In 2025, Penn students are having healthier sex and relationships. Talk about how your communication & consent skills have grown since Consent Circles in August! Join PVP for Conversations about Consent on Friday, January 24th from 1:30-3:00pm in Amado Recital Hall. Lunch is provided!
Houston Hall is excited to invite you to our weekly celebration and tabling fair called, “Wake-Up Wednesday (WUW Fairs)". At WUW Fair each Wednesday from 11am to 1pm you can discover various Penn departments, programs and student organizations! Enjoy music, snacks and social time with members of the Penn community.
Join us in person on Friday, January 31st for the 2025 Spring Career + Internship Fair! This university-wide career fair covers a range of industries. Enhance your search for full-time postgraduate positions and/or summer internships by taking the opportunity to connect with a variety of employers.
Opportunities for students in the Weitzman School of Design and students interested in design fields. Meet representatives from firms and organizations looking to connect with Design students, make their work known and recruit for available full-time, part-time, and internship opportunities. We expect over 70 firms at the in-person fair this year!
The in-person STEM Career Fair is a great opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students (Master's & PhD students), alumni, and postdocs to engage with employers, apply for positions, and make substantial progress in your internship and job search and career exploration. There are many benefits that students and postdocs at any stage of their academic program and research can gain from participating in this event. For those seeking internships and jobs, organizations participating will have open opportunities they are hoping to fill. This career fair also provides a unique opportunity to explore a wide range of careers, network with recruiters and Penn alumni in different career fields, learn about future opportunities, and begin the process of finding a career path that is the best match for your experience, skills, and interests.
Penn offers MANY programs to help students connect with and fund summer internship and research experiences. Plan to attend this fair to talk with organizations coordinating, hosting or funding these opportunities. This fair is organized by Penn Career Services and the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CURF).
Join the Penn Women’s Center to explore evolving gender equity laws, learn how civic engagement extends beyond voting, and explore tangible strategies to advocate for gender equity at the local, state, and national levels. Snacks and hot drinks will be provided!
Register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8yqQqCkGLY2PATQ75fWV_idbYa2WOMAu2PD44EARFFrUsFA/viewform
In 2025, Penn students are having healthier sex and relationships. Talk about how your communication & consent skills have grown since Consent Circles in August! Join PVP for Conversations about Consent on Friday, January 24th from 1:30-3:00pm in Amado Recital Hall. Lunch is provided!
Take a quick study break, meet new people, and try our snacks and tea!!
Lights up on Kit, a struggling – not starving, but hungry – artist trying to make it big in Hollywood with their original script, "Titanic II: Here We Go Again!" Their big break comes when an all-powerful executive agrees to produce their film – on one condition: that the executive’s child, a washed up, stuck-up child actor named Baby Kingsley, star in the leading role. When Baby Kingsley throws a tantrum, Kit’s best friend Blaire gets jealous, and the executive steals creative control, chaos ensues at a 5-6-7-8. Will this movie float to the top or sink to the bottom? Can celebrities drink any kind of baby’s blood to stay young forever? How many times can the fourth wall be broken before it’s unsalvageable? Find out in Mask and Wig’s 136th Annual Production: Once Upon a Crime in Hollywood!
Content Warning: This content contains loud sounds, flashing lights, and profanity that may not be suitable for all audiences. Viewer discretion is advised.
We are excited to support student programming this Spring! Join us to review the LGBT Center’s funding guidelines and upcoming events. This is also an opportunity to get support from Lambda Alliance and Lambda Grads with your group’s calendar, funding requests, space reservations, and University policies.
Please note that the Center is requiring all LGBT Center affiliated student group leaders to attend Fall & Spring Leaders Retreat, going forward, if you would like access to LGBT Center funding. At least one member of your board must be in attendance. If no one from your board can attend, please reach out to Associate Director Kristal Castro (kriscas8@upenn.edu) ASAP.
Spring SAC Activities Fair: 12noon to 3pm each day!
Lights up on Kit, a struggling – not starving, but hungry – artist trying to make it big in Hollywood with their original script, "Titanic II: Here We Go Again!" Their big break comes when an all-powerful executive agrees to produce their film – on one condition: that the executive’s child, a washed up, stuck-up child actor named Baby Kingsley, star in the leading role. When Baby Kingsley throws a tantrum, Kit’s best friend Blaire gets jealous, and the executive steals creative control, chaos ensues at a 5-6-7-8. Will this movie float to the top or sink to the bottom? Can celebrities drink any kind of baby’s blood to stay young forever? How many times can the fourth wall be broken before it’s unsalvageable? Find out in Mask and Wig’s 136th Annual Production: Once Upon a Crime in Hollywood!
Content Warning: This content contains loud sounds, flashing lights, and profanity that may not be suitable for all audiences. Viewer discretion is advised.
Taught by instructors Jake and Dasha, join us for a warm up/crash course in Argentine Tango! All Penn students and affiliates are welcome.
Taught by instructors Jake and Dasha, join us for a warm up/crash course in Argentine Tango! All Penn students and affiliates are welcome.
Join us for our first Family Dinner of the semester! Family dinners are a monthly tradition at the LGBT Center. Stop by the LGBT Center for a delicious free meal, get a chance to connect with lots of different folks, and meet Center staff!
The LGBT Center is committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive space. No matter how you identify, you are welcome to be a member of the LGBT Center family! And what does this family do? We eat together. Join us!
Join us for a reading by members of Suppose an Eyes, a poetry workshop s ponsored by the Kelly Writers House. The workshop takes its name from a "portrait" in Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons. Suppose An Eyes has two main goals: to provide a supportive place for poets to share and improve their writing and to organize readings where poets can present their work to the public. The group was founded in 1999 and is one of the longest running poetry workshops in the Philly area. The group has a diverse membership with poets of all ages and from a variety of backgrounds.
Taught by instructors Jake and Dasha, join us for a warm up/crash course in Argentine Tango! All Penn students and affiliates are welcome.
Houston Hall is excited to invite you to our weekly celebration and tabling fair called, “Wake-Up Wednesday (WUW Fairs)". At WUW Fair each Wednesday from 11am to 1pm you can discover various Penn departments, programs and student organizations! Enjoy music, snacks and social time with members of the Penn community.
Renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner, Richard L. Fisher Professor of English Emerita at Penn, will read from her latest book, The Beauty of Choice, then sit down with Heather Love, Penn Professor of English, to discuss the ways in which taste, beauty, and pleasure intersect in defense of women’s freedom. In The Beauty of Choice, Steiner offers a dazzling new account of aesthetics grounded in female agency. Through a series of linked meditations on canonical and contemporary literature and art, she casts women’s taste as the engine of liberal values. Steiner reframes long-standing questions surrounding desire, art, sexual assault, and beauty in light of #MeToo. Beginning with an opera she wrote based on Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” she presents women’s sexual choices as fundamentally aesthetic in nature — expressions of their taste — and artworks as stagings of choice in courtship, coquetry, consent, marriage, and liberation. A merger of art criticism, evolutionary theory, political history, and aesthetics, this book paints the struggle between female autonomy and patriarchal violence and extremism as the essence of art.
Wendy Steiner is the Richard L. Fisher Professor Emerita of English at the University of Pennsylvania, past Chair of the Penn English Department, and Founding Director of the Penn Humanities Forum (now, the Wolf Humanities Center). Her most recent books are The Beauty of Choice: On Women, Art, and Freedom (2024); The Real RealThing: The Model in the Mirror of Art (2010); Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art (2001); and The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism (listed in the “NY Times 100 Best Books of 1996”). Steiner’s cultural criticism has appeared widely, and she is a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, NEH, ACLS, and Royal Society of Canada. Steiner’s six opera libretti have been composed by Paul Richards, Frances White, and Mark Rimple. The latest, using both her text and her photography, premiered in New York in 2024, Upon Reflection: An Opera in Ten Images, starring soprano Sherezade Panthaki and the musicians of Parthenia. Steiner has presented multimedia installations in the 2019 and 2022 Venice Biennales.
Heather Love, a Professor in Penn’s English Department, is the author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard University Press) and Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory (University of Chicago Press). She is the editor of a special issue of GLQ on Gayle Rubin (“Rethinking Sex”) and the co-editor (with Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus) of a special issue of Representations ("Description Across Disciplines"). In 2023, she published Literary Studies and Human Flourishing, co-edited with James F. English (Oxford University Press). Love has written on topics including comparative social stigma, compulsory happiness, transgender fiction, spinster aesthetics, and reading methods in literary studies. She is currently working on a new project ("To Be Real,”) concerning the uses of the personal in queer writing.
IFC Bid Day Celebration.
Info session for the IGC Council.
Taught by instructors Jake and Dasha, join us for a warm up/crash course in Argentine Tango! All Penn students and affiliates are welcome.
Join us for an essential conversation bringing together students, alumni, and campus partners to explore the evolving landscape of social justice and racial equity within university spaces. Together, we’ll reflect on progress, challenges, and opportunities for creating inclusive and transformative campuses in the years to come.
Taught by instructors Jake and Dasha, join us for a warm up/crash course in Argentine Tango! All Penn students and affiliates are welcome.
Join us in person on Friday, January 31st for the 2025 Spring Career + Internship Fair! This university-wide career fair covers a range of industries. Enhance your search for full-time postgraduate positions and/or summer internships by taking the opportunity to connect with a variety of employers.
Conversation between ballroom historian and femme queen performance icon, Niambi “Prodigy” Stanley, and Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Trans Studies Postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Eva Pensis, will explore how the movement vocabularies of vogue have shapeshifted over the years, critically addressing the state of vogue performance, lineages of Black trans/queer life, and ballroom culture today. A reception will follow.
Lights up on Kit, a struggling – not starving, but hungry – artist trying to make it big in Hollywood with their original script, "Titanic II: Here We Go Again!" Their big break comes when an all-powerful executive agrees to produce their film – on one condition: that the executive’s child, a washed up, stuck-up child actor named Baby Kingsley, star in the leading role. When Baby Kingsley throws a tantrum, Kit’s best friend Blaire gets jealous, and the executive steals creative control, chaos ensues at a 5-6-7-8. Will this movie float to the top or sink to the bottom? Can celebrities drink any kind of baby’s blood to stay young forever? How many times can the fourth wall be broken before it’s unsalvageable? Find out in Mask and Wig’s 136th Annual Production: Once Upon a Crime in Hollywood!
Content Warning: This content contains loud sounds, flashing lights, and profanity that may not be suitable for all audiences. Viewer discretion is advised.
Taught by instructors Jake and Dasha, join us for a warm up/crash course in Argentine Tango! All Penn students and affiliates are welcome.
Taught by instructors Jake and Dasha, join us for a warm up/crash course in Argentine Tango! All Penn students and affiliates are welcome.
Join us for a meeting of the Writers House Planning Committee (also known as "the Hub") — the core group of engaged students, staff, faculty, and volunteers who help make things happen at Writers House. Anyone is welcome to become a Hub member by participating in Hub activities and helping out. Members of the Hub plan programs, share ideas, and discuss upcoming projects.
Monthly house manager meeting
Houston Hall is excited to invite you to our weekly celebration and tabling fair called, “Wake-Up Wednesday (WUW Fairs)". At WUW Fair each Wednesday from 11am to 1pm you can discover various Penn departments, programs and student organizations! Enjoy music, snacks and social time with members of the Penn community.
PAACH is continuing the Explore. Reflect. Become. Lunch Series for spring 2025! Come join us for a catered lunch and learn from our exciting group of speakers.
Event Information:
-Date/Time: Wednesday, February 5 at 12pm
-Location: ARCH Room 108 (3601 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104)
-Registration: https://bit.ly/PAACHERBLUNCHSERIES
The Explore. Reflect. Become Lunch Series focuses on the deep reflection of our personal experiences and the becoming of ourselves. We will invite individuals from Penn and the Philadelphia community to share their intimate histories and backgrounds and how they've explored, reflected, and become the person that they are.
About the Speaker:
Dr. DaCarla M. Albright is a Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Wellness at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Clinically, Dr. Albright has been in practice for nearly 25 years as an Obstetrician/Gynecologist, emphasizing wellness and prevention in women’s health care. Her academic interests are strongly focused on medical education and physician wellness. After completing a dual degree in Biology and French, and a master’s degree in French at Washington University in St. Louis, Dr. Albright received her medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School. She then completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore. In her early career, she practiced at Jamaica Hospital in Queens, New York, transitioning to private practice at Lenox Hill Hospital until her relocation to Philadelphia. Dr. Albright is a member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics. She is a former Associate Ob/Gyn Clerkship Director and Assistant Dean for Wellness. Dr. Albright has been honored with a Perelman School of Medicine Penn Pearls Teaching Award, a Gold Humanism Honor Society Faculty Induction, and an Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society faculty induction. In 2021, Dr. Albright was inducted as a Fellow in the College of Physicians in Philadelphia. In her current role as the Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Wellness, Dr. Albright has broadened her impact on undergraduate medical education, overseeing medical student careers from orientation through graduation, allowing her to combine her interests in medical education and student wellbeing.
Lunch talk by Dr. DaCarla Albright, addressing women’s health and sharing her career journey as a Black woman in medicine. Co-hosted by PAACH, PWC and Makuu.
Monthly president meeting
Second workshop in our J.E.D.I Series
Opportunities for students in the Weitzman School of Design and students interested in design fields. Meet representatives from firms and organizations looking to connect with Design students, make their work known and recruit for available full-time, part-time, and internship opportunities. We expect over 70 firms at the in-person fair this year!
Social Chair focused Officer Series
Calling all Treasurers, Business Managers, and Folks Who Handle the Funds! Please join us for a Treasurer Training featuring the Financial Services team from the Office of Student Affairs.
This is mandatory for new PAC Treasurers/Business Managers, but returning board members, Independent group board members, and folks who want to learn are all welcome!
The One Acts Festival is an annual collaboration across the seven groups in the Theatre Arts Council, composed of five 5 student-written, directed, and produced plays. Come laugh, come cry, and come for bamboozlement! It's Just One Acts! One Acts is Joy!
Content warning for a mention of suicide.
Pan-Asian Dance Troupe, Penn’s premier Asian fusion dance group, presents our 24th annual show: Stars Aligned. Join us on 2/7 and 2/8 at 7 PM as we journey through the serene and radiant wonders of the grand universe. Let the stars guide you through our story.
Select pieces will be using fog machines and/or strobe lights. These may be disruptive to those sensitive to synthetic fog or light. Pieces with these effects will be marked in the program.
Lights up on Kit, a struggling – not starving, but hungry – artist trying to make it big in Hollywood with their original script, "Titanic II: Here We Go Again!" Their big break comes when an all-powerful executive agrees to produce their film – on one condition: that the executive’s child, a washed up, stuck-up child actor named Baby Kingsley, star in the leading role. When Baby Kingsley throws a tantrum, Kit’s best friend Blaire gets jealous, and the executive steals creative control, chaos ensues at a 5-6-7-8. Will this movie float to the top or sink to the bottom? Can celebrities drink any kind of baby’s blood to stay young forever? How many times can the fourth wall be broken before it’s unsalvageable? Find out in Mask and Wig’s 136th Annual Production: Once Upon a Crime in Hollywood!
Content Warning: This content contains loud sounds, flashing lights, and profanity that may not be suitable for all audiences. Viewer discretion is advised.
The One Acts Festival is an annual collaboration across the seven groups in the Theatre Arts Council, composed of five 5 student-written, directed, and produced plays. Come laugh, come cry, and come for bamboozlement! It's Just One Acts! One Acts is Joy!
Content warning for a mention of suicide.
The One Acts Festival is an annual collaboration across the seven groups in the Theatre Arts Council, composed of five 5 student-written, directed, and produced plays. Come laugh, come cry, and come for bamboozlement! It's Just One Acts! One Acts is Joy!
Content warning for a mention of suicide.
Pan-Asian Dance Troupe, Penn’s premier Asian fusion dance group, presents our 24th annual show: Stars Aligned. Join us on 2/7 and 2/8 at 7 PM as we journey through the serene and radiant wonders of the grand universe. Let the stars guide you through our story.
Select pieces will be using fog machines and/or strobe lights. These may be disruptive to those sensitive to synthetic fog or light. Pieces with these effects will be marked in the program.
Lights up on Kit, a struggling – not starving, but hungry – artist trying to make it big in Hollywood with their original script, "Titanic II: Here We Go Again!" Their big break comes when an all-powerful executive agrees to produce their film – on one condition: that the executive’s child, a washed up, stuck-up child actor named Baby Kingsley, star in the leading role. When Baby Kingsley throws a tantrum, Kit’s best friend Blaire gets jealous, and the executive steals creative control, chaos ensues at a 5-6-7-8. Will this movie float to the top or sink to the bottom? Can celebrities drink any kind of baby’s blood to stay young forever? How many times can the fourth wall be broken before it’s unsalvageable? Find out in Mask and Wig’s 136th Annual Production: Once Upon a Crime in Hollywood!
Content Warning: This content contains loud sounds, flashing lights, and profanity that may not be suitable for all audiences. Viewer discretion is advised.
Join your friends in the Houston Hall Game Room for a Super Bowl Watch Party! Cheer on your team, watch the commercials and enjoy some tasty theme snacks!
Houston Hall is excited to invite you to our weekly celebration and tabling fair called, “Wake-Up Wednesday (WUW Fairs)". At WUW Fair each Wednesday from 11am to 1pm you can discover various Penn departments, programs and student organizations! Enjoy music, snacks and social time with members of the Penn community.
Meet representatives from firms and organizations virtually via Handshake looking to connect with Design students, make their work known and recruit for available full-time, part-time, and internship opportunities. We expect 60+ firms at the in-person fair this year! You must register for the virtual event before signing up to meet with employers.
The in-person STEM Career Fair is a great opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students (Master's & PhD students), alumni, and postdocs to engage with employers, apply for positions, and make substantial progress in your internship and job search and career exploration. There are many benefits that students and postdocs at any stage of their academic program and research can gain from participating in this event. For those seeking internships and jobs, organizations participating will have open opportunities they are hoping to fill. This career fair also provides a unique opportunity to explore a wide range of careers, network with recruiters and Penn alumni in different career fields, learn about future opportunities, and begin the process of finding a career path that is the best match for your experience, skills, and interests.