Events

March 19, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.: Diversity Potluck, Mann Assembly Room.

March 19: Geologic Journey–Tectonic Europe (film). Traverse the Eurasian plate from Iceland to the Alps. (50min). EMS Museum, Deike Building.

March 19, 6:30 p.m.: ‘Girl Rising’ film screening, Foster Aud. Film will be followed by student panel discussion.

March 20, 1p.m.: User Services Training Curriculum roll out. User Services Training Coordinator Rita Buhite will roll out the new Services Training Curriculum. The presentation will provide insight into the training modules already completed and the goals for User Services Training. Upcoming training activities will also be presented. Foster Auditorium.

March 20,  4 p.m.: “Linked Open Data and Humanities Scholarship: A Report from the (Archaeological) Field,” Foster Auditorium. This is the first Tombros Lecture on the Ancient World and will be presented by Sebastian Heath, clinical assistant professor of ancient studies, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), New York University. More information next week.

March 24, 3:30-4:30 p.m.: “The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Disappearing Collective Past.” Presenter: Gail Hershatter, Distinguished Professor of History and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This event is sponsored by the Asian Studies Department, and co-sponsored by the History Department, the Women’s Studies Department, the Center for Global Studies, and the Penn State University Libraries. Foster Auditorium.

March 25, 2-3 p.m.: Dan Cohen will give the 2014 Kaplan Institute talk “Inside the Digital Public Library of America”. Foster Auditorium and MediaSite.

March 26, noon: “Using Indigenous Knowledge-Based Narratives to Facilitate Ukrainian Immigrants’ Adaptation to Life in the United States” will be presented by Svitlana Iarmolenko, Foster Auditorium. This is the latest seminar in a series on indigenous knowledge that examines ways of knowing passed down orally from generation to generation. Following the presentation, a small reception will be held in the Mann Assembly Room, 103 Paterno Library, sponsored by the Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management. The event is free and open to the public and can also be viewed live online.

March 26, 7:30 p.m. Public Poetry Project reading, Foster Auditorium. This popular annual event is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book.

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