On Apr 15, Wolf Humanities Center Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Ana Lolua and her “Museums, Socialism, and Power” class (@penn-rees.bsky.social) welcomed artist and Weitzman School of Design lecturer Patricia Renee’ Thomas for “Race and Class Portrayed in Vanitas: A Drawing Workshop on the Still Life."

*Fellow Spotlight* 2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Penn Faculty Fellow Ada Kuskowski is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania.

*Fellow Spotlight* 2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Regional Faculty Christine Woody is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Textual Scholarship Certificate Program at Widener University.

April 22: Powered by Smart: A Prehistory of Everyday AI, a book talk with Profs. Sarah Murray (U of Michigan) and Rahul Mukherjee (Penn). Murray's book reveals a pathway that seeded hospitable ideas about AI. Williams Hall 623. Registration required. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/murray

*Fellow Spotlight* 2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Delbar Khakzad is a social historian of science and religion in the Indo-Persianate world and the Middle East.

Sat 4/18: Graduate students from anthropology and beyond will convene for "Shaken Grounds" to share and discuss their work with a focus on the politics of psychic life. 10 am - 5 pm. McNeil Building 403 (3718 Locust Walk) Guests welcome with registration More info and registration: bit.ly/480AMdO

*Fellow Spotlight* 2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Penn Faculty Fellow Hardeep Dhillon is Assistant Professor of Asian American History at the University of Pennsylvania. Webpage: live-sas-www-history.pantheon.sas.upenn.edu/people/harde...

April 22: Powered by Smart: A Prehistory of Everyday AI, a book talk with Profs. Sarah Murray (U of Michigan) and Rahul Mukherjee (Penn). Murray's book reveals a pathway that seeded hospitable ideas about AI. Williams Hall 623. Registration required. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/murray

*Fellow Spotlight* 2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Chris Halsted is a historian of early medieval Europe. His research explores connectivity and trade in eastern Europe and Eurasia, witchcraft, and the intersecting construction of gender and ethnicity.

April 15: Kelly Writers House presents Speculative Fiction as Truth-Telling, feat. authors Elwin Cotman, Margaret Killjoy, Alex Smith, and hosted by Abbey Mei Otis, Artist-in-Residence at Penn. A Lucid Fiction Program of Kelly Writers House. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/specu...

Friday, April 10: Join the Korean Language Program for a book talk with author Serang Chung as they explore her vibrantly multifaceted stories from See You on the Rooftop and the limitless imagination behind them. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/see-y...

Fri 4/10 - Sat 4/11: Penn EnviroLab’s Graduate Conference is a biennial event that gathers a community of graduate students and faculty working on environmental research projects. This year, the conference theme is (Un)Doing Catastrophe. For more info and to register, visit bit.ly/41kYdec

My Dreadful Body, a reading and discussion with author Egana Djabbarova, presented by Penn's Department of Russian and East European Studies. April 14, 6:15pm Fisher Bennett Hall Faculty Lounge, Room 135 Free and open to the public wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/djabb...

*Fellow Spotlight* 2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Doctoral Fellow Tiffany Nguyen is a Ph.D. candidate in Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in Latin literature, particularly in the early Roman Empire.

*Fellow Spotlight* 2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Ana Lolua is a historian of the late Tsarist and Soviet Caucasus.

Wed, 4/29: A book talk by Jamal J. Elias, presented by the Middle East Center. Prof Ahmet T. Karamustafa (University of Maryland), one of the world’s experts on medieval Sufism, will join in the discussion of After Rumi: The Mevlevis and Their World. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/after...

Congratulations to our Undergraduate Research Fellows who presented at this year’s Undergraduate Humanities Forum Conference, “Unlocking the Truth”!

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*Fellow Spotlight* 2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Doctoral Fellow Eleanor Webb is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania where she specializes in early modern European history.

Friday, April 10: Join the Korean Language Program for a book talk with author Serang Chung as they explore her vibrantly multifaceted stories from See You on the Rooftop and the limitless imagination behind them. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/see-y...

Presented by Quechua at Penn & Andean Representation, the 4th Annual Carnaval comes on Saturday, April 4! The event includes the Andean band Inkarayku and the Peruvian folkloric dance group Ballet Folklórico Acuarelas Del Perú. Find out more on our website: wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/carna...

The Experimental Humanities Lab led by Fritz Breithaupt seeks a postdoc to help launch a research hub at the intersection of narrative, empathy, cognition, & AI. PhDs in lit studies, cog sci, psych,+ who combine narrative insight w/empirical skills encouraged to apply: apply.interfolio.com/183656

On March 27, Wolf Humanities Center's Undergraduate Research Fellows present their projects on this year's theme, Truth. Unlocking the Truth is the 25th annual UHF Research Conference. 3/27, Van Pelt Library & online: tinyurl.com/dc9uavu8 wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/unloc...

Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History – a reading & conversation with author Caroline Tracey and PhD Candidate in English Natalia Reyes A program of the Landscape Architecture lecture series, in partnership with AmLit (English), Penn April 2, 6:30pm, Fisher Fine Arts Library tinyurl.com/4ep8rbnr

Ky Nam Inn Film Screening & Discussion with director Leon Le Penn’s Vietnamese Language Program hosts an exclusive screening of Ky Nam Inn (Quán Kỳ Nam, Vietnam, 2025, 140 min.) followed by a lively discussion with director Leon Le. April 3, 5:15pm, Fisher Bennett Hall 401 tinyurl.com/33dyt79m

*Fellow Spotlight* Arwen Zhang (CAS, Wharton, 2028) is a 2025-26 Undergraduate Humanities Forum Fellow majoring in Finance and International Studies. Arwen has a strong interest in international business law and community economic development.

March 27&28: Hosted by CAMRA & the Center for Experimental Ethnography, the Screening Scholarship Media Festival (SSMF), a hybrid academic conference/media & art festival, takes place at Penn. The theme this year is Portals. Free and open to the public. Registration required. tinyurl.com/bd9fu6zh

*Fellow Spotlight* Ryan Wolff (CAS, 2026) is a 2025-26 Wolf Undergraduate Research Fellow majoring in History and minoring in Hispanic Studies. His research interests consist of American foreign policy, especially mid-to-late 20th-century U.S.-Latin American relations in the Cold War context.

*Fellow Spotlight* Izzy Welsh (CAS, 2026) is a 2025-26 Wolf Undergraduate Research Fellow and Undergraduate Humanities Forum Executive Board member majoring in English and Cinema & Media Studies. Her academic interests center on memoir, narrative structure, and the ethics of storytelling.

*Fellow Spotlight* Ella Sohn (CAS, 2026) is a 2025-26 Wolf Undergraduate Research Fellow majoring in English with minors in Legal Studies & History and French & Francophone Studies. Her research interests include urbanism, literature, and the concept of personhood across the 20th & 21st centuries.

*Fellow Spotlight* Eric Ryu (CAS, 2026) is a 2025-26 Wolf Undergraduate Research Fellow majoring in History, Health and Societies, and Classics. His primary research interests lie in exploring the intellectual tradition of the American Founding Era and the early republic.

*Fellow Spotlight* Noa Rubinstein (CAS, 2026) is a 2025-26 Wolf Undergraduate Research Fellow majoring in History and International Relations. On campus, her involvements include Penn Hillel, Community Student School Partnerships, and Penn Development Research Initiative

*Fellow Spotlight* Thalia Graeff (CAS, 2026) is a 2025-26 Wolf Undergraduate Research Fellow majoring in History of Art and minoring in Cognitive Science, Fine Arts, and French. Thalia has curated a project bringing together contemporary female artists' books located in the Penn Libraries.

*Fellow Spotlight* Sergio Emilio Carballido (CAS, 2026) is a 2025-26 Wolf Undergraduate Research Fellow and Undergraduate Humanities Forum Executive Board member majoring in Religious Studies and Mathematical Economics.

*Fellow Spotlight* Cristina Diaz (CAS, 2026) is a 2025-26 Wolf Undergraduate Research Fellow majoring in History and Linguistics, with minors in Art History and Global Medieval Studies. She is interested in historical linguistics and written culture, particularly historiography & religion.

Coming up this Friday, March 20! Check out the QR codes on the poster for more details.

*Fellow Spotlight* Kara Butler (CAS, 2026) is a 2025-26 Wolf Undergraduate Research Fellow majoring in Communication and Anthropology. She is interested in the intersection of wartime propaganda and childhood, which is the focus of her Senior Thesis and Wolf Humanities Center research project.

*Fellow Spotlight* Max Brody (CAS, 2026) is a 2025-26 Wolf Undergraduate Research Fellow majoring in English and Native & Indigenous Studies. Identifying as a first-generation college student, he is interested in rural and Indigenous healthcare advocacy, critical theory, and narrative medicine.

*Fellow Spotlight* Saanvi Agarwal (CAS, Wharton, 2026) is a 2025-26 Wolf Undergraduate Research Fellow majoring in English, Legal Studies & Business Ethics, and Statistics. Her research examines how South Asian women writers use literary form to reconstruct truth in the aftermath of colonialism.

The Philomathean Society's Bicentennial Annual Oration WHY PLATO MATTERS NOW Angie Hobbs What does a 2,400-year-old philosopher have to say about fake news, political polarization, and artificial intelligence? Mar 24, 6pm, Bodek Lounge Free and open to Penn community Register: tinyurl.com/bdffvm9k

ETERNAL SENTINEL Film screening and Q&A with photographer Maryam Ashafri Mar 23 / 11:45a—1:30p / Annenberg 500 Ashrafi's film spotlights journalists who have been wounded or have witnessed deadly incidents involving landmines and IEDs in Iraq and Syria. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/etern...

We’re thrilled to introduce our 2025-2026 Undergraduate Humanities Forum Director, Dr. Emily Steiner. Professor Steiner is A. M. Rosenthal Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.

Join Dagmawi Woubshet at Kelly Writers House for a conversation with Nicholas Boggs, author of Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades. March 16, 2026 - 3pm Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

March 20, 9am-6pm - A Symposium on Indigenous Philosophy across the Americas: Epistemologies and Ontologies outside the Settler Colonial Hegemony, with a keynote by Dr. James Maffie. Find out more and RSVP using the QR codes on the poster! wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/indig...

3/17, 4pm, Penn Museum: Join us for Künü, a film by Francisco Huichaqueo, that explores how Mapuche lands have been occupied by a forestry company & how native communities work to reclaim their ancestral land. Conversation with Huichaqueo will follow. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/kunu

On March 27, Wolf Humanities Center's Undergraduate Research Fellows present their projects on this year's theme, Truth. Unlocking the Truth is the 25th annual UHF Research Conference. 3/27, Van Pelt Library & online: tinyurl.com/dc9uavu8 wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/unloc...

Join Dagmawi Woubshet at Kelly Writers House for a conversation with Nicholas Boggs, author of Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades. March 16, 2026 - 3pm Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Weds 3/18: Following a screening of his award-winning documentary, filmmaker Danial Shah joins Jamal J. Elias, for an illuminating conversation about truth, lies, and their blurred boundaries. (Note: Danial Shah will join via Zoom.) wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/make-...

*Fellow Spotlight* 2025-26 Wolf Humanities Center Penn Faculty Fellow Julia Alekseyeva is an Assistant Professor of English and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. www.jalekseyeva.com substack.com/@jalekseyeva

Fri 2/27, 9:30am: What constitutes a moving image practice of abolition? Scholar and filmmaker Althea Wasow explores crucial approaches to moving-image practice committed to abolition as our "Truth in Crisis" Symposium keynote speaker.