Communication Email: December 16, 2008
December 16, 2008
Hey SAS students,
I hope you are all doing well during these last weeks. Hang in there!
Carla
SAS Weekly:
SAVE THE DATE!
Jan 15: Biggest Event of the Semester - SAS Cafe Live!!
- What: SAS Cafe Live! - SASgov’s biggest event yet!
- Where: World Cafe Live (3025 Walnut St.)
- When: Thursday, January 15, 2009, 5-8 (open bar 5-7)
- Who: Free for all SAS grad students with SAS Grad ID AND Photo ID; Non-SAS grad students pay $10
- Why: To get the semester started right!!
1. Upcoming Events
2. Penn’s Farmer’s Market Survey
3. Landlord Survey
5. South Street Bridge Closure
1. * Ski Trip Open to all Graduate and Professional Students
Details: The Wharton School invites you to come and join the festivities! The package includes lodging at the Four Seasons (4 per room), ski passes for Whistler Blackcomb, Whistler discount card and chartered bus transfer from Vancouver to and from the mountain. We also have a limited number of pre-booked seats on flights that are still available for an additional charge ($600). The snow has already started falling, so rally your friends, fire up your high-altitude training, and we’ll see you on the slopes! To sign up, please visit the website: http://trips.skigroup.net/wharton.
* Wine Dinner at Lacroix Rittenhouse: Part II
Location: Rittenhouse Hotel
Address: 210 West Rittenhouse Square
Date: January 12, 2009
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Cost: SOLD OUT!
(estimated value of $140; includes 3-course meal paired with 3 glasses of wine from Southwestern France)
Must be 21+ with valid Penn grad card and state ID.
Time: 6-7:30PM
Location: Tinto Restaurant
Address: 114 South 20th Street
Cost: $5 cover (includes red and white sangrias)
Must be 21+ with valid Penn grad card and state ID.
Time: 4:30-6PM
Address: 3945 Chestnut Street (entrance on 40th St.)
Cost: $5 cover (2 happy hour beers and appetizers)
Celebrate Ben Franklin’s 303rd Birthday at a Founders Day Symposium moderated by President Amy Gutmann
Date: Friday January 16th, 2009
Time: 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (reception 5:00 - 6:00)
Location: Claire M. Fagin Hall, School of Nursing, Ann L. Roy Auditorium
Information: http://www.upenn.edu/faculty_senate/announcements.html
Details: The Faculty Senate is sponsoring its 4th annual Founders Day Symposium. This year the symposium is a conversation with 5 scholars on sustainability (Gary Bernstein, Eugenie Birch, William W. Braham, Robert Giegengack and Eric Orts) and moderated by President Gutmann. The focus will be free-wheeling with significant audience participation.
* 2009 Presidential Inauguration Trip
GAPSA, in coordination with the Undergraduate Assembly and Office of the Vice Provost for University Life, is organizing a FREE bus trip to the 2009 Presidential Inauguration in Washington DC onJanuary 20, 2009. About 20 graduate and professional students will be selected via lottery to participate in the event which will include…
- A pre-event meeting on Thursday 01/15 from 5:30-6:30pm
- An overnight bus ride on Inauguration Day
- Observation of the parade and inauguration ceremony*
- An academic reading assignment
- A post-inauguration talk given by a prominent Penn Alum in DC (TBD).
The bus will leave Penn at midnight on 1/20 and return late in the evening the same day. *Note that the trip will not include tickets to the actual inauguration ceremony.
Location: Wachovia Center
Date: January 23, 2009
Happy Hour: 6-8PM Game Time: 8PM
Cost: $25 (includes appetizers, unlimited happy hour from 6-8PM and game ticket)
Tickets will be available starting Jan 14 at 11AM
Must be 21+ with valid Penn grad card and state ID.
* Wine Tasting Social at Pinot Boutique
Date: Thursday, January 29, 2009
Time: 7PM-9PM
Location: Pinot Boutique
Address: 227 Market St, Philadelphia PA 19106
Details: This real wine tasting event will feature tastings of 2 red wines, 2 white wines and a champagne complemented with Pinot’s re-known Cabernet Chocolate covered strawberries and Chardonnay Wine brittle! There will be a short informal wine introduction and tasting presentation by a sommelier followed by plenty of time to taste and socialize. Pinot Boutique (www.pinotboutique.com) is a unique wine accessories boutique that holds wine tastings regularly and will host this event exclusively for UPenn Grad students! Do not miss out on this exciting and unique wine tasting opportunity!
Cost: $10. Tickets go on sale at the Graduate Student Center on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 11AM.
Limit 4 per person, per ID card. You and your companions MUST BE 21 at the time of the event with the legal state or country ID on you! Tickets will sell out fast!
Date: Saturday, May 2, 2009
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2. Penn’s Farmer’s Market Survey
Penn has its very own Farmers’ Market at 36th and Walnut every Wednesday from late spring through fall. Penn Dining would like to hear your feedback and suggestions about how to make the Market even better. Please click here https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=m50hXWZehOnKH_2bqjmHonJA_3d_3d to participate in a quick online survey!
The Penn Landlord Survey has found a new home on the GAPSA website! To access the survey, go tohttp://www.gapsa.upenn.edu/gapsa-landlord-survey. GAPSA, with guidance from Off-Campus Services and in collaboration with the UA, is now collecting survey data to be released in spring 2009. With your help, we’ll be able to publish statistically significant results on landlord ratings which will provide incoming and current students with the information they need to make better-informed decisions about housing.
4. GAPSA International Council
The City of Philadelphia has notified Penn that the South Street Bridge will close for reconstruction beginning Monday, December 8, 2008. The demolition and rebuilding project will have considerable impact on accessing the University and the Health System and most likely lead to increased traffic congestion on and around campus. As a result, the University is urging all faculty, staff and students to begin making a plan for commuting to and from campus during the 24-month reconstruction.
The University has created a website to help you prepare for the Bridge closure. Visit:www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/ssbridge for updates on the Bridge construction, maps of campus, recommended detours and other information about the impact of the Bridge closing on campus as well as University benefits for those who use public transit. As the City releases more project details, updates will be provided on the website.
We also urge you to think about the following:
Instead of having a car on campus, consider using PhillyCarShare. Membership is free to any person age 18 and older. For details visit: www.phillycarshare.org.
If you commute, consider using public transportation. The PennPass program, sponsored jointly by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) and the University, offers discounted transit passes to full-time Penn students. For obtain a pass go to “My Transportation” atwww.campusexpress.upenn.edu.
If you absolutely must drive to campus, consider choosing classes that are held during non-rush hour periods.
A choice not to drive to campus will relieve traffic congestion and allow for easier access to campus and the Health System for emergency vehicles, patients, families and visitors. It will also support Penn’s commitment to sustainability and lowering the University’s carbon footprint.
College Houses and Academic Services is seeking graduate and professional students to become Graduate Associates for 2009-2010 in the undergraduate dorms. APPLY ONLINE BEGINNING DECEMBER 1, 2008. Complete information and the 2009-2010 application is available on-line for GAs athttp://www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/. GA selection is a rolling application process.
INFORMATION SESSION
- Thurs, January 15@ 7:30PM, Du Bois College House, Multi-Purpose Room
3rd Annual Unspoken Borders Conference
ECOLOGIES OF INEQUALITY
The Future of Design in Race, Space and Politics
April 3-4, 2009
This year’s Unspoken Borders Conference theme, “Ecologies of Inequality”, takes on an investigation of the systems, which create or maintain inequity within societies and of how these systems interrelate to each other. In the face of the growing global necessity for sustainability in all undertakings, the conference asserts that inequalities are unsustainable, not only in terms of socio-economic injustices, but also in regards to the amount of resources invested in maintaining or creating these inequalities.
We propose a three-tiered approach: 1) Expose concealed systems, existing and historical, that reinforce or promote stratification of society; 2) Examine the mechanisms of recognized systems; 3) Recommend proposals to re-engineer existing systems or to create alternative systems that promote socio-economic and environmental sustainability. These investigations are organized around five topics:
-The Environment (constructed, cultivated or untended)
-Public Health
-Mobility and Access
-Communication
-Race, Class, and Culture
The conference seeks interactive and engaging proposals for the presentation of papers, project and/or workshops that explore these topics. Proposals should describe current trends, introduce relevant case studies, and forecast future design challenges and visions. Students, academics and professional across the design professions (Architecture, Landscape Architecture, City Planning, Real Estate Development, Historic Preservation, Fine Arts and Industrial Design) are invited to submit proposals that discuss critical topics that inter-relate design and any of the five stated topics.
For Submission Guidelines or questions, please contact michelin@design.upenn.edu.
Twenty-five years ago, Gayle Rubin’s essay “Thinking Sex” (1984) inaugurated the contemporary field of sexuality studies. This state of the field conference will bring Rubin together with thirty other key figures in gender and sexuality studies to consider the history of the field as well as its current strengths and potential. What are the intellectual and political gains of movements for sexual freedom over the past three decades? And where are we now?
The conference will feature panels, conversations, and roundtable sessions on Wednesday evening, Thursday, and Friday. Topics will include activism and scholarship, sexuality studies and academic disciplines, global sexualities, the relations between feminism and LGBT/queer studies, queer of color critique, historiography, sexual practice and community, scholarly generations, new forms of kinship, transgender studies, queer media, gay neoliberalism, disability studies, queer diasporas, affect, and pedagogy.
Sponsored by Penn’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center, Women’s Studies, and the Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality.
For more information, please visit the web site at <http://www.sas.upenn.edu/wstudies/rethinkingsex/>.
Offering an environment and support for intense, focused writing time, Dissertation Boot Camp provides participants with the structure and motivation to overcome typical roadblocks in the dissertation process. Cost: $20 supply fee and a separate $50 penalty if a camper does not complete Boot Camp. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, November 26 at the Grad Center.http://www.gsc.upenn.edu/navdiss/bootcamp.php
* Navigating the Grant
Peer-to-Peer Grant Application Advising: http://www.gsc.upenn.edu/navgrant/advisee.php / Upcoming Grants & Fellowships: http://www.gsc.upenn.edu/navgrant/rfp.php
Won a grant or fellowship? Want to make some money helping out fellow grad applicants? Sign up to be an advisor at http://www.gsc.upenn.edu/navgrant/advisor.php
* EVOLUTION EXHIBITION– CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Deadline: January 21
The Grad Center is calling for artistic submissions for our spring exhibition focused on ideas and concepts related to the University-wide Year of Evolution. We encourage submissions conveying the theme of evolution, as interpreted by the individual artist. Works of art can be from the areas of painting, drawing, photography, lithography or other print media. Read more at http://www.gsc.upenn.edu/activities/exhibitions.php
* DISCOUNTED TICKETS for AN EVENING WITH IRA GLASS
Saturday, January 24; 8:00PM; Kimmel Center, 260 South Broad Street
Discounted tickets are available for An Evening with Ira Glass, featuring the award-winning host of the beloved radio show This American Life. Discounted tickets are on sale now at the Grad Center for $20. Limit 2 tickets per student with Penn Grad ID.
* Navigating USBs, 2 GB - LIMITED TIME ONLY!!
Price: $5 each, limit 1 per Graduate PennCard (ID) http://www.gsc.upenn.edu/tickets/
* Chinese & Japanese Chats
Chinese and Japanese Chats happen each week. Read more at http://www.gsc.upenn.edu/activities/chats.php Note: Japanese chats ends this week.
* Mentor a Penn Undergrad
Help an undergrad learn first-hand about preparing for, applying to, and succeeding in graduate school. http://www.gsc.upenn.edu/mentoring
