2012 Penn Lightbulb Café Joins Penn Science Café Series
*** NEW LOCATION: Penn Bookstore Cafe, second floor****
April 17 at 6 p.m.: Penn Lightbulb Café to shed light on the life of Ernest Hemingway through Paul Hendrickson's talk about his latest book, Hemingway's Boat.
Paul Hendrickson's latest book, Hemingway's Boat, tells the tale of Ernest Hemingway's life through the story of the author's beloved fishing boat, Pilar. Hendrickson, a former Washington Post prize-winning feature writer, is a lecturer in Penn's English department. He will talk about researching Hemingway's Boat and how he adapted the conventions of literary biography to write about Hemingway.
The book, now in its seventh printing, was a New York Times and national best seller, reached No. 3 on the London best-seller list in the UK edition, is being translated into Russian and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Hendrickson, who came to Penn in 1997, teaches popular workshops on nonfiction writing. He is the author of Seminary; Looking for the Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War, a finalist for the National Book Award; and Sons of Mississippi, a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Seating is limited. Reservations are encouraged by contacting Gina Bryant at 215-898-8721.
March 13: The Life, Death and Rebirth of the Mississippi Delta
Doug Jerolmack, Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Science
6 p.m., Mar. 13, 2011
Drinker's West, 39th and Chestnut Streets
The Gulf Oil Spill and Hurricane Katrina are just the latest blows to a delta that has been dying a slow death from decades of mismanagement and neglect. In this talk Jerolmack will discuss the origins of the Mississippi Delta, use simple scientific principles to illustrate the causes and consequences of modern wetland loss in coastal Louisiana and introduce possible scientific solutions for the long-term sustainability of the Delta. He will also discuss what recent catastrophic flooding in the Delta has taught us about how rivers build land into the ocean.
The Café events are free and open to the public, but RSVPs are encouraged. For more information or directions, contact Gina Bryan at 215-898-8721 or email bryangm@pobox.upenn.edu.
Menu items are available for purchase.
Feb. 28 Penn Lightbulb Café to Shed Light on Children Asking for Help in the Classroom
On Tuesday, Feb. 28, Jessica McCrory Calarco, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology in Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences will discuss her research at the Penn Lightbulb Café. The free lecture series takes discussions about the arts, humanities and social sciences out of the classroom for a night on the town.
Starting at 6 p.m. at Drinker’s West, 39th and Chestnut, Calarco will present her research on children’s help seeking behavior in school. Her study “’I Need Help!’ Social Class and Children’s Help-Seeking in Elementary School” shows that middle-class children ask their teachers for help more often and more assertively than working-class children and, in doing so, receive more support and assistance from teachers
Calarco will also discuss how these children learn whether and how to ask for help at school, in part, through the training that they receive from their parents at home.
The Café will take place in the mezzanine of Drinkers. A pub menu and an array of beer, wine and spirits will be available for purchase.
Previous Lightbulb Cafes have featured Penn religious studies professor Anthea Butler interpreting politicians' religious rhetoric, sociology professor David Gibson presenting a behind-the-scenes look at the Cuban missile crisis talks and history of art professor Michael Meister discussing the difficulties cultural-monuments researchers encounter in war-torn Pakistan.
Seating is limited. Reservations are encouraged by contacting Gina Bryant at 215-898-8721.
A New Penn Café and a New Location
The 2012 Penn Science Café, the free lecture series that for more than five years has taken science out of the lab for a night on the town, now has a sister series, the Penn Lightbulb Café.
This year we have added a second series, the Penn Lightbulb Café, featuring professors from the social sciences, humanities and the arts.
Contact: Gina Bryan at bryangm@pobox.upenn.edu or 215-898-8721.
