Past Events



REALARTS@PENN INTERNSHIPS INFO SESSION

Everything you need to know and more
Nov 30, 2017 at -

Have you been dreaming of the perfect summer internship? The one that will change your life forever? RealArts@Penn can help make that dream a reality!…



RACHEL TASHJIAN: FROM VANITY TO VICE

hosted by: Anthony DeCurtis
Nov 19, 2017 at -

RACHEL TASHJIAN is the Fashion Features Editor at GARAGE Magazine, an art and fashion biannual that was acquired by Vicein 2016 and recently launched a very exciting website (…



CITY PLANNING POETICS 4: URBAN MEMORY

Simone White and Randall Mason
Nov 13, 2017 at -

IMONE WHITE is the author of Dear Angel of Death (coming later this year from Ugly Duckling Presse), Of Being Dispersed, and House of Envy of All the World, the poetry chapbook, Unrest,…



THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SPECULATIVE FICTION

hosted by: Carmen Machado
Nov 13, 2017 at -

In contemporary literature, "realism" is often used as shorthand for "literary." The implication is that serious writing happens only within a faithful representation of reality. But this is a strictly modern idea—…



A CONVERSATION WITH DAVID DALEY

hosted by: Lorene Cary
Nov 12, 2017 at -

DAVID DALEY is the author of the national best-seller Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count (Norton). He is the former editor-in-chief of Salon, a senior fellow at FairVote, and a digital…



A LUNCH TALK WITH BEN YAGODA

hosted by: Dick Polman
Nov 6, 2017 at -

Now more than ever, journalists are thinking about the importance of accuracy and credibility of reporting. Join us for a lunch talk with BEN YAGODA, journalist, film critic, and author of a dozen books…



A CONVERSATION WITH ALEC SOKOLOW

hosted by: Kathy DeMarco Van Cleve
Nov 4, 2017 at -

The Hartman Family Screenwriting Series allows us to host an annual event with a successful professional screenwriter so that aspiring moviemakers in the Writers House community can get a taste of the writers' room.…



CARMEN MACHADO AND JENNY ZHANG

Cheryl J. Family Fiction reading
Oct 31, 2017 at -

CARMEN MARIA MACHADO's debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2017. She is a fiction writer, critic, and essayist whose work has appeared or is…



A POETRY READING BY CLARK COOLIDGE

introduced by: Ron Silliman
Oct 26, 2017 at -

Experimental poet and jazz musician CLARK COOLIDGE has written more than forty books, including Sound as Thought, which was chosen for the New American Poetry Series, and the recent 88…



THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF LOU REED

A conversation with Anthony DeCurtis
Oct 19, 2017 at -

Join us for a discussion with Rolling Stone editor and Penn faculty member Anthony DeCurtis about the life and music of Lou Reed. In his new book Lou Reed: A Life, DeCurtis, who knew Reed and…