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Shary Boyle & Emily Duke: The Il- events; 6:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted. ACADEMIC CALENDAR luminations Project; ICA. Through 19 Set Pieces Screenings: Citizen Kane; 12 Spring Semester Classes begin. March 20. introduction by Virgil Marti. 17 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day; 14 The Midwestern Experience: Or- 26 Set Pieces Screenings: The Phantom No classes. mandy in Minneapolis; exhibit on Eugene of Liberty; Viridana. Double feature with Ormandy’s life; Eugene Ormandy Gallery, introduction by Virgil Marti. 31 Course Selection Period ends. Van Pelt-Dietrich Library. Through Fall. Ongoing at the Penn Museum CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES 17 Nikon Small World Exhibit; award- Amarna: Ancient Egypt’s Place in winning photography through the micro- the Sun; Worlds Intertwined: Etruscans, Morris Arboretum scope; Wistar Institute; reception: January Greeks and Romans; Canaan & Ancient RSVP: (215) 247-5777 ext. 125 or 156. 14, 6 p.m.; RSVP: www.wistar.org. Israel; Living in Balance: The Universe January Info.: www.morrisarboretum.org. 18 State of the Union; photography of the Hopi, Zuni, Navajo and Apache; 30 Tu B’Shevat Family Day; featuring by Linh Dinh; Brodsky Gallery, Kelly Mesoamerica; The Egyptian Mummy: Andi Joseph, The Musical Mommy; Writers House. Secrets & Science; Buddhism: History & crafts and activities for kids; 1-3 p.m. 22 Post-Mao Dreaming: Chinese Con- Diversity of a Great Tradition; Africa. A T P E N N Peanut Butter & Jams temporary Art; over 30 prints, drawings, P.M. @ Penn Museum Family-friendly, 11:30 a.m., Saturday photographs, and paintings which offer Wednesday evening programs. Gallery concert series at World Cafe Live. a glimpse into the post-Cultural Revolu- tours at 5:30 p.m., followed by programs Wherever these symbols appear, more images or audio/video clips are available on our website, www.upenn.edu/almanac/. Info.: www.worldcafelive.com. tion era in China; Arthur Ross Gallery. at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Through April 3. See Special Events. 22 Erin Lee and the Up Past Bedtime 5 Cocktails with a Curator. Also Janu- Band; rock, funk and blues; $10/adults, 28 Painting Survey; selected work from ary 19. $7/kids. the PennDesign MFA program; Meyerson 20 Keigwin + Company; fusion of Through 12 Quizzo Night. concert dance, camp and cabaret; 7:30 Yosi & The Superdads Gallery; reception, 5:30 p.m. 29 ; rock music February 17. 26 Learn How to Tango! p.m.; $24-$48; Zellerbach Theatre. Also for the whole family; $10/adults, $7/kids. Now Penn Museum Tours January 21, 8 p.m.; January 22, 2 p.m. & EXHIBITS Holiday Garden Railway Display; Tours begin at 1:30 p.m. at the Warden 8 p.m. (Dance Celebration Series). Morris Arboretum. Through January 2. Garden Entrance. Tour availabilty and Admission Donations and Hours Machinato Causa; result of an artist- topics subject to change. Info.: www. READINGS/SIGNINGS Arthur Ross Gallery, Fisher Fine Arts in-residency project with Marisha Si- penn.museum. 25 Global Forum; Rose George, author Library: free; Tues.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; mons, Peter Hanley and Laureen Griffen; 9 An Ancient Egyptian Journey. of The Big Neccessity: The Unmention- Sat.-Sun., noon-5 p.m. Esther Klein Gallery. Through January 2. 16 Amarna: Ancient Egypt’s Place in able World of Human Waste and Why It Burrison Gallery, University Club at The Wolf Man Paints!; drawings and the Sun. Matters; 6 p.m.; rm. B1, Meyerson Hall. Penn: free; Mon.-Fri., 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; paintings by Sigmund Freud’s famous pa- (Year of Water). Sat.-Sun., 7 a.m.-1 p.m. tient Sergius Pankejeff; Slought Founda- 30 Glyphs, Ball Game, and Jade— Through January 22. Mesoamerica. Kelly Writers House Brodsky Gallery; Kelly Writers tion. Location: Arts Cafe, unless otherwise House; free; Mon.-Thurs. 10 a.m-10:30 p.m.; Archaeologists and Travelers in Otto- man Lands FILMS noted. Fri. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat. noon-11 p.m.; Sun. ; explores the excavation of Info.: www.writing.upenn.edu/wh. 6-11 p.m. Nippur by the University of Pennsylvania 1 Sing-A-Long Sound of Music; 7 Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery, in the late 1800s; Penn Museum. Through 19 Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and p.m.; World Café Live; $12/adults, $10/ Anything Goes!; open mic night; 8 p.m. Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall: free; February 6. kids. Also noon kids’ show. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wharton Esherick and the Birth of 20 North of Invention; ten Canadian Esther M. Klein Art Gallery, 3600 the American Modern; examines the work 16 Babies; 7 p.m.; Heyer Sky Lounge, poets working at the cutting edge of Market St.: free; Mon.-Sat., 9 a.m.-5 of the founder of the American Studio Harrison College House (Cinema Studies). contemporary poetry; 10 a.m.-10 p.m.; p.m.; Info.: www.kleinartgallery.org. Furniture Movement; Kamin Gallery, first 19 The Legend of 1900; 7 p.m.; M20 also January 21, 9:30 a.m. Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA): floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, and Kroiz Seminar Room, Harrison College House Live at the Writers House; 7 p.m. (Cinema Studies, Year of Water). 24 free; Wed. 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Thu.-Fri. 11 Gallery of the Architectural Archives. 5th Anniversary of the Common Through February 13 25 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sat.-Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; . 30 Welcome; 7 p.m.; Heyer Sky Lounge, Press; first floor, 6 p.m. www.icaphila.org. Set Pieces; a restaging of art works Harrison College House (Cinema Studies). International House: Hours vary; from the collection of the Philadelphia 26 Mind of Water; post-holiday International House celebration; 5:30 p.m.; RSVP: wh@ info.: www.ihousephilly.org. Museum of Art, including treasures from Tickets: www.ihousephilly.com Kroiz Gallery of the Architectural the Museum’s storage; ICA. Through writing.upenn.edu or (215) 746-POEM. Archives, Fischer Fine Arts Library, low- February 13. 8 The Portuguese Nun–A Religiosa Penn Bookstore er level: free; Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Art: Basics Trilogy: Water Food Portuguesa; 7 p.m. Info.: www.upenn.edu/bookstore. Meyerson Hall Gallery, Meyerson Shelter; experimental activist video group 10 Campaign; 7 p.m. 18 Protecting New Jersey’s Environment: Above: Keigwin + Company makes its Hall: free; Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Termite TV Collective’s; West Gallery, 11 Mental; 7:30 p.m. From Cancer Alley to the New Garden Morris Arboretum: $14; $12/seniors, International House. Through March 4. Philadelphia debut at the Annenberg 12 Film ist: a girl and a gun; 7 p.m. State; Thomas Belton; 6 p.m. Center’s Zellerbach Theatre January 20- $7/kids 3-17, students; free/members and A Time to Pause: Art as Heal- Lucid Food: Cooking for an Eco- ing 13 Documentary–Cortile Cascino; 7 p.m. 19 22 with four performances. kids under 3; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. daily. ; artists Marc Bernstein and Patricia Conscious Life; Louisa Shafia; 5:30 p.m. Penn Museum: $10/adults; $7 se- A. Barrera; East Gallery, International niors (65+); $6/children (6-17) and full- House. Through March 4. MEETINGS 25 About to Die: How News Images Exploring fire, water, air and earth, this time students with ID; free/members & Year of Water; collection of ancient Move the Public; Barbie Zelizer, Ray- full-length production fuses concert 11 Penn Professional Staff Assembly; dance, camp and cabaret. Visit www. PennCard holders; Tues./Thur.-Sun. 10 Mesopotamian artifacts; Penn Museum. noon; rm. 302, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library; mond Williams Professor of Communica- a.m.-5 p.m.; Wed. 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; www. Through May. tion; 6 p.m. annenbergcenter.org for tickets. Post- RSVP: [email protected]. show talk with Keigwin + Company after penn.museum. Righteous Dopefiend; photographs WXPN Policy Board Meeting; noon, 26 Job Killers: The American Dream in Slought Foundation: free; Thur.-Sat., and other media examine the experiences 19 Reverse; Robert Graham; 3 p.m. the 8 p.m. show on Friday, January 21. WXPN, 3025 Walnut St.; Info.: (215) See On Stage. 1-6 p.m.; www.slought.org. of homeless drug users; Penn Museum. 898-0628. A**hole-ology: The Cheat Sheet Through May 27 ; Van Pelt-Dietrich Library: free/ . Chris Illuminati; 7 p.m. ID required; info.: http://events.library. Water as Creator and Destroyer Spe- MUSIC upenn.edu/cgi-bin/calendar.cgi. cial Display; ancient Mesopotamian arti- SPORTS Wistar Institute; free; Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m.- facts including a famous Sumerian “flood Penn Improvisational Jazz Workshop; SPECIAL EVENTS 5 p.m. tablet;” Penn Museum. Through May. open jazz jam for musicians of all abilities; Tickets & venues: www.pennathletics.com Sundays, 4-6 p.m.; rm. 413, Fisher Bennett 8 Winterfest; 5:45-7:15 p.m.; $3 in- Fang! The Killing Tooth; explores Hall; Info.: [email protected]. cludes admission and skate rental; Class Wrestling vs. Bloomsburg; 1 p.m. Upcoming the history of the vampire myth and of 9 8 Synth Sircus & Friends Present: of 1923 Ice Rink. 12 (W) Basketball vs. Villanova; 7 p.m. 10 The Botswana Collection; quilts from the “killing” canine; Penn Museum. Welcome to the CA Reception Through July. Funk-Tech-Heaven 2011; $5 suggested do- 14 ; 5:30 (M) Squash vs. Williams; 3 p.m. Fiber Revolution and the Kalahari quilters; nation; 8:30 p.m.; The Rotunda (Rotunda). p.m.; Christian Association (CA). 15 Burrison Gallery; reception, January 20, 5 Fulfilling a Prophecy: The Past and (W) Squash vs. Williams; 3 p.m. p.m. Through February 18. Present of the Lenape in Pennsylvania; 14 Music/Film: Richard Garet with Ka- 17 Penn Hockey Skate; 11:30 a.m.-1 (W) Tennis vs. Drexel; 4 p.m. mran Sadeghi and David Linton; 7 p.m.; p.m.; free admission to anyone wearing 19 13 UG FNAR Juried Exhibition; se- photographs, archaeological objects, tra- Ibrahim Theatre, International House. (W) Basketball vs. La Salle; 7 p.m. ditional arts and family heirlooms; Penn Penn attire; skate rental, $3; Class of lected work from the undergraduate fine WXPN Free at Noon Concert Series; 1923 Ice Rink. 22 (M) Squash vs. Trinity; noon. arts department; Charles Addams Gallery; Museum. Through July. Fridays at noon; RSVP: http://xpn.org/ (W) Squash vs. Trinity; noon. reception, 5 p.m. Through February 10. Color, Form and Texture of Trees; concerts-events/free-at-noon. 21 Opening reception for Post-Mao (W) Basketball vs. Temple; 2 p.m. Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry; ar- photography by Jim Smith highlighting Dreaming: Chinese Contemporary Art; (M) Basketball vs. St. Joseph’s; 7 p.m. chitecture that demonstrates Tyng’s lifelong the beauty and diversity of trees; Upper ON STAGE gallery talk by Joan Lebold Cohen and Fencing; Philadelphia Invitational; interest in Platonic solids; reception, 6-8 Gallery, Morris Arboretum. Ongoing. Ethan Cohen with Chinese music by stu- all day. John Cage: How to Get Started; in- dents; 5 p.m.; Arthur Ross Gallery (ARG). p.m; ICA. Through March 20. Annenberg Center (M) Swimming vs. West Chester; 5 p.m. Emerging Artists—Project Space; teractive installation; Slought Foundation. Tickets: www.annenbergcenter.org See Exhibits. 28 Ongoing. (W) Swimming vs. West Chester; 5 p.m. curated by Whitney Lauder Curatorial 15 FLATLAND 2010; idiosynCrazy 22 Peco World Culture Day: Celebra- (M) Basketball vs. Yale; 7 p.m. Gellow Virginia Solomon; ICA. Through tion of African Cultures; storytelling, Whenever Wednesday at ICA productions; 8 p.m.; $25; Harold Prince (M) Tennis vs. Drexel; 10 a.m. March 20. Lectures, films, book signings and other Theatre. workshops, dance and music performanc- 29 es; 1-4 p.m.; Penn Museum (Museum). Gymnastics vs. Yale; 1 p.m. (M) Tennis vs. Villanova; 3 p.m. Wrestling vs. Bucknell; 3 p.m. January Exhibits (M) Basketball vs. Brown; 7 p.m. 30 Wrestling vs. Hofstra; 1 p.m.

Above: The Wolf Man Paints! Featuring drawings and paintings by Sigmund Freud’s famous patient Sergius Pankejeff. On display at the 3910 Chestnut St., 2nd Floor Slought Foundation through Janu- Philadelphia, PA 19104-3111 ary 22. See Exhibits. (215) 898-5274 or 5275 FAX (215) 898-9137 E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.upenn.edu/almanac Unless otherwise noted, all events are open to the general public as well as to members of the University. For building locations, Above: Louis I. Kahn and Anne G. Tyng, associ- call (215) 898-5000, or see www.facilities. ated Architects, City Tower, Philadelphia, PA, upenn.edu or the University’s website, www. (1956-57; unbuilt), model, 1957. From the Louis upenn.edu. A phone number normally means I. Kahn Collection, University of Pennsylvania tickets, reservations or registration required. and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Almanac carries an Update with addi- Commission. tions, changes & cancellations if received by Monday at noon for the following Dr. Tyng recieved her doctorate at Penn in 1975 week’s issue. University members may send and taught here for almost 30 years before notices for the Update or February AT PENN retiring and moving to California where she now lives. Her papers are housed at the Penn calendar. The deadline for the February AT Above: Soldiers Aren’t Afraid of Blood, Shary Boyle, 2005, ink PENN is January 11. architectural archives. Above: The Botswana Collection; Fiber Revolution and gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist. Part of Shary Boyle & Emily Duke: The Illuminations Project at the Events on this calendar are subject to & Kalahari Quilts sponsored by the Botswana UPenn change. More information can be found The exhibit Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry will Partnership. January 10–February 18 at the Burrison ICA through March 20. See Exhibits. be on display at the ICA January 13-March 20. Gallery. See Exhibits. on the sponsoring department’s website. See Exhibits. Sponsors are listed in parentheses.

12/21/10 TALKS FITNESS/LEARNING 5 Great Adventures Along the Silk Prion-like Mechanisms in ALS; Jim Cardio Fitness; 5:30-6:30 p.m.; Tue. Weigle Info Commons Workshops Road: From Baghdad to Bukhara and Shorter, biochemistry and biophysics; & Thu.; St. Agatha-St. James Parish Hall; Class of 1968 Seminar Room, Van Pelt- Back; 6 p.m.; Penn Museum; $10/door, 4 p.m.; Johnson Foundation Library, first class free, $8/per class, $5/students; Dietrich Library. Info & RSVP: http:// $5 advance, free to members; RSVP: Anatomy-Chemistry Bldg. (Biochemistry Carolyn Hamilton: (267) 251-3842. wic.library.upenn.edu/wicshops. www.penn.museum (Museum). and Biophysics). New Parents @ Penn; every other Tues- 6 Blackboard: Basics; noon; Also What’s Your Psychiatrist Thinking Title TBA; David Weishampel, day at 5:30 p.m.; info.: (215) 898-8611 (PWC). January 11, 11 a.m. 11 Johns Hopkins University; 4 p.m.; The Working Parents Association About?; David Brendel, Harvard ; 7 Blackboard: Walk-in Support; 1 University; 4 p.m.; Penn Bookstore rm. 358, Hayden Hall (Earth and Wednesdays; noon; Penn Women’s Cen- Environmental Science). [email protected] p.m.; Also January 12, 10 a.m., January (Scattergood Ethics Program). ter; info.: (PWC). 18, 3:30 p.m.; January 26, noon. 24 A New Species of Early Horned Penn Knitters; Thursdays; noon; Fire- 12 Genetic Susceptibility to side Lounge (2nd fl.), The ARCH; info.: 12 Blackboard: Tests, Pools and Environmentally-Induced Birth Defects; Dinosaur from the Western Gobi; Eric Morschhauser, earth and environmental [email protected]. Surveys; 2 p.m. Richard Finnell, University of Texas Blackboard: Grade Center; noon. at Austin; noon; rm. 252, Biomedical science; noon; rm. 358, Hayden Hall 19 Six-Week Pyschoeducational Class 13 Research Bldg. II (CRRWH). (Earth and Environmental Science). for those caring for someone with de- 14 Blackboard: Collaboration Tools; 1 mentia; 5:30 p.m.; Ralston House; $120; p.m. 13 Hypoxic-Ischemic Alterations After 25 The World Water Crisis; Stanley Laskowski, Philadelphia Global Water RSVP: (215) 614-1828. Through Febru- 19 Microsoft Excel: Basics; 1:30 p.m. Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury; Susan ary 23. (Penn Memory Center). Margulies, bioengineering; 11:45 a.m.; Initiative; 7 p.m.; MarBar; RSVP: (215) Google: Productivity Boost; 3:30 p.m. 898-6460 (Penn Science Café). 23 Donner Auditorium (LRSM). HR: Learning and Education 27 Zotero; noon. Health Policy Seminar; Lawrence 26 Cinema Studies Colloquium; Caitlin Open to Penn faculty and staff. Info.: 14 McGrath, English; noon; rm. 300, Fisher- www.hr.upenn.edu/coursecatalog. Christian Association Jacobs, University of Minnesota; noon; Info.: www.upennca.org. Colonial Penn Center Auditorium; RSVP: Bennett Hall (Cinema Studies). 11 Essentials of Management; multiple The Philadelphia Electric Vehicle dates with varying times; $250. 5 TAB Bible Study; sponsored by the www.upenn.edu/ldi (LDI). people of Tabernacle United Church; GDH Biochemistry in Disorders Micro-Community Project: Build It and They Will Come 21 Career Focus Brown Bag: Resumes 5:30 p.m.; Also January 12, 19, 26. of Protein-Sensitive Hypoglycemia: ; Gerald Furgione, and Cover Letters–What’s New; free; noon. PhillyCarShare; noon; Carolyn Hoff 7 Leaps and Bounds: An Affording Translational Research From the Crib Back 26 Brown Bag Matinee: to the Bench; Charles Stanley, biochemistry Lynch Auditorium, Chemistry Bldg. Hope Project; 3 p.m. (Institute for Environmental Studies). FEEDFORWARD: Coaching for Your and biophysics; 4 p.m.; Johnson Foundation Future; free; noon. 11 Slanguage; English as a second Library, Anatomy-Chemistry Bldg. Astrophysics and Cosmology language program; 2:30 p.m. Also (Biochemistry and Biophysics). Seminar; Paul Demorest, NRAO; 2 HR: Quality of Worklife January 18 and 25. p.m.; rm. A6, DRL (Astrophysics and Open to Penn faculty and staff. Info.: 18 How T-Cells “See” Antigen: Cosmology). www.hr.upenn.edu/coursecatalog. 13 Dana How Mentors; undergrads From Molecules to Heart Disease; Arup The Magic Circle: Realistic mentor high school students; 5 p.m. Also Chakraborty, MIT; noon; Conference 5 Maintain, Don’t Gain Post-Holiday January 20 and 27. Expectations for Virtual Worlds; Timothy Weigh-In; open to faculty enrolled in the Room, Vagelos Laboratories (Institute for Allen, Wharton Research Data Services; 14 Peacemaking Through the Arts; 3 Medicine and Engineering). program; 10-11:45 a.m., 12:15-2 p.m. 5 p.m.; Rainey Auditorium, Penn Also January 6. p.m. Also January 21 and 28, 3 p.m. and ‘Labour’: The Political-Administrative January 19 and 26, 4:30 p.m. Museum; RSVP: http://humanities.sas. Career of a Concept, Madras 1918-24; Rupa upenn.edu 28 Conducting Effective Meetings; 9 (Penn Humanities Forum). a.m.; $50. 18 Queer Christian Fellowship; dinner Viswanath, South Asian studies; 4:30 p.m.; and discussion of LGBT issues in church History Lounge, College Hall (History). 27 Faust in Copenhagen-A 1932 Meeting at Niehls Bohr’s Institute for Morris Arboretum and society; 6:30 p.m. 19 Title TBA; Gary Wessel, Brown Theoretical Physics; Gino Segre, physics; Info. & RSVP: (215) 247-5777. 19 Guilt-Free Bible Study; noon. Also University; noon; rm. 252, Biomedical 11:45 a.m.; Lenape Room, University www.morrisarboretum.org January 26. Research Bldg. II (CRRWH) Club at Penn (Penn Association of Senior 2 Holiday Garden Railway Display Astrophysics and Cosmology 24 Bible Study: Justice and Race; 6 and Emeritus Faculty). Open Guided Tour; 2 p.m.; Also January p.m. Also January 31. Seminar; Cullen Blake, Princeton Title TBA; Gene Likens, Cary 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23, 29, 30. Above: Pan Xinglei. Chinese, 1969— University; 2 p.m.; rm. A6, DRL Institute of Ecosystem Studies; 4 p.m.; 26 Meditation for Well-Being; 5:30 Movement, 2005; Paint, plaster, and (Astrophysics and Cosmology). 8 Wellness Walks; guided walks of p.m. concrete dust on canvas; Smith College rm. 109, Leidy Lab (Biology). two miles around the Arboretum; 10:30 Founder’s Day Symposium: Human 29 Saturdays at the CA; peace social Museum of Art. Gift of Ethan Cohen in 20 28 Institute for Research in Cognitive a.m.; free with regular admission. Also memory of James Connolly. Rights: Contested Principles and Science Colloquium; Peter Dayan, January 15, 22, 29. justice and faith activities; noon. Practices Part of Post-Mao Dreaming: Chinese Con- ; 3 p.m.; a conversation with University College London; noon; rm. Liberal and Professional Studies School of Law Dean Michael Fitts and ISC Technology Training Services temporary Art at the Arthur Ross Gallery. 470, 3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A Info.: www.pennlps.org. See Exhibits and Special Events. an interdisciplinary group of scholars (IRCS). ISC Labs, 3650 Chestnut St., 9:30 a.m.- in celebration of Benjamin Franklin’s 4:30 p.m. RSVP: www.upenn.edu/com- 5 Walk-In Wednesday Academic Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: Program Information Session; 11 a.m.-1 305th birthday. Wu & Chen Auditorium, The Beginning of Public Elementary puting/isc/training. Levine Hall; open to Penn Community; PowerPoint 2007 Introduction p.m., 4:30-6 p.m.; Ste. 100, 3440 Market Department of Recreation: PennFit Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and 4 ; St. Also January 12,19 and 26. info: www.upenn.edu/faculty_senate/ China, 1880-1920; Se Yan, Peking $190. Pottruck Health & Fitness Center. www. Penn-in-Alicante Information upenn.edu/recreation/programs/pennfit.html. announcements.html. Reception follows: University; 2 p.m.; Wharton Dean’s Word 2007 Introduction; $190. 18 Wu & Chen Lobby (Faculty Senate). 5 Session (5); 2 p.m.; rm. 543, Williams Free Body Composition Conference Room, Steinberg Hall- 6 Excel 2007 Introduction; $190. 7 21 Institute for Research in Cognitve Dietrich Hall (History). Hall. Also January 19, 4 p.m. Measurements; 8 a.m. Also noon & 5 p.m. Science Colloquium; Katherine Title TBA; Candace Grand Pre, 7 Windows 7 Introduction; $190. Penn-in-Tours Information Session 14 Bonus Session: Intro. to Mat Kuchenbecker, mechanical engineering earth and environmental science; 3 10 Moving to Microsoft Office 2010; $200. (5); 3 p.m.; rm. 543, Williams Hall. Also Pilates; 12:15 p.m. and applied mechanics; noon; rm. 470, p.m.; rm. 358, Hayden Hall (Earth and Excel 2007 Intermediate January 19, 5 p.m. 11 ; $190. Penn-in-Cannes Information 18 Fitness/Wellness Track begins (7 3401 Walnut St., Suite 400A (IRCS). Environmental Science). Excel 2010 Intermediate; $190. weeks); 12:15 p.m. Also 5:30; Tuesdays. Research Seminar; Jay Bhattacharya, Receptor Tyrosine Kinase 12 Session (4); 5 p.m.; rm. 401, Fisher- 13 Excel 2010 Intermediate; $190. Bennett Hall. 19 Bonus Session: Muscles of the Stanford University; noon; Colonial Penn Activation in Signaling and Disease; Month; 5:30 p.m. Center Auditorium; RSVP: www.upenn. Mark Lemmon, biochemistry and 18 Excel 2007 Advanced; $190. Penn-in-Prague Information Session (3) Bonus Session: Intro. to Personal edu/ldi (LDI). biophysics; 4 p.m.; Johnson Foundation 19 Excel 2010 Introduction; $190. ; 5 p.m.; location TBD. 21 Penn-in-London Information Training; 12:15 p.m. Faculty Works-in-Progress Library, Anatomy-Chemistry Building Word 2007 Advanced; $190. 19 Seminar; Karen Detlefsen; noon; rm. 436, (Biochemistry and Biophysics). 21 Session (3); 2 p.m.; rm. TBD, Annenberg 26 Stress Management Track begins (6 Claudia Cohen Hall (Philosophy). 24 HTML Fundamentals; 10 a.m.-4:45 Center. weeks); 12:15 p.m.; Wednesdays. 31 Micromorphological Observations p.m.; $494; 2 days. New Integral Representations for of Sediments from Contrebandiers 20 Penn-in-Buenos Aires Information 27 Healthy Eating Track begins (6 Periodic Scattering and Eigenvalue Cave, Morocco; Vera Aldeias, earth and 25 PowerPoint 2010 Introduction; $190. Session; 3 p.m.; rm. 543, Williams Hall. weeks); 12:15 p.m.; Thursdays. Problems: Diffraction Gratings and environmental science; noon; rm. 358, 26 Access 2007 Introduction; $357; 2 Penn-in-Florence Information 28 Bonus Session: Intro. to Massage Photonic Crystals; Alex Barnett, Hayden Hall (Earth and Environmental days. Session; 5 p.m.; rm. 543, Williams Hall. Therapy; 12:15 p.m. Dartmouth University; 2 p.m.; rm. 100, Science). Filemaker Pro 10 Advanced; $300. Heilmeier Hall, Towne Bldg. (Mechanical 27 Engineering and Applied Mechanics).

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Symposium on Social Change See www.upenn.edu/aarc/mlk/ for more information. 17 Day of Service Breakfast; youth. Bring a book(s) that discusses 6:30-8 p.m.; Multipurpose Room, Du 26 The 10th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Jr. celebration. All are welcome; noon-1 performers and special guest speaker multi-cultural issues relating to children; Bois College House (Six Directions; Luther King, Jr. Lecture in Social Justice; p.m.; Penn Women’s Center (PWC). Bilal Quyyam, co-founder of The 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; Benjamin Franklin Greenfield Intercultural Center). Tim Wise, educator, lecturer, anti-racist Jazz for King; annual jazz and Father’s Day Rally Committee; 8:30-9:45 Room, Houston Hall (Day of Service Martin Luther King, His Legacy activist and author of Between Barack poetry reading; enjoy the sweet sounds a.m.; Hall of Flags, Houston Hall (Black Committee; MLK Symposium). and the Destabilization of Strong Black and a Hard Place: Racism and White of “Reference Point” (formerly known Graduate and Professional Students MLK Mentoring Project; Penn’s Manhood; interactive, multimedia Denial in the Age of Obama; 5:30 p.m.; as Glenn Bryan and Friends); 6-8 p.m.; Assembly; Day of Service Committee; chapter of the National Association of presentation will analyze the legacy Zellerbach Theatre, Annenberg Center Agora Room, Annenberg Public Policy MLK Symposium Committee). Black Social Workers student group and of Martin Luther King, Jr; 5:30-7:30 (Center for Africana Studies; Annenberg; Center (MLK Symposium Committee; Decoration of the Social Justice the Black Graduate and Professional p.m.; location TBA (African-American Office of the President). Annenberg Public Policy Center; AARC). Chair; an unfinished bench will be Student Association mentor students Resource Center). 27 Elders Reflections on the Civil 30 We Shall Overcome...Someday?: decorated; “The Seat of Justice” will from the University’s Upward Bound 20 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Rights Era; wise elders and members of A Reflection of the Lessons Learned be placed in a local school for students Program; 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; Interfaith Program and Awards the LIFE Center share stories of living During the Civil Rights Movement; to reflect on the life and contributions Auditorium, Houston Hall (Day of Commemoration; includes poetry and through the Civil Rights Movement. discussion on the struggle for inequality of Dr. King; 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; Service Committee; MLK Symposium musical performances from the Penn There will also be a video presentation; and the relevance of this struggle in Auditorium, Houston Hall (Day of Committee). community; guest speakers: Bryan Miller 1-2 p.m.; location TBA (School of today’s society; 2 p.m.; The Greenfield Service Committee; MLK Symposium Community Beautification Projects; and Rev. Leslie D. Callahan and the Nursing LIFE Center). Intercultural Center (Alliance and Committee). service projects at Sayre High School presentation of the MLK community Race and Health Disparities; Understanding, GIC). Children’s Banner Painting; and the Community Education Center awards; reception; 6 p.m.; Bodek interactive discussion about recent Feb. 1 Dr. Helen O. Dickens children paint commemorative in West Philadelphia. Come dressed Lounge, Houston Hall (MLK Symposium research and trends of health disparities Commemorative Lecture in Medicine; Martin Luther King, Jr. for cleaning and painting; 10 a.m.-2 Committee; Office of the Chaplain; that historically affect people of color; Carol Brown, Memorial Sloan-Kettering posters and banners p.m.; meet at Houston Hall (Day of Office of the President). Jacqueline Carthon-Brooks, nursing, Cancer Center; lecture in honor of Helen while listening to Service Committee; MLK Symposium ‘Here We Die Again’ Film Premiere Jasmine McDonald, the Biomedical O. Dickens, professor emeritus and stories about Dr. King’s Committee). Screening; documentary by filmmaker Postdoc Council; 3 p.m.; Auditorium, BRB pioneer; Dean Arthur Rubenstein, School life; adult supervision Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Amatus-sami Karim on gun violence in II/III (Biomedical Postdoctoral Council of Medicine, will provide brief welcome required; 9:30 a.m.- Candlelight Vigil; beginning at W.E.B. Philadelphia makes its World Premiere Diversity Committee; School of Medicine remarks; noon-1 p.m.; Auditorium, BRB 12:30 p.m.; Auditorium, Du Bois College House and conclude at Penn; 8 p.m.; Bodek Lounge, Houston Office of Diversity; School of Nursing). II/III (School of Medicine). on the College Green; 7:30 p.m. (Alpha Houston Hall (Day of Hall (Division of Public Safety & Office Honoring Dr. King in Word and Feb. 2 MLK Symposium Signature Service Committee; Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Mighty Psi of the Chaplain). Song; an evening of food and fellowship Chapter). Program; Patricia Reid Merritt, Richard MLK Symposium LGBT Civil Rights: UGANDA; to commemorate our nation’s pursuit Stockton College of New Jersey and Committee). 18 School of Nursing Dr. Martin Frank Mugisha, Director of Sexual of equal rights and honor the legacy of author of Righteous Self-Determination: Helping Hands Luther King, Jr. Lecture; Barbara Minorities Uganda (SMUG) discusses Martin Luther King, Jr. in the songs and The Black Social Work Movement in at Houston Hall ; Nichols, the first African American nurse LGBT life in Uganda; 7 p.m.; reception: chants of the Civil Rights movement; 6 America; 5:30-7 p.m.; W.E.B. Du Bois create gifts to be to be elected President of the American 8 p.m.; Goodhand Room, LGBT Center p.m.; Christian Association (CA). College House, Multipurpose Room. donated to West Nurses Association; noon-2 p.m.; rm. (LGBT; Center for Africana Studies; 28 Dance, Dance Revolution?; feel (W.E.B. Du Bois College House; School Philadelphia area 118, School of Nursing (School of CFAR). Good Friday dance workshop led by a of Social Policy & Practice; MLK shelters, nursing Nursing). 21 Trumpets of Conscious: local choreographer in honor of the MLK Symposium Committee; AARC). homes, hospitals The Prep School Negro Film Performance Art for Social Change; and other charities; Screening; 5-8 p.m.; Hillel Auditorium performance art ensemble PLP TheUnity, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 (MLK Symposium Committee; AARC; members of Penn’s Excelano Project and p.m.; Reading the Netter Center; GSE; Office of Equity sharing opportunities for Penn students Room and and Access Programs; CA). and staff; 4-6 p.m.; W.E.B. Du Bois Bodek Lounge, 19 “In Spite of a Storm Warning…”: College House, MPR (MLK Symposium Houston Hall A Women of Color at Penn MLK Event; Committee; AARC; Office of Affirmative (Day of Service gathering will share strategies on how to Action;Office of Government & Committee; MLK forge on in spite of figurative and literal Community Affairs). Symposium storms to make a difference; led by Vice Committee). 24 Taizé Prayer Service; meditative Provost for University Life, Valerie and reflective service; 7 p.m.; location Philadelphia Swain-Cade McCoullum; noon-2 p.m.; Reads: TBA (City Church). Amado Recital Hall (TBC; Women of Shifting the Numbers: Men of Color Literacy Color at Penn). 25 Project; create in Education Panel; panel discussion January Screening of PBS Documentary books on tape to “REEL INJUN”; an entertaining and outlining the current state of education promote literacy insightful look at the Hollywood Indian; in Philadelphia; 6:30 p.m.; Irvine for Philadelphia Auditorium (Makuu). A T P E N N

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