Here and There. . .

At the Penn Museum . . .
Year of Egypt
As people from all over the world converge in Philadelphia in 2007 to see Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs at the Franklin Institute, don't miss the exhibition, Amarna, Ancient Egypt's Place in the Sun, and "Year of Egypt" programming at Penn's Museum. The exhibition, named for the city of Tutankhamun's childhood, offers a rare look at the meteoric rise and fall of this unique royal city during one of Egypt's most intriguing times, and runs now through October 2007. Those wishing to delve into all-things Egyptian can take advantage of a year's worth of lectures, Hollywood on the Nile films and tours of the museum's permanent Egypt collections.

At the Penn Library . . .
The Art of Reinvention: Travel * Exile * Recuperation
On exhibit January 16th – April 13th, 2007
Presented in collaboration with the 2006-2007 Penn Humanities Forum on Travel, this exhibtion juxtaposes the flight from the Nazi regime in Europe, begun in 1938 by Franz Werfel and Alma Mahler (former wife of Gustav Mahler), with the flight from Communist Poland, begun in 1988 by conceptual artist King Araya. The exhibition is curated by Violet Lutz, Penn PhD, and Kinga Araya, a 2006-2007 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at the Forum.

At the International House. . .
Community Conversations: Human Rights—Global Conflicts
The International House and College of Arts & Sciences, Drexel University present a series of three talks this spring focusing on human rights. On Feb. 8, the commander of UN forces in Rwanda, Lt. General (Ret.) Romeo Dallaire, will address the Failure of Humanity in Preventing Genocide. Click here for more on this and Community Conversations' other speakers, William F. Schulz and David Zucchino.

In the City . . .
CHOSEN! Philadelphia's Great Hebraica
On exhibit March 28 – July 29, 2007
This major exhibition of rare Jewish books from Philadelphia public collections at the renowned Rosenbach Library & Museum in Philadelphia is curated by David Stern, Ruth Meltzer Professor of Classical Hebrew Literature at Penn, who has spent the last five years searching through various collections in the Philadelphia area for important and all but unknown Jewish books.

By bringing these dispersed treasures together, the exhibit hopes to show the rich stories that these books tell about the Jewish historical and cultural experience as well as the tales of the collectors who brought these books to Philadelphia to their present homes.