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The Revolutionary Age: France, Haiti, and America
Part of America 250 at Penn programming and convened by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Kislak Center, this conference will focus on the revolutionary upheavals that shook metropolitan France and the French colonies and populations in North America during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This event will be held in conjunction with the exhibit “The Time to Right all Wrongs: France, Haiti, and Philadelphia in A Revolutionary Age.” Free and open to the public.
Ends April 11, 2026Center on Digital Culture and Society 2026 Symposium
This symposium, organized by the Center on Digital Culture and Society, brings together scholars to foster interdisciplinary dialogue on how affects and emotions are produced, mediated, and circulated. The symposium will focus on affect as both a generative force driving social movements, everyday activism, and social justice work, and as a mechanism that can be leveraged to amplify misinformation, disinformation, and digital tribalism in the face of rising threats to democracy. Free and open to the public. Register to attend.
Ends April 10, 2026How AI is Changing the Future of Cities
This Penn AI Month program will feature presentations by the following Penn faculty: Elizabeth Delmelle (How AI is Changing How We Measure and See Cities); Susan Wachter (AI and the Future of Housing); Erick Guerra (AI and the Future of Urban Mobility); Xiaojiang Li (How AI is Improving How We Respond to Climate Change); and John Landis (In the Age of AI, Will We Still Need Planners?). Free and open to the public. Register to attend.
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