Open expression is a hard promise: it is both a firm commitment and an extraordinarily difficult one. The mission of a great university requires that we question our assumptions and try to look through the eyes of others. Only through such dialogue can we begin to wrestle with the most challenging issues of our times.
Announcing Living the Hard Promise: A Dialogue Series
The School of Arts and Sciences has announced the launch of a new initiative to inform understanding and encourage respectful dialogue across the Penn community on today’s challenging issues.
April 28: Challenges to Higher Education: Faculty Perspectives on Our Shifting Landscape
A discussion featuring Daniel Hopkins, Julie and Martin Franklin Presidential Professor of Political Science; Douglas Jerolmack, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor of Earth and Environmental Science and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics; and Tukufu Zuberi, Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations and Professor of Sociology. Moderated by Jeffrey Kallberg, Interim Dean and William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Music History.
60-Second Lectures: Living the Hard Promise
In April, Penn Arts & Sciences’ long-running 60-Second Lectures presented a special series of Living the Hard Promise themed lectures. See our faculty talks on “Asian America and the Hard Promise,” “Why Listening Matters,” and “The Liberating Arts.”
Programs
Conversations
Symposiums
These programs will feature faculty and others with expertise in areas that speak to the complexity of current events.
