Fall 2005
September 23–27
Elective Affinities: 7th International Conference on Word and Image
Cosponsors include Penn Humanities Forum
 
 
Tuesday, September 27
Comix 101, Art Spiegelman
World-renowned graphic novelist
Cosponsors: Office of the Provost, International Conference on Word & Image, Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, Jewish Studies Program
 
 
Monday, October 10
Obelisks and Ancient Inscriptions, Anthony Grafton
Dodge Professor of History, Princeton University

 
Friday, October 28
Piano virtuoso Marc André Hamelin and soprano Jody Karin Applebaum
in a special Cabaret Performance at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in conjunction with dossier show for Edvard Munch’s Mermaid
 
 
Wednesday, November 2
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Professor of Communication and Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center, Penn, on the deflective power of images in political ads
 
 
Wednesday, November 16
Public Art, Jenny Holzer
American conceptual artist, as the 2005 Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities
 
 

Wednesday, November 30
John Maeda

MIT New Media artist
 
 
December 7
Mapping America's Pacific Coast
Henry Wendt
Retired Chairman of the Board, SmithKline Beecham
In association with the Arthur Ross Gallery exhibition Mapping the Pacific Coast: Coronado to Lewis and Clark, The Quivira Collection (September 24, 2005 – January 9, 2006)
Spring 2006
Wednesday, January 25
Jennifer Mnookin
University of Virigina Law Professor,
on Visual and Expert Evidence in the
American Courtroom
 
 
Wednesday, February 1
Emma Dillon
Penn Music Professor, on Medieval musical notation
 
 
Wednesday, February 8
Yoram (Jerry) Wind
Wharton Marketing Professor, on Brands
and Logos

 
 
Wednesday, February 22
Steve Tinney
Penn Museum Babylonian authority, on Sumerian Tablets
 
 
Wednesday, March 1
Bruce L. Miller, MD
Distinguished Professor of Neurology, UCSF,
on Art and Aging
 
 
Wednesday, March 15
Pam McClusky
Seattle Art Museum Curator of African and Oceanic Art, on aboriginal stories mapped
onto landscapes
 
 
Friday, March 17
Symposium: Photography and Literature
PHF, cosponsor of German Department conference
 
 
Wednesday, March 29
Jane Caplan
Bryn Mawr historian, on the Tattoo
 
 
Wednesday, April 5
Richard Foreman
Legendary Artistic Director and Founder
of the internationally acclaimed
experimental Ontological-Hysteric Theatre
In association with Penn's Theatre Arts Program
 
 
Wednesday, April 12
Physicians Rita Charon and Murray Grossman on Medical Diagnosis through
Word and Image