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The Penn Humanities Forum
gratefully acknowledges the
support of the Hershey Family
Foundation, the Dr. S.T. Lee
Distinguished Lecture in the
Humanities Fund, The Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation, and the
Marvin and Sybil Weiner Fund,
Penn Library.

Public Events

2005–2006 Penn Humanities Forum on Word & Image


SPRING 2006

January 25
Jennifer Mnookin: Envisioning Evidence in the U.S. Courtroom

February 1
Emma Dillon:The Look of the Voice: Seeing Medieval Song

February 8
Yoram (Jerry) Wind: Brand Names and Logos

Graduate Humanities Forum Keynote Address
February 17
Michael Fried: Jeff Wall, Wittgenstein, and the Everyday

February 22
Steve Tinney:When Speech Was Nails

Special BF300 Symposium
February 24

If Ben Had Had His Way: A Symposium in Honor of the
300th Anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's Birth

March 1
Bruce Miller: Portraits of Artists

March 15
Pamela McClusky: Wild Yam Dreaming, Aboriginal Art

March 17
Picture This! Symposium on Photography and Narrative in
Contemporary Literature

March 22
Richard Foreman: Experimental Ontological-Hysteric Theatre

Undergraduate Humanities Forum Keynote Address
March 30
Jane Caplan: Flesh Made Word, The Tattoo

April 12
Rita Charon and Murray Grossman: Storytelling and Imaging in
Medical Diagnosis

May 12
PHF Celebrates with Penn Alumni: 2-4pm
Come for refreshments and a tour of the Penn Humanities Forum, with video highlights from this year's program on Word & Image!

FALL 2005

September 23–27
Elective Affinities:
Conference on Word & Image Studies

September 24, 2005 – January 9, 2006
Mapping the Pacific Coast: Exhibition at Arthur Ross Gallery

September 27
Art Spiegelman:Comix 101

October 3
Linda Carreiro:Histos: Anatomical Devices and Corporeal Texts

October 10
Anthony Grafton: Renaissance Romans & Egyptian Obelisks

October 28
Marc André Hamelin and Jody Karin Applebaum: Word, Image, Music

October 31
Phantom of the Opera: Featuring Alloy Orchestra performing live!

November 2
Kathleen Hall Jamieson: The Deflective Power of Images in Political Ads

Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities
November 16

Jenny Holzer: Public Art

November 30
John Maeda: Search for Simplicity in an Over-Teched World

December 7
Henry Wendt: Mapping the West Coast of North America

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