🎭 Philadelphia Events Calendar

Musical theater kids, fans of Alcott, anyone who has ever read the book in childhood and now reads it as different in adulthood, students of period drama, people whose date-night options have all started feeling the same and want something with a key change.

Join us for the Drexel Theatre Company spring show: Little Women, The Musical at the URBN Anex Black Box Theater. Purchase tickets here.

The story has been remade six times in fifty years, and people keep paying for the remake because the question — what does a woman get to want, in this many syllables — still has no settled American answer. The musical version makes the wanting audible. Worth hearing in a black box in May.

Cardiovascular researchers obviously, but also: vascular surgeons, cardiology trainees, biotech founders working in cardiovascular drugs, anyone in a profession that depends on the heart not failing, ethicists watching ECMO and LVAD criteria.

Academic event at Penn Medicine / Perelman School of Medicine. IOA, CVI, AND THE NORTH AMERICAN ARTERY SOCIETY(NAAS) COLLABORATIVE RETREAT

Cardiovascular disease is still America's biggest killer, and the research field has been in slow consolidation rather than breakthrough mode for a decade. Retreats like this are where the next directional bets get made — which targets to chase, which models to drop.

Neuroscience grad students figuring out post-PhD options, biotech-curious researchers, MBAs who want to understand the scientist-founder profile, anyone considering a startup pivot from academia, scientific advisors thinking about board seats.

Topic From Neuroscience PhD to Biotech Founder and CEO: How to Build a Career With Impactful Science

The bio-startup ecosystem is hiring scientists faster than universities can graduate them. The translational arc — bench to founding to CEO — has become a career path most departments still don't talk about. Direct accounts from people who have made it are the only honest source.

Dancers tired of injury, runners with the same recurring issue, post-surgical recoveries, people who have tried yoga and want something more directly physical, anyone whose desk job has begun making itself known in their lower back, professional movers between projects.

Join us to celebrate the opening of Drexel Pilates’ new studio location at 3300 Race Street. This is an open house style event welcoming drop-in from 3:00 to 5:30 PM. All offerings are free and open to the public. Advance registration recommended. Highlights include: 3:30 PM | Ribbon Cutting Drexel Pilates students and faculty, along with alumni and members of the community celebrate the official opening of the new studio. 4:00 PM | Panel Discussion: The Pilates Teacher's Toolkit Drexel Pilates Director and Teaching Professor in Dance, Jennifer Morley, discusses her new book with a panel of expert guests. 3:00-5:30 PM | Pilates Demonstrations Demonstrations will take place throughout the event. Meet Drexel Pilates instructors and learn more about all the Drexel Pilates programs, from weekly class offerings at all levels to the 450-hour Drexel Pilates Training Program. Free Ticket Registration: HERE

The body keeps getting offered to apps — Peloton, mirror, the watch that shames your steps. A studio with springs and humans in it makes a small but durable counter-claim about what attention to the body can be.

Kids who have asked why fireworks are different colors and gotten 'uh, chemistry' as an answer, science teachers, history-of-China people, pyrotechnicians, anyone whose July 4 has lost its weight and would like a reason to look up again.

Event at Science History Institute. Stories of Science: Fireworks!

Fireworks are one of the few public chemistry experiences left — most of us never witness an active flame chemistry lab, but we have stood under fireworks. The program borrows the universal experience to teach the fundamentals.

Cardiovascular researchers obviously, but also: vascular surgeons, cardiology trainees, biotech founders working in cardiovascular drugs, anyone in a profession that depends on the heart not failing, ethicists watching ECMO and LVAD criteria.

Academic event at Penn Medicine / Perelman School of Medicine. IOA, CVI, AND THE NORTH AMERICAN ARTERY SOCIETY(NAAS) COLLABORATIVE RETREAT

Cardiovascular disease is still America's biggest killer, and the research field has been in slow consolidation rather than breakthrough mode for a decade. Retreats like this are where the next directional bets get made — which targets to chase, which models to drop.

Chamber music people who already subscribe, anyone who has read the New Yorker piece on the Brentano in the last decade, viola players (who never get to hear themselves featured this prominently), conservatory students, classical music fans on a budget — PCMS is the cheapest of the chamber music subscriptions in this city.

Brentano Quartet Hsin-Yun Huang, viola

The string quintet is the form Mozart loved most and the form most quartets never attempt. Adding a fifth voice changes the math — the harmonies fold inward in ways they cannot in a quartet. Hearing it live is the only way to register the difference.

Geneticists, psychiatrists, anyone with a family history of schizophrenia who has wondered why the genetic counseling for it sounds so different from the cancer counseling, philosophers of psychiatry, science writers, medical students.

“Anna Karenina and the Genetics of Schizophrenia”

Schizophrenia genetics is at an inflection — the polygenic risk scores are improving, the structural variants are mapping, the question of whether to use any of it clinically is being decided in this decade. King is one of the few people in a position to say what should and shouldn't be done with the new tools.

Lawyers obviously, but also: documentary filmmakers, fiction writers working in crime, jury consultants, people on pardon-and-clemency campaigns, journalists who have ever filed a story they later wished they hadn't, anyone who thinks Law & Order is harmless.

We’re excited to once again welcome criminal justice leaders, researchers, professionals, academics, and advocates to Philadelphia on May 12-13. Registration for the Symposium is now open – follow this link to secure your spot. We hope to see you there for two days of conversations, discussions, and collaborations. Our Keynote Speaker will be Amanda Knox.

Reform doesn't happen against a fictional baseline. If the public believes the system works the way Mariska Hargitay performs it working, no actual policy change can land. This conference is one of the few places the people producing the fictions and the people repairing the system are in the same room.

Textile artists, fiber arts people, chemistry teachers, fashion historians, anyone who has touched cheap polyester and expensive polyester and wondered what the difference even is, makers, fabric snobs.

Event at Science History Institute. From Nature to Nylons: A Touch-Based History of Textiles

Most of what we wear is now synthetic, and most of us have lost the ability to identify what we're wearing by touch. The skill was once universal; it's now niche. Programs that put it back in the hand are a small kind of reclamation.

American Jewish history readers, second- and third-wave feminism historians, anyone working on coalition organizing today, leftists Jewish or otherwise, students of social movements, religious-history people.

AMERICA’S JEWISH QUESTIONS AT 250 YEARS. Featuring: Lana Dee Povitz, Middlebury College Lana Dee Povitz recalls how feminist Jews shaped history of the American Jewish left

American Jewish institutional life has been consolidating rightward and inward; coalitional traditions of the kind Povitz traces are the historical alternative. The current coalition-organizing happening in immigrant rights, abortion access, Palestine solidarity is built on infrastructure these women created.

Lawyers obviously, but also: documentary filmmakers, fiction writers working in crime, jury consultants, people on pardon-and-clemency campaigns, journalists who have ever filed a story they later wished they hadn't, anyone who thinks Law & Order is harmless.

We’re excited to once again welcome criminal justice leaders, researchers, professionals, academics, and advocates to Philadelphia on May 12-13. Registration for the Symposium is now open – follow this link to secure your spot. We hope to see you there for two days of conversations, discussions, and collaborations. Our Keynote Speaker will be Amanda Knox.

Reform doesn't happen against a fictional baseline. If the public believes the system works the way Mariska Hargitay performs it working, no actual policy change can land. This conference is one of the few places the people producing the fictions and the people repairing the system are in the same room.

Public health students who have memorized 'social determinants' without ever feeling them, doctors working in immigration detention, anyone who works at the intersection of medicine and emergency, harm reductionists, lawyers doing impact litigation in healthcare access.

The Dornsife School of Public Health’s Jonathan Mann Health & Human Rights Memorial Lecture speaks to the importance of health and human rights and honors the legacy of our School's founder, Dr. Mann.

The framework Mann built is being actively unmade right now — by austerity politics, nationalist health systems, the renewed treating of disease as private misfortune rather than collective responsibility. To attend this lecture is to refuse the unmaking, even briefly.

Microscopy people, cell biologists, optical physicists, biotech imaging engineers, anyone who has ever bought a microscope hoping to see something specific and found that the instrument was deciding what it would show them.

Academic event at Penn Medicine / Perelman School of Medicine. CDB Faculty Talk: Mustafa Mir

Most modern biology is imaging-limited — we know what we're looking for is there, but we can't see it well enough to test the hypothesis. Labs like Mir's, that build the instruments rather than just buy them, are where the next decade of biological discovery actually happens.

Optometrists who want to keep up, neuroscientists studying perception, ophthalmology residents, medical illustrators, computer vision researchers borrowing from biology, anyone who has ever wondered why the blind spot doesn't feel like a blind spot.

Please save the date to join us at the Vision Science Symposium 2026! This symposium will highlight cutting-edge research and innovations that shape the future of vision science. The event is hosted by the Department of Ophthalmology, and it is open to faculty, students, researchers, and medical students interested in vision science. Registration is required. Registration details will be forthcoming. Thank you for your interest!

We are about to enter the era of restored sight — gene therapies for inherited blindness, retinal implants, optogenetic interventions. The science being argued out at this symposium is exactly the science that decides which restorations actually look like sight and which just feel like noise.

Classical music fans who think they're tired of Beethoven, conductors learning the repertoire, anyone for whom 'revolutionary' is an overused word and would like to hear it earned, music history students, people who think the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia is one of the city's underrated tickets.

Part of Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia's 2025-26 season

The argument about whether Beethoven is the founder of modernity or its first casualty is two centuries old and still unresolved. A Chamber Orchestra program titled 'the Revolutionary' is one side of that argument, performed live.

Psychiatrists, primary care providers prescribing SSRIs, pharmacists, mental-health policy people, anyone taking psychiatric medication who has wondered why their experience doesn't match what the doctor said to expect.

Topic Ethnoracial Issues and Psychopharmacology Group research in psychopharmacology tends to focus on differences associated with age and gender. Surprisingly, little research has focused on different ethnoracial groups. This presentation will look at differences in how medications are absorbed, distributed and metabolized across groups. In addition, there are differences in how ethnoracial groups view the value of psychotropic medication, including medication adherence, another area to be discussed within this workshop.

Psychiatric prescribing in this country has expanded faster than the evidence base for the populations most prescriptions are now reaching. This is the kind of webinar that should be required CME and currently isn't.

Science teachers looking for material, chemistry adjacents, history-of-everyday-life readers, kids who are old enough to follow the science but young enough to still be curious about household objects, the kind of person who likes Mary Roach.

Event at Science History Institute. Stories of Science: Chemistry of Common Things

Public chemistry literacy is at a historic low — most of the public understands chemistry as either nothing or vaguely sinister. Storytelling-based programs do something specific: they reintroduce ordinary substances as having histories. That's the precondition for any literate conversation about regulation, food, materials, climate.

Classical music fans who think they're tired of Beethoven, conductors learning the repertoire, anyone for whom 'revolutionary' is an overused word and would like to hear it earned, music history students, people who think the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia is one of the city's underrated tickets.

Part of Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia's 2025-26 season

The argument about whether Beethoven is the founder of modernity or its first casualty is two centuries old and still unresolved. A Chamber Orchestra program titled 'the Revolutionary' is one side of that argument, performed live.

Community archivists, podcasters who have been doing it without the methodology, journalists tired of producing thin material from rich sources, family historians, anyone planning to record their grandmother before time runs out.

Event at Science History Institute. Oral History Training Institute

Oral history is one of the cheapest and most undervalued forms of cultural preservation. Community programs across the country are losing their elders before any of the work is recorded. Training the next generation of interviewers is one of the small concrete things that protects against the loss.

Historians of science, chemistry teachers, anyone whose research has ever required tracking down an out-of-print compendium, rare-book people, fans of Susan Orlean's archive obsession, students writing senior theses that need primary sources nobody else has touched.

Event at Science History Institute. Othmer Library Tour

Print archives are slowly being digitized into uselessness — scanned poorly, indexed by algorithm, paywalled by the worst kinds of corporate access. The physical Othmer is what good knowledge management looks like in practice. Worth seeing while it still exists in this form.

Science museum people, science writers, anyone for whom 'after hours' is more attractive than 'ten o'clock weekend,' date-night people who want the date to be smarter than dinner, history-of-tech enthusiasts, the kind of person who has been to the Mütter four times and is ready for a new collection.

Event at Science History Institute. After Hours in the Museum

Museums are losing the evening — most stay open 9-to-5 and call it a community space. The institutions that keep the after-hours window open are arguing that the public deserves access at the hours when public life is actually happening. It's a small policy stance and a real one.

Dance educators looking for graduating students to recommend to companies, current dancers thinking about choreographing themselves, audiences who like seeing the artistic-development arc rather than the polished result, alumni of the program, parents who came to see one daughter and end up watching all eight pieces.

Join us for the Fresh Dance spring performance at the Mandell Theater! Purchase tickets here and see below for full schedule:

Most professional concert dance starts in evenings exactly like this one. The choreographers being seen this week are the choreographers being commissioned in five years, hopefully. Going early is the privilege of an audience that pays attention.

Penn Med faculty and staff who already know what BA Forum stands for, lab administrators, anyone affiliated with the participating departments. Probably not the right entry-point if you're not already inside the building.

Academic event at Penn Medicine / Perelman School of Medicine. BA Forum

The presence of placeholder events on public calendars is itself a small story about how institutions decide what counts as 'public.' If you're in the Penn Med community, the forum may matter; if you're outside it, the calendar entry is mostly a reminder that the calendar's job is to be permeable.

Developmental biologists, regenerative medicine people, anyone whose biology background told them cells 'differentiate' without ever explaining how they decide, computational modelers of tissue-level biology, ethicists watching organoid research.

Academic event at Penn Medicine / Perelman School of Medicine. CDB Faculty Talk: Kahlilia Blanco

All tissue engineering — every lab-grown organ, every regenerative therapy, every stem cell intervention — depends on understanding how to put a cell in the right conversation with its neighbors. Blanco's work is one of the few asking that question rigorously.

Science teachers looking for material, chemistry adjacents, history-of-everyday-life readers, kids who are old enough to follow the science but young enough to still be curious about household objects, the kind of person who likes Mary Roach.

Event at Science History Institute. Stories of Science: Chemistry of Common Things

Public chemistry literacy is at a historic low — most of the public understands chemistry as either nothing or vaguely sinister. Storytelling-based programs do something specific: they reintroduce ordinary substances as having histories. That's the precondition for any literate conversation about regulation, food, materials, climate.

Dance audiences, choreographers in town, students from any of the dance programs in the area, people who haven't been to dance in a year and need a reset, anyone with an interest in contemporary American concert dance.

Join us for the Drexel Dance Ensemble Spring Performance at the Mandell Theater. Purchase tickets here and see below for full performance schedule:

Concert dance has been declared dead more times than any other art form, and keeps not dying. The college companies are a real part of why — they keep training dancers for an industry that's continually rebuilding itself.

Anyone who's stopped going to dance shows because they all looked like the same five bodies. Community organizers, dance teachers in West and North Philly, neighbors of the partner programs, parents of the kids who learned. People who suspect the avant-garde might be happening on a folding chair somewhere uptown.

Presented in the Mandell Theater, the Drexel Dance CBL programming partners share the stage with the Drexel Dance Ensemble for a celebration of dance. This event is free and open to the public, reserve your tickets here

When a dance department lets community partners share equal stage, it is a quiet argument about whose movement counts as art. That argument is being had everywhere right now — in museums, theaters, choreography conservatories — and most of them are losing it. This is one place winning it.

Neuroscientists, pain medicine clinicians (who increasingly need a more cellular vocabulary for the chronic-pain conversations), psychologists working on body-mapping, anyone who has lived with chronic pain and wanted a more honest account of it from their doctor, opioid-policy researchers.

Distinguished Seminar Series

Pain is the medical domain where racial disparities in care are the largest and most stubborn. Abdus-Saboor's lab — itself led by a Black neuroscientist with a public commitment to that science — is among the few doing the cellular work in a way that takes the disparity seriously instead of explaining it away.

Environmental scientists, public health workers in lead-belt neighborhoods, attorneys building toxic-tort cases, parents of kids in zip codes the studies actually study, journalists who have ever tried to write a story about which neighborhoods make people sick.

20 Years of Environmental Health Research at Penn: Past, Present & Future Join us as we celebrate two decades of groundbreaking environmental health research at Penn.

Environmental health research is, on the whole, the discipline that survives administrations. CEET has run through three of them now. The symposium is mostly retrospective — but in retrospective there is the proof that the work continued anyway.

Classical-music people who have stopped going because the Kimmel feels expensive, students of any instrument, parents and grandparents, anyone who has read about chamber music being a 'conversation' without ever sitting close enough to actually hear it as one.

Join us for the Chamber Strings Spring Concert in the Mandell Theater. This event is free and open to all, reserve tickets here.

Chamber music is the form that survives recording least well — the room is the fourth player. Hearing it live is not nostalgia. It is the only way the music exists in full.

World-music nerds, students of Arabic music or Greek music or Turkish classical, people who have always wanted to hear an oud and a viola play the same line, anyone whose Spotify has gone deep into the recommendation tunnel of 'Mediterranean traditional,' ethnomusicologists.

Join us for the Mediterranean Spring Concert in the Mandell Theater. This event is free and open to all, reserve tickets here.

The Mediterranean has been treated as a single music continent for thousands of years and a divided one for a hundred. Programming that puts the divisions back in conversation is rare. This program does it.

Jazz heads who already know the local players, students from the Clef Club, anyone who saw Whiplash and wants to see what the actual practice culture looks like, people who like big bands without irony, Coltrane completists, dancers.

Join us for the Jazz Orchestra & Jazztet Spring Concert in the Mandell Theater. This event is free and open to all, reserve tickets here.

Philadelphia is a jazz city in ways the official city narrative undersells. Programs like this are part of why the music keeps happening — students who go on to play with Christian McBride, with Joey DeFrancesco's old room, with the new generation. The pipeline is local. The room is open.

Cancer biologists, oncology pharmacologists, drug-discovery teams, computational biologists working on single-cell data, anyone whose family member has been on a drug that worked and then stopped working, and who would like to know why.

Please join us on Thursday, June 4, 2026, as we host Sydney Shaffer, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Penn. This event will take place in Smilow 9-146 from 4PM - 5PM.

Drug resistance is the reason most cancer therapies fail. Shaffer's framework — that resistance pre-exists the drug, in a small population of cells already primed to survive — changes what therapies should look like. The clinical translation is just starting.

Marketers (who already know this and need the academic version to cite), consumer behavior researchers, UX designers wanting better data, anyone whose Amazon recommendations have stopped feeling like recommendations and started feeling like predictions, technology critics, regulators.

Led by: Shiri Melumad, associate professor of marketing at the Wharton School Smart technologies such as AI-enabled voice assistants, smartphones, and large language models are more than just functional tools that facilitate daily tasks and increase efficiency; they are also fundamentally altering how consumers think, feel, shop, and communicate. In…

The current FTC and FCC conversations about algorithmic recommendation are largely uninformed by the actual academic literature. Work like Melumad's is the literature being uncited. Worth knowing what's there.

Drum nerds, music students from every institution within walking distance, anyone whose Thursday afternoon needs a re-routing, parents looking for something free to bring kids to, people who have never heard a marimba played by twelve people at once and don't yet know that they should.

Join us at Chestnut Square for the Percussion Ensemble spring performance at 4pm. This event is free and open to all, immediately following the Outdoor Music Jam.

Outdoor music is always a small political claim — that the public square is for music, that workdays can end at 4 if there is a reason to be outside, that the city is something you walk *toward* and not just *through*. This claim is small. It still matters.

Anyone who has ever stood on a sidewalk and tilted their head, music nerds wanting to scout the next year's senior thesis bands, the kind of person who will show up for one set and accidentally listen to all three, neighborhood walkers, dogs.

Join us for the Outdoor Music Jam! This event is free and open to all on Lancaster Walk from 1-4pm.

Most cities have stopped letting students play outdoors — too loud, wrong permits, who's liable. This one still does. That's not a small thing, and it can disappear quickly.

Anyone who hasn't sat in front of a real orchestra in a long time, classical music nerds, students of any instrument, conductors learning their craft, people whose musical taste has narrowed and could use the widening that 60 humans bowing in unison provides.

Join us for the DUSO Spring Concert in the Main Auditorium in Main Building.This event is free and open to all, reserve tickets here.

Civic orchestras are a barometer of whether a city still values forms that need many bodies in a room. Drexel keeps DUSO well-resourced. That decision shows up in the audible texture.

Theater kids and former theater kids, directors looking for emerging talent, improv people, anyone who likes seeing students try things on stage that they wouldn't try in a graded scene, parents.

Join us for the Theatre Spring Showcase featuring Musical Theatre Cabaret, Director's Lab, and Advanced Improv Ensemble performances. This event is free, reserve tickets here and see the schedule below:

Most professional theater is the result of years of unrelated student showcases nobody attended. This is one of those nights — most of what's tried won't go anywhere, and one or two things will turn into a career. The audience is part of the experiment.

Anyone whose Sunday morning has gotten quieter, gospel music devotees, students of vocal traditions, people who have been to Black Pentecostal services and people who haven't, those who think they don't believe anything and want to be moved anyway, music students from any genre.

Join us for the Gospel Choir Spring Concert at the Mandell Theater! This event is free and open to all, reserve your tickets here.

Gospel is one of America's foundational forms — and the only one that still mostly happens in actual churches rather than concert halls. A concert program that takes it seriously, in a college, with no apology for the form's origin, is the kind of programming that protects the form from being museum-ified.

Choral singers, brass players, wind players, anyone who has ever wanted to know what church music sounds like when it is wearing an orchestra's clothes, music students cross-pollinating, fans of large-form ensemble music who don't always get to hear three sections at once.

Join us for the All College Choir, Chamber Brass & Winds Spring Concert at the Main Auditorium in the Main Building. This event is free and open to all, reserve tickets here.

Pedagogy that gets sections out of their lanes is rare. Most college music programs train the choir and the brass and the winds in parallel and never integrate. This program puts them on the same evening. The result is a different kind of musician, slowly.

Choral singers and former choral singers, the kind of person who has secretly always wanted to sing in something larger, voice teachers, composers writing for choir, people who believe choral music is a public art and that public arts deserve public audiences.

Join us for the University Chorus & Chamber Singers Spring Concert in Main Auditorium. This event is free and open to all, reserve tickets here.

The chorus has been the bedrock civic ensemble for a thousand years — community singing as the original municipal infrastructure. We're still deciding whether to keep building it. Programs like this are how it stays standing.

Former high-school band kids who quit and miss it, current band kids in the city, anyone whose grandparents played in a Sousa-era municipal band, fans of Frank Ticheli or Eric Whitacre, people whose Memorial Day still feels incomplete without a Sousa march, hobbyist conductors.

Join us for the Concert Band Spring Concert at the Mandell Theater. This event is free and open to all, reserve tickets here.

The concert band is the most communal of musical forms — designed for towns, parades, public ceremony — and the most quietly threatened. Every cut public-school music program is one less pipeline. The college version still exists. Going matters.

Stem cell researchers, regenerative medicine clinicians, biotech founders fundraising on premature claims, patients with conditions whose hope lives entirely in this lab's progress, ethicists watching the research-ethics gap widen.

The Distinguished Seminar Series (DSS) is a combined Penn Department and Center series to highlight major leaders in biomedical research.

The hype curve in regenerative medicine has cycled at least three times in the last twenty years. Each time, the people doing the actual work get quieter, the press gets louder, and the patients pay the difference. These seminars are where the work-quietness lives.

Evolutionary biologists, geneticists, anyone interested in why the human genome is mostly 'junk' and what that junk is doing, ethicists tracking the gene-editing debate, the kind of person who has read Carl Zimmer's science writing and wants to hear the primary source.

Distinguished Seminar Series

As genome editing becomes precise enough to target individual transposons, the question of what to do with our viral inheritance becomes practical. Feshotte's group is one of the few asking which of these elements are still active, which still matter, and which have become functional in ways we'd lose by editing them out.

Penn Med faculty and staff who already know what BA Forum stands for, lab administrators, anyone affiliated with the participating departments. Probably not the right entry-point if you're not already inside the building.

Academic event at Penn Medicine / Perelman School of Medicine. BA Forum

The presence of placeholder events on public calendars is itself a small story about how institutions decide what counts as 'public.' If you're in the Penn Med community, the forum may matter; if you're outside it, the calendar entry is mostly a reminder that the calendar's job is to be permeable.

Clinicians who have had the eGFR debate and can't quite explain their position, medical students reading the new race-correction guidelines, public health epidemiologists, anyone designing the next round of clinical algorithms — particularly the ones who think the problem can be solved with better data.

Please join us for Deans’ Distinguished Visiting Professor Dr. Rana Hogarth’s talk at the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy (MEHP).

Race-based medicine is not a glitch in a working system; it is a feature of a system built to do exactly this. Hogarth's history is the only thing that makes the present arguments legible, and the present arguments — about kidney function, lung capacity, pain reporting, drug dosing — are being decided in clinics this week.

Penn Med faculty and staff who already know what BA Forum stands for, lab administrators, anyone affiliated with the participating departments. Probably not the right entry-point if you're not already inside the building.

Academic event at Penn Medicine / Perelman School of Medicine. BA Forum

The presence of placeholder events on public calendars is itself a small story about how institutions decide what counts as 'public.' If you're in the Penn Med community, the forum may matter; if you're outside it, the calendar entry is mostly a reminder that the calendar's job is to be permeable.

Penn Med faculty and staff who already know what BA Forum stands for, lab administrators, anyone affiliated with the participating departments. Probably not the right entry-point if you're not already inside the building.

Academic event at Penn Medicine / Perelman School of Medicine. BA Forum

The presence of placeholder events on public calendars is itself a small story about how institutions decide what counts as 'public.' If you're in the Penn Med community, the forum may matter; if you're outside it, the calendar entry is mostly a reminder that the calendar's job is to be permeable.

Anyone tired of museums treating Indigenous art as ethnography. Filmmakers who want to see what an artist who doesn't owe the dominant frame anything actually makes. Students of language and loss. People who have never been to the Barnes because the Barnes used to be only Renoir.

CURRENT EXHIBITION: An installation of 11 new works by the American artist.

There is a generation of Indigenous artists right now refusing the burden of explanation — refusing to subtitle their languages, refusing to translate their cosmologies into the white-cube vocabulary. Hopinka is one of the strongest. The Barnes putting eleven new pieces of his at the center of its program is a small announcement about what regional museums are willing to risk.