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