Humanities
Thirteen Ways of Looking at America
OMNIA visits a history course that covers challenging moments in American history.
Knowledge by the Slice: Sex and Superpower Rivalry (Video)
Kristen R. Ghodsee, Professor of Russian and East European Studies, explores the impacts of Cold War rhetoric on the progress of women's rights.
For Love or Money: Untangling the Story of a Family’s Rise and Fall
Joan DeJean, Trustee Professor of French, discusses her forthcoming book, The Queen’s Embroiderer: Lovers, Swindlers, Paris, and the First Stock Market Crisis.
OMNIA Q&A: One Thousand Years of Black Music
We spoke with Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr., Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music, about his role in the authorship of the book, The Transformation of Black Music: The rhythms, the songs, and the ships of the African Diaspora.
OMNIA Q&A: Love Is an Inborn Illness
Ada Maria Kuskowski, Assistant Professor of History, on love in the Middle Ages.
Seeing Shades of Gray in the Red
Kristen Ghodsee, Professor of Russian and East European Studies, encourages more nuanced conversations about communism.
Scholarship, Now Streaming
Penn Arts and Sciences professors are guests on a new podcast featuring academics in conversation.
Origin Stories: Karen Redrobe (Video)
Karen Redrobe, Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Endowed Professor in Film Studies, discusses her journey as a film scholar.
Omnia Podcast: Poetry and the Pulse of Life (Audio)
Taije Silverman, a lecturer in the Department of English, has had poems featured in the Best American Poetry collections for the last two years.
OMNIA Q&A: The Life and Work of Music Legend Lou Reed
Distinguished Lecturer Anthony DeCurtis reflects on what his friend Lou Reed deserves in a biography.
Year in Review
We look back on our favorite arts and sciences stories of 2017.
Death, Disease, and Demons
Meg Leja, a postdoctoral fellow at Penn’s Wolf Humanities Center, helps students get in touch with their ghostly sides.
Radio Free Poetry: PennSound @ 14 (VIDEO)
Professor Charles Bernstein and Ph.D. student Chris Mustazza from the Department of English discuss PennSound—the world's largest online poetry archive, founded in 2003.