholars at Rutgers University, Yale University, and the University of California, Berkeley, surveyed alumnae…
Teaching Race: A Roundtable
Van Pelt Library, Class of 1955 Conference Room
3420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
http://www.upenn.edu/teachin/#schedule The popular media sometimes portray American universities as places where discussion of racial matters is conducted along narrow, politically correct lines of thinking. The reality is of course quite different. Current research on race is…
Teach-In Opening Ceremony: Knowledge Production, Communication & Impact in the 21st Century
Penn Law, Fitts Auditorium
3501 Sansom Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
http://www.upenn.edu/teachin/#schedule Knowledge is the lifeblood of the university. Its progression may be marked from the crucible of its creation to its dissemination to a larger public, and, finally, to the use to which it is put. A half-century after the campus teach-ins…