Penn Humanities Forum

Fall 2007
	19 September \| Origin of the Universe Janna Levin, physicist and astronomer, Barnard College; author of How the Universe Got Its Spots
	3 October \| Reinventing the Sacred Stuart Kauffman, biologist and founder of BiosGoup; author of At Home in the Universe
	24 October \| Evolution of Human Symbolism Randall White, anthropologist, New York University; author of Prehistoric Art: The Symbolic Journey of Humankind
	7 November \| Origins of Artificial Intelligence Manuel DeLanda, philosopher, Columbia University; author of War in the Age of Intelligent Machines
	28 November \| Origins of Musical Ornamentation Julianne Baird, soprano and musicologist, Rutgers University; one of the world's 10 most recorded women

Public Events
Spring 2008
	6 February\| An Artist's Sources Kiki Smith, feminist artist member of Time 100 (Most Influential People, 2006)
	8 February \| Singing from the Source Clerks' Group, chamber choir multimedia concert of the Roman de Fauvel
	20 February \| Origins of Obesity Rexford Ahima, MD, endocrinologist Penn Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism
	28 February \| Googlization of Everything Siva Vaidhyanathan, cultural historian and media scholar University of Virginia; Keynote address, Graduate Humanities Forum Conference on Origins
	19 March \| 1,000,000 Years of Music Gary Tomlinson, musicologist and Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, Penn
	DR. S.T. LEE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE 2 April \| Original Sin Elaine Pagels, historian of religion Princeton University; author of The Origin of Satan

The Penn Humanities Forum gratefully acknowledges the support of the Hershey Family Foundation, the Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities Fund, and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.