COLLEGE HOUSE EVENTS
Wednesday Resource Table: Penn Abroad
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PiH goes to Perry World House & Wolf Humanities Center's Speaker Event, "The Many Shades of Dissent: Comparing China and the Soviet Union During the Cold War and After"
Join PiH (Perspectives in Humanities program community) on Wednesday, September 30th at 4PM to attend the Perry World House & Wolf Humanities Center's Humanities at Large Lecture Series event, titled "The Many Shades of Dissent: Comparing China and the Soviet Union During the Cold War and After", with speakers Benjamin Nathans and Guobin Yang. See here for more information about the event and both speakers. After the talk, we will go together to one of either Kiwi, Van Leeuwen, or Molly Tea! We will meet at the KCECH house office and leave by 3:50pm to walk over together to Perry World House. The talk description is as follows: "What does it mean to resist when resistance seems futile? Inspired by the Soviet dissident toast "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause," this conversation brings together Penn professors Benjamin Nathans and Guobin Yang to explore the creativity, strategies, and resilience of dissenting movements in the USSR and China. From leveraging the law and disseminating uncensored texts to digital protest and everyday acts of defiance, the discussion will examine how people challenge authoritarian regimes in two of the world's most powerful countries. While today’s Russia and China have followed different political paths, both have developed sophisticated tools of censorship, surveillance, and repression — tools that loom on the horizon in the United States as well. Join us for a timely conversation about the limits of power, the persistence of hope, and why even the most "hopeless" causes can reshape the future." The session is sponsored by Penn's Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy, Center for East Asian Studies, Department of History, Perry World House, and Wolf Humanities Center. RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckTEsa1r9CcGCNgOIxtsyOZoFmxnSG-tw_rSrlU_Hb8M4PtA/viewform?usp=dialog
Thank you Everyone!
This event will encourage residents to write thank-you notes to people who contribute to the Penn/Philadelphia community.
Hunger Games Watch Party
Join your RAs Mustafo and Kara for a chill night with a watch party for the first Hunger Games movie! We will be catering pizza from Ed's.
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Music in the Houses
In partnership with the Department of Music, CHAS offers in-House music lessons and chooses Undergraduate Music Fellows to create musical events in the Houses.
Film & Cinema in the Houses
The College Houses have been a hub of film and filmmaking at Penn for decades. Here's how we support cinema in the Houses.