09.14.16

H+U+D kicked off  its fourth year of programming on Friday, September 9 with the Fall semester’s first colloquium meeting. Over the past three years, the colloquium served as the centerpiece of the initiative’s efforts to integrate research and practice from the humanities and design disciplines around the study of cities. Colloquium members come from disciplines across the Penn campus. This year, four new and several returning faculty were accepted into the 2016-17 membership group. New members include: Andrew Saunders, Architecture; Nancy Steinhardt, East Asian Languages; Orkan Telhan, Fine Arts and Liliane Weissberg, Germanic Languages and Literatures. For the second year, the initiative is hosting two Mellon Junior Fellows in Humanities, Urbanism and Design. Shiben Banerji joins the initiative from the Art Institute of Chicago. He is appointed to the Department of History in the School of Arts and Sciences.  Anna Vallye is a historian of modern art and architecture. She is appointed to the Department of Architecture in the School of Design. More information on the H+U+D Colloquium membership.