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Fall 2006

October 4 | Colin Thubron
Shadow of the Silk Road
October 11 | Paul Gepts
The Impact of Human Travel on Agriculture
Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture
October 25 | Caryl Phillips
Border Crossings

November 1 | Sara Dickinson
Dashkova's Grand Tour
November 15 | Alison Stones
Travel and the Santiago Pilgrimage
December 6 | Joel Garreau
The Santa Fe-ing of America?
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The Penn Humanities Forum gratefully acknowledges the support of the Hersey 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.


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Public Events

Spring 2007

image   January 25 | Kelly Writers House celebrates
Jack Kerouac's On the Road
image   January 30 | Exhibition Opening
The Art of Reinvention
image   January 31 | Richard Leventhal
Ancient Maya
image   February 7 | Leonard Barkan
A Year, A Life in Rome
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February 22 | Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Old Histories, New Itineraries
image   March 1 | Anonymous 4
Long Time Traveling
image   March 14 | Richard Cohen
The Wandering Jew
image   March 21 | Swoon
Down the Mississippi
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March 29 | Robert Irwin
Sinbad the Traveling Salesman
image   April 5 | Symposium
Travel for Humanity
Includes awarding of 2007 PHF-Weiner Prize for Best Undergraduate Essay on Ethics of Global Humanitarianism
image   April 6 | Symposium
Reel Travel
image   April 12 | Ian Buruma
The Rise and Fall of European Multiculturalism