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March 3 – Author & visual artist Moshtari Hilal will read passages from the English translation of her book Ugliness (New Vessel Press 2025) and talk w/ Mursal Sidiqi and Paniz Musawi Natanzi. A book signing & reception will follow. Free/open to the public. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/uglin...

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Next Wednesday 3/5! Presented in ASL with ASL/English interpretation provided. For more info and to register visit wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/saund...

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Mar 6 – The 2016 documentary Overruled follows the lives of male refugees from Afghanistan who work as “ball boys” in tennis clubs in Iran. Following a screening, directors Farnaz Jurabchian & Mohammad Reza Jurabchian talk w/ Paniz Musawi Natanzi @pmus.bsky.social via Zoom. tinyurl.com/5n8dfmj2

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Beginning tomorrow... Join the Department of Spanish & Portuguese for their annual graduate conference! Cosponsored by the Department of English, Cinema & Media Studies, and the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies. More information: wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/imagi...

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Mar 7 at Penn Museum, Penn's Center for Experimental Ethnography and CAMRA's Restitution Cinema program hosts Interiors, w/ films from Benin, Senegal, Nigeria, the UK, France, and the US that assert that there are as many paths to restitution as there are stolen objects & people. www.camrapenn.org

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*Fellow Spotlight* Jacob Myers @tallowbreeched is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania and a 2024-25 Doctoral Fellow at the Wolf Humanities Center. He specializes in global Anglophone literature and the history of the life sciences, medicine, and public health.

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*Fellow Spotlight* 2024-25 Wolf Humanities Center Penn Faculty Fellow Dr. Michael G. Hanchard is the Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor in the Africana Studies Department at the University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the Marginalized Populations Project.

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This weekend!

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Join us tomorrow 2/21 for our “Keywords” Symposium in Van Pelt Library + streaming on Zoom. For more info, including a full agenda for the day visit wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/keywo...

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The collective identity of the Deaf community in the United States has undergone changes over the years, mirroring other identities and their development in society. On March 5, Crom Saunders' will explore some of the history behind those changes and how we now look at Deaf identity in the U.S.

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Don't miss our art exhibit opening tomorrow at 4.30pm! With artists Chelsey Luster, @bhumikasaraswati.bsky.social & Shrujana Shridhar @asc.upenn.edu @annenbergcargc.bsky.social @bzelizer.bsky.social Register here: bit.ly/4aEzGnU Image credit: "Dalit Panthers" by Shrujana Shridhar

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Join us! The Wolf Humanities Center invites applications for a 2025–26 Graduate Research Assistant position that provides a stipend and full support. Open to dissertation-level Penn students in the humanities whose work pertains to "Truth." Apply by March 19. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/graduate-res...

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Coming up on Tuesday!

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Looking forward to seeing our old friend Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social w/ Julia Bloch @julivox.bsky.social at Kelly Writers House this Thurs, when they'll discuss their new books w/ Josephine Park. FIGURE AND TRADE: A POETICS BOOK LAUNCH Feb 20 6pm - All are welcome, reception to follow

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Celebrate Carnaval with Penn! 🎉 Join Penn's Quechua and Andean Representation groups for an evening of music, dance, and fun. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/carna...

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As we gear up to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Raymond Williams’ book "“Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society,” scholars from the social sciences, the humanities, and the arts gather on 2/21 for the Wolf Humanities Center’s 2024–2025 interdisciplinary symposium “Keywords.”

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Join Penn's Cinema & Media Studies, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, and Middle East Center for a screening of Bye Bye Tiberius, a film by Lina Soualem, and discussion with Professor Huda Fakhreddine. cinemastudies.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...

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*Fellow Spotlight* 2024-25 Wolf Humanities Center Regional Faculty Fellow Shannon Walters @skw.bsky.social is Associate Professor of English at Temple University where she researches and teaches in rhetoric and composition, disability studies, and gender studies.

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*Fellow spotlight* 2024-25 Penn Faculty Fellow Francesca Russello Ammon is Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning and Historic Preservation at @upenn.edu, where she is also a member of the graduate group in History.

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