Events
Events
March 30 - April 28, 2020
Monday, March 30
Liberal Arts undergraduates are invited to join the Career Enrichment Network staff and Liberal Arts alumni for a day-long visit to Washington, DC, on...
Let's Talk is an intermediate English speaking group for J-1 Visiting Scholars. Each weekly session features a lesson on vocabulary, pronunciation, and...
An informal weekly gathering for WGSS faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, and staff to come together to enjoy a sweet, coffee, tea, and...
Title: Marrying Deontology and Utilitarianism with Virtue Ethics: Balancing Affective with Cognitive Processing Predicts Increased Prosociality and Reduced...
In Alice McDermott’s National Book Award-winning novel Charming Billy (1998), second-generation Irish American cousins living in Queens, New York, inherit...
All Liberal Arts majors are invited to participate in this Career Conversations series. This week will feature a variety of professionals with careers in...
Tuesday, March 31
Brad Vivian is a Faculty Scholar Residence at the Humanities Institute this semester. He will be giving a presentation based on the book project the the...
We are postponing this event in light of COVID-19. We hope to reschedule in the fall and will share additional information as it becomes available. The...
All Liberal Arts majors are invited to participate in this Career Conversations series. This week will feature a variety of professionals with careers in...
Are you an international student who needs help designing a slide presentation? THIS WORKSHOP WILL HELP YOU: Gain research-based insights into designing...
Wednesday, April 1
German Day is an annual community outreach event that the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures hosts. Between 450 and 500 high school...
Come to Bate-Papo, an informal conversation group for speakers of Portuguese! All are welcome, whether you are just starting out, have been studying it for...
All Liberal Arts majors are invited to participate in this Career Conversations series. This week will feature a variety of professionals with careers in...
Thursday, April 2
The world of work as we know it is in the midst of a huge transformation. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that more than 40% of the U.S. workforce...
Interested in a career in publishing or editing? Please join alumnae Judy Fletcher and Heather Krehling to learn more about the industry! Lunch is...
All Liberal Arts majors are invited to participate in this Career Conversations series. This week will feature a variety of professionals with careers in...
This event has been canceled and will be rescheduled during the academic year 2020-21 if possible. "Infelicity and Unfalsifiability: Literary Studies,...
Eubanks is the author of the award-winning book Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor (St. Martin’s Press, 2018)....
German club is for students of all majors and minors who want to learn more about the German language, culture, history, etc. We have students who are fluent...
Friday, April 3
Do you want to improve your English pronunciation? WE WILL HELP YOU: Learn the importance of thought groups, focus words, and pausing Understand why...
Monday, April 6
Let's Talk is an intermediate English speaking group for J-1 Visiting Scholars. Each weekly session features a lesson on vocabulary, pronunciation, and...
An informal weekly gathering for WGSS faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, and staff to come together to enjoy a sweet, coffee, tea, and...
Tuesday, April 7
Are you an international student looking for help to prepare for an upcoming academic presentation? THIS WORKSHOP WILL HELP YOU: Develop strategies to...
Wednesday, April 8
Join us for a lecture and book signing by Dr. Nicole Fleetwood, Professor of American Studies and Art History at Rutgers University, on "Marking Time: Art in...
Thursday, April 9
Are you having trouble planning your data commentary? THIS WORKSHOP WILL HELP YOU: Learn useful language for writing data commentaries relating to...
The Center for Security Research and Education will host Alice Hill, author of Building a Resilient Tomorrow: How to Prepare for the Coming Climate...
Walter Kirn is the author of eight books and an e-book. His most recent is Blood Will Out, a memoir of his friendship with the con artist and murderer, Clark...
Friday, April 10
Do you want to improve your English pronunciation? WE WILL HELP YOU: Understand how and why intonation—the musical ‘flow’ of English—is as important as...
Come celebrate the achievements of students, faculty, and staff at the annual SIP awards ceremony.
Monday, April 13
An informal weekly gathering for WGSS faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, and staff to come together to enjoy a sweet, coffee, tea, and...
Thomas Chen (Lehigh University), "Made in Censorship"
Wednesday, April 15
By invitation only
Thursday, April 16
We are postponing this event in light of COVID-19. We hope to reschedule in the fall and will share additional information as it becomes...
German club is for students of all majors and minors who want to learn more about the German language, culture, history, etc. We have students who are fluent...
Alice McDermott’s eighth novel, The Ninth Hour (2017), appeared on numerous “best books of the year” lists, and her seventh novel, Someone (2013) was a New...
Friday, April 17
The CAS Undergraduate Showcase will be held on April 17th as an online event. Please visit cas.la.psu.edu for more details.
Monday, April 20
An informal weekly gathering for WGSS faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, and staff to come together to enjoy a sweet, coffee, tea, and...
Aimee Kwon (Duke Uninversity), on TBA
Jennifer Lawless (UVA)
Title: Hacking Virtue: How Moral Emotions Build Self-Control from the Bottom Up Abstract: The ability to delay gratification, to value the future more than...
Wednesday, April 22
The Sara Woods Outstanding Graduate Student Award recognizes outstanding graduate students who have achieved superior academic records or who manifest...
Come to Bate-Papo, an informal conversation group for speakers of Portuguese! All are welcome, whether you are just starting out, have been studying it for...
Friday, April 24
CAS Awards Ceremony
Monday, April 27
An informal weekly gathering for WGSS faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, and staff to come together to enjoy a sweet, coffee, tea, and...