Faculty Senate of the University of Pennsylvania

Teach-In event TODAY, open to the public!

"Post-Carbon Futures in a Fact-Challenged Present"
5:00-6:30pm
Williams Hall, Room 623
255 S. 36th St.

As we think about the present and future of the carbon economy, this roundtable brings together experts on energy transitions past and present as well as energy and health policy at the state and local level. The roundtable features Brian Black (Distinguished Professor, History and Environmental Studies, Penn State Altoona, author of Petrolia), Christine Knapp (Director, City of Philadelphia Office of Sustainability), Pouné Saberi, Physicians for Social Responsibility), and John Quigley (Director, Center for Environment, Energy, and Economy, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology). The event will be moderated by PPEH Faculty director Bethany Wiggin, and followed by a free reception also in Williams Hall sponsored by our friends at Wolf Humanities Center at Penn.

Presented by Penn Program in Environmental Humanities. Co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost, Faculty Senate, Wolf Humanities Center, and Penn Sustainability.

Post-Carbon Futures in a Fact-Challenged Present | Wolf Humanities Center Domestic American politics have long played a role in climate negotiations, including in the current federal administration’s announced plan to withdraw from the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. In contrast to the guarded optimism of climate change activists after COP21 in Paris, the emotional climat...

Teach-In event today, 12-3pm, at four locations around campus!

Data Refuge Stories
A Public Engagement Project of the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities

Please visit a story collector in one of several campus locations:
-Van Pelt Library (Lee Lounge, First Floor West)
-David Rittenhouse Labs (Lobby, 33rd Street Entrance)
-Nursing School Fagin Hall (Lobby)
-Annenberg School of Communication (ASC Plaza)

For the Teach-In, Data Refuge Stories teams will conduct mapping and storytelling actions, across campus staged at central locations of interdisciplinary knowledge production and circulation. At each Data Refuge Stories site, teams comprised of PPEH graduate/undergraduate fellows, will gather stories about data, research, and evidence-based practice, all of which will be entered into the Data Refuge storybank. The teams will be situated at tables placed within central locations across campus where faculty, staff, and students produce and/or consume varieties of data, including the Van Pelt Library, Medical School, Meyerson Hall, McNeil Building, and David Rittenhouse Labs. The end goal is to map Data Refuge Stories across this campus and beyond, to offer insight into the ways research lives through stories, sites, and engaged practices of scholars, and to better advocate for evidence-based inquiry and open data.

Data Refuge launched November 2016 in Philadelphia to draw attention to how climate denial endangers federal environmental data. Spearheaded by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities (PPEH) and Penn Libraries, along with the help of thousands of civic partners and volunteers, the project rapidly spread to over fifty cities and towns across the country. Now, as a part of a public engagement project funded by the National Geographic Foundation, Data Refuge is building a storybank to document how data lives in the world ' and how it connects people, places, and non-human species.

(This event was rescheduled from its original date of March 21, due to snowy weather.)

Data Refuge Storytellers The Penn Program in the Environmental Humanities (PPEH) fosters interdisciplinary environmental collaboration and scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, and beyond.

Live now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1bRCs1APcE

At 11:00am today (Friday), watch the live stream of "Lies, Pixels, and Video Fakes" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1bRCs1APcE

Due to yesterday's snow day, Wednesday's events will be rescheduled for the rest of the semester:

Fri., 3/23:

11:00am-12:00pm - "Lies, Pixels, Video Fakes" - Class of 55 Conference Room, Van Pelt Library

5:30-8:45pm - "Young Frankenstein" free screening, International House Philly

Wed., 4/4:

"Post-Carbon Futures" - time/location TBD

Wed., 4/18:

1:00-2:30pm - "Developing a Culture of Health" - Location TBD

Day 4 of official events and activities for the Penn Teach-In 2018! See the full schedule and descriptions here: http://www.upenn.edu/teachin/

Check out the live stream for Wednesday's Ted-style talk and discussion on “fake news” and doctored images/videos featuring Norm Badler at 11:00am-12:00pm below:

Norm Badler - Lies, Pixels, and Video Fakes Norman I. Badler is the Rachleff Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Day 3 of official events and activities for the Penn Teach-In 2018! See the full schedule and descriptions here: http://crwd.fr/2p3NYbs

Check-out the live stream for today's Engineering Panels that will cover the future of engineering human health and the future of AI and society.

Tuesday, 10:30am-12:15pm, Engineering panels (1030-1115 and 1130-1215):

The Future of Technology 10:30am - 11:15am The Future of Technology: Engineering Human Health 11:30am - 12:15pm The Future of Technology: Artificial Intelligence and Society - Storie...

Day 2 of official events and activities for the Penn Teach-In 2018! See the full schedule and descriptions here: http://crwd.fr/2FGe3YB

Check-out the live stream for today's Penn's Knowledge Teach-In 2018 opening panel at 5pm - 6:30pm below:

University Teach-in 3/19/18

First day of events and activities for the Penn Teach-In 2018 below. To learn more about all these events, visit: http://crwd.fr/2FrAv8x