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Friday, January 20
MUSA BROWN BAG LUNCH: Fellowship Opportunity
12-1pm, Meyerson G-12 (Penn IUR Conference Room)
The Sustainability Science Fellowship is a new program of the US Forest Service Philadelphia Field Station and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Michael T. Rains, Director of the Northern Research Station of the U.S. Forest Service, and Phillip Rodbell, Acting Coordinator for the new U.S. Forest Service Philadelphia Field Station will be on hand to meet and discuss the opportunity with students.
HAPPY HOUR
5:30pm, Lower Gallery
TGIF! Please bring your IDs to participate.
Monday, January 23
PENNDESIGN SAFETY FAIR
1PM, Meyerson Hall, Lower Gallery
Representatives from Public Safety will provide general information and tips, detailed information about on-campus safety services, snacks, safety literature and give-a-ways. Topics include emergency preparedness, fire safety, UPennAlert, theft awareness, bicycle safety tips, walking escorts, self-defense courses and property registration. Light refreshments provided.
FIRST YEAR SCULPTURE EXHIBITION OPENING
5PMLower Gallery, Meyerson Hall
Host Department: Fine Arts
Friday, January 27
ARCHITECTURE AND ENERGY SYMPOSIUM
1:30PM, Meyerson Lower Gallery
Co-sponsor: GPIC/Penn State
- Thomas Abel, Anthropologist/Systems Ecologist. Assistant Professor, Zu Chi University, Taiwan
- William W. Braham. Associate Professor/Director of Master of Environmental Building Design program, PennDesign
- Dean Hawkes, Professor Emeritus, University of Cambridge/Founding Member, Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies
- David Leatherbarrow, Professor & Interim Chair of Architecture, PennDesign
- Vivian Loftness, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
- Ali Malkawi, Professor of Architecture /Director, TC Chan Center for Energy Studies and Building Simulation, PennDesign
- Kiel Moe, Assistant Professor, Harvard GSD
- John Thackara. Director, Netherlands Design Institute
- Franca Trubiano, Assistant Professor of Architecture, PennDesign
- Richard Wesley, Adjunct Professor of Architecture, PennDesign
- Dan Willis, Professor, Pennsylvania State University
- Simos Yannas. Director, MSc/MArch in Sustainable Environmental Design, Architectural Association, London.
Free for students/ $25 for professionals (registration required).
Thursday, February 2
THE ARCHITECTURE OF DISCOURSE: PUBLICATION & PUBLICITY IN ARCHITECTURE
6pm, Meyerson B3
TOM WEAVER
Editor, The AA Files, Architectural Association
BILL MENKING
Editor and Founder, The Architect’s Paper
AARON LEVY
Chief Curator, Slought Foundation
& INVITED GUESTS
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Tuesday, January 24
Penn IUR Public Interest Event
URBAN BOOK TALK: “WOMEN'S HEALTH AND THE WORLD'S CITIES”
5:30pm – 7PM, Ben Franklin Room, Houston Hall
Co-sponsor: Penn Press and the School of Nursing
The volume editors and contributors of Women’s Health and the World’s Cities (Penn Press, 2011) will discuss the key issues presented in the book and their impact on research agendas. Speakers include Afaf I. Meleis, Dean of the School of Nursing; Jeane Ann Grisso, Professor of Public Health, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Perelman School of Medicine; Kat Rosqueta, Founding Executive Director of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy at University of Pennsylvania; Lynn Sommers, Director, Penn’s School of Nursing Center for Global Women’s Health, and Eugenie Birch, Co-Director, Penn Institute for Urban Research, Susan Wachter, Co-Director, Penn Institute for Urban Research.
Friday, January 27
FINANCIAL STRESS IN GOVERNMENTS: THE ISSUES, CHALLENGES & POLITICS OF MOVING FORWARD
8AM-6PM, Huntsman Hall, 8th Floor
Co-sponsor: FELS Institute for Government
Penn IUR is proud to host this workshop, centered on the economic forecast for local governments and the Financially Distressed Municipalities Act of 1987. This event will feature such speakers and commentators as John Bear, State Representative, PA House of Representatives; Bill Brandt, CEO, DSI Civic; and Mark Zandi, CEO, Moody’s Economy.com and Chief Economist, Moddy’s Analytics; and David Thornburgh, Executive Director, Fels Institute of Government.
Tuesday, January 31
MEGAPROJECTS: CAN WE BALANCE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL GOODS?
7PM, Annenberg Center, Room 511
Host department: PennPraxis/City Planning
Co-sponsor: IUR / Annenberg Center / Arthur Ross Gallery
Featuring Harris Steinberg of PennPraxis as well as Harris Sokoloff of the Penn Project for Civic Engagement, Former Mayor of Philadelphia John Street, Developer Bart Blatstein, Deputy Mayor for Planning & Economic Development Alan Greenberger and Chris Satullo of WHYY, the panel is co-presented with the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in conjunction with the Civilians’ play In the Footprint: The Battle Over Atlantic Yards. (Student tickets $10).
Thursday, February 2
FINE ARTS LECTURE: DIANA COOPER - Visiting Artist
630pm, ICA Auditorium
Diana Cooper creates complex systems that engage and transform into multi-sensory environments. Cooper’s work combines drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation practices. Some of her works concern the inner workings of the mind – the impulses to play, to invent, and to change while others employ systems and patterns that seem to possess an endless labyrinthine complexity.
Through February 28
"THE DIVIDED SELF"
1-6PM Thurs-Sat, Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut Street, Philadelphia
On view in the Slought Foundation galleries from January 12-February 28, 2012, the exhibition has been organized by artist and educator Huma Mulji, and features work by Hamra Abbas, Bani Abidi, David Alesworth and Adnan Madani, Amina El-Adroos, Ismet Khawaja, Basir Mahmod, Umber Majeed, and Rashid Rana. Presented in conjunction with the MFA Program in Fine Arts at PennDesign, with whom Slought is partnering in 2012 on a series of visits and projects by international mid-career artists.
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