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2. * WATCH THE PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION 

 

To show appreciation for your time and effort, the Office of Off-Campus Services is offering an additional prize for an evening of fine dining for two at a local restaurant.  All entries are eligible for the randomly selected prize through January 31, 2009.  To access the survey, go tohttp://www.gapsa.upenn.edu/gapsa-landlord-survey.
 

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4. * Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium 

The deadline to enter the 2008-2009 Wharton Business Competition is January 23, 2009.

Wednesday, February 11th @ 4:30pm (JMHH 245) – Learn about legal aspects of entrepreneurship

Wednesday, February 18th @ 4:30pm (JMHH 260) – Practice pitching and recruit members to your team

Wednesday, February 25th @ 4:30pm (JMHH 260) – TBD

First week of March @ 4:30pm (JMHH 265) - Get your business reviewed by a legal professional!

7. * Urban Doctoral Reception
Date: Wednesday, February 4
Time: 4:30-6:30pm
Location: G-12 Meyerson Hall, 210 S. 34th Street

Come to this reception for urban-focused Ph.D. students and their advisors to share your joint scholarly pursuits and imbibe a little cheer!  We anticipate colleagues from many fields including history, anthropology, education, city planning, sociology, political science, criminology, engineering, architecture, communications, social policy and practice, and others. Visit the Penn IUR website for more information http://www.upenn.edu/penniur/events_upcoming.shtml#Feb4

Please RSVP for the reception by January 25th by emailing penniur@pobox.upenn.edu. 

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.

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/>.

3rd Annual Unspoken Borders Conference
ECOLOGIES OF INEQUALITY
The Future of Design in Race, Space and Politics
April 3-4, 2009

Location: Penn School of Design, 210 S. 34th Street

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