Past Events
A Conversation with Aria Aber
Williams 623
Aria Aber is an Afghan poet, novelist, and Assistant Professor at the University of Vermont. She published her debut poetry collection, "Hard Damage," in 2019 and her premiere novel Good Girl was published in 2025. Moderated by Dr. Fatemeh Shams
Lunch & Learn: Trans Literatures
LGBT Center, Goodhand Room
Join professors Alex Brostoff (Georgetown University) and rl Goldberg (Hampshire College) at the Goodhand Room in the Penn LGBT Center on October 30th 12-1:30pm for a lunch & learn conversation & celebration of their co-edited special issue of College Literature: A Journal of…
The Machu Picchu Play: Excerpt
Platt Performing Arts House
In a dystopian near-future, a protest traps two American tourists at the top of Machu Picchu, Perú. On the same mountain, centuries earlier, a third-gender oracle and their apprentice predict the fall of the Inca Empire. As both timelines approach apocalypse, their worlds collide…
(Re)Imagining Health: a Pop-up Exhibit on the Histories of Health and Care.
Kislak Center for Special Collections
6th floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
This pop-up exhibit showcases rare and archival materials that reflect how people have understood their health, well-being, and medical knowledge through the medium of bookmaking.