Book Talk | Crazy Epic Courage: How a ‘Nobody’ Challenged Brutal Dictators and Moved a Nation
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
12:00 – 1:00pm
9
Sep
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How Can Cities Advance Climate Action?
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
12:00 – 1:00pm
Hybrid Event
Foreign Policy Priorities for the Incoming U.S. Administration
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
12:00 – 1:00pm
Global Competitiveness, Domestic Prosperity, and the Climate Throughline
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
12:00 – 1:00pm
The Race to Mobilize International Climate Finance
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
4:00 – 5:00pm
The World Today
Thursday, September 12, 2024
12:15 – 1:15pm
Understanding Outcomes from the Latest U.N. Climate Conference
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
4:00 – 5:00pm
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Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
12:15 – 1:15pm
Can a Penn Alum Change the World?
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
4:00 – 5:00pm
The Crisis of Climate-Driven Extinction
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
4:00 – 5:00pm
COP26: Glasgow and a Global Green Future
Monday, November 30, 2020
12:00 – 1:15pm
The World Today presents - Bristol and Beyond: A Mayor on the World Stage
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
12:00 – 1:00pm
Designing for Risk and Resilience: Lessons from Hurricane Sandy for a COVID World
Friday, October 30, 2020
12:00 – 1:15pm
The World Today - Will China Save the Planet?
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
12:00 – 1:00pm
Global Shifts Colloquium 2020: Keynote Conversation with Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary, UNFCCC
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
9:30 – 10:45am
Penn Climate Week: The Paris Agreement, Five Years Later
Monday, September 21, 2020
12:00 – 1:00pm
Global Shifts Colloquium 2020: Keynote Conversation with The Honorable Chuck Hagel, former Secretary of Defense
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
4:00 – 5:15pm
Global Shifts Colloquium 2020: Keynote Conversation with Anote Tong, former President of Kiribati
Monday, September 14, 2020
4:00 – 5:15pm
The World Today presents - Forging a Global Green Recovery
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
10:00 – 11:00am
The World Today: Flattening the Climate Curve in the Age of COVID-19
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
12:00 – 1:00pm
Ecuadorian Biodiversity Protection: A Model for the World
Thursday, February 27, 2020
12:00 – 1:00pm
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