Friday, October 3: Please join us for the 2024 documentary Tree of Violence, the first screening in the Perspectives Film Series hosted by the Wolf Humanities Center, the Department of Cinema & Media Studies, and Public Trust.

Friday, October 3: Please join us for the 2024 documentary Tree of Violence, the first screening in the Perspectives Film Series hosted by the Wolf Humanities Center, the Department of Cinema & Media Studies, and Public Trust.

Sept 19–20: Revisiting Language Politics: Historical Perspectives and Current Trends in India. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/revis...

Way to go, Eric! Eric Ryu joins the Wolf Humanities Center as an Undergraduate Research Fellow this year. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/fellows/eric....

Sept 18: The Edges of Truth, an all-day conference bringing together scholars across disciplines to explore how what we perceive as truth has been constructed, obscured, misunderstood, contested, and reimagined throughout history. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/edges...

Sept 17: Michael D. Gordin (Princeton) introduces "The Edges of Truth" Conference with his keynote, "The Persistence of Wretched Subjects." September 17, 2025 5:30pm Widener Lecture Hall, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street Registration required. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/gordin

Sept 17: Michael D. Gordin (Princeton) introduces "The Edges of Truth" Conference with his keynote, "The Persistence of Wretched Subjects." September 17, 2025 5:30pm Widener Lecture Hall, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street Registration required. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/gordin

In 2025–2026, the Wolf Humanities Center is pleased to host scholars from across the humanities disciplines who are conducting research on our annual topic, Truth. Join us in welcoming this year’s cohort of Research Fellows! wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/fellows/truth

Join us in welcoming the new director of the Wolf Humanities Center, Ayako Kano, professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations! Kano is a cultural historian specializing in the history of gender and performance in Japan. More: wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/kano-director

Standing faculty at Penn in the humanities and allied departments are invited to apply for 2026–27 research fellowships on the Wolf Humanities Center’s annual theme, Practice. Apply by October 1, 2025. Full fellowship and application details: wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/fellowships/...

Now accepting applications for our 2026–2027 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships on the general theme of "Practice." Eligibility guidelines and application instructions: wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/postdoc Application deadline: November 2, 2025.

Heartfelt congratulations to each of Wolf's graduating students!! We thank you for your contributions and wish you all the best in your future endeavors. Best wishes to the entire Class of 2025!

With gratitude and admiration, we introduce Wolf Humanities Center Director Jamal J. Elias @eliasj.bsky.social, Annenberg Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Religious Studies and Director of the Penn Forum for Global Islamic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

On March 28th, Wolf’s Undergraduate Fellows presented their research on our 2024-25 topic of Keywords in the 24th annual Undergraduate Humanities Forum Research Conference, “Ideas in Motion, Words in Flux.” Thanks to our fellows for organizing a fantastic conference & many thanks to our moderators!

2024-25 Wolf Humanities Center Penn Faculty Fellow David Kazanjian is Professor of and Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at Penn. His two current research projects range from colonial Yucatán to contemporary Armenian diasporic art.

*Fellow Spotlight* Maryam Athari is a 2024–2025 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wolf Humanities Center. An art historian of twentieth-century global modernisms, she focuses on Middle Eastern and Iranian modern art, with particular attention to transregional and transmedial exchanges.

*Fellow Spotlight* Juan Suárez Ontaneda is a 2024-25 Wolf Humanities Center Regional Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of Spanish and Co-Director of Latin American, Iberian, and Latina/o Studies at Bryn Mawr College.

*Fellow Spotlight* Charlotte Kiechel is a 2024–25 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wolf Humanities Center and a historian of modern Europe. Her research interests include Holocaust memory, human rights, and decolonization.

A highlight of this year’s Forum on Keywords was the February 21, 2025 Keywords Symposium in Van Pelt Library.

*Fellow Spotlight* Angelina Eimannsberger is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania and the 2024-25 Graduate Research Assistant at the Wolf Humanities Center.

*Fellow Spotlight* Usmon Boron is a 2024–25 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wolf Humanities Center. Born and raised in Uzbekistan, his research and teaching broadly focus on entanglements between Islam and secular modernity.

This weekend, join the Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Graduate Studies Society for their conference, Reimagining Collage. Dr. Mame-Fatou Niang of @cmu.edu will give the keynote address, and four panels of discussion will follow. More details here: wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/reima...

Tomorrow (4/23): Don't miss author Andrea Lawlor at Kelly Writers House!

Our final colloquium event of the year takes place this Thursday! ---------------------------------- An Ethics of Completion: Russian Coloniality and Islamic Tradition in Kyrgyzstan RELS Colloquium Usmon Boron (@wolfhumanities.bsky.social) Apr 24, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 204

*Fellow Spotlight* 2024-25 Wolf Humanities Center Penn Faculty Fellow Seçil Yilmaz @sopranax.bsky.social is an assistant professor of History and Core Faculty at Penn GSWS.

Tomorrow (April 22)!

*Fellow Spotlight* Lama Elsharif @elsharif.lama is a 2024-25 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wolf Humanities Center and a historian of the early modern and modern Middle East and North Africa.

April 22: Penn faculty Abdulhamit Arvas & Caz Batten present Premodern Trans Studies, a symposium that will bring together scholars working on medieval & early modern trans studies to discuss current trends & future directions in historical trans studies. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/premo...

*Fellow Spotlight* 2024-25 Wolf Humanities Center Penn Faculty Fellow Sebastián Gil-Riaño jsgriano.bsky.social is an Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

April 23: Join Kelly Writers House for a reading and conversation with Andrea Lawlor and Penn Creative Writing Artist-in-Residence Abbey Mei Otis. They will discuss Lawlor's novel Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl. April 23, 2025 6:30pm Kelly Writers House wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/lawlor

Wolf’s faculty director Jamal J. Elias and Forum on Keywords topic director Lisa Mitchell are joined by historian and anthropologist Deirdre de la Cruz after her presentation “‘It’s Your Curse,’ and Other Lessons in Repairing Historical Harm”.

Discover "How Local Can You (Really) Go?" tonight, April 10, at College Hall.

*Fellow Spotlight* Jennifer W. Reiss is a 2024-25 Doctoral Fellow at the Wolf Humanities Center and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History @upenn.bsky.social.

Apr 11, 1:30p- Penn Libraries' Center for Global Collections brings together artists, librarians, & scholars to discuss challenges in the maintenance of collections in Afghanistan & its diasporas as well as the poetic, literary, & artistic possibilities for rethinking archives. tinyurl.com/24kmcyp5

April 10: Edhem Eldem, Sakıp Sabancı Visiting Professor at the History Department, Columbia University, will speak on questions of archaeology and heritage in the Ottoman lands in his talk, "How Local Can You (Really) Go?: Archaeology in the Ottoman Lands in the Long Nineteenth Century."

April 7: We are looking forward to Anteaesthetics: Book Colloquium and Conversation, presented by the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies; the Institute of Contemporary Art; and Kelly Writers House. wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/anteaesthetics

4/4: Join the Francophone, Italian & Germanic Studies Department at UPenn for “Mis(sed)translations”. Explore gaps between texts & their translations, focusing on willful mistranslations, ideological manipulations, & the idea that all translations are, to some degree, mistranslations. bit.ly/41ZkJdK

April 4–5: The University of Pennsylvania's chapter of Minorities and Philosophy's (MAP) 9th annual conference, a live virtual event featuring keynote speakers Ronald Sundstrom and Serena Parekh. More information on our website: wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/displ...

*Fellow Spotlight* 2024-25 Wolf Humanities Center Regional Faculty Fellow Delia Solomons is an Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Drexel University.

Tomorrow (April 1), join the South Asia Center @southasiacenter.bsky.social for this special film screening and conversation.

Join us tomorrow for presentations from our 12 Undergraduate Research Fellows on our 2024-2025 topic, Keywords. tinyurl.com/UHFConferenc...

Join Serene Khader, author of Faux Feminism, and Sophie Lewis, author of Enemy Feminisms, for a conversation about their recent books! Today, March 27 at 5:00, 110 Annenberg Center. gsws.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...

On April 7, presented by Center for Research in Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies; Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art; & Kelly Writers House: a discussion and book signing of Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form by Rizvana Bradley. More here: tinyurl.com/3zj3z8re

4/9: The University of Michigan holds extensive collections from the Philippines, many taken during the American colonial period. Deirdre de la Cruz presents on efforts to enact reparative approaches to these collections, reflecting on historical justice, repatriation, and more. bit.ly/43qPYzq

April 1: Buhay Khulay Rakhi (Let the Doors Stay Open), a film screening and conversation with the photographer/filmmaker and producer, moderated by Wolf's own Jamal Elias, coming up! Presented by @southasiacenter.bsky.social. Find more information here: wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/buhay...

*Fellow Spotlight* Daphne Glatter is a Wolf Undergraduate Research Fellow and a senior, majoring in English and Ancient History and minoring in Mathematics and Global Medieval Studies.

*Fellow Spotlight* Katrina Itona is a Wolf Undergraduate Research Fellow majoring in English and Comparative Literature. She is a second-generation Filipina American and spends her free time collecting CDs, scrolling Pinterest, and making matcha lattes.

*Fellow Spotlight* Eug Xu is a Wolf Undergraduate Research Fellow and a senior in the Department of History, also working towards a minor in the digital humanities.

*Fellow Spotlight* Amanda Renee Rodriguez is a Wolf Undergraduate Research Fellow majoring in History of Art and Latin American and Latinx Studies. Her primary interests include border studies/abolition, oral histories, and Mexican American cultural history and media.

Fri 4/4: Penn’s Francophone, Italian & Germanic Studies Department hosts their first annual symposium, Mis(sed)translations: Problems/Processes/Products. Explore how the gaps and complexities of mistranslations shape ideologies and offer insights into literary texts. bit.ly/4hvC0j7