Current undergraduate and graduate students share their recent perspectives on community, culture, and anthropological fieldwork in this special exhibit. This year's contributors include students from Penn's Department of Anthropology, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and South Asian Studies.
The exhibit will remain on display on the Museum Library’s first and second levels until August 2022. Photographs from 2019-2020 exhibit remain on display on level 2 as well.
"Multi-Species Family Reunion," photograph by Rebecca Winkler, Thailand, November 2018
As one of the world’s foremost libraries in anthropology and archaeology, the Museum Library contributes to Penn’s international reputation in these disciplines - not only as a research collection but also as a thoughtfully designed space in the Academic Wing within which students and researchers study, learn, create, and interact. This exhibition of black-and-white photographs, media clippings, and other items marks the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Penn Museum's Academic Wing and the reopening of these spaces following the historic events of 2020 and 2021. Viewers are encouraged to compare the Museum Library in its past with its present, and, in doing so, to reflect on the library's significance as it was recognized in 1971 and as they experience it currently.
Thursday February 17th 12:00 to 1 pm
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During this time students will work with each other to workshop their drafts of the review. A facilitator will guide students in deep reading and editing activities, followed by a short discussion about how to improve the writing. This is a great opportunity to see if potential readers of the book have accurate impressions of what the book or exhibit conveys, and will allow you to emerge with a polished review that is close to submission ready.
Co-sponsored by Penn Museum Graduate Advisory Council and the Museum Library
Join us for a three part series where you will learn how to craft and publish a book or exhibition review! Reviews are excellent ways to deep dive into material, build your academic C.V.s, and dip your toes into publishing! This three-part series is designed for students to have a deliverable book review at the end that is ready to submit to journals in the spring of 2022.
Tuesday October 19th 12:00 to 1:00 pm
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Join us for a panel of experts comprised of graduate students who have written reviews, and a journal reviews editor who can offer guidance and feedback about the review process, from getting in touch with reviewers to how to construct a compelling review. Topics covered will include how to narrow down appropriate journals, how to craft introductory emails to editors, and what to expect about the timeline of the process.
Thursday January 14 4:00-5:30 pm
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This optional session is for students who have successfully been assigned to review a book. Students should come having read their book, and will use this time to take their first pass at writing the review! Worksheets will be provided that help provide structure, and the facilitator will lead timed writing sections.
Thursday February 17th 12:00 to 1 pm
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During this time students will work with each other to workshop their drafts of the review. A facilitator will guide students in deep reading and editing activities, followed by a short discussion about how to improve the writing. This is a great opportunity to see if potential readers of the book have accurate impressions of what the book or exhibit conveys, and will allow you to emerge with a polished review that is close to submission ready.
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
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Every year, Penn Graduate Students have the opportunity to submit to Penn Grad Talks (formerly known as Grad Ben Talks), a fun competition in which students present short talks to a public audience about their research, judged by a faculty panel. Presenters are selected by abstracts that they submit for review, which are normally due at the end of January.
This workshop will have students who have competed Penn Grad Talks walk fellow students through the process of submitting to Penn Grad Talks, then lead us through an activity in which we write our own abstracts. Students may then use these abstracts to submit to Penn Grad Talks!
Organized together with Elliot Montpellier (Penn Career Exploration Fellow, spring 2021), Penn Anthropology graduate students, and Penn Libraries' Digital Scholarship staff.
Thursday, July 15, 11:30AM-1PM EST
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This workshop will be a moderated discussion with graduate student presenters who have been engaging digital and remote ethnographic methods over the last 18 months. Those attending will have a chance to listen to short oral presentations on “field notes” from invited guests, ask questions, and contribute to an open discussion around the place of these methods in the field, ethical considerations, practical challenges, etc. The short presentations will include: "Field Work and/as Care Work: Patchwork Ethnography During COVID-19", "Ethnography of a Database", “Remote Ethnography of Remote Work”, and several others.
Thursday, July 22, 11:30AM-1PM EST
with Cassandra Hradil and Elliot Montpellier
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Led by Cassandra Hradil, one of the Digital Humanities Specialists in Penn Libraries, this workshop will explore some of the existing intersections between disciplines and opportunities for cross-pollinations. The workshop will incorporate several hands-on “analogue” activities designed to get students thinking about how to conceptualize their data, how to visualize it, and how this work might shape or reshape their ethnographic outlook. We will link these non-digital activities to more digitally-oriented tools that graduate students can use to conduct research, to exhibit their data, and to craft compelling ethnographic narratives.
Tuesday, August 3, 11:30AM-12:30PM EST
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Organizing data, media, and fieldnotes empowers efficient research and effective projects. This workshop introduces you to tips, tricks, and a free tool known as Tropy that will help you manage and annotate images of primary sources.
Penn Museum respectfully acknowledges that it is situated on Lenapehoking, the ancestral and spiritual homeland of the Unami Lenape.
The Museum Library, located in the Academic Wing of the Penn Museum, is the University of Pennsylvania's branch library for anthropology and archaeology. With over 145,000 volumes on-site with historic strengths in biological and physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, archaeology worldwide, and Native American studies, it is one of the premier branch libraries for anthropology in the United States.
Learn more on the Museum Library's homepage.
