Update

November AT PENN

At the Morris Arboretum: a threadleaf Japanese maple tree (Acer palmatum ‘Dissectum’).

Readings/Signings

28  Letters from Young Activists: Today’s Rebels Speak Out; Walidah Imarisha, poet; Dan Berger, Annenberg Ph.D. student; Kenyon Farrow, writer; Kat Aaron, WBAI; Tiffany King, activist/writer; 5:30 p.m.; Arts Café, Kelly Writers House (Writers House).

      Talking Back: To Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels; Andrea Mitchell, NBC News; 7 p.m.; Penn Bookstore (Bookstore).

30 Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, Anything Goes!; open-mic night; 8 p.m.; Arts Café, Kelly Writers House (Kelly Writers House).

Talks

30  Contesting Elections and Democracy: Examples from Ethiopia, Liberia, Tanzania/Zanibar and the Arab World;roundtable discussion with various faculty; 1:30 p.m.; rm. 314, Houston Hall (African Studies Center; Middle East Center).

       Fra Girolamo Savanarola and His Women Followers; Tamar Herzig,Hebrew University; 5 p.m.; Cherpack Lounge, Williams Hall (Center for Italian Studies).

Deadlines: The deadline for the next Update is November 29, for the December 6 issue. The deadline for the January AT PENN calendar is  December 6. For information see www.upenn.edu/almanac/calendar/caldead-real.html.