Public Events
Fall 2006
October 4 | Colin Thubron
Shadow of the Silk Road
October 11 | Paul Gepts
The Impact of Human Travel on Agriculture
October 25 | Caryl Phillips
Border Crossings
Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture
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?
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.
Spring 2007
January 25 | Kelly Writers House celebrates
Jack Kerouac's
On the Road
January 30 | Exhibition Opening
The Art of Reinvention
January 31 | Richard Leventhal
Ancient Maya
February 7 | Leonard Barkan
A Year, A Life in Rome
February 22 | Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Old Histories, New Itineraries
Graduate Humanities Forum Keynote
March 1 | Anonymous 4
Long Time Traveling
March 14 | Richard Cohen
The Wandering Jew
March 21 | Swoon
Down the Mississippi
March 29 | Robert Irwin
Sinbad the Traveling Salesman
Undergraduate Humanities Forum Keynote
April 5 | Symposium
Travel for Humanity
Includes awarding of 2007 PHF-Weiner Prize for Best
Undergraduate Essay on Ethics of Global Humanitarianism
April 6 | Symposium
Reel Travel
April 12 | Ian Buruma
The Rise and Fall of European Multiculturalism