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Arts+Business Council Application for Designing Leadership Open

Monday, February 15, 2021 - Thursday, April 8, 2021

Wagner Adult Course: Botany Series

Thursday, February 18, 2021 - 6:30pm - Thursday, March 25, 2021 - 7:45pm

*6 THURSDAYS, February 18 – March 25, 6:30 - 7:45pm*
(Registration is required for each person participating)

International Video Production Competition – 2021 Edition “New beginning. New vision. New city.”

Monday, March 1, 2021 - 8:00am - Tuesday, June 1, 2021 - 5:00pm

The OWHC is proud to renew for this 6th Edition the International Video Production Competition. This competition is intended for young people of two age groups: 14 and 17 years old and 18 and 21 years old. At the invitation of the cities that are part of the OWHC network and that have registered, the young people will be called upon to produce a video of a maximum duration of five minutes on a World Heritage City, and that will have to be published on the OWHC YouTube channel.

Jake Marini, Vice Provost for Global Engagement at Drexel University

Tuesday, March 9, 2021 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm

Philadelphia's universities are big advocates for creating global citizens. Join us as Jake Marini updates us on how COVID-19 has affected Global Engagement for Drexel University and fure plans for global education.

In partnership with the Consular Corps Association of Philadelphia.

Jake Marini, Vice Provost for Global Engagement at Drexel University

Tuesday, March 9, 2021 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm

In partnership with the Consular Corps Association of Philadelphia

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Jake Marini, Vice Provost for Global Engagement at Drexel University

In partnership with the Consular Corps Association of Philadelphia

Diplomacy and Dialogue: Accessible Travel Innovations from Philadelphia to Tel Aviv

Accessibility and inclusive design innovations are gaining wide appeal. As we reimagine what safe cities look like, join us to talk about the growing business of accessible travel with Yuval Wagner, Founder and President, Access Israel and Fred Maahs, Founder and President, FJM Solutions, global disability rights champion and Editor of Melange, Accessibility for All. We will discuss trends for expanding universal design in the U.S. and internationally. Grow your global network by joining the conversation!

I’ll Fly Away: Birds, Slaves, Audubon, and Flying Africans

Join professor Brigitte Fielder as she examines symbolism of antislavery imagery.

Paul Laurence Dunbar knows “why the caged bird sings” in part because of such connections between the enslavement of black people and the captivity of animals that were so prominent in nineteenth-century culture. Because birds, in particular, were viewed as symbols of freedom, arguments that they should not be caged abounded in discourses on pet-keeping.