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Public Events

 
    Fall 2006

image   October 4 | Colin Thubron
    Shadow of the Silk Road

image   October 11 | Paul Gepts
    The Impact of Human Travel on Agriculture

image   October 25 | Caryl Phillips
    Border Crossings
Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture

image   November 1 | Sara Dickinson
    Dashkova's Grand Tour

image   November 15 | Alison Stones
    Travel and the Santiago Pilgrimage

image   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.


 
    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

image   February 22 | Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Old Histories, New Itineraries
Graduate Humanities Forum Keynote

image   March 1 | Anonymous 4
Long Time Traveling

image   March 14 | Richard Cohen
The Wandering Jew

image   March 21 | Swoon
Down the Mississippi

image   March 29 | Robert Irwin
Sinbad the Traveling Salesman
Undergraduate Humanities Forum Keynote

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


 
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