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| Chapurukha M. Kusimba, Professor, American University
Penn Museum, Classroom L1 (3260 South St)
Complex and intricate human networks have crisscrossed the Indian Ocean and surrounding lands, and linked Africa to East Asia. The first expansion of humans – Homo erectus- began 2.4 – 1.8 million ago…
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| Joel Andreas, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Room 200, Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics, 133 S. 36th St
In this book talk, Professor Andreas recounts the tumultuous events that have shaped and reshaped authority relations in Chinese factories over the past seven decades. He introduces a general…
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| Jennifer Robertson, Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Huntsman Hall, G60
In humans and humanoid robots alike, gender—femininity, masculinity—constitutes an array of learned behaviors that are cosmetically enabled and enhanced. In humans, these behaviors are both socially and historically…
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| The Arts Cafe, Kelly Writer's House (3805 Locust Walk)
The Daedalus Quartet, Penn’s quartet-in-residence, explores migration through music, illustrating how centuries of cultural cross-pollination has enriched our artistic and spiritual life. Music truly has no borders,…
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| Hanhua Zhou, Professor, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences;
Samm Sacks, Council on Foreign Relations; Mark Cohen, UC Berkeley School of Law
Room 200, Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics, 133 S. 36th St.