Online Content: Spring/Summer 2020

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Be sure to visit our multimedia page for exclusive content that covers all aspects of Penn Arts & Sciences research, including faculty, students, alumni, and events. Below is just a small sampling of recent highlights.



COVID-19 News Blog

An archive of Penn Arts & Sciences research and teaching on the pandemic and its far-reaching effects.





60-Second Lectures “In Quarantine” (Video)

Penn Arts & Sciences converted its long-running 60-Second Lectures series into a virtual “In Quarantine” edition, with a wide variety of scholars and experts shedding light on the pandemic. Watch a highlight from the series below, or to see all the 60-Second Lectures in Quarantine, click here. 


Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology, Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, and Professor of Africana Studies

How Racial Mythology in Medicine Hides Racism in the Pandemic



Futures Beyond Refining (Video) 

A community-based research project by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities partnered students with community members in South Philadelphia to design a neighborhood tour that examines the history and future of a shuttered oil refinery site.




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